laimėtojas
jau dabar gailiuosi, kad skaitydamas jack welch – winning nepasidariau trumpo konspekto. man ši knyga labai patiko, vertėtų net kai ką pasikartoti, kad nepamirščiau. aišku, aš skaičiau vos keletą knygų apie verslą, bet ši man ypatinga tuo, kad parašyta autoriaus su tikra patirtimi. dažnai tokias knygeles rašinėja visokiausio plauko “ekspertai”, kurie kartais net nėra dirbę normalioje įmonėje. kitas labai patikęs knygos aspektas – tarp bendros filosofijos ir apmąstymų sudėti konkretūs patarimai. negaliu pakęsti, kai patarimai pateikiami visokiomis metaforomis, palyginimais arba nagrinėjant išgalvotas situacijas. džekas nevynioja nieko į vatą.
skirtingai, nei vienas mano kolega, artimiausiu metu nesiruošiu tapti si y ou, bet labai džiaugiuosi, kad perskaičiau pačiu laiku (nors galėjau ir šiek tiek anksčiau). kaip nuosaikų maištautoją mane domina visokie batshit-crazy socialistiniai įmonių valdymo metodai, bet ši knyga parodė, kad ir įprastinis į godumą orientuotas kapitalistinis valdymas turi žmogišką veidą. beje, dar kartą įsitikinau, kad sėkmę lemia laiku ir vietoje esantys žmonės.
du nykščiai į viršų.
Brangi knyga. Ar tikrai verta tiek už ją mokėti? Nors turbūt pigios knygos nepalieka įspūdžio vien todėl, kad jos pigios ;]
tu čia apie lietuvišką vertimą kalbi?
lietuviškų vertimų kainos man nesuprantamos…
shit, mane remis uzmus – jau pora menesiu sita knyga is jo turiu “pasiskolines” :)
pkmk tmblr
iškarpos iš interneto. sukauptos per tumblr.com servisą. nereguliariai ir neįpareigojančiai.
I think there are some steps missing. Mainly about taking the photo naked and stuff.
God, that is fantastic. But yeah, I’m pretty sure the tampon thing is step 1.3, right?
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Bill Keller (via soupsoup)
TSP art
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is an old and well-studied problem in computer science. Given a collection of cities on a map, a salesman must make a tour of the cities, visiting each once, and returning to the city from which he started. Of all the ways that he could travel from city to city, he must find the one that requires him to travel the least total distance (our salesman is nothing if not frugal). Mathematically, we can view this form of the TSP as finding the minimum length closed path connecting a collection of points in the plane.
We can exploit this relationship to produce a new halftoning algorithm (halftoning is any process that approximates a continuous-toned image with black-and-white marks). We distribute cities with a density that locally approximates the darkness of a source image, and pass the cities to a program that finds a TSP tour. The result is a kind of twisty closed path that resembles the original image.
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots … in fact I think they have to be … a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
Iain Banks, The Crow Road. (via travors)
At the very least, outsiders need to understand that China is controlled for the benefit of insiders. The insiders know when to sell, and so one would expect the businesses that have been made available to the outside world systematically to underperform those ventures still controlled by card-carrying members of the Chinese Communist Party. “China” will underperform China, and a “China” bubble exists to the extent that investors underestimate the degree of this underperformance.
The Optimistic Thought Experiment | Hoover Institution (via Instapaper)
Under more normal circumstances, one would not have thought that the same mistake could happen twice in the lifetimes of the people involved. One might be tempted to invoke extraordinary psychosocial explanations — for example, that all of this was driven by baby boomers who destroyed their minds on drugs in the 1960s and therewith merit the dubious distinction of being America’s Dumbest Generation.
The Optimistic Thought Experiment | Hoover Institution (via Instapaper)
Apocalyptic investors will miss great opportunities if there is no apocalypse, but ultimately they will end up with nothing when the apocalypse arrives. Heads or tails, they lose.
The Optimistic Thought Experiment | Hoover Institution (via Instapaper)
cyiou 2007.12.28 13:43
ramiakas, nedaug teliko ;)