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The friction project : how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder
\"Every organization is plagued by destructive friction-the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get anything done. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become \"friction fixers,\" so that teams and organizations don't squander the zeal, damage the health, and throttle the creativity and productivity of good people--or burn through cash and other precious resources. Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, which ranges from reframing friction troubles they can't fix right now so they feel less threatening to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams. Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Communal Utopias and the American Experience
Covers community building from New Harmony (1824) to today's secular intentional communities. This important study begins with America's first secular utopia at New Harmony in 1824 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. For the first time, readers will come to realize that American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but has been an on-going, essential part of American history. We have a communal utopian motif that sets the history of the United States apart from any other nation. The utopian communal story is just one other dimension of the Puritan concept that America was a city upon a hill, a beacon light to all the world where the perfect society could be built and could flourish. After discussing New Harmony and other Owenite communities, the author examines nine Fourierist utopias that were built before the Civil War. Next, he analyzes the five Icarian colonies that, collectively, were the longest-lived, non-religious communal experiments in American history. Then, discussion moves to the seven Gilded Age socialist cooperatives, followed by the utopian communities created during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Finally, Sutton turns to the hippie colonies and intentional communities of the last half of the 20th century.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
[Duncan Williamson]'s fireside tales are of keen interest to the folklorist and scholar. Transcribed from taped recordings, these narratives - told for generations by clans of itinerant Highlanders - weave rich textures of sound with unusual syntax, idiom and abrupt tense changes, creating a sense of intimacy rarely found on the printed page. These 12 stories, chosen from more than 3,000 in Mr. Williamson's repertoire, range from variations on familiar themes such as ''Beauty and the Beast'' to fresh adventure, enchantment, Jack (or hero), anthropomorphic and burker -body snatcher - tales. Edited by Linda Williamson, the narrator's American wife, ''so far as to be comprehensible to a wide English audience,'' each story is appended with brief notes as to source and circumstance as well as comments on translation, idiom and syntax.
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