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Cubed

A Secret History of the Workplace

par Nikil Saval ...

You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it ... En savoir plus

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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it
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Cubiculados

Uma história secreta do local de trabalho

par Nikil Saval ...

Traduit par Angela Lobo de Andrade ...

De Bartleby, o escriturário, clássico de Herman Melville, à série The office, os escritórios são alvo de rancor e escárnio desde que, no século XIX, começaram a se inscrever em nossa geografia urbana. Até hoje, no entanto, ninguém tinha parado para narrar as origens desse lugar onde, a contragosto, muitos acabam por passar boa parte da existência. É o que Nikil Saval faz em Cubiculados, com um ... En savoir plus

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De Bartleby, o escriturário, clássico de Herman Melville, à série The office, os escritórios são alvo de rancor e escárnio desde que, no século XIX, começaram a se inscrever em nossa geografia urbana. Até hoje, no entanto, ninguém tinha parado para narrar as origens desse lugar onde, a contragosto, muitos acabam por passar boa parte da existência. É o que Nikil Saval faz em Cubiculados, com um
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Cubed

A Secret History of the Workplace

par Nikil Saval ...

Lu par Stephen Hoye ...

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12 heure 32 min

You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it ... En savoir plus

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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it
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Invisibles

The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion

par David Zweig ...

Lu par Sean Pratt ...

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9 heure 28 min

What do fact-checkers, anesthesiologists, U.N. interpreters, and structural engineers have in common? When they do their jobs poorly, the consequences can be catastrophic for their organizations. But when they do their jobs perfectly . . . they're invisible.For most of us, the better we perform the more attention we receive. Yet for many “Invisibles”—skilled professionals whose role is critical to ... En savoir plus

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What do fact-checkers, anesthesiologists, U.N. interpreters, and structural engineers have in common? When they do their jobs poorly, the consequences can be catastrophic for their organizations. But when they do their jobs perfectly . . . they're invisible.For most of us, the better we perform the more attention we receive. Yet for many “Invisibles”—skilled professionals whose role is critical to
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Simpler

The Future of Government

par Cass R. Sunstein ...

Lu par Joel Leffert ...

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10 heure 10 min

Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children' s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating or improving old regulations. Cass R. Sunstein, as administrator of the most powerful White ... En savoir plus

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Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children' s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating or improving old regulations. Cass R. Sunstein, as administrator of the most powerful White
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The Silo Effect

The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

par Gillian Tett ...

Lu par Fiona Hardingham ...

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10 heure 6 min

Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions ... En savoir plus

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Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders our work.The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions
... En savoir plus

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Average Is Over

Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

par Tyler Cowen ...

Lu par Andrew Garman ...

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8 heure 42 min

Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three ... En savoir plus

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Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation.The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three
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The Pope and Mussolini

The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

par David I. Kertzer ...

Lu par Stefan Rudnicki ...

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14 heure 10 min

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEFrom National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini’s spies inside the highest ... En savoir plus

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEFrom National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini’s spies inside the highest
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Who Owns the Future?

par Jaron Lanier ...

Lu par Pete Simonelli ...

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12 heure 2 min

The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic ... En savoir plus

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The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic
... En savoir plus

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Invisibles

The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion

par David Zweig ...

An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognitionIn a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?" David Zweig explores what we can all learn from a modest group he calls ... En savoir plus

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An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognitionIn a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?" David Zweig explores what we can all learn from a modest group he calls
... En savoir plus

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The Fourth Revolution

The Global Race to Reinvent the State

par John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge ...

From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited ... En savoir plus

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From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited
... En savoir plus

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The Invisible Bridge

The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

par Rick Perlstein ...

The New York Times bestselling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s is “a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today” (Frank Rich, The New York Times Book Review).In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate ... En savoir plus

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The New York Times bestselling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s is “a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today” (Frank Rich, The New York Times Book Review).In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate
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