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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.
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Excellent book every women and executive should read
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Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, this new edition is a must-listen for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught healthcare system.
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In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get- and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
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Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country’s economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely interpret the world, but should change it for the better.
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Merger and acquisition activity across the globe continues to grow, and is also playing a major role in the development of expanding markets. A well-managed integration effort is essential to success, and failure means a tremendous waste in terms of time and money, as well as the rapid destruction of shareholder value. The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level, Third Edition is an invaluable resource to guide firms in managing M&A integration and maximize the value of their deals.
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Paul Robert digs down to the economic roots of the problem, shows how it has metastisized to affect every facet of our lives and our ability to navigate the future. In clear, cogent prose that mixes illuminating analysis and vibrant reporting, Roberts not only tells the fascinating story of how the impulse society came to be, but shows how, perhaps, a healthier society may still be possible.
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It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact the pace at which developing countries grow is largely determined by the pace at which they close that gap. Therefore, how countries learn and become more productive is key to understanding how they grow and develop, especially over the long term.
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tecnico pero vale la pena
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Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.
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In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together in our minds, often without realizing it.
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Jumps to conclusions
This is a very thought provoking book for a person like me who loves to collect and analyze data. While the author makes many great points regarding when and how to use metrics appropriately he appears to jump to many conclusions without presenting any facts to back them up. I believe that the author may be mistaken in his assertion that “not everything can be measured” - this may be technically accurate but, given enough thought, one can find valid proxies for practically anything (with the help of experts in the field being measured)
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Half the truth
This is an interesting idea for a book, but the introduction paragraph sets out exactly where it fails. It has no underlying economic theory except that capitalism should be working, and this recent trend of metric-driven performance rewards is skewing things. The author doesn't seem to consider that maybe this is liberalism at its finest, trying to preserve capitalism with false metrics.
Also it's pretty irredeemable that the book argues for less transparency at the end. No, don't show us more of out corrupt politicians. That forces them to be two-faced.
You might think I'm being hyperbolic by this summary of the last chapter. I'm really not.
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- N. Skachkov
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The perfect intro to a non-existent Part 2
Maybe my expectations were too high or I didnt read the description well enough. My assumption is if you're interested in this book it's because you already have an issue with and a mindset that your business or environment is over-metrics-ed. The book presented a lot of good examples of when and where metrics go wrong. Some of them I already knew of, some I didnt. They were truly interesting and I enjoyed learning more about them. However, my issue is that the book fails to answer the question "now what?". Some references to favoring experience over pure metrics or not using metrics at all were either totally obvious or unhelpful. Discussion of involving those you're measuring in coming up with the measurements to ensure buy in was important and interesting, but too little attention was given to it - just one example and a general recommendation to do it. Would have been better to explore that with more case studies and examples. I already know theres an issue with too many metrics, and probably so do you if you're looking at this book. Tell me how to fix that or do it in a more useful manner. Perhaps that's too much to ask, but hence the disappointment.
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- David Ingram
- 03-19-23
An incomplete perspective
This book is coming to the field from the direction of the social sciences. It is the area where our metrics have the most problems. So, it is understandable for the author to assume the same problems across the rest of the field. The first chapter in the last chapter have a lot of value. the rest of the book makes an incomplete case in various domains. The weakest, of course, is in the area of business and finance. It is clear these areas are not the authors forte.
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- SafetyChuck
- 03-07-19
Good book outlining a major problems
So I enjoyed the book and the problems surrounding using metrics to judge performance. However, discussion of alternatives or other methods are lacking.
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- Brett R Adams
- 06-14-19
Great brain food
The world needs more of these concepts. I hope that other research will expand upon this.
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- Brian C.
- 12-27-21
A dry topic that is put into every day terms
Metrics can be used for progress or for maintaining the status quo. It has different use cases to bring light to how metrics can be abused.
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- Tim Acker
- 02-22-19
Opportunity Missed
Full disclosure: I'm a metrics evangelist. I listened to this book to challenge my world view. It did that. But having set up the perils of misapplying metrics, I was ready for the author to provide the principles of metrics properly applied along with examples of times when such applications made all the difference. Instead he pulled up short. Too bad. He could have titled the book, "Metrics - Don't Bother." Don't consume this book without also taking in something like,"Prove It" by Stacey Barr and "How to Measure Anything" by Doug Hubbard. Then make up your own mind.
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- Brian K. Sohn
- 10-23-18
Managers, Politicians, Please Read This!
As Muller says, there's nothing new here except for his cross-disciplinary compiling of how the use of metrics, accountability, and transparency are fulfilling Illich's promise that institutions eventually grow to a point where they counteract their original purpose. His use of tyranny is no exaggeration. Beginning with the personal story of how metrics ruined his work as a university department head, he follows the line through policing, medicine, schooling, and politics.
In my dream world, I could dump the information contained in this book into the heads of all the managers and politicians out there to counteract the terrible zeitgeist of measurement as the tool of bureaucratic decentralization.
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- Marisol Becerra
- 04-27-23
great insight
really describes the modern corporate world perfectly. great read, highly suggested if you want to understand why beauracracy controls the work place
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