Bøger af David Silverman

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment and training - but none of the enemy's speed and flexibility.McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom to create a 'team of teams' that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. Faster, flatter and more flexible, the task force beat back al-Qaeda.In this powerful book, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be relevant to any leader. Through compelling examples, the authors demonstrate that the 'team of teams' strategy has worked everywhere from hospital emergency rooms to NASA and has the potential to transform organizations large and small.'A bold argument that leaders can help teams become greater than the sum of their parts' Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit'An indispensable guide to organizational change' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

Harvey Sacksa s early death in 1975 robbed the social sciences of one of its most original thinkers. Although he published relatively little in his lifetime, his lectures and papers were enormously influential in sociology and sociolinguistics and they played a major role in the development of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

Since the year 2000, banks have been fined almost a third of a trillion dollars. Yet, every year billions more are imposed. Why? This book explains why banks break the law (it's not just the money), explains the challenges facing Compliance functions, considers that the majority of financiers don't want to do wrong, and puts forth a proposal to stop banks from harming customers.The lessons in this book are applicable to any business where profit motives can conflict with customer benefit-in short, every business. (And if you're interested in cryptocurrency, this book's for you too!)

In preparation for a talk I was to give in my synagogue on the first section of Genesis--the one in which God creates the world in 6 days, including Adam and Eve, and rests on the seventh--I printed out a scholarly essay entitled, And God Created Humans.My printer, however, is very old and with every exertion, wheezes like a coal miner might after 40 years in the mine, which seems like something I could say about myself, climbing a staircase or running to catch a bus, though I can't remember the last time I took a bus. But I'm straying from the point, which is the ink did not transfer smoothly to the paper and the resulting smear and shadow obscured some of the words, such that it appeared the title of the essay was no longer, And God Created Humans. Rather, it read, And God Created Hummus.

Accessible, practical, and packed with indispensable advice, this bestselling textbook is the perfect hands-on guide for any student embarking on their own research that now comes with an interactive field guide.

In this fifth edition of his field-defining text, David Silverman, a true guru of qualitative research, walks the reader through the basics of gathering and analyzing qualitative data offering beginners unrivalled hands-on guidance to help them get the best out of a research methods course or research project.

In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods.

In this book, the author offers an analytical account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Silverman draws on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test.