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What managers have: challenges and problems. What managers don't have: time. With that in mind, John Langhorne has written an ôun-book,ö one that offers solutions, knowledge and insight in easily managed segments.
Author : John E. Langhorne
Publisher : Corridor Media Group Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780615337913
What managers have: challenges and problems. What managers don't have: time. With that in mind, John Langhorne has written an ôun-book,ö one that offers solutions, knowledge and insight in easily managed segments.
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : 9780981854748
Author : Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307594688
The acclaimed director of such films as Brideshead Revisited shares the story of his youth and career, providing coverage of such topics as his childhood as the son of star Geraldine Fitzgerald, his relationships with Hollywood elite and the allegations that Orson Welles was his real father.
Author : Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1119030595
This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science Examines the role of luck in core philosophical problems, such as free will Features work from the main philosophers writing on luck today
Author : Sarah Aronson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101516216
Ari Fish believes in two things: his hero-Wayne Timcoe, the greatest soccer goalie to ever come out of Somerset Valley-and luck. So when Ari finds a rare and valuable Wayne Timcoe trading card, he's sure his luck has changed for the better. Especially when he's picked to be the starting goalie on his team. But when the card is stolen-and his best friend and the new girl on the team accuse each other of taking it-suddenly Ari can't save a goal, everyone is fighting, and he doesn't know who, or what, to believe in. Before the team falls apart, Ari must learn how to make his own luck, and figure out what it truly means to be a hero.
Author : Ed Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408830604
For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck.Tracing the history of the concepts of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient Greeks to the present day - in religion, in banking, in politics - Ed Smith argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent today as it ever has been. He challenges us to think again about privilege and opportunity, to re-examine the question of innate ability and of gifts and talents accidentally conferred at birth. Weaving in his personal stories - notably the chance meeting of a beautiful stranger who would become his wife on a train he seemed fated to miss - he puts to us the idea that in life, luck cannot be underestimated: without any means of explaining our differing lots in life, the world without luck is one in which you deserve every ill that befalls you, where envy dominates and averageness is the stifling ideal. Embracing luck leads us to a fresh reappraisal of the nature of success, opportunity and fairness.
Author : Chengwei Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351603272
Case studies of business and management success tend to focus on factors such as leadership, innovation, competition, and geography, but what about good fortune? This book highlights luck as a key idea for business and society. The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance. In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.
Author : Ishtiyaque Haji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190260777
Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In Luck's Mischief, Haji argues that owing frequently to precluding our being able to otherwise, luck limits both the range of what is morally obligatory for us and things for which we are morally responsible.
Author : Ulrike Heuer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199599327
This book is a collection of essays that discuss various themes from the work of Bernard Williams.
Author : Steven D. Hales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350149306
Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.