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The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
Edward Tenner · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipityAlgorithms, multitasking, sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data... |
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ABA/AARP Checklist for My Family: A Guide to My History, Financial Plans and Final Wishes
Sally Balch Hurme · American Bar Association; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Put your life in order with this valuable new resource from AARP and the American Bar Association. Checklist for My Family guides you through the process of gathering in one place your finances, legal documents, online accounts, wishes about medical care, and more. Plus it tells you what... |
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Lawrence Levy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success. "Hi, Lawrence?" the caller asked. "This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we'd work together someday." After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned... |
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Double Bind: Women on Ambition
Robin Romm · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Breaking the last feminist taboo--once and for all.Even as toweringly successful women from Gloria Steinem to Beyoncé embrace the word "feminism," the word "ambition," for many, remains loaded with ambivalence. Women who are naturally driven and goal-oriented shy away... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits... |
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Malone Scott · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It's thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories... |
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A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History
DIANA B HENRIQUES · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed--from the bestselling author of The Wizard of LiesMonday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent - almost twice as bad as the worst... |
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Can't Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior Results
Bob Garfield · Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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Today's brands face an apparent choice between two evils: continue betting on their increasingly ineffective advertising or put blind faith in the supposedly mystical power of social media, where "likes" stand in for transactions and a mass audience is maddeningly elusive.... |
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History
ALLIE ROWBOTTOM · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor... |
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How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation
Rob Jolles · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Persuade, Don’t Push!Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing... |
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The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone
Shawn Murphy · AMACOM, American Management Association, 2016. ©2016
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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When it comes to work these days, we're expected to do more with less--but is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a business? Alarmingly low employee engagement numbers indicate otherwise. So, if pushing everyone harder isn't the path to productivity, what is? Supported... |
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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Alice Echols · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center... |
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