New Releases by Geoffrey Colvin

"Life''s paradoxes, if unchecked, can trap us in a ''no man''s land'' situation, and hold us in tension and confusion. However, by using a spiritual approach, paradoxes can become opportunities to grown in our sacred journey.

improve patient outcomes and lower medical costs; the U.S. Army, which has revolutionized its training to focus on human interaction, leading to stronger teams and greater success in real-world missions; and Stanford Business School which has overhauled its curriculum to teach interpersonal skills through human-to-human experiences. As technology advances, we shouldn''t focus on beating computers at what they do--we''ll lose that contest. Instead, we must develop our most essential human abilities that teach our kids to value not just technology but also the richness of interpersonal experience. They will be the most valuable people in our world because of it.

From best-selling author and acclaimed journalist Geoff Colvin, this is a guide for managing through the recession that shows how companies can use it as an opportunity to restructure, reinvent and reimagine their business.

Un libro que nace de uno de los artículos más relevantes publicados por la revista Fortune en años: “Qué hace falta para ser grande”. Colvin negaba en él que la grandeza de personalidades como Winston Churchill, Warren Buffett o Tiger Woods, viniera predeterminada por su talento natural. Era la perseverancia y el trabajo lo que les había llevado al éxito. El talento está sobrevalorado ahonda en esa idea y da las claves de cómo debemos trabajar, cómo debemos analizar los resultados de nuestros progresos y, lo más importante, cómo aprender de nuestros errores. Con una importante labor de investigación y recopilación de casos, el autor ha escrito un libro imprescindible para saber sacar lo mejor de nosotros mismos.

Em ''Desafiando o talento'', o autor pretende ensinar o que fazem algumas pessoas para serem mais bem sucedidas que as outras; tenta traçar perfis de pessoas aparentemente comuns que saíram vitoriosas de suas áreas ao adotar posturas ou planejar metas. Na p

An expansion on the author''s popular Fortune article, "What It Takes to Be Great," builds on his premise about success being linked to the practice and perseverance of specific efforts, in a full-length report that draws on scientific principles and real-world examples to demonstrate his systematic process at work.

An expansion on the author''s popular Fortune article, "What It Takes to Be Great," builds on his premise about success being linked to the practice and perseverance of specific efforts, in a full-length report that draws on scientific principles and real-world examples to demonstrate his systematic process at work.

The authors explore how some customers drive a company''s profit while others can destroy it--and what to do about both types.

Selden and Colvin show readers how to analyze customer data to understand how to get the most out of the most critical customer segments. The authors reveal how some companies (such as Best Buy and Fidelity Investments) have already moved in this direction, and what customercentric strategies are likely to become widespread in the coming years.

This text is intended to provide educators with increased understanding of the nature, origins, and causes of antisocial behavior and to offer information on the best available practices, interventions, and model programs for preventing and remediating antisocial behavior disorders occurring in school.

Seeks to validate the principle of general case instruction in which a skill taught across some tasks can be reliably performed across untrained tasks. Operationalizes and empirically evaluates a packaged program designed to teach the general case skill of screwdriver use to severely handicapped high school students. Proposes developments in the general case programming rule areas of instructional efficiency and research methodology on generalization.