The Go Point

Author : Michael Useem
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400082995

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The Go Point by Michael Useem Pdf

What do you do when it’s time to get off the fence? One of the world’s most noted leadership experts, Michael Useem uses dramatic story­telling to show how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people who faced their go point, when actions–or lack of them–determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries. • Why on earth did Robert E. Lee send General George Pickett on an almost suicidal charge against the Union lines at Gettysburg? • How does the leader of a firefighting crew make life-or-death decisions when one direction means safety, the other danger? • You’ve just assumed responsibility for a scandal-wracked corporation, a company teetering on the brink of disaster. What you decide over the course of the next several days will have consequences for thousands of employees and investors. How do you fulfill your responsibilities? You’ll discover why some decisions were flawless, perfectly on target, and others utterly disastrous. Most of all, you’ll learn how to make the right calls yourself, whether you’re changing your career, launching a product, or deciding on a potential acquisition or merger.

Author : Elwyn Berlekamp,David Wolfe
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439863558

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Mathematical Go by Elwyn Berlekamp,David Wolfe Pdf

The ancient game of Go is one of the less obvious candidates for mathematical analysis. With the development of new concepts in combinatorial game theory, the authors have been able to analyze Go games and find solutions to real endgame problems that have stumped professional Go players. Go players with an interest in mathematics and mathematicians

Author : Misty Edwards
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616386016

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What Is the Point? by Misty Edwards Pdf

Misty Edwards tackles the difficult questions of finding meaning in seasons of success and failure, smallness and greatness, pain and pleasure as we live lives that are, in the end, not of this world.

Author : Michael Useem
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307352699

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The Go Point by Michael Useem Pdf

The Go Point—the moment of truth when you have to say “yes” or “no” when it’s time to get off the fence. Michael Useem—through dramatic storytelling—shows how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people facing their go point, where actions—or lack of them—determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries. • Why on earth did Robert E. Lee send General George Pickett on an almost suicidal charge against the Union lines at Gettysburg? • How does the leader of a firefighting crew make life-or-death decisions, directing his people—with little information about weather patterns to guide him—to go up or down the mountain? One direction means safety, the other danger. • You’ve just assumed responsibility for a scandal-wracked corporation, a company teetering on the brink of disaster. What you decide over the course of the next several days will have consequences for thousands of employees and investors. How do you fulfill your responsibilities? Michael Useem makes you feel as if “you are there,” right in the center of the action. He was there: tramping up and down the mountain where firefighters made their momentous decisions; walking the battlefield at Gettysburg to see for himself just what General Pickett faced before making his ill-fated charge; going into a trading pit where million-dollar buy-and-sell decisions are made that affect fortunes of both the firm and the person making the call. You’ll discover why some decisions were flawless, perfectly on target, and others utterly disastrous. Most of all, you’ll learn how to make the right calls yourself, whether you’re changing your career, hiring an assistant, launching a product, or deciding on a potential acquisition or merger. Smartly written and offering unusual insights into the minds of decision makers such as General Lee, The Go Point will provide the guidance for you to move with confidence when it’s your turn to get off the fence. Also available as an eBook

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951D01069794B

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The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Entomology
ISBN : OXFORD:555021013

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Transactions of the Entomological Society of London by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry Brooks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599632810

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Story Engineering by Larry Brooks Pdf

What makes a good story or a screenplay great? The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry. But the truth is, unless you are master of the form, function and criteria of successful storytelling, sitting down and pounding out a first draft without planning is an ineffective way to begin. Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story--and uses it as the basis for narrative. The greatest potential of any story is found in the way six specific aspects of storytelling combine and empower each other on the page. When rendered artfully, they become a sum in excess of their parts. You'll learn to wrap your head around the big pictures of storytelling at a professional level through a new approach that shows how to combine these six core competencies which include: • Four elemental competencies of concept, character, theme, and story structure (plot) • Two executional competencies of scene construction and writing voice The true magic of storytelling happens when these six core competencies work together in perfect harmony. And the best part? Anyone can do it!

Author : George Carey Foster,Edmund Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electric power
ISBN : UOM:39015064468773

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Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by George Carey Foster,Edmund Atkinson Pdf

Author : James T. Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015002087263

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Automatic Testing and Evaluation of Digital Integrated Circuits by James T. Healy Pdf

Author : Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982131821

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Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Engrossing...studded with wisdom about long-held bonds.” —People, Book of the Week “Enthralling, masterfully written...rich with social and psychological insights.” —The New York Times Book Review “A magnificent storytelling feat.” —The Boston Globe The “utterly engrossing, sweeping” (Time) story of a lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly. Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, a philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She strives to create beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships, and in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons—but what is it that Polly wants herself? Agnes’s designs are further muddied when an enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her memoirs. Agnes’s resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all. “An ambitious and satisfying tale” (The Washington Post), Fellowship Point reads like a 19th-century epic, but it is entirely contemporary in its “reflections on aging, writing, stewardship, legacies, independence, and responsibility. At its heart, Fellowship Point is about caring for the places and people we love...This magnificent novel affirms that change and growth are possible at any age” (The Christian Science Monitor).

Author : Julian Barbour
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465095490

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The Janus Point by Julian Barbour Pdf

In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and shapes the destiny of the universe. Time is among the universe's greatest mysteries. Why, when most laws of physics allow for it to flow forward and backward, does it only go forward? Physicists have long appealed to the second law of thermodynamics, held to predict the increase of disorder in the universe, to explain this. In The Janus Point, physicist Julian Barbour argues that the second law has been misapplied and that the growth of order determines how we experience time. In his view, the big bang becomes the "Janus point," a moment of minimal order from which time could flow, and order increase, in two directions. The Janus Point has remarkable implications: while most physicists predict that the universe will become mired in disorder, Barbour sees the possibility that order -- the stuff of life -- can grow without bound. A major new work of physics, The Janus Point will transform our understanding of the nature of existence.

Author : Ellen DeGeneres
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307765628

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My Point...And I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres Pdf

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles–including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we’re so scared of the boogeyman–to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen’s Real Frenchy French Toast. Most of all, this witty, engaging book offers insights into the mind of one of America’s most beloved comics.… Dear Reader, I was awfully excited when I was asked to write a book. I was however, nervous. I was afraid I didn’t have anything important to say. But when I began writing, I realized that although I don’t know a lot about any one thing, I know a little about a whole bunch of things: baking a pie; dancing; curing the common cold; running the Iditarod–it’s all in the book. And I realized I notice things that maybe some people don’t notice (or they don’t notice that they don’t notice). That’s all in the book, too.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : AAPC Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 1931282927

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When My Worries Get Too Big! by Anonim Pdf

Presents ways for young children with anxiety to recognize when they are losing control and constructive ways to deal with it.

Author : Michigan. State Board of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Public health
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030041572506

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Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Health of the State of Michigan, for the Fiscal Year Ending ... by Michigan. State Board of Health Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Sailboat racing
ISBN : UOM:39015036958430

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Yacht Racing by Anonim Pdf