New book on House Speaker's reading list.ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1994--Giving his fellow Representatives an eight-item required reading list, newly elected Republican leader of the House, Newt Gingrich, talked for an hour about the America he would like to help fashion and the hard work ahead. The list is diverse, from the Declaration of Independence, to WORKING WITHOUT A NET. Just published, WORKING WITHOUT A NET, How To Survive & Thrive in Today's High Today's High The intra-day high trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the highest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is higher than the closing price. See also: Today's Low Risk Business World (Prentice Hall Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. History In 1913, law professor Dr. ), written by Morris R. Shechtman, challenges traditional notions of how individuals and organizations should function. In his address to the Republican National Governor's Conference, Gingrich also referenced Shechtman's first paradigm from the book, "caring for people is not synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as taking care of people." Going on to say that "many apparently good intentions are undone by the confusion between caretaking and caring for." "The traditional approaches aren't working. The losses suffered by our major corporations are monumental and intolerable. We are doing a poor job of handling change, and because the pace of change is accelerating, we won't survive without new change management skills," says Shechtman, a management consultant and corporate psychotherapist psy·cho·ther·a·pist n. An individual, such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurse, or psychiatric social worker, who practices psychotherapy. , who works with high-growth organizations who see change as an ongoing facet facet /fac·et/ (fas´it) a small plane surface on a hard body, as on a bone. fac·et n. 1. A small smooth area on a bone or other firm structure. 2. of their operations. In his new book he tells us what the new rules are, what every organization and individual can do to take advantage of them, and provides six paradigms, that have been applied successfully by thousands of individuals and organizations. Showing how to work with these paradigms in both professional and personal life, he discusses the most common obstacles to growth and success that people in high-risk cultures face, and delves Delves is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the south of Consett. into the new definitions of conflict, anger and loyalty. Not your typical management book! In WORKING WITHOUT A NET, Shechtman provides an original, thought-provoking conceptual framework For the concept in aesthetics and art criticism, see . A conceptual framework is used in research to outline possible courses of action or to present a preferred approach to a system analysis project. , paradigms that he references, pointing to their impact and showing readers how to work with them in transitioning from a low-risk to a high-risk posture. Published by Prentice Hall Career & Personal Development, a unit of Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. , the publishing operation of Viacom Inc. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Morris R. Shechtman is an internationally known change management consultant, whose clients include Rust-Oleum, Prudential, and the Young President's Organization. Shechtman has brought about remarkable gains in individual and collective productivity by teaching managers how to become agents of personal growth and development. WORKING WITHOUT A NET, How To Survive & Thrive in Today's High Risk Business World, by Morris R. Shechtman; ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-13-026239-0; $19.95 (cloth); Pub Month: December, 1994. CALL 201/592-3302 FOR A REVIEW COPY. Morris Shechtman can be reached at 1-800-807-5906. CONTACT: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs
Career & Personal Development
Joan-Ellen Messina, 201/592-3302
|
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion