Monday, October 31, 2011

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

Don Tapscott
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Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You've seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uploading videos, watching a movie on a two-inch screen, and doing who-knows-what on Facebook or MySpace. They're the first generation to have literally grown up digital--and they're part of a global cultural phenomenon that's here to stay.

The bottom line is this: If you understand the Net Generation, you will understand the future.

If you're a Baby Boomer or Gen-Xer: This is your field guide. …

A fascinating inside look at the Net Generation, Grown Up Digital is inspired by a $4 million private research study. New York Times bestselling author Don Tapscott has surveyed more than 11,000 young people. Instead of a bunch of spoiled “screenagers” with short attention spans and zero social skills, he discovered a remarkably bright community which has developed revolutionary new ways of thinking, interacting, working, and socializing.

Grown Up Digital reveals:
• How the brain of the Net Generation processes information
• Seven ways to attract and engage young talent in the workforce
• Seven guidelines for educators to tap the Net Gen potential
• Parenting 2.0: There's no place like the new home
• Citizen Net: How young people and the Internet are transforming democracy

Today's young people are using technology in ways you could never imagine. Instead of passively watching television, the “Net Geners” are actively participating in the distribution of entertainment and information. For the first time in history, youth are the authorities on something really important. And they're changing every aspect of our society-from the workplace to the marketplace, from the classroom to the living room, from the voting booth to the Oval Office.

(Excerpt from amazon.co.uk)

蘇格拉底之道: 最充分地運用你的智慧的 7 把萬能鑰匙 (Socrates' Way)

羅納德・格羅斯 (Ronald Gross)
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無知並不是真正的幸福。哲學家約翰.穆勒說︰做一位不滿足的人總比做一頭滿足的豬好做一位不滿足的蘇格拉底總比做一個滿足的傻瓜好。如果讓智慧的蘇格拉底做你的導師,如果能用他的思想方法來指導你的事業、你的教育,以及你的生活,你將會獲得多大的成就?

本書從七個方面介紹了掌握蘇格拉底思想方法的關鍵︰了解你自己,學會正確提問,自己思考,敢于反常規,與朋友切磋,講真話,提升靈魂。掌握了這些關鍵點,也就是掌握了蘇格拉底的思想方法,就可以在同學、同事和朋友間開展蘇格拉底式的談話,就可以改進你的生活、工作和教育,就能在你身上找到蘇格拉底的精神。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Monday, October 24, 2011

Brain Storm: Tap Into Your Creativity to Generate Awesome Ideas and Remarkable Results

Jason R. Rich
online access from EBSCOhost
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Business people, entrepreneurs, artists, entertainers, parents, students, teachers, and people from all walks of life can improve their lives by learning how to brainstorm. Successfully implementing an idea is what generates success and results, whether it's a business or personal challenge. Here is a fun, easy-to-read, upbeat book designed to help people boost creativity by learning how to brainstorm and transform their best ideas into reality. Starting with the basics, this book discusses the anatomy of ideas and how they're generated. Focusing on various brainstorming techniques, it offers step-by-step directions for using these techniques as an individual or in a group situation. It helps readers analyze their ideas, pick out the best ones, and implement those ideas to produce positive and measurable results. This book also features in-depth interviews and profiles of a handful of well known people whose brainstorming skills have led them to incredible success.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

重塑心靈: NLP--一門使人成功快樂的學問

李中瑩 著
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《重塑心靈:NLP--一門使人成功快樂的學問》全面地介紹了NLP的歷史、理論框架、基本概念等基礎理論;共分為10章,每章都有其獨立的主題。書中提供了少量NLP技巧,既安全又容易產生實效的技巧,以及更多與時代同步發展的新觀點與新案例;同時本書的概念與技巧也可為所有人在面對人生時提供啟迪。

(摘錄自卓越亞馬遜)

Monday, October 17, 2011

Learning, Work and Social Responsibility: Challenges for Lifelong Learning in a Global Age

Karen Evans
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The political consensus on lifelong learning which marked the end of the 20th century fundamentally reshaped discourses on the role of lifelong learning. In ‘knowledge-based’ economies, we are engaged in a lifelong competition for livelihoods; learning for a living as part of a global learning revolution.

The argument (of the author), put simply, revolves around social justice, and active and engaged citizenry. Policies to encourage lifelong learning are based on the view that individuals must learn new things primarily to secure employment in an ever-changing world. The result of these policies has been to open up unsustainable inequalities which ordinary people are unlikely to tolerate for much longer. For politicians, bringing politics closer to the world and aspirations of ordinary people will mean seeking solutions based on broader and fairer forms of meritocracy and bringing work and the pursuit of broader social purposes into a better balance at all levels of the social world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

全球財富創造大師比爾蓋茲: 微軟總裁經營成功十大祕訣 (Business the Bill Gates Way)

戴斯. 狄洛夫 (Des Dearlove)
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比爾.蓋茲年方四十三,便已是全世界最富有的人。他從二十歲起便是微軟的老闆,據信他的身價高達五百億美元之譜!他成為世人艷羨、好奇的目標。

蓋茲崛起的歷程證明了企業界已出現嶄新的秩序,由迥異於以往的創業家和經營領袖主導。對於未來世界,他們看得出「端倪」,我們則否。這樣一位人物的經營技巧和領導風格,在任何一所商學院裡,卻找不到蛛絲馬跡可以依循。說實在的,管理學的教授甚至宗師,一踫上微軟的董事長兼總執行長怎麼會這麼成功的問題,就突然三緘其口,沈默得出奇了。或許他們也自覺渺少吧!蓋茲畢竟是哈佛大學法律系的輟學生呢!

那麼,我們到底該向誰去取經,以了解一些這位不世出的英才是怎麼呼風喚雨的呢?

此時,唯有將虛實夾纏的事實和傳聞,一分為二,我們才可能開始認清楚蓋茲其人。這本書不只寫出了過人的科技才華和龐大財富,更寫出了超凡的經營遠見和超強好勝心,以及企業界前所未見的獨特領導風格。比爾.蓋茲為未來的企業領袖建立起了新的典範,他所結合的特質和技能,也是迎向二十一世紀的挑戰所需之憑介……

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)