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With savage humor, Death Confetti features performance artist Jennifer Robin's autobiographical sketches of Portland, Oregon, from the grunge-era obscurity of the '90s to its current media-darling status. As an only child raised by reclusive grandparents in upstate New York, Jennifer recalls that she felt "anemic for the real." At seventeen she broke loose and made her way to the west coast. "Civilization is a nightmare-illusion," Jennifer writes, "a three-dimensional spreadsheet perpetuated by machines that hypnotize meat." In a city that's stranger than fiction, grocery-store checkers and meth-heads loom as lost gods. We're introduced to the lady tweaker "Chew Toy," who wears moon boots an...
Gold Medal Winner, Human Resources and Employee Training, 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards Trust, Pride and Camaraderie—transform your company into a "Great Place to Work" The Great Place to Work Institute develops the annual ranking of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. In this book, the authors explore the model of a Great Place to Work For-one which fosters employee trust, pride in what they do, and enjoyment in the people they work with. They answer the fundamental question, "What is the business value of creating a great workplace?" and brings the definition of a Great Place to work alive with anecdotes, best practices, and quotes from employees working at the best workplaces in the U.S. Reveals the essential ingredients in and the trends of the best places to work Explores Great Place to Work model developed in 1984 and validated through its enduring resonance in both the United States and in over 40 countries around the world Written by Michael Burchell and Jennifer Robin two Great Place to Work Institute Insiders If you organization is struggling with the challenges of leveraging human capital, discover why some companies have what it takes to be great.
AMERICAN CANDYLAND: Love is a swipe away, toy aisles teem with plastic tanks, nipples are illegal. The Pentagon spends 717 billion dollars a year on war. Scientists say the sixth great extinction event is upon us, and mammals aren't going to make it past the year 2,100. When faced with disaster, Americans grow robust. We become more of ourselves, with Twitter feuds, celebrity weight loss tricks, covens hexing Trump. In the dead of night the old ones whisper, "Where has my America gone?" The young ones were born too poor, too late to hear the promises and believe them. We feel earthquakes, and there is nowhere left to hide. This is Jennifer Robin's America: Hilarious, heartbreaking, razor-sharp.
”Jen Robin is not just an organizer—she is a teacher and a healer. As she helps sort our ‘stuff’ she is also sorting our values, emotions, relationships, and dreams. She is a magician and this book will work magic on your home and life.” - Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed In this essential guide, the creative force behind the popular organization company Life in Jeneral reveals her emotionally engaged approach to decluttering—a unique process that empowers people to re-envision their spaces to suit their evolving needs. Life is about connection, not collection. Jen Robin’s company, Life in Jeneral, focuses on the “soul work” of home organizatio...
The business leader's guide to creating a great workplace from the Great Place to Work Institute In this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc. reveal the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create a great workplace. Authors Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell poke holes in every single excuse. Whether the reasons involve the organization's leadership, employees, environment, or any other factor, the authors explain that if managers lead people properly, they can create a great workplace. The authors explore how managers can interrupt their own negative thought patterns and instead create lasting change, and they describe ho...
The first and only major book about fashion and beauty ever written by an artist, Growing More Beautiful: An Artful Approach to Personal Style is a lively, buoyant resource guide to projecting your essence with creativity and flair. The elements of making art, including many of the principles of design, help with any creative endeavor whether it is painting or creating an outfit. Not a book about aging gracefully or otherwise, but a guide for women of all ages to discover and project their unique personal style. In Growing More Beautiful learn how to: - Choose color and styles that flatter - Organize your closet and develop a wardrobe plan - Make shopping successful and fun - Buy a great bathing suit - Personalize your purchases with jewelry and accessories - Polish your look with make-up and hair tips - Get the glow by bringing more color, creativity and art into your life.
Building an Organizational Coaching Culture is a comprehensive collection of expert pieces examining the models, methods and approaches to establish a sustainable coaching culture in organizations. The different perspectives highlight how coaching skills can be used to positively influence workforces in the areas of critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration, and how they can have a direct impact on performance and productivity. Contributors from a range of professional contexts include theoretical grounding and application to practice across topics including talent management, implementing coaching programs, developing leadership qualities, using positive psychology, self-evaluations, and standards and ethics. This is a great resource for both students and professionals wanting to engage more with coaching cultures.
A proven model to create high-performing, high-trust organizations Globally, there has been a decline in trust over the past few decades, and only a third of Americans believe they can trust the government, big business, and large institutions. In The Decision to Trust, Robert Hurley explains how this new culture of cynicism and distrust creates many problems, and why it is almost impossible to manage an organization well if its people do not trust one another. High-performing, world-class companies are almost always high-trust environments. Without this elusive, important ingredient, companies cannot attract or retain top talent. In this book, Hurley reveals a new model to measure and repai...
Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants is a compilation of 39 biographies of American Revolutionary War patriots and includes an introduction and brief history of the El Palo Alto Chapter of the DAR and its founders. This book is a commemorative work celebrating the Chapters 100th Anniversary of its founding. Each patriot biography summarizes the patriots service record in the War of Independence as well as key biographical information. In addition, each author of these biographies is a direct descendant of the patriot and provides a summary of their lineage. This book provides a unique look into the history of these rank and file soldiers, officers and other patriots who contributed to the formation of our country as well as insights into their descendants migrations over many generations.
Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics. As an intersection between communication and international relations, it bridges the existing gap in scholarship and highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. One central theme that emerges in the book is the continuity of asymmetries in power relations that can be traced back to 19th-century European imperialism, manifested in its various incarnations from ‘liberal’ to ‘neo-liberal’, to ‘digital’ imperialism. The book includes a discussion of the post...