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Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making Paperback – March 31, 2011

by Venkatesh Guru Rao (Author)

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Tempo is a modern treatment of decision-making that weaves together concepts and principles from the mathematical decision sciences, cognitive psychology, philosophy and theories of narrative and metaphor. Drawing on examples from familiar domains such as the kitchen and the office, the author, Venkatesh Rao, illustrates the subtleties underlying everyday behavior, and explains how you can strengthen the foundations of your decision-making skills. "TEMPO is one of the most insightful and original books on decision-making I've ever read..." -- Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND "An uncannily accurate analysis of our choice-making behaviors" -- David Allen, author of GETTING THINGS DONE "Tempo is a highly original and engaging book...In a world where timing is increasingly central to success, this is an essential read, not just for executives, but for everyone." -- John Hagel, co-author of THE POWER OF PULL

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Ribbonfarm Inc (March 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0982703007
ISBN-13: 978-0982703007
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 18 customer reviews
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Stefano Bertolo

A useful collection of patterns to think about how organizations behave ...

September 18, 2014

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A useful collection of patterns to think about how organizations behave and organize themselves. The argument style is however completely qualitative, with no clear predictions, much less predictions matched against carefully researched data. The book also feels a bit hostage to its Zeitgeist: if a pop-psychology idea was in a TED talk or on some fampus blog in the last few years, chances are you'll find it mentioned in this book (one could say that the TED series is imposing its tempo on the content selection of this book). That said, I'd still recommend it as a read for anyone who wants to think a bit more broadly than most people who surround them. Finally, the author's blog ribbonfarm.com is actually better than the book itself.

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Fresh look into Psychology and Meditation

March 9, 2013

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The Psychology of decision making is a field that I was very unfamiliar with when I bought this book. It was recommended to me from a friend who lives in the Fingerlakes region of New York, where the author apparently lives. The analysis of timing and self-regulation in this book are not unparalleled in other self-improvement areas of literature, but it is very well written and easy to understand without having even close to extensive knowledge of psychology or the specific arena of the psychology of decision-making.

I would recommend this book to anyone that is pursuing knowledge on self-help, meditation, situational awareness, and increasing success, happiness, and productivity in their life through modern or pre-modern scripture. I do a lot of yogic meditation and the methods in this book of calming and addressing your life and it's various scenarios has gone very much hand-in-hand with many teachings of what I guess most Americans would know as the "buddha-state", or the calm, rational, controlled side of your individual perspective; trying to escape what Siddhartha Guatama would call the illusions of life to see the truth, in an objective, not subjective, way.

The only cons for me were that the analogous situations Rao chooses to use as an avenue for explaining the concepts are a little unrelatable, but only to me, because I don't work in an office or cook for myself very often, as I am still a 20 year old struggling with making my responsible life more fruitful and aerodynamic. However, even though it does get repetitive, the situations themselves were still relatable enough, and that kind of universality of tempo in different parts of different people's lives as being relatable in general is a big theme in the book anyway, so it holds true through my experience of reading it.

TLDR: Two thumbs way up - great book on maintaining calm and balance and success in your personal life by framing your perspective on events and content through the analysis of rhythm. Great combination book for self-help, self-improvement, and meditation enthusiasts.

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Definitely Worth the Read

December 20, 2014

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This is a very interesting book.

There's no immediate "entry point" – no crazy subject matter that will reach out and grab you. The book reads as an extended essay that translates the basic workings of the human mind into the language of computer software.

There's lots of talk about "mental models" and "simulating possible worlds" inside your head. Which is pretty chill, but it's not easy to concentrate on text like this.

(Text that constantly TALKS about narrative and strategy, yet steadfastly refuses to have a narrative itself.)

I think it was well worth the read. As long as you don't go into it expecting to read some kind of story, you'll enjoy it.

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June 2, 2017

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I bought this book to gain some insight on the tempo of high level organizational decision making. It delivered that and much more. The explanation of mental models was enlightening on multiple levels. Great!

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Conceptually consistent, mindfully aware, and it scales

June 8, 2011

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Tempo provides a language of deeper insights into common sense, with conceptual consistency. Comprehensive yet concise -- comprising "When, Where, and Who" and interval logic -- it's giving me a meaningful backdrop to hold the complexity of "situation awareness".

Do you have the desire and intention to reduce friction in your group's decision-making enactments? Analogous to understanding weather patterns, a range of phenomena in decision-dynamics is illustrated in 3.5.

VANKET illustrates "Ideas from dusty academic journals and from rarefied domains of practice -- such as boardrooms and the decks of aircraft carriers -- [which] are not always reducible to everyday experience. So yes, at times, you will need to stretch you mind."

Indeed, exposing my beliefs, desires, and intentions to Tempo is helping me more accurately draw that thin red line from mindscape to landscape.

Two days of deep reading, my copy is totally dog-eared. Yours should be, too.

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