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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Riskby Peter L. BernsteinISBN 0471295639 (0-471-29563-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk'Book summary:With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. [via]
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The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Mattersby Peter BlockISBN 1576752712 (1-57675-271-2)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters'Book summary:Personal growth in and out of the workplace has long been hampered by the constant question "how?" In The Answer to How Is Yes, Peter Block teaches readers how to act on what they know and reclaim their freedom and capacity to create a world they want to live in. He shows how to reject tendencies toward passivity and blame in favor of choosing accountability and demanding a more compelling purpose from work and life. The book also emphasizes the need to shift the paradigm from the self-help/bootstrap/make-a-million craze toward something larger and more generous and, in the end, more satisfying.[via]More editions of The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters:
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Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washingby William Walters SargantISBN 1883536065 (1-883536-06-5)
Softcover, Ishk Book Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing'Book summary:How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends? These and other compelling questions are discussed in the definitive work by William Sargant, who for many years until his death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine. Sargant spells out and illustrates the basic techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brain-washers to disperse the patterns of belief and behavior already established in the minds of their hearers, and to substitute new patterns for them. [via]
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Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communitiesby Alfred A. Marcus, Ken SextonISBN 1559636149 (1-55963-614-9)
Softcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communities'Book summary:A broad-based interdisciplinary introduction to the topic of environmental decision-making which emphasizes finding solutions to real world problems. The book examines the subject from the complementary and interrelated perspectives of three major groups involved in environmental decisions: regulatory agencies, businesses and affected communities. Each chapter describes an important aspect of environmental decision making and identifies key issues and problems and recommends ways to improve the decision-making process and its outcomes. [via]
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316010669 (0-316-01066-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking'Book summary:Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking: ISBN 0316011789 (0-316-01178-9)
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Hardcover, Little Brown & Company - Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking: ISBN 0316010669 (0-316-01066-9)
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Building United Judgment: A Handbook for Consensus Decision Makingby Brian Auvine, Michel Avery, Lonnie Weiss, Barbara StribelISBN 0960271465 (0-9602714-6-5)
Softcover, Fellowship for Intentional
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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive Youby Gerd GigerenzerISBN 0743254236 (0-7432-5423-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You'Book summary:In the tradition of Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos, German scientist Gerd Gigerenzer offers his own take on numerical illiteracy. "In Western countries, most children learn to read and write, but even in adulthood, many people do not know how to think with numbers," he writes. "I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk." The author wisely uses concrete examples from the real world to make his points, and he shows the devastating impact of this problem. In one example, he describes a surgeon who advised many of his patients to accept prophylactic mastectomies in order to dodge breast cancer. In a two-year period, this doctor convinced 90 "high-risk" women without cancer to sacrifice their breasts "in a heroic exchange for the certainty of saving their lives and protecting their loved ones from suffering and loss." But Gigerenzer shows that the vast majority of these women (84 of them, to be exact) would not have developed breast cancer at all. If the doctor or his patients had a better understanding of probabilities, they might have chosen a different course. Fans of Innumeracy will enjoy Calculated Risks, as will anyone who appreciates a good puzzle over numbers. --John Miller [via]
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Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Mindsby Howard GardnerISBN 1422103293 (1-4221-0329-3)
Softcover, Harvard Business School Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds'Book summary:Think about the last time you tried to change someones mind about something important: a voters political beliefs; a customers favorite brand; a spouses decorating taste. Chances are you werent successful in shifting that persons beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind and offers ways to influence that process.[via]
Remember that we dont change our minds overnight, it happens in gradual stages that can be powerfully influenced along the way. This book provides insights that can broaden our horizons and shape our lives.More editions of Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds:
- Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other Peoples Minds: ISBN 1578517095 (1-57851-709-5)
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Softcover, Harvard Business School Pr
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Cognitive Dissonance: Progress on a Pivotal Theory in Social Psychologyby Eddie Harmon-JonesISBN 1557985650 (1-55798-565-0)
Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cognitive Dissonance: Progress on a Pivotal Theory in Social Psychology'Book summary:Tell any smoker that his habit is unhealthy, and he most likely will agree. What mental process does a person go through when he or she continues to do something unhealthy? When an honest person tells a "white lie," what happens to his or her sense of integrity? If someone must choose between two equally attractive options, why does one's value judgement of the options change after the choice has been made? In 1954 Dr. Leon Festinger drafted a version of a theory describing the psychological phenomenon that occurs in these situations. He called it cognitive dissonance: the feeling of psychological discomfort produced by the combined presence of two thoughts that do not follow from one another. Festinger proposed that the greater the discomfort, the greater the desire to reduce the dissonance of the two cognitive elements. The elegance of this theory has inspired psychologists over the past four decades. Cognitive Dissonance: Perspectives on a Pivotal Theory in Social Psychology documents the on-going research and debate provoked by this influential theory. [via]
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Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitmentby Irving L. Janis, Leon MannISBN 0029161908 (0-02-916190-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Decision Making and the Will of Godby Garry Frieson, J. Robin MaxsonISBN 1590522052 (1-59052-205-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decision Making and the Will of God'Book summary:Does God have a perfect will for each Christian? Does it matter? Can you be absolutely sure of God's individual will for your life? In an easy-to-follow narrative style, Gary Friesen examines the prevalent views on God's will today, then rejects them to propose a different view that he believes more accurately reflects biblical teaching. This rerelease of Decision Making takes up the practical issues of choosing a mate, picking a career, giving of one's resources, and areas of disagreement between Christians to give readers a new approach to knowing the will of God. [via]
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- Decision Making and the Will of God: ISBN 1576737411 (1-57673-741-1)
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Softcover, Multnomah Pub - Decision Making and the Will of God: ISBN 0930014472 (0-930014-47-2)
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Decision Making and the Will of God : A Biblical Alternative to the Traditional Viewby Garry Friesen, J. Robin MaxsonISBN 1576733211 (1-57673-321-1)
Softcover, WaterBrook Press
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Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Themby J. Edward Russo, Schoemaker, Paul, J.H.ISBN 0671726099 (0-671-72609-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Decision-Making by the Book: How to Choose Wisely in an Age of Optionsby Haddon W. RobinsonISBN 1572930217 (1-57293-021-7)
Softcover, Discovery House Pub
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The Decision-Making Pocketbookby Neil Russell-JonesISBN 1870471768 (1-870471-76-8)
Softcover, Management Pocketbooks
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The Decisive Womanby Marion DuckworthISBN 1564760588 (1-56476-058-8)
Softcover, David C Cook
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Doctors on the Edge: Will Your Doctor Break the Rules for You?by Fredrick R. AbramsISBN 1591810450 (1-59181-045-0)
Hardcover, Sentient Pubns
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Evidence-based Surgery, an Issue of Surgical Clinicsby Jonathan L. Meakins, J. A. Muir Gray, Catherine BewickISBN 1416035575 (1-4160-3557-5)
Hardcover, W B Saunders Co
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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Makingby Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, Duane Berger, Catherine Toldi, Sarah FiskISBN 0787982660 (0-7879-8266-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hardcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist - Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making: ISBN 0865713464 (0-86571-346-4)
Hardcover, New Society Pub - Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making: ISBN 0787982660 (0-7879-8266-0)
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- Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making: ISBN 0865713472 (0-86571-347-2)
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Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?by Bruce WaltkeISBN 1885305265 (1-885305-26-5)
Hardcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?'Book summary:For many, trying to discover "God's will" is a confusing and frustrating process. Dr. Waltke offers a 6-step program of guidance that calls Christians to walk close to the Lord and be conformed to His like-ness. [via]
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Freedom Evolvesby Daniel DennettISBN 0142003840 (0-14-200384-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Evolves'Book summary:Daniel C. Dennett is a brilliant polemicist, famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies. Over the last thirty years, he has played a major role in expanding our understanding of consciousness, developmental psychology, and evolutionary theory. And with such groundbreaking, critically acclaimed books as Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist), he has reached a huge general and professional audience.
In this new book, Dennett shows that evolution is the key to resolving the ancient problems of moral and political freedom. Like the planet's atmosphere on which life depends, the conditions on which our freedom depends had to evolve, and like the atmosphere, they continue to evolve-and could be extinguished. According to Dennett, biology provides the perspective from which we can distinguish the varieties of freedom that matter. Throughout the history of life on this planet, an interacting web and internal and external conditions have provided the frameworks for the design of agents that are more free than their parts-from the unwitting gropings of the simplest life forms to the more informed activities of animals to the moral dilemmas that confront human beings living in societies.
As in his previous books, Dennett weaves a richly detailed narrative enlivened by analogies as entertaining as they are challenging. Here is the story of how we came to be different from all other creatures, how our early ancestors mindlessly created human culture, and then, how culture gave us our minds, our visions, our moral problems-in a nutshell, our freedom. [via] 
Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Surveyby R. Duncan Luce, Howard RaiffaISBN 0486659437 (0-486-65943-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apartby Jeffrey L. Seglin, Norman R. AugustineISBN 0978689933 (0-9786899-3-3)
Softcover, Smith/Kerr Assoc Llc
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Harvard Business Review on Decision Makingby Peter F. Drucker, John Hammond, Howard Raiffa, Alden M. Hayashi, Ralph KeeneyISBN 1578515572 (1-57851-557-2)
Softcover, Harvard Business School Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harvard Business Review on Decision Making'Book summary:This collection will help people at all levels understand the fundamental theories and practices of effective decision making so that they can make better decisions in their personal and professional lives. Articles include: The Effective Decision by Peter F. Drucker; Even Swaps: A Rational Method for Making Trade-offs by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa; Humble Decision Making by Amitai Etzioni; Interpersonal Barriers to Decision Making by Chris Argyris; Can You Analyze This Problem? by Perrin Stryker; How to Analyze That Problem by Perrin Stryker; The Hidden Traps in Decision Making by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa; and When Should You Trust Your Gut? by Alden M. Hayashi.[via]More editions of Harvard Business Review on Decision Making:
Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinkingby Robert E. Bartholomew, Benjamin RadfordISBN 1591020484 (1-59102-048-4)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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How Great Decisions Get Made: 10 Easy Steps for Reaching Agreement on Even the Toughest Issuesby Don Maruska, Margaret J. WheatleyISBN 0814407935 (0-8144-0793-5)
Hardcover, Amacom Books
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If I'd Known Then What I Know Now: Why Not Learn from the Mistakes of Others? You Can't Afford to Make Them All Yourselfby J. R. ParrishISBN 1879384493 (1-879384-49-3)
Softcover, Q E D Pr
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Indecisionby Benjamin KunkelISBN 1400063450 (1-4000-6345-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indecision'Book summary:Benjamin Kunkels brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our timea pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.
Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but hes having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to wisdom.
And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind.
Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is pfired from Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life.
The troublewell, one of the troublesis that Dwight cant decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge.
How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation.
"Heres what Indecision gives you: sustained social and intellectual comedy, possibly the last but certainly the funniest Superfluous Man in modern literature, drive-by satire, plus detailed set-piece send-ups of Young Adult colgrads at work and play. The mockery is
humane. The tale of Dwight Wilmerding is told with style and care. And theres a surprising ending. Benjamin Kunkel, welcome!"
Norman Rush, author of Mating [via]More editions of Indecision:
Introduction to Decision Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Decision Qualityby David C. SkinnerISBN 0964793830 (0-9647938-3-0)
Hardcover, Probabilistic Pub
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Investing by the Numbersby Jarrod W. WilcoxISBN 1883249546 (1-883249-54-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Judgment in Managerial Decision Makingby Max H. BazermanISBN 0471684309 (0-471-68430-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judgment in Managerial Decision Making'Book summary:Is your judgment influenced by personal biases?
In situations requiring careful judgment, we're all influenced by our own biases to some extent. But, with Max Bazerman's Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, Sixth Edition, you can learn how to overcome those biases to make better managerial decisions.
The text examines judgment in a variety of organizational contexts, and provides practical strategies for changing your decision-making processes and improving these processes so that they become part of your permanent behavior. Throughout, you'll findnumerous hands-on decision exercises and examples from the author's extensive executive training experience that will help you enhance the quality of your managerial judgment.
Past editions have been used in top universities, in business schools, and in public policy, psychology, and economics classes. In addition, the text has been widely recognized by practitioners in the world of behavioral finance.
Revised with two new chapters
This Sixth Edition now adds chapters on bounded ethicality (Chapter 8) and bounded awareness (Chapter 11). Both of these chapters are based on Bazerman's recent writing with Dolly Chugh and Mahzarin Banaji.
Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In addition, Max is also formally affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, the Psychology Department, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard. He is the author or co-author of over 150 research articles and chapters, and the author of numerous other books. Max was named one of the top 30 authors, speakers, and teachers of management by Executive Excellence in each of their two most recent rankings. [via]More editions of Judgment in Managerial Decision Making:
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A Kid's TV Guide: A Children's Book about Watching TV Intelligentlyby Ernie Hergenroeder, Joy Wilt BerryISBN 0849981336 (0-8499-8133-6)
Hardcover, Educational Products Division, Word
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A Kid's TV Guide: A Children's Book about Watching TV Intelligentlyby Joy Wilt Berry, Ernie HergenroederISBN 0516025139 (0-516-02513-9)
Hardcover, Childrens Press
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The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situationsby Dietrich Dorner, Robert Kimber, Rita KimberISBN 0201479486 (0-201-47948-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations'Book summary:Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what he calls the logic of failure certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now. Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for starvation. The Logic of Failure is a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers, policymakers and everyone involved in the daily challenge of getting from point A to point B.[via]More editions of The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations:
The Logic of Failure : Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Rightby Dietrich Dorner, Robert Kimber, Rita KimberISBN 0805041605 (0-8050-4160-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrinationby Denise WinnISBN 1883536227 (1-883536-22-7)
Softcover, Ishk Book Service
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Is it really possible to force any thinking person to act in a way completely alien to his character? What makes so-called brainwashing so different from the equally insidious effects of indoctrination and conditioning, or even advertising and education?
Research findings from psychology show that brainwashing is not a special subversive technique; it is the clever manipulation of unrealized influences that operate in all our lives.
This book, by breaking down so-called brainwashing to its individual elements, shows how social conditioning, need for approval, emotional dependency and much else that we are unaware of, prevent us from being as self-directed as we think; and, conversely, which human traits make us the least susceptible to subtle influence. [via]
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Mindmapping: Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and Problem-Solvingby Joyce WycoffISBN 042512780X (0-425-12780-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Multi Stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability: Beyond Deadlock and Conflictby Minu HemmatiISBN 1853838691 (1-85383-869-1)
Hardcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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The New Rational Managerby Benjamin B. Tregoe, Charles H. KepnerISBN 0971562717 (0-9715627-1-7)
Softcover, Kepner-Tregoe Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Rational Manager'Book summary:A problem-solving and decision-making book. [via]
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The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Lessby Barry SchwartzISBN 0060005696 (0-06-000569-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less'Book summary:In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.
Whether were buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions--both big and small--have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented.
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We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression.
In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice--the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice--from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs--has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse.
By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.More editions of The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less:
Persuasion and Social Movementsby Robert E. Denton, Charles J. Stewart, Craig Allen SmithISBN 1577661451 (1-57766-145-1)
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Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions And How They Were Madeby Alan AxelrodISBN 1402732821 (1-4027-3282-1)
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The Psychology of Action: Linking Cognition and Motivation to Behaviorby John A. Bargh, Peter M. GollwitzerISBN 1572300329 (1-57230-032-9)
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The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Makingby Scott PlousISBN 0070504776 (0-07-050477-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making'Book summary:THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING offers a comprehensive introduction to the field with a strong focus on the social aspects of decision making processes. Winner of the prestigious William James Book Award, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING is an informative and engaging introduction to the field written in a style that is equally accessible to the introductory psychology student, the lay person, or the professional. A unique feature of this volume is the Reader Survey which readers are to complete before beginning the book. The questions in the Reader Survey are drawn from many of the studies discussed throughout the book, allowing readers to compare their answers with the responses given by people in the original studies. This title is part of The McGraw-Hill Series in Social Psychology. [via]
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Qbq!: The Question Behind the Questionby John G. MillerISBN 0966583299 (0-9665832-9-9)
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The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today's Businessby Jeffrey L. SeglinISBN 0978689909 (0-9786899-0-9)
Softcover, Smith/Kerr Assoc Llc
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smartby Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. ToddISBN 0195143817 (0-19-514381-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart'Book summary:Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world, we need a different, more psychologically plausible notion of rationality, and this book provides it. It is about fast and frugal heuristics--simple rules for making decisions when time is pressing and deep thought an unaffordable luxury. These heuristics can enable both living organisms and artificial systems to make smart choices, classifications, and predictions by employing bounded rationality.
But when and how can such fast and frugal heuristics work? Can judgments based simply on one good reason be as accurate as those based on many reasons? Could less knowledge even lead to systematically better predictions than more knowledge? Simple Heuristics explores these questions, developing computational models of heuristics and testing them through experiments and analyses. It shows how fast and frugal heuristics can produce adaptive decisions in situations as varied as choosing a mate, dividing resources among offspring, predicting high school drop out rates, and playing the stock market.
As an interdisciplinary work that is both useful and engaging, this book will appeal to a wide audience. It is ideal for researchers in cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, and cognitive science, as well as in economics and artificial intelligence. It will also inspire anyone interested in simply making good decisions. [via]More editions of Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart:
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisionsby Howard Raiffa, Ralph L. Keeney, John S. HammondISBN 0767908864 (0-7679-0886-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions'Book summary:Have you ever hired someone only to regret your decision two months later? Or looked at your financial portfolio and wondered why you bought the stocks you did? In Smart Choices, authors John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa take the guesswork out of the decision-making process and offer a systematic approach to making the right choice. Most of us have problems making decisions, because we've never learned how. The authors write:
Despite the importance of decision making to our lives, few of us ever receive any training in it. So we are left to learn from experience. But experience is a costly, inefficient teacher that teaches us bad habits along with good ones. Because decision situations vary so markedly, the experience of making one important decision often seems of little use when facing the next.
Smart Choices outlines eight elements involved in making the right decision, from identifying exactly what the decision is and specifying your objectives to considering risk tolerance and looking at how what you decide on today influences what you may decide in the future. The book is full of real-life situations and scenarios that effectively illustrate each element of a good decision. If you think the topic of making the right choice is mundane or a simple matter of common sense, then think again. Smart Choices will relieve you of the regret that so many of us carry because we didn't know how to "think it through." --Harry C. Edwards [via]More editions of Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions:
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisionsby Gary KleinISBN 0262611465 (0-262-61146-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions'Book summary:Gary Klein studies decision-making in the field, tagging along with firefighters, standing by in intensive-care units, and watching chess masters play lightning-fast "blitz" games to learn how people make choices with time constraints, limited information, and changing goals. From this research, he and his associates have developed a theory of "naturalistic decision-making."
Sources of Power essentially lends the validity of scientific research to techniques that many of us use every day. There's intuition, which is based not on instantaneous insight but on the rapid (perhaps even subconscious) interpretation of perceptual cues. There's mental simulation, a finely honed method of visualization. There's storytelling and metaphor, which enable decision-makers to devise meaningful frameworks and compare their present situations to previous events. Nobody is born with an inherent mastery of these and other techniques, Klein tells us, but we are all born with the capability to develop, through experience, the skill sets experts call upon to make good decisions. [via]
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Think: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eyeby Michael R. LegaultISBN 1416531556 (1-4165-3155-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Think: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye'Book summary:Outraged by the downward spiral of intellect and culture, Michael LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, "Blink", which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of people everywhere. Somewhere along the line, the Age of Reason morphed into the Age of Emotion; this systemic erosion is costing time, money, jobs, and lives in the twenty-first century, leading to less fulfilment and growing dysfunction. LeGault provides a bold, controversial, and objective analysis of the causes and solutions for some of the biggest problems facing Western culture in the 21st century. From the over- load of reality TV shows and gossip magazines that have rendered curiosity of the mind and spirit obsolete to permissive parenting and low standards that have caused an academic crisis among our children, LeGault looks at all aspects of modern lives and points to how and where it all went wrong. [via]
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The Thinker's Toolkit: Fourteen Powerful Techniques for Problem Solvingby Morgan D. JonesISBN 0812928083 (0-8129-2808-3)
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The Thinker's Toolkit: Fourteen Skills for Making Smarter Decisions in Business and in Lifeby Morgan D. Jones, Karl WeberISBN 0812926013 (0-8129-2601-3)
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Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makersby Richard E. Neustadt, Ernest R. MayISBN 0029227917 (0-02-922791-7)
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Differenceby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316346624 (0-316-34662-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference'Book summary:"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.
For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.
Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solvingby Jonathan KoomeyISBN 0970601905 (0-9706019-0-5)
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Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Futureby Margaret J. WheatleyISBN 1576751457 (1-57675-145-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future'Book summary:It is impossible to read Turning to One Another in the wake of the devastating attack on New York City's World Trade Center and not marvel at the book's eerie and moving prescience. Of course Margaret Wheatley has already earned herself a (deserved and legit) reputation as the Oprah of "sensitive" organizational books with such titles as A Simpler Way. But this book--devoted entirely to centrality of conversation in healing everything from personal relationships to organizational dysfunction to world discord--flows so broadly and easily across the borders of genre or topic it's almost as though Wheatley intuited when writing it how the need for its message would soon skyrocket. "The intent of this book is to encourage and support you to begin conversations about things that are important to you and those near you," Wheatley writes right up front in the clean, straightforward voice that always saves her work, unlike that of so many other "New Age" gurus, from cheesiness. "It has no other purpose." She then delivers on that promise, making her points in short, succinct, finely written essays on various aspects of human understanding and connection, invoking the thinking of great humanists like Paolo Friere and Nelson Mandela, peppering her thoughts with encounters with people around the world, and then expanding on 10 "conversation starters" like "Do I feel a 'vocation to be truly human'?" "When have I experienced good listening?" and "When have I experienced working for the common good?"
Suffice to say, those looking for some worksheet-packed, three-step plan for organizational harmony won't find it here. Those willing to take a slower, harder, more thoughtful and likely more rewarding path to better relations on any level--or even those looking for the book equivalent of a cool, tall drink of water (perhaps where all change begins)--will be truly moved and genuinely inspired by Wheatley's practical, timely wisdom. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps That Lead to Decision Debaclesby Paul C. NuttISBN 1576751503 (1-57675-150-3)
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Why Smart Executives Fail: What you can Learn From Their Mistakesby Sydney FinkelsteinISBN 1591840457 (1-59184-045-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Smart Executives Fail: What you can Learn From Their Mistakes'Book summary:A definitive study of executive failures-why they happen and how to prevent them.
There's a scenario that keeps repeating itself in today's business climate. A company is voted one of the most admired in the world. Then three or four years later, it's in dire financial trouble. A CEO is celebrated on the covers of BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Fortune. Soon after, the company is in the midst of a disastrous merger or some other fiasco.
What goes wrong in these cases? Usually it seems that the top management made some incredibly stupid mistake. But the people responsible are almost always remarkably intelligent and usually have terrific track records. Even more puzzling than the fact that brilliant managers can make bad mistakes is the way they so often magnify the damage. Once a company has made a bad misstep, it often seems as though it can't do anything right. How does this happen? Instead of rectifying their mistakes, why do business leaders regularly make them worse?
To answer these questions, Sydney Finkelstein has carried out the largest research program ever devoted to business breakdowns. In Why Smart Executives Fail, he uncovers-with startling clarity and unassailable documentation-the causes regularly responsible for major business breakdowns. Why Smart Executives Fail relates the stories of great business disasters and demonstrates that there are specific, identifiable ways in which many businesses regularly make themselves vulnerable to failure. The result is a truly indispensable, practical, must-read book that explains the mechanics of executive breakdowns, how to avoid them, and what to do about them if they happen. [via]More editions of Why Smart Executives Fail: What you can Learn From Their Mistakes:
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them : Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economicsby Gary Belsky, Thomas GilovichISBN 0684844931 (0-684-84493-1)
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Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes-And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economicsby Thomas Gilovich, Gary BelskyISBN 0684859386 (0-684-85938-6)
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The Wisdom Of Crowdsby James Surowiecki, Surowiecki, James (AFT)ISBN 0385721706 (0-385-72170-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom Of Crowds'Book summary:In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliantbetter at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. [via]More editions of The Wisdom Of Crowds:
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nationsby James SurowieckiISBN 0385503865 (0-385-50386-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations'Book summary:No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken was wrong.
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliantbetter at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world.
Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which youre standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? Whats the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist?
The Wisdom of Crowds is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our world.More editions of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations:
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Blink Inteligencia Intuitiva?/blink.: Por Que Sabemos La Verdad En Dos Segundos/ the Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 1598200879 (1-59820-087-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afectaby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 8466625127 (84-666-2512-7)
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Seis Sombreros Para Pensar/ Six Hats To think: Una Guia De Pensamiento Para Gente De Accion / a Thinking Guide for People of Actionby Eduard De BonoISBN 9506410615 (950-641-061-5)
Softcover, Granica Adelphi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seis Sombreros Para Pensar/ Six Hats To think: Una Guia De Pensamiento Para Gente De Accion / a Thinking Guide for People of Action'Book summary:En Seis sombreros para pensar de Bono alterna párrafos teóricos en los que expone su teoría con ejemplos, cuya intención es demostrar la eficacia del uso de los sombreros para pensar. Al leer el ensayo se tiene la sensación de que bien podría decir lo mismo en una cuarta parte del espacio que utiliza. Es muy frecuente que de Bono utilice expresiones como «deje de pensar con el sombrero negro» o «valore por un momento esta idea desde el sombrero amarillo». Al leer este tipo de ejemplos uno no sabe si de Bono propone utilizar estas fórmulas en serio o si son metáforas que simbolizan los cambios en el modo de pensar. Desde luego, todo parece indicar que lo propone en serio, lo que sin duda resulta entre artificial e infantil. De Bono dice que al principio resultará utilizar este método, pero que una vez se naturalice saldrá de forma espontánea y el pensador se habrá habituado por completo a este proceso. Francamente, desde el sombrero rojo, permítanme que un servidor lo dude. [via]
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Tus Decisiones y la Voluntad de Diosby Garry FriesenISBN 0829744517 (0-8297-4451-7)
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Ao Encontro De Espinosa: As Emocoes Sociais E a Neurologia Do Sentirby Antonio R. DamasioISBN 9721052299 (972-1-05229-9)
Hardcover, Publicacoes Europa-America
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L'illusione Di Sapere: Che Cosa Si Nasconde Dietro I Nostri Erroriby Massimo Piattelli-PalmariniISBN 8804361697 (88-04-36169-7)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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