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Developing and Executing Your Vision
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Leaders have to be strategists, negotiators, and visionaries. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at the particular challenges of keeping an organization’s vision on track across business units when there’s dissent among t....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
How can leaders increase their odds of being influential within their organizations and out in the external world? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways executives can increase their influence by sharing their power and list....
Release Date 2018/07 -
How AI Can Amplify Human Competencies
Author Frieda Klotz
The fear of robots eclipsing human power in society, in particular the workforce, has persisted for decades despite the moderate progress of artificial intelligence systems. For professor and robotics researcher Ken Goldberg, a hybrid human-machine workforce is muc....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Using Artificial Intelligence to Promote Diversity
Author H James Wilson , Paul Daugherty
What if, instead of perpetuating harmful biases, AI helped us overcome them? What if our systems were taught to ignore data about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics that aren’t relevant to the decisions at hand? They can do all that ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Can We Solve AI’s ‘Trust Problem’?
Author Thomas H. Davenport , James Abbey , Thomas Davenport
Many people don’t trust decisions, answers, or recommendations from artificial intelligence. To address that problem, makers of AI applications and systems should stop overpromising, be more transparent about how systems are used, and consider third-party cer....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Even If AI Can Cure Loneliness — Should It?
Author Gregory Unruh , David Kiron
AI devices that help stimulate psychological and physiological human connection are serving a population whose loneliness is at an all-time high, but they also raise societal concerns. And while it seems productive to solve technology-based loneliness with further ....
Release Date 2019/01 -
How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation
Author Nancy Duarte
When a business is growing fast, decisions can get lost in the fray — especially if it’s unclear that a decision even needs to be made. People in the workplace bring recommendations to four audiences: a manager or top executive (those who approve a reco....
Release Date 2019/04 -
The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker
Author William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigration is dramatically transforming the tech sector in the United States. U.S. tech workers over age 40 have good reasons to be concerned. In addition to competing with greater numbers of skilled foreign workers, older tech workers are now also mo....
Release Date 2019/04 -
The Perils of Applying AI Prediction to Complex Decisions
Author Frieda Klotz , Susan Athey
While AI is brilliantly placed to solve decisions that are concrete and well-defined, in other contexts it can fail spectacularly, showing connections between facts or events but stumbling when the need to disentangle cause from correlation arises. Human input in t....
Release Date 2019/05 -
How Algorithms Can Diversify the Startup Pool
Author Morela Hernandez , Roshni Raveendhran , Elizabeth Wein
Biases related to gender and other demographic factors creep into decisions about which projects to fund with venture capital. Data-driven approaches can help tease out those biases and limit their impact. Algorithmic methods identify potential instances of discrimination....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Creating the Symbiotic AI Workforce of the Future
Author Paul R. Daugherty , H. James Wilson
To effectively implement AI, organizations will need to use human-centered AI processes that motivate and retrain workers, which shifts the focus from automation to collaboration between humans and machines. To test that idea, an experiment was designed to see how ....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Is China Taking the Lead in AI?
Author Jeffrey Ding , Frieda Klotz
Although some observers have compared the rivalry between the United States and China over AI to the Cold War, Oxford researcher Jeffrey Ding says the analogy is flawed. AI is a general-purpose technology that can be applied across many different domains — including nat....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Designing AI Systems With Human-Machine Teams
Author Maria Jesus Saenz , Elena Revilla , Cristina Simón
Bringing together the formal rationality of AI and the substantive rationality of humans can help companies meet their goals and optimize the chances of success. However, before designing AI systems, managers need to assess the openness of the decision-making process and ....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Can Surveillance AI Make the Workplace Safe?
Author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Organizations may soon start monitoring employees’ whereabouts and behavior more closely than ever, using surveillance tools such as apps, sensors, and algorithms that scrape and analyze the data people produce as they work. With the help of artificial intelligence, this ....
Release Date 2020/08 -
To Fight Pandemics, We Need Better Data
Author Thomas H. Davenport , A. Blanton Godfrey , Thomas C. R
The United States has had many problems coping with the coronavirus. A critical — and underappreciated — problem is bad data: Without good data, planners can’t plan, epidemiologists can’t model, policy makers can’t make policy, and citizens don’t trust what they’re told. ....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Best Practices: Time Management
Author John Hoover
There are only twenty-four hours in a day, but you can make them count. Time Management, a comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, shows you how.Learn to:Set and prioritize goals, objectives, and tasksCreate an effective scheduleAvoid distr....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author Kate Newlin
Today's shopping culture is turning the shopper into a zombie—and the thrill of the hunt into the robotic management of inventory. We are in danger of losing a resonant personal ritual, replaced by the boring habitual. For millions of us, the sizzle of a daily sh....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author David Casstevens , Gary Mack
Praise for Mind Gym"Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game." --Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain"Mind Gym hits a ho....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Build Your Own Small Wind Power System
Author Brian Clark Howard , Kevin Shea
A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO BUILDING A SMALL WIND POWER SYSTEM FROM THE GROUND UPWritten by renewable energy experts, this hands-on resource provides the technical information and easy-to-follow instructions you need to harness the wind and generate clean, safe, and re....
Release Date 2011/12 -
101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius 2/E, 2nd Edition
Author Kathy McGowan , Brad Graham
CREATE FIENDISHLY FUN SPY TOOLS AND COUNTERMEASURESFully updated throughout, this wickedly inventive guide is packed with a wide variety of stealthy sleuthing contraptions you can build yourself. 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius, Second Edition also shows you ho....
Release Date 2011/10 -
DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration
Author George Baklarz , Aamer Sachedina , Matthew Huras , Sam Lightstone , Paul Zikopoulos
UPGRADE TO THE NEW GENERATION OF DATABASE SOFTWARE FOR THE ERA OF BIG DATA!If big data is an untapped natural resource, how do you find the gold hidden within? Leaders realize that big data means all data, and are moving quickly to extract more value from both stru....
Release Date 2013/10 -
How to Connect with Your iTeen
Author Linda Perlman Gordon , Susan Morris Shaffer
Bullying, gangs, social media, smartphones, reality TV . . . meet the real-life firewall for keeping teens safeHow To Connect With Your iTeen is the lifeline every Twenty-First century parent or educator needs. This realistic guide shows adults how to reopen commun....
Release Date 2015/04 -
OCA/OCP Oracle Database 12c All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 1Z0-061, 1Z0-062, & 1Z0-063), 2nd Edition
Author Bob Bryla , Roopesh Ramklass , John Watson
This Oracle Press certification exam guide prepares you for the new Oracle Database 12c certification track, including the core requirements for OCA and OCP certification.OCA/OCP Oracle Database 12c All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 1Z0-061, 1Z0-062, & 1Z0-063) cove....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Risk-Return Analysis, Volume 2: The Theory and Practice of Rational Investing
Author Harry M. Markowitz
The Nobel Prize-winning Father of Modern Portfolio Theory returns with new insights on his classic work to help you build a lasting portfolio today Contemporary investing as we know it would not exist without these two words: “Portfolio selection.” Though it may no....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author K Gopalakrishnan
This comprehensive guide has been fully updated to cover the latest features and tools of Oracle Real Application Clusters 12cThrough clear instruction and detailed examples, Oracle Database 12c Real Application Clusters Handbook: Concepts, Administration, Tuning &....
Release Date 2018/02 -
SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition, 4th Edition
Author Andy Oppel
This fully revised, self-paced learning tool lays out all the necessary steps to quickly and easily start writing SQL programsThoroughly updated to reflect the most recent ANSI/ISO standard, SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition will get you up-and-running with....
Release Date 2015/11 -
World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling, 2E, 2nd Edition
Author Edward Frazelle
The classic guide to warehouse operations—now fully revised and updated with the latest strategies, best practices, and case studiesUnder the influence of e-commerce, supply chain collaboration, globalization, and quick response, warehouses today are being asked to....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Oracle Application Express: Build Powerful Data-Centric Web Apps with APEX
Author Brian Spendolini , Arie Geller
This Oracle Press guide shows how to build and deploy powerful Web applications with Oracle Application Express and features full coverage of the latest version, APEX 5.0This comprehensive volume from Oracle Press offers up-to-date coverage of Oracle Application Ex....
Release Date 2017/05