Science & Math
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Dan Ariely

Reflections on the Challenges of Ownership In 2007 and 2008, home values across America plummeted as fast as George W. Bush’s approval ratings. Each month brought with it more bad ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Daniel Gilbert

Onward Historians use the word presentism to describe the tendency to judge historical figures by contemporary standards. As much as we all despise racism and sexism, these isms have only ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Al Gore

THIS CHAPTER BEGAN with a discussion of how we are, for the first time, changing the “being” in human being. We are also changing the other beings to which we ...
( Category: Systems & Planning March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Steven Johnson

In the late nineties, a Stanford Business School professor named Martin Ruef decided to investigate the relationship between business innovation and diversity. Ruef was interested in the coffeehouse model of ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Fields, Jonathan [Fields, Jonathan]

Be Open to Collaboration with Colleagues and End Users If you are creating simply because that is why you are here, without reference to whether your output will ever earn ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |zho | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter F. Drucker

Document Outline Title Page Contents Foreword Preface Introduction January 1 Integrity in Leadership 2 Identifying the Future 3 Management Is Indispensable 4 Organizational Inertia 5 Abandonment 6 Practice of Abandonment ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE Language that influences is able to create powerful images and emotions that overwhelm reason.24 Such language is evocative, specific, and filled with strong language and visual imagery. When ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Clay Shirky

Kelly’s conclusion that defaults allow the designer to steer the system is critical. Defaults don’t drive the system, because they don’t create the motivations to use it. They simply steer ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lingua Franca The theory of preferential attachment is ubiquitous in its applications: it can explain why city size is from Extremistan, why vocabulary is concentrated among a small number of ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Sheena Iyengar

VI. THE 500-POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM The freedom lover (and Coke drinker) in you may be thinking that there must be something you can do to counteract all the ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Duncan J. Watts

FUTURE SHOCK No matter how carefully you adhere to this advice, a serious limitation with all prediction methods is that they are only reliable to the extent that the same ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-04-02 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

6. Millennium Challenge, Part Two For a day and a half after Red Team’s surprise attack on Blue Team in the Persian Gulf, an uncomfortable silence fell over the JFCOM ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Seth Godin

When Did the Resistance Take Over Your Life? When you were a kid, beautiful art—questions, curiosity, and spontaneity—poured out of you. The resistance was only starting to figure out how ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Chip Heath

IT WAS PRECISELY THE fear of being overcome by emotion that led Andrew Hallam, a Canadian high-school English teacher, to invent his own car-buying process. Hallam was no ordinary teacher. ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-10-11 | Author:John Allen Paulos

The answer, of course, is that there is no missing dollar. You can see this more easily if we assume that the manager originally made a bigger mistake, realizing after ...
( Category: Stocks March 25,2014 )