Research Catalog

Title

How : why how we do anything means everything-- in business (and in life) / Dov Seidman.

Author

Seidman, Dov.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

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Details

Description

xiii, 338 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Business ethics
• Values
• Technological innovations
• Organizational effectiveness
• Success in business

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 325-330) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: making waves -- How we have been, how we have changed -- Introduction: the spaces between us -- From land to information -- Lines of communication -- Getting flattened -- Technology's trespass -- The ties that bind us -- Distance unites us -- Can you hear me now? -- The age of transparency -- The persistence of memory -- The information superhighway is a one-way street -- The journey to how -- Just do it -- The certainty gap -- The failure of rules -- How we succeed in business -- How we go forward -- How we think -- Intro: the paradox of journey -- Playing to your strengths -- Help! -- You can judge a book by its cover -- Looking out for number two -- The evolution of what is valuable -- Believe it -- From can to should -- Rules as proxies -- Dancing with rules -- On the tip of your tongue -- Unlocking should -- Risk and reward -- Keeping your head in the game -- Distraction -- Microinequities -- Dissonance -- Doing consonance.

ISBN

• 9780471751229 (cloth)
• 0471751227 (cloth)

LCCN

2006103097

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library