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Start: 11:15 am
Thursday, September 24, 11:15 a.m.
The Jungle Grapevine BUY NOW
Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park
In his children's book debut, fine artist Alex Beard brings to life an African savanna filled with humor and misunderstandings. When Bird mixes up something Turtle says, he accidentally starts a rumor about the watering hole drying up. One misunderstanding leads to another, with animals making their own hilarious assumptions.
Alex Beard is a painter whose extensive travels through Africa inspired this book. Kids’ Day is an interactive art experience in which Alex Beard reaches out to children of all ages encouraging participation in the creative process. Kids’ Day is not a class, but rather an opportunity for children to have fun with an artist and the arts.
Start: 7:00 pm
The Commonwealth Club Presents Lawler Kang
Thursday, September 24, 7:00 p.m.
Passion at Work: How to find Work you Love and Live the Time of your Life BUY NOW
Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman, Santa Clara
World-renowned speaker and executive Lawler Kang will show how to build a career one can be madly passionate about and create, actualize, and monetize a niche only "you" can dominate! Kang draws on the profound human stories of those who have followed their passions to achieve great things and live on their own terms. He then presents a unique Process of the Five PsTM: a start-to-finish blueprint for realizing your dreams, one step at a time. Learn how to discover passions, proficiencies, and priorities. Redefine success. Create realistic plans, complete with milestones and investments."
For reservations, call 1-800-847-7730 or register online at CommonwealthClub.org/sv
Start: 7:00 pm
Thursday, September 24, 7:00 p.m.
The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence BUY NOW
Spangenberg Auditorium, Gunn High School, 780 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto
In her New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Rachel Simmons was the first to explore the phenomenon of female bullying. Now, she exposes the myth of the Good Girl, a myth that diminishes girls’ power and potential by teaching them to accept only an artificial and very limited version of selfhood.
Unerringly polite, nice, modest, and selfless, the Good Girl paradigm is so narrowly defined it’s unachievable. With self-esteem tied to perfection, girls are unable to know, express and manage a complete range of feelings. The need to be “perfect” leaves girls uncomfortable with feedback and failure, making it difficult to recover from even minor setbacks.
Rachel Simmons is the Founding Director of the Girls Leadership Institute, a summer program for middle and high school girls. She currently serves as a consultant to schools around the country, and works internationally with girls, parents, and teachers to develop strategies to address bullying and empower girls. A 1998 graduate of Vassar College, she won a Rhodes Scholarship from New York and attended Oxford University, where she began her study of female aggression.
Start: 7:30 pm
Thursday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.
The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty BUY NOW
Despite all its promise, the Information Age is also laden with a dizzying array of technological, economic, and political uncertainties. While the electronic spreadsheet brought the power of business modeling to tens of millions, in so doing, it also paved the way for an epidemic of what Sam Savage calls the Flaw of Averages. This set of systematic errors occurs in all types of business and scientific endeavors when smart people focus on single average values in the face of uncertainty and risk, and it is an accessory to the economic catastrophe that culminated in 2008. The Flaw of Averages also ensures that plans based on averages of such uncertainties as customer demand, completion time, and interest rate are below projection, behind schedule, and beyond budget. In his book, Savage draws on recent breakthroughs in technology, along with new data structures and management protocols, to offer an approach to curing the Flaw of Averages.
“Enterprise analysis under uncertainty has long been an academic ideal. . . . In this profound and entertaining book, Professor Savage shows how to make all this practical, practicable, and comprehensible.”
—Harry Markowitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics
Sam L. Savage is a Consulting Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and a Fellow of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
NOTE: Each attendee will receive 50% off the purchase of XLSim 3.0, a software package that will help you cure the flaw of averages. (This offer does not include a free copy of The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty.) For more information about XLSim 3.0, click HERE.
How Stanford professor Sam L. Savage is righting statistical wrongs
By Scott Duke Harris
sdharris@mercurynews.com
Posted: 09/11/2009 02:56:06 PM PDT
Updated: 09/11/2009 07:46:08 PM PDT
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13318018
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