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★一出版即登上Amazon、《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》暢銷書★《金融時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《企業》、《商業內幕》評選最佳商業書未來，什麼人最搶手？「管理學界最具影響力的聲音」韓森重磅發聲：頂尖高手都是績效控，全新工作法則就是你的新機會！成功學里程碑之作，席捲各大媒體推薦書榜單「關於聰明工作，讀這一本就夠了。」未來，什麼人最搶手？研究個人表現與企業績效的世界級權威、三度入選全球50大管理思想家的韓森發現，成功人與普通人真正的差異，在於心智的不同。頂尖高手都是績效控，擁有七種高績效心智，你就能在工作上表現傑出，還能將省下的時間精力拿去過你想過的生活。不管什麼職位，都需要高績效，但99%的人都沒能真正做到聰明工作。你已經辛苦太久了，不該再繼續犧牲你的人生。全新工作成功學解開困惑許多人的問題︰為什麼能力差不多，表現卻差很多？為什麼他可以成就不凡，而你那麼努力卻始終平凡？別再重複舊的低效模式，新時代的工作邏輯改變了，你的心智也要全面升級。不需超時工作、成為天才或靠運氣，績效感讓你脫穎而出。小心七大績效殺手：1.無法專心→工作太多、誘惑太多，還有老闆覺得你不夠忙2.嘗試做愈多但實際完成愈少→壓力破表的人跟愛挑事做的人，績效差不多3.當一天和尚撞一天鐘→每天跟時間賽跑，只求過關就好4.習慣成自然→熟能生巧，然後生鏽，最後卡住你的人生5.有恆毅力卻無動員力→以為埋頭苦幹就會有好結果6.明知沒意義卻仍花時間把事做完→一切按規定來，免得被討厭7.明知沒作用卻邀一堆人來開會→這樣出問題才不是你的問題高績效人士的七種心智：1.雙重專注，否則前功盡棄2.重新設計工作，找出價值缺口3.建立學習迴圈，每天15分鐘讓自己煥然一新4.熱情加使命感，創造有個性的影響力5.說服需用巧毅力，才能激發對的情緒與行動力6.敢爭辯也最團結，讓團隊發揮最大潛能7.掌握協作要訣，一天只做最重要的事名人力薦每個人都該讀沈國榮｜和大工業董事長童子賢｜和碩董事長黃男州｜玉山金控董事長郭瑞祥｜台大管理學院教授邱奕嘉｜政大EMBA執行長葛望平｜歐萊德創辦人暨董事長謝文憲｜知名講師柯林斯（Jim Collins）｜《從A到A+》作者格蘭特（Adam Grant）｜華頓商學院教授杜維克（Carol S. Dweck）｜《心態致勝》作者我的工作哲學是「設定目標、找對方法、全力以赴、樂在其中」，與書中提到的關鍵心智不謀而合。我相

An imaginative and heartfelt book that reminds us that there is no loss without love. When Grief first arrives, it is like an elephant--so big that there is hardly room for anything else. But over time, Grief can become smaller and smaller--first a deer, then a fox, a mouse, and finally a flickering firefly in the darkness leading us down a path of loving remembrance. This lyrical work is an empathetic and comforting balm for anyone who is experiencing grief, be it grieving the loss of a loved one or losses in the world around us. REASSURING FEELINGS BOOK: Children can often feel confused by their emotions. The gentle voice and soft illustrations in this book help to make these emotions feel less frightening, and the hopeful ending provides a reassuring message that grief will transform over time. TIMELESS REFLECTION ON GRIEF: The perennial themes of grief and sadness, as well as the graceful art style, make this perfect for anyone who is dealing with feelings of loss, whether that inv

We spend a lot of our time at work and would be depressed with nothing to do. But when it gets to Monday, many of us are already longing for the weekend and the prospect of escape. How did work become so tedious and stressful? And is there anything we can do to make it better?Based on his popular Economist Bartleby column, Philip Coggan rewrites the rules of work to help us survive the daily grind.Ranging widely, he encourages us to cut through mindless jargon, pointless bureaucracy and endless meetings to find a new, more creative - and less frustrating - way to get by and get on at work. Incisive, original, and endlessly droll, this is the guide for beleaguered underlings and harried higher-ups alike. As Rousseau might have said: "Man was born free, but is everywhere stuck in a meeting." If you've ever thought there must be a better way, this is the book for you.

What if the economy loved you?Beloved Economies explores what it takes to co-create US economic futures that work for all.From rising inequality, to systemized oppression, and an increasing consolidation of wealth, it’s clear that work isn’t working for us anymore. What changes can we implement at all levels of organizations, now, to make them healthier and more just?Based on six years of research, Beloved Economies offers seven practices for individuals who are part of teams within enterprises—from businesses to nonprofits, farms, and after-school groups—to build economic realities of more purpose, meaning, and joy:• Choose Trust• Share Power• Reckon with History• Prioritize Relationships• Seek Meaningful Difference• Source from Multiple Ways of Knowing• Prototype Early and OftenResearch practitioners Jess Rimington and Joanna Cea have found that when individuals commit to these practices, they transform their enterprises to be “less capitalist” and more of an emerging system that exp

☆☆☆「指數基金教父」約翰．柏格專文讚譽☆☆☆☆☆☆柏格頭論壇雙雄《鄉民的提早退休計畫》作者們強力支持☆☆☆☆眾多指數投資人：查爾斯．艾利斯、威廉．伯恩斯坦、喬納森．克雷蒙等聯名推薦☆投資一定要主動嗎？不努力不積極就不會有獲利嗎？你是不是認為「積極進出市場，才能獲取成效」？你是不是覺得「只要努力，一定能挑到贏過市場的股票」？小心！你的貿然進取恐讓賺錢助力變阻力！其實，投資這門學問沒有你想得這麼困難或辛苦，只要轉變你的投資信仰，放下主動追求被動，使用指數化投資工具加上長期堅持的被動配置，《被動投資學》就是你成功追求致富的不敗信仰！知名《富比士》雜誌專欄作家理查‧菲利（Richard A. Ferri），從主動式證券經紀人變為提供被動式投資組合策略的公司創辦人。改變路線的他，以經紀商的銷售經驗加上實際歷史的研究數據，指明了主動式投資路線的曲折坎坷，以及被動式投資路線的種種優勢，下面，就一起來改變你的投資理念，學習能讓所有人抱得財富歸的投資學問吧！◎改變投資信仰第一招：放棄主動型基金長久以來，許多媒體、主動型基金業者不斷的揮舞著「主動型基金能賺取超額報酬」的大旗，吸引眾多投資人爭先恐後的加入其中。然而這一切只是行銷手法，事實上，主動型基金沒有你知道的那麼好！下列是你可能忽略的投資陷阱：【有銷售佣金或其他相關費用】在賺取超額報酬之前，當你選擇以主動型基金進行操作時，就須先繳納較高的相關手續費或佣金。跟相同投資目標的主動型基金相比較，追蹤指數的基金每年可能只收取0.2％的費用，而主動型基金每年則需收取1.2％的費用。【沒注意到的稅金】主動型基金為了努力賺取超額報酬，因而頻繁進出市場使得週轉率較高，而產生更多的稅金成本，這些成本需由投資人負擔。指數型基金的基金週轉率每年約6%，而主動型基金年度週轉率約50%。【追求高報酬的風險】愈高的報酬伴隨著愈高的風險。像是主動型基金可能會為了追求高報酬，而選擇小型資本公司的股票，因而有較高風險。【成功時的報酬少，失敗時的損失高】你以為只要績效勝出就能獲利，事實上，勝出的主動型基金賺取報酬的獲利程度，遠少於其他績效較差基金虧損所造成的高額損失，也就是說，勝出的主動型基金賺少賠多。【與指數型基金相比，績效較低】根據研究資料統計，當與主動型基金與指數型基金的報酬做比較，只有三分之一的機會主動型基金的績效會勝出，三分之二會輸給指數型基金，整體績效而

How did a peanut farmer from a small town in Georgia become the 39th President of the United States? Find out in this addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series!Everyone was rather surprised when small-town farmer Jimmy Carter first announced that he’d be running for president in 1976. When Jimmy told his mother, she replied, “President of what?” But this former naval officer and governor of Georgia was ready for the role. Jimmy Carter went on to become one of America’s most beloved political figures thanks to his honesty, strong faith, and compassion. Even today, Jimmy Carter is still dedicated to helping Americans through his extensive work as a philanthropist. He and his wife, Rosalynn, volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, building houses for the less fortunate and inspiring others to a life of service. Who Is Jimmy Carter? details the entire life of Jimmy Carter, beginning with his 1924 birth in Plains, Georgia. Readers will learn about his life as a p

With over 15 billion stolen credentials to work with, cybercriminals can hijack accounts, discover company secrets, compromise personal information and health care records, and steal virtually any high-value digital asset. To help deter cybersecurity disaster, more and more organizations rely on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Now, there's a single source, vendor-neutral guide to today's leading MFA technologies, applications, best practices, and operations. Enterprise security experts James Hill and Ned Zaldivar reveal how MFA can prevent identity theft, unauthorized remote access, and other attacks, and guide you through configuring, operating and troubleshooting popular solutions across multiple use cases. You'll find proven techniques for integrating MFA into your current environment, leveraging MFA standards, using SMS and push notifications, and much more. A full chapter on biometrics introduces password-less systems, behavioral biometrics, WebAuthn, TouchID, and FaceID. Hill

Disney's The Owl House meets Nevermoor, in a brilliant new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Claribel A. Ortega!Every year, in the magical town of Ravenskill, Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches.And twelve-year-old Seven Salazar can't wait to be placed in the most powerful coven with her best friend! But on the night of the ceremony, in front of the entire town, Seven isn't placed in one of the five covens. She's a Spare!Spare covens have fewer witches, are less powerful, and are looked down on by everyone. Even worse, when Seven and the other two Spares perform the magic circle to seal their coven and cement themselves as sisters, it doesn't work! They're stuck as Witchlings--and will never be able to perform powerful magic.Seven invokes her only option: the impossible task. The three Spares will be assigned an impossible task: If they work together and succeed at it, their coven

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Design Thinking for Tech helps you inject techniques and exercises into your projects using the same systematic and creative process that designers have used for years. Anderson walks you through a simple four-phase Design Thinking model, showing how to loop back, keep learning, and continuously refine your work. You'll start by understanding the essential "what, how, when, why, and who" of Design Thinking. Next, you'll use core Design Thinking techniques to understand the big picture, focus on your most critical problems, think more creatively about them, take the next best steps toward problem resolution and value creation, and along the way rapidly iterate for progress. Every lesson builds on what you've already learned, with exercises crafted to deliver directly relevant experience. Regardless of your role in the world of technology, you'll learn how to supercharge success for any tech-related project, business initiative, or digital transfor

Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and languages: Russian, English and French. In particular, Julie Loison-Charles focusses on Nabokov’s dual nature as both an author and a translator, and the ways in which translation permeates his fictional writing from his very first Russian works to his last novels in English.Although self-translation has received a lot of attention in Nabokov criticism, this book considers his work as an author-translator, drawing particular attention to his often underappreciated and underestimated, but no less crucial, third language; French. Looking at Nabokov’s encounters with pseudotranslation, Julie Loison-Charles demonstrates the influence this had on his practice as both a translator and a writer, arguing that this experience was crucial to his ability to create bridges between the literary traditions of Eu

Ingmar Bergman’s rich legacy as film director and writer of classics such as The Seventh Seal , Scenes From a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander has attracted scholars not only in film studies but also of literature, theater, gender, philosophy, religion, sociology, musicology, and more. Less known, however, is Bergman from the perspective of production studies, including all the choices, practices, and routines involved in what goes on behind the scenes. For instance, what about Bergman’s collaborations and conflicts with film producers? What about his work with musicians at the opera, technicians in the television studio, and actors on the film set. What about Bergman and MeToo ? In order to throw light on these issues, art practitioners such as film directors Ang Lee and Margarethe von Trotta, film and opera director Atom Egoyan, and film producer and screenwriter James Schamus are brought together with academics such as philosopher and film scholar Paisley Livingston, musicolo

A History of Taiwan Literature by Ye Shitao, an important public intellectual in Taiwan, was published in the crucial watershed year of 1987 when the end of martial law on the island was signaled. Ye’s work was clearly a product of that period and would have been less timid, considering the fact that the rule book on public expression had yet to be written, if it had been written later. The book is a rigorous, comprehensive treatment; it goes to great lengths to devote attention to all major writers in the history of Taiwan as well as many who were not as prominent. Ye has been fair and evenhanded in the writing of his literary history of Taiwan; there is little, if any, tendentiousness in the book. This is arguably one of the most important intellectual works of literary history, made even more impressive by Ye’s inclusion of copious notes, including Japanese-language ones.In this translation, Christopher Lupke has painstakingly translated both Ye’s main text and notes, making this va

Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge is often regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Hélène Lecossois offers new and valuable perspectives on Synge's plays while at the same time engaging with the complexity of his treatment of a range of performance practices – from keening at rural funerals to the performances of 'native villagers' in the entertainment section of International Exhibitions. What emerges from her study is a dramatist acutely aware of the ability of theatre in performance to counteract relentless forward-moving narratives of modernity. Through detailed, contextualized case studies, the book simultaneously makes meaningful contributions to performance studies and opens up theoretical questions of performance relating to the status of the object on stage, the body on stage and theatrical time.

Little known but no less influential, Jo van Gogh-Bonger (1862-1925) was the wife of Theo and sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh. When the brothers died soon after each other, she took charge of van Gogh’s artistic legacy in 1891 and devoted the rest of her life to disseminating his work. She published his letters, organised exhibitions in the Netherlands and throughout the world, and made strategic sales to private individuals and influential dealers. Her efforts were crucial to the reputation of Van Gogh’s art, but she also led an interesting life in other respects. Not only was she friends with eminent writers and artists, she was active within the Social Democratic Workers’ Party and closely involved in emerging women’s movements.Using rich source material, including unseen diaries, documents and letters, Hans Luijten charts the multi-faceted life of this driven woman who made a bold impact in a male-dominated world at the turn of the 20th century. His lovingly written biography als

An analysis of wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death.Wandering in games can be a theme, a formal mode, an aesthetic metaphor, or a player action. It can mean walking, escaping, traversing, meandering, or returning. In this book, game studies scholar Melissa Kagen introduces the concept of “wandering games,” exploring the uses of wandering in a variety of game worlds. She shows how the much-derided Walking Simulator―a term that began as an insult, a denigration of games that are less violent, less task-oriented, or less difficult to complete―semi-accidentally tapped into something brilliant: the vast heritage and intellectual history of the concept of walking in fiction, philosophy, pilgrimage, performance, and protest. Kagen examines wandering in a series of games that vary widely in terms of genre, mechanics, themes, player base, studio size, and funding, giving close readings to Return of the Obra Dinn, Eastshade, Ri

One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing the greatest work of their long careers―and, in some cases, changing the course of art history.Ordinarily, we think of young artists as the bomb throwers. Monet and Renoir were still in their twenties when they embarked on what would soon be called Impressionism, as were Picasso and Braque when they ventured into Cubism. But your sixties and the decades that follow can be no less liberating if they too bring the confidence to attempt new things. Young artists may experiment because they have nothing to lose; older ones because they have nothing to fear. With their legacies secure, they’re free to reinvent themselves…sometimes with revolutionary results.Titian’s late style offered a way for pigment itself―not just the things it depicted―to express feelings on the canvas, foreshadowing Rubens, Frans Hals, 19th-century Impressionists, and 20th-century Expressionists. Goya’s late wor

A hilarious story of new-school hijinks, filled with friendship, family, and plenty of pranks--perfect for fans of Dork Diaries, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and The Best of Iggy!Meet Airi Sano. After spending her entire childhood moving from one military base to another as her dad's gotten new assignments, she's excited to be settling down for the long-term in Hawai'i. She's less excited about starting at a new school all over again, but she's got a plan for that: prank her teacher so hard that she gives up on even trying to get Airi to do any work, and especially any reading. But when Mrs. Ashton, her new sixth-grade teacher, isn't nearly as much of a pushover as she expects, and for some reason just keeps trying to help Airi, it's time to up the stakes, and to bring her new classmates--who might even be her new friends--in on the action. Let the prank wars begin! With fun and funny black-and-white illustrations throughout, New School Skirmish kicks off a brand-new series for readers to