Six Questions of Socrates

Six Questions of Socrates
Author: Christopher Phillips
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393051575

Considers the questions posed by Socrates using group discussions from around the world in an effort to show universal commonalities.

The Six Questions

The Six Questions
Author: Julie Edmonds
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-05-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1614482233

We all have a lot going on, inside and out. We want a high level of reward in every area of life, and we expect to figure out how to get it. The challenge is that in our search for answers we often spend time asking too many of the wrong questions. "The Six Questions" simplifies the complex life of the everyday person by providing the right questions to ask, in the right order, to find the answers that matter.

The Advantage

The Advantage
Author: Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118266102

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health—complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way—one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

The Six Questions

The Six Questions
Author: Julie Edmonds
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-05-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1614482241

We knew you existed. . .we knew we weren’t the only ones. There are so many of us. . .all after the same thing. . . The challenge we all face is that in our search for 8 million answers we often spend time asking too many of the wrong questions. Both of us have spent over 20 years, working on figuring ourselves out, all the while searching for direction. The biggest navigation tool we found was discovering the right questions to ask ourselves first---"The Six Questions." Find your Answers. Love your Life. Get it Right.

What's Your Digital Business Model?

What's Your Digital Business Model?
Author: Peter Weill
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 163369271X

Digital transformation is not about technology--it's about change. In the rapidly changing digital economy, you can't succeed by merely tweaking management practices that led to past success. And yet, while many leaders and managers recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language and compelling framework to help them assess it and guide them in responding. They don't know how to think about their digital business model. In this concise, practical book, MIT digital research leaders Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide a powerful yet straightforward framework that has been field-tested globally with dozens of senior management teams. Based on years of study at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), the authors find that digitization is moving companies' business models on two dimensions: from value chains to digital ecosystems, and from a fuzzy understanding of the needs of end customers to a sharper one. Looking at these dimensions in combination results in four distinct business models, each with different capabilities. The book then sets out six driving questions, in separate chapters, that help managers and executives clarify where they are currently in an increasingly digital business landscape and highlight what's needed to move toward a higher-value digital business model. Filled with straightforward self-assessments, motivating examples, and sharp financial analyses of where profits are made, this smart book will help you tackle the threats, leverage the opportunities, and create winning digital strategies.

Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy

Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy
Author: Christopher Phillips
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-01-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0393341208

How people around the world grapple with the great questions posed by Socrates. What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips—"Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree" (Utne Reader)—investigates these same questions, beginning in the marketplace of modern-day Athens. He goes on to investigate the timely responses and outlooks of people from different cultures and backgrounds around the world: from Greece and Spain to Japan and Korea, Mexico City, and Chiapas, where the region's indigenous people struggle for fundamental human rights. Phillips also traveled throughout the United States, holding dialogues in diverse communities from New York City to the Navajo Nation. Introducing us to less familiar thinkers in non-Western traditions who were kindred spirits of Socrates, Phillips enlarges our perspectives on life's fundamental questions, creating an innovative world survey of philosophy.

I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior

I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior
Author: Howard E. Wasdin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250016436

Discusses an elite group that is trained to do very difficult missions.

Consider Your Calling

Consider Your Calling
Author: Gordon T. Smith
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830899189

What is the good work to which I am called? Gordon T. Smith acknowledges that this is not a simple question to answer in the midst of our very complicated lives. That's why he has written this brief and accessible book: to help us explore six core questions in community with God and others in order to discover our calling.