Whole Numbers and Half Truths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Whole Numbers and Half Truths write by Rukmini Shrinivasan. This book was released on 2021. Whole Numbers and Half Truths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by progressive and liberal young Indians, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically, by an unchecked population explosion and rising crimes against women. Is it, though? In 2020, the annual population growth was down to under 1 per cent. Only thirty-one of hundred Indians live in a city today and just 5 per cent live outside the city of their birth. As recently as 2016, only 4 per cent of young, married respondents in a survey said their spouse belonged to a different caste group. Over 45 per cent of voters said in a pre-2014 election survey that it was important to them that a candidate of their own caste wins elections in their constituency. A large share of reported sexual assaults across India are actually consensual relationships criminalised by parents. And staggeringly, spending more than Rs 8,500 a month puts you in the top 5 per cent of urban India. Data-journalism pioneer Rukmini S. draws on nearly two decades of on-ground reporting experience to piece together a picture that looks nothing like the one you might expect. There is a mountain of data available on India, but it remains opaque, hard to access and harder yet to read, and it does not inform public conversation. Rukmini marshals this information - some of it never before reported - alongside probing interviews with experts and ordinary citizens, to see what the numbers can tell us about India. As she interrogates how data works, and how the push and pull of social and political forces affect it, she creates a blueprint to understand the changes of the last few years and the ones to come - a toolkit for India."-- dust jacket.
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense write by Jeffrey Pfeffer. This book was released on 2006-02-14. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.
The Half-Truth High
The Half-Truth High - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Half-Truth High write by Kevin Fleming. This book was released on 2007-07. The Half-Truth High available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did you ever wonder why self-improvement strategies dealing with change and success make things seem so reasonable? Could it be that what makes all these mantras and pop books so appealing on a mass scale is the same thing that keeps them from working. They all "make sense." But are all the things that make sense TRUE? Dr. Fleming takes you deep within the mind of a psychologist and leadership consultant, letting you in on the secrets of the half-truth-the clever way we convince ourselves we are changing bad habits, leading a company to profitability, or even rising personally to the highest level of thinking about ultimate reality. Utilizing a questioning process that turns half-truths over to find the denied part of reality in us all, Dr. Fleming paves a way to understanding and change that no simple "7 Tips or Tools" book could possibly provide.
The Book of Common Fallacies
The Book of Common Fallacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Common Fallacies write by Philip Ward. This book was released on 2012-06. The Book of Common Fallacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything you thought you knew was...
True Enough
True Enough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook True Enough write by Farhad Manjoo. This book was released on 2011-02-17. True Enough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem to work so well? True Enough explores leading controversies of national politics, foreign affairs, science, and business, explaining how Americans have begun to organize themselves into echo chambers that harbor diametrically different facts—not merely opinions—from those of the larger culture.
