Making Purpose Work: The Challenge of Growing Ourselves and Our CompaniesHPH Publishing, 2006 - 278 من الصفحات The first business book to directly address the issue of belief in the workplace in a secular context, it makes this information accessible to all readers and helps them become more aware of how the way meaning is interpreted feeds into the things they hate most about their environments. Providing knowledge rather than prescriptions, it discusses ways to take responsibility for improving the outcomes and meanings created in their lives to make business environments better. |
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الصفحة 73 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
الصفحة 200 - Mistakes will be made. But if a person is essentially right, the mistakes he or she makes are not as serious in the long run as the mistakes management will make if it undertakes to tell those in authority exactly how they must do their jobs.
الصفحة 133 - Schein (1985) defines culture as: a pattern of basic assumptions — invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration — that has worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems, (p.
الصفحة 106 - Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower the barometer to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building.
الصفحة 195 - The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
الصفحة 107 - There are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building.
الصفحة 174 - ... find something captured that escapes explanation. This conviction that direct deed is the most meaningful reflection, I believe, has prompted the evolution of the extremely severe and unique disciplines of the jazz or improvising musician.
الصفحة 107 - There is a very basic measurement method that you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units.
الصفحة 107 - Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stop-watch. Then, using the formula S=1/2at2, calculate the height of the building.
الصفحة 107 - Mr. Superintendent, here I have a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of this building, I will give you this barometer.