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How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
by Alan Pell Crawford&“Crawford captures the energy, humor, and wide-eyed hope of America&’s first &‘angel investor&’ with wit and verve . . . A book that is worthy of Twain himself&” (Dan Lyons, New York Times–bestselling author of Disrupted). A Wealth Management Best Business Book of 2017 Mark Twain&’s lifetime spans America&’s era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, the man who coined the term &“Gilded Age&” failed with comical regularity to join the ranks of plutocrats who made this period in America notorious for its wealth and excess. Instead, Twain&’s mining firm failed, despite striking real silver. He ended up somehow owing money over his seventy thousand acres of inherited land. And his plan to market the mysteriously energizing coca leaves from the Amazon fizzled when no ships would sail to South America. Undaunted, Twain poured his money into the latest newfangled inventions of his time, all of which failed miserably. In Crawford&’s hilarious telling, the familiar image of Twain takes on a new and surprising dimension. Twain&’s story of financial optimism and perseverance is a kind of cracked-mirror history of American business itself—in its grandest cockeyed manifestations, its most comical lows, and its determined refusal to ever give up. &“Light and frothy, this humorous biography is a lively read.&” —Kirkus Reviews
How Not to Hire: Common Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Team (The How Not to Succeed Series)
by Emily KumlerIt’s the same cycle: you diligently sort through résumés to find the cream of the crop. You have amazing interviews and confidently land on the one, but two weeks into the job and the one turns out to be the wrong one. What gives? Well, you’re clearly screwing something up, and it’s time to find out what it is. It's frustrating. You’re up to date on all the newest interview techniques. You know what to look for on candidates’ résumés. You inspect social media profiles for red flags and put them through an in-depth panel interview. They pass with flying colors.But still, a week or two into the job, it’s clearly not working out. They turn out to be less motivated than they claimed. They didn’t reveal their tendencies in the interview, and they don’t have the skills necessary to do the job. Chances are it’s not about what you’re doing right in the hiring process--it’s about what you’re doing wrong. How Not to Hire is filled with interviews and stories of people who were being held back by the things they didn’t realize were working against them. The workplace is a minefield filled with politics and unspoken rules. This book is here to teach you: * How you’re screwing it up and what to do about it * How other people screwed it up before figuring it out * What you should stop doing immediately * What you should be doing more of Now, stop panicking and letting frustration hold you back. This book is the tool you need to get the best candidates for the interview and the right person for the job!
How NOT to Lead: Lessons Every Manager Can Learn from Dumpster Chickens, Mushroom Farmers, and Other Office Offenders
by Chase CunninghamStep Aside, Mediocre Leaders: Learn What NOT To Do! Ditch the fluff and sugarcoating and learn how to lead the way your people deserve. In How NOT To Lead, Dr. Chase Cunningham, a seasoned cybersecurity heavyweight and Retired Navy Chief, doesn't give you a textbook guide on leadership — he delivers a no-holds-barred, gloves-off masterclass on the lethal mistakes that'll tank your leadership game and ultimately sink your reputation and even your company's future. Want the brutal truth? This book slaps you with some cold, hard realities: What happens when you fall off your ego and hit your IQ on the way down as a leader, and why you need to do that. The absolute idiocy of "Mushroom Farming": keeping your team in the dark, feeding them crap, and expecting gourmet results. A nowhere-to-hide deep dive into "Dumpster Chickens" leadership: using destructive tactics that rip apart team spirit and obliterate business success. The triple threat: the three non-negotiable currencies every leader MUST have. Miss one, and you're doomed. Eye-opening case studies — ripped from headlines and history books — that throw a spotlight on the real-world disasters of crappy leadership. Aimed squarely at managers, executives, and anyone brave enough to lead, How NOT To Lead is your audacious guide through the minefield of leadership pitfalls. If you've got the intestinal fortitude to read this book, then drop what you are doing and hitch up your britches for some tough love. Don't let mediocrity be your legacy, do better. Your employees deserve it and so do you!
How Not to Lose $1 Million: Win at investing by losing less
by John AddisThe learning is in the failing.Successful investors don't concentrate on picking big winners; instead, they work on minimising risk and avoiding losses. Having lost over $1 million through his own investing errors, John Addis invites readers to learn from his losses. Errors include falling in love with a stock or a charismatic CEO, selling too soon as a stock continues to soar, misunderstanding the business model and not responding to obvious red flags.Whether you're new to the sharemarket, looking to learn from a master, or an active investor seeking to better understand stockpicking behaviour, this book will not disappoint.
How Not to Manage People: The Leadership Mistakes Keeping Your Team from Greatness (The How Not to Succeed Series)
by Mike WicksYou play it cool, letting your team take half days on Friday and overlooking the occasional latecomer to the office. You stand up for your people and make sure they know you’re there for them, but they still hate working for you. What gives? Well, you’re clearly screwing something up, and it’s time you find out what it is. It’s frustrating. You’ve put in the work and finally made it to the management team, and you haven’t stopped there. You show up first and leave last. You’re there every time one of your employees needs something. To any outsider looking in, you’re killing this management thing. But still, your employees want nothing to do with you. They scoff when you tell them what to do and suddenly get quiet when you walk into the room. You know you have to get your team behind you if you’re going to stay on the management team. Chances are it’s not about what you’re doing right--it’s about what you’re doing wrong. How Not to Manage is filled with interviews and stories of people who were being held back by the things they didn’t realize were working against them. The workplace is a minefield filled with politics and unspoken rules. This book is here to teach you: * How you’re screwing it up and what to do about it * How other people screwed it up before figuring it out * What you should stop doing immediately * What you should be doing more of Now, stop panicking and letting frustration hold you back. This book is the tool you need to get your team on your side and rock the manager title!
How Not to Move Back in With Your Parents
by Rob CarrickIn this era of the Boomerang Generation, here at last is a full and frank guide to avoiding the need to move back in with your parents. Rob Carrick of The Globe and Mail is one of Canada's most trusted and widely read financial experts. His latest book is the first by anyone to target financial advice specifically at young adults graduating from university or college and moving into the workforce, into the housing market and into family life. Financial beginners, in other words. Carrick offers what can only be described as a wealth of information, on the full life cycle of financial challenges and opportunities young people face, including saving for a post-secondary education and paying off student debts, establishing a credit rating, basic banking and budgeting, car and home buying, marriage and raising children of their own, and insurance. The book is mindful throughout that parents have a big role to play in all this. It addresses young readers throughout but regularly asks them to see things from their parents' perspective. In that way, Rob Carrick is able to offer advice to both generations. He even recognizes that in these difficult times, moving back in with the folks is sometimes a short-term necessity. So there is a section devoted to such important questions as: Should your parents be charging you rent? For that and many thousands of dollars' worth of other reasons, this is a book that every parent needs to buy for each of their kids, plus one for themselves.From the Trade Paperback edition.
How Not to Sell: Why You Can't Close the Deal and How to Fix It (The How Not to Succeed Series)
by Mike WicksYou make the right calls all day, you deliver your pitches flawlessly, and you donate to every one of your potential client’s kid’s school fundraisers. But you still aren’t closing deals. What gives? Well, you’re clearly screwing something up, and it’s time you find out what it is. It’s frustrating. Day in and day out, you are putting in the work with twelve-hour days and trips across town to meet clients. You study up on your competitors and rehearse your pitches every chance you get.But still, you aren’t anywhere near your sales targets, and your bottom line hasn’t budged since your started. Chances are it’s not about what you’re doing right--it’s about what you’re doing wrong. How Not to Sell is filled with interviews and stories of people who were being held back by the things they didn’t realize were working against them. The workplace is a minefield filled with politics and unspoken rules. This book is here to teach you: * How you’re screwing it up and what to do about it * How other people screwed it up before figuring it out * What you should stop doing immediately * What you should be doing more of Now, stop panicking and letting frustration hold you back. This book is the tool you need to get out of your sales slump and make your numbers!
How Not To Worry
by Paul McgeeHow to defeat stress, worry, and anxiety to achieve more in business and life. From the international bestselling author of Self-Confidence. Are You A Worrier?Do you seem to worry more than most? Do you find that insignificant things stress you out? Do you sweat the small stuff and the big stuff too? Well, now's the time to stop worrying and start living.Worry, stress, anxiety - whichever label you prefer to use - can have consequences that impact not only our lives, but the lives of others around us. When we worry it's like the engine of our mind is constantly being revved up. It doesn't allow us time to switch off and rest. It tires you out. And when you're tired you're less likely to think straight. And when you're not thinking straight it's easy to make stupid mistakes and confuse priorities... But relax. There is a way forward.In How Not to Worry Paul McGee shows us that there is a way to tackle life's challenges in a calmer and more considered way. It is possible to use a certain degree of worry and anxiety to spur us on towards positive, constructive action, and then leave the rest behind. With down to earth, real life advice, How Not to Worry helps us understand why worrying is such a big deal and the reasons for it, exposing the behavioural traps we fall into when faced with challenges. It then helps us to move on with tools and ideas to deal with our worries in a more constructive way.
How NPS Drives Profitable Growth: The Economic Payoff of High-Quality Customer Relationships--And the Net Promoter System
by Rob Markey Fred ReichheldIn today's Web-savvy, customer-driven world, where negative word of mouth about your company's products and services is instantly broadcast over a global PA system, you're smart to focus more closely on your customers as you fight to stay competitive. But building up legions of enthusiastic, loyal customers requires investment. And it requires reducing your company's reliance on "bad profits"--profits earned at the expense of customer relationships. In this chapter, world-renowned expert on loyalty economics Fred Reichheld and his Bain colleague Rob Markey use the compelling examples of two companies, Royal Philips Electronics and Dell Computer, to illustrate how the Net Promoter score (NPS) enabled these vast enterprises to become more customer focused while also boosting revenue growth. The chapter clarifies the economics of NPS in terms that numbers-oriented managers and executives will understand, focusing on the lifetime value of your company's average customer. You'll be introduced to the components of the Net Promoter score as they relate to your company's "promoters," "detractors," and "passives": retention rate, pricing, annual spend, cost efficiencies, and word of mouth. In short, this chapter will show you that by moving beyond traditional customer-satisfaction surveys and rigorously tracking customer economics with NPS, you can finally create a link between customer feedback and cash flow. You can begin to squeeze bad profits out of your income statements and tune up your growth engine for consistently superior performance.
How Organizations Act Together: Interorganizational Coordination in Theory and Practice
by E. AlexanderThe proliferation of giant multi-organizational agencies in the last decade has fostered a rethinking of inter-organizational interactions. By synthesizing emerging planning theories with the most recent research in the field, How Organizations Act Together offers a unique and comprehensive perspective on how modern organizations interact. From missions to the moon to management and modern public policy, Alexander unravels the complexities of interorganizational coordination, providing students and scholars with the tools for understanding.
How Organizations Manage the Future: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights
by Hannes Krämer Matthias WenzelThis pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future. Moving away from traditional research which focuses on the past, the editors problematize the future as an inherent but under-examined part of organizing. Arguing that the future acts as both a driver of and a performative result of organizing, the book asks how organizations conceptualize and deal with the future and what processes are in place to handle things to come. With empirical research examining the practices, discourses and concepts that play key roles, organizations and their approaches are scrutinized. A timely compendium of theoretical discussion and practical implications on the relevance of the future, this book is essential reading for those interested in organization, sociology and management studies.
How Organizations Remember
by Paddy O'TooleHow an organization works is largely a function of what it knows--i.e., the collective knowledge about all aspects of the enterprise, from competitive intelligence to formal systems and policies to the ways in which individuals solve problems and share their expertise. Organizational knowledge is not to be found in manuals and web sites, but in the day-to-day interactions among employees, suppliers, customers, investors, and other stakeholders. How Organizations Remember is based on a 10-month study of a technology firm with locations in three countries (Australia, US, and Ireland); the company has undergone rapid growth and expansion, which have had a profound impact on power structures and organizational culture, and hence, on the ways in which knowledge is created and disseminated. The author discovered that what is remembered is diverse, and of differing value within and across the organization. How knowledge is remembered is equally diverse, and ranges from computer files to cartoons on the wall, from stories to the way objects are placed on a desk. Knowledge is influenced by external influences as well as internal influences; knowledge may become a competitive advantage, but may also contribute to inertia. The book combines theoretical perspectives and empirical findings to generate insights that contribute to both research and practice in organizational learning, innovation, culture, and behavior.
How The Other Half Lives
by Jacob RiisBehind nearly every adult who is accused of a crime, becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol, or who is severely mentally ill and acting out in public, there is usually at least one extremely stressed-out parent. This parent may initially react with the bad news of their adult child behaving badly with, "Oh no!" followed by, "How can I help to fix this?" A very common third reaction is the thought, "Where did I go wrong--was it something I said or did, or that I failed to do when my child was growing up that caused these issues? Is this really somehow all my fault?" These parents then open their homes, their pocketbooks, their hearts, and their futures to "saving" their adult child--who may go on to leave them financially and emotionally broken. Sometimes these families also raise the children their adult children leave behind: 1. 6 million grandparents in the U. S. are in this situation. This helpful book presents families with quotations and scenarios from real suffering parents (who are not identified), practical advice, and tested strategies for coping. It also discusses the fact that parents of adult children may themselves need therapy and medications, especially antidepressants. The book is written in a clear, reassuring manner by Dr. Joel L. Young, medical director of the Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine in Rochester Hills, Michigan; with noted medical writer Christine Adamec, author of many books in the field. In the wake of the Newtown shooting and the viral popularity of the post "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother," America is now taking a fresh look, not only at gun control, but also on how we treat mental illness. Another major issue is our support or stigmatization of those with adult children who are a major risk to their families as well to society itself. This book is part of that conversation.
How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013: The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition (How Ottawa Spends Series)
by G. Bruce Doern Christopher StoneyContinuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies. Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in Parliament and in provincial politics. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including corporate tax reform, Conservative Party social policy, regional economic development, science and technology investments, Canada-US perimeter security and trade agreements, the rise and fall of regulatory regimes, and Canadian health care. Related governance issues such as federal infrastructure program impacts, the Harper government's Economic Action Plan impacts in Ontario, and community colleges in the federal innovation agenda, are also discussed in detail.
How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013: The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition
by Christopher Stoney G. Bruce DoernContinuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies. Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in Parliament and in provincial politics. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including corporate tax reform, Conservative Party social policy, regional economic development, science and technology investments, Canada-US perimeter security and trade agreements, the rise and fall of regulatory regimes, and Canadian health care. Related governance issues such as federal infrastructure program impacts, the Harper government's Economic Action Plan impacts in Ontario, and community colleges in the federal innovation agenda, are also discussed in detail.
How Participatory Evaluation Research Affects the Management Control Process of a Multinational Nonprofit Organization (Routledge Library Editions: Multinationals)
by Gail J. FultsThis title, first published in 1993, addresses two questions: can evaluation research function as a surrogate market in non-profit organisations to measure, value, and assess the goods and services they provide? And second, can the findings from an evaluation process be incorporated as a service accomplishment element into the accounting information published by non-profit organisations? This title will be of interest to students of business studies.
How Parties Experience Mediation: An Interview Study on Relationship Changes in Workplace Mediation
by Timea TallodiThis book presents an unprecedented qualitative research study on relational changes in mediation with a truly interdisciplinary outset, drawing on the literature on psychology, alternative dispute resolution and business. Mediation's potential to induce changes in parties' relationships as an advantage of the process is commonly mentioned in the literature. However, despite its being a key to reconciliation, relational changes in mediation has not yet been a topic of foundational and fine-grained qualitative enquiry. As the first study in the literature, this research uses in-depth interviews with mediation parties and the qualitative methodology of interpretative phenomenological analysis in order to explore participants' lived experiences. The phenomenological stance ensures a particularly rich data set and a nuanced interpretative analysis. This pioneering piece of research seeks to enter mediation parties' true experiences as closely as possible, moving beyond pre-existing theoretical, quantitative and large-scale qualitative explorations. The themes are discussed in the context of theory, research and practice. Therefore, this book advances knowledge about mediation both in theoretical and practical terms. Innovative conclusions and recommendations are provided for developing mediation practice, mediation training programmes, and further research.
How People Buy Online: The Psychology Behind Consumer Behaviour
by Seema GuptaMarketers have long debated on what governs buying decisions of digital consumers. Are these decisions rational or are they driven by whims and fancies? Human decisions are controlled more by the reptilian brain led by fear and the mammalian brain governed by emotions, rather than the neo cortex that works on rationale. Is it then possible for marketers to decode buying decisions of digital consumers and market their wares strategically in a highly competitive marketplace? How People Buy Online proves it is possible. Not only does it break the myths about online shopping behaviour, but it also reveals some deep marketing insights for consumer engagement by delving into consumer psychology and behavioural economics. This unique intersection of marketing with psychology makes this book an absorbing read, especially for management professionals. Watch the book discussion here>>
How People Learn: Designing Education and Training that Works to Improve Performance
by Nick Shackleton-JonesWhat if we have been wrong about learning? Learning may have more in common with marketing than we thought. Looking at marketing and learning's common root, How People Learn shows L&D professionals a new way of thinking about learning by exploring what happens when we learn. It considers applications from AI, marketing and ethics and is informed by psychology and contemporary neuroscience in order to show L&D professionals how to design training with their employees and mind so that training makes a real difference to skills, capabilities, performance and development, rather than being a waste of time, money and resources. Using the author's '5Di model', How People Learn demonstrates how to define, design and deploy training in a user-centred way so it works both for and with employees. It also includes guidance on what training resources to create when employees are actively searching for learning content. Using this book, L&D practitioners will be able to use pull and push techniques to provide content that people use and experiences that transform their behaviour. From how to use simulations, storytelling and anticipation to the importance of observation and status, this book gives L&D professionals everything they need to build effective training programmes and learning experiences. With a forward by Dr Roger Schank, the Chairman and CEO of Socratic Arts and Executive Director of Engines for Education, and case studies from companies such as BP and the BBC, this is an urgent read for learning professionals.
How People Learn: A New Model of Learning and Cognition to Improve Performance and Education
by Nick Shackleton-JonesHow can I design training so that it makes a real difference to employees' skills and development? This book gives L&D professionals everything they need to build effective learning experiences.How People Learn provides L&D professionals a new way of thinking about learning by exploring what happens when we learn. It shows how to apply insights from neuroscience, human behaviour and artificial intelligence (AI) to learning design including tips on how to interest, excite and engage staff in training. Using the author's '5Di model', this book demonstrates how to define, design and deploy training into existing workflows so it works both for and with employees. It also explores how simulations can be used to replicate a real-world challenge as closely as possible.The second edition features new material on learning in a hybrid world, and how to manage skills development and performance now that work, workplaces and workers have changed. It includes more practical guidance on building programmes with user-centred design and covers developments in the connection between learning and cognition, alongside case studies and examples from companies such as BP and the BBC.
How Performance Management Is Killing Performance and What to Do About It
by M. Tamra ChandlerRethink, Redesign, Reboot. Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is universally dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives and stifles healthy career conversations. It's never been shown to motivate anyone to do anything but try to avoid it, but nobody feels like they have any alternative. Tamra Chandler has one--and it works. Actually, Chandler doesn't offer a single alternative--she offers an infinite number of them. Each organization that uses her Performance Management Reboot is able to develop its own unique version since it doesn't make a lot of sense for organizations with different cultures, in different industries and sectors, to do things exactly the same way. Grounded in the latest scientific findings about motivation, it's a transparent, employee-driven process that values collaboration over competition and rewards people for acquiring new skills and increasing their contribution instead of hitting arbitrary benchmarks. Chandler lays out the general principles and then walks you through each step in creating a performance management process that employees will actually embrace rather than avoid and that will help you meet the three objectives of great performance management: developing your people, rewarding them equitably, and driving your organization's performance. It's the first comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a performance management solution that's tailored to your organization's needs and goals and that places the emphasis squarely on your greatest asset: your people.
How Politics Makes Us Sick
by Ted Schrecker Clare BambraSince the early 1980s, neoliberalism or 'market fundamentalism' has dominated politics and economics across the globe. In this important book, Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra consider the effects of over three decades of these policies with particular reference to the US and the UK. They focus on obesity, insecurity, austerity, and inequality, arguing that each represents a 'neoliberal epidemic' - neoliberal because they are implicated in the rise of neoliberal politics; and epidemics because they have been rapidly transmitted across international populations at a rate seen in epidemics of biological contagions. Crucially, the authors argue that neoliberal epidemics require a political cure in the form of a revitalised and social democratic welfare state.
How. Por qué CÓMO hacemos las cosas significa tanto: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
by Dov SeidmanYa no importa tanto lo que haces, eso ya no es un factor que te separa de los demás; ahora todo se trata de cómo haces lo que haces. Si lo que quieres es sobresalir, prosperar en un mundo cambiante, hiperconectado e hipertransparente, lee este libro y descubre CÓMO lograrlo. Con prólogo del ex presidente Bill Clinton. La saturación de información, la transparencia sin precedentes, la creciente interconexión y la interdependencia global están transformando dramáticamente el mundo de hoy, los negocios y nuestras vidas. Estamos en la era del comportamiento y las reglas del juego han cambiado fundamentalmente. La ventaja sostenible y el éxito duradero de las organizaciones y las personas dependen de la esfera del cómo, la nueva frontera de la conducta. Por casi dos décadas, la organización pionera de Dov Seiman, LRN, ha ayudado a algunas de las compañías más respetadas del mundo a construir culturas corporativas ganadoras y a inspirar un desempeño basado en principios. La visión única del mundo, de los negocios y del quehacer humano que tiene Seidman ha permitido que más de quince millones en el mundo hagan negocios en más de 120 países. En su maravilloso libro How, Dov Seidman comparte su visión única de CÓMO hacer las cosas define el futuro de las acciones; How es una obra para entender por qué cómo nos comportamos, lideramos, gobernamos, operamos, consumimos, engendramos nuestras relaciones y nos relacionamos con otros, importa actualmente más que nunca. Este revelador libro está dividido en cuatro partes: -Expone las fuerzas y los factores que han reestructurado fundamentalmente el mundo en el que las organizaciones operan y la gente se comporta, dándole un nuevo enfoque a los "cómo". -Provee marcos de referencia para ayudarte a entender esos "cómo" e implementarlos en formas poderosas y productivas. -Te ayuda a canalizar tus acciones y decisiones para prosperar en las realidades actuales. -Ilumina los sistemas de cómo la dinámica entre las personas conforman la cultura organizacional e introducen una nueva visión atrevida que guía la gobernanza individual.
How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia: A complex governance challenge (Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions)
by Jens MarquardtAn understanding of the role of energy-related governance systems and the conditions required for a shift towards renewables in developing countries is urgently needed in order to tap into the global potential of low-carbon development. Although renewable energy sources have become technically feasible and economically viable, social and political factors continue to persist as the most critical obstacles for their dissemination. How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia conceptualizes power for the field of sustainable energy governance. Based on empirical findings from the Philippines and Indonesia, the book develops an analytical approach that incorporates power theory into a multi-level governance framework. The book begins with a profound background on renewable energy development around the world and presents major trends in development cooperation. A power-based multi-level governance approach is introduced that is rooted in development thinking. Examining how coordination and power relations shape the development and dissemination of renewable energy technologies, the book also shows how decentralization affects low carbon development in emerging economies. Sparking debate on the ways in which energy transitions can be triggered and sustained in developing countries, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of renewable energy development and environmental politics and governance as well as practitioners in development cooperation.
How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid
by George Holoch Franck FrommerWith over 500 million users worldwide, Microsoft's PowerPoint software has become the ubiquitous tool for nearly all forms of public presentation-in schools, government agencies, the military, and, of course, offices everywhere. In this revealing and powerfully argued book, author Franck Frommer shows us that PowerPoint's celebrated ease and efficiency actually mask a profoundly disturbing but little-understood transformation in human communication.Using fascinating examples (including the most famous PowerPoint presentation of all: Colin Powell's indictment of Iraq before the United Nations), Frommer systematically deconstructs the slides, bulleted lists, and flashy graphics we all now take for granted. He shows how PowerPoint has promoted a new, slippery "grammar," where faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship have replaced the traditional tools of persuasion and argument.How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid includes a fascinating mini-history of PowerPoint's emergence, as well as a sobering and surprising account of its reach into the most unsuspecting nooks of work, life, and education. For anyone concerned with the corruption of language, the dumbing-down of society, or the unchecked expansion of "efficiency" in our culture, here is a book that will become a rallying cry for turning the tide.