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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you'll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world's top performers, from professional athletes...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"These days it's increasingly rare to have a stable career in any field. More and more of us are blending big company jobs, startup gigs, freelance work, and volunteer side projects. We take chances to expand our knowledge, capabilities, and experience. But how do we make sense of that kind of career-and explain it? Pamela Slim, the acclaimed author of Escape from Cubicle Nation, gives us the tools to have meaningful careers in this new world of work....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Real Work--the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick--Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 254 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
What does it take to create the career you want? It's no secret that the world of work has changed, and we're shifting toward an ever more entrepreneurial, self-reliant, work-from-wherever-you-are economy. That can be a liberating force, and many professionals dream of becoming independent, whether by starting their own businesses, becoming consultants or freelancers, or developing a sideline. But there's a major obstacle professionals face when they...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back? At the height of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, a man who had recently returned from West Africa with a fever and severe abdominal pain entered a hospital in Dallas--and was sent home. Even after healthcare workers learned their patient had come from Liberia, ground zero of the Ebola hot zone, not one of those treating him considered the deadly virus as a possible cause of his condition....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at creativity and mastery in the arts, science, and business, as well as the sometimes surprising ways that they are achieved through serendipity, failure, simple determination, and hard work.
"It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors--from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts--are not achievements but conversions, corrections after...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What can chess masters teach us about how humans become experts? Why can't race car drivers explain decisions they've made behind the wheel? What does predicting the winner of a soccer match say about our ability to make the right choice? When we talk about experts, we typically have bought into the idea that they have all the answers. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Gordon Rugg exposes the surprising ways in which all people tend to make the same...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains why experts often give wrong information, the reasons that bad advice gets the most attention, and how it has adversely affected society, and offers suggestions to eliminate this destructive cycle.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred--ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education.