Author: Paul Noor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988528314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
After more than 20 years of hard work in the construction business, Paul Noor became a self-made millionaire. While he was at the peak of his home-building business and about to semi-retire, he suffered a destructive divorce. That ruined his business. That same year, the housing market collapsed. Then his home-building business fell apart. Everything caved in at the same time. The destruction was brutal. A homebuilder became homeless. At his low point, Paul realized he had only two options: Change or Perish. He chose Change and started reinventing himself for Success. This time he chased his childhood dream of overcoming his speech disorder (a debilitating stutter) and becoming a professional speaker. Everyone laughed at him-that only made him more determined. Two years later Paul was the keynote speaker at a convention. Since then, he has spoken at Fortune 500 companies and at other organizations. Paul's determination to turn his failures into success is truly inspirational. Are You ready for Success? In this book, Paul shares the secrets that helped him succeed-his Five Cardinal Rules. They can do the same for You, too. This book is based on Paul's 20 years of business experience, teaching, and speaking. Paul is living proof that anyone can turn their life around if they just follow his Five Cardinal Rules.
Change Or Perish
Author: Paul Noor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988528314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
After more than 20 years of hard work in the construction business, Paul Noor became a self-made millionaire. While he was at the peak of his home-building business and about to semi-retire, he suffered a destructive divorce. That ruined his business. That same year, the housing market collapsed. Then his home-building business fell apart. Everything caved in at the same time. The destruction was brutal. A homebuilder became homeless. At his low point, Paul realized he had only two options: Change or Perish. He chose Change and started reinventing himself for Success. This time he chased his childhood dream of overcoming his speech disorder (a debilitating stutter) and becoming a professional speaker. Everyone laughed at him-that only made him more determined. Two years later Paul was the keynote speaker at a convention. Since then, he has spoken at Fortune 500 companies and at other organizations. Paul's determination to turn his failures into success is truly inspirational. Are You ready for Success? In this book, Paul shares the secrets that helped him succeed-his Five Cardinal Rules. They can do the same for You, too. This book is based on Paul's 20 years of business experience, teaching, and speaking. Paul is living proof that anyone can turn their life around if they just follow his Five Cardinal Rules.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988528314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
After more than 20 years of hard work in the construction business, Paul Noor became a self-made millionaire. While he was at the peak of his home-building business and about to semi-retire, he suffered a destructive divorce. That ruined his business. That same year, the housing market collapsed. Then his home-building business fell apart. Everything caved in at the same time. The destruction was brutal. A homebuilder became homeless. At his low point, Paul realized he had only two options: Change or Perish. He chose Change and started reinventing himself for Success. This time he chased his childhood dream of overcoming his speech disorder (a debilitating stutter) and becoming a professional speaker. Everyone laughed at him-that only made him more determined. Two years later Paul was the keynote speaker at a convention. Since then, he has spoken at Fortune 500 companies and at other organizations. Paul's determination to turn his failures into success is truly inspirational. Are You ready for Success? In this book, Paul shares the secrets that helped him succeed-his Five Cardinal Rules. They can do the same for You, too. This book is based on Paul's 20 years of business experience, teaching, and speaking. Paul is living proof that anyone can turn their life around if they just follow his Five Cardinal Rules.
Change Without Pain
Author: Eric Abrahamson
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 9781578518272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A refreshingly non-revolutionary approach to change based on ten years of research that shows how transitions can be effective, cost-efficient, and painless In this powerful and refreshing book, he outlines a positive new approach to change called “creative recombination.” Rather than obliterating and then reinventing anew—the change approach advocated by most gurus and “experts” over the last twenty years—creative recombination seeks sustainable, repeatable transformation by using the firm’s existing resources more wisely. Abrahamson identifies five key elements that every company has—people, structures, culture, processes, and networks—and offers a broad toolkit of techniques for recombining, reusing, and redeploying these resources to achieve smoother, more cost-efficient, less painful organizational change.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 9781578518272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A refreshingly non-revolutionary approach to change based on ten years of research that shows how transitions can be effective, cost-efficient, and painless In this powerful and refreshing book, he outlines a positive new approach to change called “creative recombination.” Rather than obliterating and then reinventing anew—the change approach advocated by most gurus and “experts” over the last twenty years—creative recombination seeks sustainable, repeatable transformation by using the firm’s existing resources more wisely. Abrahamson identifies five key elements that every company has—people, structures, culture, processes, and networks—and offers a broad toolkit of techniques for recombining, reusing, and redeploying these resources to achieve smoother, more cost-efficient, less painful organizational change.
Publish Or Perish
Author: Imad A. Moosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786434920
Category : Academic writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imad Moosa's thought-provoking book explores the contemporary doctrine that plagues the academic sphere: the principle of publish or perish. This book identifies the pressures placed upon academics to either publish their work regularly, or suffer the consequences, including lack of promotion, or even redundancy. Imad Moosa argues that this concept is a result of globalisation and the neo-liberal idea of treating higher education as a private good. Providing one of the first extensive analyses of this doctrine, the author identifies the overwhelmingly negative unintended consequences stemming from the pressure to publish research. He explores the detrimental effects of this burden, which includes the impact of drawing away the focus from educating students, to the declining quality of published research. The hazardous activity of journal ranking and resource-wasting research evaluation programmes are also considered, with the author ultimately proposing that the solution to this controversial issue is to go back to days gone by, prior to the dominance of the free market ideology. Innovative, provocative, and timely, this book will be a stimulating read for academics worldwide, as well as non-university researchers, university administrators, policymakers and government officials operating within the fields of higher education, science, and technology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786434920
Category : Academic writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imad Moosa's thought-provoking book explores the contemporary doctrine that plagues the academic sphere: the principle of publish or perish. This book identifies the pressures placed upon academics to either publish their work regularly, or suffer the consequences, including lack of promotion, or even redundancy. Imad Moosa argues that this concept is a result of globalisation and the neo-liberal idea of treating higher education as a private good. Providing one of the first extensive analyses of this doctrine, the author identifies the overwhelmingly negative unintended consequences stemming from the pressure to publish research. He explores the detrimental effects of this burden, which includes the impact of drawing away the focus from educating students, to the declining quality of published research. The hazardous activity of journal ranking and resource-wasting research evaluation programmes are also considered, with the author ultimately proposing that the solution to this controversial issue is to go back to days gone by, prior to the dominance of the free market ideology. Innovative, provocative, and timely, this book will be a stimulating read for academics worldwide, as well as non-university researchers, university administrators, policymakers and government officials operating within the fields of higher education, science, and technology.
Collaborate Or Perish!
Author: William J. Bratton
Publisher: Crown Pub
ISBN: 0307592391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Shares field-tested, streetwise advice by an NYC and LAPD police commissioner and a Harvard professor on how to share information and collaborate across groups, businesses and industries, outlining strategic arguments on the benefits of effective networking in today's connected world.
Publisher: Crown Pub
ISBN: 0307592391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Shares field-tested, streetwise advice by an NYC and LAPD police commissioner and a Harvard professor on how to share information and collaborate across groups, businesses and industries, outlining strategic arguments on the benefits of effective networking in today's connected world.
Spinoza: Complete Works
Author: Baruch Spinoza
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603846921
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley’s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza’s original texts. Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza’s thought. Morgan’s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and index are included.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603846921
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley’s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza’s original texts. Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza’s thought. Morgan’s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and index are included.
Perish
Author: LaToya Watkins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593185927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
“A brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”—The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. * The Millions Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award Longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Bear it or perish yourself. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateful night in her cousin’s outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean—the matriarch of the Turner family—makes and the way those choices have rippled across generations. We meet four members of the Black Texan family: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean’s thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, a mother of two who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem, Texas, behind for good; and Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can’t seem to stay pregnant. Called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother, each family member is forced to confront long-kept secrets and ask themselves important questions about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame. Set in vividly drawn Texas, this beautiful yet heart-wrenching novel explores the intricacies of family and the ways bonds can be made, maintained, or irrevocably broken. “This novel will serve as a hand extended through the darkness to a great many of its readers.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “Like Walker’s The Color Purple and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Perish lures readers past the pain with a spellbinding, buoyant use of language.”—Texas Monthly “Miraculous and moving, light glimmers at the edges of this wise novel.”—Esquire
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593185927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
“A brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”—The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. * The Millions Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award Longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Bear it or perish yourself. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateful night in her cousin’s outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean—the matriarch of the Turner family—makes and the way those choices have rippled across generations. We meet four members of the Black Texan family: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean’s thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, a mother of two who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem, Texas, behind for good; and Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can’t seem to stay pregnant. Called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother, each family member is forced to confront long-kept secrets and ask themselves important questions about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame. Set in vividly drawn Texas, this beautiful yet heart-wrenching novel explores the intricacies of family and the ways bonds can be made, maintained, or irrevocably broken. “This novel will serve as a hand extended through the darkness to a great many of its readers.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “Like Walker’s The Color Purple and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Perish lures readers past the pain with a spellbinding, buoyant use of language.”—Texas Monthly “Miraculous and moving, light glimmers at the edges of this wise novel.”—Esquire
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volumes I and II
Author: Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400883830
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Collected Works of Spinoza: Complete Digital Edition, combining volumes I and II, provides for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher’s work. The first volume contains Spinoza’s single most important work, the Ethics, and four earlier works: the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, Descartes’ "Principles of Philosophy," and Metaphysical Thoughts. Also included are Spinoza’s letters from the periods when these works were being written. The centerpiece of the second volume is Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, a landmark work in the history of biblical scholarship, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, and a forceful defense of freedom of thought and expression. This work is accompanied by Spinoza’s later correspondence, much of which responds to criticism of the Theological-Political Treatise. The volume also includes his last work, the unfinished Political Treatise, which builds on the foundations of the Theological-Political Treatise to offer plans for the organization of nontyrannical monarchies and aristocracies. The elaborate editorial apparatus—including prefaces, notes, glossary, and indexes—assists the reader in understanding one of the world’s most fascinating, but also most difficult, philosophers. Of particular interest is the glossary-index, which provides extensive commentary on Spinoza’s technical vocabulary. A milestone of scholarship more than forty-five years in the making, The Collected Works of Spinoza is an essential edition for anyone with a serious interest in Spinoza or the history of philosophy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400883830
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Collected Works of Spinoza: Complete Digital Edition, combining volumes I and II, provides for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher’s work. The first volume contains Spinoza’s single most important work, the Ethics, and four earlier works: the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, Descartes’ "Principles of Philosophy," and Metaphysical Thoughts. Also included are Spinoza’s letters from the periods when these works were being written. The centerpiece of the second volume is Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, a landmark work in the history of biblical scholarship, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, and a forceful defense of freedom of thought and expression. This work is accompanied by Spinoza’s later correspondence, much of which responds to criticism of the Theological-Political Treatise. The volume also includes his last work, the unfinished Political Treatise, which builds on the foundations of the Theological-Political Treatise to offer plans for the organization of nontyrannical monarchies and aristocracies. The elaborate editorial apparatus—including prefaces, notes, glossary, and indexes—assists the reader in understanding one of the world’s most fascinating, but also most difficult, philosophers. Of particular interest is the glossary-index, which provides extensive commentary on Spinoza’s technical vocabulary. A milestone of scholarship more than forty-five years in the making, The Collected Works of Spinoza is an essential edition for anyone with a serious interest in Spinoza or the history of philosophy.
Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Author: Omar Khayyam
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Christopher Decker's critical edition of the Rubaiyat is the first to publish all extant states of the poems and to unearth a full record of its complicated textual evolution.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Christopher Decker's critical edition of the Rubaiyat is the first to publish all extant states of the poems and to unearth a full record of its complicated textual evolution.
Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man and His Wellbeing
Author: Benedictus de Spinoza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Who Killed Change?
Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061932795
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Who Killed Change? Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives—often big, expensive ones—designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy and morale. Who or What Is Killing Change? That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters. The suspects are sure to sound familiar and you're bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent McNally solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization.A step-by-step guide at the back of the book shows you how to apply the story's lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization's change initiatives, and you'll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061932795
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Who Killed Change? Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives—often big, expensive ones—designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy and morale. Who or What Is Killing Change? That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters. The suspects are sure to sound familiar and you're bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent McNally solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization.A step-by-step guide at the back of the book shows you how to apply the story's lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization's change initiatives, and you'll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.