Discovering Causal Structure: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, and Statistical Modeling

Kelly, Kevin

Glymour, Clark

Spirtes, Peter

Scheines, Richard

Computers & Technology

Academic Pr

What It Really Takes to Get to the Top, Stay There, and Thrive <ul>
<li> Inside the life of the top-level leader: a candid view from the CEO of one of the world’s top executive search firms</li> <li> What top executives do, how they do it, and how great leaders keep improving </li> <li> Covers all the toughest issues--from driving change to balancing work and personal life</li>
</ul> At the very top, everything is different: the lifestyle, the decisions, the relentless, nonstop pressure. What’s it really like up there? There’s only one way to know: ask another top-level leader. In Top Jobs, the CEO of one of the world’s top executive search firms shares the no-holds-barred lessons he’s learned in his own career and the most powerful insights learned from hundreds of leaders he’s worked with. Discover how to grab the reins and start delivering from day one...how to cope with brutally tough stakeholders...how to continually improve at everything from strategy to top-level team-building...how to keep your personal life from imploding while you’re working 24/7! In Top Jobs, Kevin Kelly takes you inside the life of the top-level leader and shows you exactly what it takes to thrive at the top. Never before has the reality of top-level leadership been brought home with this much clarity, candor, and passion. Kelly writes from personal experience as CEO of one of the world’s top executive search firms, Heidrick &amp; Struggles. He doesn’t just lead his own company: He works personally with hundreds of fellow leaders and board-level leaders. Kelly discusses what to do in your first 100 days...how to lead in a global environment...how to preserve your family life when you’re working and traveling nonstop...even how to prepare for life beyond the corner office. This is the one book you’ll need to succeed in your top job--whether you’re already in it or not! <ul>
<li> Finding your own path to the top What it will take for you, personally, to get there</li> <li> Your first 100 days leading the organization Crucial first decisions and first impressions </li> <li> The nuts and bolts of top-level leadership Winning at strategy, execution, communication, and global leadership</li> <li> Me, myself, and I Staying sane and balanced in your 24/7 job</li>
</ul> Introduction xv Chapter 1 Why Top Jobs Matter 1 Chapter 2 Getting There 17 Chapter 3 My First 100 Days 35 Chapter 4 The Job: Leadership, Strategy, and Execution 63 Chapter 5 The Job: Communication and People 85 Chapter 6 The Rise and Rise of the Global Leader 109 Chapter 7 Me, Myself, and I 127 Chapter 8 Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs 153 Chapter 9 Tomorrow’s Leaders 165 Chapter 10 The Life Beyond 175

Top Jobs: How They Are Different and What You Need to Succeed

Business & Money

Business Culture

Ft Pr

The classic book on business strategy in the new networked economy— from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world. Succinct and memorable, New Rules explains why these powerful laws are already hardwired into the new economy, and how they play out in all kinds of business—both low and high tech— all over the world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World

Economics

Penguin Publishing Group

“A quintessential work of technological futurism.” – James Surowiecki, strategy + business, “Best Business Books 2017 – Innovation” From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends—interacting, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits. Kelly’s bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading—what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place—as this new world emerges.

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Management & Leadership

Penguin??Books

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision of technology as a living force that can expand our individual potential In this provocative book, one of today's most respected thinkers turns the conversation about technology on its head by viewing technology as a natural system, an extension of biological evolution. By mapping the behavior of life, we paradoxically get a glimpse at where technology is headed-or "what it wants." Kevin Kelly offers a dozen trajectories in the coming decades for this near-living system. And as we align ourselves with technology's agenda, we can capture its colossal potential. This visionary and optimistic book explores how technology gives our lives greater meaning and is a must-read for anyone curious about the future.

What Technology Wants

Western Sufism is sometimes dismissed as a relatively recent "new age" phenomenon, but in this book Mark Sedgwick argues that it has deep roots, both in the Muslim world and in the West. In fact, although the first significant Western Sufi organization was not established until 1915, the first Western discussion of Sufism was printed in 1480, and Western interest in Sufi thought goes back to the thirteenth century. Sedgwick starts with the earliest origins of Western Sufism in late antique Neoplatonism and early Arab philosophy, and traces later origins in repeated intercultural transfers from the Muslim world to the West, in the thought of the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, and in the intellectual and religious ferment of the nineteenth century. He then follows the development of organized Sufism in the West from 1915 until 1968, the year in which the first Western Sufi order based on purely Islamic models was founded. Western Sufism shows the influence of these origins, of thought both familiar and less familiar: Neoplatonic emanationism, perennialism, pantheism, universalism, and esotericism. Western Sufism is the product not of the new age but of Islam, the ancient world, and centuries of Western religious and intellectual history. Using sources from antiquity to the internet, Sedgwick demonstrates that the phenomenon of Western Sufism draws on centuries of intercultural transfers and is part of a long-established relationship between Western thought and Islam.

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World

Basic Books

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Looks at a new approach to technology that follows the model of living organisms, and discusses complexity, closed systems, networks, e-money, prediction, and digital anonymity

Out Of Control: The Rise Of Neo-biological Civilization

Computer Science

New Directions in Sexual Ethics: Moral Theology And the Challenge of AIDS

Self-Help

UNKNO

If you're a successful, ambitious executive, chances are you'll have dreamed of what it would be like in the top job. But what does it really mean to be a CEO? What would you have to do every day? What key qualities, experience and skills do all the top CEOs have in common? How would your performance be measured? And crucially, how do you land the top job? Who better than the CEO of one of the world’s best known executive search firms to answer these questions and to shed new insight on what it takes to succeed at the top?  In CEO, drawing on his unique access to the world’s business leaders, Kevin Kelly opens the door of the corner office and lets you eavesdrop on conversations with the world’s top CEO’s, those who have stuck their necks out and really changed the way that things are done.   CEO provides a route-map for meeting the new challenges of building global organisations and sketches the new agenda for the world’s CEOs. Sure CEOs still need to return value to shareholders and keep the financial analysts happy but the realities of business in the 21st century have changed, so that they also have to engage with new markers of success, like sustainability, ethics and genuine global impact. Find out what success means to people who have already made it and discover how you can make it too. CEO. BE INSPIRED. BE SUCCESSFUL. BE THE CEO.

CEO: The low down on the top job (Financial Times Series)

Skills

Pearson Education Canada

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Books by Kelly, Kevin

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Discovering Causal Structure: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, and Statistical Modeling

Top Jobs: How They Are Different and What You Need to Succeed

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

What Technology Wants

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World

Out Of Control: The Rise Of Neo-biological Civilization

New Directions in Sexual Ethics: Moral Theology And the Challenge of AIDS

CEO: The low down on the top job (Financial Times Series)