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  • Our Compelling Interests

    The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society

    Edición de Earl Lewis, Nancy Cantor ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How diversity and difference strengthen democracy and increase prosperityIt is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Our Compelling Interests engages this conversation and ... Leer más

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  • Personality Psychology

    Recent Trends and Emerging Directions

    Edición de David M. Buss, Nancy Cantor ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Research in the field of personality psychology has culminated in a radical departure. The result is Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions. Drs. Buss and Cantor have compiled the innovative research of twenty-five young, outstanding personality psychologists to represent the recent expansion of issues in the fields. Advances in assessment have brought about more powerful ... Leer más

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  • The Diversity Bonus

    How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, ... Leer más

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  • Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction

    Edición de Nancy Cantor, John F. Kihlstrom ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
    Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology. Few of the individual contributions are centrally concerned with individual differences and cross-situational stability, but these traditional themes certainly appear in several of the chapters. The remaining chapters deal ... Leer más

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    By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future.Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into believing that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do; and in ... Leer más

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  • The Difference

    How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

    de Scott Page ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups—and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that ... Leer más

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  • Wiser

    Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

    Why are group decisions so hard?Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups—first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person to help decide is good because the group benefits from the collective knowledge of all of its members, and ... Leer más

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  • Harnessing Complexity

    Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

    Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change.Building on evolutionary biology ... Leer más

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  • Real Education

    Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

    With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. ... Leer más

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  • Experiments in Economics

    Playing fair with money

    Are humans fair by nature? Why do we often willingly trust strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us vulnerable to exploitation? Does this natural inclination towards fairness or trust have implications in the market-place? Traditional economic theory would perhaps think not, perceiving human interaction as self-interested at heart. There is increasing evidence however that ... Leer más

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  • Uncontrolled

    The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

    de Jim Manzi ...
    How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted -- except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice

    Edición de Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana ...
    Scores of books and articles have been written in the popular press and mainstream marketplace about leadership: who leaders are, what they do, and why they matter. Yet in academia, there is a dearth of rigorous research, journal articles, or doctoral programs focused on leadership as a discipline. Why do top business schools espouse mission statements that promise to "educate the leaders of the ... Leer más

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