Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Author: William Poundstone
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 031619297X

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions. The book covers the importance of creative thinking, ways to get a leg up on the competition, what your Facebook page says about you, and much more. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? is a must-read for anyone who wants to succeed in today's job market.

Are You Smart Enough to Be a Secret Agent?

Are You Smart Enough to Be a Secret Agent?
Author: John Gillard
Publisher: Portable Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781645170488

Match your wits with the CIA to find out if you have what it takes to be a super spy! Do you have what it takes to live a life of intrigue and deception, matching your wits with adversaries on the world stage? With more than 1,000 puzzles, quizzes, and hypothetical scenarios, you can measure your knowledge and decision-making skills against the standards established by the CIA for becoming a government agent. Quizzes will challenge your mastery of geopolitics and world history, and exercises such as decoding encrypted messages put your problem-solving skills to use.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Author: Frans de Waal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393246191

A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.

The Smart Enough City

The Smart Enough City
Author: Ben Green
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262352257

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself. In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedestrians, civic engagement is limited to requesting services through an app, police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, and governments and private companies surveil public space to control behavior. Green describes smart city efforts gone wrong but also smart enough alternatives, attainable with the help of technology but not reducible to technology: a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city. By recognizing the complexity of urban life rather than merely seeing the city as something to optimize, these Smart Enough Cities successfully incorporate technology into a holistic vision of justice and equity.

Are You Smart Enough?

Are You Smart Enough?
Author: Alexander W. Astin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000979776

This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with “being smart” distorts the life of a typical college or university, and how this obsession leads to a higher education that shortchanges the majority of students, and by extension, our society’s need for an educated population. The author calls on his colleagues in higher education to return the focus to the true mission of developing the potential of each student: However “smart” they are when they get to college, both the student and the college should be able to show what they learned while there.Unfortunately, colleges and universities have embraced two very narrow definitions of smartness: the course grade and especially the standardized test. A large body of research shows that it will be very difficult for colleges to fulfill their stated mission unless they substantially broaden their conception to include student qualities such as leadership, social responsibility, honesty, empathy, and citizenship. Specifically, the book grapples with issues such as the following:• Why America’s 3,000-plus colleges and universities have evolved into a hierarchical pecking order, where institutions compete with each other to recruit “smart” students, and where a handful of elite institutions at the top of the pecking order enroll the “smartest” students.• Why higher education favors its smartest students to the point where the “not so smart” students get second-class treatment.• Why so many colleges find it difficult to make good on their commitment to affirmative action and “equality of opportunity.”• Why college faculties tend to value being smart more than developing students’ smartness (i.e., teaching and learning).

I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!

I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!
Author: Al Franken
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780440504702

The ultimate meditation book, not to be grandiose... Take a hilarious, healing journey with Stuart Smalley as he careens down the road to Recovery. For one entire year Stuart recorded an affirmation a day...except when he had taken to his bed (but that's Okay)...and the result is the most entertaining and indispensable meditation book ever. From program wisdom (Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt! December 1) to survival tips (When I Go Home to Visit My Family I Will Stay in a Motel! September 26) to some good sound practical advice (I am entitled to file for an Extension on my Income Taxes! April 15th), Stuart's affirmations will empower you! Work, Friendship, Love, Spirituality, Codependency, Self-Esteem, Acceptance...Stuart deals with it all. And as you share his ups and downs, his triumphs and shame spirals, you will come to see the ultimate truth of Stuart's March 21st affirmation: Today I Will Laugh--At Least Once!

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart
Author: David McRaney
Publisher: Avery
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1592407366

Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.

Are You Smart Enough to Play Dumb?

Are You Smart Enough to Play Dumb?
Author: Cicone C. A. Prince
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781545471395

Are You Smart Enough To Play Dumb is a Business guide for budding entrepreneurs who need a reference point to get started in Business. This book provides practical information that will help the reader avoid some of the pitfalls associated with new start-ups. It also provides solid business advice that can help propel the reader even faster towards their success than they could go on their own.

The Ideal Team Player

The Ideal Team Player
Author: Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119209617

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money

Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money
Author: Merryn Somerset Webb
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0007284020

Merryn Somerset Webb, star of Channel 4's hit series ‘Superscrimpers’, shows you how to face the future with both money and confidence in this financial bible for sassy women.