The Resource Top dog : the science of winning and losing, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Top dog : the science of winning and losing, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
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- Summary
- Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools and usingthe latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- vi, 335 p.
- Contents
-
- Introduction: parachuters and ballroom dancers
- The competition machine
- What goes down when the stakes go up
- How the worriers can beat the warriors
- Even odds: why women need them and men don't
- The utter importance of pillow fights
- The difference between winning and not losing
- How one night of blackjack sped up the world economy
- The 'roid rage of chess
- The hierarchy of teams
- Michelangelo had an agent
- How the Black Sox cleaned up Wall Street
- Isbn
- 9781455515158
- Label
- Top dog : the science of winning and losing
- Title
- Top dog
- Title remainder
- the science of winning and losing
- Statement of responsibility
- Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools and usingthe latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bronson, Po
- Dewey number
- 302/.14
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF637.C47
- LC item number
- B76 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Merryman, Ashley
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Competition (Psychology)
- Success
- Failure (Psychology)
- Label
- Top dog : the science of winning and losing, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: parachuters and ballroom dancers -- The competition machine -- What goes down when the stakes go up -- How the worriers can beat the warriors -- Even odds: why women need them and men don't -- The utter importance of pillow fights -- The difference between winning and not losing -- How one night of blackjack sped up the world economy -- The 'roid rage of chess -- The hierarchy of teams -- Michelangelo had an agent -- How the Black Sox cleaned up Wall Street
- Control code
- ocn806015770
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- vi, 335 p.
- Isbn
- 9781455515158
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012033767
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Top dog : the science of winning and losing, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: parachuters and ballroom dancers -- The competition machine -- What goes down when the stakes go up -- How the worriers can beat the warriors -- Even odds: why women need them and men don't -- The utter importance of pillow fights -- The difference between winning and not losing -- How one night of blackjack sped up the world economy -- The 'roid rage of chess -- The hierarchy of teams -- Michelangelo had an agent -- How the Black Sox cleaned up Wall Street
- Control code
- ocn806015770
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- vi, 335 p.
- Isbn
- 9781455515158
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012033767
- Other physical details
- ill.
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