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Timeboxing : the power of doing one thing at a time / by Zao-Sanders, Marc,author.(CARDINAL)888892;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-310)."The gloriously simple practice of choosing one thing to do, when to do it, and getting it done. Every day, a billion knowledge workers wake up, gravitate towards a pixelated screen and process information for eight hours or more, facing an endless and bewildering array of work and life choices. We're confronted with countless always-on options; untimely, unsolicited notifications; and a constant competition for our attention. This depletes our faculty for choosing the right things to do, leading millions to become perplexed, frazzled, anxious, or depressed. Timeboxing by Marc Zao-Sanders is a comprehensive guide to carefully and intentionally selecting what to do, specifying start and finish times, focusing solely on that single activity, and getting it done to an acceptable standard within that timeframe. This is the fundamental, transcendent time-management practice; countless luminaries, from Carl Jung and Albert Einstein to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, have employed some form of it in their daily lives. Zao-Sanders provides an informative and accessible look at every aspect of this revolutionary method--how to do it consistently, and how to do it well. Timeboxing offers guidance on what you can, should, and will do at any given moment. This pragmatic and life-changing practice of intentional daily activity has been proven to yield what almost every human being wants most: a chosen, cherished life"--

Subjects: Choice (Psychology); Time management.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Small time operator : how to start your own business, keep your books, pay your taxes, and stay out of trouble / by Kamoroff, Bernard B.,1954-author.(CARDINAL)153116;

In this new edition, the book will feature a section on surviving the Global Information Grid or GIG economy. The on-demand economy, also known as the sharing economy or the gig economy, is a new and greatly expanding business model that is basically nothing more than a mobile app that connects people who need some type of service-a ride, a delivery, a plumber, a house cleaner-with individuals who provide that service. There are hundreds of thousands of newly self-employed individuals. Uber alone claims that they have 160,000 workers just in California. The great majority of these on demand workers have zero experience or knowledge about self-employment. This book will give on-demand workers everything they need to know about being self-employed.

Subjects: New business enterprises.; New business enterprises; Small business.;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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Why managers matter : the perils of the bossless company / by Foss, Nicolai J.,1964-author.(CARDINAL)859528; Klein, Peter G.,author.(CARDINAL)859447;

Includes bibliographical references and index."People in the business world are struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing economy. Beset by transformational forces, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organization tick. It's easy to be seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture of a startup, where employees in wacky, whimsical office settings champion the end of old-fashioned corporate hierarchy. Autonomous employees liberated from hierarchies and bosses that oppress people, we are told, are the foundation for breakthrough performance. Be careful what you wish for say Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein. In their important rethinking of the crucial nature of hierarchy and how to be a boss today, they provide the evidence that world-changing issues such as the proliferation of artificial intelligence, economic disruption, empowered knowledge workers, and black swan events such as the pandemic actually make hierarchy and the job of the manager more important than ever. Companies and societies, they show, need authority and hierarchy to coordinate work, including creative work. More surprisingly, Foss and Klein illustrate how the creative use of authority and hierarchy help companies be more agile and flexible. This is not command and control and bossing people around, but the clever use of hierarchy, using the authority of the boss to create highly effective organization where managers focus on creating an environment in which educated, motivated people and teams can thrive"--

Subjects: Executives.; Management.; Organizational behavior.; Organizational effectiveness.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Rookie smarts : why learning beats knowing in the new game of work / by Wiseman, Liz,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.In a time of constant change, success depends on seeing the world through rookie eyes, and in this essential guide, the bestselling author of 'Multipliers' explains why we are often at our best when we are doing something for the first time-and how to reclaim and cultivate this curious, flexible, youthful mindset called 'Rookie Smarts.' In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Being new, nave, and even clueless can be an asset. Rookies are unencumbered, with no baggage to weigh them down, no resources to burden them, and no track record to limit their thinking or aspirations. For today's knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery. Leadership expert Liz Wiseman argues that the most successful rookies are hunter-gatherers-alert and seeking, cautious but quick like firewalkers, and hungry and relentless like frontiersmen. Most importantly, she identifies a breed of leaders she refers to as 'perpetual rookies.' Despite years of experience, they retain their rookie smarts, thinking and operating with the mindsets and practices of these high-performing rookies. 'Rookie Smarts' addresses the questions every experienced professional faces: 'Will my knowledge and skills become obsolete and irrelevant? Will a young, inexperienced newcomer upend my company or me? How can I keep up?' The answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when to think like a rookie. 'Rookie Smarts' isn't just for professionals seeking personal renewal; it is an indispensible resource for all leaders who must ensure their workforces remains vital and competitive.

Subjects: Success in business.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Co-intelligence : living and working with AI / by Mollick, Ethan,1975-author.(CARDINAL)491724;

Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : three sleepless nights -- Creating alien minds -- Aligning the alien -- Four rules for co-intelligence -- AI as a person -- AI as a creative -- AI as a coworker -- AI as tutor -- AI as coach -- AI as our future -- Epilogue : AI as us."From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI. The release of generative AI-from LLMs like ChatGPT to image generators like DALL-E-marks a new era. We have invented technologies that boost our physical capabilities and others that automate complex tasks, but never, until now, have we created a technology that can boost our intelligence-with an impact on work and life that researchers project will be greater than that of steam power or the internet. Mollick urges us not to turn away from AI, and instead to invite AI tools to the table. He demonstrates how AI can amplify our own capacities, acting in roles from brainstorming partner to cowriter to tutor to coach, and assesses its surprising, positive impact on business and organizations. Marshalling original research from workers and teams who are leading the rest of us in embracing and leveraging AI, Mollick cuts through the hype to make a frank and eye-opening case for the real value of AI tools. Moreover, Mollick argues that the long-term impact of AI will be different from what we expect, advantaging English majors and art history experts more than coders, and impacting knowledge workers more than blue-collar workers. Co-Intelligence shows what it means for individuals and for society to think together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we all master that skill. Co-Intelligence challenges us to utilize AI's power without losing our identity, learn from it without being misled, and harness its gifts to create a better human future. Thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of generative AI."--

Subjects: Informational works.; Expert systems (Computer science); Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Labor; Education;

Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 22

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The practical Drucker : applying the wisdom of the world's greatest management thinker / by Cohen, William A.,1937-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. People -- General business ethics -- Drucker on engagement -- Drucker's favorite leadership book -- The seven deadly sins of leadership -- Three principles for developing yourself -- Move your company ahead by encouraging your people -- The most important leadership decision -- Drucker and heroic leadership -- What everyone knows is usually wrong -- Power comes from integrity -- People have no limits -- pt. 2. Management -- Fear of job loss is incompatible with good management -- You can accomplish more with less -- What to do about office politics -- Above all, do no harm -- How to avoid failure -- Quality is not what you may think -- Implementation requires control -- Do the right thing at the right time -- How to be a managerial fortune-teller -- What are you going to do about it? -- pt. 3. Marketing and innovation -- Can marketing and selling be adversarial? -- The five great marketing sins -- You can't get the right strategy from a formula -- Drucker's four approaches to entrepreneurial marketing -- If you conduct marketing research, conduct it right -- Be careful in using a bribe -- There are no irrational customers, only irrational marketers -- Where the best innovations come from -- Drucker's theory of abandonment -- The mysteries of supply-side innovation -- pt. 4. Organization -- The purpose of your business is not to make a profit -- Social responsibility is a win-win -- There are only two organizational functions -- Ignorance is good -- What to do when an organization faces a crisis -- The ultimate requirement for running a good organization -- Is leadership a "marketing job"? -- You must know your strengths -- Drucker's most valuable lesson."Few thinkers have had a greater impact on business than Peter Drucker, the inventor of modern management, whose legacy continues to influence leaders around the globe. His keen observations about organizations took the form of deceptively simple truths and astute predictions. Decentralization, outsourcing, the rise of the knowledge worker, a focus on the customer, the dangers of skyrocketing executive pay, even the probability of a global financial crisis--it was Drucker who first expressed these ideas, sometimes decades before they became accepted wisdom. Although Drucker is renowned as a thinker and idea generator, the "what" in his teachings was far more prevalent than the "how." Now, The Practical Drucker mines his vast body of work to pinpoint 40 applicable truths for solving real-world problems. Readers will find surprising insights and clear guidance on how to: engage employees and achieve outstanding performance; remedy destructive office politics and foster innovation; ensure follow-through on good ideas and handle a crisis; become a better decision maker; choose the best leadership style for different situations; do more with less and steer clear of leadership traps; [and] avoid five deadly marketing sins. In succinct, satisfying chapters, the book distills the practical wisdom from Drucker's dozens of books and articles, as well as his decades of teaching and consulting, into a set of fresh, vital lessons that will resonate today and for years to come." -- Publisher's description.

Subjects: Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005.; Management.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Mastering AI : a survival guide to our superpowered future / by Kahn, Jeremy(Jeremy A.),author.(CARDINAL)897144;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-312) and index.A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think. Within the next five years, Jeremy Kahn predicts, AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. It will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots a must for every knowledge worker. It will revamp education, meaning children around the world can have personal, portable tutors. It will revolutionize health care, making individualized, targeted pharmaceuticals more affordable. It will compel us to reimagine how we make art, compose music, and write and publish books. The potential of generative AI to extend our skills, talents, and creativity as humans is undeniably exciting and promising. But while this new technology has a bright future, it also casts a dark and fearful shadow. AI will provoke pervasive, disruptive, potentially devastating knock-on effects. Leveraging his unrivaled access to the leaders, scientists, futurists, and others who are making AI a reality, Kahn will argue that if not carefully designed and vigilantly regulated AI will deepen income inequality, depressing wages while imposing winner-take-all markets across much of the economy. AI risks undermining democracy, as truth is overtaken by misinformation, racial bias, and harmful stereotypes. Continuing a process begun by the internet, AI will rewire our brains, likely inhibiting our ability to think critically, to remember, and even to get along with one another--unless we all take decisive action to prevent this from happening.

Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence;

Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 25

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Health care providers / by Buff, Sheila.(CARDINAL)326473;

MARCIVE 5/02/11Includes bibliographical references and index.Industry history -- State of the industry -- On the job -- Tips for success -- Talk like a pro -- Industry resources.Workers in the allied health professions have a passion for helping people. Strong skills and compassion are essential to the job, but to really launch a career, it takes a through knowledge of the complex health care industry, a powerful professional attitude, and the ability to make the most of the many opportunities the field offers.

Subjects: Allied health personnel; Public health personnel; Medical personnel;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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She persisted Claudette Colvin / by Cline-Ransome, Lesa,author.(CARDINAL)349833; Clinton, Chelsea.(CARDINAL)333259; Flint, Gillian,illustrator.(CARDINAL)610364;

Includes bibliographical references (page 51).Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds! Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin made the same choice. She insisted on standing up-or in her case, sitting down-for what was right, and in doing so, fought for equality, fairness, and justice. Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin made the same choice. She insisted on standing up-or in her case, sitting down-for what was right, and in doing so, fought for equality, fairness, and justice. "Cline-Ransome brings the teen activist to life with great compassion and impressive brevity . . . A noteworthy start for chapter-book readers wishing to read more about young leaders of the movement." -Kirkus Reviews Cline-Ransome's narrative provides a knowledgeable, interesting introduction to an ­important player in the civil rights movement." -School Library JournalNC1170LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal correspondence.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Interviews.; Colvin, Claudette, 1939-; Memoirs and biographies.; African-American biographies.; Race relations; Girls; Teenage girls.; Girls; Women; Segregation in transportation; Segregation; Segregation; Women; Women; African Americans; Women; Women's rights; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Revolutionaries; African American women; African American women social reformers.; Women; Women; African American women social reformers; African American women social reformers; African American women; African American women; African Americans.; African American women civil rights workers; African Americans; Women political activists.; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Civil rights movements; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; Civil rights demonstrations.; Race relations; African-American Interest.; African American girls; African American feminists; African American families; African American women; African American women; African American women; African American women civil rights workers; African American women civil rights workers; African American women; African American women; African American women; Biography; Biography; Biography; Biography.; Civil rights workers; Civil rights.; Discrimination.; Prejudices.; Racism.; Classism.; Sexism.; Autobiographies.; Multiculturalism.; Cultural pluralism; Race discrimination; Social justice.; African American children.; Girls.; Women.; Womyn.; Racism.; Sexism.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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The Conference Board challenge to business : industry leaders speak their mind / by Krass, Peter.(CARDINAL)195837; Conference Board.(CARDINAL)139377;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Interviews.; Business.; Businesspeople; Industrial management.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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