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Deming management method
By Mary Walton. 1986
Whether you're the owner of our own small business, a middle manager in a mid-sized company, or the CEO of…
a multinational, this book can show you how to improve your profits and productivity. How? By following the principles of The Deming Management Method.Middle- and top-echelon managers in particular will find Dr. Deming's method provocative and controversial. He is for a total revamping of the way American managers manage. Some of his pet peeves are: managers who manage by slogans or by setting quotas, managers who don't know what their jobs are and who can't define the responsibilities of the workers under them, managers who tend to blame workers, not realizing that workers want to take pride in their work. Change, Dr. Deming beliees, starts at the top with an informed, quality-conscious management. This book includes excellent advice on how to achieve that level of management expertise in the author's analysis of Dr. Deming's famous 14 Points for Managers and his Deadly diseases of management. Dr. Deming's management techniques are all carefully explained in this detailed, step-by-step treatment of their major points and of their practical applications to everyday business life.A large portion of The Deming Management Method is devoted to practical applications of the method by some of American's most innovative firms, including Honeywell, AT&T and Campbell's Soup.Beyond Success
By Brian D. Biro. 1997
BEYOND SUCCESS was written to inspire and guide those who strive to create greater meaning in their lives. With bold…
originality, Biro challenges the cultural belief systems that prevent people from realizing their true potential. This book will help readers discover heir true potential, inspire enthusiasm and loyalty in employees, co-workers, children, or students. A great tool to assist the reader in transforming the "me" generation into the "we" generation.It's All Lies and That's the Truth
By Bernie Brillstein. 2004
Legendary Hollywood supermanager and producer Bernie Brillstein reveals his collection of wisdom gleaned from his fifty years of insight …
instinct and experience in both business and life An uncommon collection of common sense The Little Stuff Matters Most delivers the hard and fast lessons of Brillstein s unparalleled business experience in fifty pithy wise and completely entertaining essays Brillstein whose name is synonymous with some of the highest-profile Hollywood careers shares these invaluable lessons in the clever unfailingly honest and inimitable tone for which he is known and loved Memorable tips include Know the difference between hot and good Only doctors and hookers need pagers Don t pet the snakes Have an opinion even it it s wrong It s all lies and that s the truth When your time has come success will find you The stomachache--and other gastrointestinal warnings Each of the book s fifty Bernie-isms is followed by refreshing commentary peppered with colorful tales from Bernie s career and clever drawings by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress This book is the next best thing to having your own personal manager on call 24 7--without having to fork over 15 percent of your paycheckLeadership Presence
By Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern. 2003
BRING THE TECHNIQUES OF THE STAGE TO THE BOARDROOM For more than a decade Belle Linda Halpern and…
Kathy Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as performing artists to the work of their company The Ariel Group Halpern and Lubar have helped tens of thousands of executives at major companies around the country and the globe including General Electric Mobil Oil Capital One and Deloitte In Leadership Presence they make their time-tested strategies available to everyone from high-profile CEOs to young professionals seeking promotion Their practical proven approach will enable you to develop the skills necessary to inspire confidence command respect build credibility and motivate others Halpern and Lubar teach you How to handle tough situations with heightened confidence and flexibility How to build your relationships to enhance collaboration and business development How to express yourself dramatically and motivate others How to integrate your personal values into communication to inspire others and become a more effective leader Learning the skills of the true performance experts readers will understand why Leadership Presence is the key to dynamic and authentic leadership BACKCOVER As a leader you are always in the spotlight Leadership Presence teaches how to be masterful under that bright light connecting more profoundly to those you lead and to yourself A thought-provoking and highly practical guide to realizing your leadership potential Jay Conger Professor London Business School Author Building Leaders Based on years teaching senior executives at the Columbia Business School I can say that the ideas in this book are easy to apply and make a dramatic difference in leadership effectiveness Infused with the magic of theater and illustrated with compelling stories Leadership Presence is a fantastic resource for executives and executive educators Professor Michael J Fenlon Associate Dean for Executive MBA Programs Columbia Business School In Leadership Presence Halpern and Lubar reveal what great leaders have always known that the secret to having a commanding presence isn t about personal power but about empowering others Its inspiring stories will speak to anyone who interacts with others It will be especially useful for experienced leaders who feel they aren t coming across as powerfully as they d like Kenneth H Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Full Steam Ahead The foundation of success in business and in life is the ability to authentically engage and connect with others Using the profession of acting as the perfect metaphor this book is a masterful guide for achieving true leadership success I loved the mix of personal stories from clients and well-known actors and found Leadership Presence to be a powerful teaching tool This book isn t just for business leaders it s for anyone who wants to bring more passion empathy and presence to all their relationships I highly recommend it Cheryl Richardson author of Take Time for Your Life and Stand Up for Your Life The ability to inspire and move others is difficult to define yet impossible to ignore Leadership Presence unlocks the secrets of one of the most decisive and powerful aspects of human communication If you want to better understand and develop leadership presence in yourself and others read this book Like its subject this book is compelling and impossible to ignore James E Copeland Jr Former Chief Executive Officer Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Finally there is a book where the insights of theatre transformation and organizational learning have been brought together Leaders of organizations have much to learn from those who have spent their lives understandThe Ultimate Gift
By Jim Stovall. 2001
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is…
about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift.Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family."Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem to be a spark of something in you that I hope we can fan into a flame. For that reason, I am not making you an instant millionaire."What Stevens does give Jason leads to The Ultimate Gift. Young and old will take this timeless tale to heart.Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work: Stories of Courage, Compassion and Creativity in the Workplace
By Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen, Tim Clauss, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte. 2012
Work is an important part of living, whether you wait on customers, build a business, or cook for your family.…
As such, we all have important stories to tell about our work. From this rich treasure chest of experiences, Canfield, Hansen, and company have gathered a special collection of inspiring tales that share the daily courage, compassion, and creativity that take place in workplaces everywhere. Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work will nourish your spirit with stories of courageous leaders and will foster your creativity with examples of inspiring breakthroughs. It will also teach you how to enrich yourself and your coworkers through heartfelt acknowledgment. This powerful book gives you new options, new ways to succeed, and, above all, a new love and appreciation for yourself, your job, and those around you. Share it with your mentor, coworkers, or staff, and enjoy renewed joy and pleasure in your chosen vocation. Special stories by Dilbert's Scott Adams, Beverly Sills, Dave Thomas, and many more make this collection complete.Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work: Stories of Courage, Compassion and Creativity in the Workplace
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte, Tim Clauss. 2012
Work is an important part of living, whether you wait on customers, build a business, or cook for your family.…
As such, we all have important stories to tell about our work. From this rich treasure chest of experiences, Canfield, Hansen, and company have gathered a special collection of inspiring tales that share the daily courage, compassion, and creativity that take place in workplaces everywhere. Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work will nourish your spirit with stories of courageous leaders and will foster your creativity with examples of inspiring breakthroughs. It will also teach you how to enrich yourself and your coworkers through heartfelt acknowledgment. This powerful book gives you new options, new ways to succeed, and, above all, a new love and appreciation for yourself, your job, and those around you. Share it with your mentor, coworkers, or staff, and enjoy renewed joy and pleasure in your chosen vocation. Special stories by Dilbert's Scott Adams, Beverly Sills, Dave Thomas, and many more make this collection complete.Business with a Heart
By Crystal Thomas. 2011
Winner of a 2011 eLit Award, "Business with a Heart" is the story of a young woman who, rising in…
the corporate ranks, treads a winding path of business, personal life, and spirituality, learning that these segments of our lives are never far apart. Her search for a more fulfilled corporate existence is nearly stymied in the crosshairs of a demanding boss, resistant subordinates, and her own unfortunate oversights. While written in novel format, this book is filled with guidance, choices, and ideas to help you create your own style of "business with a heart." Author Crystal Thomas is a renowned speaker, coach, and author in the private club industry. She excelled at a young age as a general manager in the same industry. The following three decades of GM experience educated her on the need for a coaching organization that could support businesses in incorporating into the "heart" aspect - one that mutually benefited upper management, team members, and members/customers alike, while still advancing the bottom line. Hence, she founded Crystal Clear Concepts in 2005. In this book, you will see experiences similar to your own and Crystal's where the challenge of balancing head and heart is not an easy task, yet the results merit it an action worthy of full pursuit.It's All Lies and That's the Truth
By David Rensin, Bernie Brillstein. 2004
Legendary Hollywood supermanager and producer Bernie Brillstein reveals his collection of wisdom gleaned from his fifty years of insight, instinct,…
and experience in both business and life. An uncommon collection of common sense, The Little Stuff Matters Most delivers the hard and fast lessons of Brillstein's unparalleled business experience in fifty pithy, wise, and completely entertaining essays. Brillstein, whose name is synonymous with some of the highest-profile Hollywood careers, shares these invaluable lessons in the clever, unfailingly honest, and inimitable tone for which he is known and loved. Memorable tips include: Know the difference between "hot" and "good" Only doctors and hookers need pagers Don't pet the snakes Have an opinion, even it it's wrong It's all lies, and that's the truth When your time has come, success will find you The stomachache--and other gastrointestinal warnings Each of the book's fifty "Bernie-isms" is followed by refreshing commentary, peppered with colorful tales from Bernie's career and clever drawings by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress. This book is the next best thing to having your own personal manager on call 24/7--without having to fork over 15 percent of your paycheck.Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking (Comix Journalism Ser.)
By Anne Elizabeth Moore. 2016
Ever wondered who makes your clothes? Who sells them? How much they get paid? How the fashion and sex industries…
are intertwined?Threadbare draws the connections between the international sex and garment trades and human trafficking in a beautifully illustrated comics series. Anne Elizabeth Moore, in reports illustrated by top-notch comics creators, pulls at the threads of gender, labor, and cultural production to paint a concerning picture of a human rights in a globalized world. Moore's reporting, illustrated by members of the Ladydrawers Comics Collective, takes the reader from the sweatshops of Cambodia to the traditional ateliers of Vienna, from the life of a globetrotting supermodel to the warehouses of large clothing retailers, from the secondhand clothing industry to the politics of the sex trade. With thoughtful illustrations of women's stories across the sex and garment supply chain, this book offers a practical guide to a growing problem few truly understand.Featuring the work of Leela Corman, Julia Gfrörer, Simon Häussle, Delia Jean, Ellen Lindner, and Melissa Mendes.El sol como disfraz
By Pedro Sorela. 2012
«Uno de los enigmas del periodismo es que los periódicos salgan cada día sin rastro de tanta sangre y traición…
dentro de ellos: solo reflejan las guerras de afuera y, en contra de lo que se cree, tampoco demasiado.» Pisotones, fotos y portadas que buscan retener en titulares el día fugitivo.... el verdadero protagonista de esta novela es La Crónica del Siglo, un periódico que podría ser casi cualquiera, en el apogeo de su éxito no previsto. Pedro Sorela muestra cómo quienes lo escriben son periodistas más de carne que de hueso. Sofía, redactora jefa atrapada entre un cuerpo de fábula, su poder y el deseo de ser madre; Picasso, en el origen mismo de la leyenda de La Crónica del Siglo; Paloma, que ya conocimos en Aire de Mar en Gádor, al igual que Dimas, un periodista que intenta aplicar al periodismo secretos del teatro; Daniel, reportero con cara todavía de estudiante, que busca en una vieja moto una noticia cierta en un Madrid disfrazado por el sol y el azul del cielo para disimular la dictadura más severa que existe: la del tiempo. En una época en que la información deja de ser lo que fue y busca lo que será, El sol como disfraz explica algo del porqué y cuenta el qué y el cómo. El cuándo es el periodismo de nuestro tiempo, uno de los trabajos más atractivos y crueles que existen. Reseñas:«Sorela novela con crueldad y ternura la vida de un periódico de éxito, tan real que puede ser cualquiera. Su prosa brillante y personal entra como un bisturí en el periodismo de hoy y saluda al de mañana.»Álex Grijelmo «Pedro Sorela tiene la capacidad de asombrar al lector y convertir la lectura de la novela en una feliz/dichosa aventura.»Ana Rodríguez Fischer, ABCThe Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
By Jacques-Henri Coste, Vincent Dussol. 2020
The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with…
capitalism, especially American capitalism. These essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three narratives—fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic novel—the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to illustrate the American economy’s dependence on fictitiousness, America’s ideological fictions, and the nation’s creative literary fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of 2007–2008 exposed about the “unreal” base of the economy, the volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities, arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can provide a useful mirror for economists.This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing…
that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.Economics for a Civilized Society
By Paul Davidson, Greg Davidson. 1996
This book aims to develop a philosophy of leadership from the fiction of C.S. Lewis. Using such works as The Chronicles…
of Narnia, The Cosmic Trilogy, and Till We Have Faces, the author focuses on the benefits of fiction for leadership philosophy, including the use of models for leadership from narrative worlds. Exploring topics such as agency theory, conflict, authentic leadership, and dark leadership, this book will offer researchers in HRM and leadership studies a fresh perspective of the fictional works of the foremost Christian apologist of the 20th century.Economic Reforms in the Socialist World
By Gomulka Stanislaw Etc, Gomulka Stanislaw Etc. 1956
Seasonal Associate (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
By Heike Geissler. 2018
How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working…
in an Amazon fulfillment center.No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers “freedom” to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.Jillian: A Novel
By Halle Butler. 2020
From the author of the 'great' (Dolly Alderton), 'terrific' (Zadie Smith) The New Me, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of…
two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit.'Wretchedly riveting' Jia Tolentino, New Yorker'Butler is an essential contemporary voice' Literary Hub'A master of writing about work and its discontents' The MillionsMegan is only twenty-four but her life feels like a dead end. Working as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and resenting the success and happiness of her friends, the only thing that makes her feel better is obsessively critiquing the behaviour of her colleague, Jillian. A grotesquely optimistic thirty-five-year-old single mother, Jillian's chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles - until her downfall is precipitated by the purchase of a dog . . .'Outrageous and amusing ... reads like rubbernecking or a junk-food binge, compelling a horrified fascination and bleak laughter' Kirkus'The funniest book I've read in a long time, but also one of the most important ones' The RumpusEmpire of Wild: A Novel
By Cherie Dimaline. 2019
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of the most anticipated books of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers Weekly'Deftly…
written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood'Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly haunting and resonant' New York Times'Close, tight, stark, beautiful - rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word. Dimaline has crafted something both current and timeless' NPR'Revelatory... Gritty and engaging, this story of a woman and her missing husband is one of candor, wit and tradition'Ms. Magazine Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice.She turns, and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus.With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Métis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.Inspired by traditional Métis legends, Cherie Dimaline has created a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel.Ya estábamos al final de algo
By Daniel Bernabé. 2021
Un ensayo ilustrado sobre la crisis social actual por el escritor y periodista Daniel Bernabé. En este polémico, inteligentísimo y…
lúcido ensayo, Daniel Bernabé nos expone una tesis tan certera como perturbadora: nada de lo ocurrido el 2021 y después debería sorprendernos. Porque la pandemia, y sobre todo la crisis sin precedentes que ésta ha generado, no ha sido un accidente, sino un fallo plausible en un mecanismo que estaba sobrepasado. Porque nuestra sociedad ya estaba al límite, ya estábamos al final de algo, y la pandemia no ha sido el combustible, sino el acelerador de esta gran explosión que estamos viviendo.Bernabé realiza una implacable disección de por qué nuestra era estaba a punto de terminar y examina con detenimiento esta crisis que ha llegado para cambiarlo todo. Sin embargo, lejos de quedarse en la denuncia y las lamentaciones, el autor nos alienta a ser dueños de nuestro destino y a que leamos en estagran crisis una oportunidad para que la posnormalidad sea un escenario mejor que el que dejamos atrás, y, sobre todo, para que no volvamos a vivir una crisis de esta magnitud.