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Mean men : the perversion of America's self-made man
\"Steve Jobs, Dov Charney, Lance Armstrong, Donald Trump. Each one has reached the pinnacle of American success. Is it because they were ambitious visionaries and talented entrepreneurs? Most Americans would say yes to both. But what else do they have in common? They're known for being mean. Though heralded as great leaders, each of these men and many more have also been exposed as toxic, raging, and manipulative. Yet, because America loves a winner, we look past even the most outrageous behavior from our heroes if it generates a gold medal, a windfall IPO, or a political victory. But at what price does our complicity come?\"--Dust jacket flap.
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In the absence of the gift
By adopting ideas like \"development,\" members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives \"What about me?\" This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like \"community\" can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship. As the state withdraws, Mbuke people explore what social ends might be reached through involvement with the cash economy.
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Me against the world : a novel
\"A jaded journalist inherits an abandoned manuscript penned by an old acquaintance who has recently passed away. The writing -- a collection of ruminations on the nature of existence by a fifty-three-year old businessman who, as far as the journalist remembers, was a kind and gentle soul -- is nothing short of shocking. In it, this apparent everyman -- whom we know only as Mr. K -- writes that he has a son, daughter, and wife, but has no love for them. He claims that humans are like cancer cells, destroying Mother Earth with their unrestrained propagation. He looks at our mortal destiny with an unflinching honesty and turns to psychic mediums for clues to the afterlife, wondering what immortality -- if it were possible -- would mean for our spiritual well-being. Me Against the World takes the reader down the rabbit hole of the raging mind of this man, who only rejects the world in order to save it from itself\" -- Provided by publisher.
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When Life Meets Livelihood: Impact of Financial Stress on Psychological Wellbeing of Business Entrepreneurs and Salaried Individuals and the way Forward with Brief Structured Psychotherapy
Context:
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown are affecting business entrepreneurs and service sector individuals emotionally and financially.
Aims:
To assess financial stress and its impact on quality of life (QOL) and overall stress amongst business entrepreneurs and service employees. To explore the protective effects of existential thinking and positive coping styles and compare the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).
Settings and Design:
1000 businessmen and service employees between 18-60 years were included in this cross sectional, randomized group design comparative study.
Methods and Materials:
Covid 19 Fear Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, Financial Stress Scale, WHO QOL Scale, Brief Cope, Existential Concern Questionnaire, Existential thinking Scale were administered. Forty people from each group were randomly allocated to weekly group sessions of ACT or CBT.
Statistical analysis:
ANOVA, ANCOVA, Independent sample and paired t tests, Hierarchical correlation.
Result:
Financial stress was higher in businessmen. QOL was higher among serviceholders. Financial stress had positive association with Covid fear, low per capita income, avoidance coping. QOL had negative association with perceived stress, existential concerns. ACT was more effective than CBT.
Conclusion:
There is significant difference in financial stress and QOL between businessmen and serviceholders. Psychotherapy is an effective intervention.
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Feel-good productivity : how to do more of what matters to you
\"In this revolutionary book, Ali reveals how the science of feel-good productivity can transform your life. He introduces the three hidden 'energisers' that underpin enjoyable productivity, the three 'blockers' we must overcome to beat procrastination, and the three 'sustainers' that prevent burnout and help us achieve lasting fulfillment. He recounts the inspiring stories of founders, Olympians, and Nobel-winning scientists who embody the principles of Feel-Good Productivity. And he introduces the simple, actionable changes that you can use to achieve more and live better, starting today.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The relationship of transformational leadership with group cohesiveness and emotional intelligence
Previous work on transformational leadership has focused predominantly on individual level analysis, while less attention has been paid to investigating why leaders engage in transformational leadership. In this study, group level outcomes pertaining to cohesiveness as well as the antecedent
factor of emotional intelligence as it relates to transformational leadership are investigated. Data were collected from 51 department managers and 252 employees in 23 small-medium textile business firms in Taiwan. Results indicate that both emotional intelligence and group cohesiveness are
positively associated with transformational leadership. In addition, transformational leadership mediates the relationship between leaders' emotional intelligence and group cohesiveness. Implications of the findings in terms of theory and practice are discussed.
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The Best Specimen of a Tyrant
In 1847, young Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand left Vermont to seek his fortune in the West, but in Wisconsin his business ventures failed, and a medical practice among hard-up settlers added little to his pocketbook. During the Civil War he organized and ran one of the army's biggest hospitals but resigned when dark rumors surfaced about him. Back home, he accepted with mixed feelings the one prestigious position available to him: superintendent of the state's first hospital for the insane.
Van Norstrand was a newcomer to the so-called \"Hospital Movement,\" perhaps the boldest public policy innovation of its time, one whose leaders believed that they could achieve what had long been regarded as impossible, to cure the insane. He was a driven man with scant sympathy for those he considered misfits or malingerers. Even so, early observers were impressed with his energetic, take-charge manner at the hospital. Here at last was a man who stood firm where his predecessors had weakened and foundered. But others began to detect a different side to this tireless ruler and adroit politician. It was said that he assaulted patients and served them tainted food purchased with state money from his own grocery store. Was he exploiting the weak for personal gain or making the best of a thankless situation? Out of this fog of suspicion emerged a moral crusader and-to all appearances-pristine do-gooder named Samuel Hastings, a man whose righteous fury, once aroused, proved equal to Van Norstrand's own.
The story of Abraham Van Norstrand's rise and fall is also the story of the clash between the great expectations and hard choices that have bedeviled public mental hospitals from the beginning.
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Career development all-in-one for dummies
Take control of your career today Want to get ahead in the workplace? Learn new skills and increase your visibility as a leader in your company with the help of this practical, hands-on guide to professional development. You'll find new techniques for being a better leader, tips for writing better emails, rules for running more effective meetings, and much more. Plus, you'll discover how to give presentations that will keep your audience engaged and learn to be a more mindful person. Combined from seven of the best For Dummies books on career development topics, Career Development All-in-One For Dummies is your one-stop guide to taking control of your career and improving your professional life. Perfect on its own or as part of a formal development program, it gives you everything you need to advance your career. Become a better leader Manage your time wisely Write effective business communications Manage projects more effectively Success is an individual responsibility—so put your professional future in your own hands with this guide!
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A Busman's Holiday in the Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Business Culture, Epistolary Networks, and Itinerant Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
The business culture that was the bedrock of Cold War heterosexuality and masculinity (themselves tightly entwined) was also what allowed many men to pursue vibrant queer social and sexual lives.3 While on its face this assertion flies in the face of most recent scholarship both on Cold War gender ideologies and on the persecution of gays and lesbians, it is also not all that surprising that a workforce composed almost exclusively of men-at least at the level above that of secretary-should have led to homosexual practices among at least some of its participants.4 Despite media representations and misguided nostalgia to the contrary, it makes sense that in an era in which men were likelier to be absent from their homes for work, some of them might have been doing something other than work during those absences. As the interstate highway system grew by leaps and bounds, as car ownership climbed steadily upward, as developments in commercial aviation made cross-country flights increasingly affordable, and as annual conferences of countless organizations increased the transience of great masses of men in cities across the country, it should not surprise us that all these developments were put to queer ends as well. [...] yet the stories told both of masculinity and of male homosexuality during the 1940s and 1950s are generally bound up in repression: the stultifying effect of Cold War ideologies of normalcy both for presumptively heterosexual men and for the gay men who were persecuted at the war's end.5 This article uses the experiences of this network of correspondents, most of them businessmen of various stripes, to argue that it was the very structures of what we most readily identify as the core of capitalist and heterosexual normalcy that provided the means for a thriving culture of queer sexuality.
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