Financial Times Business Book of the Month Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize A leading venture capitalist offers surprising revelations on who is going to be driving innovation in the years to come Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in the computer sciences, you were a techie. This informal division has quietly found its way into a default assumption that has misled the business world for decades: that it's the techies who drive innovation. But in this brilliantly contrarian book, Hartley reveals the counterintuitive reality of business today: it's actually the fuzzies - not the techies - who are playing the key roles in developing the most creative and successful new business ideas. They are often the ones who understand the life issues that need solving and offer the best approaches for doing so. It is they who are bringing context to code, and ethics to algorithms.They also bring the management and communication skills, the soft skills that are so vital to spurring growth. Hartley looks inside some of today's most dynamic new companies, reveals breakthrough fuzzy-techie collaborations, and explores how such collaborations are at the center of innovation in business, education, and government, and why liberal arts are still relevant in our techie world.

The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

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Hartley, Scott

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Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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Guilford: Five Years of Change

Railpace Company

On April 1, 1976, seven major Northeastern railroads ceased to exist. Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna,Reading, Lehigh Valley, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, and Lehigh &amp; Hudson River-- plus several of their terminal and shortline subsidiaries-- all were merged into a new railroad, the Consolidated Rail Corporation. Conrail, as the new system came to be known, was created by Congress to convert the bankrupt component railroads into a profitable operation. Many doubted that this goal was attainable, but Conrail would prove them wrong. However, it would take more than six years and seven billion dollars in federal money to make the new railroad a viable entity.This book, the first of a two-volume set, focuses on the events leading up to the creation of Conrail, and the company's first six years of uncertain existence. This was a period when many railroad enthusiasts ignored Conrail. For many, Conrail simply meant the disappearance of their favorite railroads. Not only were the multitude of attractive color schemes of CR's smaller components vanishing, but many previously-busy main lines were relegated to branch status, and many picturesque branches were abandoned. It was a sad period for those who had been fans of the EL, RDG, LV, CNJ, PRSL, and L&amp;HR.Conrail's early years were a period of great change and excitement. Here was a system of freight and passenger operations of 16,000 route miles covering 16 states, two Canadian provinces, and the District of Columbia. On its first day, Conrail rostered 80 different models of diesel and electric locomotives wearing a rainbow of paint schemes.Luckily, many fans chose not to neglect the activity which was occurring over the far-flung Conrail system. CONRAIL Volume 1: 1976-1982 draws upon the talents of more than forty of America's and Canada's best railroad photographers. An incredible selection of color views portraying the new railroad in its early years illustrates this volume.

Conrail Volume 1: 1976-1982

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Railpace Company Inc.

After several years as a recipient of federal subsidies, Conrail began to ake a profit in the early 1980's. Although the giant government-owned railroad was earning money for the treasury, the Reagan administration nevertheless was anxious to sell Conrail-- whole, or piecemeal. This book follows the efforts of CR executives and employees in their fight against the government's attempt to sell the railroad to Norfolk Southern, and continues through the 1987 stock sale that made Conrail a publicly-held corporation. This was a period of simultaneous expansion and rationalization. Conrail was the nation's largest intermodal rail carrier, and this business continued to grow. At the same time, the railroad was abandoning and selling off marginal main and branch lines. Employment continued to drop, as unions agreed to perform their duties with smaller crews. Under the capable leadership of chairman L. Stanley Crane, Conrail kept afloat during the severe recession of the early Eighties. The railroad's initial fleet of elderly locomotives was upgraded with modern diesels from General Electric and Electro-Motive. New technology, in the form of platform cars carrying doublestacked containers increased Conrail's intermodal traffic, and the company became the eastern link for several coast-to-coast "land bridge" stackpack container routes. New routings with southern and western connections resulted in locomotive runthrough agreements, adding color to Conrail's bright blue power consists. CONRAIL Vol 2: 1983-1990 shows today's Conrail. Many of America's and Canada's leading rail photographers have contributed their work to this volume, resulting in an outstanding array of brilliant color pictures which illustrate Conrail from east to west and north to south. You will witness the drama of 70 mph piggyback trains behind high-horsepower diesels on perfectly-maintained main lines. You will be trackside to see the rural charm of Conrail's scenic, yet profitable, branches.

Conrail Volume 2: 1983-1990

All-color pictorial history of the New Haven during the 1940s-1960s. This book takes the reader on a tour from the electrified zone to the heavy freight Maybrook line to the myriad of obscure and secondary branch lines. See A-B-B-A lashups of green ALCo FAs, orange and green ALCo DL-109s, FM C-Liners, experimental lightweight passenger trains and more. ENjoy the final years of steam and watch the growlers take over. With diesel and electric rosters. Decorative end papers show large map of the entire system. 160 pages.

New Haven Railroad: The Final Decades

History

Americas

“Scott Hartley artfully explains why it is time for us to get over the false division between the human and the technical.” —Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change by Design Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in computer or hard sciences, you were a techie. While Silicon Valley is generally considered a techie stronghold, the founders of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Slack, LinkedIn, PayPal, Stitch Fix, Reddit, and others are all fuzzies—in other words, people with backgrounds in the liberal arts. In this brilliantly counterintuitive book, Hartley shatters assumptions about business and education today: learning to code is not enough. The soft skills—curiosity, communication, and collaboration, along with an understanding of psychology and society’s gravest problems—are central to why technology has value. Fuzzies are the instrumental stewards of robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. They offer a human touch that is of equal—if not greater—importance in our technology-led world than what most techies can provide. For anyone doubting whether a well-rounded liberal arts education is practical in today’s world, Hartley’s work will come as an inspiring revelation. Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize A Financial Times Business Book of the Month

The Fuzzy And The Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

Business Culture

Harper Business

Fuzzy and the Techie, The

A finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower PrizeA leading venture capitalist offers surprising revelations on who is going to be driving innovation in the years to comeScott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in the computer sciences, you were a techie. This informal division has quietly found its way into a default assumption that has misled the business world for decades: that it's the techies who drive innovation.But in this brilliantly contrarian book, Hartley reveals the counterintuitive reality of business today: it's actually the fuzzies - not the techies - who are playing the key roles in developing the most creative and successful new business ideas. They are often the ones who understand the life issues that need solving and offer the best approaches for doing so. It is they who are bringing context to code, and ethics to algorithms.They also bring the management and communication skills, the soft skills that are so vital to spurring growth.Hartley looks inside some of today's most dynamic new companies, reveals breakthrough fuzzy-techie collaborations, and explores how such collaborations are at the center of innovation in business, education, and government, and why liberal arts are still relevant in our techie world.

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Seguro que alguna vez te han preguntado: «¿Eres de ciencias o de letras?». Esta división nos persigue durante toda la vida, desde que decidimos qué estudiar hasta el trabajo que vamos a desempeñar. Esta dicotomía está tan presente que nos define como personas y nos limita en el entorno laboral. Pero ¿y si no fuera así? ¿Y si un filósofo puede ser igual o más útil para una empresa de inteligencia artificial que un informático? Las empresas han aceptado esta división sin cuestionarla y, en la actualidad, son los de ciencias quienes ocupan los cargos más relevantes en el ámbito tecnológico. Pero en este libro, Hartley nos muestra que, en realidad, son los formados en humanidades los que juegan un papel clave en el desarrollo de los negocios y las tecnologías más creativos y exitosos. Los de humanidades entienden y analizan los problemas y ofrecen los mejores enfoques para resolverlos, basados en el factor humano. También aportan habilidades fundamentales para las empresas, como la gestión, el liderazgo o la comunicación. Menos tech y más Pláton analiza algunas de las empresas más innovadoras de la actualidad y nos muestra cómo hacen realidad la colaboración entre las humanidades y la tecnología y cómo pueden implantarlas otras empresas. En definitiva, nos enseña por qué es necesario humanizar la tecnología y dotarla del componente más importante, las personas. PUNTOS FUERTES: • El libro ha sido finalista del prestigioso premio al mejor libro de negocios del año, organizado por The Financial Times y McKensey & Company. También ha sido nombrado el mejor libro del mes por The Financial Times. • Desarrolla un tema innovador, de actualidad y relevancia en el mundo tecnológico y empresario actual; la necesidad de implantar las humanidades en un mundo inminentemente tecnológico. • Muchas de las escuelas de negocio más prestigiosas están alineadas con el pensamiento de este libro, e incluyen en sus programas el estudio transversal de las humanidades. • El libro presenta casos reales de empresas que han incorporado las humanidades para mejorar su tecnología y resolver problemas, como Apple, Spire, Tesla, Uber o Google. • Presenta de forma totalmente nueva las tecnologías y temas que dominarán el mundo empresarial en los próximos años: las aplicaciones del big data, la ética en la inteligencia artificial, los coches autónomos, el futuro del trabajo, el uso de los algoritmos… • El autor, Scott Hartley, es uno de los más prestigiosos y conocidos de Estados Unidos, y ofrece conferencias por todo el mundo. ha trabajado en empresas tan importantes como Google o Facebook, por lo que es una voz de autoridad dentro del mundo tecnológico.

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The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

Guilford: Five Years of Change

Conrail Volume 1: 1976-1982

Conrail Volume 2: 1983-1990

New Haven Railroad: The Final Decades

The Fuzzy And The Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

MENOS TECH Y MÁS PLATÓN (Spanish Edition)