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Since Strangling Isn't An Option... Dealing with Difficult People -- Common Problems and Uncommon Solutions
For those who feel like they are expending too much energy either engaging in conflict or desperately trying to avoid it, this refreshing, realistic guide provides accessible solutions. Readers will learn why dealing with a difficult person doesn’t have to ruin their day, the habits that cause conflict, and the techniques that can turn things around. It also gives readers insight into their own power in shaping relationships, and specific advice for handling different personality types. There really is a better way!.
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Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.” This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before..
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Strangling Your Husband Is Not an Option: A Practical Guide to Dramatically Improving Your Marriage
Things can get pretty crazy in marital relationships. As one reviewer has said, “What wife hasn’t felt like strangling her husband at least once during their marriage?” With her lighthearted personality and humor, author Merrilee Boyack shares twenty-five years’ worth of marital perspective in this practical guide to improve any marriage. As an estate-planning attorney, Merrilee has dealt with many struggling couples going through divorce. (Seven-year marriages seem to have the greatest challenges.) She offers practical tips for women who want to better understand men (particularly their husbands) and build happier marriages. She invites women to dump the guilt, be open enough to learn about areas they’d like to improve, and then take the steps to make those changes. Readers will also find a wealth of fun and practical advice in chapters like “The Five ‘Don’ts’ and Five ‘Do’s’ of Wifehood,” “But How Do I Change My Husband?” and “No, Really, How Can I Change Him?”.
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Death Sentences : How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language
A brilliant and scathing polemic about the sorry state of the English Language and what we can—and must—do about it. When was the last time you heard a politician use words that rang with truth and meaning? Do your eyes glaze over when you read a letter from your bank or insurance company addressing you as a valued customer? Does your mind shut down when your employer starts talking about making a commitment going forward or enhancing your key competencies? Are you enervated by in terms of, irritated by impactful, infuriated by downsizing, rightsizing, decruiting, and dejobbing? Does business process re-engineering and attriting fail to give you ramp-up—in terms of your personal lifestyle? Today’s corporations, news media, education departments—and, perhaps most troubling, politicians—speak to us and to each other in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless babble. Toni Morrison has called it the “disabled and disabling” language of the powerful, “evacuated language,” and “dead language.” Orwell called it “anesthetic” language. In Death Sentences, Don Watson takes up the fight against it: the pestilence of bullet points, the dearth of verbs, the buzzwords, the weasel words and cant, the Newspeak of a kind Orwell could not have imagined. Published in Australia in November 2003, Death Sentences gained a massive following among the legions of bright, sensitive people who Could Not Take It Anymore. More than a year later, it remains a national bestseller.
Praise:
“An important read for anyone who holds language dear.”
–Lucy Clark, Daily Telegraph
“The Book of the Year… witty, erudite, and funny. Awfully funny.”
–The Australian Financial Review
“Nobody writes more lyrically or cares more about words and those who murder them.”
–Sydney Morning Herald
“Witty, excoriating, and horrifying, [DEATH SENTENCE] should be every politician’s, academic’s, businessman’s, journalist’s, and bureaucrat’s choice for book of the year— and, alas, the era.”
–Robert Drewe, “Books of the Year,” The Age
“…should leave us afraid, very afraid… Anyone involved in writing for public consumption should read it—and sooner rather than later.”
–Frances Wilkins, Lawyers Weekly
“…obliterates the vernacular vandals among journalists, academics, politicians, and business people with deadly aim.”
–Murray Waldren, Australian
“Brilliant… tempered by sorrow.”
–Peter Price, Bulletin
“…an amusing and stimulating book. Watson’s writing is the antithesis of all he deplores: it is humane and welcoming.”
–James Ley, Age
“Watson writes well—passionately, fiercely, with generous sprinkles of wit and vitriol… Expect an entertaining ride.”
–Ruth Wajnryb,
Sydney Morning Herald
“…scathingly funny and deadly serious.”
–Jose Borghino, Marie Claire
“A book of unusual significance, a meditation on our times as much as a work on language… [it] will still be read—and enjoyed—in 50 years’ time.”
–Jim Davidson, Eureka Street
“Always lucid and witty… a resource of painful delight.”
–John McLaren, Overla.
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Ancient Art Of Strangulation
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RING OF HELL: The Story of the Benoit Family Murders
THE TRAGIC DOUBLE MURDER THAT SHOOK UP PRO WRESTLING In the notoriously crooked and exploitative world of professional wrestling, WWE legend Chris Benoit was thought to be the exception Chris was universally recognized as the finest that pro wrestling had to offer. His reputation was that of a decent, humble and devoted family man who was admired by all who knew him. Nobody could have predicted the horrific events of June 22 2007 when Chris strangled his wife and seven year old son before committing suicide. RING OF HELL is the true story of Benoit, his journey through the destructive, dysfunctional and bizarre world of pro wrestling and the catastrophic physical and mental breakdown that led to his grisly end. Pro wrestling, murder, suicide, pro sports, WWE, Chris Benoit, wrestling, strangling, professional wrestling .
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The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice
Race, injustice, and serial murder in the Deep South—Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge."The crime happens, the mob gathers Far too often, the question is, which nigger's neck are we going to put the noose around?"—Gary Parker, former defense lawyer for Carlton Gary Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. Though many in the city doubt his guilt, he remains on death row. Award-winning Vanity Fair reporter David Rose has followed this case for a decade in an investigation that led him to the Big Eddy Club—an all-white, members-only club in Columbus, frequented by the town's most prominent judges and lawyers...as well as most of the seven murdered women. Among Rose's discoveries was that a young black man was lynched in 1912 in Columbus after he was tried for murder and freed, and that the Columbus judge to whom the Gary case was first assigned in 1984 was the son of the mob leader in the 1912 lynching. Framed by the tale of two lynchings—one carried out illegally at the start of the twentieth century, and the other a legal lynching carried out at the century's end— The Big Eddy Club is a gripping, revealing drama, full of evocatively drawn characters, insidious institutions, and the extraordinary connections that bind past and present. The book is also a compelling, accessible, and timely exploration of race and criminal justice, not just in the context of the South but in the entire United States, as it addresses the corruption of due process as a tool of racial oppression..
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Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America
Activism, Inc. introduces America to an increasingly familiar political actor: the canvasser She’s the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you on the street or knocking on your door, the foot soldier of political campaigns. Granted unprecedented access to the “People’s Project,” an unknown yet influential organization driving left-leaning grassroots politics, Dana Fisher tells the true story of outsourcing politics in America. Like the major corporations that outsourced their customer service to companies abroad, the grassroots campaigns of national progressive movements—including Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Save the Children, and the Human Rights Campaign—have been outsourced at different times to this single organization. During the 2004 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party followed a similar outsourcing model for their canvassing. Fisher examines the history and rationale behind political outsourcing on the Left, weaving together frank interviews with canvassers, high-ranking political officials across the political spectrum, and People’s Project management. She compares all of this to the grassroots efforts on the Right, which remain firmly grounded in communities and local politics. This book offers a chilling review of the consequences of political outsourcing. Connecting local people on the streets throughout America to the national organizations and political campaigns that make up progressive politics, it shows what happens to the passionate young activists outsourced to the clients of Activism, Inc. .
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