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Examines how our understanding of human mastery is being applied to the way computers "think." In the near future, the authors argue, the most advanced computer systems and the most successful businesses will be able to use a new generation of technology to anticipate customer needs before customers even know what they want, see production snafus before they occur, traffic jams before they materialize, and operational problems before they arise.
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Whether you're trying to get to the head of the class, earn the big promotion or just find a parking spot, every day, you're competing. In this episode we'll explore your brain and competition through a series of, well, competitions! Each viewer will be assigned a team and play along as our Red and Blue teams duke it out in a head-to-head battle to determine the winner.
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"The premise of economist Adam Smith's 'invisible hand'--a tenet of market economics--is that competitive self-interest shunts benefits to the community. But that is the exception rather than the rule, argues writer Robert H. Frank. Charles Darwin's idea of natural selection is a more accurate reflection of how economic competition works ... because individual and species benefits do not always coincide. Highlighting reasons for market failure and...
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"Jack Welch is the most admired, copied, and studied CEO of the 20th century. His visionary initiatives and concepts - and adaptive management strategies - earned him the title of the most effective CEO in history. This alphabetically arranged, encyclopedic reference, The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership, provides an in-depth look at the methods that Welch used to turn GE into the world's most valuable corporation."
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There's a scene in Lewis Carroll'sThrough the Looking Glassin which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Evolutionary biologists have used this scene to illustrate the evolutionary arms race among competing species. William Barnett argues that a similar dynamic is at work...
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If you're a manager or business owner, you need tools to make better decisions--about business strategy, marketing, competition, positioning, product development, and much more. In Analysis Without Paralysis, two renowned experts on business analysis and strategy bring you those tools, in plain English!Babette Bensoussan and Craig Fleisher teach you exactly what you need to know, without dragging you through unnecessarily complex concepts or advanced...
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Presents an argument for government intervention in the free market in order to safeguard competition and promote innovation, explaining that competition policies forged in the 1970s are no longer compatible with today's economy; in an account that also traces landmark legal battles involving such companies as Apple, Microsoft, and AT & T.
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"What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure value used in every Toyota? When an earthquake in Taiwan shuts down chip manufacturers for Deli and Apple? When the U.S. Pacific ports are shut down during the Christmas rush? When terrorists strike? In The Resilient Enterprise, Yossi Sheffi shows that companies fortunes in the face of such business shocks depend more on choices made before the disruption...
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Misaligned companies, like cars out of alignment, can develop serious problems if not corrected quickly. They are hard to steer and don't respond well to changes in direction. This groundbreaking book shows you how to get - and keep - all the vital elements of your organization aligned and headed in the same direction at the same time. As pioneers of the alignment concept, the authors have developed this unique approach based on their work with leading...
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"A landmark system for business leaders and marketers, campaigners and bloggers, political junkies and fans of popular culture, "The Elements of Influence" takes the mystery out of strategy and how it shapes and shifts niche and global marketplaces alike. Charts & art throughout."--Jacket.
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"In a clear, nontechnical style, leading quality practitioners and researchers examine the critical issues in quality and propose powerful strategies for different sizes and types of firms. They outline seven key elements for a successful quality program: provide leadership from top management; focus intensively on meeting customer needs; emphasize the quality of business processes from both an internal and external (customer) perspective; decentralize...
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