Download or read book Silicon Valley Butterflies written by Sania Jain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIRLS. What's the first thing you think about? Let me guess. Probably some barbie dolls or Rapunzel in a tower saying, "Save me, my hero. I'm helpless!" People think girls are so "helpless." We want to change that. Girls have their own strength and power. It all started when we saw a bunch of boys clustered in the tech lab and only a few girls. We were part of those few girls and we felt like we didn't exactly belong there. If you're one of those discouraged girls, that's where we come along. With our campaign #SiliconValleySisters, we're trying to share the message that we're here to help encourage those passionate girls. Our first step in this process was to write the book, 'Silicon Valley Butterflies'. This book is about an Afghanistani girl who comes to Silicon Valley as a host student. There, she learns about several machines and how they work. This, sparks her passion and excitement to create something new. She also meets her friend Priya, who is what people call a "girly girl," who changes her ideas about technology. Together, they create a community of girls. Thirty four years in the future, Roya wins the Nobel Peace Award for helping girls in tech. To learn more about Roya's accomplishments, please read our book. And if you like what we're doing, please 'follow' and 'like' our campaign at www.saniajain.com, https: //www.facebook.com/hellosania and https: //youtu.be/tq-DnSwUwec

Download or read book The Net and the Butterfly written by Olivia Fox Cabane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane offered a groundbreaking approach to becoming more charismatic. Now she teams up with Judah Pollack to reveal how anyone can train their brain to have more eureka insights. The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It's beautiful and erratic, hard to catch and highly valued as a result. If you want to capture it, you need a net. Enter the executive mode, the task-oriented network in your brain that help you tie your shoes, run a meeting, or pitch a client. To succeed, you need both modes to work together--your inner butterfly to be active and free, but your inner net to be ready to spring at the right time and create that "aha!" moment. But is there any way to trigger these insights, beyond dumb luck? Thanks to recent neuroscience discoveries, we can now explain these breakthrough moments--and also induce them through a series of specific practices. It turns out there's a hidden pattern to all these seemingly random breakthrough ideas. From Achimedes' iconic moment in the bathtub to designer Adam Cheyer's idea for Siri, accidental breakthroughs throughout history share a common origin story. In this book, you will learn to master the skills that will transform your brain into a consistent generator of insights. Drawing on their extensive coaching and training practice with top Silicon Valley firms, Cabane and Pollack provide a step-by-step process for accessing the part of the brain that produces breakthroughs and systematically removing internal blocks. Their tactics range from simple to zany, such as: · Imagine an alternate universe where gravity doesn’t exist, and the social and legal rules that govern it. · Map Disney’s Pocahontas story onto James Cameron’s Avatar. · Rid yourself of imposter syndrome through mental exercises. · Literally change your perspective by climbing a tree. · Stimulate your butterfly mode by watching a foreign film without subtitles. By trying the exercises in this book, readers will emerge with a powerful new capacity for breakthrough thinking.

Download or read book Pop Up Peekaboo Butterfly written by DK and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a caterpillar’s journey through life from a tiny egg to a beautiful butterfly. Watch a butterfly grow! Babies and toddlers will love lifting the big flaps to find five peekaboo surprises pop up from the pages showing the different stages of a butterfly’s life cycle: eggs on a leaf, caterpillars hatching, a cozy chrysalis, a butterfly emerging, and eggs being laid all over again. Vocabulary about habitats and animal life are carefully woven throughout the book, making this book a fun and easy introduction to the topic of life cycles and the different stages of a butterfly’s life. The lively, read-aloud rhymes encourage literacy and early learning, while the surprise pop-up scenes will delight curious preschoolers. With the help of parents and caregivers, toddlers will have fun turning the sturdy board book pages, guessing what’s hiding under each flap, and then lifting the flaps to reveal the animals and play peekaboo! Ideal for interactive preschool play, Pop-up Peekaboo! Butterfly will appeal to both carers and children and is certain to keep little ones entertained time and time again!

Download or read book Moth Butterfly Ta Da written by Dev Petty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphosis brings astonishing and exciting changes to a pair of caterpillar friends, who take pride in being the same--and different. Two caterpillar friends love what they have in common--lots of legs and a talent for chewing leaves into funny shapes. And when it's time to build cocoons, they hang theirs side by side. "Happy metamorphosis," says an older, more knowledgeable butterfly. And it is a happy metamorphosis indeed--for when the two emerge from their cocoons, they can fly! But so much else has changed--as one is now a moth, who flies by night, and the other is a butterfly, who flies by day. How will things work now? Fortunately some things never change--like true friends figuring out a way to be together, and happily flying into the sunset and sunrise.

Download or read book The Flight of a Butterfly Or the Path of a Bullet written by Larry Cuban and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exemplars of integrating digital technology into classrooms, schools, and districts in Silicon Valley -- The classroom -- The school -- The district -- Putting "best cases" into the context of past and present school reforms -- Have exemplars made a difference in teaching practice? -- Have teachers changed their classroom practice? -- Change and stability in classrooms, schools, and districts

Download or read book The Indigo Butterfly written by Lisa L. Schoonover and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigo Butterfly is the true and inspiring story of a writers journey of self-discovery and a yearning for her place in the world. On the eve of college graduation the author has a revealing dream that leads to an epiphany. At the same time, Desert Storm is causing a recession throughout the country. Forced to make some difficult decisions, the young woman rejects conventionality to become a nomad and follow her dream of becoming a writer. But once she begins to make her way across the continent, the writer must learn to balance the creative life that she envisions with the responsibilities of daily living. The young woman soon discovers that the outer voyage is interwoven with her inner journey to understand herself. While she is on the road, the writer encounters fellow travelers, spiritual teachers, and unique individuals who welcome her into their communities. The book chronicles the authors fifteen-year odyssey across North America as retold through vignettes culled from her journals during that time. From Seattles lush rainforest to the mysterious islands of South Carolina, no region of the country goes unexplored in the determined writers quest for wholeness.

Download or read book Knockout Mouse written by James Calder and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unemployed dot-com employee Bill Damen turns sleuth after a dinner guest is poisoned, a situation that has him following a trail through the realms of cancer research, genetic engineeering, and rogue experimentation.

Download or read book How to Raise Monarch Butterflies written by Carol Pasternak and published by How It Works. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revel in one of the most remarkable miracles of nature.

Download or read book If You Then Me written by Yvonne Woon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and funny teen coming of age story set in Silicon Valley from Asian American author Yvonne Woon about the questions we all ask when making mistakes in life and in love, perfect for fans of Emergency Contact and When Dimple Met Rishi. What would you ask your future self? First question: What does it feel like to kiss someone? Xia is stuck in a lonely, boring loop. Her only escapes are Wiser, an artificial intelligence app she designed to answer questions as her future self, and a mysterious online crush she knows only as ObjectPermanence. Until one day Xia enrolls at the Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley, and suddenly anything is possible. Flirting with Mast, a classmate also working on AI, leads to a date. Speaking up generates a vindictive nemesis intent on publicly humiliating her. And running into Mitzy Erst, Foundry alumna and Xia’s idol, could give Xia all the answers. And then Xia receives a shocking message from ObjectPermanence. He is at the Foundry, too. Xia is torn between Mast and ObjectPermanence—just as Mitzy pushes her towards a shiny new future. Xia doesn’t have to ask Wiser to know: The right choice could transform her into the future self of her dreams, but the wrong one could destroy her.

Download or read book Jefa in Training written by Ashley K. Stoyanov Ojeda and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-Step Toolkit to Turn Your Passion Project into a Successful Business “...a much-needed guide for all of us who need a blueprint to becoming a successful entrepreneur.” —Eva Longoria, award-winning actress, producer, director, activist, philanthropist and CEO of UnbeliEVAble Entertainment #1 New Release in Hispanic American Demographic Studies Women, now is the time to build your enterprise. Jefa in Training is the only Spanglish project-launching toolkit and female entrepreneur planner specially made for a new generation of boss women. A solopreneur and small business guide. A business startup planner and toolkit for women in leadership, business, and beyond, Jefa in Training offers women entrepreneurs the female empowerment needed to take a side hustle to the next level. Whether it’s learning to define your brand, set up a beta test group, or draft an LLC operating agreement, this compendium of lessons, anecdotes, worksheets, templates, and quotes teaches the next generation of women in business how to work for yourself and turn your ideas into something much bigger. A Latina book by Latinas, for Latinas. Solopreneurs and creatives, you are invited to let go of your fears and finally launch your blog, project, or platform. Jefa in Training isn’t your typical small business book. Part Latinx book, it is a conversation with a special tribe of Latina immigrants, Hispanic American generations, and women of color in financial, media, entrepreneurial, and creative spaces. Explore a more complex view of Latinidad, covering everything from imposter syndrome to micro-aggressions and bilingualism. Inside find: • Author's first-hand experiences • Guest stories from successful business-women in Latinx companies • Worksheets and more! If you’re looking for Hispanic books, women entrepreneur books, women leadership books, or women of color gifts―like Mind Your Business, The Memo, In the Company of Women, or De Colores Means All of Us―then you’ll love Jefa in Training.

Download or read book The Startup Way written by Eric Ries and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds, ranging from established companies to early-stage startups, to grow revenues, drive innovation, and transform themselves into truly modern organizations, poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the twenty-first century. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of successful startups – building a minimal viable product, customer-focused and scientific testing based on a build-measure-learn method of continuous innovation, and deciding whether to persevere or pivot. In The Startup Way, he turns his attention to an entirely new group of organizations: established enterprises like iconic multinationals GE and Toyota, tech titans like Amazon and Facebook, and the next generation of Silicon Valley upstarts like Airbnb and Twilio. Drawing on his experiences over the past five years working with these organizations, as well as nonprofits, NGOs, and governments, Ries lays out a system of entrepreneurial management that leads organizations of all sizes and from every industry to sustainable growth and long-term impact. Filled with in-the-field stories, insights, and tools, The Startup Way is an essential road map for any organization navigating the uncertain waters of the century ahead.

Download or read book Silicon Valley Road written by Tom Maher and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Silicon Valley Road" tells about true experiences of Tom Maher starting as a supervisor and then proceeding up through the management ranks in several Silicon Valley Companies. Some of the experiences are truly educational and some are truly ugly. As the management experience is learned by Maher, he begins to list some of the management problems and some of the management requirements needed to run a successful company. He soon learns how to endow all the people in the factory to participate in solving the daily problems, which prompts operating costs to go down and morale to go up. Maher also learned how management must be involved in the daily factory issues by knowing what problems are present and how they are being solved. Tom Maher also found out that a "real time - on line" computer reporting system is mandatory to control the product cost, hourly schedule, inventories and raw material status.

Download or read book The Butterfly Impact written by Mark Briggs and published by Houndstooth Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like your work and your personal life are pulling you in opposite directions? Like the more you're there for one, the less you're there for the other? After his family was torn apart-twice-former journalist Mark Briggs launched a full-scale investigation into work-life balance. What he discovered was a surprising framework of small, simple changes that can send powerful ripple effects throughout your life-both at work and at home. In researching The Butterfly Impact, Mark interviewed over one hundred people at the prime of their careers-including industry leaders at Starbucks, Facebook, Google, Amazon, REI, The Gates Foundation, Good Morning America, and Gonzaga University's legendary basketball team. Here, you'll read their relatable stories of resilience, grit, and triumph. Each chapter also includes practical activities to help you develop your own balance, excelling in your career while thriving in your personal life.  If you're ready to show up fully at work and be fully present at home for what matters most, The Butterfly Impact is for you.

Download or read book The Innovation Butterfly written by Edward G. Anderson Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple firms and across the globe and constitute a complex system consisting of many interacting parts. In the spirit of the "butterfly effect", metaphorically describing the sensitivity to initials conditions of chaotic systems, this book builds an argument that "innovation butterflies" can, in the short term, take up significant amounts of effort and sap efficiencies within individual innovation projects. Such "innovation butterflies" can be prompted by external forces such as government legislation or unexpected spikes in the price of basic goods (such as oil), unexpected shifts in market tastes, or from a company manager’s decisions or those of its competitors. Even the smallest change, the smallest disruption, to this system can steer a firm down an unpredictable and irreversibly different path in terms of technology and market evolution. In the long term, they can shift the balance of the entire innovation portfolio into unplanned directions. More importantly, we describe how innovation leaders can influence the emergent behavior of the system for good or ill. The first half of the book draws parallels from physics, economics, and sociology as well as evidence from multiple industries to describe the structural and behavioral causes of emergent phenomena in innovation settings as well as their often negative impacts. In the second half of the book, we turn to distributed management of innovation under emergence. We show that innovation butterflies, if improperly managed, most often lead to negative outcomes. On the other hand, it is also argued that while the complexity of the innovation system and the desire to experiment and try new and emergent alternatives precludes precise planning, innovation leaders can actually tame innovation butterflies through the design and implementation of appropriate processes, strategies, tools and leadership choices.

Download or read book The Silicon Valley Edge written by Chong-Moon Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Silicon Valley's business environment, and what features have made it a fertile ground for start-up companies who develop radical and disruptive technologies.

Download or read book Chasing Monarchs written by Robert Michael Pyle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAlthough no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation, the received wisdom about the butterflies’ long journey just didn’t make sense. In the autumn of 1996 he set out to uncover the facts, to pursue the tide of “cinnamon sailors” on their long, mysterious flight. Chasing Monarchs chronicles Pyle’s 9,000-mile journey to discover firsthand the secrets of the monarchs’ annual migration. Part road trip, part outdoor adventure, and part natural history study, Pyle’s book overturns old theories and provides insights both large and small regarding monarch butterflies, their biology, and their spectacular migratory travels. Since the book’s first publication, its controversial conclusions have been fully confirmed, and monarchs are better understood than ever before. The Afterword for this volume includes not only updated information on the myriad threats to monarch butterflies, but also various efforts under way to ensure the future of the world’s most amazing butterfly migration./div

Download or read book Starting Up Silicon Valley written by Katherine Maxfield and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing “the world’s toughest computer.” That was the founding of ROLM Corporation, at a time when the orchards of Santa Clara County were being transformed into what would become Silicon Valley. By 1984—merely fifteen years later—ROLM was a Fortune 500 company with worldwide offices and a park-like campus. That same year, IBM bought the company in the biggest deal Silicon Valley had ever seen. By then, Silicon Valley was the world’s center of innovation, with a hallmark culture very different from the rest of corporate America. ROLM set the benchmark for that culture by providing significant financial rewards for smart, successful work, and an environment where employees could unwind—swimming laps, playing tennis, or dining brookside. ROLM’s influence extends today, in campuses like those of Google and Cisco, where onsite masseuses and sushi chefs are commonplace. Starting Up Silicon Valley reveals • leadership’s challenges, doubts, and convictions, from start-up to buyout and beyond; • how ROLM’s technological innovations disrupted two industries; • why ROLM was known as a Great Place to Work (GPW) and how that style can influence today’s workplace; • the dirty tricks that giant AT&T undertook to smash competition that threatened its domain; and • the hopes and frustrations of an IBM merger, from both sides of the story. Humorous anecdotes and the wisdom of some of Silicon Valley’s most respected leaders make Starting Up Silicon Valley an intimate story of one of the Valley’s most important and culturally influential companies.