By Jerry L. Harbour
How does functionality increase? an easy but usually unexplored query. To quantify it, it has to be measured. To degree it, it needs to be understood. the excellent news is that after we really study tips to try out functionality, a couple of uncomplicated ideas and traditional legislation emerge. ideas and legislation with common functions throughout different topics, and whilst safely utilized, not just resolve the secret of the way functionality improves, yet how one can increase functionality on your organization.
The functionality Paradox explores the misunderstood topic of functionality. whereas interpreting the various measures of functionality, the writer discusses how to define what's real – that's, what's identified and what's no longer recognized approximately functionality, what has to be identified, what's invaluable, and what's now not. The publication exposes hype and fad and is helping you include truth and fact. Sprinkled all through you'll find sage and sensible recommendation that are translated into concrete motion without reference to your meant quarter of application.
Based on broad examine through the writer, this booklet presents a deeper realizing what measures of functionality can really let us know approximately functionality or, extra particularly what they could let us know approximately how functionality does and doesn't enhance and the sensible implications of such derived insights. through reading real-world examples of ways summary principles may be concretely utilized, Jerry Harbour may help remodel any enterprise or association right into a high-performance one the place effects are got, instead of imagined.
Read or Download The Performance Paradox: Understanding the Real Drivers that Critically Affect Outcomes PDF
Similar philosophy: critical thinking books
Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, 2nd edition
This completely revised version contains up-to-date essays on cultural topics and literary research, and its new essays study the entire scope of the seven-book sequence as either pop cultural phenomenon and as a suite of literary texts. serious views on Harry Potter, moment version attracts on a much broader diversity of highbrow traditions to discover the texts, together with moral-theological research, psychoanalytic views, and philosophy of know-how.
Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
This e-book analyses the paintings of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos and Zora Neale Hurston along biographical fabrics and discourses at the physique.
This publication asks particular philosophical questions on the underlying constitution of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's strategies on atheism and agnosticism; recommendations that characterize essentially the most concerted assaults on monotheistic faith in glossy philosophy. but commentators drawn to philosophical atheism have often overlooked this practice.
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
Absalom, Absalom! has lengthy been obvious as certainly one of William Faulkner's very best creations, in addition to one of many best American novels of the 20 th century. during this assortment Fred Hobson has introduced jointly 8 of the main stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which procedure the unconventional either officially and traditionally.
- Louisa May Alcott: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives)
- Practising Critical Reflection
- Schriften
- Les listes anciennes des ouvrages d'Aristote
- Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Extra info for The Performance Paradox: Understanding the Real Drivers that Critically Affect Outcomes
Sample text
Between 1964 and 1973, intense ground combat and aerial bombing campaigns associated with the war in Vietnam released approximately 2 million tons of ordnance over Laos. This figure represents an astonishing 2 tons of ordnance for every man, woman, and child living in Laos at the time. And up to 30 percent of that ordnance may have failed to explode, leaving approximately two-thirds of the country, or some 87,000 square kilometers, still contaminated and dangerous today. In both Laos and Cambodia, small bomblets or cluster munitions dispensed from larger cluster bombs that were dropped during the Vietnam-era conflict continue to exert a tragic toll on countryside villagers.
According to James, runs created = (hits + walks) × total bases ÷ (at-bats + walks). ” In short, by rethinking the logic of the game of baseball and translating that logic into a kind of performance model and associated formula, a whole new understanding emerged. indb 21 6/9/08 3:05:16 PM 22 n The Performance Paradox ing has, for the Oakland Athletics and many other teams since, fundamentally changed how teams value, acquire, and manage baseball players. But what about the value of defense, especially pitching and fielding?
In turn, the cumulative threat posed by mines and UXO refers to the sum of local risks present in an area. Many humanitarian, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) involved in initial ERW assessments and subsequent removal efforts use a threat-based model predicated on four key factors: n n n n The area affected by landmines and other ERW The physical properties of the contamination The concentration of the contamination The impact on population masses exposed to the threat These assessments essentially answer the where, what, how much, and who questions.