Andrew McAfee

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age , a compelling argument—masterfully researched and brilliantly articulated—that we have at last learned how to increase human prosperity while treading more lightly on our planet.Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the chopping down forests, fouling the air and water, and endlessly digging out resources. Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the reigning argument has been that taking better care of the planet means radically changing reducing our consumption, tightening our belts, learning to share and reuse, restraining growth. Is that argument correct?Absolutely not . In More from Less, McAfee argues that to solve our ecological problems we don’t need to make radical changes. Instead, we need to do more of what we’re already growing technologically sophisticated market-based economies around the world.How can he possibly make this claim? Because of the evidence. America—a large, high-tech country that accounts for about 25% of the global economy—is now generally using less of most resources year after year, even as its economy and population continue to grow. What’s more, the US is polluting the air and water less, emitting fewer greenhouse gases, and replenishing endangered animal populations. And, as McAfee shows, America is not alone. Other countries are also transforming themselves in fundamental ways.What has made this turnabout possible? One thing, the collaboration between technology and capitalism, although good governance and public awareness have also been critical. McAfee does warn of issues that haven’t been solved, like global warming, overfishing, and communities left behind as capitalism and tech progress race forward. But overall, More from Less is a revelatory, paradigm-shifting account of how we’ve stumbled into an unexpectedly better balance with nature—one that holds out the promise of more abundant and greener centuries ahead.

Tutti i manager guardano alla Silicon culla di innovazioni e aziende di successo. Qual è il segreto? Per Andrew McAfee è un’organizzazione basata su trasparenza, decentralizzazione, approccio scientifico nel decidere e velocità di iterazione. Qui si sperimenta, si rifugge la burocrazia e si persegue l’innovazione con una sola creare il meglio. La chiave? Seguire la via del geek.Un lavoro notevole, che finalmente spiega le ragioni per cui l’approccio delle startup tecnologiche ha conquistato gran parte del mondo.Reid Hoffman, cofondatore di LinkedIn e autore di The Startup of YouMcAfee è un provocatore e un intellettuale di livello non smette mai di mettere alla prova le mie convinzioni e di affinare il mio pensiero, e leggere questo libro farà lo stesso con voi.Adam Grant, autore di Il potenziale nascosto, Pensaci ancora e Essere originaliMcAfee capisce che nella Silicon Valley non abbiamo solo creato nuove tecnologie, ma anche nuovi modi di gestire un’azienda in un mondo permeato dalla tecnologia. In La via del Geek, McAfee distilla ciò che abbiamo inventato.Eric Schmidt, ex CEO di Google

“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge the limitations of their futurology and avoid over-simplification.” ― Financial Times In The Second Machine Age , Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help readers make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.

In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done. It will change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation. What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. It's not deferential to experts, fond of planning and process, afraid of mistakes, or obsessed with "winning." But it explains everything from why Montessori babies turn out to be creative tinkerers to how newcomers are disrupting industry after industry (and still just getting started). When all four norms are in place, a culture emerges that is freewheeling, fast-moving, egalitarian, evidence-driven, argumentative, and autonomous. Why does the geek way work so much better? McAfee provides an original because it taps into humanity's superpower, which is our ability to cooperate intensely and learn rapidly. By providing insights from the young discipline of cultural evolution, McAfee shows that when we come together under the right conditions, we quickly figure out how to build reusable spaceships and self-correcting organizations. Under the wrong conditions, though, we create bureaucracy, chronic delays, cultures of silence, and the other classic dysfunctions of the Industrial Era. Mixing cutting-edge science, history, analysis, and stories that show the geek way in action, McAfee offers a new way to see the world and empowering tools for seizing the big opportunities of today and tomorrow.

Kultowa ksiazka naukowców z amerykanskiego Instytuty Technologii w Massachusetts (MIT). Erik Brynjolfsson i Andrew McAfee, analizujac wysoki poziom bezrobocia w USA, uwaznie przygladaja sie teorii ,,konca pracy". Argumentuja, ze w obliczu rosnacych kompetencji maszyn, przecietny pracownik traci silna pozycje na rynku, która do niedawna jeszcze zachowywal. Zródlem utrzymujacego sie dzis wysokiego bezrobocia jest - zdaniem autorów - nieprzystosowanie przecietnego pracownika do warunków panujacych na rynku oraz fakt, ze pod wzgledem kompetencji i wydajnosci przegrywa on z maszynami.Analiza rynku pracy jest dla autorów jedynie punktem wyjscia do szerokich rozwazan o skali postepu technologicznego ostatnich lat. Opisujac wykladnicze tempo rozwoju technologii, autorzy posluguja sie metafora ziarenka ryzu na szachownicy. Twierdza, ze przestalismy juz nadazac za tym procesem. Podobnie jak Raymond Kurzweil, guru srodowiska singultarian (wyznawców teorii osobliwosci), podajac przyklady z dziedziny GPT (general purpose technology) wskazuja, ze komputery zaczynaja zastepowac nas w kolejnych dziedzinach zycia, poniewaz potrafia dopasowywac sie do danych sytuacji i operowac czyms na ksztalt intuicji. I snuja wizje gospodarki przyszlosci, napedzanej innowacjami i praca maszyn.A jak w tym wszystkim ma odnalezc sie czlowiek?Erik Brynjolfsson wyklada w Sloan School of Management na amerykanskiej uczelni Instytut Technologii w Massachusetts (MIT), a takze jest dyrektorem funkcjonujacego tam MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy i MIT Center for Digital Business. Zarzadza takze periodykiem Sloan Management Review. Pracuje w amerykanskim Narodowym Biurze Badan Ekonomicznych (NBER). Studiowal na Uniwersytecie Harvarda i na MIT.Andrew McAfee wspólzarzadza MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Jest tez jednym z dyrektorów w MIT Center for Digital Business i nadzoruje prowadzone tam badania. Podobnie jak Brynjolfsson ukonczyl studia na Uniwersytecie Harvarda i na MIT. Napisal ksiazke pt. Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges.

"Web 2.0" is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. In just a few years, Web 2.0 communities have demonstrated astonishing levels of innovation, knowledge accumulation, collaboration, and collective intelligence.Now, leading organizations are bringing the Web's novel tools and philosophies inside, creating Enterprise 2.0. In this book, Andrew McAfee shows how they're doing this, and why it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing-when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge, highlight and leverage expertise, generate and refine ideas, and harness the wisdom of crowds.Most organizations, however, don't find it easy or natural to use these new tools initially. And executives see many possible pitfalls associated with them. Enterprise 2.0 explores these concerns, and shows how business leaders can overcome them.McAfee brings together case studies and examples with key concepts from economics, sociology, computer science, consumer psychology, and management studies and presents them all in a clear, accessible, and entertaining style. Enterprise 2.0 is a must-have resource for all C-suite executives seeking to make technology decisions that are simultaneously powerful, popular, and pragmatic.

Una obra que plantea una nueva forma de alcanzar grandes logros en un mundo empresarial cada vez más rápido. Cambiará la forma en que concibes el trabajo, los equipos, los proyectos y la cultura, y te proporcionará la comprensión y las herramientas necesarias para tomar las riendas de nuestros «superpoderes humanos» de aprendizaje y cooperación.¿Qué significa «ser un geek»? Los geeks utilizan su insaciable curiosidad y su amor por la innovación para afrontar el reto de crear mejores productos y empresas; no temen abordar grandes problemas y aplicar soluciones poco convencionales, y no les preocupa seguir la corriente.McAfee muestra cómo los geeks han creado una nueva cultura basada en cuatro ciencia, autonomía, velocidad y mentalidad abierta. No prioriza a los expertos, ni está supeditada a la planificación y los procesos; sus practicantes no temen cometer fallos, ni están obsesionados con «ganar». Al principio, su enfoque puede parecer extraño. Pero cuando las cuatro normas se ponen en marcha, emerge una cultura libre, ágil, igualitaria, basada en evidencias, argumentativa y autónoma. ¿Por qué el método geek funciona tan bien? McAfee proporciona una respuesta porque aprovecha los «superpoderes» humanos, que son nuestra habilidad de cooperar intensamente y aprender con rapidez. Combinando teoría de la gestión, estrategia competitiva, ciencia de la evolución, psicología y antropología cultural, así como historias que ejemplifican el estilo geek en acción, McAfee ofrece una nueva manera de observar el mundo, así como herramientas para aprovechar las grandes oportunidades de hoy y de mañana.

This is the first casebook to focus on operations and evaluate the operational side of an organisation's E-business transformation.

Financial Times Business Books of the Month Economist Best Books of 2023 Read by the author, Andrew McAfee, and Sean Patrick Hopkins. With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn 'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google We’re living in a time of amazing innovation, but we’re not paying enough attention to one of the most important of the innovation to the company itself. Now, bestselling author of The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee, explains how engineers and geeks are changing the world of business – with extraordinary results. A new model is being pioneered by geeks; a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can – and should – be. They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era, with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking. They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time. They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek through trial and error, egalitarianism, evidence and stress-testing ideas in a group setting – rather than relying on the boss’s instincts. By investigating and surveying the contemporary research in psychology, economics and the behavioural sciences, as well as first-hand accounts from the ‘geek’ leaders of today, McAfee's groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world. We have entered a new age. And this age will transform how we achieve great things, now and into the future. The future is geek. 'The most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organisations' - Adam Grant, host of TED podcast Thinking and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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