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• Beating the System: Notes from an Antibureaucrat. Rubbish Heaps Grow, but They Don't Develop: Understanding the Differences Between Growth and Development. Never Let Your Schooling Interfere with Your Education: Becoming an Antibureaucrat. A Great Many People Think They Are Thinking When They Are Merely Rearranging Their Prejudices: The Costs of Discrimination. Wisdom Is the Power to Put Our Time and Our Knowledge to the Proper Use: People, Practice and Professions. Ask for Anything You Like Except Time: Culture, Language, and Customs. Notes. Bibliography.
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The author summarizes his experience as a management consultant in a series of fables designed to expose narrow thinking, muddle-headedness and complacency in business. He has previously written Management in Small Doses and The Art of Problem Solving.
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• What we have always known
• To market
• School me
• Growing our own
• Feast or famine?
• What we can do together
• Otaku
• Last song.

As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcala set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the Depression, and the memory of planting, growing, and harvesting fresh food with them as a child, she decided to explore the history of the Pacific Northwest island she calls home. In The Deepest Roots, Alcala walks, wades, picks, pokes, digs, cooks, and cans, getting to know her neighbors on a much deeper level. Wanting to better understand how we once fed ourselves, and acknowledging that there may be a future in which we could need to do so again, she meets those who experienced the Japanese American internment during World War II, and learns the unique histories of the blended Filipino and Native American community, the fishing practices of the descendants of Croatian immigrants, and the Suquamish elder who shares with her the food legacy of the island itself. Combining memoir, historical records, and a blueprint for sustainability, The Deepest Roots shows us how an island population can mature into responsible food stewards and reminds us that innovation, adaptation, diversity, and common sense will help us make wise decisions about our future. And along the way, we learn how food is intertwined with our present but offers a path to a better understanding of the future. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFG8MpTo_ZU&feature=youtu.be.
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"KasiNomics attempts to cast a light on the invisible matrix at the heart of South Africa's informal economies and the people who live in them. Living and doing business in African marketplaces requires an ethos uniquely suited to the informal, to the invisible, to the intangible. KasiNomics will take you down those rural pathways, weave between claustrophobic mazes of shacks, browse a muti market, visit a spirit returning ceremony and save money with gogo in a stokvel, among many more people and places. After almost 20 years of focusing on marketing to the informal sector, GG Alcock, CEO of specialist marketing company Minanawe, showcases a number of groundbreaking and very successful case studies in this invisible informal world. His vivid anecdotes and life experiences and how they link to understanding and inspiration for business ideas will make you gasp, laugh and shake your head in wonder."--Back cover.

• Weniger ist mehr : über die düsteren Karriereaussichten attraktiver Blondinen
• Fahrer dringend gesucht! : wenn im Weltbild des Chauffeurs die Topmanagerin gar nicht vorkommt
• Verkehrte Welt : warum für Sekretärinnen ein männlicher Chef das einzig Wahre ist
• Unter tollen Hechten : warum von weiblicher Selbstkritik in Beurteilungsgesprächen dringend abzuraten ist
• Beichtgeheimnisse : über meine Rolle als Kummerkasten
• Wünsch dir was! : wenn fachliche Kriterien bei der Besetzung von Praktikantenstellen nur eine Nebenrolle spielen
• Einsame Spitze : warum die Partnersuche von Topmanagerinnen meistens ergebnislos verläuft
• Feel it! : wenn Bauchentscheidungen betriebs-wirtschaftlich positiv zu Buche schlagen
• Mittenmang : warum in mir als Chefin kein Alphatier steckt
• Vorsicht, Falle! : warum eine weibliche Führungskraft für die Herren Kollegen das "Mädchen für alles" bleibt
• So lonely : warum mich auf Geschäftsreisen meine Abenteuerlust verlässt
• Ohne Belang? : warum die Herren beim Small Talk lieber unter sich sind
• Gratwanderung : warum weder Abstinenz noch exzessives Trinken für Frauen im Management eine Option darstellen
• Achtung! Wilde Tiere! : wie ich in aggressiv geführten Verhandlungen mit meinen eigenen Waffen kämpfe
• "Alles meins!" : über die Abhängigkeit des männlichen Selbstwertgefühls von Statussymbolen
• Mensch bleiben : vom Umgang mit "Humankapital"
• Versuch vorläufig gescheitert : über mein ergebnisloses Bemühen, der Uniformität des dunklen Zwirns einen eigenen Kleidungsstil entgegenzusetzen
• Tonstörung : Gilt die Höflichkeitsordnung auch in der Führungsetage?
• Brüsseler Spitzen : mein Auslandsjahr als Spießrutenlauf
• "Ich bin doch nicht blöd!" : warum ich nicht alles nehme, was ich kriegen kann
• Ene mene mu : und raus bist du! : warum die Quote für Frauen mit Karriereabsichten so wichtig ist
• All they need is love : vom Rahmenprogramm externer Tagungen, das vor allem die Herren erfreut
• Siehe Anhang : warum mein Partner nicht so recht ins Damenprogramm passen will
• Sex fails : warum es nur Frauen ohne jede Ausstrahlung bis nach ganz oben schaffen
• Manege frei! : wie ich versuche, im Machtspiel meiner Kollegen zu bestehen
• Majestätsbeleidigung : Verhandeln im Schwarzmeerraum
• Ein Kind? : wenn sich die Familienplanung im Geheimen abspielt
• Ein Kind! : wie ich verhindern will, dass der Nachwuchs unfreiwillig mein Karriereende einläutet
• Zum Schluss.

For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone world of hopping by gathering together a wide range of social and literary accounts, poems and songs from the Tudor period to the present day, each with a contextual introduction. The selection illustrates both the 'rose-tinted' image and the harsher reality of a distinctive aspect of rural life in the south east.
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• Foreword / Larry Page
• Google, meet OKRs : how OKRs came to Google, and the superpowers they convey
• The father of OKRs : Andy Grove creates and inculcates a new way of structured goal setting
• Operation crush : an Intel story : how OKRs won the microprocessor wars
• Superpower #1 : focus and commit to priorities : OKRs help us choose what matters most
• Focus : the remind story : Brett Kopf used OKRs to overcome attention deficit disorder
• Commit : the Nuna story : Jini Kim's personal commitment to transform health care
• Superpower #2 : align and connect for teamwork : public, transparent OKRs spark and strengthen collaboration
• Align : the MyFitnessPal story : alignment via OKRs is more challenging, and rewarding, than Mike Lee anticipated
• Connect : the Intuit story : Atticus Tysen uses OKR transparency to fortify a software pioneer's open culture
• Superpower #3 : track for accountability : OKRs help us monitor progress and course-correct
• Track : the Gates Foundation story : a $20 billion start-up wields OKRs to fight devastating diseases
• Superpower #4 : stretch for amazing : OKRs empower us to achieve the seemingly impossible
• Stretch : the Google Chrome story : CEO Sundar Pichai uses OKRs to build the world's leading web browser
• Stretch : the YouTube story : CEO Susan Wojcicki and an audacious billion-hour goal
• Continuous performance management : OKRs and CFRs : how conversations, feedback, and recognition help to achieve excellence
• Ditching annual performance reviews : the Adobe story : Adobe affirms core values with conversations and feedback
• Baking better every day : the Zume Pizza story : a robotics pioneer leverage OKRs for teamwork and leadership, and to create the perfect pizza
• Culture : OKRs catalyze culture; CFRs nourish it
• Culture change : the Lumeris story : overcoming OKR resistance with a culture makeover
• Culture change : Bono's ONE campaign story : the world's greatest rock star deploys OKRs to save lives in Africa
• The goals to come.

"In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress, to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: objectives and key results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations, helping a new generation of leaders capture the same magic."-- Dust jacket.

• Part 1. OKRs in action. Google, meet OKRs
• The father of OKRs
• Operation crush: An Intel story
• Superpower #1: Focus and commit to priorities
• Focus: The Remind story
• Commit: The Nuna story
• Superpower #2: Align and connect for teamwork
• Align: The MyFitnessPal story
• Connect : the Intuit story
• Superpower #3: Track for accountability
• Track : the Gates Foundation story
• Superpower #4: stretch for amazing
• Stretch: the Google Chrome story
• Stretch: the YouTube story
• Part 2. The new world of work. Continuous performance management : OKRs and CFRs
• Ditching annual performance reviews: the Adobe story
• Baking better every day: the Zume Pizza story
• Culture
• Culture change : the Lumeris story
• Culture change : Bono's ONE campaign story
• The goals to come.

"In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up he'd just given nearly $12 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world, or even survive, Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They had to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. They needed timely, relevant data to track their progress--to measure what mattered. Doerr introduced them to a proven approach to operating excellence--Objectives and Key Results. The rest is history."--Dust jacket.

• The preschool years
• The way we lived: the way it was: wood stove-staying warm-family wash-keeping clean
• First grade-moving-moss mattress
• Food affairs: boucheries-canning
• Glimpses down memory lane: the grand old house-sweet potato vines-electricity at last
• Show me the cash: picking cotton-digging sweet potatoes
• Bayou man-outdoor man: fishing-hunting-frogging-trapping
• Easter-leisure-Christmas: pocking eggs-that old yellow dog-Mom-Mom's Santa
• Waiting for the cab: Cajun courtship: high school dance, not so, but Cajun dance, let's go!
• High school distress, graduation, marriage: Cajun girl marries Cajun boy-new beginnings.

Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.
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• Foreword / by Sheryl Sandberg
• Creative destruction : the risky business of going against the grain
• Blind inventors and one-eyed inventors : the art and science of recognizing original ideas
• Out on a limb : speaking truth to power
• Fools rush in : timing, strategic procrastination, and the first-mover disadvantage
• Goldilocks and the Trojan Horse : creating and maintaining coalitions
• Rebel with a cause : how siblings, parents, and mentors nurture originality
• Rethinking groupthink : the myths of strong cultures, cults, and devil's advocates
• Rocking the boat and keeping it steady : managing anxiety, apathy, ambivalence, and anger.

With his previous book, Give and Take, Adam Grant introduced a new paradigm for success. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.

• Foreword : Jack Tar, Esteban, Knud-Bent Andersen
• Harry Lundeberg's stetson: the usual rig
• Salmonbellies
• White shirt sailor/dungaree sailor
• Crimping: scourge of the waterfront
• Buckosim lives
• Pier-head jump
• Torching the fink books
• Snakeheads and job sharks: Shanghaiers reborn
• Shape up or ship out
• Shine and Yank, black-gang antiheroes
• "Tapping the Admiral" revisted
• Fancywork
• Andrew Furuseth's credo
• Afterword: Round the horn.