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Just about Feedback
Finally, a book devoted to just feedback!It's about time.London's book describes the characteristics of feedback, sources of feedback, giving feedback, using feedback and way to enhance the effectiveness of feedback. London uses a model to help you understand how the content and process youuse can effect of the feedback delivered and the reaction you will get fromthe recipient.There is also indepth information regarding how peopleprocess information (which we know effects the message)and how to beprepared for different responses you may incounter.There is informaitonon performance appraisals and how to turn thatprocess frommontitoring/judgement to employee developer and coach.This book alsodiscussed organizational culture and it's effects on feedback. If you getone book that covers all aspects of feedback - this is the one!Everymanager/leader of people and teams needs this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Career/Job    4. Employee motivation    5. Feedback (Psychology)    6. Human Resources & Personnel Management    7. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    8. Motivational    9. Performance standards    10. Management & management techniques    11. Personnel & human resources management    12. Psychology    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology   

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Social theories of risk
This book has achieved the status of a classic in the field of the social theory of risk. The collection of essays featured here are written by the leading authors in social science research on risk. I recommend this bookas both a good introductory overview of the field as well as a handyreference volume. It is difficult to find an article written in the fieldthat does not refer to this title. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    3. Psychology    4. Risk    5. Sociological Theory    6. Sociological aspects    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. Anthropology    10. History of ideas, intellectual history    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology   

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Amazing Book
I am very skepticle about "Self Help Books". I have read a few in the past, but they never reached me in any meaningful way.
Work of abundance
While traditional job hunting many a times has focused on one's strengths, Rick Jarow comes across more effectively with a compelling case for the same. Mixing the need to find one's work as part of life, with philosophy in general, and Chakras (energy centers within the human body) in particular is the mark of true abundance (read on).
Untitled, nyah.
I bought this book with scepticism. I thought it would be really tacky. I mean, career books are not exactly high literature, and one which incorporates the chakras sounded even worse than usual.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Career/Job    3. Careers - General    4. Chakras    5. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    6. Love / Sex / Marriage    7. New Age (Self Help)    8. Religious aspects    9. Self-realization    10. Success    11. Vocation    12. Advice on careers & achieving success    13. Popular psychology    14. Self-Help / Personal Growth / General   

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how do you achieve the balance?
This book brings up the interesting issue of emotions and the workplace, a tricky balancing act.However, the unique approach to this issue presented here makes this a standout from "touchy-feely" HR/OB books.Scientific and sociological analysis plays a large role here, so this is recommended for those who prefer objectivity over subjectivity. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Emotions    3. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    4. Management - General    5. Psychological Research    6. Psychological aspects    7. Psychology    8. Research & Methodology    9. Social aspects    10. Work    11. Occupational & industrial psychology    12. Personnel & human resources management    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Career development    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    7. Operations Research    8. Organizational Behavior    9. Vocational guidance    10. Advice on careers & achieving success    11. Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management    12. Child & developmental psychology    13. Organizational theory & behaviour    14. Personnel & human resources management   

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Very Informative
I am Vice President of the Canadian Union of Transportation Employees Local 1 and upon hearing about this book through an interview of the author on the CBC radio; I immediately ordered myself acopy. I thought that it might lend insight into some of the conditionsfaced by our members and myself at our place of employment. I was correctin my assumption and the parities between many topics in the book and thesituations faced by our members daily is uncanny. I felt that the authorwas speaking directly to many of our problems.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Decision Making & Problem Solving    3. Human Resources & Personnel Management    4. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    5. Sociology   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Emotions    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    7. Organizational Behavior    8. Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management    9. Occupational & industrial psychology    10. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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Underwhelmed
I bought this book as a reference for a seminar and was very underimpressed.Though it's 421 pages, the last 306 pages are appendicies of 15 different APA guidelines for treating people of certain populations.Don't get me wrong, these guidelines are important to good practice, they are simply not what I was looking for in a book about thriving as a therapist.
Good, but too many questions, not enough suggestions!
I know, we all understand the importance of questions, and theirs are good ones.However, some sections of the book (especially Chapter 7) consist almost entirely of strings of questions, with relatively few recommendations.The practice guides and other information are helpful, but are less practical than the information to be found in the second book I bought (after being disappointed in this one), Holly Hunt's excellent book, "Essentials of Private Practice."Her book has much more on practical matters: billing, collections, and office procedures.

How did I survive?
How did I survive46 years as a therapist without this book? It is chock full of
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Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    3. Practice    4. Practice Management    5. Psychology    6. Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - General    7. Small Business - General    8. Advice on careers & achieving success    9. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    2. Job Stress    3. Psychology    4. Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Human Resources & Personnel Management    4. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - General    7. Reading Skills    8. Training    9. Disability: social aspects    10. Office & workplace    11. Personnel & human resources management    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Education & Training    13. Speech & language disorders & therapy   

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An Innovative and Compelling Book on Work.
The Psychology of Working by David Blustein is an exciting and innovative approach to reconfiguring our notions of career to a more inclusive understanding of working. By inclusive, Blustein not only traces the development of philosophical, sociological, anthropological and psychological perspectives of work but embeds a profound understanding of work in the lived experiences of everyman. This book is rich in the texture of lived experiences, the emotional ups and downs; the pain and the exhilaration associated with work. Throughout the book, Blustein illustrates his views by vividly portraying the lives of workers through vignettes and also quotes from Bruce Springsteen, Carl Sandburg, John Steinbeck, and others. The book comprises 10 chapters (360 pages) as follows:
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Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    3. Psychological aspects    4. Psychology    5. Social aspects    6. Vocational guidance    7. Work    8. Occupational & industrial psychology    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

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Solid advice; practical examples
The author consulted with readers trying to slow down the hectic paces of their professional lives. He helped them cut back on work and downshift by offering real-life anecdotes.The tone of this book is serious; the advice seems solid.
New Directions
If you are on the fence, Downshifting will get you to move.Great psychological and spiritual insights to help live a more peace filled life.

A Timely Discussion
Jack Drake has provided an easy to read, road mapped dialogue that is very important in today's work scenario. He recognizes the need to communicate with the thirty somethings and emphasize the importance of personal, as opposed to material, life.Well Done!The self help format should allow everyone to evaluate their individual needs. There is life after work!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business Life - Inspirational    4. Business/Economics    5. Careers - General    6. General    7. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    8. Psychological aspects    9. Quality of life    10. Time Management    11. Work    12. Advice on careers & achieving success   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. General    3. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    4. Industrial Psychology    5. Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Congresses    4. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    5. Interpersonal Relations    6. Leadership    7. Leadership In Business    8. Multiple intelligences    9. Psychology    10. Research & Methodology    11. Management & management techniques    12. Occupational & industrial psychology    13. Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology   

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Artfully done!
It's not difficult to imagine yourself as a lion tamer, equipped with the traditional whip and chair, matching wits with lions like leaders, bosses, and customers. You have to keep your wits about you in your relationships with these cats. It's a lot like real-life lion taming. And yes, the consequences of angering a lion in business can be comparatively just as devastating as angering a lion in the circus cage.
How to Speak Truth to Power
LIONTAMING is an entertaining "users manual" for igniting leadership at all levels of an organization.Through the lens of an analogy as powerful as Aslan in Narnia, author Steve Katz boldly takes you on a journey into the workplace as a lions den.Unlike Dilbert's facetious approach to Catbert, Dogbert and other "manajerks", Steve ratchets the risk up a notch and deals with the ferocious realities of the King of the Jungle himself.Drawing on years of experience with leaders at the highest levels of government, Steve explores the role of office staff way beyond merely managing their managers or following their leaders by bringing fresh insights into workplace survival tactics.After Steve's presentation at American University's Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation, I promptly bought his book and featured him at both an Interagency Regulatory Forum and the US-EPAs Transformational Leadership Conversations series.If you enjoy reading LIONTAMING, you'll be amazed at how it can come alive in a discussion.

"Lion Taming" Delivers Real Value
Steve Katz's "Lion Taming" fills a real void in the literature on management, which focuses primarily on leadership, strategy, and implementation of change.His focus is on the close, personal advisors to powerful decision makers within corporations, government, and nonprofit entities.His purpose is to identify the principles by which such key staffers can increase their effectiveness while retaining their integrity.His analogies to "lion taming" are not a stretch.As I read Steve Katz's book, I relived whole episodes in my own career and suddenly perceived how they fit together into a broad and comprehensive analytical pattern.I am just sorry that this book wasn't available thirty years ago when I was a freshly-minted MBA! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business Life - General    3. Business/Economics    4. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    5. Interpersonal Relations    6. Motivational    7. Organizational Behavior In Business    8. Psychology    9. Workplace Culture    10. Business & Economics / General   

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Adventure & excitement in the post vietnam smuggling culture
Set back in the heyday of drug smuggling, before it became organized and much more deadly, Hawkeye's book is a must for anyone who just enjoys stories of action, adventure, humor and nail biting suspense.Partautobiographical and part how-to, Mr. Gross introduces you to a host ofcharacters that Hollywood would salivate to weave a story around, from ahot headed, often times bizarre leader to a dentist with no teeth.Theearly chapters are a bit slow but neccessary to set the stage for postvietnam personalities.Once they got the planes in the air and the boatson the water, Gross delivers a definate page turner.Before heroin andcoke turned smuggling into a dirty subject and a very deadly pastime, withcrack-heads, drive-bys and the infiltration of drugs into our schools,there was a subculture of happy hippie marijuana smokers and theadventurous, sometimes half-crazy sugglers who brought the product in. Hawkeye makes great efforts to portray the smuggling life as, in short,quite fun, but full of misfits, misorganization and miracles, the miraclesbeing any decent marijuana entering the country at all.A very fun weekand a half of reading.Suspend your judgement on what laws they may havebeen breaking or what criminals they may have been and just enjoy theadventure of it all. Ranks right there with Jerry Kamstra's Weed.Welldone, Mr. Gross. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Criminology    3. Drug traffic    4. General    5. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    6. Marijuana    7. Nonfiction - True Crime / Espionage    8. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    9. Psychology    10. Smuggling    11. True Crime / Espionage    12. United States    13. Gross, K. Hawkeye    14. Political Science / Civil Rights    15. True crime   

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What lies beneath
As a first line supervisor in a police department, I am required to supervise down and accept from above.This book helps me understand why and how messages from above are received below.I've learned some of the hidden motivators for employees and supervisors alike.This should be required reading for any new supervisor.It will help him understand what is happening beneath the surface of the organization and the people. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Defensiveness (Psychology)    5. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    6. Industrial Psychology    7. Management - General    8. Personnel And Human Resources Management    9. Personnel management    10. Psychological aspects    11. Psychology, Industrial    12. Sociology    13. Stress (Psychology)    14. Business & Economics / Management    15. Organizational theory & behaviour    16. Personnel & human resources management   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Fiction - General    5. General    6. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    7. Organizational Behavior    8. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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Refreshing account of universals and anthropology
This is a comprehensive survey of the anthropological study of human universals, human nature, culture vs. biology, etc. It's also a critique of the field of anthropology, and one given from a refreshing outside-looking-in perspective. Brown deals with several influential cases (such as Margaret Mead's study of Samoan adolescence) and shows where they erred. He discusses the processes of defining and demonstrating universals, takes us on a grand tour of the history of universals in anthropology, presents the basic gamut of how universals have been and can be explained. In the final chapters he lays out his position and leaves cultural relativism thoroughly refuted. Cultural relativists, he demonstrates, have relied on universals even in their attempts to show cultural relativity. Among even the most dissimilar human languages, for example, the similarities (grammar, syntax, rhythm, content, etc.) still far outweigh the differences. Anthropologists have historically focused on the differences while remaining blind to the (often more fundamental and important) similarities. I'm a little leery of some of the traits Brown ends up calling universal; he does acknowledge the "working" nature of such a list. But what precisely shall be found to be universal is less important than simply the shift to an orientation that would seek to understand human nature in such terms. This is what Brown proposes. He understands the place of anthropology in the social sciences, the field's potential, where and how that potential has gone unrealized, and how anthropologists will need to alter their approach if they're to be fruitful in the future. I haven't even scraped the surface here; the book is a gold mine of interdisciplinary connections and it brims with insights. More than anything, it's a sensible, biologically-informed, (dare I say) reality-based account of human nature. The tone is that of a genuine pursuit of truth, as opposed to the trend among some social scientists to search high and low for anything that supports established theory. This book is packed, and in many ways it only aims to lay the framework of a better approach to the subject.

An anthropological tour of our common humanness
This is a very welcome counterbalance to the many voices that stress differences among cultures at the cost of losing sight of what we humans share. With extensive use of anthropological studies, Brown alerts thereader to those almost innumerable and too easily taken-for-grantedelements of humanity.We all smile when happy, mourn the loss of a child,negotiate a place in a social setting with specific traditional roles.Weall eat, experience hunger, learn which foods are acceptable, connecteating with social occasions, use food-related activities as basicmetaphors for aspects of life.(The annotated bibliography is especiallygood for its lists ofshared human factors.)Those who stress differencesamong people now usually do so to promote tolerance of "theother."But a good basis for tolerance is to recognize the commonhumanness within all the differences.This book does that well.It isalso highly readable anthropology.

An anthropological tour of our common humanness
This is a very welcome counterbalance to the many voices that stress differences among cultures at the cost of losing sight of what we humans share. With extensive use of anthropological studies, Brown alerts thereader to those almost innumerable and too easily taken-for-grantedelements of humanity.We all smile when happy, mourn the loss of a child,negotiate a place in a social setting with specific traditional roles.Weall eat, experience hunger, learn which foods are acceptable, connecteating with social occasions, use food-related activities as basicmetaphors for aspects of life.(The annotated bibliography is especiallygood for its lists ofshared human factors.)Those who stress differencesamong people now usually do so to promote tolerance of "theother."But a good basis for tolerance is to recognize the commonhumanness within all the differences.This book does that well.It isgood but highly readable anthropology. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Cultural relativism    4. Culture    5. Human behavior    6. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    7. Physical anthropology    8. Research    9. Social Science    10. Sociobiology    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. Cultural studies    14. Social Science / Anthropology / General    15. Social Sciences   

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Excellent book!
She did it again!I've purchased a number of Dr.Kase's e-books, and her book "The Successful Therapist"...she always offers a wealth of information and ideas that you can apply immediately.I loved the "coaching points" that suggested exercises you could do to really apply the information and more importantly, integrate the new strategies, behaviors, etc. in to your work and personal life.I will be using this book for my own personal use as well as with my clients.

Anxious No More!
Wow! What a great resource this book has been for me. Being a small business owner has many challenges, anxieties, stresses... and Larina's book has been a tremendous read for me. Not only has it been awesome to me, but I will be ordering a copy for each of my employees as well. Thanks Larina for another great addition to my library!

Fabulous book!
This book is essential for anyone who works!!Prefectionism and anxiety often get in the way of our work performance.Dr. Kasecoaches readers on ways to reduce stress in the workplace, leading to greater productivity and an increased sense of satisfaction and well-being.This book is really like having your own personal career coach "on call" at any time! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Career/Job    3. Careers - General    4. Careers / Job Opportunities    5. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    6. Job stress    7. Psychological aspects    8. Work    9. Coping with personal problems