Executives and managers already know that smart people need freedom to innovate and create. Automation of their work, done haphazardly, can put strait-jackets on your most creative people. You don't want to put in place technology that micro-manages your knowledge workers. "Robots don't innovate." "When Thinking Matters in the Workplace" is an in-depth review of how knowledge workers and innovators get their work done. It gives you the background of complex organizational behavior and matches that up with mature management approaches as well as business architecture. Then, it surveys the different kinds of technologies you might use to help innovators collaborate and get their work done. Naive approaches can lead down paths that actually make it harder for knowledge workers to get things done. Care must be taken to provide support that increases their productivity. This book provides some guidelines to help avoid the worst pitfalls and to take the best advantage of an adaptive approach for supporting knowledge workers. Written as an antidote to the office automation and business process management approaches, this book shows how a case management approach can be applied in almost any field where knowledge workers are needed. It breaks out the different factors that are important in case management. More importantly, it show the two kinds of case management, one for knowledgeable professionals and the other for true innovators. It explains how automation can have the effect of restricting what people do, which might be fine for a factory, but can be very costly if you are counting on flexibility to beat the competition.

When Thinking Matters in the Workplace: How Executives and Leaders of Knowledge Work Teams Can Innovate with Case Management

Business & Money

Farris, Jim

Swenson, Keith D.

Management & Leadership

Purple Hills Books

After tens of thousands of years, religion continues to be pervasive. A comprehensive cognitive theory of religion remains lacking as academics cannot agree if religion is an accidental byproduct or an evolved adaptation. Darwin’s Apple proposes a new hypothesis for the origin and purpose of religion that finally explains how religion is adaptive and why it endures, even in our rational, modern society.

Darwin's Apple: The Evolutionary Biology of Religion

Politics & Social Sciences

Diamond, Mitchell

Philosophy

A family of six from the America decided in 1973 on an adventure to spend a year working a path around the world, starting in Japan for three months, then taking the Trans Siberian Express across Russia to Ukraine, Scandinavia, and on to Western Europe. Four of the family members, Barbara (mother), Nancy (17), Keith (14), and Phyllis (10) were encouraged to keep a journal of their experiences. This book is compiled from four journals showing for each day of the trip four different perspectives, each with an individual view point for their age and interests. Not just a record of their impressions of the places they visited, it portrays the internal struggles just to keep the family together while facing exotic challenges. It was an adventure of a lifetime.

Eastern Odyssey: A Family Journal of our Trek through Japan and Russia in 1973

Biographies & Memoirs

Keith D. Swenson

Barbara C Swenson

Nancy Swenson Collopy

Phyllis Swenson

Community & Culture

This is a book for couples, with skills and ideas from a 60 year, successful, happy, sexy, marriage. It's about making your relationship work well so that you both feel connected, loved, and supported. Your relationship begins with interest in each other and then builds with love and passion. You want to bond forever.Want to be best friends, best lovers?Want more intimate conversations?Here's a book to take to dinner, in the car, to read aloud and discuss.Bea and Jim Strickland, President Couple of Better Marriages in Silicon Valley, led retreats and Marriage Enrichment groups for 40 years. Jim Strickland was the engineer type with IBM for 32 years. Bea taught communication skills for couples and parents. Touchy, feely. So much in love but with such different personalities. They made it work because they wanted to be happy --- fitting together. They learned to fit their differences together and teach others how to do it, too.

Fitting Together: Connecting Couples in Conversation

Self-Help

Strickland, Bea

Relationships

By closely examining the inner workings of the mind, Mr. Watts exposes the ego-based myths that serve as obstacles to resolving conflicts and to finding happiness and meaning in a polarized world. The authentic Self is seen by the author as the key to realizing human potential and to experiencing the greatest high.

Deal With the Devil, Dance With God: Finding the Ultimate High in a Polarized World by Seeing Self in Other

Watts, Tom

Religion & Spirituality

They called him John David. He was a soldier, born in 1790 somewhere in Europe - probably Germany. The David family Bible says he was granted land on the picturesque Nova Scotia coast by King George III for his military service to England. Yet family lore suggests that he had fought in the great army of Napoleon and that John David was not his real name.There was a second soldier named Martin Creary. The lives of John David and Martin Creary became entwined in two distinct ways: a beautiful farm property in a tiny Nova Scotia hamlet called Fox Harbour, and a much beloved woman, Eleanor. She was a daughter to one, a wife to the other, and a mother to all of us who make up the David family.This tale of Martin, John and Eleanor is more of a journey than a story, and sometimes the way is not easy. But you have a guide, and you have the coins. Two special coins passed down through the David family to the author - and shown on the front cover - were carried by John David safely in his pocket across battlefields of Spain, into dungeons of Scotland and all the way to the new world, just as he carried in his heart the dreams of a future family which would live on across the centuries. His dreams have come true. We are his David family.This is our story.

Two Soldiers

Waugh, Ralph W

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