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Pomodoro Breaks

Panigrahi Nirma

Making a host of powerful literature in science, technology, humanities, business and management available with the help of advanced technology and generative AI tools.

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I'll Have What She's Having

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2025/01/28

I'll Have What She's Having explores how social learning shapes human behaviour, examining diverse examples from mate selection and economic decision-making to spreading ideas and cultural trends. The authors use social diffusion and cascade models to analyse these phenomena, highlighting the interplay between individual choices and social influence. They emphasize the significance of copying in driving cultural evolution and shaping collective behaviour, contrasting directed copying with undirected

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00:20:14

Introduction to Quantitative Finance

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2025/01/27

The talk covers a wide range of topics in global finance, including an overview of financial securities and derivatives, international diversification strategies, the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the trading ecosystem, asset pricing models, modern portfolio theory, hedge funds, mutual funds, ETFs, stochastic calculus, options pricing, futures and forwards, and alternative investments.

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00:21:47

Crowd-Based Business

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2025/01/26

This book, "Crowd-Based Business Models Using Collective Intelligence for Market Competitiveness," by Rajagopal, explores how businesses can leverage the power of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to gain a competitive edge. The author examines various crowd-based business models, including crowdsourcing for innovation, crowdfunding for financing, and the use of collective intelligence in decision-making. The text analyzes the role of social media and technology in facilitating these models and the

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00:19:47

Lean Enterprise Transformation

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2025/01/25

This is the second edition of George Koenigsaecker's book, Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation, which focuses on building a Lean culture within organizations rather than just implementing Lean tools. The book uses real-world examples from companies like Toyota to illustrate how Lean principles drive improved financial performance. It emphasizes leadership tools and soft skills necessary for successful Lean transformations and includes appendices detailing case studies from companies like

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00:20:32

Theory of uncertainty

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2025/01/24

This book examines uncertainty across philosophy, social sciences, and risk research, proposing a new taxonomy encompassing ontological, epistemological, linguistic-communicative, and teleological uncertainty. The book explores uncertainty's role in shaping human action, social institutions, and modernity's challenges. Klinke argues for a "reinvigorated Enlightenment" acknowledging uncertainty's immanence, particularly in the Anthropocene. The work further investigates the epistemological challenges

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00:15:15

Venture Capital

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2025/01/23

The culmination of various perspectives on venture capital, focusing on the dynamics between venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreneurs. One text guides entrepreneurs navigating the VC landscape, covering topics such as securing funding, pitching, and managing relationships with VCs. Another text examines the VC industry, including fund structures, investment strategies, and the challenges faced by both VCs and LPs. A third text explores private equity, broadening the discussion to include buyout

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00:12:45

Artifacts Versus Nature Body

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2025/01/21

This text excerpts from Masayuki Matsui's book introduces a new academic discipline focusing on the 3M&I body (human, material, money, and information). Matsui develops a "sandwich theory" and pair-map microcosm model to analyze and manage various systems, from enterprises and economics to human bodies and robots. His approach uses mathematical models, including Matsui's equation and matrix methods, to optimize efficiency and achieve sustainable "win-win" outcomes, addressing issues like the

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00:25:05

The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff

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2025/01/18

Rich Gold's The Plenitude explores the creation and consumption of material goods in modern society. The book examines four creative professions—art, science, design, and engineering—and how they contribute to this "Plenitude." Gold analyzes seven patterns of innovation within these fields, highlighting their positive and negative impacts. He ultimately raises concerns about our consumer culture's environmental and social consequences, proposing several potential solutions, ranging from legal

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00:35:20

The engineering leader

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2025/01/17

"The Engineering Leadership Playbook" by Raphael Neves is a practical guide for engineering leaders seeking to move beyond traditional, technically focused management. The book advocates for a human-centred approach, recognizing that people are the driving force behind business success. It emphasizes that effective leaders must lead by example, demonstrate desired behaviours and set ambitious but achievable standards. Clear communication is a key theme involving words, body language, and active

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00:29:21

Physics of growth in business

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2025/01/16

Organic business growth is governed by its natural laws—underlying truths that set the stage for growth and innovation, much like Einstein's law of relativity accounts for the movement of objects in the space-time continuum. The most fundamental law is that uncertainty is the only certainty. Dominating forces are ambiguity and change; the processes at work involve exploration, invention, and experimentation. Unfortunately, these truths run counter to the principles of stability, predictability, and

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00:13:48

Mindful Design Principles

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2025/01/15

Scott Riley's Mindful Design: A Survival Guide for Responsible Product Designers (second edition) is a guide to human-centred design. It explores design thinking principles, covering UI/UX, psychology, HCI, and ergonomics. The book emphasizes mindful design practices, considering users' attention, perception, learning, and motivation. Riley integrates psychological research with design processes, advocating for responsible design that prioritizes user well-being over exploitative growth

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00:41:26

Business Anthropology

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2025/01/14

Business Anthropology: The Basics by Dewaal Malefyt Timothy is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues in the field. It introduces readers to applying anthropological theory and practice to real-world examples in the industry. It will assist students in developing awareness, skills, and perspectives to help address real-life situations they encounter in the world.

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