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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In this classic roadmap to managing your high-tension job, Richard Carlson shows how to stop worrying about the aspects of your work beyond your control and interact more fruitfully and joyfully with colleagues, clients, and bosses. His key insights reveal how to:
How to manage rush deadlines with rushing
How to transform your outlook and prepare for the day ahead
How to enjoy corporate travel
How to have a really bad day . . . and get over it.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis - based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting - that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."—Publishers Weekly
A memoir unlike any other that explores addiction, crime, and redemption.
The true story of one correctional officer's life behind bars—the ones at work and the ones she built herself.
I was a bad mother,
a bad daughter,
a bad wife, a bad friend.
Boozed out and tired,
with no dreams
and no future.
But
...Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book is a behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre crime of astronaut Lisa Nowak, who drove 900 miles to intercept and confront her romantic rival in an airport parking lot--allegedly using diapers on the trip so she wouldn't have to stop. This is a riveting journey inside the high-pressure world of one of America's most elite agencies and the life of one beleaguered astronaut.
Author
Publisher
Sonia Layne-Gartside
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The modern workplace evokes anxiety in all of us, whether you feel queasy about your ability to finish all your tasks or you feel like a hamster on a wheel-toiling every day in obscurity, feeling overworked, underappreciated, and struggling to figure out how to demonstrate your value to others. Or the anxieties that come with working in a bureaucracy-shackled by red tape, with the pure frustration of feeling like you have little to no influence to...
Author
Publisher
AMACOM
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Reorganization, downsizing, mergers, budget pressures, transfers, job insecurity, and more are producing today's unpredictable, pressure-cooker conditions, and making it harder for less resilient people to achieve the success they deserve. Resilience at Work supplies insights and strategies you can use to combat your fear of change and uncover the opportunities that can be found in even the most stressful situations.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A former corporate executive examines why many working women feel exhausted and overwhelmed as they try to balance the competing demands of career and family. The author diagnoses the roots of the problem and proposes pragmatic methods to integrate work, relationships, health, and spirituality into a harmonious whole"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"[This] resource for doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals ... contains: real-world accounts and experiences from frontline workers; an overview of treatment options; and exercises, tools, and tips that you can use today"--Page 4 of cover.
COVID-19 has traumatized the world-- and no group has been more impacted than frontline healthcare workers. After a year there is still no end in sight. Goulston and Hendel show that in...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Opening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. Former chief of the Seattle police force, Stamper goes on to expose a troubling culture of racism, sexism, and homophobia that is still pervasive within the twenty-first-century...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Consistently being immersed in violence, tragedies, danger, and evil often scars the spirits of our emergency first responders, resulting in PTSD, depression, suicides (the number one cause of death for police officers), substance abuse, broken families, and emotional pain. Firefighters, police officers, soldiers, medics, and emergency room workers are vulnerable to feelings of helplessness and suffering, and many do not know where or how to find...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place. Today's work isn't working. Stress and burnout are driving talented professionals out of the workforce while the corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel proves unsustainable. But innovative leaders are using this once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that's better for everyone. The workplace of...
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