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Author : Robert Rector
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876638934
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Steering the Elephant written by Robert Rector and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin E. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491650
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Motivating Self and Others written by Martin E. Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates evidence from motivational and evolutionary science to explain the essential nature of human motivation. Scholars, professionals, leaders, and students in psychology, education, and business will learn how goal-life alignment and 'thriving with social purpose' can inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning.
Author : VJ Taylor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504928253
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Town of Woodland written by VJ Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utburd is the story of a troubled teen who goes to live with her grandmother in Woodland, where her family has lived for over a hundred years. Willa has always been able to see and hear the dead, but Woodland brings that ability to a new level. Willa travels back in time to when her ancestors inadvertently create an Utburd, which will follow her back to her own time.
Author : Susan Nance
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408732
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Entertaining Elephants written by Susan Nance and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry. Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species. Entertaining Elephants is the first account that uses research on animal welfare, health, and cognition to interpret the historical record, examining how both circus people and elephants struggled behind the scenes to meet the profit necessities of the entertainment business. The book does not claim that elephants understood, endorsed, or resisted the world of show business as a human cultural or business practice, but it does speak of elephants rejecting the conditions of their experience. They lived in a kind of parallel reality in the circus, one that was defined by their interactions with people, other elephants, horses, bull hooks, hay, and the weather. Nance’s study informs and complicates contemporary debates over human interactions with animals in entertainment and beyond, questioning the idea of human control over animals and people's claims to speak for them. As sentient beings, these elephants exercised agency, but they had no way of understanding the human cultures that created their captivity, and they obviously had no claim on (human) social and political power. They often lived lives of apparent desperation.
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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351485679
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Beleaguered Presidency written by Aaron Wildavsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson between 1963 and 1968, there is much reason to believe that the executive office is in trouble. For the past twenty-five years, presidents have been subject to continuing criticism, with dissatisfaction rising, approval rates falling, and demands becoming impossible to meet. Is it that Americans have become an unlucky people whose noble virtues have been undermined by the unfortunate fact that they keep nominating and electing bad presidents? Or is there a systemic reason for a beleaguered presidency in the rise of an egalitarian culture, amplified through the media which is opposed to authority? This book confronts these questions and inquires into their consequences for presidential behavior.In Wildavsky's view, the growth of political discord since the sixties-opposing views on policy matters and social issues ranged along egalitarian versus hierarchical lines-has created a demarcation between a past presidency in which national leaders had a chance to do well and present and future presidents seeking to adapt to their slim chances of leaving office with their reputations intact.Wildavsky demonstrates how various recent presidents have attempted to escape or overcome their beleaguered status by such devices as focusing on only a few issues or shedding responsibility (or blame) to other actors, or treating policy problems as if they were essentially administrative in nature. The book analyzes the wide divergence on public policy among Democratic and Republican activists and assesses the efforts of presidents from Nixon through Bush to cope, at times successfully, often not, with these divisions.The final chapters contrast the ideological presidency of Ronald Reagan with the procedural presidency of George Bush. Both are considered in the context of a governmental system that requires leadership but does not often support it. The final chapter is the first effort to make sense out of George Bush's relative lack of interest in
Author : Peter Verhezen
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981126807X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Making Wise Decisions In A Smart World: Responsible Leadership In An Era Of Artificial Intelligence (Student Edition) written by Peter Verhezen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good and smart decisions should be distinguished from wise decision-making — especially in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) where algorithms are increasingly used to automate business processes or to augment the accuracy and speed of decisions. This book argues why specific forms of intelligence as well as consciousness and enhanced conscience are crucial to make wise decisions — with consciousness to be clearly distinguished from intelligence. It also addresses why machine learning and smart computers (AI) are plausibly able to make 'smart' (and thus to a certain extent 'intelligent') decisions but definitely unable to help us to become wiser. In essence, optimizing a desired output in a business context will require a balanced approach with cognitive awareness and ethical reflection — synthesizing intuitive and algorithmic thinking — encompassing short-term profit and longer-term envisioning, and aiming to optimize created and captured value for shareholders while taking the concerns of those who have a real stake in the organization seriously. If business is about creating and sharing value in a future that is both 'digital' and 'relational', then innovative technologies like AI will play an increasingly important role. Consequently, mindful executives and their responsible boards therefore need to acknowledge the limitations of AI in business — especially when the uncertain future is estimated to be rather volatile or ambiguous than stable.
Author : Roger Osbaldiston
Publisher : LeaderImpact Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1662935080
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Integrated Life of Leaders written by Roger Osbaldiston and published by LeaderImpact Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Integrated Life of Leaders is a guide for those who want to pursue a truly integrated approach to life and leadership. Whether you feel your work life is hindering your family’s well-being, or you are struggling to understand how God fits into being a successful professional, these real stories from real leaders making a real impact will help. Author Roger Osbaldiston draws on years of organizational experience and relationships from around the world to give practical tools and principles to help you grow, so you can become a leader of impact.
Author : Mo Bunnell
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610399595
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Snowball System written by Mo Bunnell and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Bunnell's comprehensive system will help you win more clients, build stronger relationships, and bring in more business. If you're good at doing something, and you need to connect with paying clients in order to keep doing it, this book is for you. There are more of us out there than you might think--from professionals like lawyers and consultants to big company account managers and freelancers of all stripes. And this book will teach you how to sell yourself without selling your soul. In The Snowball System, Mo Bunnell offers powerful and proven tools for business development. Whether you are gregarious or introverted, whether you are a part of a small startup or a massive multinational, Bunnell's science-based system is effective and efficient, and easily adapted into your day-to-day work. With The Snowball System, you will not only succeed at growing your business, you'll learn to enjoy doing the activities that drive that growth. You'll be happier, and so will your clients.
Author : Kevin Simler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190495995
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Elephant in the Brain written by Kevin Simler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is the elephant in the brain. Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly - to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights. Then, once everything is clearly visible, we can work to better understand ourselves: Why do we laugh? Why are artists sexy? Why do we brag about travel? Why do we prefer to speak rather than listen? Our unconscious motives drive more than just our private behavior; they also infect our venerated social institutions such as Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, and Religion. In fact, these institutions are in many ways designed to accommodate our hidden motives, to serve covert agendas alongside their official ones. The existence of big hidden motives can upend the usual political debates, leading one to question the legitimacy of these social institutions, and of standard policies designed to favor or discourage them. You won't see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.
Author : Page A. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475826257
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Bullying from Streets to Schools written by Page A. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is written in response to the growing problem of bullying both inside and outside of schools. The problem is evolving and currently absorbs an ever-increasing range of identities including, cyberbullying, adult bullying, family and spousal bullying, workplace bullying, and student and teacher forms.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bureaucrat written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Osborn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456769456
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book On the Road to Cuastecomate written by John Osborn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Reader, enclosed you will find a set of short stories. It includes actual events from the authors life, and imagined events from the authors mind. Fact and fiction so to speak. As with most books, except those heavy serious textbook tomes, the tales tell of personal and interpersonal emotions and actions. As the saying goes, we are not alone. Each and every one of us affects both each other and the world around us. Moreover, each and every one of us have talents, and unlike the servant who buried his given talents under a stone, the author believes that the sharing of talents can, in fact may, help someone or something somewhere. Maybe consciously or unconsciously, actively or unseen, small or enormously, each and every one of us has an opportunity to act. We could all do our bits to the best of our ability, the possible if you like, while still striving for the dream. We all have our own roads to Cuastecomate.
Author : Robert Rector
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steering the Elephant written by Robert Rector and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : SJT Riley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803137851
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Elephant’s Sapphire written by SJT Riley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s late Autumn, 1950. Robert Lynnford, star crime-reporter for The London Herald, is alerted to the theft of an extremely valuable exhibit from the Queen’s Fine Art Museum in London - the Elephant’s Sapphire, a much-coveted historic heirloom from Nepal which has been held by the museum since the 1880s.
Author : John R. Haynes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475976127
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Elephant's Graveyard written by John R. Haynes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elephants Graveyard tells the story of a young mans journey through higher education and ultimately pursuing a career in medicine. Medical School and internship and residency are described in all their hardships and demands. Further challenges are met and described as the young doctor must establish his practice in a large southern Californian retirement community. The biggest joys and hardships are to be found in caring for the diverse group of retirees who now call this area home. Plus managed care seemed to arrive at the same time changing all the previous rules and ways which medicine had operated.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Commercial Motor written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
