Honest Signals
How They Shape Our World
$37.87
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2010
Summary
How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement to our conscious language; they form a separate commun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262515122 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262515121 |
| Author: | Alex Pentland, Tracy Heibeck |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
A technology poised to change the world.
—Technology ReviewA new understanding of organizational effectiveness.
—Strategy+BusinessPentland’s lucid treatment of complicated psychobiological principles effectively enables lay readers to grasp difficult but significant concepts… Similar in scope to Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Pentland’s book is better-suited and recommended for university collections.
—Library JournalAbout The Author
Alex Pentland
Alex Pentland holds a triple appointment at MIT in the Media Lab (SA+P), School of Engineering, and Sloan School of Management. He directs MIT’s Connection Science initiative, the Human Dynamics Laboratory, and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program. He is the author of Honest Signals- How They Shape Our World and coeditor of New Solutions for Cybersecurity (both published by the MIT Press). One of the most-cited computer scientists in the world, with international awards in the Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, he was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century.
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