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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy
We often (or even usually) know what we should be doing in both personal and professional life. We also know why we should be doing it and (often) how to do it. Figuring all that out is not too difficult What is very hard is actually doing what you know to be good for you in the long-run, in spite of short-run temptations. The same is true for organizations. What is noteworthy is how similar (if not identical) most firms' strategies really are: provide outstanding client service, act like team players, provide a good place to work, invest in your future. No sensible firm (or person) would enunciate a strategy that advocated anything else. However, just because something is obvious does not make it easy. Real strategy lies not in figuring out what to do, but in devising ways to ensure that, compared to others, we actually do more of what everybody knows they should do. This simple insight, if accepted, has profound implications for 1. how organizations should think about strategy 2. how they should think about clients, marketing and selling and 3. how they should think about management. In 18 chapters, Maister explores the fat smoker syndrome and how individuals, managers and organizations can overcome the temptations of the short-term and actually do what they already know is good for them..
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every person charged with the design and development of Web-based software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty. These principles include building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity. Designing the Obvious does not offer a one-size-fits-all development process--in fact, it lets you use whatever process you like. Instead, it offers practical advice about how to achieve the qualities of great Web-based applications and consistently and successfully reproduce them. .
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How to Position Yourself As the Obvious Expert: Turbocharge Your Consulting or Coaching Business Now!
In today's world, creating and managing your business visibility is vital to maximizing your career and earning potential.How to Position Yourself As The Obvious Expert will supercharge your business to ultrasuccess! Whether you are a consultant, coach or freelancer, you are always under the gun to attract more clients. Thanks to the proven strategies outlined in this book, now you really can. Finally, the Insider's Proven Plan with insight from this father and son team and 150 expert advisors to help you turn your income into six-figures or more!.
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Becoming the Obvious Choice
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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming fully aware of one's real and abiding nature. Douglas Harding, the highly respected mystic-philosopher, describes his first experience of headlessness in "On Having No Head," the classic work first published in 1961. In this book, he conveys the immediacy, simplicity, and practicality of the "headless way," placing it within a Zen context, while also drawing parallels to practices in other spiritual traditions.If you wish to experience the freedom and clarity that results from firsthand experience of true Being, then this book will serve as a practical guide to the rediscovery of what has always been present. .
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Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology
Revised and expanded to incorporate recent research, this classic text now offers a more comprehensive introduction to many of sociology's most interesting and elegant ideas, written with a grace and wit that have delighted a generation of students. Beginning with a central problem that distinguishes sociology from most other ways of looking at the world, Randall Collins examines the limits of human rationality and sociological theories of religion, showing how they open up a general theory of social rituals that holds the key to much of the rest of sociology. With these conceptual tools in hand, he invites students to ponder how sociological analysis can illuminate a variety of urgent topics--power, crime, sex, love, and the position of women in society--as it reveals both their visible social symbols and their paradoxical deep structures. In a new final chapter, Collins stakes out an important role for sociology in the information age, while coming full circle to the theories of rationality and ritual with which he began, showing that artificial intelligence can approximate human creativity only if it can take part in ritual interactions. Uniquely engaging, Sociological Insight dramatizes the major issues and concerns of sociology in a way that gets students thinking and talking, and whets their appetites for more..
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Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man
Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1916, is a classic story of a business man in the field of advertising and his journey to business success. It is a story which has lead individuals with business ideas to garner great success in the world of business and in their professions. This Robert Updegraff classic is often used in business schools and by individuals studying entrepreneurship, advertising, and business..
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OBVIOUS, THE: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS. PERIOD.
The secrets to success in business aren't secrets at all. They're obvious, so obvious that they've mostly been taken for granted or ignored -- until now.We've all read the business allegories, the "how I did it" success stories, and yes, there's good advice to be found in their pages. But nowhere is the advice as pure, as simple, as elegant, as it is in The Obvious. Former CEO James Dale has compiled ingenious words to live by, lucid truths as likely to be found in a fortune cookie as an MBA textbook. And the beauty of it is, regardless of the job -- from sales rep to department head to CEO -- the same principles yield the same results, and they're always effective. While all of Dale's advice is, well, obvious, it's implementation isn't. In The Obvious, Dale shares ways in which any businessperson can carry out these simple lessons and achieve success.--Show up. --Don't be a jerk. --Simple is better than complicated. --Tell the truth. (It's so rarely used, it's like a secret weapon.) --Bosses are not all idiots. --Don't look backward. There's nothing there. --Forgive and forget (or at least one out of two). --Trust someone besides yourself. --Start over tomorrow, but don't do it the same way.Entertaining, compelling, and commonsensical, The Obvious is all you need to know. Period..
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