The End of Average
How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
$20.03
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2017
Summary
Fascinating, engaging, and practical … dispels the myth that our success can be divined by a simple number or average, whether a grade, a score in a standardized test, or a ranking at work.
Why don’t Meyers-Briggs personality tests really work? Why are HR tests for new employees often meaningless? Is there another way of ranking students’ performance?
We all behave, learn, and develop in different ways, but these unique patterns of human behaviour get lost in massive systems t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141980034 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141980036 |
| Author: | Todd Rose |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
A cogent rebuttal of assumptions about averageness
Transforms our understanding of who we are and what’s important. – Seth Godin author of Tribes
Readable, enlightening, and way above average. – Daniel H. Pink author of Drive
A cogent rebuttal of assumptions about averageness – Jonathon Keats * New Statesman *
About The Author
Todd Rose
Todd Rose is the co-founder and president of the Center for Individual Opportunity, an organization dedicated to providing leadership around the emerging science of the individual, and is a faculty member at the Harvard School of Education where he teaches educational neuroscience.
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