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The Skill Code

How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

by Matt Beane ...

From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?Whatever your job – plumber, attorney, teacher, surgeon – decades of research show that you achieved mastery by ... Read more

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From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?Whatever your job – plumber, attorney, teacher, surgeon – decades of research show that you achieved mastery by
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The Skill Code

How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

by Matt Beane ...

Narrated by Joe Knezevich ...

Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?Whatever your job – plumber, attorney, teacher, surgeon – decades of research show that you achieved mastery by ... Read more

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From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots.Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?Whatever your job – plumber, attorney, teacher, surgeon – decades of research show that you achieved mastery by
... Read more

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What's Next Is Now

How to Live Future Ready

by Frederik Pferdt ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

7 hours

A 2024 "NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB" MUST-READThe renowned global thought leader and Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.What if you could choose your future?When we’re kids, the ... Read more

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A 2024 "NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB" MUST-READThe renowned global thought leader and Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.What if you could choose your future?When we’re kids, the
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The Geek Way

The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee ...

**The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done and shows how to change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation."A handbook for disruptors." —Eric Schmidt**What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems ... Read more

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**The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done and shows how to change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation."A handbook for disruptors." —Eric Schmidt**What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems
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Only Humans Need Apply

Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines

by Julia Kirby, Thomas H. Davenport ...

An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future.Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers—writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians ... Read more

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An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future.Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers—writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians
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The Decoded Company

Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers

by Leerom Segal, Aaron Goldstein, Jay Goldman, Rahaf Harfoush ...

A powerful guide to building a data-centric corporate culture that unleashes talent and improves engagement Amazon delights customers with recommendations that are spot on. Google amazes us by generating answers before we've even finished asking a question. These companies know who we are and what we want.The key to their magic is Big Data. Personalizing the consumer experience with the collection ... Read more

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A powerful guide to building a data-centric corporate culture that unleashes talent and improves engagement Amazon delights customers with recommendations that are spot on. Google amazes us by generating answers before we've even finished asking a question. These companies know who we are and what we want.The key to their magic is Big Data. Personalizing the consumer experience with the collection
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What's the Point? Turning Purpose Into Your Daily Superpower

by Tom Rath ...

Is everything you've been taught about finding fulfillment wrong?For decades, you've been told to follow your passion, find your purpose, chase happiness. It's bad advice, and somewhere inside you already know it. You're still searching, still waiting, still wondering why work feels hollow even when you're doing everything right. In an age when AI can do your job faster and cheaper, the old ... Read more

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Is everything you've been taught about finding fulfillment wrong?For decades, you've been told to follow your passion, find your purpose, chase happiness. It's bad advice, and somewhere inside you already know it. You're still searching, still waiting, still wondering why work feels hollow even when you're doing everything right. In an age when AI can do your job faster and cheaper, the old
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For the Win, Revised and Updated Edition

The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact

by Kevin Werbach, Dan Hunter ...

"A QUICK BUT THOUGHTFUL LOOK INTO THE PROS AND CONS OF GAMIFICATION…."—Daniel H. Pink, Author, DriveWhy can't life—and business—be fun?For thousands of years, we've created things called games that tap the tremendous psychic power of fun. In a revised and updated edition of For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact, authors Kevin ... Read more

$13.99 USD

"A QUICK BUT THOUGHTFUL LOOK INTO THE PROS AND CONS OF GAMIFICATION…."—Daniel H. Pink, Author, DriveWhy can't life—and business—be fun?For thousands of years, we've created things called games that tap the tremendous psychic power of fun. In a revised and updated edition of For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact, authors Kevin
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The Soft Edge

Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success

by Rich Karlgaard ...

What Does it Take to Get Ahead Now—And Stay There?High performance has always required shrewd strategy and superb execution. These factors remain critical, especially given today’s unprecedented business climate. But Rich Karlgaard—Forbes publisher, entrepreneur, investor, and board director—takes a surprising turn and argues that there is now a third element that’s required for competitive ... Read more

$17.00 USD

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What Does it Take to Get Ahead Now—And Stay There?High performance has always required shrewd strategy and superb execution. These factors remain critical, especially given today’s unprecedented business climate. But Rich Karlgaard—Forbes publisher, entrepreneur, investor, and board director—takes a surprising turn and argues that there is now a third element that’s required for competitive
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ALIEN Thinking

The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas

by Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade ...

How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box—way outside.For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, ... Read more

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How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box—way outside.For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity,
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From Master Teacher to Master Learner

by Will Richardson ...

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As we gain access to more and more knowledge and information online, the future will belong to those who are powerful, literate, curious learners. That means emphasis in classrooms must move toward helping students develop the skills, literacies, and dispositions to be powerful, self-organized learners. Teachers who are themselves master learners in new, modern contexts are crucial to making that ... Read more

$18.79 USD

As we gain access to more and more knowledge and information online, the future will belong to those who are powerful, literate, curious learners. That means emphasis in classrooms must move toward helping students develop the skills, literacies, and dispositions to be powerful, self-organized learners. Teachers who are themselves master learners in new, modern contexts are crucial to making that
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Brain Gain

Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom

by Marc Prensky ...

"In an age where the answer to every question is at your fingertips, where does the human brain fit in?"In one hand-held object, we are able to manage all of our calendars, documents, and interpersonal relationships with such ease that many people are lost when forced to do perform these tasks without the aid of electronics. Often heard are the calls for less technology and more face-to-face ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"In an age where the answer to every question is at your fingertips, where does the human brain fit in?"In one hand-held object, we are able to manage all of our calendars, documents, and interpersonal relationships with such ease that many people are lost when forced to do perform these tasks without the aid of electronics. Often heard are the calls for less technology and more face-to-face
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