THAT PERSON WHO DRIVES YOU NUTS? THEY'RE THE ACE UP YOUR SLEEVE.With the best of intentions, you hire people who fit the mold.But here’s the problem: when everyone fits the mold, your organization grows mold. You get stale thinking. Safe ideas. No breakthroughs.You end up playing with only half a deck.The perspectives you avoid—the colleagues who make you cringe, the ideas that sound crazy—are the missing cards you need most. And ignoring th...

Unprecedented access to infinite solutions has led us to realize that having all of the answers is not the answer. From innovation teams to creativity experts to crowdsourcing, we've turned from one source to another, spending endless cycles pursuing piecemeal solutions to each challenge we face. What if your organization had an effective systematic approach to deal with any problem? To find better solutions, you need to first ask better questions. The questions you ask determine which sol...

Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.Students are urged to think for themselves and engage with Marx's powerful methods of argument and explanation...

Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become commonplace in critical thinking today....

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a ne...

"Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society's fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy...

Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic, social, and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems analysis, the book offers readers a series of rubrics, keywords, and concepts—such as zemiperiphery, registration, and commodity chains—to enable more integrated, transdisciplinary methods of literary and cultural study. Throughout, Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, and Ste...

未來在等待的差異化能力是什麼？大家很常問：「接下來十年，有什麼事會出現變化？」很少人問我：「接下來十年，有什麼事不會出現變化？」──傑夫‧貝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）知道什麼不該改變，什麼該放棄，找出今日出眾且合意的差異化特色，站穩軸心，深化紮根，就能在明日耐久而靈活地轉型發威。在充滿不確定性的時代，組織與個人如何建立根基，來提高穩定感、深度與價值？這是為當今變化頻繁、處處干擾的商業環境，所撰寫的變革型指南。　　書中強調要掌握「軸心」，而非盲目「軸轉」。軸轉一詞，在2020年疫情爆發後，加速成為組織調整策略的代名詞，意味著商業策略上的改變方向。然而，如果沒有差異化與穩定的能力，頻繁的軸轉只會導致企業效益不彰。作者提出令人耳目一新的「重心腳」（Piv...

E se quase tudo o que sabe sobre a criação de uma cultura de inovação está errado? E se a maneira como você avalia a inovação está a asfixiá- la? E se a sua pesquisa de mercado está a colocar as perguntas erradas? É hora de inovar a maneira de inovar! Stephen Shapiro ensina aos seus clientes que inovar não é apenas gerar ocasionalmente novas ideias, é antes permanecer consistentemente um passo à frente da concorrência. A inovação apenas ocorre quando as organizações conseguem conciliar dif...

Praise for Goal Free LivingSetting goals may be fine. But letting your goals take control of your life can be devastating. Goal-Free Living shows you how to explore paths in your life you never knew existed and discover a more exciting, successful, and rewarding life--today!"If you have only one goal this year, let it be this: Read Goal-Free Living!"--Daniel H. Pink author, A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation"Stephen Shapiro's approach will help readers ac...

To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures prominently in the Jewish imaginary. This interdisciplinary collection brings together the persp...

50 Studies Every Pediatrician Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the current clinical practice of pediatrics. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: allergy immunology, behavioral, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, ENT, general pediatrics, hematology, infectious disease, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and pulmonary. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on ...