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Summary of Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely | Includes Analysis Preview: Predictably Irrational provides a data-driven window into the ways in which the human mind fails to make rational choices time and time again. While some of these irrational decisions are humorous or trivial, in many cases, these behaviors can have far-ranging implications for governments and health care systems. However, understanding that we, as humans, are predisposed...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonah Berger's Contagious by Instaread Preview: Contagious: Why Things Catch On is a playbook for marketing in the internet age, when products and ideas live or die based on whether or not they can go viral. Author Jonah Berger describes six principles that, when applied together, can often predict whether an idea or product will spread. Any product or idea can go viral. It doesn't take a big advertising budget or a celebrity...
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The Third Wave by Steve Case | Includes Analysis Preview: The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case's reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The Third Wave is also a cautionary tale to would-be entrepreneurs who believe the culture of solo founders and tech disruption will always be valued in the future. The book is named for futurist Alvin Toffler's...
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El Centro de Ética y Responsabilidad Social (CERS) y la Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales de la Universidad del Pacífico proponen una reflexión crítica, desde las distintas perspectivas y disciplinas del saber, sobre la relación entre la industria de alimentos y los cambios en la salud y el bienestar de la población. Esta reflexión se materializa en un libro de 10 capítulos que se agrupan en dos partes: la primera contiene cuatro capítulos...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jessica Bennett's Feminist Fight Club by Instaread Preview: Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett is a guide for women to counteract behaviors and trends in the workplace that disproportionately damage their ability to succeed. Bennett's outlook on feminism was shaped early in her career by regular meetings with other women to discuss obstacles and share their successes in what they called a feminist fight club." Women...
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Summary of Hooked by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover | Includes Analysis Preview: Hooked is a textbook for developers and designers who wish to build a product or app that will repeatedly engage its users. Today, more than ever, a product needs to be self-sustaining in its ability to keep its users loyal and active. In the past, companies could rely on advertising to remind users to purchase or interact with their product. Today, however, the most successful...
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Hayek's research highlights the importance and dispersed nature of knowledge, advancing an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior. Like any great and productive scholar, he left behind a body of work that includes tensions, flaws, and inconsistencies that must be, confronted by scholars looking to engage, critique, and advance his distinctive project in political economy.
Hayek's work is important but also open for contestation...
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You can change your company's culture.
Organizational culture often feels like something that has a life of its own. But leaders are the stewards of a company's culture and have the power to shape and even change it. If you read nothing else on building a better organizational culture, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify where your culture...
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Working remotely gives you flexibility and independence. But it can pose challenges when you need to team up with colleagues or coworkers. Virtual Collaboration covers the basics of working productively--and collaboratively--from anywhere. You'll learn to:
Communicate clearly over a variety of media
Bond with colleagues across the wires
Keep others--and yourself-accountable
Avoid and mitigate tech glitches
Don't have much time? Get up to speed...
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When Santa Fe Institute scientists first started working on economics more than thirty years ago, many of their insights, approaches, and tools were, considered beyond heterodox. These once-disparaged approaches included network economics, agents of limited rationality, and institutional evolution-all topics that are now increasingly considered mainstream. SFI continues to expand the boundary of our economic understanding by pioneering fields as diverse...
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What is a business or nonprofit? A collection of people with a goal in mind. That's why People Practics focuses primarily on the people side of organizations, providing 17 categories of "practical tactics" for managing the workers in your business or nonprofit as well as for understanding and managing your organization overall. These are, proven techniques that can make your business thrive.
People Practics covers everything from employee motivation...
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Today we have greater control over where and when we work. As our businesses spread across the world and technology makes it easy to do our jobs from anywhere there's Wi-Fi, more of us have the option to go remote. But that doesn't mean we're good at it. Whether you're calling in from a home office every day or one of your team members occasionally logs in from the quiet car on a train, distance can make collaboration more difficult. Remote work gives...
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Leading any team involves managing people, technical oversight, and project administration, but leaders of virtual teams perform these functions from afar. Leading Virtual Teams walks you through the basics of:
Connecting your people to each other--and to the team's mission
Surmounting language, distance, and technology barriers
Identifying and using the right communication channels
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential...
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From crackly conference lines to pixelated video, virtual meetings can be problematic. But you can host a productive conversation in which everyone participates. Running Virtual Meetings takes you through the basics of:
Selecting the right virtual venue
Giving participants the information and support they need to connect and contribute
Establishing and enforcing a common meeting etiquette
Following up from afar
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Combat the Deadly Sins of Project Management!Project management is a tough business. Not only must project managers contend with schedules, budgets, and a host of stakeholder demands, but they must also deal with sometimes vexing human behaviors, such as whining, indecision, opposition, inflexibility, complacency, and tunnel vision, to name a few. Projects can be negatively impacted by common "sins" that hinder, stall, or throw the project off track.In...
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A household energy consumption survey in 11 regions across Myanmar shows that firewood is mainly used for cooking (73%) and candles and torches for lighting (65%), followed by electricity for cooking (13%) and battery for lighting (17%) while the demand for modern energy sources is rapidly increasing. This report presents the results of 2014 household energy consumption surveys that helped develop a more accurate picture of historical energy consumption...
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Organizations are globalizing at a frenetic rate. The world is becoming more connected each year and each generation of technology speeds up this process. What once took weeks and then days to share now can be done in minutes. This section will help you understand the dynamics of culture and diverse values in a global environment; how to manage across both virtual and physical borders; and how to sustain the performance and engagement of multi-ethnic,...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Contagious tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Jonah Berger's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Contagious includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsDetailed timeline of key eventsImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary...
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This collection challenges the popular but abstract concept of nudging, demonstrating the real-world application of behavioral economics in policy-making and technology. Groundbreaking and practical, it considers the existing political incentives and regulatory institutions that shape the environment in which behavioral policy-making occurs, as well as alternatives to government nudges already provided by the market. The contributions discuss the...
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