The Smart Office: Turning Your Company on Its Head

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Increase profits while creating a healthy workplace........1997-12-04

The Smart Office: Turning Your Company on Its Head is a comprehensive survival guide for businesses headed into the 21st century. This step-by-step guidebook details how companies can save money and increase their profits and productivity by streamlining their resource use and creating healthier workplaces. It exposes some of the hidden costs shared by many of today1s businesses and explains how to eliminate them. The Smart Office is filled with success stories of companies that have saved money, boosted employee morale, and increased productivity drastically by overcoming inefficient and unhealthy work practices. It offers tips, strategies, and methods for designing, renovating, and furnishing your workplace, conducting a smart office audit, establishing smarter company policies and goals, eradicating waste, and investing successfully. It also lists hundreds of companies, organizations, and government programs that offer additional information and smarter products.

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Guides you through the five styles of mental motivation: Achiever - Problem Solver, Leader - Follower, Innovator - Processor, Doer - Thinker, Evolutionary - Revolutionary. You'll learn how to detect and use them to get people moving toward useful outcomes without alienating anyone. Targeted to managers who are dissatisfied with the one-size-fits-all, reward-based approaches to employee motivation. Use language alone to motivate employees.

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A great book on self-motivation and influence.......2003-09-16

This is an excellent book that should sit in everyone's library, especially managers. At 143 pages, this book can be read in a short flight or two sessions on a stationary bike. Technology today enables us to do things faster, better and measure results more accurately. Nevertheless true success in business and life is still generally created in direct proportion to our ability to motivate ourselves and influence other people. In this fast-reading, well-written book, Jay provides us with a universal translator that can help us "crack-the-code" on what motivates us as well as others around us. I highly recommend this book.

Joe Santana,
Coauthor of Manage I.T.

A neat little book!.......2001-03-18

This is a neat little book.

The author, Jay Arthur, was apparently motivated to write a book designed to instruct you and me in how to motivate ourselves and everyone we come into contact with, but without manipulating them. He is very clear on that. It's apparently not nice to intentionally manipulate people, as long as you can get them to do what you want without such nefarious methods and intent. There's apparently a subtle shade of difference there!

There are several very funny, professionally drawn cartoons in the book, as well as aphorisms, quotes and witty sayings on about every other page, in large bold type which help to illustrate his thoughts. They are almost worth the price of the book all by themselves.

The meat of the book is advice on how to motivate yourself and others, and to change opinions and attitudes from those with which you disagree (negative thoughts) to those more in line with your own opinions and desires (positive, reasonable, healthy thoughts).

Mr. Arthur is a motivational speaker and consultant who works with people who "want to master the mysteries of the mind and companies that want jungle medicine for the corporate soul."

Through the book, it is apparent that he also hopes to merchandise his motivational videos and other books on the same subject matter.

This is a small (145 page) hardcover book with large, easy to read type. If you are interested in this kind of subject matter it would probably be money well spent. At my age, simply awaking every morning is a major accomplishment. Changing the world is no longer one of my primary interests.

It's a good little book.

Joseph H. Pierre

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In a world where self-motivation is increasingly the key to success, psychologist and communications expert Philippa Davies aims to show how to give ourselves, and others, the impetus we need. Discover how moods influence motivation, how to grow our creative thinking, techniques to think positively in all circumstances, methods to motivate everyone from family and friends to work colleagues, and the importance of leading by example and coaching others. The author offers practical suggestions and real-life case studies to help us achieve our goals.

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A GREAT MOTIVATIONAL BOOK ON ENHANCING YOUR CAREER........2003-04-21

In the context of career development, this paperback is a very handy reference for career coaches and consultants to recommend to their clients. Chapters on coping with crisis and going solo contain some useful tips for individuals who do not want to plough through jargon and wordy literature. In fact, I thought chapter on growing creativity has simple but useful ideas within the reach of everyone! Portfolio workers will find the book has some simple tools to give their career a boost.Gender differences in responses to career are also discussed. A neatly packaged book on careers. Definitely worth a read!

How to Motivate Everyone (Even Yourself).(Brief Article)(Review): An article from: Strategic Finance

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How to Motivate Everyone (Even Yourself).(Brief Article)(Review): An article from: Strategic Finance

Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1495 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How to Motivate Everyone (Even Yourself).(Brief Article)(Review)
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Volume: 83 Issue: 7 Page: 21(2)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Forty smooth-sipping, refreshing, dairy-free beverages ... delicious and healthful, and made in only 3-5 minutes, from the freshest and most nourishing ingredients. Creamy texture, low allergenic, high in usable protein, vitamins, and minerals.

A few of the zestful beverages in this bright, new book: Velvety Vanilla Cashew, Mocha Mint Almond, Caramel Date Pecan, Blackberry Banana Walnut, Sweet Pear n' Pine Nut, Minty Carob Pumpkin Seed, Lemon Coconut Cashew, and dozens more! Illustrated.

Candia Lea Cole is a prize-winning chef and caterer; an instructor in healthful cuisine.

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Nutritious Ideas.......2005-11-17

This book contains a collection of interesting nutritious drinks made with various nuts and seeds. In the introduction, Cole points out some of the nutritional benefits of drinking beverages made from nuts. She includes comparisons of non-sugar sweeteners (such as barley malts, honey, or stevia leaf), and ingredients that can be added to fortify the milks (such as flax seeds or lecithin). The instructions for preparing the milks are explained on one page, and they are the same for all the recipes in the book. Thus, if you get the procedure down, you'll be ready to try anything. Equipment needed for making the milks includes a nut grinder (coffee bean grinder), a blender, a pot and a fine mesh strainer. The recipes in the book are organized by the type of nut or seed in the base, and include chapters for almonds, cashews, pecans, pine nuts, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds (mainly tahini), and sunflower seeds. The recipes frequently call for fruits, especially apples or bananas. Some also call for flavor extracts, such as vanilla or almond. Included with the recipes are notes about the special nutritional content of the ingredients.

I enjoyed the variety of milks described in the book, and some of them are quite tasty. I'm not entirely convinced by Cole's interpretation of reasons for not drinking cow's milk however. She writes "the most serious threat in drinking milk lies in the fact that its natural chemical structure is altered by the heat and pressure used in processing to the point of making it indigestible." Let's put this into historical perspective, however. Just a little over one hundred years ago, the most serious threat in drinking milk was not that it was pasteurized, but that it wasn't pasteurized, and milk very often contained bacteria that could make you very, very sick. Pasteurizing milk has brought such overwhelmingly clear health advantages that governments around the world require the process for commercial milk distribution. The only safe way to drink unpasteurized milk is if you have a personal relationship with the cow-if you know Bessie by name and know the hands that milk her, then you're going to know if it's safe to drink her milk. But otherwise, stick to the pasteurized stuff, or follow the recipes here and make your own milk from nuts or seeds.

Safe, Healthy Alternative to Dairy, Especially for Children!.......2002-06-02

This is an excellent book not only for children with allergies, but for everyone looking for healthy alternatives... Almonds are hypoallergenic naturally and almond milk is perfectly safe - better yet when organic almonds are used. Peanuts (a bean, really, and not a nut at all) are one of the highest allergens in young children. Peanuts are also not the best choice for nut milks. Almonds contain proteins, fats, carbohydrates, calcium, potassium, and magnesium - they are the BEST choice for nut milks. Other "good" nuts are cashews, pecans, pine nuts, walnuts, pumpkinseeds, sesame seeds (may be a tad strong for the wee ones) and sunflower seeds. This book has 40 wonderful recipes. I have the first edition of this book (1990) for it's been a trusted freind for over 10 years and I have tested each and every recipe myself and they truly are wonderful... I HIGHLY recommend it. The best part is that it really gets you inspired and after tasting the delicious elixir, and knowing all of the benefits, you will NEVER buy boxes soy, rice or almond milk again. It's really a lovely book.
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Helped me to patent an invention!.......1999-10-29

This little gem has a neat collection of simple, easy to follow recipes for non-dairy milks that can be prepared from nut and seed slurries...Not only can these milks be used alone, but also in dishes that require milk or for the Kosher cook. These milks are also great for children who don't get enough of their essential fats from their regular diet or who have allergies to milk proteins.

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An important part of any successful customer satisfaction program is the actual form used to gather data to measure call center performance and overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. The Call Center Sample Customer Satisfaction Forms book provides call center professionals with an array of "real" examples of surveys currently used in a wide array of enterprises today.

Sample forms included phone surveys, e-mail/Web surveys, postal mail surveys and surveys delivered as newsletter inserts, handouts and by fax. To help guide your evaluation of your own customer satisfaction practices and design the best type of loyalty program for your particular call center and business goals, the first chapter of this book includes a number of articles from the monthly "how-to" newsletter, Call Center Management Review. It is important to note that the Incoming Calls Management Institute does not endorse any of these surveys as being "better" than another, nor do we identify any of these particular survey methods as a model to follow. Three-Ring Binder Format; 75 pages; 32 forms.

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Decoupage: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
Denise Thomas
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Joanna Jones
Manufacturer: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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Volume I of Ray Monk's life of Bertrand Russell is a penetrating and highly critical portrait of one of this century's most influential intellectual figures. Monk's talents as a writer and his knowledge of philosophy produce clear and lucid prose that is sophisticated in its understanding, yet doesn't shy away from the dishy details that make the book compelling. This initial volume takes us through the first fifty years of Russell's private, public, and intellectual life. We follow Russell through his boyhood and schooling, his two marriages and countless love affairs, his friendships with eminent intellectuals such as Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot (plus an affair with Eliot's wife Vivien), and the members of the Bloomsbury Group, up to the birth of Russell's son in 1921. The inner Russell is tumultuous, fighting off fears of madness, and full of insatiable longings. We also see Russell's public life: his outspoken commitment to pacifism which ultimately led to his imprisonment, as well as his early advocacy and later disillusionment with socialism. Ray Monk is particularly adept at explicating Russell's philosophy: his desire to bring an end to interminable philosophical debates by developing new techniques for the logical analysis of philosophical problems. In Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Monk demonstrated that cracking good stories exist in the arcana of academic philosophy and in the lives of philosophers. The vastness of Russell's life and the breadth of his interests, in addition to the brilliance of his mind, makes Monk's story all the more captivating.

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Reaching an overwhelming sense of the man.......2006-06-29

This is simply amazing. Not only did BR write a thorough journal, but his friends, lovers, and associates, and their friends, lovers, and associates did too. And letters from all to all practically! We come to a sense of understanding BR et al better than they knew themselves. More: this has everything to do with the philosophy of BR. I wouldn't have believed it and often I feel wonderment about why we needed to know "that", good grief, when low and behold, there is the connection with the work. Had it not been for the life BR lived we would not have his work. It is enough to make you certain that our paradigm - learn the history of the man to understand him - is certainly a winning paradigm because of what it shows. It also encourages me to reflect on my own life. How can one read so intensely into the life of another without it having such an effect? Thoughts like: remember this! It was just so. BR expresses it so well. And Ray Monk does such a good job making it accessible, certainly having found it reliving the life of BR from the philosophers point of view as well as the lovers and students. Since I have also read Wittgenstein, I loved the cross over and the record of the various steps in their relationship felt the richer for having read both. Life is great when you have great books like this on a beautiful summer evening.

An idealist mathematician turned sceptic.......2004-09-07

The first part of Ray Monk's outstanding biography of Bertrand Russell centres more on his love life than on his philosophical or political evolution.
It shows us a restless Russell, fearing (hereditary) madness and becoming a real womanizer after the break-up of his first marriage.
The number of letters which Russell wrote to his (ex-)lovers is truly amazing and Ray Monk quotes profusely from them.
The reactions of the husband of Ottoline Morrell, Russell's lifelong friend and most important mistress, shows that apparently promiscuity in the British High Society was not a problem.
On the philosophical front, Ray Monk doesn't explain very clearly Russell's essential logical discoveries (see B. Magee - Confessions of a philosopher). On the other hand, the importance of Peano's work, his clashes with Wittgenstein (who torpedoed a big part of Russell's work) and D.H. Lawrence (for Russell, a fascist) as well as his questioning of G. Frege (whose work was annihilated by one question by Russell) are very well documented.
Politically, Russell became a utopian socialist (no private property, which was the source of all evil) and later a real liberal fighting for universal suffrage also for women.
A key event in his life was the outbreak of WWI. It shattered definitively his trust in mankind. He became a sceptic and a convinced pacifist for the rest of his life.

Although I found that there were too many love letter excerpts in this book, it remains a fascinating read.

One of the most brilliantly significant books Ever written!.......2003-11-04

This is one of the most stimulating, dazzling, intellectually satisfying, strangely comforting books that I have ever read.

As an academic myself, devoted to the lonely quest for truth, this book was strangely comforting, as I could empathise with some of the struggles Bertrand Russell endured.

This book (along with Lance Armstrong's "It's not about the Bike" and Dag Hammarskjold's "Markings") is very important to me. By reading the many excerpts it includes of Russell's letters and diaries, I have come across many stunningly phrased morsels of eloquence - yes, Russell's behaviour is sometimes horrifying, yet rather than this make the book unpleasant, it actually made it a learning experience. I learnt things about humanity that were meaningful to me, and I experienced (and learnt from) the many exquisite phrases.

Any negativity concerning Russell's character was, from my perspective, *completely* eclipsed by the rewarding, educating and intellectually and emotionally intense experience of reading this remarkable book.
I do not that often discover books that are very meaningful and brilliant; I would be very happy if over the next few years I accidentally stumble upon a *handful* of books that measure up to the standards that my current favourites have achieved. Until then I will just have to re-read my favourites.

(I found this book so dense with insight that I actually started a file on my computer where I type notes from this biography concerning ideas and phrases that were particularly interesting/beautiful.)

A biography the size of the Bertrand Russell.......2003-07-02

Strange as it may seem, I began to read this book after reading its sequel, but got the same good impression of it all, because what counts most is both the stature of Bertrand Russel and the way it is portrayed by Ray Monk.
"The Spirit of Solitude" is simply fascinating, covering the years Russell dedicated to the philosophy of Mathematics, a subject that is so complex, that completely absorved him, causing his first marriage to collapse amidst great personnal pain to his wife, making Russell to seek love comfort with women who could fulfill the maternal absence to a man who lost both his parents when a child. The pressure exerted upon him by his grandmother is also elucidative on the ways he chose to mantain his personall life amid a curtain of secrecy, something instrumental in his future evolution as a philosopher.
The apex of his career was hit when he published, along with Whithehead, the voluminous Principia Mathematica, a 4.500 pages book, which took some 10 years of his best efforts, and which was dedicated to the foundations of philosophical thinking in Mathematics. It was such a difficult book to read that even Russell expected that no more than a handfull of great mathematicians could read and understand what was there meant.
This book is a must for everyone interested in Philosophy and the philosophy of mathematical thinking.

The Best Russell Bio To Date.......2000-12-19

Question: How would Ray Monk follow his wildly successful biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein? Answer: He takes on the life of Wittgenstein's teacher, and the most public philosopher of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell.

There are a myriad of biographies of Russell in and out of print; even the most ardent Russell admirer could easily admit burnout on this score. Russell himself penned an autobiography that lends itself more to literature than fact. Why should one spend money and time on yet another biography?

Two reasons should suffice, I hope. Monk is a thorough biographer, but not an adoring one. Although some others have also been critical, none brings to the subject the background in analytical philosophy that Monk does, and this is an important factor when discussing the life and thought of a philosopher, for both are obviously and subtly interwined in the subject.

Secondly, Russell was more than an academic philosopher, he was a public figure who was more well known than his philosophy. His life was lived in the pages of the press and made great fodder for the newshounds. Whether it was his many love affairs (including a disastrous one with poet T.S. Eliot's unstable wife Vivian) or his peace campaign during the first World War that led to his jailing by the English government, Russell always made good copy. Monk takes the reader behind the headlines to the events and forces that shaped the young Russell's life and philosophy. His partnership with Alfred North Whitehead in the co-authorship of Principia Mathematica is expertly handled, as is Russell's later dalliance with the Bloomsbury Group.

This is the first of two projected volumes and I can't wait to read Part Two.

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Yes, it is as good as they say.

Nightmare Beyond the Pythagorean Dream

an excellent book

Bertrand Russell: the Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921
Ray Monk
Manufacturer: Free press
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Binding: Hardcover

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In addition to being one of the most important logicians and philosophers of this century, Russell was also one of its most prominent public figures, and his influence on his time was not confined to academic subjects. This book deals with Russell's work on the foundation of mathematics and to the philosophical method that he developed as a consequence of his successes in that field, but there are also examples of the more popular side of his work, with discussions of positions he defended in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, history, and education, and one of the dominant themes of his life, political activism.

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Yes, it is as good as they say........2002-02-20

I can only agree with what has gone before. A truly wonderful "book", if that's what you call these short 58 page things. Takes the view that the "fall" from Platonism to nominalism in mathematics is the key to Russell's development as a philosopher. I don't know if it's true or not, since Russell had such a complicated life, but it is an utterly fascinating hypothesis, and completely accessible, as Monk unfolds the account. The writing is so smooth I could barely tell when Monk transitioned to new topics.

Nightmare Beyond the Pythagorean Dream.......2001-01-03

This tiny book amazes me. Rather than attempt a biography, Monk focuses on one theme of Russell's life: his adventure with mathematics and the drive to reduce all of mathematics to logic, crystallized as a pristine whole of pure beauty -- the ultimate achievement of rational thought. Retracing the inspiration, successes, and ultimate defeat of that program, interpolating through the stages of Russell's own writings, Monk provides us with a glimpse of the integrity of a life committed to taking a major philosophical inquiry to an honest but unwanted and discouraging conclusion. In retracing the path of Russell's mathematical passion, Monk provides brief thumbnails of the major concepts that illuminated the route to today's mathematical logic and its foundational construction: one that in itself demonstrates the impossibility of a purely logical system that resolves all of mathematics as a wonder of deductive reasoning.

an excellent book.......2000-06-18

This is really a great book. It has everything a book should have, a good plot, interesting characters (or character, as the case may be), topology, set theory, Hegelianism, and a fight with Goedel. Monk is amazingly good at explaining complicated things but also at getting across to the reader why the complicated things are so important. I should really stop repeating myself, but what is amazing about this book is its marriage of detail and plain good writing. It is a model of how this sort of thing (exposition of ideas) ought to be done. Kudos to Monk for a great book.

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From the O.J. Simpson verdict to peace-making in the Balkans, the critical role of human judgement--complete with its failures, flaws, and successes--has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgement and its impact on events that take place in human society, which require the direction and control of social policy. Research on social policy typically focuses on content. This book concentrates instead on the decision-making process itself. Drawing on 50 years of empirical research in decision theory, Hammond examines the possibilities for wisdom and cognitive competence in the formation of social policies, and applies these lessons to specific examples, such as the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the health care debate. Uncertainly, he tells us, can seldom be fully eliminated; thus error is inevitable, and injustice for some unavoidable. But the capacity for make wise judgments increases to the extent that we understand the potential pitfalls and their origin. The judgment process for example involves an ongoing rivalry between intuition and analysis, accuracy and rationality. The source of this tension requires an examination of the evolutionary roots of human judgement and how these fundamental features may be changing as our civilization increasingly becomes an information and knowledge-based society. With numerous examples from law, medicine, engineering, and economics, the author dramatizes the importance of judgment and its role in the formation of social policies which affect us all, and issues the first comprehensive examination of its underlying dynamics.

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Actual policy making is both risky and very uncertain.......2005-02-06

Hammond does a brilliant job of showing how the uncertainty (the information set upon which decisions will be evaluated and choices made is at all times partial in nature and can never be complete)of the available information available to government and public policy administrators very often offers a cogent explanation for the constant mistakes and failures of expert opinion throughout history.For example,his discussion of Irving Fisher(the leading American economic expert from 1910-1929)and,from retrospect,his incredible misjudgment of the state of both the world and American economy in late October,1929,is shown to be commonplace.The experts are experts,but they are also unduly overconfident and overoptimistic about the range of application of their limited knowledge base in a world that is inherently uncertain.Much of what Hammond's says has ,in a more general framework,been said and emphasized by John Maynard Keynes.Joseph Schumpeter also made the same points,but underestimated the dangers of such uncertainty to any kind of decision maker,private or public.Hammond offers some suggestions about ways in which policy makers can have a better chance of succeeding in their goals.Administrative coordination and the avoidance of making crucial decisions at a time of undue stress or pressure are mentioned and discussed.One writer who is missing from Hammond's references and has a valuable understanding of the turbulence of markets and the fact that the unexpected,unexpected that is by conventional economist models,occurs all too often,is Benoit Mandelbrot.Perhaps his work could be integrated in a future edition by Hammond within his framework of irreducible uncertainty.

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