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The Worker: Excerpted as BusinessWeek cover story, Aug 28, 2008  posted on August 28, 2008

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Here is the book excerpt of The Numerati. It just came out as the cover story this week in BusinessWeek. It focuses on IBM and how the company is trying to build mathematical models of 50,000 of its own employees.


Other parts of the package:
A podcast, where I discuss the book with Executive Editor John Byrne.

A narrated slide show, where I tie what IBM is doing to workers to the history of scientific management, and even the Navy's battle against German U-boats in World War II.

Also included is an excerpt from the Introduction of the book. It's essentially the first third of it--about what you'd get on many books at Amazon or B&N.

I think I'll cut and paste these more neatly into the "excerpts" section of the blog. But for now, I just wanted to get them up.


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@MichaelPizzo My pleasure. Another book u might like is Afterthought by James Bailey. Not new, but puts data in context of sci/math history

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