The Power Of Things

Author : Steve Levinson
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 : 0399175849
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power to Get Things Done written by Steve Levinson and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you've probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you'd rather not do. As consultants, Steve Levinson and Chris Cooper have seen countless clients struggle--and often fail--to do the many success-producing things they know they should do but don't feel like doing. The Power to Get Things Done will teach you how to consistently turn your good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible in the work you do. Don't feel like filing those pesky tax forms or making the follow-up calls you've been putting off? The Power to Get Things Done will show you how to get yourself--and keep yourself--in gear, "--Amazon.com.

Author : Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783422069787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformations written by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents contributions from a lecture series held in the winter semester 2009/10 at the University of Heidelberg's Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows.' The central theme is the power of things--works of art, luxury goods, and ideas--in cultural processes"--P. 8.

Author : Leanne R. Wood
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683505263
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Things Unseen written by Leanne R. Wood and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Things Unseen tells a riveting true story about a woman whose inner voice leads her on an enthralling and nerve-racking journey, pursuing what is written in her heart. Chock-full of tales combining raw emotion, unbridled humor, and miraculous intervention, she regales the reader with her exploits as an aid worker in post-communist Romania and as a business entrepreneur in the USA. It takes courage to follow your gut, buck the “right way” of doing things, and step out into the unknown, but it is only then that you can really live to your full potential. This compelling narrative of a young mother who takes an intuitive path with almost no resources will inspire you to follow your own inner voice and unleash The Power of Things Unseen.

Author : Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226301117
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Small Things written by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political change doesn’t always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spaces where dialogue generates political power. In The Politics of Small Things, Jeffrey Goldfarb provides an innovative way for understanding politics, a way of appreciating the significance of politics at the micro level by comparatively analyzing key turning points and institutions in recent history. He presents a sociology of human interactions that lead from small to large: dissent around the old Soviet bloc; life on the streets in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest in 1989; the network of terror that spawned 9/11; and the religious and Internet mobilizations that transformed the 2004 presidential election, to name a few. In such pivotal moments, he masterfully shows, political autonomy can be generated, presenting alternatives to the big politics of the global stage and the dominant narratives of terrorism, antiterrorism, and globalization.

Author : Jenny L. Davis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044110
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Artifacts Afford written by Jenny L. Davis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of Everyday Things, offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies—but, Jenny Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, which offers both a vocabulary and necessary critical perspective for affordance analyses. The mechanisms and conditions framework shifts the question from what objects afford to how objects afford, for whom, and under what circumstances. Davis shows that through this framework, analyses can account for the power and politics of technological artifacts. She situates the framework within a critical approach that views technology as materialized action. She explains how request, demand, encourage, discourage, refuse, and allow are mechanisms of affordance, and shows how these mechanisms take shape through variable conditions—perception, dexterity, and cultural and institutional legitimacy. Putting the framework into action, Davis identifies existing methodological approaches that complement it, including critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA), app feature analysis, and adversarial design. In today's rapidly changing sociotechnical landscape, the stakes of affordance analyses are high. Davis's mechanisms and conditions framework offers a timely theoretical reboot, providing tools for the crucial tasks of both analysis and design.

Author : John Hagel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465028764
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Pull written by John Hagel and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can effectively address our most pressing challenges in a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world.

Author : Elizabeth R. Thornton
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466879440
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Objective Leader written by Elizabeth R. Thornton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all subjective—it's human nature. We overreact to situations; we judge people too quickly and unfairly; we take something personally when it was not really meant that way. As a result, we lose relationships, reputation, money, and peace of mind. And in our ever-more-complex world, leaders must make decisions faster and with more conflicting information; widespread insecurity makes people territorial and risk-averse; and the consequences of every action are played out on a disproportionately large stage. Imagine how much more prepared Mitt Romney could have been for his landslide loss on election night, if his advisors had acknowledged the facts staring them in the face. To succeed, we must consciously seek to increase our objectivity—seeing and accepting things as they are without projecting our mental models, fears, background, and personal experiences onto them. This way, we not only avoid costly cognitive errors, but open ourselves to engage new cultures, new markets, and new opportunities. In The Objective Leader, Thornton draws on her original research, as well as her years of experience as a manager and entrepreneur, to offer proven strategies for identifying limiting and unproductive ways of thinking and creating powerful new mental models that ensure continued success.

Author : Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1637741235
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 7 Rules of Power written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school’s motto, you need power. Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, power is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Don’t blame the tool for how some people used it. If fully understood and harnessed effectively, power skills and understanding become the keys to increasing salaries, job satisfaction, career advancement, organizational change, and, happiness. In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular—with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks. Rooted firmly in social science research, Pfeffer’s 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get things done, including increasing the positive effects of your job performance. The 7 rules are: 1) Get out of your own way. 2) Break the rules. 3) Show up in powerful fashion. 4) Create a powerful brand. 5) Network relentlessly. 6) Use your power. 7) Understand that once you have acquired power, what you did to get it will be forgiven, forgotten, or both. With 7 Rules of Power, you’ll learn, through both numerous examples as well as research evidence, how to accomplish change in your organization, your life, the lives of others, and the world.

Author : Susan Lepselter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052942
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resonance of Unseen Things written by Susan Lepselter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

Author : Erica Dhawan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279788
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Big Things Done written by Erica Dhawan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the new phenomenon called connectional intelligence, and how to make it work for you