Book Description
Learn to marginalize yourself at work, promote mediocrity while squelching outstanding performance, use technology to your disadvantage, and destroy old relationships and prevent new ones from forming.
Author : Jason Seiden
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Career development
ISBN : 9780979943102
Learn to marginalize yourself at work, promote mediocrity while squelching outstanding performance, use technology to your disadvantage, and destroy old relationships and prevent new ones from forming.
Author : Richard O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 069815696X
A refreshing guide to becoming a healthier, happier self. We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again—whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, dieting for the umpteenth try, or acting on any of a range of bad habits we just can’t seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, reveals exactly why our bad habits die so hard. We have two brains—one a thoughtful, conscious, deliberative self, and the other an automatic self that makes most of our decisions without our attention. Using new research and knowledge about how the brain works, the book clears a path to lasting, effective change for behaviors that include: • Procrastination • Overeating • Chronic disorganization • Staying in bad situations • Excessive worrying • Risk taking • Passive aggression • Self-medication Bringing together many different fields in psychology and brain science, Dr. O’Connor gives you a road map to overcoming whatever self-destructive habits are plaguing you, with exercises throughout the book. We can rewire our brains to develop healthier circuitry, training the automatic self to make wiser decisions without having to think about it; ignore distractions; withstand temptations; see ourselves and the world more clearly; and interrupt our reflexive responses before they get us in trouble. Meanwhile, our conscious minds will be freed to view ourselves with compassion at the same time as we practice self-discipline. By learning valuable skills and habits—including mindfulness, self-control, confronting fear, and freeing yourself from mindless guilt—we can open ourselves to vastly more successful, productive, and happy lives.
Author : Jagdish N. Sheth
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0132716380
Why do so many good companies engage in self-destructive behavior? This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim to–and helps you diagnose and break these habits before they destroy you. Through case studies from some of yesterday’s most widely praised corporate icons, you’ll learn how companies slip into “addiction” and slide off the rails...why some never turn around...and how others achieve powerful turnarounds, moving on to unprecedented levels of success. You’ll learn how an obsession with volume leads inexorably to rising costs and falling margins...how companies fall victim to denial, myth, ritual, and orthodoxy... how they start wasting vital energy on culture confl ict and turf wars...how they blind themselves to emerging competition...how they become arrogant, complacent, and far too dependent on their traditional competences. Most important, you’ll find specific, detailed techniques for “curing”–or, better yet, preventing–every one of these self-destructive habits. The “cocoon” of denial Find it, admit it, assess it, and escape it The stigma of arrogance Escape this fault that “breeds in a dark, closed room” The virus of complacency Six warning signs and five solutions The curse of incumbency Stop your core competencies from blinding you to new opportunities The threat of myopia Widen your view of your competitors–and the dangers they pose The obsession of volume Get beyond “rising volumes and shrinking margins” The territorial impulse Break down the silos, factions, fiefdoms, and ivory towers
Author : Adam Wasson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1400050332
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS Let’s face it, there are thousands of books out there to help you avoid self-destructive behavior—but what fun is that? Welcome to the first book designed to help you not help yourself. Here you’ll find unsound advice on everything from engineering a revenge affair to picking the gateway drug that’s best for you. Chapters include: • 12 Steps to a Drinking “Problem” • Condoms Are for Suckers • How to Lose Way Too Much Weight in 90 Days • And more! As you travel down the road to self-destruction, let this hedonistic handbook be your guide. It may steer you wrong—in fact, it’s sure to do so—but when being wrong is this much fun, who wants to be right?
Author : Howard S. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429919344
"Political correctness" involves much more than a restriction of speech. It represents a broad cultural transformation, a shift in the way people understand things and organize their lives; a change in the way meaning is made. The problem addressed in this book is that, for reasons the author explores, some ways of making "meaning" support the creation and maintenance of organization, while others do not. Organizations are cultural products and rely upon psychological roots that go very deep. The basic premise of this book is that organizations are made up of the rules, common understandings, and obligations that "the father" represents, and which are given meaning in the oedipal dynamic. In anti-oedipal psychology, however, they are seen as locuses of deprivation and structures of oppression. Anti-oedipal meaning, then, is geared toward the destruction of organization.
Author : Chris Thurman
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780785277873
Examines the destructive principles taught by pop psychology and helps readers be more discerning about expert advice that is actually harmful.
Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1615920579
Young presents a polemical espousal of transhumanist philosophy and a trenchant attack on its critics, the "Bio-Luddites." The author calls for a rejection of premodern superstition and postmodern nihilism in favor of a renewed belief in human progress through scientific rationality.
Author : Nelson George
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN :
This book tells about the Stop the Violence Movement--an effort by young rap stars and music-industry colleagues to stop the violence in communities.
Author : Zhong Lin Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319400398
This book introduces an innovative and high-efficiency technology for mechanical energy harvesting. The book covers the history and development of triboelectric nanogenerators, basic structures, working principles, performance characterization, and potential applications. It is divided into three parts: Part A illustrates the fundamental working modes of triboelectric nanogenerators with their prototype structures and theoretical analysis; Part B and Part C introduce two categories of applications, namely self-powered systems and self-powered active sensors. The book will be an ideal guide to scientists and engineers beginning to study triboelectric nanogenerators or wishing to deepen their knowledge of the field. Readers will be able to place the technical details about this technology in context, and acquire the necessary skills to reproduce the experimental setups for fabrication and measurement.
Author : Leo M. Tilman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470466251
In Financial Darwinism, author Leo Tilman lays the groundwork for understanding the new financial order by introducing his evolutionary thesis and then outlines an actionable decision-making framework that enables financial institutions and investors to fully leverage the power of business strategy, corporate finance, investment analysis, and risk management. Financial Darwinism is an invaluable road map to today's financial world and an essential guide to surviving and thriving during these challenging times.