Escaping from Bad Decisions
Escaping from Bad Decisions

Author: Kazuhisa Takemura

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0128160330

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Escaping from Bad Decisions presents a modern conceptual and mathematical framework of the decision-making process. By interpreting ordinal utility theory as normative analysis examined in view of rationality, it shows how decision-making under certainty, risk, and uncertainty can be better understood. It provides a critical examination of psychological models in multi-attribute decision-making, and evaluates the constitutive elements of "good" and "bad" decisions. Multi-attribute decision-making is analysed descriptively, based on the psychological model of decision-making and computer simulations of decision strategies. Finally, prescriptive examinations of multi-attribute decision-making are performed, supporting the argument that decision-making from a pluralistic perspective creates results that can help "escape" from bad decisions. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and early career researchers in economics, decision-theory, behavioral economics, experimental economics, psychology, cognitive sciences, and decision neurosciences. - Provides a comprehensive background to the phenomena of bad decisions, considered in their economic, psychological and cognitive aspects - Reinterprets existing theories and phenomena and proposes a new overview of decision behaviors by integrating mathematical and psychological perspectives - Adapts model-based techniques, such as mathematical model based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using mathematical models of the decision process

Escaping the Build Trap
Escaping the Build Trap

Author: Melissa Perri

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1491973765

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To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs. In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You’ll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores: Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent How to set up a product organization that scales How product strategy connects a company’s vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs

Bad Choices
Bad Choices

Author: Ali Almossawi

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0735222231

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A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science—and of everyday life—from the author of the wildly popular Bad Arguments Algorithms—processes that are made up of unambiguous steps and do something useful—make up the very foundations of computer science. But they also inform our choices in approaching everyday tasks, from managing a pile of clothes fresh out of the dryer to deciding what music to listen to. With Bad Choices, Ali Almossawi presents twelve scenes from everyday life that help demonstrate and demystify the fundamental algorithms that drive computer science, bringing these seemingly elusive concepts into the understandable realms of the everyday. Readers will discover how: • Matching socks can teach you about search and hash tables • Planning trips to the store can demonstrate the value of stacks • Deciding what music to listen to shows why link analysis is all-important • Crafting a succinct Tweet draws on ideas from compression • Making your way through a grocery list helps explain priority queues and traversing graphs • And more As you better understand algorithms, you’ll also discover what makes a method faster and more efficient, helping you become a more nimble, creative problem-solver, ready to face new challenges. Bad Choices will open the world of algorithms to all readers, making this a perennial go-to for fans of quirky, accessible science books.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Author: Daniel Kahneman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1429969350

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*Major New York Times Bestseller *More than 2.6 million copies sold *One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year *Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient *Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.

How to Escape from Relationship Hell
How to Escape from Relationship Hell

Author: Lisa Hayes

Publisher: Lisa Hayes

Published: 2008-03-27

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781435713666

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How to Escape from Relationship Hell is like having a candid conversation with your best friend or sister. You might laugh, you might cry, but if you can't relate, you aren't female! This hard hitting, straight shooting book is an intimate look into the lives of relationships for women. Sometimes raw, sometimes tender, sometimes humorous, this book will lead you on a journey that will get you to the other side smarter and better prepared to get happy on your own terms. This book is packed with real life advice that will set you free.

How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream
How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream

Author: Kenneth Atchity

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1621535894

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For the Type C, or creative, personalities who want their work to "fill" their deepest creative urges, this is the frontline guide to making the transition from a secure and soulless job to a life built around a creative dream. Individuals learn how to follow the mind's eye to construct a life that conforms to personal vision, steal time to make creative dreams come true, use as assets the resources around them, and turn creative goals and objectives into an effective life plan. • Introduces the catchy buzzword "Type C" Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Escape
Escape

Author: Bozena Szwed-Giacchini

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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The beginning of the story takes place during the times of the Polish People's Republic in the early seventies. The heroine, after her parent’s divorce, lives in solitude then gets to know a local gangster, whom she marries. She’s going through hell with him. She is beaten, battered, and threatened by him. A daughter is born to them. Heroine decides to escape the nightmare that she’s living in, but shortly the gangster finds her. Upon another beating, where he has a broken jaw and teeth, she makes another attempt to escape. There is no other way but to leave the country, where the gangster’s power does not reach. This time takes place during strict “communism” and the implementation of such a plan border near to a miracle. It was impossible to have her husband sign a consent form for their daughter to leave. But in some remarkable way she manages to complete all the formalities for the trip which leads her to a refugee camp in Italy. She spends a year there and then emigrates to Canada. She meets a millionaire whom she dumps for a young and poor man whom she falls in love with. She begins to successfully build a real estate business but after few months, it is ruined by her husband. After losing all their property, they decide to move the whole family to South Korea. In Seoul, the heroine's husband gets a job as an English teacher at a local university. The heroine quickly establishes relations with various embassies, and she opens her own company. She has great business and financial successes. With all her successes in the field of business, she fails in her private life. Her husband cheats on her notoriously, while being jealous of his wife's successes. Travels between Poland and Korea unable to decide whether to leave Asia or not. After another betrayal of her husband who is putting her to jail for trespassing of their own house, and a painful divorce, she decides to return to Poland.

The Christmas Escape
The Christmas Escape

Author: Sarah Morgan

Publisher: HQN Books

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0369706773

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“A journey of love and festive cheer.”—Woman's World on The Christmas Escape “Morgan’s latest Christmas tale will delight readers and give them the perfect excuse to snuggle up for a few hours with a cup of hot cocoa.”—Booklist on The Christmas Escape An uplifting novel of friendship, the festive season, and risking everything for the biggest gift of all... It was supposed to be Christy Sullivan’s perfect Christmas escape – a dream trip to Lapland with her family and best friend, Alix. But facing a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband, Seb. Her solution? Alix, along with Seb’s oldest friend, Zac, can take Christy’s daughter on the planned Lapland trip, and they will all reunite there for Christmas Day. After all, what are friends for? There’s nothing Alix won’t do for Christy, but Christy’s plan to save Christmas is testing their friendship. Especially as Alix and Zac have a difficult history of their own. As long-held secrets unravel, and unexpected romance shines under the Northern Lights, can Christy and Alix find the courage to fight for the relationships they really want? And could this Christmas escape save the precious gift of each other’s friendship? A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape in The Island Villa, the next heartwarming novel by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan!

Escape to Tullagulla
Escape to Tullagulla

Author: Heather Reyburn

Publisher: Heather Reyburn

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 835

ISBN-13:

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Escape to Tullagulla (Books 1-4 in the Tullagulla Series) A box set following three resourceful women as they negotiate life and love on “Tullagulla”, a ruggedly beautiful Queensland sheep and cattle station. The Cedar Tree – Grace Campbell agrees to accompany her husband to a run down, sun scorched sheep and cattle station, believing the rural peace will repair her marriage and provide a good life for her growing family. But, as the ramshackle homestead, shaded by an ancient Cedar Tree unravels its secrets, Grace is swept up in the harsh beauty of the outback and thrown into turmoil when the handsome new owner of “Tullagulla” shows up. The English Oak - When Bronte Miller and her young daughter venture to Australia in search of a new life, a job as Governess on Tullagulla Station seems a good place to start. While settling into outback life, love blossoms between Bronte and the local vet as an unexpected rural crime wave hits the property. A shocking secret is revealed, and Bronte’s life is once again turned upside down. The Pepperina Grove - A milestone birthday. A job she no longer enjoys. And a marriage in tatters. When her world comes crashing around her, Louisa Crothers takes time out in a holiday cottage on Tullagulla to relive childhood memories, renew her passion for painting and allow the peace and serenity of the country to guide her decisions. As heart-rending events unravel, Louisa develops an unexpected bond with the solitary station hand and finds herself questioning the value of her return to the city and all it contains. A Tullagulla Christmas - As another year of drought draws to a close in outback Queensland, Grace Lansdowne attempts to put her worries aside to host a festive country event for her extended family and friends. But isn’t Christmas often full of surprises? The season for giving certainly rings true this year as the Tullagulla women get more than they wished for. If you like country life with all its dramas, suspense and of course romance, then this series is for you.

Escape from Hangtown
Escape from Hangtown

Author: Larry D. Sweazy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0425269337

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In this Lucas Fume Western from the Spur Award-winning author of Vengeance at Sundown, no man is truly free until he puts his past--and his enemies--to rest. Lucas Fume has been exonerated of the murder charge that put him in prison seven years ago. But he isn't free yet. Not while his friend, former slave Zeke Henry, remains a fugitive wrongly accused of assaulting Senator Barlow's daughter, Celia. Lucas wouldn't have his freedom or wealth--let alone his life--if it weren't for Zeke. And he knows that the only way to clear his friend's name is to prove the identity of Celia's true attacker: Senator Barlow himself. Now Lucas has a plan to take on the powerful Senator--and his son John, aka Lanford Grips--once and for all. The only question is whether it will lead to freedom or the end of a noose.