Perspective: Management

The Management of Projects

The Management of Projects

Posted by | Sep 19, 2020 | |

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the issues involved in initiating, securing and accomplishing any project and will answer key questions, such as: How did the discipline grow? What do we mean by ‘project management’? What lessons have been learned – often painfully? And, how can past experiences be distilled into practical advice for those who wish to create and implement successful projects?”The management of projects” examines in detail, the experience gained, and lessons to be learned, from the management of projects over the past 50 years and will provide you with a record of the seminal events and documents in the development of the modern practice of the management of projects: a detailed picture of how project management is and has been practised in different industries, countries and cultures; a sense of the drama and excitement of the real world of projects; international perspective of the discipline; a model of best practice; and, a vision of how the discipline will evolve over the next decade or so.

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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently — and Why

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently — and Why

Posted by | Sep 18, 2020 | |

When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment…and the different “seeings” are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think – and even see – the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world.

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The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature

The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature

Posted by | Sep 18, 2020 | |

Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a year was, or asked ourselves when now happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature’s laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.

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The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Posted by | Sep 18, 2020 | |

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.

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Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable and Collaborative Groups.

Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable and Collaborative Groups.

Posted by | Sep 18, 2020 | |

A groundbreaking, comprehensive program for designing effective and socially equitable groups of all sizes—from businesses and social justice groups to global organizations.

Whether you work in business or schools, volunteer in neighborhoods or church organizations, or are involved in social justice and activism, you understand the enormous power of groups to enact powerful and lasting change in the world. But how exactly do you design, build, and sustain effective groups?

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