在线阅读本书 Whether you have recently been appointed as a group leader or are a battle-scarred veteran, you know that managing professional people is difficult! In this unique handbook, Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister argue that leaders will best enable their people to achieve peak performance not by managing them, not by leading them, but by inspiring them. The authors s...(展开全部)

Managing people when you're not their boss is a challenge, particularly in professional service firms where, increasingly, top professionals are being tapped to lead their peers. Now Patrick McKenna and David Maister provide a 'play book' for professionals trying to be both a team member and coach. In industies ranging from banking and insurance to law and engineering, as well ...(展开全部)

An entertaining and amazingly informative guide to the realities of slavery in ancient Rome, with an introduction by Mary Beard At last, a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx offers practical advice, showing where and how to buy slaves and how to get the best out of them. He explains how to tell good slaves from bad...(展开全部)

Funny, irreverent, and fast - paced, "The Peon Book" is a breath of fresh air and a strong dose of reality that managers may or may not want to swallow. It promotes the crucial viewpoint that is often overlooked by business books: that of the average worker, here called "the Peon."

无论是看牙医时的焦虑、堵车时的愤怒，还是痛苦分手后的沮丧，我们的生活都充满了让我们陷入困境的情况。但尽管我们的情绪可能很难控制，但它们也是一种超能力。当它们以正确的方式在正确的时间被激活时，它们就像免疫系统一样发挥作用，提醒我们注意周围环境，告诉我们如何应对情况，并帮助我们做出正确的选择。 但是，我们如何才能让情绪为我们服务而不是与我们作对呢？知名心理学家 Ethan Kross 博士将他的科学生涯奉献给了这个问题的解答。在《转变》一书中，他打破了常见的迷思——例如，逃避是有害的，或者我们应该始终努力活在当下——并提供了一个新的框架来转变我们的情绪，这样它们就不会控制我们的生活。 《转变》将开创性的研究与人们努力管理情绪并取得成功的引人入胜的故事交织在一起——从一位母亲在飞行途中因恐惧而做出一时冲动的决定，挽救了女儿的生命，到一位携带核密码的海豹突击...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When you think about it, being a manager means constantly having to make decisions. Who should you hire? What should your budget be? How should you handle this project? And even more critically, what should you do today? Decision making is one of those core skills that is assumed but rarely taught. Yet it is a complex behaviour and understanding more about how we do it...(展开全部)

弗格斯·M. 博德韦奇（１９４７ — ） 生于美国纽约，是一位阅历丰富、著述颇丰的历史学家、作家、记者、书评人。曾任伊朗《德黑兰杂志》编辑、联合国新闻发布官、中国新华通讯社顾问。2015年，担任耶鲁大学“莱曼”奴隶制、奴隶反抗和废奴研究中心评奖委员会主席。 博德维奇历史写作的最大特点是“观念新颖，行文新潮”，故事动人心魄，人物塑造栩栩如生，无浮夸媚俗之态。他已出版七部非虚构历史作品，其中《美国大辩论：亨利·克莱、史蒂芬·A. 道格拉斯与维系联邦的妥协》（America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union，2012）被《华盛顿邮报》提名为“2012年度最佳图书”，2013年被《洛杉矶时报》提名为“2012...(展开全部)

The First Congress may have been the most important in American history because it established how our government would work. The Constitution was a broad set of principles that left undefined the machinery of government. Fortunately, far-sighted, brilliant, and determined men such as Washington, Madison, Adams, Hamilton, and Jefferson (and others less well known today) labored...(展开全部)

In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics, Second Edition, introduces the concept of ’category’ for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to both beginning students and general readers, and to practicing mathematical scientists. The treatment does not presupp...(展开全部)

In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics, Second Edition, introduces the concept of ’category’ for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to both beginning students and general readers, and to practicing mathematical scientists. The treatment does not presupp...(展开全部)