Download or read book The Paradox of Loyalty an African American Response to the War on Terrorism written by Reginna A. Green and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loyalty Is the Difference Maker written by Sayed Abuelmagd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful book makes the important point that for social connections to be meaningful and to make us happy and healthy, they cannot be fleeting, and that loyalty is a key ingredient of a life lived well. Loyalty is a key ingredient in creating a high performance culture. Those leaders, athletes or coaches who can leverage the power of loyalty have a distinct home field advantage. It is the first playbook of its kind. This book not only identifies issues, but also provides real-life answers. In a complicated world, it is an excellent resource to utilize with struggling individuals and teams, and it is considered your own motivations and behaviors that influence your personal happiness and satisfaction. What makes the final difference in personal and professional relationships? Loyalty is the difference maker! This book provides exceptional insight into the nuances of loyalty, and how to achieve the right kind. It will be of great interest to all who seek to enhance their well being through loyalty. It is a paradox that with increased quality of life, fewer people seem to be truly happy. Contrary to popular thinking, no man is an island! This book makes a brilliant case of linking loyalty to happiness. To improve our individual and collective happiness we need to rethink our caring for other people. The reward is the mutual joy of being included into something big and enriching. This is a fun and fascinating book, that is almost impossible to put down, and it provides solutions to a critical problem. If you want to be a better friend, spouse, manager, employee, customer, citizen - or if you just want to be happier - please read this book! This book generates insightful information about all types of loyalty and provides compelling arguments for why loyalty is important in all walks of life. A lot of analytical thinking has gone in to the writing of this book. A must read for everyone. It offers a fascinating analysis of the many facets of loyalty. Anyone interested in enhancing their quality of life (and who isn't?) will enjoy reading and benefit immensely from this well-researched, wonderfully crafted and engaging book. It is one of those rare books that teach profound business, life, and history lessons simultaneously. Read it and be inspired. Our "loyalty sickness" needs attention and this book provides a wake-up call and a start on the road to recovery. As it reminds us, loyalty is not instinctive in human nature - we all need constant training in the "art of loyalty." That's why this book is an important read for us all as citizens, as business managers and executives, and as individuals. "There is no friend as loyal as a book," and now there is a book on loyalty that should be a friend to every person who is intelligently developing his or her business. The practical precepts in this book can be applied both personally and professionally to enhance one's effectiveness and overall satisfaction.
Download or read book The Paradox of Loyalty written by Julianne Malveaux and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers a number of writings on the 9/11 incident and the ensuing War on Terror.
Download or read book The Paradox of Points written by Sören Köcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his research, Sören Köcher provides valuable insights on the paradoxical effects of the magnitude of a loyalty program medium—i.e. the sheer number of points, miles, or stamps credited for every purchase and required for reward redemption—on the central consumer decisions in loyalty program memberships. In sum, the results of twelve empirical studies reveal that high magnitude currencies improve the attractiveness of medium collection but entail reluctant medium spending behavior. These findings provide important implications for a more efficient usage of loyalty programs in business practices. In addition, this dissertation discovers a violation of one of the most fundamental assumptions of rational choice theory and thus contributes to a better understanding of when and why people deviate from rational decision-making.
Download or read book The Paradox of Points written by Sören Köcher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his research, Sören Köcher provides valuable insights on the paradoxical effects of the magnitude of a loyalty program medium--i.e. the sheer number of points, miles, or stamps credited for every purchase and required for reward redemption--on the central consumer decisions in loyalty program memberships. In sum, the results of twelve empirical studies reveal that high magnitude currencies improve the attractiveness of medium collection but entail reluctant medium spending behavior. These findings provide important implications for a more efficient usage of loyalty programs in business practices. In addition, this dissertation discovers a violation of one of the most fundamental assumptions of rational choice theory and thus contributes to a better understanding of when and why people deviate from rational decision-making. Contents Conceptual background and literature review on loyalty programs Rational and descriptive theories of choice Empirical examination of medium magnitude effects on the central consumer decision fields in loyalty program memberships Target Groups Academics and students in the fields of marketing, consumer behavior, and customer relationship management Practitioners concerned with designing and managing loyalty programs The Author Dr. Sören Köcher received his doctorate at the Department of Marketing, TU Dortmund University under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Hartmut H. Holzmüller.
Download or read book Loyalty Is the Difference Maker written by Sayed Ibrahim Abuelmagd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyalty is not grey. It is black and white. You are either loyal completely or not loyal at all. Loyalty: The Lifeblood of Everything. This is a supremely practical book with a profoundly moral message: that the quality of our lives, the productivity of our organizations and the depth of our relationships are inextricably related. This book should not be used only as a guide for leaders, but as a guide for life. It is fun to read, practical to do, and invaluable to your success. It is a wonderful, timely book. Reading it can improve your relationships, your work, and actually make you happier. The idea of loyalty is much more than a platitude, it is the foundation by which people develop successful businesses and happy lives. Anyone who seeks to cultivate loyal customers, employees and loved ones should not only read this book, but mark it up as a reference guide. In good times loyalty is important; in challenging times it's essential. It's so direct and fundamental that we lose sight of just how important it really is. This book brilliantly illustrates that the key to lasting success and happiness - in all parts of life, not just work - hinges on our human ability to be loyal. The message of this book is timeless - and timely. We are a species for whom meaningful connections to others are essential for our health and happiness. This wonderful book makes the important point that for social connections to be meaningful and to make us happy and healthy, they cannot be fleeting, and that loyalty is a key ingredient of a life lived well. Loyalty is a key ingredient in creating a high performance culture. Those leaders, athletes or coaches who can leverage the power of loyalty have a distinct home field advantage. It is the first playbook of its kind. This book not only identifies issues, but also provides real-life answers. In a complicated world, it is an excellent resource to utilize with struggling individuals and teams, and it is considered your own motivations and behaviors that influence your personal happiness and satisfaction. What makes the final difference in personal and professional relationships? Loyalty is the difference maker! This book provides exceptional insight into the nuances of loyalty, and how to achieve the right kind. It will be of great interest to all who seek to enhance their well being through loyalty. It is a paradox that with increased quality of life, fewer people seem to be truly happy. Contrary to popular thinking, no man is an island! This book makes a brilliant case of linking loyalty to happiness. To improve our individual and collective happiness we need to rethink our caring for other people. The reward is the mutual joy of being included into something big and enriching. This is a fun and fascinating book, that is almost impossible to put down, and it provides solutions to a critical problem. If you want to be a better friend, spouse, manager, employee, customer, citizen - or if you just want to be happier - please read this book! This book generates insightful information about all types of loyalty and provides compelling arguments for why loyalty is important in all walks of life. A lot of analytical thinking has gone in to the writing of this book. A must read for everyone. It offers a fascinating analysis of the many facets of loyalty. Anyone interested in enhancing their quality of life (and who isn't?) will enjoy reading and benefit immensely from this well-researched, wonderfully crafted and engaging book. It is one of those rare books that teach profound business, life, and history lessons simultaneously. Read it and be inspired.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Loyalty written by Josiah Royce and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In ... 1907 the lectures that constitute the present book were delivered for the first time before the Lowell Institute in Boston"--Pref. Includes index.
Download or read book Exit Voice and Loyalty written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.” The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role. The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, “having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of ‘unhappy’ top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little.”
Download or read book Paradox in Public Relations written by Kevin L. Stoker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradox in Public Relations: A Contrarian Critique of Theory and Practice is a thought-provoking exploration of public relations, aiming to promote changes in meaning and perception by creating new meta-realities for public relations. The term “Public Relations” was embraced by early practitioners primarily because it sounded more professional than the often-pejorative alternatives. This book argues for a reframing of some of the popular realities associated with modern-day public relations and uses psychological and organizational change theory to critique paradoxes in public relations theory and practice. By examining public relations through the lens of paradox, we can begin to identify the logical fallacies that have inhibited progress and innovation in public relations practice and theory. The book explores the paradoxical nature of key concepts, including public interest, relationship management, accountability, stewardship, loyalty, community, and ethics. It also recommends new conceptualizations for understanding the field. This book will be of interest to media, communication, public relations, and advertising faculty and graduate students, particularly those interested in public relations theory and ethics. Scholars from other disciplines can also use this exploration of paradox in PR as a learning tool for identifying logical fallacies and inconsistencies.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Loyalty written by Josiah Royce and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906 and 1907 I gave, as a part of my regular work at the Summer School of Harvard University, an “Introduction to Ethics, with Special. Reference to the Interests of Teachers” A few lectures, summing up the main principles that lay at the basis of this ethical course as it had been given in the summer of 1906, were delivered in January and February, 1907, before a general academic audience, during a brief visit of mine at the University of Illinois. In several other places, both in the West and in the East, I have also presented portions of my views upon ethics; and in the summer of 1907 four general lectures on the topic were repeated before the Summer School of Theology at Harvard. In November and December of 1907, the lectures that constitute the present book were delivered for the first time before the Lowell Institute in Boston. visiting lecturer, to give to undergraduate students at Yale University in weekly class meetings. The present book, although in this way related to present and past academic tasks, is, nevertheless, not a text-book, and does not mean to be elaborately technical philosophical research. It is simply an appeal to any reader who may be fond of ideals, and who may also be willing to review his own ideals in a somewhat new light and in a philosophical spirit. Loyalty is indeed an old word, and to my mind a precious one; and the general idea of loyalty is still far older than the word, and is immeasurably more precious. But this idea has nearly always been confused in men's minds by its chance social and traditional associations. Everybody has heard of loyalty; most prize it; but few perceive it to be what, in its inmost spirit, it really is, —the heart of all the virtues, the central duty amongst all duties. In order to be able to see that this is the true meaning of the idea of loyalty, one has to free this idea from its unessential if somewhat settled associations with this or that special social habit or circumstance. And in order to accomplish this latter end, one has indeed to give to the term a more exact meaning than popular usage defines. It is this freeing of the idea of loyalty from its chance and misleading associations; it is this vindication of the spirit of loyalty as the central spirit of the moral and reasonable life of man, —t is this that I believe to be somewhat new about my “Philosophy of Loyalty” The conception of “Loyalty to Loyalty”, as set forth in my third lecture, constitutes the most significant part of this ethical task. For the rest, if my philosophy is, as a theory, more or less new, I am still only trying to make articulate what I believe to be the true spirit and meaning of all the loyal, whoever they may be, and however they define their fidelity. The result of conceiving duty in terms of the conception of loyalty which is here expounded is, indeed, if I am right, somewhat deep-going and transforming, not only for ethics, but for most men's views of truth and reality, and of religion. My own general philosophical opinions have been set forth in various works some time since (most elaborately in the volumes entitled “The World and the Individual”). I have no change to report in my fundamental metaphysical theses. But I have not published any formulation of my ethical opinions since the brief review of ethical problems in the first part of my “Religious Aspect of Philosophy” (published in 1885). One learns a good deal about ethics as one matures. And I believe that this present statement of mine ought to help at least some readers to see that such philosophical idealism as I have long maintained is not a doctrine remote from life, but is in close touch with the most practical issues; and that religion, as well as daily life, has much to gain from the right union of ethics with a philosophical theory of the real world. At the moment there is much speech, in current philosophical literature, regarding the “nature of truth“ and regarding “pragmatism” An ethical treatise very naturally takes advantage of this situation to discuss the relation between the “practical” and —the Eternal. I have done so in my closing lectures. In order to do so, I have had to engage in a certain polemic regarding the problem of truth, —a polemic directed against certain opinions recently set forth by one of the “dearest of my friends, and by one of the most loyal of men; my teacher for a while in my youth; my honoured colleague for many years, —Professor William James. Such a polemic would be indeed much out of place in a book upon Loyalty, were it not that my friend and myself fully agree that, to both of us, truth indeed “is the greater friend” Had I not very early in my work as a student known Professor James, I doubt whether any poor book of mine would ever have been written, —least of all the present one. What I personally owe him, then, I most heartily and affectionately acknowledge. But if he and I do not see truth in the same light at present, we still do well, I think, as friends, each to speak his mind as we walk by the way, and then to wait until some other light shines for our eyes. I suppose that so to do is loyalty. Meanwhile, I am writing, in this book, not merely and not mainly for philosophers, but for all those who love, as I said, ideals, and also for those who love, as I may now add, their country, —a country so ripe at present for idealism, and so confused, nevertheless, by the vastness and the complication of its social and political problems. To simplify men's moral issues, to clear their vision for the sight of the eternal, to win hearts for loyalty, —this would be, in this land, a peculiarly precious mission, if indeed I could hope that this book could aid, however little, towards such an end. Amongst the numerous friends to whom (whether or no they agree with all my views) I am especially indebted for direct and indirect aid in preparing this book, and for criticisms and other suggestions, I must mention: first, my wife, who has constantly helped me with her counsel, and in the revision of my text; then, my sister, Miss Ruth Royce, of San José, California, with whom I discussed the plan of the work in the summer of 1907; then, Doctor and Mrs. R. C. Cabot of Boston; Doctor J. J. Putnam of Boston; and, finally, my honoured colleague, Professor George H. Palmer....FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book The Human Paradox written by Ralph Heintzman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a human being? What does it mean to be human? How can you lead your life in ways that best fulfil your own nature? In The Human Paradox, Ralph Heintzman explores these vital questions and offers an exciting new vision of the nature of the human. The Human Paradox aims to counter or correct several contemporary assumptions about the nature of the human, especially the tendency of Western culture, since the seventeenth century, to identify the human with rationality and the rational mind. Using the lens of the virtues, The Human Paradox shows how rediscovering the nature of the human can help not just to understand one’s own paradoxical nature but to act in ways that are more consistent with its full reality. Offering accessible insight from both traditional and contemporary thought, The Human Paradox shows how a fuller, richer vision of the human can help address urgent contemporary problems, including the challenges of cultural and religious diversity, human migration and human rights, the role of the market, artificial intelligence, the future of democracy, and global climate change. This fresh perspective on the Western past will guide readers into what it means to be human and open new possibilities for the future.
Download or read book The Loyalty Paradox written by J. Richard Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Josiah Royce for the Twenty first Century written by Kelly A. Parker and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen chapters of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century are papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values / International Conference on Josiah Royce, held at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole, Poland in June 2008. The presentation of diverse perspectives, and the development of many distinctive, promising strands of inquiry from the spring of Royce's work, establish that Royce offers significant resources for a number of areas of contemporary philosophy. The book is organized into four parts: (I) Historical Reinterpretations, (II) Ethics: Interpretations of Loyalty, (III) Religious Philosophy, and (IV) Contemporary Implications. Section I considers Royce's position in the history if ideas, with papers on his account of individuation, his expansion on a key idea from Kant, his use and contribution to mathematical and philosophical conceptions of the infinite and the absolute, and his adaptation of Peircean semiotics. Sections II and III consist of focused readings of Royce's work regarding ethics and religious philosophy, respectively. Section IV is the most diverse in the topics covered, with papers that bring Royce into contemporary discussions of psychology, of the problem of reference, of Rortyan neo-pragmatism, and of literary aesthetics. The purpose of the Opole conference was to elicit fresh perspectives on the work of Josiah Royce from an international group of contributors. This collection achieves that aim by presenting new approaches to relatively familiar writings, by drawing out promising implications of Roycean themes, and by making genuinely new applications of his ideas. Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century presents a rich interaction among a diverse mix of commentators, who retrieve and construct promising new insights from the work of one of America's greatest thinkers.
Download or read book The Paradox of Excellence written by David Mosby and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-08-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often, customers take performance--particularly excellent performance--for granted, creating expectations that are difficult to live up to for businesses. The authors provide an entertaining and practical model for building and maintaining high customer loyalty and brand value.
Download or read book New Waves In Political Philosophy written by Boudewijn de Bruin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising essays by eleven up-and-coming scholars from across the globe, this collection of essays provides an unparalleled snapshot of new work in political philosophy using such diverse methodologies as critical theory and social choice theory, historical analysis and conceptual analysis.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Loyalty written by Josiah Royce and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loyalty Rules written by Frederick F. Reichheld and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reichheld draws upon case studies of a variety of businesses including Harley-Davidson, Dell Computer, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car to show how employee and customer loyalty promote financial success. His approach to developing loyalty is based upon six principles of leadership including never profiting at the expense of partners, rewarding the right results, and honest communication. Reichheld is a Bain Fellow and author of The Loyalty Effect. c. Book News Inc.
