Employed for Life: An Insider's Secrets For Guaranteed Employment In Our Permanently Changed Workplace

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The Truth is Out!

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BIG DOG VRS LITTLE DOG

A must read for anyone working in corporate America

THE Survival Guide for post-modern employment

Employed for Life: An Insider's Secrets For Guaranteed Employment In Our Permanently Changed Workplace
P. Anthony Burnham
Manufacturer: Select Books (NY)
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ASIN: 1590790588

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In the instability and turbulence that characterize the modern workplace, most Americans are increasingly fearful about the security of their jobs as the corporate ax swings in ever wider arcs. How does one compete in the race to lower operating costs while maintaining a productive edge over the competition?

P. Anthony Burnham answers, "by realizing the value of YOU".

In 'Employed for Life', Anthony Burnham uses his 35 years of experience on both sides of the corporate desk to examine the `new rules' of the business landscape, and explain how to navigate it by using your own value as a resource to current or prospective employers. By realizing "the Value of YOU", and marketing your personal "product", Burnham shows how `self-empowerment' is the new watchword for maintaining and improving your employability over your lifetime. Begin reading to assess your own personal value, to become 'Employed for Life'.

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The Truth is Out!.......2005-03-15

I had the amazing opportunity and pleasure to be one of the individuals who co-founded ProACTIVE Institute along with Tony. In those years, I saw Tony literally change lives with his hard-hitting and heartfelt philosophy. He's the real deal. A person who makes you feel proud to be a part of the human race.
Read the book - then read it again. It will change the way you perceive yourself and our workplace.
As usual, Tony, you've outdone yourself.

A Review of "Employed for Life!".......2004-10-12

P. Anthony Burnham, Esq., prepares readers for the harsh reality that they may only be temporarily employed in today's "permanently changed workplace." Mr. Burnham stresses that successful leaders are self-managing and achieve results through an empowered workforce. Being a successful manager in this complex world requires innovative thinking combined with synthesis to shift employee paradigms. Learning is an ever-changing, continuous process. Mr. Burnham does a great job of identifying some of these paradigms through a case study of past, present, and future workplace changes. He emphasizes the importance of having the ability to create human value within a firm through identifying and communicating a workers worth on demand. He also stresses that creating a personal business plan for your future employment will help to achieve your goals. As a recent graduate from a masters program, this book has helped me prepare to become successfully "employed for life." Thank you Mr. Burnham!

Sincerely, Edwin Joseph Coulter, MBA, MA/HRM

BIG DOG VRS LITTLE DOG.......2004-06-16

THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES ALIKE. THE "VALUE OF YOU" FORMULA IS RIGHT ON AND SHOULD BE THE MANTRA FOR ALL EMPLOYEES. THE BIG DOG IS OUT AND ITS ALL ABOUT STRENGHTS, ACTION AND RESULTS.

A must read for anyone working in corporate America.......2004-05-29

Tony Burnham captured the essence of today's corporate employment landscape and put it into a concise and easy to read handbook. He outlines what hiring managers are looking for and how to clearly define and state your value proposition to them. I used the book as a guide during the interview process for a new position at my current Fortune 100 company. Needless to say, it worked and I would highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to invest in their own future growth.

THE Survival Guide for post-modern employment.......2004-05-13

Tony Burnham has captured in this clearly-written volume the essence of what had until now been a vague, growing sense of unease about working and aging in the 21st century corporate world. After reading this practical gem of a book, I am seeing my workplace, my job and my contribution in terms of the value I bring and the contribution I can make, rather than in terms of what someone owes me on account of my seniority, education or title. Tony's exposition of the accelerating global changes to the corporate environment over the past decade reveals a new paradigm for personal success and advancement in one's career - a paradigm that is wonderfully empowering and liberating, but which also places the responsibility for and control over my career firmly on...ME. This is a must read if you have felt that same vague unease and insecurity that has infected so many of us as the days of the long one-company career followed by the pension and gold watch fade into history. As a corporate HR executive, I plan to make Employed For Life a strongly suggested reading for all our employees. Bravo.

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You've decided to join the one out of every three American families who now has money invested in mutual funds. While you don't need to be expert in high finance, you do need to know which mutual fund is right for you. With this book in hand, it's simple to make direct comparisons among the funds available. You can develop a balanced investment portfolio, maximize profit when the stock market is up, minimize risk when it's down, and understand 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, and other financial opportunities. This new edition of the guide includes updated preformance figures, tables, and charts, and adds a new section on Internet mutual funds.

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You're no idiot, of course. You know it's important to balance your checkbook, cut back on debt, and save your money for a rainy day. But when it comes to investing with mutual funds, you'd rather stash your money in a piggy bank. Don't break the bank! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds, Second Edition helps you take advantage of the latest trends in mutual fund investing.

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Excellent book for the long term investors........2002-12-31

Excellent insight into the hot topics such as cost average, balance average, rebalancing between stocks & bonds & so on. Just pick the mutual fund, keep adding the money monthly & follow the authors recommendations. I highly recommend this book for patient investors who has 20 to 30 years to stash away his money to grow.

Excellent book for the long term investors........2002-12-31

if you like mutual funds this pretty much covers it A-Z.......2002-09-12

First of all with the exception of your 401k I believe a good investor should be putting at least 50% of their money in individual stocks as opposed to mutual funds. One of the reasons for this is that by basically doing nothing a investing in just an index fund ( the most basic mutual fund as far as how it works) return an average of about 15% per year over the last half century. The typical mutual fund does not beat that return, plus you have to pay the management fees( or loads if you are unenlightened enough to buy a loan fund) which can run about 2% of your total return.

This book goes over all the types of funds and how to pick winners. It also informs the reader how to watch out for funds that are heading for a fall such as recent management changes. As well as indirectly helping turn you on to a couple good stocks, as components of mutual funds.

My advice is to keep most of your money in stocks and maybye put 20% in a very good balanced fund. It is also worth noting that on yahoo you can look up the components of the top funds to see what stocks they are investing in. Obviously that is a way to look for some stock picks. Obviously that is not the only factor to consider but i have gotten a couple good picks off this method and got a 22% return in a 4 month period of general motors using that method

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds.
Alan; Liberman, Gail. Lavine
Manufacturer: Alpha
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O91Y52

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Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counter-productive government policy. To allow a rational analysis of these important concerns, this book employs the thinking of economics, political science, and game theory to develop new perspectives on crime and its causes. A basic assumption is that the criminal is a rational actor who makes decisions based on his or her personal expected gains and costs. By using this assumption, predictions about behaviour as well as emotional concerns such as prostitution and gun control are given a theoretical perspective. By understanding the strategic variables which cause, for example, gang wars and drug sales, we are better equipped to design effective public policy.

In the new edition, a chapter on police corruption has been added. The Gangs chapter has been updated and focuses more on evaluating competing hypotheses about gang organization and activity.

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Towards a More Cooperative Society.......2002-01-10

I highly recommend this book and ask you to help me bring it to the attention of our law makers and legal authorities. This is an important book for our times, in my humble opinion, about the ironic reality that some of our laws create rational motives to commit crime in spite of any well meaning intention to the contrary. In essence, Sieberg contributes to the development of a field of social research which shows the way towards a more cooperative society, which is exactly what one Princeton University philosopher, Peter Singer, recently called for in his book, _A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation_ (see pg. 47).

Sieberg is full of surprises. She ignores the emotional and moral aspects of a few select current issues, and goes straight to the rational self interested calculations of the hypothetical individual who is considering whether to be content to earn the going legal wage (perhaps slave wages), or to commit a potentially much more profitable crime. That list of current issues includes mandatory prison sentencing, the three strikes and you're out laws, the privatization of prisons, prostitution, drugs, gangs, and gun control. On the basis of this analysis she makes a few suggestions as to what may be better and more rational legal policy; for example, regarding prison sentencing and alternative means of punishing criminals, she concludes with the following:

"This analysis indicates that a hybrid policy of imprisoning violent criminals and imposing alternative sentences on nonviolent criminals would be superior in terms of fulfilling society's goals. The maintenance of the prisons for violent offenders would provide protection of the public, both by incapacitation of those who are violent and by deterring others from the use of violence. Alternative sentencing [such as community service and repaying the victim with the earnings] could yield an improvement over the current system in terms of retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence - but only if done seriously and carefully. Importantly, this more positive form of sentencing [as opposed to imprisonment], involving some form of repayment, reduces the individual and social cost of crime."
--page 33.

This book appears to be an expansion of work the author began as a student of Donald Saari, who is currently perhaps the world's leading mathematician in the field of social choice theory. My personal interest in this book stems from reading Saari's latest book, _Decisions and Elections_ (Cambridge University Press, 2001), where he briefly describes the nature of some of Sieberg's results, and explains how those results are related to the unintended loss of crucial but available information or action, and how that screws up decision making processes and public policies.

Using the tools of theoretical economics and decision theory with some basic algebra and calculus, Sieberg helps us look at the decision making process of those who consider whether to commit this crime or that, or no crime at all. We see the world through the eyes of the rational criminal, or potential criminal, and are surprised to see how some laws actually create incentives for increased crime. Beginning with the famous "Prisoner's Dilemma," an important abstract model of decision making, Sieberg formalizes the rational strategic thinking of criminals and potential criminals, and shows how they may calculate the probable costs and benefits of their various legal and illegal options.

Consider the case of marijuana sales or prostitution, where Sieberg notes that both the buyer and seller are committing a crime. What happens if one of them is ripped off by the other? They don't have legal recourse, of course, given that they prefer to avoid imprisonment, public humiliation or a fine. Sieberg shows how this sort of situation arises throughout the underground economic world, and this creates a force which tends to create and grow criminal gangs, pimps, etc., to which they may turn for justice. It is widely recognized that the mafia in the US is largely a child of the underground economy which was created by the prohibition of alcohol. We were soon forced to recognize our mistake in that case, but we apparently haven't fully learned our lesson yet. According to Sieberg's analysis, the current prohibition of drugs and prostitution fosters a similar crime laden underground economy.

There is room for criticism, of course. The author takes issue after issue, and argues that a consequence of prohibiting that product or activity will likely be to foster a black market. This may be true, it seems to me, but aren't there cases where there is no better alternative to prohibiting it? How about the case of human slavery, or the sale of the flesh of chimpanzees and other nonhuman great apes in gourmet restaurants? What is the difference between slavery and alcohol, which makes one (apparently) immune to the black market argument, but not the other? Isn't there a similar argument that the prohibition of slavery or chimpanzee dinners creates a black market incentive? I suppose that the difference is that there are some extenuating circumstances that need to taken into account, whatever they may be, which clearly tip the scale in favor of the prohibition of slavery or chimpanzee steaks, but not alcohol. I suspect that the relevant differences lie in the "victimless crime nature of prostitution, drugs and alcohol, on the one hand, and in the overridingly strong interest of vulnerable individuals, on the other hand, against being legally categorized and treated as mere property. That is, I suppose the essential difference is in the relative strength of the interests of the victim and the offender, which relates back to Saari's book and his analysis of (1998 Nobel Laureate) Amartya Sen's important theorem that individual and societal rights are incompatible.

Towards a More Cooperative Society.......2002-01-08

I highly recommend this book and ask you to help me bring it to the attention of our law makers and legal authorities. This is an important book for our times, in my humble opinion. It is about the ironic reality that some of our laws create rational motives to commit crime, in spite of any well meaning intention to reduce crime. In essence, Sieberg contributes to the development of a field of social research which shows the way towards a more cooperative society, which is exactly what one Princeton University philosopher, Peter Singer, recently called for in his book, _A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation_ (see pg. 47).

Sieberg is full of surprises. She ignores the emotional and moral aspects of a few select c urrent issues, and goes straight to the rational self interested calculations of the hypothetical individual who is considering whether to be content to earn the going legal wage (perhaps slave wages), or to commit a potentially much more profitable crime. That list of current issues includes mandatory prison sentencing, the three strikes and you're out laws, the privatization of prisons, prostitution, drugs, gangs, and gun control. On the basis of this analysis she makes a few suggestions as to what may be better and more rational legal policy; for example, regarding prison sentencing and alternative means of punishing criminals, she concludes with the following:

This analysis indicates that a hybrid policy of imprisoning violent criminals and imposing alternative sentences on nonviolent criminals would be superior in terms of fulfilling society's goals. The maintenance of the prisons for violent offenders would provide protection of the public, both by incapacitation of those who are violent and by deterring others from the use of violence. Alternative sentencing such as community service and repaying the victim with the earnings could yield an improvement over the current system in terms of retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence - but only if done seriously and carefully. Importantly, this more positive form of sentencing [as opposed to imprisonment], involving some form of repayment, reduces the individual and social cost of crime.--page 33.

Using the tools of theoretical economics and decision theory, Sieberg helps us look at the decision making process of those who consider whether to commit this crime or that, or no crime at all. We see the world through the eyes of the rational criminal, or potential criminal, and are surprised to see how some laws actually create incentives for increased crime. Beginning with the famous Prisoner's Dilemma, an important abstract model of decision making, Sieberg formalizes the rational strategic thinking of criminals and potential criminals, and shows how they may calculate the probable costs and benefits of their various legal and illegal options.

Consider the case of marijuana sales or prostitution, where both the buyer and seller are committing a crime. What happens if one of them is ripped off by the other? They don't have legal recourse, of course, given that they prefer to avoid imprisonment, public humiliation or a fine. This sort of situation arises throughout the underground economic world, and this creates a force which tends to create and grow criminal gangs, pimps, etc., to which they may turn for justice. It is widely recognized that the mafia in the US is largely a child of the underground economy which was created by the prohibition of alcohol. We were soon forced to recognize our mistake in that case, but we haven't fully learned our lesson yet. The current prohibition of drugs and prostitution fosters a similar crime laden underground economy, but those bad policies remain with us to this day.

There is room for criticism, of course. The author takes issue after issue, and argues that a consequence of prohibiting that product or activity will likely be to foster a black market. This may be true, it seems to me, but aren't there cases where there is no better alternative to prohibiting it? How about the case of human slavery, or the sale of the flesh of chimpanzees and other nonhuman great apes in gourmet restaurants? What is the difference between slavery and alcohol, which makes one (apparently) immune to the black market argument, but not the other? Isn't there a similar argument that the prohibition of slavery or chimpanzee dinners creates a black market incentive? I suppose that the difference is that there are some extenuating circumstances that need to taken into account, whatever they may be, which clearly tip the scale in favor of the prohibition of slavery or chimpanzee steaks, but not alcohol. I suspect that the relevant differences lie in the "victimless crime nature of prostitution, drugs and alcohol, on the one hand, and in the overridingly strong interest of vulnerable individuals, on the other hand, against being legally categorized and treated as mere property. That is, I suppose the essential difference is in the relative strength of the interests of the victim and the offender, which relates back to Saari's book and his analysis of Amartya Sen's Theorem regarding the conflict between individual and societal rights.

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"We hope that range managers reading this book will realize that they are also wildlife managers, and that wildlife managers reading this book will realize that they are also habitat managers; in the region this book covers, rangeland and habitat are synonyms."-from the Preface

For most of the last century, range management meant managing land for livestock. The best measure of success was how well a landowner grew the grass that cattle ate. In this century, landowners look to hunting and wildlife viewing for income; rangeland is now also wildlife habitat, and landowners are managing their land not just for cattle but also for wildlife, most notably deer and quail.

Unlike other books on white-tailed deer in places where rainfall is relatively high and the environment stable, this book takes an ecological approach to deer management in the semiarid lands of Oklahoma, Texas, and northern Mexico. These are the least productive of white-tail habitats, where periodic drought punctuates long-term weather patterns. The book's focus on this landscape across political borders is one of its original and lasting contributions. Another is its contention that good management is based on ecological principles that guide the manager's thinking about:

Habitat Requirements of White-Tailed Deer

White-Tailed Deer Nutrition

Carrying Capacity

Habitat Manipulation

Predators

Hunting

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Excellent reference and nice authors.......2007-01-04

This is a great reference book for anyone interested in range management and wildlife. I would highly recommend this book. The co-authors of this book are very dedicated to the preservation of wildlife. I am proud to consider them both friends of mine. Thank you for the good work.

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The propagation of light in dispersive media is a subject of fundamental as well as practical importance. In recent years attention has focused in particular on how refractive index can vary with frequency in such a way that the group velocities of optical pulses can be much greater or much smaller than the speed of light in vacuum, or in which the refractive index can be negative. Treating these topics at an introductory to intermediate level, Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light focuses on the basic theory and describes the significant experimental progress made during the past decade. The book pays considerable attention to the fact that superluminal group velocities are not in conflict with special relativity and to the role of quantum effects in preventing superluminal communication and violations of Einstein causality. It also explores some of the basic physics at the opposite extreme of very slow group velocities as well as stopped and regenerated light, including the concepts of electromagnetically induced transparency and dark-state polaritons. Another very active aspect of the subject discussed concerns the possibility of designing metamaterials in which the refractive index can be negative and propagating light is left-handed in the sense that the phase and group velocities are in opposite directions. The last two chapters are an introduction to some of the basic theory and consequences of negative refractive index, with emphasis on the seminal work carried out since 2000. The possibility that "perfect" lenses can be made from negative-index metamaterials-which has been perhaps themost controversial aspect of the field-is introduced and discussed in some detail.

Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light

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Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light
P. W./ Milonni, Peter W. Milonni
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The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume B: 100 to 1500
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