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Estate Dream Homes is perfect for the serious plan buyer or for those who just like to rub elbows with the architecture of the rich and famous. Designs feature maids quarters, separate guest suites, morning kitchens, home theaters, splendid outdoor spaces and other details that make a large home an estate.
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Good home planning ideas..........2001-07-22
I bought this book in search of new ideas to my exsisting designs. It opended my eyes to about 5 or 6 things I had not thought of and made it all worth it. The first 15 pages or so give a sort of virtual tour through some of the homes you will see later in the book, and all in full color! However, after that the rest of the book is in black and white (actually blue and white). (Note: If you are looking for a book of big houses and pictures of the interior, this book may not be what you are looking for. Only the first 15 or so pages provide that - the rest are floor plans and sketches of the outside view of the home) In addition, there is about 5-7 pages in the back where you can reference certain plans and inquire about the blueprints and building guides online or even order blueprints for contruction of most of the homes in the book. All in all, this book is a good tool that may not have exactly the layout you want, but might spark an idea that you could add to another layout. Many of the homes have pool houses, detached garages, maids quarters and other bonuses that the average home would not have.
Amazingly creative floor plans and great elevations to boot.......2001-06-18
This is my favorite house plans book! It's packed with floor plans ranging from about 3000 sqft. to over 11000 sqft. These plans are all full of creative ideas including great designs for the master bath and creative ways to design the kitchen. You will not be disappointed with the purchase of this book!
praise.......2000-07-09
hey u did a great job in this estate dream homes mag. I luvre it but i have a question. How come when i type in the home #that i want that is EH808 in page 18 of ur mag i cant find it! please help
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Excellent for Animation students.......2007-08-08
I've collected many anatomy books, but what makes this one unique is that it shows both the simple (shapes) and finished drawing in several camera viewpoints, and illustrates muscle changes (like when raising an arm), again both in simple (rough animation) and finished work. This is perfect for animation so we can study how the body shifts in a clean illustrative format. I particulary like how they illustrate the diffrences in gender proportionately. Made my life much simpler. Once you know how to draw the anatomy correctly yet cleanly, it's easier to adapt it to more complex or more cartoony forms. A must have!
not really manga .......2007-07-22
the artsyle on the cover is Extremely Missleading~!
It Will only show how to draw "realistic" style manga anatomy. The women model is also rather man-ish looking.
So its not what i expected at all and i'm kind of Dissapointed. There is also a very Weird p2 page spread of up-crotch shots that i can only imagine are there for H-manga refrences.
How to draw manga.......2007-05-30
The entire experience was amazing. Shipped earlier then expected, in pristine condition, no hassles no worry.
The product itself is great. The guide truly helps with the basic structure of drawing characters anatonomically correct. It's always better to learn how to draw something right first and then learn how to break the rules later.
what are we, children?.......2007-05-17
This is a decent book that shows how to draw the human form. Not necessarily from a cartoony, *manga* perspective but the way the body actually looks. If you don't see how that could improve your skills as an artist, well...
The main reason I wanted to post this review was to comment on the juvenile attitude of many of the other reviewers. This is an anatomy reference. That means pictures of the human form in different positions without clothes. I wonder how serious these artists are not to know that. It may shock them to know that life drawing classes often hire nude models to sit around in the middle of class just so the students can get a better understanding of the human form. This is NOT PORNOGRAPHY and is no different that the photo anatomy references you can find in the art section of any major bookstore. The breasts are shown but who cares? the genitalia is not shown, just a bare patch. For some reason they drew shorts on the guys but not on the girls, but naughty parts are not visible on either so really who cares? This kind of panicky, knee-jerk conservatism makes me ill.
Sorry for the rant but really, this is an totally decent book that has been much maligned for no good reason.
Why do they always revert to sexual positions :(.......2007-05-13
Once again anything female related is mostly used in a sexual position and after being highly dissapointed with the "How To Draw Manga Volume 20: Female Characters" I really think the author has lost track, either that or he has a low outlook on females in general... Sadly dissapointing once again.
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Uneven but useful.......2003-07-08
This is a very uneven book. The beginning and the end, where Wall quotes verbatim a teacher named Leondis, are amazing. Truly amazing. Leondis' words are among the most profound teachings I have found amongst the teachers of Native American Wisdom. If you are interested in practical things, such as how to work with the polarity of male and female, with the shadows and with the light ("I catch the shadows in my soul. That's where I catch them.") or the dynamics of the shamanic healing process, get this (hard to get) book. The real healing comes from the unshakeable belief of the healer himself into the goodness, truthfulness and light of the Great Mystery and his ability to realign that knowledge with the client's soul... which then initiates the healing process. If you want to learn about Earthkeeping, read this.
Having said that I must also admit that all the rest of the book is kind of anti-climactic; here it is that Wall himself enters into the picture and we get A LOT of Walls tortured ruminations about his destiny etc which I found deeply uninteresting. I mean, the compulsion of some people to spill their guts (especially when they're filled with undigested food) and their belief that this is going to interest their fellow humans is beyond my understanding
Anyway. Check out the beginning and the end. It's good stuff and if you're interested in medicine work, you may find it invaluable.
Steve Wall Came, Came To, and then Came To Believe..........1997-03-22
Have you ever known of a person, but never actually met that person, until circumstances or fate throw you together?
SHADOWCATCHERS is the story of Steve Wall's search for spirituallity, told through the stories and teachings from the Native American Healers he sought out during his journeys.Shadowcatchers follows Steve's progress from the moment that he first seeks help to regain the lost part of himself, through the recognition of what was really under the surface, to the restoration of that which he thought was lost- his soul.
I enjoyed Shawdowcathers. It also helped identify and define my own personal searches for "the answers". No matter what your creed or religion is, I believe that anyone who reads this book can identify with Steve at some point or another.
Veni, Vidi, Vici (He Came, He Saw, He Conquored, may there be many more like him. -Monique Arnold
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- Keynes never supported deficit finance(or functional finance)
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Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (Collected Works of James M Buchanan)
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Rare Political Economy Case Study.......2007-01-28
Comprehensive analysis of the political and economic effects of Keynesianism from a public choice perspective. This is an impressive look at the lasting changes in the economic order since Keynes' ideas were adopted by politicians and influential economists alike.
Keynes never supported deficit finance(or functional finance).......2005-06-26
J. M. Buchanan's(JMB)book is completely mistitled and out of date.Nowhere in any of Keynes's writings does Keynes ever advocate a policy of deficit finance,which is actually the brain child of Abba Lerner,a member of the American Keynesian-Neoclassical Synthesis school of economics.Lerner used the term functional finance to describe deficit finance.During a visit to America in 1944 as the representative of England's Treasury Department,Keynes totally disagreed with Lerner's approach.Keynes's approach is an advanced version of the cyclically balanced budget first laid out in clear terms to the Pharaoh by Joseph some 3,700 years ago-build up a surplus in the good years that will cover the deficits of the bad years.This is the first statement of what economists call a countercyclical fiscal policy.Keynes's additional provision is that the budget be split into two categories-one of which would be a capital budget.The government could only run deficits in the provision of capital projects in public infrastructure(building dams,reservoirs,water projects-irrigation networks,seaports,airports,public transportation projects,public schools,colleges and universities,public research laboratories,etc.,)that would pay for themselves in the long run.Nor was Keynes an advocate of tax cuts in an economic downturn except for temporarily suspending the social security tax for workers only.Keynes's major policy recommendation was the maintenance of low interest rates combined with a central bank policy of eliminating loan availability for speculative undertakings(greenmail,leveraged buyouts,hostile takeovers,margin account loans,corporate raiders,junk bonds,etc.).The correct title for JMB's book up until 1981 is"Democracy with minor to moderate deficits:The Political Legacy of the American Keynesian-Neoclassical Synthesis School".After 1981,JMB should have retitled his book as"Democracy and Catastrophic Deficits:The Political Legacy of Laffer,Reagan,and the 12 years of the Two Bush Presidencies" .The national debt when President Reagan took office stood at 925 billion dollars.As of July,2005,the national debt will have surpassed 8 trillion dollars.The Libertarian-pseudo conservative policies of tax cuts,borrowing and excessive spending of 8 years of Reagan and 12 years of the two Bush presidencies has increased our national debt by a factor of 9.JMB needs to completely rewrite his book.First,he needs to incorporate the theoretical foundations of the story of Joseph and the Pharaoh from the Old Testament.He will probably need to purchase a bible in order to correctly cite verse and page.Second,he needs to obtain a copy of Keynes's General Theory and read what Keynes actually wrote and not what Henry Hazlitt claims what Keynes meant in his 1959 "Failure of the 'New Economics'".
Public-choice perspective of public debt finance.......2004-10-20
The authors offer two main points of criticism of the Keynesian prescription of deficit spending during recession. They first expose the internal inconsistency of Keynesianism that, if it were true, during an economic recession with slack resources, public spending increases could simply be financed by the creation of money rather than the issuance of interest-bearing debt (pp. 34-35).
More important, however, is the authors' public-choice criticism of Keynesianism. The Keynesian doctrine of deficit spending provided the academic excuse for elected representatives to spend without taxing, thus removing the self-imposed discipline of balanced budgets that had existed prior to the adoption of Keynesianist thinking (p. 4): "The legacy or heritage of Lord Keynes is the putative intellectual legitimacy provided to the natural and predictable political biases toward deficit spending, inflation, and the growth of government" (p. 26).
Keynesianism might perhaps work under a system of benevolent dictatorship, but not in a democratic setting with citizens who are both taxpayers and beneficiaries of public services, professional politicians, political parties and government bureaucracy (pp. 79-80). "Political decisions in the United States are made by elected politicians, who respond to the desires of voters and the ensconced bureaucracy. There is no center of power where an enlightened few can effectively isolate themselves from constituency pressures" (p. 98).
Elected public officials display a bias towards spending public funds on projects that yield tangible benefits to their constituents, and towards not encumbering them with a tax bill to pay for those projects. "The pre-Keynesian norm of budget balance served to constrain spending proclivities so as to keep governmental outlays roughly within the revenue limits generated by taxes. The Keynesian destruction of this norm, without an adequate replacement, effectively removed the constraint. Predictably, politicians responded by increasing spending more than tax revenues, by creating budget deficits as a normal course of events" (pp. 95-96).
Buchanan considers the argument of the book that in a democratic setting there is a bias towards deficit finance "perhaps the single most persuasive application of the elementary theory of public choice" (p. xv). Indeed, the reform proposals introduced, particularly the constitutional balanced budget amendment, are to be thought of as "rules...designed to constrain the short-run expedient behavior of politicians" (p. 9).
This is chronologically the first publication on public debt finance in the Collected Works series where Buchanan has proposed a constitutional balanced budget requirement (pp. 166, 183-184, 187-188). Buchanan, more than anyone else, offers the most persuasive argument for such a requirement, and thus this volume is still worthwhile. But volume 14 in the series (Debt and Taxes) offers a richer variety of papers by Buchanan on the subject of public debt finance, including the constitutional balanced budget amendment.
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- An Institutionalst Perspective on the Keynesian Revolution
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Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993
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An Institutionalst Perspective on the Keynesian Revolution.......2006-06-08
Rosenof(R)presents the Institutionalist perspective on the events surrounding Keynes's 1936 work,The General Theory(1936).A reader who is familiar with the type of economics article published in the Journal of Economic Issues will find the same type of exposition in this book.The two economists R concentrates on are Alvin Hansen and Gardiner Means.Both of these economists came to the conclusion that the fundamental cause of underemployment and/or an unemployment equilibrium(secular stagnation) had to be the existence of imperfect competition either on the demand side ,for instance,oligopoly,or on the supply side,for instance,oligopsony.In this they were joined by Joan Robinson,Richard Kahn,Austin Robertson,and Nicholas Kaldor,all of whom R mistakenly assumes were followers of Keynes.The major point of the book is summed up in the following claim made by R:" A key question on which students of Keynes have focused is the connection between his general theory and the traditional economics in which he was reared, including his failure to incorporate imperfectly competitive microfoundations and his role in the Hicksian formulation of the neoclassical synthesis....Rather ,the general theory was incorporated as a "special case" into the neoclassical synthesis."(Rosenof,1997,p.172).It is here that R's mathematical illiteracy leads him fatally astray.Keynes dealt with this same issue in an extended reply to Means in the late 1930's-Keynes's very bluntly told Means that the results of the theory of effective demand were completely independent of the particular market structure.Keynes's work has absolutely nothing to do with imperfect competition because the cause of involuntary unemployment is due to the shortage of spending on investment in the capital goods sector due to the ambiguity(D Ellsberg's term)decision makers face in making possible irreversible decisions regarding their long lived physical capital stock under uncertainty(Keynes's term for ambiguity).Nor is it mathematically possible to regard Keynes's theory as a special case of neoclassical theory(see below).Keynes's general theory result was specified twice on pp.261-262 of the GT.Keynes gave the mathematical demonstration in chapter 20 on pp.282-286 of the GT and in his comparison-contrast contained in the appendix to chapter 19.KEYNES EXPRESSED HIS RESULTS IN THE FORM OF ELASTICITIES.In order to obtain Keynes's result, a reader must be able to simplify the elasticities and integrate.No economist in the 20th century had the mathematical skills necessary to do this.The closest an economist came to discovering the mathematical structure of Keynes's GT mathematical model was Meade's 1937 paper.
Keynes's general theory is given by the following optimality condition:w/p=mpl/(mpc+mpi),where mpl is the marginal product of labor derived from a neoclassical aggregate production function(see p.283,p.285 of the GT),w is the money wage,p is the expected price level,mpc is the marginal propensity to spend on consumption goods,and mpi is the marginal propensity to spend on investment goods.The classical and neoclassical theories assume that the mpc+mpi=1.A fuller statement would be that mpc+mpi=1=mpc+mps,where the mps is the marginal propensity to save.NEOCLASSICAL THEORY SIMPLY ASSUMES THAT ALL SAVINGS IS AUTOMATICALLY TRANSFORMED INTERTEMPORALLY(in the long run) INTO INVESTMENT.If this is the case then you obtain a market clearing equilibrium in the labor market and there will be full employment of all resources,except the necessary slack or downtime referred to by economists as frictional unemployment.On the other hand,if mpc+mpi
<1,you will obtain a set of multiple,stable equilibriums ,which can be characterized as involuntary unemployment or underemployment equilibriums.This fundamental result was not understood by Institutionalists or Hansen,Means,and Rosenof or any economist in the 20th century.
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None of the contributors to this volume of collected essays understands Keynes's math model.......2006-04-20
None of the essays in this book concentrate on the connection between Keynes's mathematical model and the conclusions that Keynes derived from his theory of effective demand.Instead,each essay concentrates on some minute trivia contained in the General Theory and explored by Keynes in various obiter dicta.This volume fits perfectly into the "What did Keynes really(really) mean" category.The only purpose of these articles is to add additional publications to the curriculum vitae of the author so that he can move up the tenure track ladder and/or get a pay raise.The essays follow the usual pattern of the economics literature on Keynes by simply ignoring the fundamental result reported by Keynes on pp.261-262 of the GT,that a stable,noninflationary, full employment,level of output required that the mpc+mpi=1,where mpc was the marginal propensity to spend on consumption goods and the mpi was the marginal propensity to spend on investment goods.Involuntary unemployment arose iff the mpc+mpi
<1.Keynes incorporates this condition mathematically in chapters 20 and 21 of the GT .Keynes's general theory result is that w/p=mpl/(mpc+mpi),where mpl is the marginal product of labor derived from a neoclassical aggregate production function,w is the money wage,p is the expected price level,and w/p is the expected real wage.The classical and neoclassical theory rests on the claim that the mpc+mpi=1 so that the labor market always clears at mpl=w/p,which ,by definition ,is full employment.A reader of this book will find no reference to any of the mathematical analysis contained in the GT.This is because Hillard and his coauthors can't follow Keynes's worked out analysis in chapters 20 and 21 of the GT or the comparison-contrast made by Keynes between Pigou's mathematical model and Keynes's mathematical model in the appendix to chapter 19.
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- Blaug overlooks the main points of the GT
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Blaug overlooks the main points of the GT.......2005-09-21
This is a much,much shorter biography of the type exhibited by R.Skidelsky in his three volume biography of Keynes(1983,1992,2000).It is an excellent book for the generalist who is interested in Keynes the man.Blaug covers,in very general terms,Keynes's life story,his basic philosophy(economics,politics,ethics,etc.),and his contributions to economics,history,and philosophy.Blaug interviews various economists who claim that they are Keynesians and presents their assessment of Keynes's contributions.On the other hand,the book is a complete waste of time to a reader who wants a straightforward accounting of Keynes's technical contributions .There is absolutely nothing presented in this book that would allow a reader to understand why Keynes is the greatest economist of this century.I will spend the rest of this review correcting this lacuna.First,Keynes was the first scholar in history to develop an interval valued approach to probability.Second,he was the first to put forth a logical theory of probability.Third,he was the first to define and integrate into decision theory a decision rule(his conventional coefficient of weight and risk,c)incorporating what Keynes called the weight of the evidence,w',where w' is defined on the unit interval [0,1].Keynes generalized the expected value(expected monetary value)and expected utility(subjective expected utility)decision rules.Fourth,Keynes generalized macroeconomic theory with his demonstration that the existence of involuntary unemployment could be modeled as multiple equilibria.Keynes accomplished this by demonstrating that the general case in macroeconomic theory is given by the optimality condition w/p=mpl/(mpc+mpi),where mpc+mpi is
< or = 1,w/p is the real wage,mpl is the marginal product of labor derived from a neoclassical aggregate production function,mpc is the marginal propensity to spend on consumption goods,and mpi is the marginal propensity to spend on investment goods.The classical and neoclassical theory(monetarism,rational expectations,real business cycle,supplyside.etc.)is all based on the special case ,that mpc+mpi=1.In this special case you obtain the neoclassical result, w/p=mpl, which defines an equilibrium position in the labor market which is also a point on both of the boundaries of the static and dynamic production possibilities curves.Finally,Keynes generalized the Quantity theory of money by incorporating uncertainty(Ellsbergian ambiguity)into the equation of exchamge using elasticity analysis that distinguished between actual,realized results and expected results.A simplified version of Keynes's accomplishment is that ,instead of MV=PO,where M is the supply of money,V is the velocity,P is the price level,O is real output,and PO is nominal output,the equation of exchange must be written as M(Vw')=PO,where w' (Ellsberg's rho)is defined on the unit interval between 0 and 1.The classical and neoclassical results are a special case that occurs only if w'=1 or is approaching 1.This is the case of risk.If w
<1,decision makers are facing conditions of Keynesian Uncertainty or Ellsbergian Ambiguity,not risk.Under such conditions it is mathematically impossible for V to be stable,constant,predictable,or strictly proportional to nominal output.This simply means that all of the work of Milton Friedman and Robert Lucas,which is based on the misbelief that only risk,represented by a normal probability distribution's mean and standard deviation,is relevant is a special case of Keynes's(AND Ellsberg's)general theory of decision making.
ideas of economists...are more powerful..........2005-04-11
The origins of this slim volume lie in a video that the author undertook for the Institute of Economic Affairs. As Blaug notes, the limitations of a one hour programme encouraged him to use his reference material to write this book which, I should say at the outset, should be on the shelves of anyone who claims to have an interest in Economics.
John Maynard Keynes occupies a strange position in the pantheon of economic thought. Revered and detested by different groups, he is like a candidate for sainthood, adjudged to be possessed of mythical and miraculous powers including second sight as well as being the originator of much which is claimed by his disciples as stemming from his greates work.
To talk of Keynes in such a fashion is appropriate because he is revered by his followers as nuch as many Eastern deities, taken from this earth before his time, and with a legacy that is kept by the faithful as the Holy Grail.
Blaug's central concerns lie in what is meant by Keynesianism (or what is purported to be the policy prescriptions deduced from the writings of the master), how the theories derived from Keynes took hold among almost the entire swathe of economists throughout the world in such a short space of time, and to determine if there is any future in Keynesian theory.
The book is clearly divided in three just as the title describes: Life, Ideas and legacy and in the concise, clear and lucid way that the author is well known for. Indeed, reading through this prose is very reminiscent of the work of Arthur Seldon in it's judicious editing and clarity.
The book is relatively short and by being so focussed enables the reader, general and specialist to get to the heart of the issue without getting bogged down in unnecessary detail or doctrinal disputes. Keynes' colourful life is referred to in a factual way without any prejudicial remarks and to me it's only drawback is the fact that there is no exposition of the relationship between Keynes and Hayek, While there was clear evidence of the rivalry which took place professionally between these two giant intellects of the 20th Century, there has been little written of the friendliness and very courteous relations which existed between them. Perhaps one day a study along those lines may be presented.
Keynes' ideas and intellectual development are again clearly discussed in what some may feel as too short an exposition but given the author's clear intent to provide a window to further study and to cover only the core ideas it seems very appropriate. Blaug develops the ideas into their takeup by scholars and policy-makers around the world in the context of a timeframe to establish the speed at which they took hold.
Finally, Blaug interviews some of the high priests of the new religion to establish basic building blocks, to elaborate clearly different fundamental aspects of the emerging Kuhnian scientifi revolution and to project forward into the future about the developments of Keynesian theory.
For me it is the latter section which holds most of the intellectual interest of the book, offering some interesting lines of inquiry and opening up the world view of Keynesianism to see that it is a broad church indeed. One of the flattering features of this approach is that in more recent times it has been taken up and developed by Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane in a series of volumes about the development of macroeconomics wherein they identify recent developments in theory and associate them with interviews with the various authors.
However, to the subject in hand, Blaug's exposition does not claim to be the final word on Keynes. Indeed his further reading lists refers the interested reader to the eceptional work of Professor Skidelsky among others who has done sterling work on Keyne. What it does provide is a working guide to this fascinating man and his works and the way in which his supporters and disciples broadened those lines of inquiry into the subject we know today. In writing this he provides a better context for Keynes than is normally provided and shows that while there was a lot that was new in his work, there was a lot that was a development from the ideas that he tried to refute.
Overall I would strongly recommend that even now this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in economics, politics or the development of ideas. Blaug is an excellent writer and he has very ably provided a highly readable very comprehensive introduction to what is now a very sophisticated and complex subject.
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Keynes Economic Legacy
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Leading economists explore the impact of Keynesian economic theory as they share their insights and recommendations on: the current and future directions of business cycle theory; possible financial instability in the U.S. stock and bond markets; new statistical techniques to explain the variability of stock and bond prices; and microeconomic analysis and policies to reduce natural unemployment rates. This volume is an important addition to the literature at a time when macroeconomic theory is in a period of transition.
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Title: The Legacy of Keynes and Friedman. (book reviews)
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The Legacy of Keynes and Friedman: Economic Analysis, Money, and Ideology
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This work deals with the economic systems of the two monetary revolutionaries of this century. They reacted against orthodoxy in different ways, with Friedman redirecting and reinforcing Keynes' major contributions. Friedman used the system of testing one hypothesis against another rather than using a naive model. He provided analytical, political, and ideological positions that yield an all-encompassing analytical system.
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Translating theoretical concepts of change in the workplace into practical suggestions for professional survival, this career manual teaches the new core skills of the "portfolio professional"-self-management, initiative, proactivity, empathy, and perceptiveness. With a concrete plan for becoming technologically competent and committed to lifelong learning, this book puts readers in control of their career performance, development, and working relationships. Real-life experiences, case studies, interviews, reviews, and analysis give examples of these career theories successfully being put into practice.
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Developing independent capability for life...to thrive in the 21st Century!.......2006-07-21
This is quite an interesting book for today's busy professionals. Its primary focus is simply a smorgasbord of strategies & tools for developing a higher level of increased personal effectiveness, flexibility, durability & resilience.
The author uses the term 'independent capability' to denote the new range of skills needed to survive in the 21st Century. His metaphor of 'Titanium' is just to reinforce the concept of resilience & inner strength.
According to the author, these are the five keys to independent capability:
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As the author has admitted, he draws most of the inspiration from Stephen Covey's 7 Habits for Highly Effective People & Daniel Coleman's EQ series of books.
The presentation of strategies & tools in the book is not ground breaking, but I want to compliment the author for synthesising practical insights from HR management with career pursuits & changes in today's contantly changing world. He even adds his own experiences, case studies & interviews with thoughtful review & analysis. As such, it is a practically readable & highly relevant book for busy professionals.
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In fact, my personal interest in the book is drawn particularly to this specific chapter in the first place.
To sum up my review, I enthusiastically recommend this book to all busy professionals who want to achieve career satisfaction & financial success in the 21st Century.
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