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Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung
An elegant and counterintuitive guide to achieving perfect timing
Timing is everything. Whether we are making strategic business decisions or the smallest personal choice, we must decide not only what to do, but when to do it. Act too early--or too late--and the results can be disastrous. Based on a 20-year investigation into more than 2,000 timing issues and errors, When presents a single and practical approach for dealing with timing in life and business. Good timing, Albert argues, is not just a matter of luck, intuition, or past experience--all of which may be unreliable--but a skill. He describes that skill and details the tools and methods needed to conduct a successful timing analysis.
The book is the first to offer an efficient and comprehensive way to think through any timing issue Filled with dozens of lively stories illustrating good and bad timing in all walks of life--business, warfare, medicine, sports, entertainment and the arts Written by Stuart Albert, one of the foremost timing experts in the world and developer of the first practical, research-based method for turning the skill of timing into a competitive advantageEngaging and counterintuitive, When will show everyone, regardless of the work they do, or the life they live, that "it's all in the timing."
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"Timing matters... in every aspect of business: from the launch of a new product, to decisions about when to change strategic direction, spin off part of a company, accept a counteroffer or invest in new equipment." A self-professed timing expert, Albert argues that there's much more to avoiding timing errors than simply learning how to wait for the right moment. Too often, he says, we rely on "time-impoverished" information-i.e., data that fails to account for the "temporal structure of everything that happens." Albert shows readers how to determine what kind of data is appropriate, and then demonstrates how to analyze it for useful patterns, which he calls the "temporal architecture." This architecture comprises considerations like the sequence and duration of steps in a process, as well as its "shape," which can reveal "bumps," cycles, and bottlenecks. Illustrative examples range from flight schedules to the rocky launch of the Segway, NASCAR's system for assigning penalties, and the musical concept of polyphony, which Albert uses to examine parallel processes. This detail-rich, case-study-based volume is a truly unique addition to the business literature, and Albert's common-sense points will prove a boon to readers eager to make time count. Agent: Jacque Murphy, Inkwell Management. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.