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  Cogs and Monsters - What...

  Diane Coyle

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  Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world's crises.Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are "cogs"—self-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by "monsters"—untethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces. In response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyzes.Filled with original insights, Cogs and Monsters offers a road map for how economics can adapt to the rewiring of society, including by digital technologies, and realize its potential to play a hugely positive role in the twenty-first century.

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  Creating a Learning Society - A...

  Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C....

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  “A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy   Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward.   “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review

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  Interviewing - Simple ideas for...

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  Interviewing is packed full of useful and practical advice for the would-be ace recruiter. In today's competitive labour markets it’s vital to make sure you have the right person for the right job. The crux of any recruitment procedure, however sophisticated, is the face-to-face interview. It can be a nerve-wracking time for both parties. How do you decide? How can you be sure you've made the best choice of person? Have you been fair and given the interviewee every opportunity? This book is also very useful for people being interviewed. Interviewing is all about technique – asking the right questions and being ready to give the best answers. If you want to improve your interviewing skills, or want to do better at interviews, this book is definitely for you. If your interviewing skills need a quick pep-me-up then this quick, no-bull guide is just what you need.

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  Conflict Management

  Introbooks Team

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  Conflict resolution or conflict management is a skill, no doubt. Conflict is a normal occurrence, and it can sometimes be healthy for a relationship if it occurs once in a while. It is impossible for two individuals from different backgrounds to agree at all times. As a result, conflict in relationships is inevitable. Since they cannot be eliminated, it is only normal to learn how to manage them when they occur. Mismanagement of conflict can harm any human relationship, and such harm may leave indelible marks and irremovable scars. The reverse is the case when conflicts are managed in positive and respectful ways; it can turn the worst of enemies to the best of friends. 
  There is no better way to create stronger bonds between two individuals than by managing their conflicts or disagreements professionally. Not everybody has the skills needed to manage conflict professionally. However, everyone can learn the skills. A Proper understanding of the techniques and skills involved in conflict management can help the individual and every person the individual associates with, in proper management of any conflicting situation that may come up. An individual well versed in conflict management will not only be able to manage conflicts involving other people but will also manage conflicts in his/her personal life. 

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  Selling with Intention - The...

  Ursula C. Mentjes

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  Every Sales Person and Entrepreneur knows that selling is the key to success, but most never achieve their potential even after attending numerous trainings and reading dozens of books. Why? Most of the training industry focuses on technique without ever addressing the most important part of the sales process – what the Sales Person is saying to themselves. It doesn’t matter how well you implement the concepts and methods if you haven’t addressed the beliefs and behaviors that are sabotaging your efforts. “How we think about selling makes all the difference.” In Selling With Intention, Sales Expert and Certified Sales Coach Ursula Mentjes shares the expertise she uses to help clients double their sales revenues in as short as two months. Her principles and exercises will help you: Transform the way you think about and interact with your target clients, the sales process, and yourself as a sales person; Develop the mindset, systems, and intentional sales plan you need to significantly increase sales; Let go of the fears and limiting beliefs that have been sabotaging your efforts; Move forward with a renewed sense of confidence in solving clients’ problems; and Take a quantum leap toward your greatest sales goals.

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  Passive Income Mindset

  Jeff Walkner

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  Passive Income Mindset. Do you have one? And, more to the point, do you need one? Or is the idea of needing a passive income mindset really necessary? Is it just more motivational speaker, positive thinking blah blah? 
  If you're truly interested in passive income, and why would you not be, you've certainly heard it referred to as The "Holy Grail" of Internet Marketing. The bulls eye that every entrepeneur is shooting for. 
  As you well know - The internet is bombarded daily with countless stories of the nearly instant millions being made. But behind almost every legitimate bonanza you'll find years of determined effort and thoughtful action. 
  And that thoughtful action, according to Internet Legend Jeff Walkner, is energized in the majority of success stories, by a Passive Income Mindset. 
  A vision of the end goal with eyes constantly on the prize. Propelled by thoughtful choices and consistent action. Not to mention truckloads of persistence and determination. 
  No passive Income will not fall into your lap, but it is certainly achieveable...if you have a Passive Income Mindset. 
  In this book, Jeff explains the psychology and the reality you must know to achieve, and profit from, a Passive Income Mindset.

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