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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
256 pages ;
Description
"La historia nos ha ense?ado, que quienes conquistan, quienes crean, quienes inventan y transforman el rumbo de la vida, han tenido una gran caracter?stica en com?n, son imparables, una vez decidido su plan, su meta, su idea, no hay marcha atr?s, no hay nada que pueda detenerlos o cambiar esa idea de su mente. Personajes desde la antig?edad, como Alejandro Magno, pasando por Leonardo da Vinci, Federico el Grande, Mozart, Charles Darwin, Henry Ford,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems--and how we solve them--upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem is exactly the wrong way to find an answer. Putting problems at the center of our thoughts shuts down our creative abilities, depletes stamina, and feeds insecurities....
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"From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming itself at an extraordinary and unprecedented pace. As jobs become more multifaceted, as information streams multiply, and as myriad devices place increasing...
44) What if?
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
What if a boy found a beach ball and kicked it into the ocean? What if two seals found it and began to play? What if a third seal appeared on the beach looking for a friend? Enjoy this visit to the beach and the chance to guess what happens when different choices are made.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
336 pages
Description
"Bina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A former journalist and adviser in the Obama administration, she helped communities and businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why people don't think ahead-and what can be done to change that. In The Optimist's Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how we can make decisions that benefit...
46) Make mistakes
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"Making mistakes is not something to beat yourself up about. In fact, remembering your best mistakes can help you learn! Discover fun ways to learn from your mistakes, and find out why taking risks and challenging yourself makes your brain stronger and more powerful"--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element-for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he's learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers,...
Author
Series
Punto de lectura. Ensayo volume 101/1
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
vii, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point. From colonialism to globalization, from gender wars to civil wars, or any circumstance for which our best solutions backfire, Shore demonstrates how rigid thinking can subtly lead us to undermine ourselves....
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Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making. In the years since the publication of the second edition of Shared Decision Making in Health Care, there have been significant new developments in the field, most notably in the US where 'Obamacare' puts shared decision making (SDM) at the centre of the 2009 Affordable Care Act. This new...
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxv, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, an inspiring and practical guide to mastering change in the face of relentless uncertainty. The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. But confronting the relentless pace of change is hard. Employees get downsized; companies find themselves disrupted as challengers steal away customers. To thrive in today's...
54) The last peach
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
Two indecisive bugs contemplate eating the last peach of the summer.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the Japanese Foreign Minister, who was the only one in Emperor...
58) Would you kill the fat man?: the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong
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In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with the ethical dilemma posed by the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Analyzes how groups make decisions, the reasons why such decisions can often be incorrect and even harmful, and the strategies that can be adopted by group leaders to improve such decisions.
60) Click
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to make its own choices.
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