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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Backed by years of research and delivered in lively, energetic prose, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me ) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception—how it works, the harm it can cause, and how we can overcome it. .
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What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness
Machiavelli would feel at home in industry today. You don't need a birthright to be a modern prince--just an impulsive ruthlessness such as he described four centuries ago while trying to get back into the good graces of a Medici nobleman A clever guy like him could really go places. Stanley Bing, a columnist for Fortune, is also a clever guy. In real life he has another name and works for a media company (a very, very clever person could probably patch together the clues he offers and figure out the company, if not the actual person), and as such he's been our spy behind corporate lines since he first started writing for Esquire back in 1984. In What Would Machiavelli Do? Bing gleefully offers hard-boiled Machiavellian advice about whom to fire in a downsizing (consultants first, secretaries last), how to make employees love you ("Give them perks.... When they're spending your money, you own them"), and why it's important that you also kick ass (one of the ways: "cutting them off curtly when they speak") and take names (so people know you'll not only hurt them, you'll also go after their friends). The overriding lesson of this book is always to love yourself, never apologize for anything you do, and when all else fails, recognize that the truth is flexible, and so can be bent any way you want. What makes all this amorality funny is that Bing plays it straight, putting his ruthless advice into an easily digestible how-to format. Sometimes the only way you can tell it's satire is when he mixes the musings of Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot in with those of modern business figures such as former Sunbeam CEO "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. Firing people, killing people--same rules, different game. --Lou Schuler.
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111 Ways to Justify Your Commission: Value-Adding Strategies for Real Estate Agents and Brokers
Due to the growing threat of discounted real estate services and online competition, the number of real estate transactions completed by traditional professionals is dropping every year. Therefore, real estate professionals today are finding that the basic services of the past no longer are enough to appease the savvy consumer interested in buying or selling a home. The average commission rate dropped 16% from 1991 to 2004 according to industry analyst REAL Trends. Only those agents who learn how to justify their commissions will be paid what they’re worth. In 111 Ways to Justify Your Commission, author, real estate broker, and speaker Michael D. Lee arms real estate professionals with new methods of adding value to their services without compromising their livelihoods. Using tips, anecdotes, charts, and figures to outline a proven strategy, this guide provides practical, tangible, and easy-to-follow steps that add tremendous value to a real estate business, allowing real estate professionals to stay competitive in an evolving industry..
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Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify the Enterprise
Balla surveys and examines the challenges facing any attempt to write a New Testament theology and offers his own program for justifying such an undertaking. With a view toward uncovering a basic unity in the theology of the New Testament, Balla maps how the historian may indeed describe the theological content of the New Testament. He asserts that orthodoxy was not a later development but Christianity in its earliest form. He further avers that the canonÂ's formation was not the result of a late decision; rather, it can be traced to moorings in the first century. Sure to be controversial, Challenges to New Testament Theology holds great promise as a textbook in New Testament courses and as a starting point in the scholarly discussion of the topic..
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One Aryan Nation Under God: How Religious Extremists Use the Bible to Justify Their Actions
Pastor Jerome Walters presents an in-depth examination of the phenomenon of Identity Christianity. Identity Christianity is a distorted interpretation of Christianity which is used by extremists to argue that Jesus was an Aryan, Cain was a child of Satan and the progenitor of all Jews and people of color and that a small handful of white males is, in actuality, the Chosen People. With religious views as their basis, these extremists further argue that the United States government is a tool of the devil, thus justifying amassing weapons and performing illegal activities (including armed robbery, forgery and murder) to finance their efforts to overthrow the government. Written by a pastor, One Aryan Nation Under God is a call to Christians to defend the integrity of their faith against its distortion for racist and illegal ends. It is also a call to church leaders of all denominations to come forward as "public proclaimers" and actively address in all public forums the theological basis for hate crimes..
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