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Based on hands-on, real-world research and concepts used by CEOs, managers and employees in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to nonprofit, There Is No Place Like Work shows how organizations have accomplished and can accomplish the ultimate goal of managing their CORE Culture.
Customer Reviews:
A MUST read!.......2006-08-10
As a "headhunter" of 15 years, I have been a consultant to companies who are trying to attract top talent to their organizations. I have also worked with top-notch candidates who are searching to associate themselves with companies who are the best in their fields. What I have found is, that, which most excites quality, talented, qualified individuals to a new employer, is the company's leadership, their purpose, their culture and their core values. After reading "There Is No Place Like Work", I concluded that this easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, easy-to-follow and easy-to-implement guide is a "must read" for every business owner, CEO, executive, manager and human resources professional. Kudos to Drs. Margolis and Wilensky for writing a handbook that can help businesses be the best that they can be.
Extremely Helpful.......2006-08-09
Excellent Reading! I thoroughly enjoyed it and see how it can be beneficial!!!! I plan to put it to good use!!!
A great primer to a new career!.......2006-08-02
Do you want to change careers? Do you want to start a business venture? Do you want to be crystal clear as to the direction you want to go with your business? Then might I suggest you read this book. While it is a metaphor to the wizard of oz, it is written beautifully so as to make you decide where you want to go with your business.
The information was just enough to get the wheels turning as to what is important and more importantly why?
I spent the day pondering the message in the book and created a business model that I am looking forward to implement tomorrow.
Good Luck to you.
Tools for an organizational "tune up"!.......2006-07-15
There Is No Place Like Work...is an excellent tool for an organizational tune-up! My company's vision and mission are current and consistent, we are not looking to start over. But we have many entry level positions and a limited career ladder so we are constantly bringing new people into the organization. Using the tools that are provided in the book helped us to sharpen our presentations (tell our story)better, internally and to outside audiences. Additionally, we use the principals in our strategic leadership team as part of our planning process. This book is a winner!
Fantastic!!.......2006-07-11
Whether you're starting a brand new business or have been at the helm for 20 years, Ava and Sheila's 5 P's put workplace culture simply and concisely into perspective. From the first page to the last, you will find yourself fascinated by how easily their insights can be plugged right into your situation. This book will absolutely increase your bottom line!
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Four powerful steps begun in one's middle years will allow readers to avoid a future nursing home placement. This plan preserves assets and removes the burden of caregiving from loved ones. All will be able to receive the highest level of care in dignity at home.
Customer Reviews:
Makes sense.......2006-11-04
Too many folks think they'll just go on state aid and let society take care of them. I agree with author Shoff that this industry is headed the same place as our Emergency Rooms in urban hospitals. And she explains the steps we can take to secure our senior years. If you are anywhere close to 50, read this book. If you're over 50, have them send it FedEx!
A Must Read Guide to the 'end game' of life.......2003-05-23
Karen Shoff produced a guide that did not exist before. This should be required reading as a part of everyman's life education: like how to swim, how to be a decent parent, how to do CPR and how to prepare for end of life infirmity. Let's face it: Modern medicine, safer cars, non-smoking and weight watchers are all conspiring to help us live longer. Great! So when we all succeed, then what? Read this book. It answers the question.
A Must Read Guide to the 'end game' of life.......2003-05-23
Karen Shoff produced a guide that did not exist before. This should be required reading as a part of everyman's life education: like how to swim, how to be a decent parent, how to do CPR and how to prepare for end of life infirmity. Let's face it: Modern medicine, safer cars, non-smoking and weight watchers are all conspiring to help us live longer. Great! So when we all succeed, then what? Read this book. It answers the question.
This Book will change your life.......2003-05-22
Where will you spend your old age? Will you live in a nursing home? Will they take you for walks when you want to go out? Will they help you reposition yourself in bed every couple of hours to help you avoid getting bedsores? Will they be able to get to you on time when you need assistance using the facilities? Will you miss you home?
What if you could stay in the comfort of your own home, with round the clock care if need be, with your choice of caregivers? What if this option was not only for the fabulously wealthy, but was in fact available to anyone and everyone at a fraction of the price of a nursing home? It is not as farfetched as it seems. It just takes some careful planning.
Our society has acknowledged that surviving old age takes preparation. Retirement funds, social security, and well-stocked shelves of volumes upon volumes of do-it-yourself guides are evidence of these sentiments. It is a wonder that amidst all the excitement, most people fail to prepare for illness and incapacitation.
But Karen Shoff of Santa Monica California has vowed to make this ignorance a thing of the past. In her compelling and essential new book, There's No Place Like A Nursing Home, she details in a surprisingly fascinating manner the problems inherent in institutional life, and offers a step-by-step solution. The fast paced text is only enhance by the stories she masterfully tells. As a former Social Worker and Gerontologist, she was witness to the horrors of institutional life. Her experiences in institutional life fueled her passionate commitment to protecting her family, friends and clients from those very facilities.
Her goal is to help ensure each and every American a life of dignity, security, and comfort. She details steps that if taken, will free one from worry, and doubt. She tells her reader how he can stay in the comfort and dignity of his own home, while at the same time receiving care far superior to that offered in any institution for significantly less. Her solution is a combination of Long Term Care Insurance, careful planning, and a slew of incisive, original suggestions. As one of the foremost experts in her field, her book is invaluable. Our society owes Karen Shoff a debt of gratitude for opening up her vast expertise and experience for our benefit.
Don't wait any longer. There's No Place Like A Nursing Home will change your life.
There's No Place Like (a Nursing) Home.......2003-01-05
Mrs. Shoff has written a clear, convincing, heart-felt, elegantly organized treatise on how to age responsibly. It has rearranged and brightened up a very confused and bleak picture of what it means to age, derived from countless visits to nursing homes over the years. Instead of a sense of victimhood, I have caught a (liberating) glimpse of what it might mean - for me and my dear friends - to have a hand in determining our own destinies!
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From its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies easy categorization and demands serious consideration. In There's No Place Like Home Video, James Moran takes on this neglected aspect of popular culture. Moran offers a cultural history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and home video's symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes its pure practice.
In Moran's discussion of video, he argues that previous scholars have not sufficiently dealt with its nature as hybrid, varied, and mutable. He argues that such a medium shouldn't be conceived as pure in and of itself; it is neither autonomous from other media nor entirely dependent on any other, but has a chameleonlike interface with films, television, computers, telephones, and even architecture. Rather than look for a grand narrative to define its specificity, Moran places video and home video at the intersections of multiple forms of communication.
James Moran is adjunct professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College in Los Angeles.
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You might be a redneck if…
- You've ever left Santa Claus a PBR and a Slim Jim.
- You've ever done your Christmas shopping at a truck stop.
- The neighbors started a petition over your Christmas lights.
- Your nativity scene has people wearing camouflage.
- Your outdoor Christmas decoration has a misspelled word.
- You ever gift wrapped a tire.
Foxworthy's version of this Christmas classic is one of the most played, and best-selling Christmas records every season. This book will be a wonderful holiday gift for the redneck in all of us.
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* Has someone close to you passed on?
* Would you like to have a chance to see them or hear from them one more time?
* Do you believe that after death communication is possible?
* Do you think you may have had some type of after death communication?
After death communication is by no means a new subject, but other sources may not have attempted to answer the following questions.
* How many different ways do our deceased loved ones try to communicate with us?
* For what purpose do they return home?
* How far will they go to comfort our pain or allow us to share just one more moment with them?
"There's No Place Like Home" gives the answer to these questions through the experiences of others. By reading this book, you may discover ways that your deceased loved one has tried to reach out to you.
* Did you recognize the sign or did you push it off as your imagination?
Don't take the chance of missing that "one last moment" with someone you love. Let the contributors of this book share with you how they were able to have their unforgettable "last moment".
Customer Reviews:
It wil make you think. . . ........2006-05-11
An impressive, well-organized and thought-provoking collection of paranormal events as described by those who experienced those events. The author has done an impressive job of organizing the material contributed by those who confronted that which is hard to explain, but, for the most part, welcomed, finding reassurance both in this life and beyond.
Stories that will interest and touch you.......2004-02-15
Although my interest in the paranormal and otherworldly has waned in my adulthood, I picked up this book and found that you don't have to be a believer to be moved by the stories within. This book is a compilation of accounts written by those who have experienced encounters of some kind, ones that are by turns chilling, humourous, but can also prove poignant. As per the title of the book, the stories revolve around after death communication, and whether you are cynical about the possibility of such a thing, the stories are still touching in their underlying message that death might seem to be an end unto itself, but that one can still find comfort in the belief that those you love might be out there somewhere still, watching over you. Even if you aren't looking for such depth and simply want an enjoyable read, still check out this book. Although the writers aren't professional authors, the stories are still well-written and the editor has done a great job in compiling them in a way that will deliver the best read possible. Recommended!
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With as many as 70% of working mothers who want to be stay-at-home moms, Mary Larmoyeux and Ethan Pope have written the book that will give the encouragement and financial advice to make the dream a reality. Mary shares her story of being a working mom, having planned to stay-at-home but not being able. Ethan shares how his wife did stay at home and how they made that happen. The authors also address such timely options as home schooling and home-based careers.
Customer Reviews:
The only place to be is home.......2002-02-25
This book was helpful in some aspects. It gave some
advice on how to transition to being a stay at home mom. In addition, it gave scriptural references which for me were uplifing and encouraging. However, the authors repeatedly made me feel as though it was totally "ungodly" if you work outside the home to make ends meet. That, for me, was the only negative aspect.
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No hay lugar como el hogar: There's No Place Like Home, Spanish-Language Edition (Criss-cross)
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Kids join their favorite travelers, Sally and Sam, in their intrepid adventures to a deserted island looking for hidden treasure, in a submarine, on the planet Mars dodging monsters, and traveling back in time to visit dinosaurs. Each book has readers lifting the flaps to help Sally and Sam along their way.
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Confronting the abundant evidence that children suffer when their mothers leave them for the workplace, Mr. Robertson asks why it has nevertheless become the norm for mothers to work. The rise of feminism seems the obvious answer, but until the 1960s, the women's movement zealously fought against mothers' being forced to abandon their homes for wages. The important change, Mr. Robertson discovers, has been in society's view of work, which we once saw as a means of supporting family life but now pursue as an avenue of self-fulfillment.
Accompanying this cultural sea-change were coercive new policies in business and government that deliberately stacked the deck against one-income families. The response of both political parties to the needs of families, Mr. Robertson shows, has been laughable. Democrats embrace the new feminist mania for working mothers, and Republicans will not threaten the corporate grip on parental priorities. He concludes with an outline of sane family policy and an account of how some intrepid men and women have prevailed against the anti-family current.
Mr. Robertson takes a dim view of the scientific pretensions of much of the literature on work and family. Ideological prejudices have proved easy to hide in a forest of statistics and data. Studies and polls are useful only if the interpreter is grounded in the truth of the human person and the indispensable role of the family.
Customer Reviews:
This book changes everything.......2003-05-15
I'm a 20 year-old highly motivated student at a prestigious university. My entire life I've worked diligently so I could have a successful career. However, after I began reading this book, my thinking has been turned on its head. Now I can see that I've been motivated by all the wrong things: ego, self-aggrandizement, money, and status. This book has helped me understand all that motherhood used to be and could be. It is not a banal existence; there are beautiful possibilites open to the imaginitive mind. Our country was founded on the Protestant ethic that the most noble thing one could do is to be selfless, to give everything you have to your children and your family. My words are like gravel in the mouth compared to Robertson's eloquence. I wish I could capture the beauty of his words here. Please, read this book. It changes everything.
Extremely informative.......2003-05-10
Robertson shows how the best care is maternal care and why society is in denial of this fact. I found this book very informative and enlightening, and has forever changed the way I look at alternative child care and the media, whose refusal to tell the truth about parenting is causing the millions of children to be neglected.
Time for a rethink.......2003-05-09
The West is struggling with the related issues of women in the workforce, childcare, maternity leave, and family breakdown. The usual wisdom is to say that we just need to try harder to balance work commitments with family responsibilities. But Brian Robertson, a writer living in Washington DC, believes the answers lie elsewhere.
Indeed, from a historical perspective, the current crisis is really an anomaly. The modern feminist movement of the 60s taught that the only good woman is a career woman, and that homemaking and motherhood were to be despised and fled from. But interestingly, the womenýs movement prior to that fought for the right of a mother to stay at home with her young children, and not be conscripted into the paid workplace.
Thus the struggle for those in the earlier years of the womenýs movement was to protect women from the encroachment of market forces, and to prevent them from being forced into career at the expense of their families. Motherhood and homemaking, in other words, were seen as honorable and valuable ends in themselves.
But with the late 60s and onwards, the new wave of feminists took a totally different line: only in the paid workforce can a woman find meaning, freedom and dignity. Thus the vitriolic attack on mothers and the family. Betty Friedan therefore could call the home a "comfortable concentration camp" while Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown could label a mother and housewife as "a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger ý a bum".
A womanýs freedom, said these feminists, meant that a woman should and could be independent both in the economic and the reproductive realms. Women just do not need men, and are better off without them. Establishing a career and gaining financial independence is the first goal of the modern woman. And millions of Western women bought this line of thought.
Of course now the inherent contradictions are coming all too clear. Women who were told that they could have it all are now fining that they have very little. They may have a good job, but they have no husband or boyfriend, no children and no family. And many today are deeply regretful of this fact.
But it is not just women who have suffered at the hands of feminist orthodoxy. Children have been the big losers. Millions of children today are being raised by strangers. Yet all the social science research shows that children desperately need their mums and dads. No day care system can ever compete with the love and attention of a mother and a father.
Yet as Robertson documents, while the social research on all this is quite clear, very few are willing to promote the findings, for fear of incurring the wrath of feminists and of making working mums feel guilty. So although the research is clear, that attachment is important for infants and mother-child bonding is crucial, millions of mothers are ignoring the evidence, and their maternal instincts, and are abandoning their children in droves.
The harmful effects of extended periods of time for young children in day care are well documented in this book. Even child care workers admit that they would not dare to leave their own children in day care. Yet many mothers have been so indoctrinated into believing that their needs and desires must come first, that they are offering their children second best.
And seeking to alleviate the problems by better day care, more workplace flexibility, or seeking to obtain an unobtainable balance between work and family just is not sufficient. And it is not just short-sighted governments offering these inadequate solutions. The corporate world in effect has bought the feminist myth as well that women can have it all. But the truth is, they canýt have it all, at least not at the same time. Thus more corporate day care centres will not solve the bigger problems.
Indeed, the corporations are shooting themselves in the foot here. The really productive worker is the worker who has a happy and satisfying home life. But the corporate world, even with generous paid maternity leave policies, cannot stop the hemorrhaging of the family. Maternal deprivation is harmful to children, and unhappy children make for unhappy families, and unhappy families result in poor workers.
Governments also lose, as they seek to press women into the paid workplace, and do not deal with the root causes as to why so many families are forced to have two incomes. By bribing mums into the paid work place, whether by child care subsidies or other financial incentives, the growing problem of falling fertility rates, for example, will only increase. Less people mean less taxable income, and the inability to pay for expensive social welfare programs.
Thus both governments and businesses need to radically rethink what family-friendly workplaces actually mean. Robertson concludes by proposing some radical measures to put the interests of families first. These are predicated on the principle that human societies need the traditional family structure with a mother as the principal caregiver. Marriage and family are non-negotiable first principles. If that is accepted, then the following steps can be explored:
-Treat families as a unit in the tax code
-End "no-fault" divorce
-Replace the current welfare system with one that does not encourage illegitimacy and undermine intact families
-Pare back affirmative action legislation and programs
-Give all parents, not just those in the paid work place, child care credits or tax breaks.
These and other proposals, will help to ensure that real family-friendly policies are pursued. Yet Robertson knows that legal and economic change alone is not enough. The much harder cultural element needs to be addressed. But we have to start somewhere. And this volume is a good beginning point.
An excellent book by a clear and reasoned thinker.......2002-03-22
...This book is a wonderful distillation of Brian's views on the workplace, political and social movements and most interestingly his work here is a roadmap for the analytical process he undergoes to arrive at his conclusions.
Brian's book is an outstanding example of constructive critical thinking...one feels envigorated, enlightened, and most importantly tested and forced to confront deeply held truths and defend those ideas within that are found lacking.
It is a book to be proud of and I enjoyed it, unreservedly.
Agree with him or not, give him a chance to make his case in this book which addresses the foundation of a polite society, family.
Help in Understanding Some Negative Trends.......2001-04-09
I believe that this book should be required reading for anyone who is concerned about the debilitating trends in our society: students shooting their classmates, breakdowns in family relationships, high divorce rates, and out-of-wedlock childbirths. The author presents significant evidence to show that these may all be symptomatic of adult America's obsession with work outside of the home, and subsequently leaving young America to try and invent its own culture and morality.
Recent studies have shown that today's youth suffer from a far higher rate of mental illness than those who grew up just a couple of generations ago. Social disconnectedness and a sense of impending doom have driven many of our youth toward immediate gratification and away from a long-term interest in education and work. At the same time, technological change and the knowledge explosion makes a successful vocation even harder to attain. This is especially true among young men, whose participation rates in postsecondary education, in the electoral process, and in civic activities are at an all-time low and declining rapidly.
Although Robertson's book is deep and well documented, it is very readable. He is at his best in the chapter where he discusses the contrast between the work of a full-time mother with that of a "career woman." Homemaking, which was considered the ideal by feminists as recently as the middle of the twentieth century, is now looked upon as demeaning and destructive of self-esteem, while a "career" outside of the home is viewed as something highly desirable and worthy of achievement. "The work of raising children requires constant hidden sacrifice, unacknowledged and unrewarded by society, often unacknowledged and unrewarded by one's own family-particularly the children themselves. ... A society that measures success exclusively in terms of material or professional attainment is unlikely to accord much status to the hidden work of the mother in the home."
Especially upsetting to those who believe that the traditional family is the foundation of civil society is the palette of economic incentives that government and business offer to the mother who chooses to select "professional" childcare. Childcare credits, tax-exempt childcare flexible spending accounts, and higher IRA savings limits abound for the two-earner family, while the mother who elects to raise her own children receives no benefits in exchange for sacrificing a dual income and striving to make ends meet on a single income.
Robertson offers criticism for Republicans and Democrats alike. Neither major political party has found a way to support the concept of the traditional family, despite their continual touting of "family values" and "family-friendly legislation" that further drives wedges between mothers and their children. Instead of discouraging divorce and/or out-of-wedlock childbearing, welfare policies have forced mothers to accept out-of-the-home childcare so that they can go to work full time.
"There's No Place Like Work" offers a well documented examination of current destructive trends in family and workplace dynamics. It is certain to stimulate provocative discussion, and I hope it will receive the wide readership it deserves.
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