Tag: Wrong

January 5, 2024

Wrong Fit, Right Fit Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever

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Free Download Wrong Fit, Right Fit: Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever by Andre Martin
English | September 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 1950508757 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 10.02 MB
We are in the midst of a crisis of commitment in the workplace-organizations are searching for engaged employees ("talent") and employees are looking for a place to thrive. Both are struggling. If we fit, we hum, we connect, we create momentum and produce high-value work with grace and ease. But the wrong fit has serious consequences, including frustration, disengagement, and disruption, which undermines every aspect of daily work and the production of value.

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January 4, 2024

Technically Wrong Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech [Audiobook] (2024)

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Free Download Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Audiobook)
English | October 10, 2017 | ASIN: B075Y7J3S2 | M4B@62 kbps | 5h 42m | 155.57 MB
Author: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Narrator: Andrea Emmes
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It’s time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who’s not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.

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December 29, 2023

So Wrong for So Long How the Press, the Pundits–and the President–Failed on Iraq

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Free Download Bruce Springsteen, Joseph L. Galloway, "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits-and the President-Failed on Iraq"
English | 2008 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1402756577 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
It is often said that a free press is the watchdog of democracy, insuring that the conduct of our leaders is examined with a critical eye. This makes Greg Mitchell the watchdog of watchdogs, as tracking the performance of the media is his beat at Editor & Publisher, the influential magazine of the newspaper industry. Over the past five years, his weekly column "Pressing Issues," has intensely scrutinized the coverage of the Iraq war, the media’s views of the credibility of the Bush Administration, and such related topics as 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the CIA Leak Case. Now, as the war in Iraq reaches its 5th anniversary, this first-ever collection, with more than 75 of Mitchell’s columns, provides a unique history of the conflict, from the hyped WMD stories to the "surge."

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December 29, 2023

Everything Is Wrong with Me A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong

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Free Download Jason Mulgrew, "Everything Is Wrong with Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong"
English | 2010 | pages: 214 | ISBN: 0061766658 | EPUB | 2,9 mb
"People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud." – Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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