Infinite Value


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During the recessionary period of 2008-9, many organizations followed a business model that was ill-suited to long-term prosperity and strong profits, instead focusing on cost-cutting initiatives in order to survive. Post-recession, there is more optimism around investment, but changing from an entrenched cost-focused strategy can prove to be challenging. Infinite Value offers a value-based business model approach, which author Mark Davies argues is the most effective way forward for a business to thrive and grow in any economy. When a salesperson uses value-selling techniques to identify the needs of the customer, and can highlight how those needs are met by the product or service being sold, the customer becomes more invested in acquiring that offering, as well as more invested in the business itself. Although a value-based business strategy provides stronger competitive advantage and long-term profits for both the supplier and the customer, few organizations manage to work in this way for sustained periods. Infinite Value provides a seven-pillar model to help organizations understand and implement the concepts of value-based selling, including reviews of customer strategy, value propositions, strategic customers and value pricing.




Infinite Value 4 Students


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After repeated beatings, which started when I was in Kindergarten, I learned two certainties in life: I was worthless and I was unlovable. These beliefs permeated every aspect of my life from my family, to the classroom, and on to the basketball court. It followed me beyond school into my professional life, and even my new family, I became BLIND to the value that was in me, and the value that I could truly add to the world around me. Jim Rohn said, "It is more important to work harder on yourself, than you do on your job." IV4S reveals my journey as I worked to shine a light through the blindness of my value both inside and out of the classroom. The journey has uncovered one of the greatest truths the world has ever known. First and foremost, I am INFINITELY VALUABLE. The second discovery is the fact that there is an INFINITE amount of VALUE that I can add to the world around me. As a student and professional, I believed that my value was conditional. If I did well on a test, my value increased by 1 point. But if I had a bad basketball game, it decreased by 1,378 points. In a professional setting, you are only as good as your last sale or accomplishment. Fortunately, my journey revealed the reality that my value isn't conditional or static, but it is accumulating. As humans, we are the summation of all of our life experiences. It is that ever increasing minute by minute, second by second total that ultimately calculates your True Market Value. Once I was able to correctly calculate my Inherent Value, I was then able to more clearly decide what type of value that I would like to add to the marketplace and society. During my blindness, I could only see the value that I could add to someone else's company, through telling their story. The journey you are about to read is the First revelation of the Infinite amount of Value that I will add to the marketplace through telling my story and sharing my talents. When you choose to read this book in its entirety, I promise you that you will have a mirror to see both your Inherent Value and the Value that you will be able to add to the world around you. (Spoiler Alert: They are Both INFINITE!). You will be provided with tools and resources that I didn't have when I was a kid and student that will aid you uncovering your True Value even sooner. (It took me over 30 years). I could tell you to read this book to benefit yourself, but that would be too finite. You should read this book for the thousands upon thousands of people that your life will add Value to once you do. Another important reality that I learned on this journey is "It's not ONLY about me!" If it was only about me, then the tough times that I went through would really suck (not that it didn't hurt at the time, because it did). There are lives that I will be able to add value to, because I went through my beatings. And that is why I write. There are thousands of lives around this planet right now that are waiting to be helped by your experiences. My journey can show you a path to be able to reach the people you are supposed to add your INFINITE VALUE to.




The Kingdom of Infinite Number


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A guide to numbers, suggesting ways of looking at individual numbers and their unique properties.




The Infinite


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We are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and by the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God. In this acclaimed introduction to the infinite, A. W. Moore takes us on a journey back to early Greek thought about the infinite, from its inception to Aristotle. He then examines medieval and early modern conceptions of the infinite, including a brief history of the calculus, before turning to Kant and post-Kantian ideas. He also gives an account of Cantor’s remarkable discovery that some infinities are bigger than others. In the second part of the book, Moore develops his own views, drawing on technical advances in the mathematics of the infinite, including the celebrated theorems of Skolem and Gödel, and deriving inspiration from Wittgenstein. He concludes this part with a discussion of death and human finitude. For this third edition Moore has added a new part, ‘Infinity superseded’, which contains two new chapters refining his own ideas through a re-examination of the ideas of Spinoza, Hegel, and Nietzsche. This new part is heavily influenced by the work of Deleuze. Also new for the third edition are: a technical appendix on still unresolved questions about different infinite sizes; an expanded glossary; and updated references and further reading. The Infinite, Third Edition is ideal reading for anyone interested in an engaging and historically informed account of this fascinating topic, whether from a philosophical point of view, a mathematical point of view, or a religious point of view.




Incomparable Values


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People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable. Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, John Nolt examines the great variety of partially ordered value structures, exposing fallacies that arise from overlooking them. He reveals various ways in which incomparability is obscured: using linear indices to summarize partially ordered data, relying on an inadequately defined concept of parity, or conflating incomparability with vagueness. Incomparability can enrich and clarify a range of topics including the paradoxes of Derek Parfit, rational decision theory, and the infinite values of theology. Finally, Nolt shows how to generalize many of the concepts introduced earlier, explores the intricate depths of certain noteworthy partially ordered value structures, and argues for the finitude of value. Incomparable Values will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, value theory, rational decision theory, and logic.




The Infinite Book


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For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen that don't. All manner of strange paradoxes and fantasies characterize an infinite universe. If our Universe is infinite then an infinite number of exact copies of you are, at this very moment, reading an identical sentence on an identical planet somewhere else in the Universe. Now Infinity is the darling of cutting edge research, the measuring stick used by physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians to determine the accuracy of their theories. From the paradox of Zeno’s arrow to string theory, Cambridge professor John Barrow takes us on a grand tour of this most elusive of ideas and describes with clarifying subtlety how this subject has shaped, and continues to shape, our very sense of the world in which we live. The Infinite Book is a thoroughly entertaining and completely accessible account of the biggest subject of them all–infinity.




Algebra


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The Beginning of Infinity


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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it' Peter Forbes, Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely? In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility. 'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist 'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman




Infinite Series


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This concise text focuses on the convergence of real series. Topics include functions and limits, real sequences and series, series of non-negative terms, general series, series of functions, the multiplication of series, more. 1959 edition.