Author: Scott E. Page
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: schools, societies, new, firms, groups, power, diversity, creates, difference
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691138540
ISBN-13: 9780691138541
In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities.The Difference reveals that progress and innovation ma
Author: Michael A. Cusumano
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: shapes, technology, markets, manages, people, creates, company, secrets, world, powerful, software, microsoft
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1998-12-04
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0684855313
ISBN-13: 9780684855318
Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world’s 170 million computers. Beyond the unquestioned genius and vision of Bill Gates, what accounts for Microsofts astounding success? Drawing on almost two years of on-site observation at Microsoft headquarters, eminent scientists Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby reveal many of Microsoft’s innermost secrets. This inside report, based on forty in-depth interviews by authors who had access to confidential documents and p
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: language, creates, instinct, mind
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0061336467
ISBN-13: 9780061336461
In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: language, classics, perennial, mind, instinct, creates
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0060958332
ISBN-13: 9780060958336
In this classic study, the world’s leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American P
Author: David Ellsworth
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Keywords: pots, vessels, bowls, creates, woodturning, master, ellsworth
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1565233778
ISBN-13: 9781565233775
Using this first-ever book from an esteemed artist, woodworkers will learn how to replicate Ellsworth’s turning techniques in their home workshops by following clear, easy-to-understand instructions from the "grandfather" of the contemporary wood-art movement. Featuring step-by-step directions for three projects—a hollow bowl, a natural-edge vessel, and a pot—this guide reveals how to correctly position the body so as to increase tool control and prevent back strain while working. For readers new to the lathe, Ellsworth provides tips for mounting objects and making different cuts
Authors:Adrian Gostick, Dana Telford, Mitt Romney,
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: advantage, competitive, business, creates, road, taking, integrity
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 2003-04-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1586852469
ISBN-13: 9781586852467
With The Integrity Advantage, Adrian Gostick and Dana Telford establish a burning platform-that personal integrity is a proven competitive advantage in business. Prominent business leaders from some of North America’s most respected companies-including Don Graham of the Washington Post, former Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke, and Hank Paulson, Jr. of Goldman Sachs-discuss the role integrity has played in their successes, and offer examples of the importance of integrity in business today. Not merely a collection of essays, the authors also share an effective system of decision-maki
Authors:Al Ries, Laura Ries,
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: brands, possibilities, new, endless, evolution, product, origin, creates
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060570156
ISBN-13: 9780060570156
What Charles Darwin did for biology, Al and Laura Ries do for branding. In their exciting new book, The Origin of Brands, the Rieses take Darwin’s revolutionary idea of evolution and apply it to the branding process. What results is a new and strikingly effective strategy for creating innovative products, building a successful brand, and, in turn, achieving business success. Here, the Rieses explain how changing conditions in the marketplace create endless opportunities to build new brands and accumulate riches. But these opportunities cannot be found where most people and most companies
