Clever

Author : Robert Goffee
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422122964
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clever written by Robert Goffee and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leadership and change experts Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones call these invaluable individuals 'clevers'. They can be brilliant, difficult - and sometimes even dangerous. Your organization's competitiveness depends on how well you lead them, but traditional leadership strategies won't be effective. In Clever, Goffee and Jones outline a set of unconventional guidelines for setting up your clevers - and your organization - for success. Based on extensive research inside international organizations in a wide range of industries, the authors identify common traits clevers share and decode the dynamics of clever teams. Through vivid real-world stories, they reveal the secrets to getting the most from clevers."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mario Ramos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1776572483
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am So Clever written by Mario Ramos and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big bad wolf is hungry, but no one is home at Grandma's house. Noticing a nightgown on Grandma's bed, the wolf puts it on intending to catch Red Riding Hood. But she's not so easily fooled. And the wolf finds unexpected hazards in wearing a frilly petticoat in the deep dark woods. Full color.

Author : Elizabeth Hoyt
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455516562
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clever John written by Elizabeth Hoyt and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful fairy tale from the New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt. CLEVER JOHN gives readers an early glimpse inside Hoyt's next Maiden Lane novel, SCANDALOUS DESIRES. Extended preview of SCANDALOUS DESIRES included.

Author : Steven Gimbel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351622625
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isn’t that Clever written by Steven Gimbel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. By defining humor in this way, answers can be found to longstanding questions about humor ethics (Are there jokes that are wrong to tell? Are there jokes that can only be told by certain people?) and humor aesthetics (What makes for a good joke? Is humor subjective?). In addition to humor in general, Isn’t That Clever asks questions about comedy as an art form such as whether there are limits to what can be said in dealing with a heckler and how do we determine whether one comedian has stolen jokes from another.

Author : Jeannie Troll
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 163568045X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Clever Girl written by Jeannie Troll and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achtriel is a prodigious, but solitary, foundling living near Rouen in the seventh century AD. With her adoptive grandfather and his lively circle of friends, she has grown up well-educated and independent. But changes in her environment require her to adapt to new and often difficult circumstances. One of these is the addition to her household of a mysterious and beautiful older girl, Tirzah. Achtriel’s struggles with Tirzah, as well as with her own limitations, bring more contact and conflict with the wider world.

Author : Frances Milton Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman written by Frances Milton Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Morris, a young woman raised by her father with the help of his sister-in-law, is determined to live her life to be recognized as a person of "fortune, fashion and talent" and to have a "lifelong enjoyment of admination, influence, and renown". Aware that a good marriage is important in her social world, she marries Cornelius Folkstone. Once the cermony is over, he attempts to dominate her by any means, finally resorting to locking her up on bread and water until she will agree to his terms. Charlotte resists until Cornelius dies, leaving her in widowhood, a happy state of singleness that society won't allow to a single girl.

Author : Hubert van den Bergh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472905334
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Sound Really Clever written by Hubert van den Bergh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can outfox us, such as 'condign', 'Zelig-like' and 'agitprop'. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Clever (2010) which taught you 600 words you really ought to know but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary. Each entry features an etymological description as well as useful example phrases so that readers can quickly see the correct context for each word. Anecdotes and witty illustrations appear throughout to make this an entertaining book that will help readers to boost their vocabulary.

Author : Douglas K. Candland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356144
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feral Children and Clever Animals written by Douglas K. Candland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans "think," we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. Weaving together diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and his own enlightening commentary, Candland brings to life a series of extraordinary stories. He begins with a look at past efforts to civilize feral children. We meet Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, now famous as the subject of a Truffaut film; Kaspar Hauser, raised in a cell, civilized, and then assassinated; and the Wolf Girls of India, found early this century huddled among wolf pups in a forest den (they were originally believed to be ghosts by superstitious villagers, who nearly shot them as they were being captured). In each case, it was hoped that the study of these children would help clarify the age-old nature/nurture debate, but, as Candland shows, so much of the information "revealed" was really only a projection of beliefs previously held by the investigating scientists. Candland then turns to "clever animals." We learn how the investigation of "Clever Hans," the German horse who could calculate square roots, proved to be a first step in the direction of behaviorism (researchers found that Hans was being tipped off by the subtle and unwitting body language of his owner and other observers, who would bend almost imperceptibly at the waist with every hoof beat, and stand erect when the correct count was reached). And Candland discusses the many attempts to communicate with our closest neighbor, the apes. We read of Richard Lynch Garner's 1892 experiment living with chimpanzees in Gabon (he taught one to say the French word "feu"), and of Gua, raised by W.N. and L.A. Kellogg alongside their own son Donald, and of the latest successes of teaching sign language to such precocious apes as Sarah, Sherman, Austin, and Koko. Throughout, Candland illuminates the boldest and most intriguing efforts yet to extend our world to that of our fellow creatures. And he shows that, in the end, our effort to "make contact" is a reflection of the way in which we as a species create and order our universe. Humans have long shown a wish to connect with the silent minds around them. In assembling and interpreting the compelling tales in this book, Candland offers us a new understanding not only of the animal kingdom, but of the very nature of humanity, and our place in the great chain of being.

Author : John Farndon
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848311567
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do You Think You're Clever? written by John Farndon and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens if I drop an ant? What books are bad for you? What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow? The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to each, taking the reader through the fascinating histories, philosophies, sciences and arts that underlie each problem. This is a book for everyone who likes to think they're clever, or who thinks they'd like to be clever. And cleverness is not just knowing stuff, it's how laterally, deeply and interestingly you can bend your brain. Guesstimating the population of Croydon, for example, opens a chain of thought from which you can predict the strength of a nuclear bomb ...and that's just the start of it.

Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820332011
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way written by Michael O'Brien and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazines Michael O'Brien assembles fourteen pieces that effectively challenge the long-prevailing notion that the mind of the Old South was superficial, unintellectual, and obsessed with race and slavery. In this book are discourses on subjects ranging from English empirical thought to neoclassical aesthetics, from the enfranchisement of women to transcendental theology, from the works of Hawthorne and Emerson to the social system of Virginia.