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Author : Dan Ariely
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781501120053

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Payoff by Dan Ariely Pdf

Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation—showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined. Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what we do can be defined as being “motivators.” From the boardroom to the living room, our role as motivators is complex, and the more we try to motivate partners and children, friends and coworkers, the clearer it becomes that the story of motivation is far more intricate and fascinating than we’ve assumed. Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation—how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives. Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust so crucial for successful motivation? What are our misconceptions about how to value our work? How does your sense of your mortality impact your motivation?

Author : Sarv Devaraj,Rajiv Kohli
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0130650749

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The IT Payoff by Sarv Devaraj,Rajiv Kohli Pdf

In an era when IT budgets are being cut as indiscriminately as they were once increased, this book offers the first systematic guide to measuring the true impact of IT spending--and making rational decisions about which projects to fund.

Author : Sarv Devaraj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1027176270

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The IT Payoff by Sarv Devaraj Pdf

In an era when IT budgets are being cut as indiscriminately as they were once increased, this book offers the first systematic guide to measuring the true impact of IT spending -- and making rational decisions about which projects to fund. IT Payoff begins by presenting a historical perspective on technology investment, then reviews the strategic role of technology, and analyzes key factors associated with project failure. The authors introduce a powerful new methodology for making technology investment decisions, show how to apply their methodology to your own business, provide tools for doin.

Author : Gottfried Leibbrandt,De Terán Natasha
Publisher : Elliott & Thompson
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783966416

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The Pay Off by Gottfried Leibbrandt,De Terán Natasha Pdf

How we pay is so fundamental that it underpins everything - from trade to taxation, stocks and savings to salaries, pensions and pocket money. Rich or poor, criminal, communist or capitalist, we all rely on the same payments system, day in, day out. It sits between us and not just economic meltdown, but a total breakdown in law and order. Why then do we know so little about how it really works? As you read this, technology is dismantling payment barriers and governments are erecting them; cash is on the way out, and crypto and BigTech are fighting their way in. The Europeans are heavily regulated, the Americans oddly backward, and the Chinese hoping to lead the way forward. Challenging our understanding about where financial power really lies, The Pay Off shows us that the most important thing about money is the way we move it. Leibbrandt and De Terán shine a light on the hidden workings of the humble payment - and reveal both how our payment habits are determined by history as well as where we go from here. From national customs to warring nation states, geopolitics will shape the future of payments every bit as much as technology.

Author : Jeff Connaughton
Publisher : Easton Studio Press, LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781935212973

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The Payoff by Jeff Connaughton Pdf

Lobbyist, White House Lawyer, and Senate Aide on the Power of America’s Plutocracy to Avoid Prosecution and Subvert Financial Reform Beginning in January 2009, THE PAYOFF lays bare Washington’s culture of power and plutocracy. It’s the story of the twenty-month struggle by Senator Ted Kaufman and Jeff Connaughton, his chief of staff, to hold Wall Street executives accountable for securities fraud, to stop stock manipulation by high-frequency traders, and to break up too-big-to-fail megabanks. This book takes us inside their dogged crusade against institutional inertia and industry influence as they encounter an outright reluctance by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to treat Wall Street crimes with the gravity they deserve. On financial reforms, Connaughton criticizes Democrats for relying on the very Wall Street technocrats who had failed to prevent the crisis and Republicans for staunchly opposing real reforms primarily to enjoy a golden opportunity to siphon fundraising dollars from the Wall Street executives who had raised millions to elect Barack Obama president. Connaughton, a former lawyer in the Clinton White House, illuminates the pivotal moments and key decisions in the fight for financial reform that have gone largely unreported. His arch, nonpartisan account chronicles the reasons why Wall Street’s worst offenses were left unpunished, and why it’s likely that the 2008 debacle will happen again.

Author : Mo Adam Mahmood,Edward J. Szewczak
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 187828942X

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Measuring Information Technology Investment Payoff by Mo Adam Mahmood,Edward J. Szewczak Pdf

It would seem that business investment in information technology (IT) is at root no different from business investment in anything else. After a careful consideration of the costs of the investment and its anticipated benefits, a decision is made as to whether the benefits of the investment outstrip the costs and by how much. If the benefits are competitive with other investment alternatives (say, a major marketing campaign), then the business will commit financial resources to the IT proposal. Otherwise it won't. This decision making process is at the heart of capital budgeting. Senior executives have been making IT investment decisions for well over three decades. So why is the measurement of IT investment payoff so difficult and controversial? Why do we need a book dealing with contemporary approaches to measuring IT investment payoff? Why have earlier approaches to measuring IT investment payoff proven unsatisfactory? In what respects have earlier approaches fallen short? Do we need to scrap earlier approaches entirely or can we find important improvements to these approaches such that they can be newly applied to effectively measure IT investment payoff in ways that are convincing to senior management? This book will help you to find improvements in existing methods for measuring IT investment payoff as well as to find new, innovative methods for addressing the value of emerging IT.0000 ø0.

Author : Jonathan K. Nelson,Richard J. Zeckhauser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691161945

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The Patron's Payoff by Jonathan K. Nelson,Richard J. Zeckhauser Pdf

An analysis of Italian Renaissance art from the perspective of the patrons who made 'conspicuous commissions', this text builds on three concepts from the economics of information - signaling, signposting, and stretching - to develop a systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of patronage.

Author : Alan Zimmerman
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626341746

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The Payoff Principle by Alan Zimmerman Pdf

Where do you hope to go with your life, your career, and your relationships? How will you muster the energy to keep on keeping on, in the good times and the bad? What skills do you have to learn—and then use—to make sure you get the payoffs you really want in your professional life and your personal life? The problem with so many positive-thinking books and self-help routines is that they don’t give you the whole formula. The Payoff Principle gives you that formula—Purpose + Passion + Process = Payoff—and then works as your guidebook, teaching you how to apply the formula to achieve success at work, at home, and everywhere you go. When you find purpose in what you do, exhibit passion for the outcome, and master the process to make it happen, you produce the payoffs you want, need, and deserve. Plenty of people have done exactly that, whether consciously and deliberately or accidently and luckily. But, you don’t have to depend on luck anymore. You have a formula for getting what you want. You have a practical set of strategies guaranteed to deliver greater happiness and success than you’ve ever experienced. All you have to do now is read The Payoff Principle to learn how to implement the formula to experience the new-and-complete you.

Author : Van Grembergen, Wim,De Haes, Steven
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781599049267

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Implementing Information Technology Governance: Models, Practices and Cases by Van Grembergen, Wim,De Haes, Steven Pdf

In many organizations, information technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, sustainability, and growth of the business. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance. Implementing Information Technology Governance: Models, Practices and Cases presents insight gained through literature reviews and case studies to provide practical guidance for organizations who want to start implementing IT governance or improving existing governance models, and provides a detailed set of IT governance structures, processes, and relational mechanisms that can be leveraged to implement IT governance in practice.

Author : Jim Manzi
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465029310

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Uncontrolled by Jim Manzi Pdf

How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted -- except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, scientists invented a methodology for executing controlled experiments to evaluate certain kinds of proposed social interventions. This technique goes by many names in different contexts (randomized control trials, randomized field experiments, clinical trials, etc.). Over the past ten to twenty years this has been increasingly deployed in a wide variety of contexts, but it remains the red-haired step child of modern social science. This is starting to change, and this change should be encouraged and accelerated, even though the staggering complexity of human society creates severe limits to what social science could be realistically expected to achieve. Randomized trials have shown, for example, that work requirements for welfare recipients have succeeded like nothing else in encouraging employment, that charter school vouchers have been successful in increasing educational attainment for underprivileged children, and that community policing has worked to reduce crime, but also that programs like Head Start and Job Corps, which might be politically attractive, fail to attain their intended objectives. Business leaders can also use experiments to test decisions in a controlled, low-risk environment before investing precious resources in large-scale changes -- the philosophy behind Manzi's own successful software company. In a powerful and masterfully-argued book, Manzi shows us how the methods of science can be applied to social and economic policy in order to ensure progress and prosperity.

Author : Christopher T. Bayley
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781632170309

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Seattle Justice by Christopher T. Bayley Pdf

This is the story of one of the youngest county prosecutors in the country whose mission was to finally end the system of vice and corruption that had infiltrated Seattle's police department, municipal departments, and even the mayor's office. In the late 1960s, Christopher T. Bayley was a young lawyer with a fire in his belly to break the back of Seattle’s police payoff system, which was built on licensing of acknowledged illegal activity known as the "tolerance policy." Against the odds, he became the youngest prosecutor in King County (which includes Seattle). Six months into his first term, he indicted a number of prominent city and police officials. Bayley shows how vice and payoffs became rules of the game in Seattle, and what it took to finally clean up the city.

Author : Ian Mulgrew
Publisher : Seal Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Evidence, Criminal
ISBN : 0770423701

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Final Payoff by Ian Mulgrew Pdf

Author : Clayton Morris,Natali Morris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-08
Category : Home equity loans
ISBN : 154872968X

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How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in 5 Years by Clayton Morris,Natali Morris Pdf

What would your life be like if you had no mortgage? How free would you be to live a different life? In this book Clayton and Natali Morris help you beat the system by paying down your home loan and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest payments along the way. This step-by-step system only works with understanding and a disciplined plan. Clayton and Natali give you just that by breaking it all down for you in this book. They arm you with the knowledge and inspiration to free yourself from the dead weight of your mortgage so that you can enjoy your monthly income however the heck you want to! Clayton and Natali Morris met while working as TV news broadcasters. Clayton has been a news anchor for over 15 years and Natali has worked for CBS and NBC for most of her career. In 2010 they started a family and got serious about building legacy wealth for their three children, Miles, Ava, and Eve. They podcast, write, and speak around the world about personal finance and financial empowerment in order to help other families like theirs employ the skills they have learned along the way to attain true financial freedom.

Author : Jody Spiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118834411

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High-Payoff Strategies by Jody Spiro Pdf

Focus on the right things An education leader’s job can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Research shows that by spending time on just a few high-payoff strategies, leaders can bring about the meaningful change their schools and districts need. High-Payoff Strategies helps administrators lead successful change initiatives by focusing on the three top priorities identified by research and practitioners alike: fostering a supportive district and school culture, leading instructional change, and building a learning community among faculty and staff. Drawing on the latest research as well as hundreds of interviews with education leaders, High-Payoff Strategies reveals what it really takes to bring about school turnaround. The book includes rich and varied examples showing how real-world education leaders—in urban, suburban, and rural settings—have successfully led changes in their schools and districts. It also provides tools that readers can use immediately to put these practices in place, together with videos demonstrating the practices in action. High-Payoff Strategies helps education leaders create schools and districts that support teachers and make a difference in the lives of children.

Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426845628

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Deadly Payoff by Valerie Hansen Pdf

A note from Delia Blanchard So many things have been happening here at our family's mansion,I can't go home to Hawaii: I've met my long-lost grandparents; learnedthe woman shot to death in the library was my aunt, not my mother;and been threatened by a blackmailing loan shark! And Shaun Murphyis back in my life—he was hired to repair the damage after theshooting. He's been rather distant with me, but I think, with God's help, I can convince him to help me track down my missing mother—andperhaps give our love another chance, too.