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Book Hindsight  Insight  Foresight  Thinking About Security in the Indo Pacific

Download or read book Hindsight Insight Foresight Thinking About Security in the Indo Pacific written by Alexander L. Vuving and published by Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindsight, Insight, Foresight is a tour d’horizon of security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Written by 20 current and former members of the faculty at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, its 21 chapters provide hindsight, insight, and foresight on numerous aspects of security in the region. This book will help readers to understand the big picture, grasp the changing faces, and comprehend the local dynamics of regional security.

Book Singapore   s Approach to Developing Teachers

Download or read book Singapore s Approach to Developing Teachers written by Woon Chia Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore’s education system has come to international attention due to its commendable performance on the Worldwide Educating for the Future Index produced by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), as well as the students’ continual sterling performance in internationally benchmarked tests such as Trends in International Math and Science Survey (TIMSS), and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The accomplishments are the result of a long-haul vision of education, and more importantly, a deep commitment towards developing teachers for the 21st century. Singapore has invested steadfastly from the early years in teachers at the front line of the classrooms in schools. This book explicates the ‘thinking’ behind Singapore’s approach to developing teachers and building the teaching profession. It examines how Singapore strives to attract the best and the brightest people to become teachers, develop them into autonomous professionals, and grow them over their career so that they are able to deliver quality education for every child. The author hopes that by sharing the hindsight, insight and foresight of the system, and looking at Singapore's aspirations and challenges, the book can stimulate reflection and generate discussion, and provide ideas for improving teaching and teacher learning worldwide.

Book Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go

Download or read book Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go written by Beverly Kaye and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process to help with career development.

Book Data Insights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hunter Whitney
  • Publisher : Newnes
  • Release : 2012-11-27
  • ISBN : 0123877946
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Data Insights written by Hunter Whitney and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data offers thought-provoking insights into how visualization can foster a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of data. The book offers perspectives from people with different backgrounds, including data scientists, statisticians, painters, and writers. It argues that all data is useless, or misleading, if we do not know what it means.Organized into seven chapters, the book explores some of the ways that data visualization and other emerging approaches can make data meaningful and therefore useful. It also discusses some fundamental ideas and basic questions in the data lifecycle; the process of interactions between people, data, and displays that lead to better questions and more useful answers; and the fundamentals, origins, and purposes of the basic building blocks that are used in data visualization. The reader is introduced to tried and true approaches to understanding users in the context of user interface design, how communications can get distorted, and how data visualization is related to thinking machines. Finally, the book looks at the future of data visualization by assessing its strengths and weaknesses. Case studies from business analytics, healthcare, network monitoring, security, and games, among others, as well as illustrations, thought-provoking quotes, and real-world examples are included.This book will prove useful to computer professionals, technical marketing professionals, content strategists, Web and product designers, and researchers. - Demonstrates, with a variety of case studies, how visualizations can foster a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of data - Answers the question, "How can data visualization help me?" with discussions of how it fits into a wide array of purposes and situations - Makes the case that data visualization is not just about technology; it also involves a deeply human process

Book Contextual Intelligence

Download or read book Contextual Intelligence written by Matthew Kutz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a structured framework for critical thinking and decision making that shows how to use hindsight, insight, and foresight to navigate through complexity. Every organization and every person faces rapid change and complexity. Contextual intelligence – understanding fully the context in which one is operating – teaches the reader how to navigate that complexity and respond appropriately in the face of change (expected and unexpected). The Three-Dimensional (3D) ThinkingTM framework helps structure critical thinking by showing how to appropriately bring past experience, present intuition, and future ambiguity– in other words: hindsight, insight, and foresight – to bear on any given problem. Kutz offers a way to rationally organize difficult concepts such as complexity, tacit knowledge, and synchronicity into usable and understandable language, but more importantly teaches the reader how to apply these concepts in a very practical and meaningful way with measurable and tangible outcomes. The book also describes in detail 12 behaviors associated with contextual intelligence. Four behaviors are associated with hindsight, four behaviors are associated with insight, and four behaviors are associated with foresight. The book takes the reader through the 12 behaviors and how they relate to 3D Thinking. Cases and anecdotes are used generously to provide examples. Chapters are followed by critical thinking questions and questions related to the cases in the chapters. Furthermore, questions and practical tools are introduced that help the reader assess and determine their level of contextual intelligence.

Book Foresight

    Book Details:
  • Author : JOHN. SANEI
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-08
  • ISBN : 9781928230748
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Foresight written by JOHN. SANEI and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Finding Insight

Download or read book Finding Insight written by Melinda Spaulding and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Insight delves into the essential yet often misunderstood process of insight discovery. This valuable guide is for anyone seeking to comprehend the motivations behind human behavior. Unlike previous works which explored 'what' and 'why,' Finding Insights uniquely illuminates 'how,’ equipping people with the analytical tools and mindset necessary for unveiling and utilizing insights effectively. Employing personal narratives, practical examples, and interactive exercises, Finding Insights makes complex concepts accessible and engaging, all while adding a dash of humor. From marketers aiming to decode customer behavior, to coaches inspiring teams, journalists investigating subjects, politicians resonating with constituents, or simply individuals wishing to better understand those around them, Finding Insights caters to all. Its purpose is to enhance critical thinking skills and provide a new perspective on how we interpret and react to the world around us.

Book Thinking about the Future

Download or read book Thinking about the Future written by Hines Andy and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about the Future distills the expertise of three dozen senior foresight professionals into a set of essential guidelines for carrying out successful strategic foresight. Presented in a highly scannable yet personable style, each guideline includes an explanation and rationale, key steps, a case example, and resources for further study.

Book Social Work and the Visual Imagination

Download or read book Social Work and the Visual Imagination written by Lynn Froggett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images are inscribed in the memory more easily than words, and some remain with the viewer for a lifetime. Combining hindsight, insight and foresight, the chapters in this book turn a spotlight onto various aspects of health, social work and socially engaged arts practice. The visual imagination is evoked in this book to help practitioners see beneath the surface of contentious and problematic issues facing human services today. Risk assessment, child sexual abuse, work-life balance, old age, dementia, substance misuse, recovery, sex work, homelessness, isolation, biography, death and dying, grief, loss, vulnerability, care, and the function of the museum as a preserver of memory, all come under the sustained gaze and examination of the contributors. Grounded in the arts and humanities, the visual sense as a gateway to empathy is explored throughout these chapters. References are included to visual art, curating dramatic performance, poetry, film, dance, photography, diary entries, and public exhibitions. In an age when people increasingly compose their lives by staring into various screens, this book celebrates the visual modality that can humanise services with ‘human-seeings’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice.

Book Thinking  Fast and Slow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Kahneman
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2011-10-25
  • ISBN : 1429969350
  • Pages : 511 pages

Download or read book Thinking Fast and Slow written by Daniel Kahneman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Major New York Times Bestseller *More than 2.6 million copies sold *One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year *Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient *Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.

Book Anticipate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob-Jan Jong
  • Publisher : Amacom
  • Release : 2022-03
  • ISBN : 9781400239061
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Anticipate written by Rob-Jan Jong and published by Amacom. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can develop the vision required to be a true leader. You just need to learn how.

Book Inventing Adulthoods

Download or read book Inventing Adulthoods written by Sheila Henderson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is written through case studies and interviews.

Book Get There Early

Download or read book Get There Early written by Bob Johansen and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days, every leader struggles with a paradox: you can’t predict the future, but you have to be able to make sense of it to thrive. In the age of the Internet, everyone knows what’s new, but to succeed you have to be able to sort out what’s important, devise strategies based on your own point of view, and get there ahead of the crowd. Bob Johansen shares techniques the Institute for the Future has been refining for nearly forty years to help leaders navigate what, borrowing a term from the Army War College, he calls the VUCA world: a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. As the institute’s ten-year forecast makes clear, leaders now face fewer problems with neat solutions and more dilemmas: recurring, complex, messy, and puzzling situations. Get There Early lays out the institute’s three-step Foresight to Insight to Action Cycle that will allow readers to sense, make sense of, and win with dilemmas. Johansen offers specific techniques, ranging from storytelling to simulation gaming, as well as real-world examples to help readers turn the VUCA world on its head through creative use of vision, understanding, clarity, and agility. This book offers hope for leaders facing the constant tension—a dilemma in itself—between judging too soon and deciding too late.

Book The Power of Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Barna
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2018-06-05
  • ISBN : 1493414925
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book The Power of Vision written by George Barna and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to George Barna, uncovering God's vision for your ministry is not an option. It's essential for the most productive ministry that will accomplish God's goals for building his kingdom. Ministry leaders with a clear picture from God of where they are headed are much more likely to experience a successful journey. In this book, Barna uncovers how God has shared his vision throughout history, how vision is different from mission, common practices and beliefs that inhibit true vision, practical steps toward experiencing and carrying out God's unique vision for them, and ways to share and promote congregational ownership of the vision.The Power of Vision

Book Strategic Planning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan R. Ebener
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1587684845
  • Pages : 131 pages

Download or read book Strategic Planning written by Dan R. Ebener and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, concise textbook on strategic planning using an interactive process from a leadership perspective that covers business, not-for-profits, and public entities.

Book Economics  Concepts  Methodologies  Tools  and Applications

Download or read book Economics Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 1737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations, governments, and corporations are all concerned with distributing their goods and services to those who need them most, consequently benefiting in the process. Only by carefully considering the interrelated nature of social systems can organizations achieve the success they strive for. Economics: Concepts, Methodolgies, Tools, and Applications explores the interactions between market agents and their impact on global prosperity. Incorporating both theoretical background and advanced concepts in the discipline, this multi-volume reference is intended for policymakers, economists, business leaders, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and students of economic theory.

Book The Post Covid Church

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr. Chris Foster
  • Publisher : Webb Publishing
  • Release : 2022-09-14
  • ISBN : 1610262077
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Post Covid Church written by Dr. Chris Foster and published by Webb Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church in America was already experiencing an unprecedented decline before the COVID -19 pandemic. The effects of the pandemic upon church attendances have been far-reaching, and long lasting. Recent research has revealed that one in five churches in America will perinatally close because of COVID-19's effect on already declining churches. How can the church, across denominational lines in North America get in the middle of this digressing trend, and stem the tide of systemic church decline? The Post COVID Church leverages decades of empirical ecclesial work with the fresh perspective of strategic leadership and empower leadership to: Understand causality of a plateau and decline through the lens of the post-modern and post COVID landscape, Recognize the type of new change that proliferates health and growth, Make strategic transformations without losing those who have held the church together for years. Through organizational strategy, understanding values, design thinking, leadership development and strategic foresight, The Post COVID Church provides a road map and "Socratic" process to help the reader leverage creativity and innovation to build momentum and lead the church to prosperity. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "Dr. Chris Foster offers timely and critical strategies for embracing and flourishing through change in The Post COVID Church. Dr. Foster's writing style and the power of his personal story combine to create a work that is not only academic but a delight to read. This important work has the potential to prepare leaders to turn obstacles into opportunities in advancing the mission of Christ." —Dr. Kimberly Jones, Vice President of Southwestern Assemblies of God University "The Post COVID Church is an essential resource for leaders desiring to recover from the destructive force of a pandemic and successfully refocus on the mission Jesus left for all His followers. Dr. Chris Foster skillfully compares lessons he learned during his personal health journey to principles he found successful in equipping a church to reach its full Kingdom potential. I took copious notes for my personal files, and I suspect you will too. This book will not be one you read only once. It will become a treasured resource regardless of the organization you lead." —Alton Garrison, Executive Director, Acts 2 Journey "Dr. Chris Foster is a man of passion, purpose and brings significant insight and research into the current situation of the church in America. This book is pregnant with information, truth, and insight that brings a healthy insight into our circumstances and gives us light to live through it and actually achieve what others have given up on. The man is a friend; the book is incredible; and the only thing missing is those who would lift their lid by diving in." — Maury Davis, author of Hindsight 20/20 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chris, a Texas native, received his undergraduate degree from Southwestern University, his Master's from Southeastern University, and his Doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University, School of Business and Leadership. With over 31 years of ministry experience, Dr. Foster is an engaging communicator of the gospel, with a church that grew by as much as 400% during the pandemic. Additionally, he serves as a Doctoral Chair and Professor at Southeastern University. He is a father of three, Kash, Cruz, and Eden.