The Internet of Intelligent Things: Dave Evans guides you to The Connected Future

Have you ever wondered how the technology that is shaping our world works? There is a constant barrage of new technologies but the plain language that describes them as well as their implications is often illusive. And, with these new technologies come new questions. Will there be a robot uprising? Will we be able to grow enough food in the future? Should I be worried about my privacy? What is artificial intelligence anyway? Will we ultimately merge with technology? Books about technology can intimidating. This is not that book. This book has been written to be approachable and easy to understand. This book provides an introduction to a host of technologies and trends that explain our technological present and our technological future. Set against the backdrop of two colliding technologies – artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, this book explores and educates the reader on a host of technologies that are transforming the world. From the background and history that brought us to this point, to the technologies driving this transformation, to the implications it will have for humanity and the opportunities it will provide, this book explores this coming era.

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The Internet of Intelligent Things is a must-read book for everyone who wants to know where humankind is heading with connected technology and AI. If you want to understand the past, present, and the future of our relationship with the networking technology in a very entertaining, thought-provoking, and easy to read way this is the book for you. You’ll educate yourself on what matters in the digital world today, in the future, and get the equivalent of a Discovery channel program in 6 hours of easy reading.

The book creates the "mental scaffolding" for you to build a deeper understanding of the present and future trends in technology as you’ll be exposed to them in the media and expert literature.

You will not find a better and more qualified person to take you on this exciting journey than Dave Evans. His extensive experience as Chief Futurist at Cisco and a lifelong passion for technology is the perfect combination to present you with this fascinating world. Dave not only nicely outlines the networking and internet evolution timeline but puts things into historical context, so you understand not only what happened but as well why. The Internet of Intelligent Things is thought-provoking, educational, and inspirational guide that gives you a greater understanding of the things you hear every day but might not internalize - covering facts and topics like:

• Did you know that the number 1.99GHZ on your computer chip means that your computer refreshes almost 2 billion times per second? 

• What is more important for intelligence - the data or the connections?

• Do you want to know what is Elon Musk's view of AI? What does Bill Gates think of this topic?

• Do you want to know how small our computers and devices will become? Will they be able all to connect?

• You find the clarification of the terminology in a simple language e.g. Back Propagation = train itself

• What is the difference between the Internet and the Cloud and why it matters?

After reading Dave's book a new world of possibilities will open up for you. You will be amazed at how many of them you can leverage already today. Stay hungry, keep discovering, delve into the Internet of Intelligent Things.

Igor Pistelak

COO Profit-circles.com

Extreme Ownership

by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.

Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields.

Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment.

A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.

POWER

by Jeffery Pfeffer

Some people have it, and others don’t—Jeffrey Pfeffer explores why in Power. One of the greatest minds in management theory and author or co-author of thirteen books, including the seminal business school text Managing With Power, Pfeffer shows readers how to succeed and wield power in the real world.

The Challenger Sale

by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them. The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that their average performing colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate Executive Board to investigate the skills, behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter most for high performance. And what they discovered may be the biggest shock to conventional sales wisdom in decades.Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies,The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these types of reps can deliver average sales performance, only one-the Challenger- delivers consistently high performance.Instead of bludgeoning customers with endless facts and features about their company and products, Challengers approach customers with unique insights about how they can save or make money. They tailor their sales message to the customer's specific needs and objectives. Rather than acquiescing to the customer's every demand or objection, they are assertive, pushing back when necessary and taking control of the sale.The things that make Challengers unique are replicable and teachable to the average sales rep. Once you understand how to identify the Challengers in your organization, you can model their approach and embed it throughout your sales force. The authors explain how almost any average-performing rep, once equipped with the right tools, can successfully reframe customers' expectations and deliver a distinctive purchase experience that drives higher levels of customer loyalty and, ultimately, greater growth.