The Smart Swarm - How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done
In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts -- the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative book, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller explains the basic principles of smart swarms -- self-organization, diversity of knowledge, indirect collaboration, and adaptive mimicking -- to show how swarm species such as ants, bees, and fish can teach us to tackle some of the most complex conundrums in business, politics, and technology.
The Psychology of Graphic Images: Seeing, Drawing, Communicating
This book explores the nature of one of the most ancient tools for nonverbal communication: drawings. They are naturally adaptable enough to meet an incredibly wide range of communication needs. But how exactly do they do their job so well? Avoiding the kinds of aesthetic rankings of different graphic domains so often made by art historians and critics, Manfredo Massironi considers an extensive and representative sample of graphic applications with an open mind. He finds a deep mutuality between the material components of images and the activation of the perceptual and cognitive processes that create and decipher them.
THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIME Employees respond to organizational change with worry, fear, and sometimes even panic. Your job is to keep them motivated and focused—so you must choose your words carefully during times of upheaval.
FAST FLUENCY Communication in English for the International AgeThis is a conversational textbook that provides students with language they can use and it furnishes something they can talk about. This book offers the student concrete language and adult subject matter useful for communicating in contemporary, everyday English.
Writing is a large part of the engineering process, with many professional engineers spending over 60 percent of their time writing letters, memos, proposals, reports and specification documents.Writing is a skill that, like any other, can be developed: you need to learn the basics, understand what is expected, and then write and rewrite until the words run effortlessly on the page. Engineering students can prepare themselves for the responsibilities they will face in this field today.
