Download or read book Wisdom at Work written by Chip Conley and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience is making a comeback. Learn how to repurpose your wisdom. At age 52, after selling the company he founded and ran as CEO for 24 years, rebel boutique hotelier Chip Conley was looking at an open horizon in midlife. Then he received a call from the young founders of Airbnb, asking him to help grow their disruptive start-up into a global hospitality giant. He had the industry experience, but Conley was lacking in the digital fluency of his 20-something colleagues. He didn't write code, or have an Uber or Lyft app on his phone, was twice the age of the average Airbnb employee, and would be reporting to a CEO young enough to be his son. Conley quickly discovered that while he'd been hired as a teacher and mentor, he was also in many ways a student and intern. What emerged is the secret to thriving as a mid-life worker: learning to marry wisdom and experience with curiosity, a beginner's mind, and a willingness to evolve, all hallmarks of the "Modern Elder." In a world that venerates the new, bright, and shiny, many of us are left feeling invisible, undervalued, and threatened by the "digital natives" nipping at our heels. But Conley argues that experience is on the brink of a comeback. Because at a time when power is shifting younger, companies are finally waking up to the value of the humility, emotional intelligence, and wisdom that come with age. And while digital skills might have only the shelf life of the latest fad or gadget, the human skills that mid-career workers possess--like good judgment, specialized knowledge, and the ability to collaborate and coach - never expire. Part manifesto and part playbook, Wisdom@Work ignites an urgent conversation about ageism in the workplace, calling on us to treat age as we would other type of diversity. In the process, Conley liberates the term "elder" from the stigma of "elderly," and inspires us to embrace wisdom as a path to growing whole, not old. Whether you've been forced to make a mid-career change, are choosing to work past retirement age, or are struggling to keep up with the millennials rising up the ranks, Wisdom@Work will help you write your next chapter.
Download or read book The Integrated Man written by Michael Berlyn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where minds are enslaved by computer chips, one man seeks revenge. Michael Berlyn is an American computer game designer and writer. He is known as an Implementor at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team. Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Sony Bend. He is also a composer and continues to create games for the Apple App Store.
Download or read book Chips Pop written by Robert Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By definition, this generation -- those born between the early sixties and late seventies -- has no "hard edges". It is a generation based on formative experiences and pivotal events rather than specific birthdates and cohort size. Essentially, you are a Nexus if you first felt the effects of the computer chip and global media at some point during your formative years. This means you could have encountered a PC for the first time in university or mastered Pong (the first video game) at the age of seven. You could be Nexus if you watched live CNN coverage of the Gulf War at high school, saw the space shuttle Challenger blow up in high school, or were the first kid in your neighbourhood with cable TV and a remote control." (p.17,18).
Download or read book Spychips written by Katherine Albrecht and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in your tennis shoe tracks your every move; chips woven into your clothing transmit the value of your outfit to nearby retailers; and a thief scans the chips hidden inside your money to decide if you’re worth robbing. This isn’t science fiction; in a few short years, it could be a fact of life. Spychips takes readers into the frightening world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). While manufacturers and the government want you to believe that they would never misuse the technology, the future looks like an Orwellian nightmare when you consider the possibilities of surveillance and tracking these chips embody. Combining in-depth research with firsthand reporting, Spychips reveals how RFID technology, if left unchecked, could soon destroy our privacy, radically alter the economy, and open the floodgates for civil liberty abuses.
Download or read book The Mathematics of Chip Firing written by Caroline J. Klivans and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mathematics of Chip-firing is a solid introduction and overview of the growing field of chip-firing. It offers an appreciation for the richness and diversity of the subject. Chip-firing refers to a discrete dynamical system — a commodity is exchanged between sites of a network according to very simple local rules. Although governed by local rules, the long-term global behavior of the system reveals fascinating properties. The Fundamental properties of chip-firing are covered from a variety of perspectives. This gives the reader both a broad context of the field and concrete entry points from different backgrounds. Broken into two sections, the first examines the fundamentals of chip-firing, while the second half presents more general frameworks for chip-firing. Instructors and students will discover that this book provides a comprehensive background to approaching original sources. Features: Provides a broad introduction for researchers interested in the subject of chip-firing The text includes historical and current perspectives Exercises included at the end of each chapter About the Author: Caroline J. Klivans received a BA degree in mathematics from Cornell University and a PhD in applied mathematics from MIT. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. She is also an Associate Director of ICERM (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics). Before coming to Brown she held positions at MSRI, Cornell and the University of Chicago. Her research is in algebraic, geometric and topological combinatorics.
Download or read book Reading Poker Tells written by Zachary Elwood and published by Reading Poker Tells. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on common poker tells and gives a mental framework for analyzing and remembering that behavior.
Download or read book Human Organs on a Chip Technology written by P.V. Mohanan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Organs-on-a-Chip Technology focuses on the technology advancement from "organ-on-a-chip to "multi organs-on-a-chip to the newest stage of "human organs-on-a-chip. Chapters investigate the design, simulation studies, device development and application of microfluidic systems. They also offer expert perspectives on the development of an alternative test system in the biological evaluation of drugs, cosmetics, chemicals, medical devices and many others. Lastly, the book addresses issues related to the development of microfluidic devices and alternative test systems in biological and biomedical research. - Explores organs-on-a-chip technology, from the basics, to advanced developments and existing challenges and recent research trends and applications - Reviews every aspect of microfluidic devices, including biological evaluation and targeted delivery - Includes the latest information on regulatory updates
Download or read book Elementary Probability with Applications written by Larry Rabinowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probability plays an essential role in making decisions in areas such as business, politics, and sports, among others. Professor Rabinowitz, based on many years of teaching, has created a textbook suited for classroom use as well as for self-study that is filled with hundreds of carefully chosen examples based on real-world case studies about sports, elections, drug testing, legal cases, population growth, business, and more. His approach is innovative, practical, and entertaining. Elementary Probability with Applications will serve to enhance classroom instruction, as well as benefit those who want to review the basics of probability at their own pace. The text is used at several colleges and for some high school classes.
Download or read book Pandemia written by Keith Guthmiller and published by Keith Guthmiller. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Covid was just the start of something worse? Welcome to Pandemia, a dark novel of future possibilities. Based on real events. Warning: cookies are involved...
Download or read book The Human Body written by HP Newquist and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science and inventions that make us who we are . . . literally! Did you know the first blood transfusions were between people and lambs? Or that the first prosthetic hand with a hook was created so a French soldier could hold the reins of his horse in battle? Or that scientists recently grew a nose? Invention & Impact, an exciting new series from PYRG-Smithsonian, introduces young readers to experiments, discoveries, and breakthroughs such as these, which have huge impacts on our world. Designed with exciting images from the Smithsonian's vast collections, each highly visual book in the series starts with a big idea and then explores that concept through specific objects that give kids the micro and meta picture on how inventions and ideas connect over time. The debut book in the series looks at one of the most complex systems on planet Earth: the human body. From artificial eyeballs to aspirin to 3-D printed body parts, The Human Body profiles the objects that scientists and tinkerers throughout history have invented (or cobbled together) to protect, repair, or improve our physical selves. And there are plenty of fascinating stories behind these objects!
Download or read book 2100 written by Jozef Van Keer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about life in the United States of America in the year 2100. Eighty percent of the population is being controlled by a corrupt government that dictates how people live their daily lives. The other 20 percent live in ghettos or hide underground in a thriving community where they still live a life based on the principles of our founding fathers. The government calls them the illegals, and it is constantly trying to capture them to reform them into what it deems normal citizens. The government has never been able to find the illegals’ caves. A romance develops when one day, an IT programmer finds herself in a life-and-death situation and is rescued by an illegal. That is the start of a conspiracy by people on both sides to change life in the United States back to what it had been before.
Download or read book Rethinking Our Classrooms written by Wayne Au and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition was published in 1994, Rethinking Our Classrooms has sold over 180,000 copies.
Download or read book written by Desiree Ntolo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Management of Enterprises in the People s Republic of China written by Anne S. Tsui and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Management of Enterprises in the People's Republic of China aims to contribute to the knowledge base of management within the Chinese context. The book begins with a mapping of research on management in PRC, and offers theoretical insights for cross-context, institutional, and behavioral studies. It then reports the results of fourteen empirical studies of management issues in the PRC firms. The issues studied include SOE transformation, globalization, governance, employment relationships, managerial networks, corporate culture and leadership. Also included are studies on the knowledge management process and management team characteristics of high technology firms. The methods of study include large-scale surveys, case studies, and interviews. The contributors are international experts in Chinese management research. Finally, we offer executive perspectives on several successful firms operating in China through interviews with their CEOs.
Download or read book Stone Song written by Winfred Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only significant work of fiction on the Lakota Sioux since Ruth Beebe Hill's "Hanto Yo.""--"Library Journal." Reissue.
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Download or read book Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants Emerging Technologies written by Michael, M.G. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents case studies, literature reviews, ethnographies, and frameworks supporting the emerging technologies of RFID implants while also highlighting the current and predicted social implications of human-centric technologies"--Provided by publisher.
