Embodied habits matter deeply, as illustrated powerfully in Roberts' timely new book.

Financial Times

A humanistic perspective on tech

Maria Bezaitis, Intel

An incredibly thoughtful and thought-provoking book about the power of not over-thinking

Charles Leadbeater, social innovator and author

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'Has the potential to change the way you think about understanding people'

Martha Cotton, Fjord/Accenture

Roberts shows us that our bodies, as well as our minds, have a vital role to play in the contribution that human beings make

Stefan Stern, author of How To Be A Better Leader

An excellent and delightfully readable book

Christian Madsbjerg, Professor of Applied Humanities

This book is as timely as it is important. Bodies have always mattered but it takes a voice as clear as Simon Roberts to remind us of just how very much, and why embodiment should be a critical part of all our conversations about the future.

Genevieve Bell

A lovely account that explains why executives, financiers, policy makers (and everybody else) needs to embrace walking in someone else's shoes

Guardian

What prevented a Russian general from launching a nuclear counterattack?How did a janitor best a Google supercomputer?Why do we never forget how to ride a bike?In this fascinating new book, business anthropologist Dr Simon Roberts breaks down the revolutionary idea of embodied knowledge: the information that is unconsciously picked up by our body for use in almost every area of our lives. Drawing on his own experience working with some of the world's leading industry experts and looking at an incredible range of real-life examples and cutting-edge science, Roberts explains the various ways in which our body acquires, retains and employs information - and shows why we should trust the instincts that inform the most crucial decisions and actions in our life.We have been told that Big Data is the future and that AI will soon make all of our choices for us, but, as Hard Wired proves, humans are far more capable than we have been led to believe. An incredible look at the human capacity to learn, adapt and excel.This audio edition is an MP3 CD.
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Embodied habits matter deeply, as illustrated powerfully in Roberts' timely new book.
A fascinating and revelatory look at how our bodies learn unconsciously and how understanding this can transform our lives.
A smart-thinking, big idea book in the vein of Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed, Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

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ISBN
9781788703857
Publisert
2020-07-09
Utgiver
Vendor
BLINK Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
LydCD

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Narrator

Om bidragsyterne

Simon Roberts is one the world's leading anthropologists in business. He advises some of the largest global organisations, including Intel, Facebook, Spotify, Google and many other Fortune 500 companies, through his London-based consultancy, Stripe Partners. His work has been covered by the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and BBC Radio 4. This is his first book. He lives with his wife and three children in East Sussex.