Download or read book Top Secret Business Humor written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern workplace environment has always been a source of comedy from decades, but very few people are willing to openly admit it. Many executives think humor and laughter are unproductive, unprofessional, and being serious and gloomy is the only way to spend their work life. This is why most modern workplaces have become extremely humorless, artificial and stressful. But we don't have to be humorless to run a business. Actually, the ability to laugh at yourself and your work are the qualities of great and successful leaders. Having a sense of humor can lighten up difficult situations and creatively solve many personal and business problems. You must be able to think in atrocious, ridiculous, and illogical terms. Modern management consultants call this 'thinking out of the box', but I call it old fashioned creativity and humor that has existed from centuries.Top Secret Business Humor is a collection of witty satire related to corporate stuff like processes, performance, change, strategy, customer satisfaction, meetings, quality, and other workplace dramas we endure for several hours a day. This book is all about imagining the creative and wackier side of working in an office to rejuvenate and brighten your day. The chapters are all fictitious and can be taken with a pinch of salt, though the paper used may not be edible. The author makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the accuracy, usability or usefulness of the contents. So get serious about injecting some humor in your life.
Download or read book Humor Seriously written by Jennifer Aaker and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Anyone—even you!—can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Don’t miss the authors’ TED Talk, “Why great leaders take humor seriously,” online now. “The ultimate guide to using the magical power of funny as a tool for leadership and a force for good.”—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive We are living through a period of unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval in both our personal and professional lives. So it should come as a surprise to exactly no one that trust, human connection, and mental well-being are all on the decline. This may seem like no laughing matter. Yet, the research shows that humor and laughter are among the most valuable tools we have at our disposal for strengthening bonds and relationships, diffusing stress and tension, boosting resilience, and performing when the stakes are high. That’s why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world’s most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds infuse more humor and levity into their work and lives. In Humor, Seriously, they draw on findings by behavioral scientists, world-class comedians, and inspiring business leaders to reveal how humor works and—more important—how you can use more of it, better. Aaker and Bagdonas unpack the theory and application of humor: what makes something funny, how to mine your life for material, and simple ways to identify and leverage your unique humor style. They show how to use humor to rebuild vital connections; appear more confident, competent, and authentic at work; and foster cultures where levity and creativity can thrive. President Dwight David Eisenhower once said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” If Dwight David Eisenhower, the second least naturally funny president (after Franklin Pierce), thought humor was necessary to win wars, build highways, and warn against the military-industrial complex, then you might consider learning it too.
Download or read book Humor Seriously written by Jennifer Aaker and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Anyone—even you!—can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Don’t miss the authors’ TED Talk, “Why great leaders take humor seriously,” online now. “The ultimate guide to using the magical power of funny as a tool for leadership and a force for good.”—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive We are living through a period of unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval in both our personal and professional lives. So it should come as a surprise to exactly no one that trust, human connection, and mental well-being are all on the decline. This may seem like no laughing matter. Yet, the research shows that humor and laughter are among the most valuable tools we have at our disposal for strengthening bonds and relationships, diffusing stress and tension, boosting resilience, and performing when the stakes are high. That’s why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world’s most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds infuse more humor and levity into their work and lives. In Humor, Seriously, they draw on findings by behavioral scientists, world-class comedians, and inspiring business leaders to reveal how humor works and—more important—how you can use more of it, better. Aaker and Bagdonas unpack the theory and application of humor: what makes something funny, how to mine your life for material, and simple ways to identify and leverage your unique humor style. They show how to use humor to rebuild vital connections; appear more confident, competent, and authentic at work; and foster cultures where levity and creativity can thrive. President Dwight David Eisenhower once said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” If Dwight David Eisenhower, the second least naturally funny president (after Franklin Pierce), thought humor was necessary to win wars, build highways, and warn against the military-industrial complex, then you might consider learning it too.
Download or read book Ronnie Apteker s Funny Business written by Gus Silber and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does an entrepreneur, like a comedian, need to close a deal every 15 seconds? It is said that inside every successful entrepreneur there is a stand-up comic struggling to get out. Well, meet one who managed to escape. His name is Ronnie Apteker, and no, he’s not an apteker. He’s the high-energy, high-tech founder of South Africa’s first internet service provider, Internet Solutions, and a number of other innovative online ventures. But his real business is getting a laugh out of people, whether it’s in a boardroom, on a stage or on a movie set. As a storyteller, moviemaker and creative spirit, Ronnie takes business seriously enough to know that you don’t need to take yourself too seriously to succeed. Funny Business is a seriously funny and comically serious look at the arcane art and science of entrepreneurship, in which Ronnie reveals why it helps, as an entrepreneur, to have a nice Jewish mother; why being a waiter is the best training for an entrepreneur, especially if you’re serving steak tartare; why you sometimes need to slow down to move fast in a world where progress is a paradox; and why some mistakes are too good to make only once Much more than a business book, this book is everyone’s business. It’s about the way the world works; it’s about living your life with grace and purpose; it’s about learning to love what you do for a living. And it might help you to make it as an entrepreneur ... not to mention a stand-up comic.
Download or read book Secret Trip to Outer Space written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet little Tommy. He has a magic spaceship that can go anywhere in the universe. It was a birthday gift to him by an alien who lives on Mars. Every holiday Tommy and his friends take secret trips to various exciting places around the universe. This weekend they are secretly going to outer space to meet all the planets, stars, and aliens there. Do you want to know what fun they had in outer space? Just flip the pages.
Download or read book Secret Trip into the Ocean written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet little Tommy. He has a magic spaceship that can go anywhere in the universe. It was a birthday gift to him by an alien who lives on Mars. Every holiday Tommy and his friends take secret trips to various exciting places around the universe. This weekend they are secretly going into the ocean to meet all the fantastic fishes there. Do you want to know what fun they had in the jungle? Just flip the pages.
Download or read book Secret Trip to a Jolly Jungle written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet little Tommy. He has a magic spaceship that can go anywhere in the universe. It was a birthday gift to him by an alien who lives on Mars. Every holiday Tommy and his friends take secret trips to various exciting places around the universe. This weekend they are secretly going to a jolly jungle to meet the wild animals there. Do you want to know what fun they had in the jungle? Just flip the pages.
Download or read book Secret Trip to a Treasure Island written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet little Tommy. He has a magic spaceship that can go anywhere in the universe. It was a birthday gift to him by an alien who lives on Mars. Every holiday Tommy and his friends take secret trips to various exciting places around the universe. This weekend they are secretly going to a dangerous Treasure Island to get some treasures from there. Do you want to know what fun they had on the island? Just flip the pages.
Download or read book Punching Up in Stand Up Comedy written by Rashi Bhargava and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities, a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social, cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies, media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology and anthropology, and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki.
Download or read book Big Money written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED 2022 EDITION ‘Ladies and Gentlemen! Do you have some money to invest? Do you want to grow from rags to riches in the shortest possible time? Do you want to become an expert in many subjects and global events? Do you want to quit your boring job and still live happily? Do you.…’ ‘Yes! Yes! Quick, tell me what I need to do.’ ‘Simple. Just start investing in the stock market and start rolling in wealth and great global knowledge. There is big money in it, buddy!’ ‘What? Don’t be silly! I have heard people go bankrupt in the stock market. Such activities are only for people with great financial brains.’ ‘No, you are mistaken. Anyone can become a millionaire in the stock market. But you need to learn some mysterious secrets if you want to dabble in stocks.’ ‘Really? Can you tell me what those secrets are?’ ‘Well, I am not going to reveal them easily. I have discovered those great secrets through meticulous research from many years.’ ‘Oh, come on! Tell me what those secrets are. Look, I will even share my profits with you. I promise!’ ‘Well, since you insist I will reveal them. But don’t tell anyone, okay?’
Download or read book Become a Modern Artist written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED 2022 EDITION Become a Modern Artist is a stunning collection of humorous and satirical steps on how to become a famous modern artist by drawing and painting ridiculous irrational stuff that no one can understand. Choose a career so unique that it prescribes no educational qualifications, age limitations, tough training, work timings, or mental and physical qualifications for any candidate. Secondly, no other profession gives you the freedom, liberty, elasticity, autonomy, uniqueness, excitement, adventure, and variety that this unbelievable job offers. Thirdly, your paycheck can exceed millions of dollars. Forget the dull jobs that require you to slog 24x7 with eternal headaches like bad bosses, bad colleagues, office politics, recession, downsizing, outsourcing, etc. Sounds interesting? Everything you wanted to know about how to become an extremely creative person but was not sure whom to ask is available right here in this amazing guide. It contains the most comprehensive specifications for every aspiring artist and this is the only book that you need. There is no need to get a formal degree, read expensive books, or attend long stressful training on how to draw and paint correctly. So, let us get started.
Download or read book IT Asset Management written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT Asset Management is often considered a boring and low-grade task by many technical executives, CTOs, and even CIOs. This is because most technical staff in many organizations hates getting involved in the commercial and financial aspects of managing IT assets as they think this is just a glorified storekeeper job. Such misconceptions result in frequent battles between the finance, audit, and technical departments. However, IT asset management is an extremely crucial function of any organization and must be given the highest importance possible by the senior management. An IT asset manager’s job is a powerful position that can help organizations to save costs, ensure material discipline, offload asset activities from technical staff who may not be qualified or interested in doing such activities, ensure physical and data security, help in budgeting, and supervise the complete lifecycle of IT assets used in an organization. Secondly, it’s not a mere storekeeper’s job as many executives fear and this book will show why. This book simplifies the procedures and processes used to successfully implement a workable IT asset management department in an organization. It removes any doubts or uncertainties about how it can be easily achieved with the help of a simple combination of qualified internal members of staff, contractors, external consultants, and some common sense. To make it easy for the reader to implement asset management, no IT jargon or theoretical standards are mentioned in the main contents of this book. This is because the book is intended to be a purely practical guide and also the concepts explained have no shelf life. Simplicity should be the hallmark of any IT support department. If you make things simple, then all your customers will appreciate it. If you make things complex and bureaucratic, then only you will appreciate it. Unless stated otherwise, the names of any companies or people mentioned in any examples are fictitious. Where names of actual companies and products are mentioned, they are the trademarks of their respective organizations.
Download or read book No Easy Future written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think becoming a hermit to escape the modern rat race is a superb idea. But is it really possible? Can you really give up everything, escape into some forest, become a hermit and lead a jolly life? Unfortunately, it is neither practical nor possible for everyone. Secondly, even if you enter a forest to try that it is impossible to start living like Tarzan by making friends with all the animals and fighting crocodiles when necessary. Living in a forest involves learning several tough survival skills, icky lifestyle changes and a long time to blend into a forest life. So, running away to a real forest to escape the hassles of the modern concrete jungle is a lousy idea.But, wait, don’t be disappointed! It is still possible to experience several of the joys of a hermit without actually running away to a real forest. This book will tell you how.
Download or read book Get to the Point written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED 2022 EDITION Have you ever felt that you have fallen under the toxic spell of modern business jargon? Are you bombarded by an endless stream of corporate mumbo-jumbo? Are you going bald scratching your head trying to understand complex reports filled with meaningless words like synergy, value-add, leverage, paradigm, core competency, catalyst, vision, mission, information-centric, people-oriented, horizontal and vertical solutions, and other gobbledygook? Are you tolerating and encouraging fools by mistaking their pretentious rubbish talk for intelligence? If you say yes to any or all of the above questions, then you are not alone. Millions of executives worldwide are in the same situation and have resigned themselves to fate, unable and unwilling to get out of it. But it need not be that way. You can get out of it easily if you are willing to do a few simple things. This book will show you those simple things, and how you can consciously reject complexity in communication and hug simplicity, which is the ultimate sophistication.
Download or read book The Glass Prison written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global pandemic of 2020 has become a brutal wrecking ball on the worldwide economy. This mega crisis will not pass or go away quietly. Thousands and thousands of doctors, nurses, and medical staff are slogging day and night to control this menace. Millions of people are under voluntary or forced lockdowns in their houses. This is not a vacation and no one can travel anywhere. It’s like being held in a glass prison that you dare not break. Being stuck in home for days and weeks is not easy and can be very stressful. While watching movies, exercising, or listening to music is the usual suggestions, you cannot do them for days and weeks. So, how can you stay mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy when you are stuck at home for days and weeks? This book is a practical and straightforward guide with dozens of unique ideas and suggestions on how you can spend time at home productively without going nuts. Each chapter provides one or more suggestions for a positive use of time that can boost your morale, knowledge, and happiness for yourself and others. Start with one or two suggestions and see how easy it is to make the most of this downtime. The ideas given in this book can be used not only for this lockdown but for any future lockdowns also. Rather than sitting and worrying, do something, anything. Worrying is a waste of time - Catherine Pulsifer
Download or read book FINK written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing worse than a brutal crime that remains unsolved for years. What can be more painful for the victims and their loved ones than to see the perpetrators still roaming free from the tentacles of justice? But not anymore. There is someone in town now who can give solace to such victims. A new headache has now entered the underworld and that’s not the police. Meet a mysterious private investigator with the strange powers to solve cases that have stumped the police for decades. A man who can handle baffling criminal cases when even the world’s greatest detectives fail to make any progress. A faceless stool pigeon who is sending shivers down the spine of the Mafia and the underworld by mysteriously unraveling all their darkest secrets. A chap every police chief would love to have on his team. Who is he? What is his secret? How does he do it? Why is he doing it? Who are his sources?
Download or read book The Power of Laziness written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED 2022 EDITION Any modern executive coach can teach you how to fire on all cylinders, be more productive, extract more juice out of your system, wake up at 5 and go to bed at 11, don’t be a clock watcher, stop the 9-to-5 mentality, get into a 12-14 hour schedule, take a cold shower, and burn yourself at the gym daily, etc. They insist that fame and fortune are possible only if you adopt such an intense lifestyle. And media also joins the bandwagon to portray such ever-smiling workaholics as modern-day superheroes. Bombarded by such scorching advice most people start believing that burning themselves out is the only way to live. So, they enter a world obsessed with speed, doing everything faster, cramming more and more into less and less time, racing against the clock, etc. But what is popular may not be right, and what is right may not be popular. Now, what if I told you that by adopting some conscious laziness you can achieve more than what chronic workaholics can achieve in their lifetime? This concise book will show you how to exploit the unique power of laziness and adapt it to achieve stunningly more productivity and creativity than all the extreme workaholics surrounding you. Give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised.
