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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A provocative reexamination of the "Best and the Brightest" and how and why they led us into the Vietnam War, drawing upon cutting edge research into decision making and unheard audio recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford"--
"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. What's...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Medicine used to be a paternalistic affair: a doctor's job was to make all the decisions, and a patient's job was to obey them. But technological, economic, and cultural changes over the last century have given us unprecedented control over our own healthcare. We have been turned into healthcare consumers, expected to work with doctors on complicated medical decisions. But just how capable are we of making those decisions? Talya Miron-Shatz is an...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In Against empathy, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society....
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In recent years, Bishop Mariann Budde has become known for offering the right words at the right time, creating moments of healing amid turmoil. With How We Learn to Be Brave, she teaches readers to respond with clarity and grace even in the toughest times. Being brave is not a singular occurrence; it's a journey that we can choose to undertake every day. The decisive moments in life are those pivot points when we're called upon to push past our...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
A guide to decision-making in professional landscapes, specifically tailored to the needs of women, addresses the psychological and cultural obstacles women face, offering recommendations for handling important choices in accordance with a woman's strengths.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A guide for taming complexity in one's personal and professional life, this book demonstrates how lessons in efficiency can be derived from sometimes unexpected places {u2013} from Tina Fey{u2019}s experience on SNL to how burglars select their targets. Drawing on over a decade of research, the authors explain how to create and apply your own arsenal of simple rules to tackle even the most complex problems.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy wants all of the pets in a pet store but he and his sister can choose only one. End notes discuss Dr. Seuss's pets, his creative process, and the discovery of the manuscript and illustrations for "What Pet Should I Get?".
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Greg Gutfeld comes a self-help book for those who don't believe in self-help. Modern life grows emptier and emptier as society becomes increasingly polarized, and even those who don't subscribe to New Age beliefs are seeking comfort and meaning. In The Plus, Greg shows how skeptics too can advance themselves for the betterment of their lives and the healing of their communities -- advising readers with his trademark...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise" -- variables that can cause bias in decision making -- and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Oxford University professor and award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget reveals the ways that the scrappiest organizations problem solve and how everyone can use the same tools at work and in life. We constantly encounter complex problems at home, in our places of work, and in society at large. Even if we had all the time and money in the world, sometimes no good solution can be found. So, what should we do, especially when we can't wait? The answer:...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A legal brothel isn't where you'd expect to find an economist. But Allison Schrager isn't your typical economist. Allison Schrager has spent her career examining how people manage risk in their lives. Stepping away from the stock market and other financial institutions, she shares the real-life (and often unusual) places she encountered and learned about risk. Whether we realize it or not, we all take risks large and small every day. Even the most...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In The Yellow Pad, former United States Secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Robert Rubin sets out a number of methods and processes that have guided him through moments of crisis. He offers both qualitative and quantitative ways of sifting through difficult economic and social problems, the sum of which is an original intellectual framework that can be applied to both the most global universal problems and the daily dilemmas...
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author and executive coach shows that effective leadership boils down to two, simple components: decisions and influence. To make the best decisions and have the most influence, leaders must employ seven principles of simple leadership that will have immediate impact on their organization's performance, morale, productivity, and profits"--
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