The Art of Preventing Stupid
The Art of Preventing Stupid

Author: Matthew Neill Davis

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1732510229

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In a world where most businesses fail, The Art of Preventing Stupid offers a system for leaders to solve common business problems before they happen. Author Matthew Neill Davis introduces the Preventing Stupid Method to running a business, a method that guides readers in identifying, categorizing, and prioritizing threats to and weaknesses in their business. This book details how to efficiently prevent and manage potential and present problems and helps business owners and managers learn how to create leads for a more profitable business. You will learn how to seize opportunities rather than wallow in problems that should never have made it to the surface. Forward-thinking risk management This book delivers bold business strategy rooted in forward-thinking risk management. It is about changing how leaders think, so they can run their business with confidence, effectiveness, and profitability. It shows struggling entrepreneurs how to weed out the stupid mistakes they’re making, so they can move forward. For those already running a business, it offers next-level risk management strategies to make work easier, more profitable, and more secure. ​Advice from a lawyer In The Art of Preventing Stupid, you’ll get a lawyer’s perspective and insight and the value of a fractional general counsel for the cost of a single book. Matthew Neill Davis of Davis Law, PLLC, a firm that has three times made the Law Firm 500 for being among the fastest-growing law firms in the nation, will show you how to make smart, meaningful changes to successfully grow your organization. With his extensive litigation and business representation experience and expertise in building and running custom legal departments for businesses and nonprofits, he has dedicated himself to helping business owners make smart business decisions.

It's the Political Economy, Stupid
It's the Political Economy, Stupid

Author: Gregory Sholette

Publisher: Pluto Press

Published: 2013-02-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745333694

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It's the Political Economy, Stupid brings together internationally acclaimed artists and thinkers, including Slavoj Žižek, David Graeber, Judith Butler and Brian Holmes, to focus on the current economic crisis in a sustained and critical manner. Following a unique format, images and text are integrated in a visually stunning bespoke production by activist designer Noel Douglas. What emerges is a powerful critique of the current capitalist crisis through an analytical and theoretical response and an aesthetic-cultural rejoinder. By combining artistic responses with the analysis of leading radical theorists, the book expands the boundaries of critique beyond the usual discourse. It's the Political Economy, Stupid argues that it is time to push back against the dictates of the capitalist logic and, by use of both theoretical and artistic means, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social.

Bluefishing
Bluefishing

Author: Steve D. Sims

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 150115253X

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Whether it’s climbing Everest, launching a business, applying for a dream job, or just finding happiness in everyday life, Steve Sims, founder of the luxury concierge service, Bluefish, reveals simple and effective ways to sharpen your mind, gain a new perspective, and achieve your goals. From helping a client get married in the Vatican, to charming and connecting with business mogul Elon Musk, Bluefish founder Steve Sims is known to make the impossible possible. Now, in his first book, he shares tips, techniques, and principles to break down any door and step onto whatever glamorous stage awaits you. By following Steve’s succinct yet insightful advice—as well as inspiration gleaned from the moving stories of others—you, too, can transform your life and achieve the impossible.

Principles of Applied Stupidity
Principles of Applied Stupidity

Author: Justin Locke

Publisher: Justin Locke

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780615207926

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We live in a society where all things smart and intelligent are good, and anything that is dumb or stupid is bad. But wait a minute. You probably know at least one brilliant person who is a miserable failure. Worse, you probably know at least one blithering idiot who has risen quickly and easily to the heights of wealth and power, and all too often, they are your boss or your biggest client. What is wrong with this picture? Strange though it may seem, intelligence is not all that it is cracked up to be. And stupidity, while much maligned, is often a highly effective method of achieving success. If you constantly find yourself in situations where you are smarter than everyone else, and yet you are doing all the work while the C students are sitting around making all the money and having all the fun, this book is for you. In this groundbreaking new book, Justin Locke (author of "Real Men Don't Rehearse" and the #1 expert in the world on stupidity) shows you how to get in touch with your inner idiot and access the infinite power of ignorance and non-thought to address a wide range of problems and challenges, including management, leadership, communications, relationships, creativity, and more!

The Psychology of Stupidity
The Psychology of Stupidity

Author: Jean-Francois Marmion

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0525506659

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"We need books like this one." --Steven Pinker At last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James, and Ryan Holiday. And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize yourselves... Stupidity is all around us, from the coworker who won't stop hitting "reply all" to the former high school classmate posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world's leading psychologists and thinkers--including a Nobel Prize winner and bestselling authors--will show you... why smart people sometimes believe in utter nonsense; how our lazy brains cause us to make the wrong decisions; why trying to debate fools is a trap; how media manipulation and Internet overstimulation make us dumber; why the stupidest people don't think they're stupid. The wisdom and wit of these experts are a balm for our aggrieved souls and a beacon of hope in a world of morons.

Stupidity
Stupidity

Author: Avital Ronell

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780252071270

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"Avital Ronell's work studies the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Investigating ignorance, dumbfoundedness, and the limits of reason, Stupidity probes the pervasive practice of theory-bashing and related forms of paranoid aggression. A section on prolonged and debilitating illness pushes the text to an edge of a corporeal hermeneutics, "at the limits of what the body knows and tells.""--BOOK JACKET.

Totally MAD
Totally MAD

Author: The Editors Of Mad Magazine

Publisher: Liberty Street

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781618930309

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For the past six decades (that's 60 years-we did the math so you don't have to) MAD Magazine has keenly observed the American landscape and promptly made fun of everything in sight. Unwavering in their commitment to high quality stupidity, MAD's legendary artists and writers, long known as "The Usual Gang of Idiots," have brilliantly satirized politics, celebrities, sports, media, cultural trends, and more. Totally MAD (originally titled The New American Cookbook until cooler heads prevailed) is the ultimate collection of MAD's most idiotic material, including such classics as Spy vs. Spy, The MAD Fold-in, A MAD Look At..., The Lighter Side of, Horrifying Clichés and The Shadow Knows, plus modern MAD classics including The MAD Strip Club and The Fundalini Pages. Whether you grew up with MAD in the 50s, 60s, or 70s, reading it with a flashlight under the covers so your parents wouldn't catch you, or in the 80s, 90s and beyond, reading it while watching the MADtv sketch comedy show or the more recent animated series on the Cartoon Network, this book will bring back fond memories and also provide a great introduction to MAD for new readers. Then again, maybe not. SPECIAL BONUS! Includes "The Soul of MAD," 12 classic cover prints, ten featuring Alfred E. Neuman, MAD's gap-toothed grinning idiot mascot. These beautiful reproductions are suitable for framing or wrapping fish.

How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning
How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning

Author: Kyle Baker

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780823001439

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Draw stupid, succeed big! • Edgy art instruction plus savvy insider advice • Award-winning author, well known in cartooning, comics, and animation • Funny and irreverent-perfect for Adult Swim fans Okay, dumdum. This one is pretty much idiot-proof. Even you should be able to figure outHow to Draw, Stupid, and Other-what? No commas? Whoops, sorry. ButHow to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooningis simple enough for even the simplest readers. Author Kyle Baker, who only acts stupid, is in fact “the greatest cartoonist of all time,” or so he tells us. Here he presents a hard-working instruction book that provides artists with the essential skills needed for success. From the principles of drawing to turning those principles on their ear (or their rear), from conveying movement to creating a step-by-step sequence, from idea sketch to finished drawing,How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooningis the smartest purchase any aspiring artist can make, regardless of mental acuity.

Unscientific Illustrations
Unscientific Illustrations

Author: Alexander Devenport

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781981489602

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Scientific illustration is a discipline that proves a desire to learn about the world and record the unknown or recently discovered. I am of the opinion that art and science should always be brought closer together. I applaud those who find efficient ways to construct work that requires the self-education of several disciplines and skills. This book does indeed attempt to combine art and science... but in the worst way ever. I have taken a scientific achievement and turned it into post-modern art. Which was then turned into a pointless coffee table book. There are 100 illustrations in this book which are filled with absolute fluff. These are the rantings of a drunk man talking to his internet friends. You will get nothing out of this except a few giggles and, possibly, satisfaction that you bought a pointless icebreaker for parties.

The Little Book of Stupidity
The Little Book of Stupidity

Author: Sia Mohajer

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781519282798

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As Human Beings we are great story tellers. We tell stories about who we are, what we're doing and why we are doing it. The problem is sometimes those stories are fictions; created by our own blindness to reality. We are such good story tellers that we often don't know we are deceiving ourselves. The brain has evolved to make information processing simplified and with this has created a need to simplify the world. The problem is sometimes rational thinking becomes sacrificed for this simplicity In The Little Book of Stupidity, Sia Mohajer draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among ten of life's most pervasive cognitive biases. It is a story about how stupid we can all be and also how we can become more compassionate as a result.