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Author : Robert Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gambling
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018220983
s of state-supported gambling documents shows how the growth of lotteries, casinos, and riverboats has often led to dramatic increases in state revenues--and unexpected economic and social problems.
Author : Robert Goodman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439105863
In this damning indictment of legalized gambling, Goodman documents how this business, which generates more than $40 billion dollars a year in revenues, is also the cause of myriad economic and social problems for the very communities that have looked to it as a panacea.
Author : Chengwei Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351603263
Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award in 2021, this book moves beyond tired analyses of business success that bias leadership and strategy in order to focus on the critical role of good fortune. The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance. In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.
Author : Anthony K. Tjan,Richard J. Harrington,Tsun-Yan Hsieh
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422161944
Examines the traits that define most people who achieve success, heart, smarts, guts, and luck, and helps readers to determine which traits they possess.
Author : Michael J. Mauboussin
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422184233
In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.
Author : Geoff Ables
Publisher : Wilmington Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 099768030X
The workplace is being reshaped. Technology is transforming how people interact with each other and with the world around them. The data that organizations must understand is growing at an explosive pace. Customers expect better experiences. Employees crave more meaningful engagement. Harnessing these forces to balance a people-first culture and bottom-line results is not only possible, it is critical for success in the future workplace. Business expert, public speaker, and entrepreneur Geoff Ables shows readers how to balance these two typically conflicting priorities to sustain employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and business returns through the application of The LUCK Principle. Ables simplifies sometimes complex and technical subject matter through business parables, infographics, case studies, illustrations, and insights from other thought leaders. Walk in the shoes of Patrick, the central fictional character, as he discovers how to listen to others, understands people at a deeper level, connects with them in more relevant ways, knows what the results are and continuously improve-and how he applies technology to these concepts to make them work in a large organization.
Author : Heather Summers,Anne Watson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1841127108
Are some people just born lucky? The answer is no, people control their own fortunes. The Book of Luck will show you that there is a way to structure your luck and to bring success into your life and into your control. It will show you how to be lucky, always, demonstrating what has gone wrong in the past and outlining what you need to know for the future. Summers and Watson use extensive research and draw on their personal experiences both professionally and personally, to bring you a book crammed full of practical tips on how to turn the tide of your luck. This book will appeal to people who want to move up in life, people who have been made redundant, people who have plateaued in their careers and people who are ambitious for the next step - or simply people who want to make more of themselves in a business or personal context. The Book of Luck shows you how to: choose your own luck use social situations to increase your potential for luck use your own personal strengths to increase your luck choose how you respond to situations and maximise your luck train your mind to expect long term success develop a good luck mindset.
Author : Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351219006
There has been a shift of policy at board level. Cash is needed and Alex Rogo’s companies are to be put on the block. Alex faces a cruel dilemma. If he successfully completes the turnaround of his companies they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. Either way Alex and his team will be out of work. It looks like lose-lose, both for Alex and for his team. And as if he doesn’t have enough to deal with, his two children have become teenagers. As Alex grapples with problems at work and at home, we begin to understand the full scope of Eli Goldratt’s powerful techniques. It’s Not Luck reveals more of the Thinking Process-techniques that consistently produce win-win solutions to seemingly impossible problems.
Author : Robert H. Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691178301
From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about it How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine. In Success and Luck, bestselling author and New York Times economics columnist Robert Frank explores the surprising implications of those findings to show why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in success—and why that hurts everyone, even the wealthy. Frank describes how, in a world increasingly dominated by winner-take-all markets, chance opportunities and trivial initial advantages often translate into much larger ones—and enormous income differences—over time; how false beliefs about luck persist, despite compelling evidence against them; and how myths about personal success and luck shape individual and political choices in harmful ways. But, Frank argues, we could decrease the inequality driven by sheer luck by adopting simple, unintrusive policies that would free up trillions of dollars each year—more than enough to fix our crumbling infrastructure, expand healthcare coverage, fight global warming, and reduce poverty, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. If this sounds implausible, you'll be surprised to discover that the solution requires only a few, noncontroversial steps. Compellingly readable, Success and Luck shows how a more accurate understanding of the role of chance in life could lead to better, richer, and fairer economies and societies.
Author : Clayton M. Christensen,Taddy Hall,Karen Dillon,David S. Duncan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062435637
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: our long held maxim—that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation—is wrong. Customers don’t buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world’s most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes—it’s about predicting new ones. Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they’ll pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts. This book carefully lays down Christensen’s provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world—and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides.
Author : Carolyn Ford
Publisher : Red Dog Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781742591131
Author : Eileen C. Shapiro,Howard H. Stevenson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591840775
Citing the examples of such figures as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey, a guide to taking informed risks identifies twelve steps that can help people minimize risk while maximizing benefits, in a guide complemented by humorous anecdotes and brain teasers.
Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633698192
This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year--or your career. Managing a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward. Yet running a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle. The HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives provides practical tips and advice to help you manage all the stages of an initiative's life cycle, from buy-in to launch to scaling up. You'll learn how to: Win--and keep--support for your new initiative Move rapidly from approval to implementation Assemble transformative, high-performing initiative teams Maintain the confidence of sponsors and stakeholders Stay on schedule and within budget Avoid initiative overload by killing projects that aren't meeting business needs Keep multiple initiatives in strategic alignment Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Author : Chengwei Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351603263
Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award in 2021, this book moves beyond tired analyses of business success that bias leadership and strategy in order to focus on the critical role of good fortune. The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance. In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.
Author : Peter Kash,Tom Monte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0735202249
Peter Morgan Mash seems to be one of those people upon whom good fortune shines. Just when he's about to lose a big deal, chance rears its beautiful head to help him on his way; just when he's about to give up on meeting a key potential investor, he ends up stuck in the elevator with him. To what does Mash attribute his good fortune? Simple kindness, integrity and personal values. By stressing these personal attributes, he says that anyone can benefit from the kindness of life. getAbstract.com recommends this book to anyone convinced that the universe is a basically friendly place.