Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a singular mission: to connect people around the world.
It's one reason why he decided to launch a Facebook-based book club last year, with a reading list that focused on "different cultures, beliefs, histories, and technologies."
Although the birth of his daughter Max kept him from hitting his goal of a book every two weeks, he ended the year with 23 selections in his "A Year of Books" reading group.
We've put together a list of his picks and why he thinks everyone should read them.
See them
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Friday, 5 February 2016
10 books every new manager should read
Stepping into a management role for the first time can be scary.
It doesn't help that there's a ton of conflicting management advice out there, and sifting through it could take years.
That's why we recommend starting with these 10 books, which offer practical insights on leading a team.
We didn't simply stick with traditional business reads - instead we included novels, psychological research, and the musings of a Roman emperor.
Each of these books will help prepare you to tackle the myriad challenges of managing people.
Read the post
It doesn't help that there's a ton of conflicting management advice out there, and sifting through it could take years.
That's why we recommend starting with these 10 books, which offer practical insights on leading a team.
We didn't simply stick with traditional business reads - instead we included novels, psychological research, and the musings of a Roman emperor.
Each of these books will help prepare you to tackle the myriad challenges of managing people.
Read the post
Friday, 29 January 2016
New book 'Inventology' shows how today's inventors can tap big data, 3D printing, crowdfunding, and more
With the internet age and its endless possibilities in the realms of publishing, communication, and collaboration, opportunities have never been so widely accessible for creators. But how has our new digital world affected the pathways to invention? In Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World, out today, journalist Pagan Kennedy offers a fresh take on how the digital era has upended the traditional pathways for creation.
When Kennedy began writing about inventors for The New York Times, she soon "would marvel at how few of the people were professional inventors, designers, in corporate innovation labs." It led her to explore what it really takes to invent. Drawing from that experience, Kennedy debunks common misconceptions about how great inventions are born, explores situations that have led to invention, and highlights gender disparity in the world of invention. TechRepublic talked to Kennedy about the big takeaways she learned during the writing process, and the relationship between tech and invention.
Read the post
When Kennedy began writing about inventors for The New York Times, she soon "would marvel at how few of the people were professional inventors, designers, in corporate innovation labs." It led her to explore what it really takes to invent. Drawing from that experience, Kennedy debunks common misconceptions about how great inventions are born, explores situations that have led to invention, and highlights gender disparity in the world of invention. TechRepublic talked to Kennedy about the big takeaways she learned during the writing process, and the relationship between tech and invention.
Read the post
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Educate yourself on AI: Seven books to get you started
From drones to self-driving cars to caring robots, artificial intelligence is becoming woven into our lives at a rapidly accelerating pace. With its roots back to Alan Turing in the 1950's, artificial intelligence today has become increasingly sophisticated—where machines were once used to perform simple tasks, they are increasingly being designed with more human-like traits.
If you know little about artificial intelligence and need to get up to speed, here are seven books that can help you get some important evolving field.
1. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005) by Raymond Kurzweil
2. Designing Sociable Robots (2002) by Cynthia Breazeal
3. Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy (2015) by David A. Mindell
4. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind (2006) by Marvin Minsky
5. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology (1992) by Steven Levy
6. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) by Nick Bostrom
7. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (2013) by James Barrat
Full post
If you know little about artificial intelligence and need to get up to speed, here are seven books that can help you get some important evolving field.
1. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005) by Raymond Kurzweil
2. Designing Sociable Robots (2002) by Cynthia Breazeal
3. Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy (2015) by David A. Mindell
4. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind (2006) by Marvin Minsky
5. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology (1992) by Steven Levy
6. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) by Nick Bostrom
7. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (2013) by James Barrat
Full post
Monday, 25 January 2016
26 Books Every Recruiter Should Read
Reading resumes, job descriptions, and candidate requirements may be
part of the job, but if you’re looking for a change of scene, we have
just the thing to one-up your hiring game.
We spoke with The Sourcing Institute President Shally Steckerl to get his list of must-reads for talent pros determined to change, improve, and learn the ins and outs of effective outreach, engagement, and hiring.
What we came up with is the official World’s Greatest Sourcer collection of 26 books that should be sitting on your nightstands, packed in your work bag, marked up and tagged on your desk, passed off to every recruiter you know – you get the idea. Here’s the grand list.
Know them
We spoke with The Sourcing Institute President Shally Steckerl to get his list of must-reads for talent pros determined to change, improve, and learn the ins and outs of effective outreach, engagement, and hiring.
What we came up with is the official World’s Greatest Sourcer collection of 26 books that should be sitting on your nightstands, packed in your work bag, marked up and tagged on your desk, passed off to every recruiter you know – you get the idea. Here’s the grand list.
Know them
Friday, 22 January 2016
The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book
The purpose of this booklet is to give you some practical ideas about the kinds of things you can do
with Web 2.0 technology. Please note: this was not intended to be a compilation of projects using
cutting edge applications. I simply invited teachers to share what they have been doing.
In many cases the projects were in their infancy. Also, almost all projects will need following up in some way. For example, what were the longer term benefits, or what exactly was meant by “amazing results”?
All the descriptions have been provided by the teachers themselves. I received quite a few submissions, via an online survey, but only a relative handful have been included here, for a variety of reasons:
• Some people asked for their projects not to be made public. I have respected that wish.
• Some projects were not viewable by the public. I have actually included some of these where the description was detailed enough to give the reader an idea of what was going on; otherwise, I couldn’t see the point.
• I have not used submissions where there were very few details and no website to check out.
• I have omitted repeated descriptions of similar projects, but have included the URLs referred to.
As you will see, I have arranged the projects according to the age range they address. However, I do think it may be worth your while looking through all of them. I, for example, found several ideas for podcasting in primary (elementary) schools from the projects listed in the higher age groups.
I hope you find the booklet useful, and I should be extremely grateful for any H Ufeedback U Hyou would like to give me (mailto:terry@ictineducation.org?subject=Feedback)
Download the book
In many cases the projects were in their infancy. Also, almost all projects will need following up in some way. For example, what were the longer term benefits, or what exactly was meant by “amazing results”?
All the descriptions have been provided by the teachers themselves. I received quite a few submissions, via an online survey, but only a relative handful have been included here, for a variety of reasons:
• Some people asked for their projects not to be made public. I have respected that wish.
• Some projects were not viewable by the public. I have actually included some of these where the description was detailed enough to give the reader an idea of what was going on; otherwise, I couldn’t see the point.
• I have not used submissions where there were very few details and no website to check out.
• I have omitted repeated descriptions of similar projects, but have included the URLs referred to.
As you will see, I have arranged the projects according to the age range they address. However, I do think it may be worth your while looking through all of them. I, for example, found several ideas for podcasting in primary (elementary) schools from the projects listed in the higher age groups.
I hope you find the booklet useful, and I should be extremely grateful for any H Ufeedback U Hyou would like to give me (mailto:terry@ictineducation.org?subject=Feedback)
Download the book
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
27 Tips for Mastering Anything
What does it take to become a master at your craft? Is genius innate, or can it be learned?
In his book, "Mastery," Robert Greene draws from the latest research, interviews modern masters, and examines the lives of former greats like Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Mozart to discover what it takes to achieve excellence.
He argues that success is within anyone's reach, if they have discipline, patience, and follow a number of important steps.
With permission from Greene, we've excerpted the following tips for mastering anything from his book:
Full Post
In his book, "Mastery," Robert Greene draws from the latest research, interviews modern masters, and examines the lives of former greats like Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Mozart to discover what it takes to achieve excellence.
He argues that success is within anyone's reach, if they have discipline, patience, and follow a number of important steps.
With permission from Greene, we've excerpted the following tips for mastering anything from his book:
Full Post
Monday, 19 October 2015
131 Actionable Ideas from Ten Books I Wish I Had Read Ages Ago
The author highly recommends you to read these books and form your own takes. But if you only have 45–90 seconds time blocks, here is a list of times to go through the actionable ideas from each book.
1. Find Your Element by Ken Robinson (60 seconds read)
2. Start With Why by Simon Sinek (45 seconds read)
3. Purple Cow by Seth Godin (30 seconds read)
4. Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (30 seconds read)
5. Getting Things Done by David Allen (45 seconds read)
6. The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (60 seconds read)
7. The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (90 seconds read)
8. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (60 seconds read)
9. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (45 seconds read)
10. Zero to One by Peter Thiel (60 seconds read)
Purple Cow
by Seth Godin
1. Find Your Element by Ken Robinson (60 seconds read)
2. Start With Why by Simon Sinek (45 seconds read)
3. Purple Cow by Seth Godin (30 seconds read)
4. Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (30 seconds read)
5. Getting Things Done by David Allen (45 seconds read)
6. The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (60 seconds read)
7. The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (90 seconds read)
8. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (60 seconds read)
9. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (45 seconds read)
10. Zero to One by Peter Thiel (60 seconds read)
Purple Cow
by Seth Godin
- Take risks at being remarkable, and don’t worry about criticism.
- Target the people who are both willing to try new things and very vocal at spreading the word to others.
- Invent the product with marketing.
- Target and measure your marketing effectively.
- Don’t emulate the leader, because you’ll never learn the process of turning risks into success.
- The traditional form of advertising is no longer effective because in today’s overwhelmingly advertised world capturing the consumer’s attention is almost impossible.
- In today’s crowded marketplace, there is no room for “ordinary.”
- Being ridiculed can be a good thing, as it spreads word about you and your product.
104 Actionable Ideas From Eight Books to Build An Epic Mindset
The author of this post highly recommends you to read these books and form your own takes. But if you only have 45–90 seconds time blocks, here is a list of times to go through the actionable ideas from each book.
1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (75 seconds read)
2. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown (90 seconds read)
3. Quiet by Susan Cain (45 seconds read)
4. Mindset by Carol Dweck (60 seconds read)
5. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg (75 seconds read)
6. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay (90 seconds read)
7. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal (90 seconds read)
8. The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane (45 seconds read)
For the full post please visit
1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (75 seconds read)
2. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown (90 seconds read)
3. Quiet by Susan Cain (45 seconds read)
4. Mindset by Carol Dweck (60 seconds read)
5. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg (75 seconds read)
6. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay (90 seconds read)
7. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal (90 seconds read)
8. The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane (45 seconds read)
For the full post please visit
Friday, 9 October 2015
Educate yourself on AI: Seven books to get you started
Want to get your head around artificial intelligence? These seven non-technical books on AI offer context and insights into a complex subject.
From drones to self-driving cars to caring robots, artificial intelligence is becoming woven into our lives at a rapidly accelerating pace. With its roots back to Alan Turing in the 1950's, artificial intelligence today has become increasingly sophisticated—where machines were once used to perform simple tasks, they are increasingly being designed with more human-like traits.
If you know little about artificial intelligence and need to get up to speed, here are seven books that can help you get some important context for this quickly evolving field.
Full Post
From drones to self-driving cars to caring robots, artificial intelligence is becoming woven into our lives at a rapidly accelerating pace. With its roots back to Alan Turing in the 1950's, artificial intelligence today has become increasingly sophisticated—where machines were once used to perform simple tasks, they are increasingly being designed with more human-like traits.
If you know little about artificial intelligence and need to get up to speed, here are seven books that can help you get some important context for this quickly evolving field.
Full Post
Sunday, 19 July 2015
Are Big Book Publishers Going The Way Of Newspapers?
I think we all possess some kind of familiarity with the history of the newspaper industry over the past century or so. Newspapers and magazines used to rule the kingdom of delivering news, editorials, comics, and even short stories. It was a huge industry that offered the main employment for freelance writers and journalists. Then the internet came along. The internet is easier, faster and cheaper than paying someone to print and deliver a bunch of actual papers each day telling yesterday's news.
Read the post
Read the post
Sunday, 12 July 2015
INFOTECH Quiz – 004
Welcome to the 4th edition of INFOTECH Quiz.
There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.
There are ten statements with one of the two options provided in them be the right one. Select the appropriate answer from the two options.
- Bharti Airtel launches 4G services for the first time in the country, starting from Kolkata / New Delhi
- The Alpha versions of Android OS were named after fictional robots / confectionery
- Google Nexus / HTC Dream was the first commercially released device to use the Linux-based Android operating system.
- R / C is the programming language of choice for statisticians and anybody doing data analysis
- ICICI / HDFC Bank has become the first bank in India to launch Watch Banking for Apple Watch
- Pepper / Asimo is considered as the first robot to understand emotions
- Intel / IBM have come out with a 7 nanometer chip, a breakthrough in chip manufacturing using silicon-germanium instead pure silicon
- Facebook had experimented with drones / balloons to beam Internet down to billions of people around the world.
- The scheme Airtel Zero / Free announced but not implemented by Airtel was considered to be anti Net Neutrality
- Deep Stereo / View is the system based on Google’s machine-learning acumen that can be trained to generate new Street View images
The quiz will be open till 15th Jul 2015 midnight.
To participate in the quiz please visit
To see the answers Please visit
The following are the six (instead of two all those answered correctly) winners in INFOTECH Quiz -- 004. All were presented with a copy of the books released and of their choice.
To see the answers Please visit
The following are the six (instead of two all those answered correctly) winners in INFOTECH Quiz -- 004. All were presented with a copy of the books released and of their choice.
- Sundaram B
- Revathi Kannan
- Vijayakumar M. Vaiyapuri
- Sathya Praveen
- Bhanu Kumar S
- Srinivas Anand YRSN
Thursday, 2 July 2015
eBasta -- A Digital Library Of Downloadable School Books
In line with the government's Digital India initiative, this project has created a framework to make school books accessible in digital form as e-books to be read and used on tablets and laptops. The main idea is to bring various publishers (free as well as commercial) and schools together on one platform. In addition to the portal, a back-end framework to facilitate the organization and easy management of such resources has also been made, along with the web based applications that can be installed on tablets for navigating the framework.
The framework, implemented as a portal, brings together three categories of stakeholders: the publisher, the school and the student. It provides them with the following primary functionalities:
Students: Easy access to interactive and dynamic content augmented with text, charts, graphics, videos and auxiliary resource. eBastas are delivered through the internet no packaging no shipping and hence NO WAIT. eBasta’s are portable. Carry eBasta’s in any storage medium without worrying about their weight and start reading them ANY WHERE ANY TIME.
School/Teachers: The eBooks and other contents in the eBasta can be logically organised by the school / Teacher while creating the eBasta. Teachers can choose and bundle content according to their teaching methods. Access to variety of resources – text, simulation, animations, audio books, videos, etc – to choose from. Review, Comment, Rate on eContents. Help schools with lesser teaching resources to gain from the resources of better schools. Provide teachers who contribute content / generate more relevant collections nation-wide visibility.
Publishers:
Single point interface for reaching out to multiples of schools, across the country
Convenience to register, sell and distribute ebooks & related interactive econtents online
Overcome the logistical problems of book printing, transport and delivery, especially at remote locations
Significantly shortens the cycle of content editing /changes and facilitates faster release of updates
Support for DRM from the pioneers in the Industry wherever required
Get direct feedback from teachers and students regarding eContents
Visit the website
The framework, implemented as a portal, brings together three categories of stakeholders: the publisher, the school and the student. It provides them with the following primary functionalities:
Students: Easy access to interactive and dynamic content augmented with text, charts, graphics, videos and auxiliary resource. eBastas are delivered through the internet no packaging no shipping and hence NO WAIT. eBasta’s are portable. Carry eBasta’s in any storage medium without worrying about their weight and start reading them ANY WHERE ANY TIME.
School/Teachers: The eBooks and other contents in the eBasta can be logically organised by the school / Teacher while creating the eBasta. Teachers can choose and bundle content according to their teaching methods. Access to variety of resources – text, simulation, animations, audio books, videos, etc – to choose from. Review, Comment, Rate on eContents. Help schools with lesser teaching resources to gain from the resources of better schools. Provide teachers who contribute content / generate more relevant collections nation-wide visibility.
Publishers:
Single point interface for reaching out to multiples of schools, across the country
Convenience to register, sell and distribute ebooks & related interactive econtents online
Overcome the logistical problems of book printing, transport and delivery, especially at remote locations
Significantly shortens the cycle of content editing /changes and facilitates faster release of updates
Support for DRM from the pioneers in the Industry wherever required
Get direct feedback from teachers and students regarding eContents
Visit the website
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Top 10 Strangest, Most Bizarre Books to Warp Your Mind
I love reading. And I love really weird ideas. So obviously I love utterly strange books. And thanks to Amazon, I can now fulfill my addiction to bizarre ideas from the comfort of my bathroom. Yay, technology!
So, as a public service to everyone who suffers from the same affliction as me (and, to make a few pennies from my website (full disclosure: buy one of these books through the links on this page and I get a teensy-weensy percentage (hint, hint!))), here are the absolutely craziest book titles I've been able to find online.
Enjoy!
How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
Zen of Farting
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America
Games You Can Play With Your Pussy
How to Shit Around the World
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
Cooking With Pooh
Bombproof Your Horse
Read the full post
Related story: 7 More of the Strangest Books You Could Ever Read
So, as a public service to everyone who suffers from the same affliction as me (and, to make a few pennies from my website (full disclosure: buy one of these books through the links on this page and I get a teensy-weensy percentage (hint, hint!))), here are the absolutely craziest book titles I've been able to find online.
Enjoy!
How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
Zen of Farting
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America
Games You Can Play With Your Pussy
How to Shit Around the World
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
Cooking With Pooh
Bombproof Your Horse
Read the full post
Related story: 7 More of the Strangest Books You Could Ever Read
Monday, 16 March 2015
16 lessons from the book "The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker
1) Effectiveness can be learned -
2) You have to manage yourself
3) Manage your time
4) Focus on results
5) Build on strengths
6) Ask what needs to be done
7) Write an action plan
8) Put first things first
9) Delegate to compensate for your weakness
10) Make jobs challenging for others
11) Take responsibility for communicating
12) Focus on opportunities
13) Make meetings productive
14) Think and say ‘We’
15) Demand more of yourself
16) Be open to disagreement
Read the full post
2) You have to manage yourself
3) Manage your time
4) Focus on results
5) Build on strengths
6) Ask what needs to be done
7) Write an action plan
8) Put first things first
9) Delegate to compensate for your weakness
10) Make jobs challenging for others
11) Take responsibility for communicating
12) Focus on opportunities
13) Make meetings productive
14) Think and say ‘We’
15) Demand more of yourself
16) Be open to disagreement
Read the full post
Sunday, 15 March 2015
14 lessons from the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
1) Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain -
2) Become genuinely interested in other people
3) Talk in terms of the other person’s interests
4) The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it
5) Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.”
6) If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically
7) Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately
8) Let the other person do most of the talking
9) Let the other person feel that the idea is his or her’s
10) Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view
11) Appeal to the nobler motives
12) Throw down a challenge
13) Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person
14) Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to
Read the full post
2) Become genuinely interested in other people
3) Talk in terms of the other person’s interests
4) The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it
5) Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.”
6) If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically
7) Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately
8) Let the other person do most of the talking
9) Let the other person feel that the idea is his or her’s
10) Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view
11) Appeal to the nobler motives
12) Throw down a challenge
13) Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person
14) Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to
Read the full post
13 lessons from the book "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel
1) We need vertical progress, not horizontal -
2) Creative monopolies can change the world
3) Competition is overrated
4) Innovators witih Aspberger’s are succeeding in Silicon Valley for a reason
5) What is proprietary about your business?
6) Build network effects into your company
7) Make your company scalable
8) Branding is key
9) Start small and choose your market carefully
10) The lean startup is overrated
11) Ask yourself: what valuable company is nobody building?
12) Define roles clearly within your company
13) Think for yourself
Read the full post
2) Creative monopolies can change the world
3) Competition is overrated
4) Innovators witih Aspberger’s are succeeding in Silicon Valley for a reason
5) What is proprietary about your business?
6) Build network effects into your company
7) Make your company scalable
8) Branding is key
9) Start small and choose your market carefully
10) The lean startup is overrated
11) Ask yourself: what valuable company is nobody building?
12) Define roles clearly within your company
13) Think for yourself
Read the full post
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Best Business Books 2014: Executive Self-Improvement
Big data went mainstream in 2014. At the start of the year, a study by IDG found that 70 percent of large organizations had deployed or were soon to deploy big data–related projects, at an average investment of US$8 million. And analytics enthusiasts were full of sweeping predictions: Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla rankled a crowd of doctors at Stanford Medical School by declaring that data crunching could and should eliminate many of their jobs. “We are guided too much by opinions,” he said, “not by statistical science.”
Big data is touted as the holy grail of all manner of business needs: eliminating human error and wasted time in decision making; identifying prospective winners and losers long before executives can; minimizing costly hiring mistakes; and even sussing out investment opportunities, competitive advantage, and future strategy. From this perspective, big data not only can predict the future—it is the future.
Not so fast, say the authors of this year’s three best business books on honing your executive chops. The science of big data does indeed hold the potential to catalytically improve many areas of business, but they argue that the human factor still makes the difference between good and great corporate performance in the long run. The key, these authors suggest in three different ways, is understanding and harnessing the power of our own minds—in conjunction with having the right analytical data and decision-making frameworks.
Phil Rosenzweig
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
(PublicAffairs, 2014)
Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
PDF Article
Big data is touted as the holy grail of all manner of business needs: eliminating human error and wasted time in decision making; identifying prospective winners and losers long before executives can; minimizing costly hiring mistakes; and even sussing out investment opportunities, competitive advantage, and future strategy. From this perspective, big data not only can predict the future—it is the future.
Not so fast, say the authors of this year’s three best business books on honing your executive chops. The science of big data does indeed hold the potential to catalytically improve many areas of business, but they argue that the human factor still makes the difference between good and great corporate performance in the long run. The key, these authors suggest in three different ways, is understanding and harnessing the power of our own minds—in conjunction with having the right analytical data and decision-making frameworks.
Phil Rosenzweig
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
(PublicAffairs, 2014)
Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
PDF Article
Best Business Books 2014: Innovation
These days, it seems as though every business challenge has the same solution: innovation. Innovation is the watchword for generating fast growth in the very slow recovery from the Great Recession, and, thanks largely to Clayton Christensen’s concept of disruptive innovation, it’s the narrative center of gravity in Silicon Valley and the rest of the global tech community. But if innovation is the answer, the obvious next question is how to innovate.
This year’s three best business books on innovation offer answers to this crucial query in intriguing and insightful, if sometimes indirect, ways. In The Second Machine Age, economist Erik Brynjolfsson and information technologist Andrew McAfee suggest that smart machines are not only the products of innovation, but also essential enablers of innovation prowess. In Social Physics, MIT data scientist Alex Pentland offers a data-driven and eye-opening inquiry into the flow of ideas among people. And in How Google Works, high-level company insiders Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, take us down to where the rubber meets the road.
Full Post
This year’s three best business books on innovation offer answers to this crucial query in intriguing and insightful, if sometimes indirect, ways. In The Second Machine Age, economist Erik Brynjolfsson and information technologist Andrew McAfee suggest that smart machines are not only the products of innovation, but also essential enablers of innovation prowess. In Social Physics, MIT data scientist Alex Pentland offers a data-driven and eye-opening inquiry into the flow of ideas among people. And in How Google Works, high-level company insiders Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, take us down to where the rubber meets the road.
Full Post
Friday, 24 May 2013
CSI eNewsletter -- Feb 2013
The CSI eNewsletter for Feb 2013 can be accessed at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
and also at the CSI KM Portal
http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter
Access the Newsletter
Contents
========
-- History of Computing in India – 1955 to 2010
-- Cloud Computing: The New Normal?
-- Cloud planning guide
-- eBook: Cloud Computing: Discover the Skills that Power the Cloud
-- Top 10 Business Intelligence Solutions
-- Server virtualization technology guide
-- Desktop virtualization software and virtual desktop management guide
-- Green IT systems services guide
-- Storage Learning Guides
-- Data Management Learning Guides
-- ebizQ eGuide: Teaming BPM and ECM for more effective content management
-- Business intelligence strategy guide
-- Human Resources and Social Media
-- Science as a Service
-- 7 Innovative Solutions to CAPTCHA User Attention
-- Free Trial Software: InfiniteGraph 3.0
-- Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices
-- The Software Industry and Developing Countries. The Information
Economy Report 2012
-- Video: Welcome to the 2020s (Future Timeline Events 2020-2029
-- New Portal of CSI
-- Positive Thinking
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives
-- Book: IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide (TMH
-- Book: 8086 Programming and Advance Processor Architecture (Wiley India
-- Book: Business Communication Today (Pearson)
-- Book: Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine (SPD)
-- Book: Managing Your Time (Universities Press)
-- Book: Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (Springer)
-- Book: Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT (CRC Press
-- Book: Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices (John Wiley & Sons
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter
InfoQuiz–2013-02-01
===================
TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books
1. Safer Internet Day 2013 was observed on ------.
2. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
3. Which IT Major is developing a new UK headquarters (on a plot of
2.4 acres in central London) which could be worth as much as 1 billion
pounds ($1.6 billion) when finished.
4. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
5. Expand SMAC -- the new buzzword for software firms.
Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2013-01-01
========================================
Psy's 'Gangnam Style', PC, Idea Cellular, Mouse, Open Source For You
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
and also at the CSI KM Portal
http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter
Access the Newsletter
Contents
========
-- History of Computing in India – 1955 to 2010
-- Cloud Computing: The New Normal?
-- Cloud planning guide
-- eBook: Cloud Computing: Discover the Skills that Power the Cloud
-- Top 10 Business Intelligence Solutions
-- Server virtualization technology guide
-- Desktop virtualization software and virtual desktop management guide
-- Green IT systems services guide
-- Storage Learning Guides
-- Data Management Learning Guides
-- ebizQ eGuide: Teaming BPM and ECM for more effective content management
-- Business intelligence strategy guide
-- Human Resources and Social Media
-- Science as a Service
-- 7 Innovative Solutions to CAPTCHA User Attention
-- Free Trial Software: InfiniteGraph 3.0
-- Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices
-- The Software Industry and Developing Countries. The Information
Economy Report 2012
-- Video: Welcome to the 2020s (Future Timeline Events 2020-2029
-- New Portal of CSI
-- Positive Thinking
-- Announcements
-- ICT Events
-- ICT News: Voices & Views
-- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance
-- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves
-- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives
-- Book: IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide (TMH
-- Book: 8086 Programming and Advance Processor Architecture (Wiley India
-- Book: Business Communication Today (Pearson)
-- Book: Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine (SPD)
-- Book: Managing Your Time (Universities Press)
-- Book: Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (Springer)
-- Book: Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT (CRC Press
-- Book: Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices (John Wiley & Sons
-- About the CSI-eNewsletter
-- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter
InfoQuiz–2013-02-01
===================
TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books
1. Safer Internet Day 2013 was observed on ------.
2. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
3. Which IT Major is developing a new UK headquarters (on a plot of
2.4 acres in central London) which could be worth as much as 1 billion
pounds ($1.6 billion) when finished.
4. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at
http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-02-01.pdf
5. Expand SMAC -- the new buzzword for software firms.
Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2013-01-01
========================================
Psy's 'Gangnam Style', PC, Idea Cellular, Mouse, Open Source For You
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)