Sooner Safer Happier

Sooner Safer Happier

Author: Jonathan Smart

Publisher: IT Revolution

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1942788924

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"This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project." —Charles Betz, Principle Analyst, Forrester Research It's no secret that we are living in the Digital Age. Technology companies make up seven of the world's ten largest firms by market capitalization. And the key to their success is the key to all modern organizations. Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future. Through Agile and Lean ways of working, business leaders can empower teams to improve production, grow together, and create better services for their customers. These better ways of working have overflowed from the IT department to every corner of successful organizations, taking root in every industry from aerospace to accounting, insurance to shipping. This book is not about software development. It is not a book about the computer industry. This book is about applying agility across the entire organization. It's a book that will put you at the front of change and ahead of the competition. "A true business-wide perspective on Digital Transformation and the need for whole business agility." —Adam Banks, Non Executive Director and Former CTIO of AP Moller Maersk **Note from the Authors: Purchases will result in the planting of trees and empowerment of women, in countries with the lowest scores on the IUCN's gender and environment index. It's not just carbon neutral, purchases in any format will result in, on average, 10x greater carbon offset.


Sooner, Faster, Better Reading for All

Sooner, Faster, Better Reading for All

Author: Diane Montgomery

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-10-05

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1527533409

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Sutton Trust research showed that disadvantaged children were 11.5 months behind advantaged peers in reading by the end of their first year of primary education, and never caught up. By the time these students were completing their GCSE examinations, they were 20 months behind. This book provides a 7-point plan to change this, so that all children, including those with dyslexia, can become readers by the end of Year 1 and critical readers in secondary school. The changes proposed are cost-free, in terms of both money and teachers’ time. This book is for educators and their students, early years teachers, English teachers and Special Education Co-ordinators (SENCos) in primary and secondary schools, and in Further Education as well as reading researchers and policy makers. Altogether, the 7-point plan proposed in this book will improve reading fluency, comprehension, and subject attainments across the curriculum, including mathematics.


See Sooner, Act Faster

See Sooner, Act Faster

Author: George S. Day

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0262356333

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How organizations can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act faster when the time is right; with rich examples including Adobe, MasterCard, and Amazon. When turbulence is the new normal, an organization's survival depends on vigilant leadership that can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act quickly when the time is right. In See Sooner, Act Faster, strategy experts George Day and Paul Schoemaker offer tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence. Vigilant firms have greater foresight than their rivals, while vulnerable firms often miss early signals of external threats and organizational challenges. Charles Schwab, for example, was early to see and act on the promise of “robo-advisors”; Honeywell, on the other hand, stumbled when Nest Labs came out first with a “smart” thermostat. Day and Schoemaker show leaders how to assess their vigilance capabilities and cultivate insight and foresight throughout their organizations. They draw on a range of cases, including Adobe and Intuit's move to the cloud, Shell's investment in clean energy, and MasterCard's early recognition of digital challenges. Day and Schoemaker describe how to allocate the scarce resource of attention, how to detect weak signals and separate them from background noise, and how to respond strategically before competitors do. The challenge is not just to act faster but to act wisely, and the authors suggest ways to create dynamic portfolios of options. Finally, they offer an action agenda, with tips for fostering vigilance and agility throughout an organization. The rewards are stronger market positions, higher profits and growth, more motivated employees, and organization longevity.


The Great Mental Models, Volume 1

The Great Mental Models, Volume 1

Author: Shane Parrish

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0593719972

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Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.


Tarot

Tarot

Author: Piers Anthony

Publisher:

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781958061589

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The miracle planet discovered, Explored-and revealed! Welcome to the fantastic planet of Tarot! It is a land of horror and adventure, a nightmarish realm beyond the curtain of the Animation, where dragons, demons, and unholy lusts abound. It is into this world of alien horrors that Paul, wanderer-monk, must venture to save a start colony. He is their last hope-a warrior in a world where religions are wielded like swords...and the landscape is that of Hell itself. Originally intended as a complete novel, Piers Anthony's TAROT was first published in three volumes: God of Tarot, Vision of Tarot, and Faith of Tarot. The complete story is now available in one volume in this new edition from Xenophile Press!


Pamela Salzman's Quicker Than Quick

Pamela Salzman's Quicker Than Quick

Author: Pamela Salzman

Publisher: Hachette Go

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 0738285668

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Popular cooking instructor and author of Kitchen Matters shares her easy, healthy recipes and kitchen hacks that make home cooking a breeze -- without compromising flavor or nutrition. Pamela Salzman, beloved Los Angeles-based cooking instructor and author of Kitchen Matters, is back with a collection of quick, delicious meals that don't compromise on flavor or nutrition. In Quicker Than Quick, Pamela shares an arsenal of cooking class-tested, family-approved, easy, healthful recipes that will have you covered through breakfast, lunch, and dinner. These inventive sheet pan dinners, stovetop skillet meals, Instant Pot recipes, and quick versions of time-consuming comfort foods require minimal hands-on time and don't use exotic, hard-to-find ingredients. Equally useful are the techniques and tricks that teach you great ways to hack your meals, without sacrificing quality. With recipes customizable for a range of diets (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, Paleo, and nut-free), as well as suggestions for how to repurpose almost every recipe in the book and general ideas for using up leftovers, Quicker Than Quick will make your cooking like a snap -- and your local fast food delivery obsolete.


The Fast Sooner Hound

The Fast Sooner Hound

Author: Arna Bontemps

Publisher:

Published: 1942

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Chagrined that the hound Sooner continually outruns his trains, the roadmaster pits his speed against that of his fastest train, the Cannon Ball.


Sooner

Sooner

Author: Patricia Calvert

Publisher:

Published: 1999-09-07

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780816763221

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With the realization that his father may not return now that the Civil War is over, thirteen-year-old Tyler finds himself the man of their Missouri farm and the master of a new dog, the strikingly colored Sooner.


Lighter, Quicker, Better

Lighter, Quicker, Better

Author: Richard Sax

Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks

Published: 2000-08-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780688177614

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A collection of light, low-fat, and easy-to-prepare recipes includes such tasty dishess as Unfried Fried Chicken, One-Step Browned New Potatoes, Salmon Tacos, and Soup Bowl Lasagna, as well as a wide variety of appetizers, salads, pastas, soups, stews, desserts, and more. Reprint.


The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead

Author: Bill Gates

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring