Best management science books according to redditors

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u/WarWeasle · 10 pointsr/aspergers

It's acting. That's all an interview is. Pick a person you think would get hired and emulate them. Be upbeat, research the company and have faith in yourself. You are likely more qualified than your peers, you just know your limits and admit them truthfully. NT's lie.

| Example: Do you know TCP/IP?
| NT: YES, I've worked with it for years. (Meaning, they have surfed the web for years.

| Aspi: Well, I've created one or two programs that use it, but mostly through a networking library which simplified the problem. There are parts of I don't completely understand. (Which is true of all people, even the inventors.)

Which one would they hire? The first one. My tips:

  • Don't over-answer. Be friendly, but end your responses about 1 or 2 sentences early. They don't realize they are being vague.

  • Keep them talking. 70/30 is good, 80/20 is better. Don't be evasive, just turn every answer into a question. "TCP/IP? Why yes, I know my packet protocols. (this clarifies the question, so you don't feel like you are lying) It's interesting (always be interested, pleased, happy, insert positive emotion here) you should ask that. What are you looking to do with it?

  • Don't assume anything. "Is that your boat in the picture on your desk?" "Not anymore, my ex-wife took it in the divorce." (You are now associated with ex-wife.)

  • Smile! Smile! Smile! Practice to not make it look fake. I know it's hard, so I sit in a quiet dark room before and after an interview.

  • If you feel it, say it but in a nice way. If they seem like they are not listening, by answering phone calls, walking out, and trying to do work, say something like "I get the feeling you are not interested in me as a candidate. (YOUR feeling never his) Did I do something wrong?" If they say no, immediately say, "I'm sorry, I was mistaken." and then get them talking again with a question.

  • No one ever listened their way out of a job.

  • The word "AND" is great. "We are looking for someone with X." YOU: "And?" THem: "They need to start as soon as possible." You: (repeat and clarify) "Oh you need someone immediately? Why the rush?" (makes for good banter.

  • If there is an awkward silence at the start of the interview, say "Alright, why don't you start." You have taken charge and then deferred. Meeting him as an equal. Also a funny thing happens: THEY START.

  • Get this book. He has tons of good advice for making sales, and that's what an interview is, a sales call. Sell yourself. I don't know if this all works in other cultures, however.

    EDIT: I almost forgot, look up "Closing Questions". At the end of the interview ask something that assumes you already worked there. I like: "Do you think I would fit into your company's culture?"
u/jhvanriper · 8 pointsr/history

Found under safety of the Silk Road:



Mentions of Bandits and robbers:

Bandits and robbers were a constant threat on the Silk Road. Xuanzang mentions several encounters with bandits.

>Near Dunhuang, the Silk Road split in two to skirt the rim of the Taklamakan Desert. The roads met again 1400 miles west at Kashgar. But between these two oases lay the Silk Road's most dangerous terrain. Among the threats were starvation, thirst, bandits, and ferocious sandstorms that were known to bury entire caravans.


The Mogao Caves near Dunhuang are laden with Buddhist art spanning a period of 1000 years. Most of the images are religious, but there are also images of everyday life. There are scenes that show travelers on the Silk Road, and some portray bandits.

The Logistics:

The Silk Road goes through some of the most challenging terrain in terms of vast deserts and high and rugged mountain ranges. The terrain, the weather and many other risks did indeed result in higher transit costs. Bandits and robbers certainly added to the risk. But several systems were in place to reduce the risk.

Few people ever traveled the full length of the Silk Road. The goods were transported by a series of routes and agents. This mode meant that local agents, familiar with terrain, politics, and bandits of their own region, who were better suited for the task, would ensure safe transit.

>The shipment of goods from South Asia to Central Asia (or vice versa) was a long process that involved a number of transporters, which resulted in high transit costs. Whether the transporters were local villagers in the role of kiraiyakash or professional long distance porters such as the caravan men in Rasool Galwan’s autobiography (Galwan 1923), the transporters of goods through Ladakh had to be well informed concerning regional conditions, and familiar with the terrain. Landslides, sudden snowstorms, and bandits were just a few of the hazards faced by those transporting goods through Ladakh.
Source: Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road


Travelers joined caravans to benefit from safety in numbers and experience of the caravaneers gathered from their previous trips.

>Caravans were used mainly in desert areas and throughout the Silk Road, where traveling in groups aided in defense against bandits as well as helping to improve economies of scale in trade. -- Wikipedia


Another important choice was in the the routes used by the merchants, which were selected according to the political stability of the regional power. Centralized states, confederations and regional powers promoted trade and diplomacy. They invested in communications and economic infrastructure such as secure roads, water depots, inns, reliable coinage, standard weights and measures. They imposed taxes on travelers and traders. The merchants found it wiser and safer to pay the controlling authorities for safe passage than to risk encounters with bandits.

>Defense against banditry took place at private and institutional level. Caravans of goods needed their own guards against plundering by the bandits (i.e., for security risk), and this was an added cost for the merchants making the trip. The institutional level had three forms: The Chinese garrisons and watchtowers beyond the Great Wall, Mongolian postal stations, and caravanserais in the Middle East and Anatolia. These institutions provided safety, supplies, and lodgings for merchants. Besides, the Chinese soldiers informed about incidents using smoke and flag signals in real time.
Source: Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road


Different groups rose and fell through the ages, gaining political and military power, and hence controlling the trade along the Silk Road. Trade along the Silk Road was at its zenith during the Tang dynasty due to the stability of the government.

The travelers along the Silk Road changed over time. Chinese, Yuezhi, Bactrians, Indians, and Sogdians were the first to create the historical Silk Road in Central Asia in the first century BC. In time Muslim powers came to control large parts of the road.

>Islamic patrons built hostels, known as caravanserai, that accommodated both people and beasts of burden. In addition, the Seljuk Turks who controlled the western part of the Silk Road offered the traders a special guarantee of safety. The government assured their financial security by paying compensation out of the state treasury for any loss caused by robbery. The Turkish authorities, whether the unified Seljuk sultanate or independent amirs, also built fortified caravanserais that provided food, fodder, and lodging for the travelers at intervals of one day’s journey apart all along the trade routes.
Source: The Silk Road in World History


Taking into account the the time taken for 1 day's travel, caravanserais were strategically located on the trade routes at distances of 25 to 40km from each other. The topography, of course, affected the distance of the caravanserais. The caravanserais not only sheltered caravans, but also served as military stations.

And lastly, there was also Insurance.

>The Seljuk Sultanate of Anatolia created a state insurance policy in order to manage the security risks of land and sea traders whose goods are damaged or stolen due to bandit, pirate, and neighboring state attacks (Turan, 2009). For insurance purposes, contracts were signed between caravaneers and merchants that guaranteed the quantity of the goods and also reduction in the transportation fee if any delays occurred. Similar transportation contracts are used by third part logistics firms in today’s supply chains.* The caravaneers kept lists of goods carried with specifications such as variety, weight, and volume (Matthee, 1999). This practice is the origin of today’s bill of lading in global supply chains.
Source: Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road

u/fuckyou18769 · 5 pointsr/GenZ

>Trust the environmental scientists with climate information, even though they tend to have more liberal values on the situation. Trust the economists with the economy and the financial aspects of things, even though they tend to lean more economically conservative.

Hell no. Never trust experts. They are mostly shills these days. Like when 9 in 10 doctors recommended Marlboro.https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-consultants/dp/0316023787

u/OriginalName317 · 5 pointsr/InsightfulQuestions

Reorganize the concept of work of all sorts such that everyone operates within an appropriate level of their own authority. No people are expected to act as robots, and everyone has clearly defined roles in which they have decision making power. And, those roles and authorities can evolve over time with the advice and consent of the group, with the goal of doing better work in better ways.

Incidentally, I'm getting all this from Reinventing Organizations and Holacracy. You might be interested in reading those.

And to be fair to our real world so far, you couldn't really reboot and expect to get here. We needed the other organizational models to get us to the point that we'd even understand and be able to implement what I said above.

u/marklar901 · 4 pointsr/canada

What you're saying is definitely part of the problem there are a ton more.

We definitely have a ton of issues with science itself and I say that as a scientist. Not enough replicating of test results is one aspect that jumps to mind. Another is the demand for results. Companies and universities don't want to fund a test that shows the previous test results were held up, they want the break through's.

Lastly, all this being said science isn't about trust, its actually about the opposite IMO. You don't trust the result? Try to replicate the test, see if you get the same result. Be skeptical! Think critically. When I look at a peer reviewed paper I don't think: "Okay this person has to be right because it's published." I am looking at their method to see if the test makes sense and do the results come to a conclusion that relates or is possible with the methodology. Do their sources make sense? Papers tend to have dozens of references so it's not like your going to sift through each one but if you see certain situations you may do some digging. "I am referring to a sentence that looks like this or maybe something similar^1, you can do some interesting working of citing^2 to make it look like papers agreed with what your presenting^3."

I could go one for days about this but This book does a better job than I do about this topic and I highly suggest people read it. It's short and an entertaining read.

u/adshad · 3 pointsr/agile

There's plenty of literature that promotes the same things:

Drive by Daniel H. Pink

[Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb]
(http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto/dp/0812979680/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465069079&sr=8-1&keywords=antifragile)

Organize for complexity by Niels Pflaeging

Reinventing organizations by Frederic Laloux

Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo

Agile is a paradigm, not an instruction guide, and so all of these including the one you mentioned can be incorporated. Agile is not some stubborn point-by-point fieldbook, its a general attitude.

Many of the books I mentioned never make a single reference to Agile, because its being implemented in fields completely unrelated to software engineering (nurses doing homecare for seniors, auto part manufacturing, etc..)

u/ZAHANMA · 3 pointsr/logistics
  1. Journal of Commerce, but it is behind a pay wall. Worth the subscription fee if you have a need to stay out front of breaking logistics news.

  2. There are several free publications that do annual rankings of freight forwarders. Inbound Logistics has one (here), but they don't actually rank 1-100, they just list them. Armstrong & Associates also puts out a good one (here) that actually ranks them 1-25.

  3. There are a ridiculous number of books about logistics and supply chain management. I would look on Amazon and just search for them. A few that I have read recently are this, this, and this.

  4. This is highly subjective and would depend on what level these people are out. Executive level management will be making around that much in a year, but most people who handle the day to day functions are under $100,000 (£62,000)...and even then the high end of that is not very common.
u/wyzaard · 3 pointsr/IOPsychology

MCDA is an active field of research. Volume 23 of the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Multiple Criteria Decision
Analysis State of the Art Surveys
can give you a feel for the lay of the land.

Personally, I am reading French, Maule and Papamichail and Stewart and Belton before I jump into a state of the art survey. The former is a broad introduction to decision support the latter a an introduction to MCDA. My plan is to move on to state of the art level stuff by next year.

I don't think it is necessary, but it highly recommend you at least skim through an intro to operations research. Here is a youtube playlist that briefly covers most of the topics you would find in an intro to OR book. You can also look at any of the texts the man in the videos recommends. At university we used Winston's. The benefit would be that you can get an overview of the various methods used in prescriptive analytics. In Winston's book you can also get single chapter introductions to mathematics of decision making under uncertainty, game theory and goal programming (one approach to MCDA).

u/grandzooby · 3 pointsr/algorithms

GLPK is a commonly used library in a number of programming languages(R, Python, etc.) and Excel has a limited ability to do these problems.

If you want to take an Excel approach, I once took a class that used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Optimization-Modeling-Spreadsheets-Kenneth-Baker/dp/0470928638

u/im_original · 3 pointsr/PhilosophyofScience

Found a link for anyone who doesn't want to google it.

Also, this article was also written by Freedman and is also a good read about these issue.

u/BreakingNoose · 3 pointsr/keto

If you're interested in the cycle of pronouncements telling you something is bad for you, then retracting, and then claiming again, you might be interested in the book Wrong: Why experts keep failing us and how to know not to trust them.

u/--Aeo-- · 2 pointsr/CapitalismVSocialism

Well, I can point you at some books.


Reinventing organizations by Frederic Laloux


You can also look at the MIT handbook of collective intelligence.


This is a more pop science oriented version of the above, but it touches on different modes of organization not mentioned in the handbook. Superminds, by Thomas Malone, Mel Foster, et al.


If you don't want to spend money then look up libgen on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

u/kefaise · 2 pointsr/MaliciousCompliance

That's why I hate corporations. I really love concept from "Reinventing Organizations" book about corporate organization.

u/Dayleryn · 2 pointsr/agile

Your approach is quite interesting and brings a lot of questions and impressions, so kudos for sharing your thoughts!

> One question I have with this approach is at what point is something considered a complete "feature" and should thus produce a velocity point each iteration?

Simply put, when the "feature"'s Definition of Done is satisfied. If you have trouble defining a DoD for certain feature types, then these types might need to be clarified and/or downsized.

> What is a better name for this metric than velocity?

"Added value" seems right, considering you subtract from that metric whenever value-decreasing elements such as bugs and errors are discovered.

Now, my first concern with your approach is, like I started this reply with, that it brings a lot of questions... too many for me to consider this approach viable in the longer term.

First, such a composite metric fuses so many different variables that correlations will become undetectable... unless you measure these variables separately, which will make the composite metric irrelevant. For instance, say your "added value" suffered from an unexpected drop for a few days, one month ago. Based on your musings, this could be correlated with an acute lack of QA, a few developers on vacation, an exceptional hardware error causing hundreds of errors to be logged... anything, really. Therefore, if your metric doesn't help you investigate root causes, how will it be useful to your team?

Second, your rules related to bugs and errors make the wrongful assumption that all bugs and errors have the same impact, share the same priority and diminish your software's value equally. If your metric came to be used by management for evaluation purposes, it wouldn't fair for your team to be penalized the same for a production-crashing bug than for a typo in an administration console.

Finally, from the way you describe the metric's heuristics and their evolution, I'm afraid you'll be tempted to spend significant effort tweaking these heuristics further... that could be invested in investigating bottlenecks, researching testing tools, refining your features' Definitions of Ready and Done, etc. Say your added value is impacted way more than you expected by bugs and errors: will you consider adjusting them to -1 added value points by 5 hours of non-resolution rather than 3? Or perhaps only certain types of bugs and errors should cause these losses? What about higher-value features that could provide more than 1 added value point? Worst of all: as soon as you make one of these tweaks, your metric's past values will no longer be comparable to the revised values and your historical data will become near useless.

If you are interested by alternative approaches differing from Story Points and traditional hourly estimates, I have learned much from The Scrumban Revolution and Actionable Agile Metrics from Predicability; applying their knowledge to my previously-Scrum team brought us many benefits and improved productivity. Hope these can help you as much in return!

u/RhinoFeces · 2 pointsr/engineering

This is the book used for the linear programming class I'm currently in:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Programming-Foundations-Extensions-International/dp/0387743871&ved=2ahUKEwjSt6Ko8KbdAhVLVK0KHcctDFcQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1uTVbB9a67w2qoQ5ryM11J

I can't tell you much about it because I didn't buy it lol. We use Matlab, octave, and gusek in the class though

u/FoxKeegan · 2 pointsr/pokemongodev

Here. This should help you. Start here, and move onto a 101 class.
You'll enjoy the part on EoS
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-MBA-Dummies-Kathleen-Allen/dp/0470194294/

gl;hf

u/fapi1974 · 2 pointsr/Entrepreneur

Up front I should state that my goal isn't a 100 page book per week, but rather a series of 5-10,000 word ebooks on specific GTM topics. That's pretty doable for me - I can generally kick out 3-4k words a day.

I think someone found them below, but I wrote Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization and Farm Don't Hunt. Neither was a bestseller! But both sold several thousand copies and were pretty well received in the communities they targeted - tech sales and customer success executives. On each I worked with an expert in the field. In fact FDH was written with the CEO of a Customer Success platform, Totango, which is pretty well known.

On innovation - I had two of my own startups after leaving Yahoo. The first was an augmented reality platform (in 2008 - way early) which I sold - Gametize. It was cool because I came up with the idea of allowing users to mix and match game mechanics (quests, points, characters, leaderboards etc) to create their own online-offline games. We pivoted from a consumer model to a B2B model - the ultimate GTM maneuver (though maybe not that innovative). My second startup was also innovative - though it failed. I built a platform that let multiple people collaborate on making a movie that tells a story (e.g. has a plot, dialogue etc). No one has done that yet. But I got interested in go to market because of a personal experience.

After my second startup failed and I had spent all the cash from my first exit, I became the General Manager of North America for a mobile ad network, Papaya Mobile. Most of my career had been spent doing business development deals - long lead cycles, big amounts, lots of customization. Ad sales, on the other hand, was pure sales - high velocity, replicability, process. And I was not doing well. My team was falling short. My co-author, Jacco, had a business helping companies with their sales teams, and when he put us through his process it was transformative.

The business went from hundreds of dollars a day in net revenue to tens of thousands. I really wanted to write a book with him to capture that knowledge. One of the points in Blueprints, a big one, was that getting the initial close in a SaaS world is pretty easy - but you make most of your money afterwards. That isn't sales, it's Customer Success. So I got interested in that and wrote the second book.

u/k-selectride · 2 pointsr/Physics

This is probably the book you want. It has problems and solutions, worked examples and best of all you can download the pdf with some googling. It's nice an succinct, and provides a good choice of topics for an undergraduate course.

Alternatively, there's the bible, Bransden and Joachain. The downside is that it's quite lengthy, and you probably only really care about the first ~10 or so chapters, although that amounts to about 450 pages worth of material. Also, as far as I remember there was no discussion of 6j symbols, but that's not the end of the world.

u/college_pastime · 1 pointr/Physics

> What happens if the crystal is not cubic? I assume the circular dichroism cancels in some way, but why?

Cubic crystals tend not to alleviate the degeneracy of the M_J quantum numbers (I'm just talking about atomic transitions here, not crystal states or molecular states). There are situations where imperfections cause symmetry breaking that leads to alleviation of degeneracy, but not in a perfect crystal. This only applies to insulators by the way. If you have a metallic crystal, free currents in the metal can cause circular dichroism.

> In what way do things get complicated, exactly?

You can have chiral molecules, but floating in solution their relative orientations are random. As a result circular dichroism is not measurable in the ensemble unless you can cause macroscopic alignment of the molecules (like in a chiral nematic liquid crystal).

Also, it's complicated because molecular wavefunctions are not as intuitive as atomic wavefunctions. It's tough to figure out whether a molecule will exhibit certain optical properties without doing molecular orbital calculations. Though, group theory can give you a reasonable intuition for many cases.

> Are there any handles I could use to understand things better?

This is a pretty complex topic that requires an understanding of quantum mechanics and group theory. I didn't fully understand all of this until the last year of my Ph.D. You should take some classes in condensed and soft matter, for starters.

There are some books I guess I could recommend:

u/singhpr · 1 pointr/agile

This is a great read on useful metrics - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013ZQ5TUQ

u/malpighien · 1 pointr/worldnews

Antisemitism was not restricted to a country in particular, before or even during WWII there was also antisemitism in allied countries. In the case of USA I think there is a book about it http://www.amazon.com/Antisemitism-America-Leonard-Dinnerstein/dp/019510112X

Although it is certain that antisemitism divided the French society in two during the Dreyfus trial. Eventually he was rehabilitated.


Persecution of Jewish people has always existed

u/dp25x · 1 pointr/optimization

A good book that has a large number of sample models is "Model Building in Mathematical Programming" by H.P. Williams

IBM has a large collection of examples, which they provide example solutions for, in their documentation for their CPLEX Studio product stack.

If you are interested in constraint programming, the IBM collection has a number of relevant examples, and there are a lot of example you could find for the MiniZinc platform. Here is a collection of examples that come from a coursera MOOC that might be worth investing some time in.

If you are interested in Metaheuristic/Search types of optimization, the OptaPlanner tool has some great examples that are worth a look.

u/tubes4tone · 1 pointr/financialindependence

I found this book very helpful for estate planning purposes, including trusts. The author does a great job of asking questions to help you think about YOUR situation and what you might want to do for YOUR beneficiaries. Note: this is not a do-it-yourself-without-an-estate-attorney guide, but a guide to help YOU decide what YOU want to do.
Plan Your Own Estate

u/sublimnl · 1 pointr/IAmA

Check out this book for inspiration: http://www.amazon.com/European-Founders-Pedro-Gairifo-Santos/dp/1430239069

You can build a global business anywhere - but obviously you will have different contacts where ever you are...

u/quantlurk · 1 pointr/finance

I very much enjoyed VBA for Modelers (Albright) as an introductory text. It's on the pricey side, but it's easy to follow and explains the basics (up through the creation of simple applications with user forms, if I recall correctly) very well.

u/PapaBearPrime · 1 pointr/sales

This book is perfect for learning the basic selling methodology and tactics: You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar : The Sandler Sales Institute's 7-Step System for Successful Selling https://www.amazon.com/dp/0967179904/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_E.ZvCbCC39VXB

I’ve been through a two different sales training programs so far and Sandler by far is my favorite of the two (the other was Question Based Selling). The reason I like Sandler is because it is less “salesy” and fits my personality better, but QBS is popular as well (I think).

u/publius_lxxii · -1 pointsr/climateskeptics

Now this is truly something interesting.

>the unscientific stuff that constitutes the IPCC–led propaganda bandied about as “scientific consensus”), scores 7 out of 7 on the Freedman scale and therefore should lie at the bottom of anybody’s trust level: ...


I'd never heard of this "wrongology" or the "Freedman scale". I see there's this book at Amazon. I might have to check this out.


u/MartinSchecter · -8 pointsr/engineering