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Book Synopsis Beating the System by : Russell L. Ackoff
Download or read book Beating the System written by Russell L. Ackoff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you dealt with a bureaucracy—the phone company, an airline, a hospital, school, or government agency—and got what you wanted without weaving through a maze of infuriating hand-offs? Have you found these systems to be utterly indifferent to the inconvenience or hardship they cause? Russell Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin say, "Enough is enough!" They have extensively studied organizational systems—how they function and malfunction, what drives them, and where their weaknesses are. Here they share both perversely entertaining anecdotes about the abuse of individuals by various bureaucracies and detail the creative—and deeply satisfying—approaches these people used to get even. Best of all, they offer successful strategies and tactics you can use to pinpoint the weakness of any system and exploit it to your advantage.
Book Synopsis Beating the System by : Marquis Williams
Download or read book Beating the System written by Marquis Williams and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are stories that can reach into our hearts and tear at them with an unrelenting force and there are others, which delve deep into our subconscious and leave an indelible mark on it. Sometimes these stories come with an unremitting feeling of hopelessness and a sadness that knows no end, while others deliver nuances of anticipation that there is still some good in the world. Beating The System: My Life in Foster Care, is the story of Marquis Williams and his turbulent childhood, as he tried desperately to figure out society while never knowing his father and having to deal with the consequences of violent outbursts from an unpredictable mother. Torn from his siblings and grandmother at the age of eight, then continuously relocated from one foster home to another, Marquis found his life almost echoing that of his wayward mother, with only the joy of the game of basketball to soothe the agonies and confusion he endured. Read his story, from being an introverted kid who just wanted to have a normal life, to developing into a well-adjusted adult making the right decisions. Beating The System: will challenge us all to take a deeper look at underserved children, and reflect on what we can do to help make a difference in others' lives, all while simultaneously changing our preconceptions of the Foster Care System.
Book Synopsis Beating the System by : Carl P. Simon
Download or read book Beating the System written by Carl P. Simon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-02-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beating the System written by Larry Roth and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Beat the System by : Denison Andrews
Download or read book How to Beat the System written by Denison Andrews and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contrary to popular belief, you can beat the system." So says Lionel Goldfish, once hailed as "the Simenon of Success; the Asimov of Achievement," the octogenarian narrator of this extraordinarily funny novel by Denison Andrews. Disturbed by current trends in American society, Lionel Goldfish has come out of retirement to write his fiftieth and final success book. He has chosen the old formula of the success biography, the story of a shoeshine boy who made good. But all resemblance to Horatio Alger quickly disappears when we discover that the shoeshine boy, Rene Benet, is thirty-seven years old and one of the least honorable characters in recent fiction. Surprisingly, his story, told over many shines, causes Goldfish to repent his lifetime's labor. The story of Rene Benet, the man who beat the system, opens with one dazzling day in 1969 when our hero, driven by chronic lechery and a pathological aversion to work, loses career, marriage, and all pretense of respectability and goes off with a voluptuous hitchiker to a rock concert in Woodstock, New York. So begins a series of outrageous adventures where the monstrous world he comes to inhabit is filled with so many seedy, scheming characters that even he becomes a Pinocchio-like innocent in contrast. Our hero finally finds himself inside The System itself where he comes face to face, and duels with, its Boss. His spectacular escape gives the aged narrator, Lionel Goldfish, and all his readers the answer: how to beat the system. Denison Andrews takes on marriage, divorce, academia, the counter-culture, the rich, the poor, the middle class, Harvard, Santa Claus, drugs, the "ethical" drug industry, feminists, and anti-feminists with ripping humor. Above all, HOW TO BEAT THE SYSTEM lambastes our basic values of hard work and success. From the Silent Generation of Rene Benet to the adolescent cultural revolution of the late sixties, the author has a great deal to say about values, about ideals gained and ideals lost, and about what has happened to the "greening of America."
Download or read book Game On written by Susan F. Paterno and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the Chapman journalism program—and mother of four recent college grads—Susan F. Paterno leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. How is it possible that Harvard is more affordable for most American families than their local state university? Or that up to half of eligible students receive no financial aid? Or that public universities are rejecting homegrown middle- and working-class applicants and instead enrolling wealthy out-of- state students? College admission has escalated into a high-stakes game of emotional and financial survival. How is the deck stacked against you? And what can you do about it? Susan F. Paterno, a veteran academic and journalist, answers these questions and more in Game On. Paterno helped her four very different kids navigate the application process to a wide range of colleges, paying for their four-year educations on a finite budget. She incisively decodes the college admission industry—the consultants, the tutors, the rankers, the branding companies hawking “advantage”—and arms you with the knowledge you need to make the system work for you. You’ll learn how to narrow your focus, analyze who gets in and why, and look for the right financial fit before considering anything else, including geography, reputation, and, especially, ranking. Among the tools and insights in Game On: · Why forty years of failed free-market policies have led to skyrocketing tuition and historic levels of student debt · Why applying to college has become a bewildering maze and how to find your way to a successful result · Why college costs are more terrifying than you think · How to read beyond the rack rate to negotiate the best financial package with the least debt · Why merit is a myth, but merit aid is essential · The difference between family debt and student debt and how to split it A playbook for the Hunger Games of higher education, Game On explains the anxiety, uncertainty, and chaos in college admission, explodes the myth of meritocracy, exposes the academy’s connection to America’s widening gap between rich and poor, and provides strategies to beat—and reform—a broken system.
Book Synopsis Fortune's Formula by : William Poundstone
Download or read book Fortune's Formula written by William Poundstone and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly formula" to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett's rate of return. Fortune's Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and trading desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on exploiting an insider's edge. Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beat the market—and William Poundstone's Fortune's Formula will convince you that he was right.
Download or read book Day Trading written by Justin Kuepper and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All You'll Ever Need to Trade from Home When most people hear the term "day trader," they imagine the stock market floor packed with people yelling 'Buy' and 'Sell' - or someone who went for broke and ended up just that. These days, investing isn't just for the brilliant or the desperate—it's a smart and necessary move to ensure financial wellbeing. To the newcomer, day trading can be a confusing process: where do you begin, and how can you approach trading in a careful yet effective way? With Day Trading you'll get the basics, then: Learn the Truth About Trading Understand The Psychology of Trading Master Charting and Pattern-recognition Study Trading Options Establish Trading Strategies & Money Management Day Trading will let you make the most out of the free market from the comfort of your own computer.
Book Synopsis Raised in Captivity by : Chuck Klosterman
Download or read book Raised in Captivity written by Chuck Klosterman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Book Synopsis Beating the Wheel by : Russell T. Barnhart
Download or read book Beating the Wheel written by Russell T. Barnhart and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 170 wheels in Las Vegas, 144 in Atlantic City, thousands in Europe, and hundreds in the Far East, roulette is undoubtedly the world's most popular casino game. But can the game be beaten, except by luck? Yes, says Russell Barnhart, an expert in gamblilng strategies and a roulette winner far more than thirty years. In "Beating the Wheel, " he shares his valuable strategy.
Book Synopsis Beating the Financial Futures Market by : Art Collins
Download or read book Beating the Financial Futures Market written by Art Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating the Financial Futures Market provides you with a straightforward, historically proven program to cut through the noise, determine what bits of information are valuable, and integrate those bits into an overall trading program designed to jump on lucrative trading opportunities as they occur. It will help you improve both your percentage of winning trades and the bottom line profitability of those winning trades.
Book Synopsis Stop Beating the Dead Horse by : Julie Casey
Download or read book Stop Beating the Dead Horse written by Julie Casey and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People like to blame someone for problems. Many people blame the president, Congress, local school boards, administrators, or teachers for the shortfalls of the public school system. The problem is not that the educators and lawmakers aren't trying to improve the system; it's that they just haven't realized the proverbial horse is dead. If the basic system doesn't work, all the money and strategies and dedication in the world will not help unless the system itself is replaced. One of the most crucial things the system has failed to do is differentiate between equal educational opportunity for all and equal (or identical) education for all. Instead of trying to make everybody the same, an educational system must ensure equal rights for everyone while still allowing them to develop at their own rate and in their own way. Only then can we have the diversity, creativity, and ingenuity needed to compete in the world today. In this book. I explain why our system has failed (The Dead Horse) and what we can do about it (A New Horse).
Book Synopsis Beat the Market by : Edward O. Thorp
Download or read book Beat the Market written by Edward O. Thorp and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beating the System written by E.V. Darcy and published by Darcy's Royal Library. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Contemporary Royal Romance with a dash of intrigue, a pinch of drama, and a whole lot of sexual tension. She needs a miracle... Her breath hitched in her throat, a tiny involuntary gasp as she met the unwavering stare of Roman. Lady Henrietta Snape is fiercely independent, incredibly intelligent, and 100% royally screwed. She never stopped loving Roman Tyrrell, despite him destroying her heart at the tender age of sixteen as he bolted from her bed telling her to stay away from him. But now that she’s alone, penniless, and utterly desperate, he’s the only one she can turn to. And he's offering all the answers to her prayers... And there she sat, beyond the medical grade doors, barely ten feet from him, yet unfathomably out of reach. Roman Tyrrell knows he's rich, handsome and utterly privileged; every woman wants him and every man wants to be him. But after making the biggest mistake in his life when he was barely a man, he’s unfulfilled, unsatisfied, and trapped in an engagement he was all but forced into. When Henrietta arrives at his office unexpectedly, Roman has a chance to finally be free of his shackles, marry the woman he loves, and live the life his young self had dreamed of, but the stakes are high and the risks great. If they get caught they’d not only be breaking the law but lying to the King himself. Roman's willing to risk everything for the love of his life, but will Henrietta be wiling to bend the rules just to inherit her share of her father’s fortune? Beating the System is the first book in Henrietta and Roman's story in The Royals of Avalone series. It is a steamy slow burn romance. It contains some language and plenty of sexual tension. Note, this is not a standalone book, but the first part of a trilogy. Beating the System is the fourth book in The Royals of Avalone series. It can be read before the first three books, but it is recommended to read Victoria and Cormac's story first, just to avoid spoilers. Keywords: Second Chance Romance, Secret Baby, Baby Romance, Contemporary Romance Novel, marriage of inconvenience, arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, Royal Romance, Royalty Romance novel, Royal wedding romance novel, Royal Romance novel, Lords and Ladies, prince and the princess, fake marriage, hidden feelings.
Book Synopsis Redesigning Society by : Russell Lincoln Ackoff
Download or read book Redesigning Society written by Russell Lincoln Ackoff and published by Stanford Business Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care, education, welfare, law the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena. In this new book Ackoff and Rovin examine a variety of these issues and use systems theory to develop solutions for many of the problems society currently faces."
Book Synopsis Beating the Roulette Wheel by : C. S.
Download or read book Beating the Roulette Wheel written by C. S. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a truly revolutionary approach to winning the game of Roulette. Told as the story of one gambler's twenty eight years of professional play, it includes rules, strategies, and examples.
Book Synopsis How to Beat the System by : Annie Ashworth
Download or read book How to Beat the System written by Annie Ashworth and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to unravel the red tape of bureaucracy and get the most from everyday situations. From securing the best school for your child (even if you don't live in the right catchment area) to booking a seat in a trendy new restaurant or legitimately avoiding estate agents' fees and dodging tax bills, this book shows you how to beat the system before the system beats you. Includes: * Health and Education* Motoring and Travel* Councils, Tax and Banking* House buying and selling Each section contains practical information, using straightforward language, uncluttered by jargon, and explains the loopholes, get-outs and short cuts, illustrated by the best and the most amusing real-life examples.
