How to lead by the book [[electronic resource] ] : proverbs, parables, and principles to tackle your toughest business challenges / / Dave Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456402003321
• Autore: Anderson Dave <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-17606-8; 9786613176066; 1-118-07517-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/092; 658.4092
• Soggetti: Leadership - Religious aspects - Christianity; Personnel management - Religious aspects - Christianity; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: How to Lead by the Book: Proverbs, Parables, and Principles to Tackle Your Toughest Business Challenges; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. How Do I Hold People Accountable?; 2. Is It Right to Hold Leaders More Accountable than Followers?; 3. What Is the Most Effective Leadership Style?; 4. How Do I Recruit Great People?; 5. What Is the Best Interview Strategy?; 6. What Are the Best Interview Questions To Ask?; 7. What Is the Most Productive Way to Give Feedback?; 8. How Do I Confront Poor Performers?; 9. What Are Core Values, and How Do They Benefit My Organization?; 10. How Do I Balance My Work and Home Life?11. What Are Two of the Most Dangerous Mistakes I Must Avoid to Become a More Effective Leader?; 12. How Can I Create More Productive Behaviors in My Organization?; 13. How Do I Know God's Will as I Make Decisions in My Business and Life?; 14. What Are the Two Biggest Threats to My Success?; Closing Thoughts; References; About the Author; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Biblical solutions to dozens of the toughest challenges leaders face today. Concise, to-the-point, and highly useable, How to Lead by THE ; BOOK presents a series of personal and business challenges recognizable to leaders, then deals with each through insight, personal experience, and a discussion of why conventional approaches often fail. Each section then concludes with winning proverbs, parables, or principles that offers applicable strategies to solve the issue. In this practical and inspiring guide, you'll discover proven methods and advice to shape young leaders, stretch veteran leaders, become a better communicator, maintain your work-life balance, deal with dishonesty among competitors, and much more. Shows why typical approaches to leadership problems often fail, while biblical wisdom succeeds Covers both day-to-day dilemmas and larger questions of management, accountability, and vision From the bestselling author of How to Run Your Business by THE BOOK, Up Your Business, and If You Don't Make Waves Youll Drown What is the number one downfall for leaders? When is the best time to make a decision? How do you hold others accountable? How do you survive success with your principles intact? What does the Bible say about time management? Get the answers to these and many more practical business questions when you discover the winning wisdom of How to Lead by THE BOOK"--

The body economic [[electronic resource] ] : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel / / Catherine Gallagher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792398603321
• Autore: Gallagher Catherine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-4008-2684-5; 9786612158025; 1-282-15802-3; 0-691-12358-6
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.8093553
• Soggetti: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Economics in literature; Economics - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Senses and sensation in literature; Human body in literature; Death in literature; Great Britain Economic conditions 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Romantics and the political economists -- Bioeconomics and somaeconomics : life and sensation in classical political economy -- Hard times and the somaeconomics of the early Victorians -- The bioeconomics of Our mutual friend -- Daniel Deronda and the too much of literature -- Malthusian anthropology and the aesthetics of sacrifice in Scenes of clerical life.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," ; making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.