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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 doesnt 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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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. Do you ever leave work wondering whether all of the words exchanged between you and your colleagues in emails and meetings actually had any meaning? You spend the day touching base and networking, workshopping and impacting, strategizing and implementing, going forward with your key performance indicators. No wonder you are exhausted when you leave the office! Even as English spreads around the globe, the language itself is shrinking. Our vocabularies are increasingly trimmed of subtlety and obscure words are forbidden unless they qualify as economic or business jargon. The constant pressure in our society to be efficient and productive is working like a noose around the neck of the English language. Don Watson is one of Australia's foremost writers and intellectuals. In Death Sentences, he takes up the fight against the pestilence of bullet points, the scourge of buzzwords, and the dearth of verbs in public discourse. He encourages us to wage war against the personal mission statement and the Powerpoint essay and to take back our language from the corporate wordsmiths and marketeers. BACKCOVER: Praise for Don Watsons Death Sentences:
Don Watson has written a fine and necessary book. Any citizen who neglects to read it does so at his or her peril.
Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harpers Magazine
"[a] marvelous polemic..."
forbes.com
captures the powerlessness and frustration we feel when confronted by meaningless words delivered with authority.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Watson makes an eloquent, elegant, and sometimes scathing case for taking back language from those who would trip it of all color and emotion and, therefore, of all meaning.
Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist)
many lessons and insights in this book
Leigh Buchanan, Harvard Business Review
[Watson is] always clear and precise, even when exposing the verbal pollution that passes for wisdom in the public realm.
Toronto Star.
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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 hasnt 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 theyd 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 Donts and Five Dos of Wifehood, But How Do I Change My Husband? and No, Really, How Can I Change Him?.
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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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Ancient Art Of Strangulation
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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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The Strangling of Persia
In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country He went with the blessing of the British and Russian governments, both of which enjoyed a wide sphere of influence in the region. However, no one expected him to succeed so quickly in making Iran into a credible democracy and he was ousted by the actions of the Russian and British governments. After he was forced to return to the US, Shuster wrote a book revealing the true motives of the superpowers of the time and how the region's course of history was forever altered. Strangling of Persia offers keen insights into the timeless methods used by powerful nations to achieve their own ends. Almost 100 years after its' first publication, it remains a powerful indictment of a short-sighted policy that crushed a fragile but promising democracy..
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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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