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Indistractable, Updated Edition

Discover the award-winning book that has improved hundreds of thousands of lives by changing how we approach distractions.You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become "indistractable”? In Indistractable, international bestselling author of Hooked and behavioral design expert Nir Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction, and the keys to getting the best out of technology without letting it get the best of us. Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals: • Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture—and how to fix it • How traditional to-do lists can do more harm than good • New distraction challenges related to remote work and videoconferencing, and ways to minimize their impact • What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management" • Case studies and expert guidance for effective timeboxing • Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable • How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting worldSolving the problem of technology-driven distraction is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention—helping you live the life you really want.

Advanced Operations

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Thomas Kaiser und Oliver D. Doleski stellen in diesem essential eine praxisbezogene Managementmethode zur Umsetzung datentechnologischer Innovationen (Advanced Analytics) und ein darauf aufbauendes Vorgehen zur entsprechenden Transformation von Geschäftsmodellen vor – erst auf diese Weise entsteht eine Advanced Operations. Die Autoren geben Hilfestellung bei der sorgfältigen Verknüpfung von Anwendungsfällen zu ganzheitlichen, unternehmerischen Zielen. So sollten auch strategische Optionen, Strukturen und Methoden bereits die Phase einer frühen Transformation begleiten. Diese benötigt die Systematik der darauf aufbauenden Geschäftsmodellinnovation mit der Perspektive der Realisierung einer mit diesem essential eingeführten Advanced Operations.Der Inhalt Zielbilder der DigitalisierungEntwicklung und Management der digitalen AnwendungsfälleUmsetzungsbezogene ErfolgsfaktorenTransformationsfähiges Geschäftsmodell „Advanced Operations“Die Zielgruppen Fach- und Führungskräfte aus den Bereichen Business Development und Digitalisierung sowie Praktiker und Berater mit den Interessenschwerpunkten strategisches Management und GeschäftsmodellinnovationDozierende und Studierende mit wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher oder IT-technischer AusrichtungDie AutorenDr. Thomas Kaiser ist für die EMEA-Region zuständiger Geschäftsführer der internationalen Beratungsgesellschaft SSA & Company mit Sitz in New York.Oliver D. Doleski ist Unternehmensberater sowie Herausgeber und Autor zahlreicher Fachpublikationen.

The Economics of Disappearing Distance

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This title was first published in 2003. This book focuses on the role of tangible and intangible networks that affect spatial interdependencies in economic and social life. It addresses the question - is the effect of distance disappearing? In examining this question the book considers the types of interaction that bring about globalisation of markets as well as social life in general and the distortion of distance patterns and changes in spatial interdependencies. The contributions elaborate theory and methods by examining hierarchical fields of internal and external influence on regional change; sources of productivity growth in a network of industries, endogenous growth and development policies. The book concludes with an assessment of plan evaluation methodologies for a changing and globalizing world characterized by new economic networks and networking arrangements.

Summary of John E. Sarno's The Mindbody Prescription

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Excerpt From Summary of John E. Sarno's The Mindbody Prescription #1 The problem of pain has become, since my graduation from medical school, a major epidemic in most of the industrialized countries of the Western world. The diagnosis and treatment of these disorders is now a gargantuan industry. #2 The author, a physical therapist, began to doubt the validity of the conventional diagnoses and treatments of the neck, shoulder, and back pain. A closer look revealed that back muscles, from the back of the head to the buttocks, were primarily involved. This confirmed the work of all those through the years who described what they called fibromyalgia, fibrositis, or myofascial pain.

Innovation, Technology and Knowledge

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In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development. Typical for the developments during this time has been substantially increased investments in research and development (R&D) to generate new knowledge and new technologies and increased investments in diffusing existing knowledge by means of education and thereby raising the volume of human capital. However, many member states and regions within the EU are struggling with their economic development. This book explores the uneven patterns of development within the EU, discusses the relative effect of investments on innovation and productivity growth and looks at the mechanisms involved in economic development and policy.

Gekauft!

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Geht es Ihnen auch oft so, dass Sie es zwar schaffen, mit Ihren Kunden einen Deal abzuschließen, aber am Ende dennoch das Gefühl haben, dass es für Sie schlecht gelaufen ist? Damit sind Sie leider nicht allein. Jedes Jahr lassen Verkaufsprofis Milliarden von Euros auf dem Tisch liegen, weil sie von versierten Käufern, die in der Kunst des Verhandelns geschult sind, ausgebootet werden. Mit Jeb Blounts Buch landen Sie zukünftig nicht mehr auf der Verliererseite des Geschäfts. In seinem Buch liefert er Ihnen die Strategien, Taktiken, Techniken, Fähigkeiten und menschlichen Einflussmöglichkeiten, die Sie benötigen, um ein kraftvoller und effektiver Verhandler im Verkauf zu werden. Jeb Blount spricht Klartext. Ungeschönt nennt er die Gründe, warum Sie immer wieder Käufern unterliegen, die darin trainiert wurden, wie man Sie ausspielt. Dann bringt er Ihnen genau das bei, was Sie wissen, tun und sagen müssen, um mehr Kontrolle und mehr Macht über die Ergebnisse Ihrer Geschäfte zu erlangen und um zu gewinnen. Mit diesen mächtigen Taktiken in Ihrem Verkaufsarsenal werden Sie von nun an Ihre Verkaufsverhandlungen mit mehr Vertrauen angehen. Sie haben die Macht, das Gespräch in die Hand zu nehmen und die Preise und Bedingungen zu erhalten, die Sie verdienen.

Weathering the Storm in China and India

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China and India have in recent years seen a change in leadership, with each wanting to make an impact on their respective societies by bringing about significant changes in governance. This book looks at the impact of major institutional disruptions on large-, medium- and small-sized enterprises in China and India. The book endeavours to systematically assess the impact of major institutional policy changes that seek to transform and overhaul the status quo at institutional, social and business levels. It also provides a holistic understanding of the impact of a major and turbulent policy shift on Asia’s two giant economies.This book is a must-read for those interested in gaining insights into the two dominant powers in Asia.

The Dynamics of Innovative Regions

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First published in 1997, this volume originates from the fourth cycle of GREMI (Groupe de Recherche Européen sur les Milieux Innovateurs) research, focusing on territorial innovative processes and the competitive advantages of the complex socio-economic fabric of milieu innovateurs.The book is divided into three parts. The first, written by the editors, deals specifically with the multi-faced dimensions of local development, placing particular emphasis on the role of territory in producing/reproducing learning processes, tacit/codified knowledge storage and government structures. The second part reports different case studies and their theoretical systematisation, carried out with the same methodology by some ten équipes working in ten different European countries. The last part is devoted to a more general view on the structural adjustment dynamics of innovative milieu, raising useful questions of strategy and policy.

Entrepreneurship and Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently, there is a considerable amount of confusion and a variety of conflicting theories which are being used interchangeably and ambiguously. In this important new book, the authors argue that there are analytically distinct forms of entrepreneurship, each of them having an individual logic of their own. They highlight the role of individual economic agents with endowments of new knowledge or new combinations of old knowledge as entrepreneurs, and thus identify them as dynamic factors in the knowledge economy. Overall, this book not only provides a contemporary overview of current research in the field, but also summarizes the policy conclusions that can be drawn from current research.

Fortune The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time

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Decisions equal success--nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive-they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension. What made Apple's board bring back Steve Jobs to the company? How did Johnson & Johnson decide to recall every bottle of Tylenol after a poisoning scare that involved only a small batch of the drug? What made Henry Ford decide to double the wages of his autoworkers, and how did that change the American economy for the next century? Here management consultant Verne Harnish, the CEO of Gazelles, and Fortune's editors provide the background stories behind the greatest business decisions of all time. In this fully original book, you'll get a glimpse into the thought processes leading up to these groundbreaking moments and will learn how the decisions have shaped the thinking of today's top leaders. The book also contains an insightful foreword by management guru Jim Collins, the author of Built To Last and Good To Great, which explains the importance of decision making in creating a successful company.

Comprendre le monde - 4e éd.

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Le monde change, les clés de sa compréhension également : nouvelles références, nouveaux défis, nouveaux acteurs.Désormais, les questions internationales ne peuvent plus être la seule affaire des diplomates ou de quelques experts éclairés. À l’heure où la frontière entre le national et l’international est brouillée, il est un impératif citoyen d’aider à mieux comprendre les affaires mondiales. Dans quel monde vivons-nous ? Quelles sont les conséquences du monde extérieur sur notre vie quotidienne ? Quels sont les grands défis globaux et les menaces auxquelles faire face ? Quels nouveaux rapports de force entre les puissances se mettent en place ?Profondément mise à jour, Syrie, Russie, Chine, terrorisme, migrants, Etats-Unis...), cette introduction aux relations internationales trace, sans jargon ni raccourcis simplistes, les grandes lignes de compréhension du monde contemporain.

A Modern Credit Rating Agency

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This book aims to present a picture of one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies. Credited as being the first credit rating agency, Moody’s stands as the epitome of the rating sector and all that it effects. However, outside of internal and non-public histories compiled within the rating agency itself, the story of Moody’s has never been told, until now. However, this is not a historical book. Rather, this book paints a picture of Moody’s on a wider canvas that introduces the concept of rating to you, taking into account the origins of the sector, the competitive battles that formed the modern-day oligopoly, and the characters that have each taken their turn on sculpting the industry that, today, is critical to the modern economy.The book is a story of personable people who provided the market with what it needed, but it is more than that. It is a story of conflict, impact, strategy, and most of all the relationship between big business and modern society. Standing as the gatekeeper to the capital markets that form the core of modern society, Moody’s represents the very best of what the marketplace can produce, but also the very worst. This story takes in economic crises in the antebellum US, the Panics of the early 1900s, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression and, of course, the Global Financial Crisis. It does this because, at the heart of each one was a member of the rating industry or the reporting industry that preceded it. Associated with almost any financial scandal you may care to remember the credit rating agencies, in their often-uncomfortable role as gatekeepers, have their fingerprints on most financial scandals and calamities. This book tells the story of the industry’s founding member.

Myśl algorytmicznie. Jak łączyć analizę komputerową z ludzką kreatywnością i skuteczniej rozwiązywać problemy

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W codziennym życiu często podejmujemy niewłaściwe decyzje i wprowadzamy nieskuteczne rozwiązania. W wielu przypadkach wynika to po prostu z przeciążenia — jeśli masz dużo problemów na głowie, zachowanie jasności myślenia może być wyzwaniem. W konsekwencji może się okazać, że nie realizujesz swojego potencjału, a trzymanie się dobrych nawyków sprawia Ci trudność. W tej sytuacji warto się zdecydować na usprawnienie procesu podejmowania codziennych decyzji w niecodzienny sposób: przez zastosowanie algorytmów komputerowych.

Teach Almost Anyone Almost Anything

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"Teach Almost Anyone Almost Anything" is the second edition of the popular guide to course creation. It is aimed at entrepreneurs who want to offer a course as part of their overall business strategy. The book explains the process of course design in simple and clear terms. It also includes useful templates to get the beginner off to a great start.

Kata

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"A unique look at a unique culture. If you're trying to figure the Japanese out, this book provides another important piece of the puzzle."—Terrie Lloyd, CEO, LINC Media, TokyoIn this first book ever to explain why the Japanese think and behave the way they do, veteran Japanologist Boye Lafayette De Mente, author of more than 30 books on Japan, unlocks the mystery of kata—the cultural molds that have traditionally shaped and defined the attitudes, behavior, and character of the Japanese and are primarily responsible for the traits and talents that make them different from other people.In 70 brief essays, ranging from "The Art of Bowing" and "Importance of the Apology" to "The Compulsion for Quality" and "Exchanging Name-Cards," the author looks at the origin, nature, use, and influence of kata (literally the form and order of doing things) in Japanese life and how this cultural conditioning causes the Japanese to think and react in the way they do. Because all relations with the Japanese are influenced by kata, the key to dealing with the Japanese in personal, business or political matters requires knowing how to work within the confines of kata and when to induce or compel them to break the kata and behave in a non-Japanese way.

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

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Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your chances of professional and personal success? During his more than four decades as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Brad Jacobs has created eight flagship companies across different industries, delivering tens of billionsof dollars of value to shareholders. In How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate America—and distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map. From provocative recommendations for “rearranging your brain”—an essential prerequisite to accomplishing enormous goals—to practical advice for dealing with colleagues, Jacobs will have you rethinking what it means to win big. He explains why it’s critical to spot key trends and capitalize on them, including the biggest trend of all—the rapid evolution of technology relative to human development. And, he shares his techniques for: • turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage, • achieving lots of high-quality M&A without imploding, • building an outrageously talented team, • catalyzing electric meetings, and • transforming a company into a superorganism that kills the competition. How to Make a Few Billion Dollars is an inside look at how this entrepreneurial titan leads with humility, compassion, and accountability, while running hard toward the American Dream. If your personal dream is to create wealth through free markets or to triumph in sports, the arts, politics, philanthropy, or any other part of your life, this book will help you make that a reality.

High Frequency Trading and Limit Order Book Dynamics

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This book brings together the latest research in the areas of market microstructure and high-frequency finance along with new econometric methods to address critical practical issues in these areas of research. Thirteen chapters, each of which makes a valuable and significant contribution to the existing literature have been brought together, spanning a wide range of topics including information asymmetry and the information content in limit order books, high-frequency return distribution models, multivariate volatility forecasting, analysis of individual trading behaviour, the analysis of liquidity, price discovery across markets, market microstructure models and the information content of order flow. These issues are central both to the rapidly expanding practice of high frequency trading in financial markets and to the further development of the academic literature in this area. The volume will therefore be of immediate interest to practitioners and academics. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Finance.

College Without Student Loans

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College Without Student Loans is the springboard to beginning a successful professional career while being free of the debt burden that encumbers over 80% of those currently graduating. You do not have to be another statistic for Federal government loan program or be saddled with long-term monthly payments to Uncle Sam. Attend the institution that fits you the best, while securing meaningful employment, with your undergraduate degree in hand. These are just a few of the reasons why you need to read this book and uncover the secrets to winning the "Game of College". When you follow the SAFE steps your results will be dramatic and predictable, positioning you for a productive, meaningful and happier life.

TurboStrategy

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All the business wisdom in the world doesn’t matter if it doesn’t produce results. Whether your business is humming along fine or struggling to stay afloat, your company has more potential than the results show.Brian Tracy has worked with more than 500 companies throughout the US, Canada, and 22 other countries. He has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to achieve spectacular results, and now he is helping businesses reach new levels of success in this book.Companies in all industries can get on the fast track to more focused strategy, better planning, more powerful marketing and sales approaches, and higher profits. Tracy reveals the practical techniques that the most successful businesses use to thrive, even in the toughest markets.In Turbostrategy, you will learn how to:Maintain flexibility, the key to dealing with an ever-changing business landscapeArticulate your business’ vision, values, mission, purpose, and goalsDraw a line through the past and become your own turnaround specialistHire the best people and motivate them to excellentThrough 21 strategy points and dozens of examples, stories, and quotations from world-class thinkers and corporate leaders, Turbostrategy will show any company how to turbocharge its strategy and get its business firing on all cylinders.

Contemporary Digital Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness in Business 4.0

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Making businesses sustainable is an ever-present challenge faced by entrepreneurs, both established and new. This new book takes an insightful look at the changes occurring in the digital arena for enhancing organizational effectiveness in business today. This volume discusses AI and machine learning in business, sustainable development goals for organizational effectiveness, sociointercultural sustainable natural resources management, entrepreneurial marketing practices,specialized technical education, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, digital financial services, and more.

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