Common sense get it, use it, and teach it in the workplace

“He may have an MBA, but he’s got no common sense.” Assessments like that by a boss can stop a career dead in its tracks. Unfortunately, many believe that common sense is a trait you are either born with or you are not. This book dispels that myth. Through the pages of Common Sense: Get It, Use It,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tanner, Ken (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : Birmingham : Apress ; Computer Bookshops [distributor] 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009466719806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is common sense, anyway?
  • Perception is reality
  • Common nonsense based on faulty appeals : appealing to nonsense and making it personal
  • Common nonsense based on muddled logic : you want to run that one by me again?
  • Urban legends, conspiracies, and other perversions of the truth : the absence of common sense
  • Decisions, decisions, decisions : making good ones
  • Common sense behavior in the office
  • Teaching common sense in the workplace : or learning it
  • Understanding people
  • When common sense fails
  • Coda : walking within a wise world.