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Book SynopsisCrisis at Work examines the impact work, as a precarious entity, has on the intimate and intrapersonal lives of individuals. It examines how we negotiate our identities, the trade-offs we make, and how we achieve greater meaning and fulfilment when our productive lives fail to sustain and fulfil.Trade Review“This book explores how individuals experience and negotiate their identity during periods of dramatic career transition. … The book brings significant complexity to debates about ‘the end of work’ by offering an in-depth empirical exploration of the construction and challenges of alternative life and work trajectories. … the book’s fascinating insights into how individuals negotiate work transitions will hopefully stimulate more much-needed research on how the contemporary shift in work conditions relates to selfhood.” (Maria Adamson, Work, employment and society, Vol. 31 (4), 2017) “Jesse Potter’s new book Crisis at Work is an attempt to gauge the saliency of some of these wilder claims by studying a series of people experiencing significant upheaval in their working careers. … Potter’s introductory scene setting material is a useful summation of current debates in the field and as a whole it provides a snapshot of work orientation among a narrow group of middle-class workers confronting change.” (Tim Strangleman, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 67 (1), January, 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Work, Self, Identity 3. Changing 'Careers' 4. Being 'in between' 5. Exiting the Organization 6. Trade-offs 7. The Politics of Self-Determination 8. Self Understanding and the Changing Self

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place.Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become friction fixers.Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how

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Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Kristen Callihan comes a smart, emotional contemporary romance about finding love with the most unlikely of people. As kids, they hated each other. Macon Saint was beautiful, but despite his name, Delilah knew he was the devil. That he dated her slightly evil sister, Samantha, was no picnic either. When they broke up, it was a dream come true: Delilah never had to see him again. Ten years later, her old enemy sends a text. Delilah’s sister has stolen a valuable heirloom from Macon, now a rising Hollywood star, and he intends to collect his due. One problem: Sam has skipped town. Sparks still sizzle between Macon and Delilah, only this heat feels alarmingly like unwanted attraction. But Delilah is desperate to keep her weak-hearted mother from learning of her sister’s theft. So she proposes a deal: she’ll pay off the debt by being Macon’s personal chef and assistant. It’s a recipe for disaster, but Macon can’t stop himself from accepting. Even though Delilah clearly hates him, there’s something about her that feels like home. Besides, they’re no longer kids, and what once was a bitter rivalry has the potential to be something sweeter. Something like forever.Trade Review“The premise allows Callihan to deliver a trope she has mastered: coldly furious enemies morphing into lovers.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisStyle guides come in many shapes and sizes, usually focused toward scientific or academic use only. However, business writing is a space occupied by many individuals that has not been given the attention it deserves. The Style Guide for Business Writing, Second Edition, is designed specifically to assist business writers in both the public and private sector, including those publishing with English as a second language; authors of academic papers; business book authors; financial journalists; and writers of reports, proposals or even just e-mail and memoranda. This book provides a comprehensive guide to clear and precise writing that will help develop basic communication skills for the beginner, and refresh the basics for the experienced business writer. Major topics are arranged alphabetically and the cross references and index enable quick and easy access to information. Michael C. Thomsett is a market expert, author, speaker, and coach. His many books include Stock Market Math, Candlestick Charting, The Mathematics of Options, and A Technical Approach to Trend Analysis.Table of ContentsA  1 A or an  1 Abbreviation  1 Abridgement  6 Abstracts  6 Accessibility  7 Acknowledgments  8 Acronyms  8 Active and passive voice  9 Adnouns  12 Afterword  12 Agreement  12 Alphabetizing  17 Annotations  21 Annualization  22 Anonymous publication  23 Anthology  23 Antonyms  24 Appendices  25 Appositives  25 Apps  26 Archive  26 Articles  27 Artwork  29 Attribution  30 B  33 Backmatter  33 Baseline  34 Bibliography  36 Blogging  37 Budgets and forecasts  37 Bullet points  39 C  41 Callouts and sidebars  41 Capitalization  41 Captions  44 Case studies  45 Casual assertions and inferences  46 Charts and Graphs  48 Circa (ca.) 57 Circular arguments  57 Citations  58 Clauses  64 Cleft sentences  65 Cliches  66 Coinage of words  73 Colloquialism  73 Compound Words  74 Conclusions  75 Copyright  76 Cross reference  77 D  81 Dangling modifiers  81 Data analysis  81 Databases  85 Data collection methods  85 Data matrices  86 Dates and times  87 Decimals, fractions, and percentages  92 Definitions  96 Denotation and connotation  98 Derivative work  99 Descriptive statistics and inference  99 Desktop publishing  100 Dictionaries  101 Double negatives  101 Dysphemism  101 E  103 Editing and proofreading  103 e.g. and i.e. 106 Electronic mail (email) 106 Electronic mail formatting guidelines  108 Emphasis  109 Empirical approach  114 Endnotes  115 et al. 115 Euphemism  116 F  117 Fact checking  117 False subjects  117 Figure of speech  118 File naming  119 Financial reports  120 Flowcharts  122 Footnotes  124 G  127 Generalizations  127 Gerunds  128 Glossary formatting  128 Graphics  129 H  131 Headings  131 Highlighting in text  132 Homonyms  135 Hyperbole  135 Hyperlinks  136 Hypothesis formulation  136 I  139 Ibid. 139 Idiom  139 Imperative sentences  140 Indexing  141 Introductions, forewords and prefaces  143 Irony  145 J, K  147 Jargon  147 L  151 Legends, titles, and labels  151 Letters  152 Lists  163 M  169 Manuscripts  169 Mathematical symbols  171 Means testing  175 Measurement strategies  175 Memos  177 Metadata  179 Metaphors  180 Money and currency  180 N  183 Nominative, objective, and possessive pronouns  183 Numerals and numbering  184 O  191 Obfuscation  191 Objective and goal statements  192 Online etiquette  194 Op. Cit. 196 Organization charts  197 Outlining  199 P  203 Paradox  203 Paragraphs  203 Parallelism  207 Parentheses and brackets  209 Participles  213 Parts of speech  213 Patents  234 Peer review  234 Photographs  235 Planning documents  236 Possessives  239 Presentations  240 Problem statement  242 Procedures manuals  243 Proposals  246 Punctuation  248 Q  269 Quotations  269 R  273 Redundancy and repetition  273 Relative clauses  274 Reports  275 Rhetorical questions  278 Rhythm in sentences  278 Roman numerals  279 Run-in quotations  280 Run-on sentences and sentence fragments  281 S  283 Salutations  283 Sampling  285 Sarcasm  286 Scaling  287 Scientific method  289 Screen shots  290 Sentences  291 Sexist writing  296 Signs and symbols  298 Similar words  299 Similes  317 Singular and plural  318 Spacing  321 Spelling  323 Statistical references  329 Style and tone  329 Suffixes  332 Summarizing  333 Superscript and subscript  334 Symbolism  335 Synonyms  336 T, U  339 Table of contents  339 Tables  340 Technical writing  341 Tenses  342 Titles  343 Trademarks  344 Transitions  345 Translations  349 V  351 Variable measurements  351 Variable relationships  351 Video best practices  352 W  355 Webinar and conference call etiquette  355 Webpage references and citation  356 Websites  356 Word processing  357 X, Y  361 X and y axes  361 Z  363 Zombie nouns  363 Index  365

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