The Power Of Collective Wisdom And The Trap Of Collective Folly 16pt Large Print Edition

Author : Alan Briskin,Sheryl Erickson,Tom Callanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0369323564

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The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly (16pt Large Print Edition) by Alan Briskin,Sheryl Erickson,Tom Callanan Pdf

An inspired and practical approach to developing the innate power of groups to make wise, compassionate, and creative decisions Based on nine years of research involving scores of participants Includes real-life examples and specific practices to help readers understand and cultivate collective wisdom and avoid collective folly If we are to disentangle the extraordinary challenges that we face today in organizations, communities, and nations we must transcend our divisions and develop solutions together. But what enables us to collectively make wise choices and sound judgments instead of splintering apart? When human beings gather together, a depth of awareness and insight, a transcendent knowing, becomes available. Based on nine years of research The Power of Collective Wisdom shows how we can tap into the extraordinary cocreative potential that exists in every group. Collective wisdom is elusive and unpredictable it cant be willed into being, but the authors describe six commitments people can adopt that will increase the likelihood of its appearing. Stories and historical examples throughout serve to illuminate and illustrate how collective wisdom has emerged in a range of settings and through the lives and traditions of varied cultures. Equally important, the authors describe how to recognize the pitfalls of polarization or false agreement, either of which can lead to collective folly a phenomenon with which recent history has made us all too familiar. And they offer a set of practices to help readers maintain the key lessons of the book. The Power of Collective Wisdom is a foundational book for an emerging field of study and practice relevant to everyone seeking more effective and satisfying ways of working with others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Consensus (Social sciences)
ISBN : 0495602639

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The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly by Anonim Pdf

"Based on nine years of research, The Power of Collective Wisdom shows how we can reliably tap into the extraordinary cocreative potential that exists whenever human beings gather together. Stories and historical examples illustrate how collective wisdom has emerged in a range of cultures, settings, and traditions, and the authors offer a set of practices to help readers realize the key lessons of the book. Equally important, they describe how to recognize the pitfalls of polarization or false agreement that lead to collective folly. Ultimately, this book emerges from a deep conviction that we all have a stake in each other and that what binds us together can be greater than what drives us apart." --Book Jacket.

Author : Wael Al-Delaimy,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030311254

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Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility by Wael Al-Delaimy,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo Pdf

This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate change has been established through extensive published evidence and reports. However, the connections between climate change, the health of the planet and the impact on human health have not received the same level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people in the last 20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted collaborations between physical scientists, public health researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem. The solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public, faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines including the humanities, and policy makers.

Author : Daniel Priestley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857087690

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Entrepreneur Revolution by Daniel Priestley Pdf

A no-nonsense, implementable handbook for taking part in the Entrepreneur Revolution We are living in revolutionary times; times with an impact as significant and far-reaching as the previous Industrial Revolution was to the Agricultural Age. Technological shifts have allowed micro-businesses to compete with large corporations. Small business can now have a global footprint, can be structured in low tax environments, move products anywhere in the world, and access unprecedented levels of support. Entrepreneur Revolution means taking the initiative to do something that you love, something that you’re good at, and something that will make you money. This masterclass in gaining an entrepreneurial mindset will show how to change the way you think, the way you network, and the way you make a living. Includes new statistics, activities, case studies, and research Takes a look at how the brain can affect the entrepreneurial mindset Offers new ideas for entrepreneurs starting a new business Helps you shake off old ideas and make a great, independent leap forward This inspiring and practical book shows you how to break free from The Industrial Revolution mindset, quit working so hard, follow your dream—and make a fortune along the way.

Author : James Surowiecki
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307275059

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The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Pdf

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.

Author : Markus Daechsel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134383719

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The Politics of Self-Expression by Markus Daechsel Pdf

The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about expressing the self in new ways and about finding and securing an imaginary home in a fast-moving and often terrifying universe. The scope and arguments of this book make an innovative contribution to the historiography of modern South Asia, by focusing on the middle-class milieu which was the epicentre of this new political culture.

Author : Robert Goralski,Russell W. Freeburg
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014208337

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Oil & War by Robert Goralski,Russell W. Freeburg Pdf

The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.

Author : Gillian Cloke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134868254

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This Female Man of God by Gillian Cloke Pdf

This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.

Author : S. A. M. Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780953832828

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The Birmingham Quean by S. A. M. Trainor Pdf

We are to believe there was a time when The Birmingham Quean was just a poem: a mock-epic burlesque in which a fake pound coin told how she was won in a game of darts by a drag-queen called Britannia Spears. It parodied Pope ́s The Rape of the Lock, Byron ́s Don Juan and an anonymous eighteenth century novel, The Birmingham Counterfeit. The transformation of this bit of picaresque doggerel into the sprawling work barely contained by this cover is the central mystery of a ludic novel. It mirrors the unlikely story of a dirty little settlement of nailers and cutlers becoming the principle city of the Industrial Revolution by flooding the Restoration economy with counterfeit coins. What remains is an absurd scholarly edition of a poem recast as a futuristic dystopia in which nothing is authentic. It is also the tale of an impossible love affair that uncovers an impossible text by an impossible author. It is as strange, ironic, sombre, flashy and anarchic as the city to which it owes its existence.

Author : Christopher A. Faraone,Dirk Obbink
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195111408

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Magika Hiera by Christopher A. Faraone,Dirk Obbink Pdf

Annotation This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence formagical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.

Author : Christopher Heuer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135232634

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The City Rehearsed by Christopher Heuer Pdf

The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography. The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the production of imaginary architecture. Painter, architect, rhetorician, perspective theorist, festival designer, and draughtsman, Vredeman was active in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Prague, where he designed a mysterious body of architectural prints, works which by the seventeenth century had influenced buildings from Tallinn to Peru. Including Scenographiae (1560), and Perspective (1604-5), Vredeman’s strange publications were among the most widely-distributed "Renaissance" books on building and vision, shipped to England, Spain and even Mexico by 1600. This book, the first sustained study of Vredeman in English, shifts the focus of inquiry to look at the active role his prints played in the life of urban readers outside of a narrowly-defined "Flemish" architectural history. This is a study with clear interest for historians of art and the built environment, and one with broader contemporary resonances for changing definitions of "European" culture and identity in the present day.

Author : Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher : London : Collins
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005486512

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Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge Pdf

This first volume of the autobiography of an inveterate journalist and communicator ends in 1933 when the author was 30.

Author : Partha Dasgupta,Peter Raven,Anna McIvor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108482288

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Biological Extinction by Partha Dasgupta,Peter Raven,Anna McIvor Pdf

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Author : Andrew James Birtle
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1907521925

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U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941 by Andrew James Birtle Pdf

Originally published by the United States Army Center of Military History in 1998. Examines how the Army had performed two of its most important unconventional missions: the suppression of insurgent or other irregular forces and the conduct of overseas constabulary and contingency operations in the years 1860 to 1941.

Author : Robert Goralski,Russell W. Freeburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
ISBN : 0160953618

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Oil & War by Robert Goralski,Russell W. Freeburg Pdf