A rare look at “IT.” Werner Erhard, in an unusual media appearance, shares “the Experience” of est... ITs origin, ITs growth, ITs usefulness, ITs cost, ITs future—with writer Sam Keen, psychiatrist Lloyd Moglen and psychologist Allan Cohen. An insightful look at est and what IT’s about. Werner himself said that this program was “one of the best presentations of est.”

Che una società nella quale prevalga la giustizia distributiva non possa tollerare profonde diseguaglianze materiali tra le persone è la tesi egualitaria principale che G.A. Cohen sostiene in questo importante saggio. L’autore offre un’analisi e una critica acute e stimolanti della teoria della giustizia di John Rawls, figura di spicco della filosofia morale e politica anglosassone, e del significato e del ruolo che in essa rivestono il principio di differenza e il costruttivismo in relazi...

Neste livro breve e cativante, um dos proeminentes filósofos políticos do nosso tempo apresenta uma perspectiva instigante e audaciosa em favor do socialismo, desmistificando os supostos obstáculos que o cercam.

Many family firms fail because the entrepreneurial spirit that drove the first generation isn't nurtured and developed in the generations that follow. Sharma and Cohen show how any family firm can create a "company of founders."Companies that are owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other company, but family firms face obstacles that "hire and fire" companies don't. Family dynamics rarely perfectly mirror the best practices i...

Get what you need to achieve your objectives and produce resultsInfluence Without Authority is the classic guide to getting what you need from people you don't control. Getting things done requires collaboration, and convincing others to contribute requires political skill; this book introduces the Exchange Model, in which you get what you need by offering something of value in return. The key lies in knowing what the other person values—that's their "curr...

The authors of the classic Influence Without Authority explain the unique challenges of influencing powerful peopleLearn to overcome your difficulties with a boss who is uninterested in your concerns, or resistant to giving needed support. Or discover how to win the cooperation of senior managers who are hard to reach, and hard to sell on your ideas, products, or services. In their classic book, Influence Without Authority, Allan Cohen and David B...

Influence Without Authority is the classic guide to getting what you need from people you don't control. This book introduces the Exchange Model, in which you get what you need by offering something of value in return. The key lies in knowing what the other person values—that's their "currency," and it's your immediate tool for coaxing their cooperation. This book shows you how to implement the Exchange Model at the personal, team, and organizational level to raise the bar for per...

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now faces numerous challenges and transformations, it is timely to reflect on contemporary underst...

A look at some of the more fascinating and intriguing aspects of psychic phenomena and its relevance to our daily life. Filled with new insights about the mysterious world of the paranormal.

A classic guide to getting what you need from your colleagues, as relevant now as when it was first published. Faced with shifting business environments and mounting layoffs, professionals and managers today often experience great increases in responsibility without parallel increases in authority. Influence Without Authority 2E offers a time-tested "influence model" for attaining cooperation from those who command the resources, information, or potential support you need. The book breaks ...

Bringing together academics, artists, practitioners and ‘community activists’, this book explores the possibilities for, and tensions of, social justice work under the contemporary drive for community-orientated ‘impact’ in the academy.Threading a line between celebratory accounts of institutionalised community engagement, self-professed ‘radical’ scholarship for social change and critical accounts of the governmentalisation of community, the book makes an original contribution to ...

A remarkable proportion of people who work have complaints about their boss. The problem of getting any attention or guidance from the boss is increasingly frequent under current lean organizational conditions. On the other hand, bosses are often too overbearing, too restrictive, vague about expectations but judgmental about performance, self protective, self promoting, afraid or unwilling to do necessary aspects of their jobs, uninterested in what matters to the subordinate, or occasional...