Download or read book A Dysfunctional Success written by Eric Goulden and published by Do-Not Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's difficult to know where to start, so I think I'll begin at the beginning and see how I get on..." This is definitely not another one of those usual rock autobiographies. It's the story of one man's bewilderment with life and his desent into alcoholism and near-redemption. with a music backdrop. Eric Goulden does have an excellent music background but that's actually a bonus and not essential to the book. After pursuing an art career and working at several menial jobs, Wreckless Eric first found fame in the mid-1970s when he signed to the emergent Stiff Records with such label-mates as Ian Dury (who played drums in Eric's band), Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe and the Damned. His eccentric single. "Whole Wide World"/"Semaphore Signals." is one of the minor classics of the punk era. After he left Stiff in 1981 he continued to work as a musician, songwriter--his songs have been recorded by The Monkees, Marianne Faithful, and Cliff Richard--and recording artist. This is a witty. entertaining, and insightful foray into the crazy world of British music in the 70s and 80s.
Download or read book The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family written by Karen Casey and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational stories of survivors leaving their abusive households—and drawing on the wis-dom gained from adversity to transform their lives. So many people have experienced bleak childhoods in which degradation, pain, and neglect were common. But as survivors of toxic families, their triumphs are not only powerful but inspirational. This book follows twenty-four stories about finding happiness after surviving a dysfunctional family. With enlightening honesty, humor, and apt quotes, you’ll experience the transformative effects that hope and resilience can have. Thriving means more than just letting go of the past and its hardships; it means becoming your own silver lining. Karen Casey and our narrators explore how your worst experiences can help you create meaningful skills for building a new, fulfilling life. With each narrator sharing the moment they decided to thrive instead of giving up, this self-compassion book will show you that no matter how dysfunctional life can be, you can emerge stronger than ever from it. Promises and positive affirmations to live The importance of nourishing your emotional strength Beginning your healing journey by putting your heart first Forgiving your family’s pain to avoid repeating it, and more “Explores the benefits that result from surviving in a dysfunctional family, including resiliency, perseverance, a sense of humor, forgiveness, kindness, and the ability to discern real love. Simple but authentic points are enumerated at the conclusion of each chapter. With unrelenting optimism and a solid faith in God, Casey helps readers learn to let go of judgment and embrace acceptance. New readers as well as followers of the author’s earlier works will be uplift-ed.” —Publishers Weekly “You just can’t go wrong with Karen Casey.” —Earnie Larsen, author of From Anger to Forgiveness
Download or read book Rock Bottom written by Michael G. Cooley and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Cooley returned to his childhood home in St. Louis, many of his old friends offered him this greeting: 'Cooley, I thought you were dead.' And by many accounts, he should have been dead. Michael Cooley was a member of two dysfunctional families. His mother in St. Louis was an alcoholic. His stepmother and stepbrothers in Gainesville, Texas, abused him relentlessly—both physically and verbally. As a child, Mike bounced from school to school and from city to city. As a teenager, he turned to gangs and drugs for a sense of acceptance. Eventually, he ended up homeless, sleeping on rooftops and in alleys, and living out of his car. But after living as an abused child, a homeless and drug-addicted teenager, and a completely lost young adult, Mike decided to start over as a different person. Rock Bottom—From the Streets to Success tells Mike's story from his childhood in the 1960s until today. Mike escapes the darkness of his past and eventually puts his life back together to become a success in business and in his personal life. Follow Mike as he overcomes the hardships of his childhood and shares his experiences in hopes of helping others who may be facing their own challenges.
Download or read book Transforming Toxic Leaders written by Alan Goldman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other books written on "toxic leaders," this book takes issue with the predominant view that "toxic leaders are bad" and destructive to their companies. Rather, the author argues that even highly productive leaders have some toxic qualities central to their success story. The book redirects the conversation about toxicity in a more productive direction, as toxic leaders are not just viewed as villains and liabilities, but are also considered as potential assets, innovators, and rebels. Working on the premise that "toxicity is a fact of company life," the book provides organizations with a model and blueprint on the advantages to be gained from skillful anticipation, control, and handling of troubled and difficult leaders. In contrast to dysfunctional organizations that ignore toxicity or dwell on the perceived destructive impact of toxic leaders, successful companies come up with resourceful, innovative strategies for turning seeming deficits into opportunities.
Download or read book Bad Company Good Company a Leader s Guide written by CHARLES E. WILLIAMS and published by MCP Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Dysfunction is a disease at epidemic levels in many organizations. No group is immune from the insidious onset and negative impact dysfunction brings to businesses, non-profits, health care, academia, and the public sector. In Bad Company/Good Company, A Leaders Guide: Transforming Dysfunctional Culture, veteran business executives Charles E. Williams and James T. Schultz offer proven processes and tactics they used over their 90+ years combined experience successfully transforming cultures of failure and underachievement in complex and resistant organizations in both the private and public sectors. Their realistic narrative provides an orderly roadmap how to recognize and cure cultural dysfunction and improve results in safety, employee engagement, customer happiness, financial performance, productivity, operational excellence, and overall stakeholder satisfaction. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Jim Schultz and Chuck Williams worked side by side as senior executives for a Fortune 200 company, jointly leading efforts to transform performance in safety, operations, and productivity. For example, they instituted and led programs that reduced worker casualties by 75 percent and workers' comp costs by more than 50 percent in just five years; instituted controls and protocols that saved more than $400 million in procurement costs on a $5 billion annual spend; and implemented a metric-driven process that improved productivity by more than 2 percent-bringing millions to the bottom line in both direct and indirect cost reductions. Today, Chuck and Jim continue to collaborate and team together in leadership consulting, keynote speaking, and coaching engagements in high-consequence industries.
Download or read book Authentic Success written by Robert Holden, Ph.D. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you living a successful life? Have you got a vision? Do you enjoy your work? Are your relationships thriving? Previously released under the title Success Intelligence, Authentic Success examines how to enjoy real, soulful success while living in a manic, busy, and hyped-up world. Robert Holden is the creator of a unique program—called Success Intelligence—used worldwide by artists and writers, entrepreneurs and leaders, and also global companies and brands such as DOVE, the Body Shop, the BBC, and Virgin. This landmark book is an invaluable guide to genuine success and happiness. The themes of Authentic Success include: * Creating a vision for your life, work, and relationships that doesn’t get lost in sick hurry. * Identifying what the REAL YOU really wants, and discovering the real purpose of your life. * Freeing your mind, liberating your talent, and attracting more effortless success. * Conducting a Busyness Audit, giving up Destination Addiction, releasing dysfunctional independence, and overcoming your fear of success. * Learning why happiness is the key to greater inspiration, creativity, and meaningful success.
Download or read book Let s Get Real or Let s Not Play written by Mahan Khalsa and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new way to transform a sales culture with clarity, authenticity, and emotional intelligence Too often, the sales process is all about fear. Customers are afraid that they will be talked into making a mistake; salespeople dread being unable to close the deal and make their quotas. No one is happy. Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig offer a better way. Salespeople, they argue, do best when they focus 100 percent on helping clients succeed. When customers are successful, both buyer and seller win. When they aren't, both lose. It's no longer sufficient to get clients to buy; a salesperson must also help the client reduce costs, increase revenues, and improve productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. Elevate your career with this essential guide for sales professionals and entrepreneurs alike.
Download or read book Pursue Your Freedom and Happiness written by Chris Banescu and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you exasperated with your dysfunctional workplace? Have you endured enough abuse from your boss? Do you want to taste real freedom and happiness? Do you wish to thrive, not just struggle and survive?If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then now is the time to do something about it. The principles, strategies, and tools you need to free yourself and invest in your future are here. Pursue Your Freedom and Happiness will teach you how to do it and guide you along the way.The book delivers many raw truths you need to know and understand. With brutal honesty and refreshing clarity, Chris Banescu exposes the normalized mediocrity and deep rot that ravage many organizations. He denounces the incompetent, foolish, and cruel manner in which executives mistreat employees, devastate lives, and destroy companies.Banescu explains how to effectively protect yourself in unhealthy work environments, plan and prepare your escape, and start your journey toward authentic personal liberty. He understands your struggles and pain. He faced similar trials and setbacks, and fought back to regain his independence. Those experiences steeled his resolve to help others. Full of practical wisdom and useful insights, Pursue Your Freedom and Happiness will empower, inspire, and motivate you to break free from dysfunctional organizations and seek genuine freedom and happiness.
Download or read book The Dysfunctional Library written by Jo Henry and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tackling the dysfunctional library head on, managers as well as library workers who find themselves in a toxic situation will be poised to better meet library goals and move the library forward.
Download or read book Your Journey to Success How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way written by Kenny Weiss and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for the person who is hungry for an answer. I know that feeling. I was stuck in it for years and as a Coach and Speaker, I have noticed there is a constant theme for us all. We have read all of the success books, we have gone to the seminars but when we go to execute their wonderful information a feeling comes up. We lay in bed and just don't "feel" like doing what they suggest even though we know it will make our life better. That "feeling" stops us from executing one or more steps they suggest we take to make our lives better. I couldn't overcome that feeling either. Here I was an alcoholic, a sex addict, sugar addict, spending addict, tobacco addict, love addict, I had gone bankrupt, been through two horrific divorces, a child custody battle, I played two professional sports I never wanted to play and I contemplated suicide. None of the books showed me or explained where that feeling comes from, why we all get it and how to overcome it. Without that information, I couldn't execute all of their wonderful suggestions. So this is my story and how I took all of that great information from all of those great success teachers, I collated it and then added to it. I discuss where that feeling comes from, why we all get it and how to overcome it. This book bridges the gap. When you have this information, this skillset to overcome that "feeling" than you can put into place all of their incredible advice and have the personal and professional success we are all searching for.
Download or read book Anatomy of Success written by Ronald A. Kaufman and published by Self. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anatomy of Success" is a proven, easy-to-use step-by-step system which teaches readers how to establish and achieve their goals. In this dynamic book are a series of exercises and examples with practical, immediately useable techniques. (Self Help)
Download or read book Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics written by Seth Allcorn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding experience at work, especially in organizations that have toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include in-depth perspectives informed by psychosocial theory. This may be best accomplished by relying on complementary theories to account for what is found and experienced in our organizations and in particular a better understanding of why this is happening. "Why did she do that?" "Why did he say that?" "Why did a group react the way they did?" “Why,” is critical in terms of understanding organizational dynamics. Our lives at work in large complex and multidimensional organizations are saturated with experience, some of which is fulfilling, and some are of a darker nature that arises from the presence of toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics. Understanding these toxicities and dysfunctions and their effect on organization members is approached by first raising their awareness at the beginning of the book before providing psychosocially informed insights that form a basis for understanding and organizational change in the following sections. This book explores these work-life dynamics by grounding them in concrete examples and then using complementary psychoanalytically informed perspectives to illuminate their underlying, often unconscious nature filling an important gap in management and organizational literature.
Download or read book Mastering the Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success written by Andy Andrews and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering the Seven Decisions guides readers to a profound understanding of how to fully integrate seven life-changing Decisions into their daily lives. The Responsible Decision: The buck stops here. I accept responsibility for my past. I am responsible for my success. I will not let my history control my destiny. The Guided Decision: I will seek wisdom. The Active Decision: I am a person of action. The Certain Decision: I have a decided heart. Criticism, condemnation, and complaint have no power over me. The Joyful Decision: Today I will choose to be happy. The Compassionate Decision: I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit. The Persistent Decision: I will persist without exception.
Download or read book Boring way to be Happy With a Dysfunctional Family written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Joy of Success written by Tochukwu O. Okafor Mpa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can achieve the success you desire in business, in your career, and in education, and The Joy of Success can help. This step-by-step guide explains the meaning of success, considers what you must do to achieve it, and offers practical advice about what to avoid in the process. Most importantly, author Tochukwu O. Okafor includes a few true stories of transformation in life that support the notion that success is obtainable if you work hard and keep your eye on excellence. Because success can be contagious, you can benefit through mingling with successful people, tapping into their success as well as sharing your own. The Joy of Success provides the proper understanding of the whole concept of success, considering emotional stability, financial breakthrough, attainment of goals, happiness in marriage, job satisfaction, discovering of talents, prosperity, and so on. Excellence that cannot be achieved without success; therefore, your success is not complete until you reach the level of excellence desired. If you’re ready to take charge your success, this guide offers you the motivation you need to achieve what you want.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Problems written by Vincent N. Parrillo and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From terrorism to social inequality and from health care to environmental issues, social problems affect us all. The Encyclopedia will offer an interdisciplinary perspective into these and many other social problems that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level.
Download or read book The Synergist How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success written by Les (John Leslie) McKeown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every successful team includes a critical player, the Synergist, who can take dreams, realists, and systems designers, and knit them together into a dynamic team. McKeown shows how any individual can fill this critical role, whether or not they're the formal leader of the group.
