The Light Touch: How to Use Humor for Business Success

Customer Reviews:

Practical Advice.......2003-09-11

Humor can be a tool for effective workplace communication if used properly. Kushner bills himself as "humor consultant" and in this book describes how to make his advice work for you. Among the contexts he lists are: conflict management, motivation, handling awkward situations, improving productivity, influencing coporate culture, and improving interoffice correspondence. He advocates keeping a humor file and readers can detect that he follows that advice because his book is full of anecdotes and quotes from diverse sources. Other than humor, his insight on communication in general is also quite helpful. Going back to the issue of changing corporate culture through humor he makes the point that a threatening environment is not conducive to a free flow of ideas, so "contrary to popular opinion, humor doesn't waste time. It can actually speed things up" (p. 126). He adds weight to his argument by including the fact that "a workplace stimulated by laughter tends to score higher marks in job satisfaction and productivity" (p. 174). Kushner remains readers a company is only as good as its people. In a marketplace where stress is a challenge, this is a book worth considering as required reading.

Want to be humorous without being a clown? This is the book.......1997-12-30

This is a tremendous book for upper level managers on the use (and misuse) of humor in the workplace. Kushner is informative and helpful without being silly. He treats his reader as an adult and although there are smiles and laughs aplenty throughout, he never forgets that his goal is to provide some workable techniques for using humor as a management tool to enhance both quality of life and quality of productivity. I bought it years ago and return to read it often.

Light Touch: How to Use Humor for Business Success

Average customer rating:

Light Touch: How to Use Humor for Business Success
Malcolm Kushner
Manufacturer: Fireside
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Business | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

The Light Touch - How to Use Humor for Business Success

Average customer rating:

The Light Touch - How to Use Humor for Business Success

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Business | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000HVTZ2G

Book Description

How to invest using straightforward common sense instead of misleading"hot tips"

While market pundits argue the rational market theory, one theory gets almost universal consensusthat of the irrational investor. Outsmarting the Smart Money outlines where most investors go wrong and explains how to instead approach the markets with intelligence and calm. Filled with hard-hitting insights and useful lessons, it shows how to use market-proven techniques and strategies to overcome biases, myths, and mistakesand beat the pros at their own game. Cunningham presents flexible security analysis guidelines for investors who want to guide their own portfolios, but don't want to devote all of their free time to the effort including:

How to overcome personal biases, misleading information, and market inefficiencies
Methods to avoid being cheated by money managers, and identify "spin" reporting

Customer Reviews:

Disorganised and unhelpful writings! I really want a refund!.......2006-08-05

Dont know whether the author had been too keen to show how good he wrote or to publish a new book or what, this book just lacked the substance to be useful on investment or trading. I doubt whether any reader of it can "understand how markets really work and win the wealth game" per book title by the very descriptive and insightless essays in unlinked chapters. I wonder why some referrals could praise it as an excellent Trading/Investment Psychology book. As a pro trader/CFA/trading book lover, I cant tell anything positive about it. So far I had rated less than five books of this category a one star as far as I remember, and this book is one of the minority.

Barron's Is Right: Top Book of 2002.......2003-01-26

I read Cunningham's book based on the review in Barron's rounding up the best investment books of 2002. They were right. The book is a eye-opening intro to the psychology of investing, important to investors and market observers/regulators. (Cunningham's other books have more of the basics for investors--also very good books.)

Great Book (Odd Title).......2002-09-19

Awesome. Cunningham dissects the woes besetting corporate American using lucid, concrete examples, with boundless energy and enthusiasm, endorsed properly on the back cover by those who take behavioralism seriously, including Gary Belsky, who wrote the top-seller "Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes" (which is about general habits, not investment philosophy of which Cunningham writes) and Robert Hagstrom, prolific author (who writes about investment philosophy, and sometimes behavioralism). What an astonishing record Cunningham has developed as a writer and expert in invesetment theory and practice! A better title for this book would be Rational Investing in a Hair Brained Environment; the one chosen is unduly flashy for the seriousness of Cunningham's pursuits (he's a professor of law and business!).

Title promises, but book doesn't deliver........2002-09-02

Doesn't this book sound like a battle plan for investment success, maybe one filled with value-based accounting lessons? It's not.

In fact, we are spared math, and we are not given practical counsel, either. That was what I looking for, as the title suggests. The title should be How Can The Smart Money Be So Dumb.

Instead, this is an interesting run-through of recent horror stories on Wall Street from the Internet bubble to IPO's to pro forma accounting and Enron. Behavioral finance is discussed here, but Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich is far superior.

Or read Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein. Or John Neff On Investing instead.

Mr. Cunningham is one of the new wave of Buffett explainers. (Where were you people 15 years ago when there was money to be made buying Berkshire?) And why does someone so incisive, so downhome funny as Mr. Buffett need so much explanation?? (Try Cunningham's The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America or the Berkshire Hathaway annual report.)

Unfortunately, the author lets slip his idea of a five-year holding period for stocks. That may turn out to be good advice, but which stocks would he choose to hold? We have no idea. (Tech stocks, big winners 2 years ago, have crashed back down to their 1997 prices. And non-tech Walt Disney is well below its 1997 prices.)

I think Mr. Cunningham is an extremely brave and patient investor.

Mind-field.......2002-06-22

In a perfect investment world the price of a stock embodies its value. And those who believe this 'efficient' market hypothesis will be buying index mutual funds certainly not this book. But those who dismiss this academic construct to profit from the inefficiencies evident in the market still run substantial risks not adequately addressed by most investment books. The minefield of risks that Cunningham guides us through is that the biases of others, the cause of those price vs. value anomalies, are also our own biases and can trigger money-losing investment decisions. Overconfidence and the "pattern seeking" bias to project short term trends into the future are just two examples, but they do so some of the worst damage. They lead to a dangerous reliance on margin borrowing and excessive trading activity. Also, recognize that companies make many of the same behavioral errors. It is the author's "smart" investor who can spot the folly of manic acquisitions by companies acting as if they were on steroids - grasping for growth at a fiscal cost. Cunningham dismisses technical analysis as "hokum" (Here he agrees with the proponents of an efficient market who maintain market movements cannot be predicted accurately). Stay away from IPO's, companies relying on pro-forma accounting, and sector funds. Read analyst reports with caution, but do study closely "management's discussion" of their business in the annual report. Be wary of stock buybacks, stock option programs, stock splits, spin-offs, secondary offerings, and performance-based incentive plans. Any of these programs can be abused and rise out of corporate hubris. Above all: Recognize your biases, your tolerance for risk, be objective, and have criteria to know when to sell your positions. A lot of territory is covered in this book with some of the best material appearing in Chapters 10 and 11. Cunningham builds a persuasive case for adopting a long term, value oriented investment philosophy which is least affected by these biases.

Outsmarting the Smart Money : Understand How Markets Really Work and Win the Wealth Game

Average customer rating:

Outsmarting the Smart Money : Understand How Markets Really Work and Win the Wealth Game
Lawrence A. Cunningham
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFQ2IK

Customer Reviews:

great book on plants and mammals of Ancient Egypt.......2000-06-15

The book presents a variety of Egyptian plants (grains, oils, fruits, vegetables) and animals (cattle, donkeys, camels, cats, dogs, monkeys, birds, bees). The authors cover the origins of agriculture and of the plants, as well as the evidence of those found in Egypt. They also discuss breeds of animals. A concise bibliography is provided for those wishing to consult for further information; this is an excellent reference to have handy.

Book Description

This book deals with the molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking, a central eukaryotic cell biological process. In the post-genomic era many essential molecules involved in intracellular membrane/protein transport are emerging. A huge task now is to compile the molecular networks that govern these processes. Understanding of regulatory processes and participating molecules are likely to reveal global cellular regulatory circuits that couple membrane trafficking with other cellular functions. Such cell biological features are only starting to emerge. This book puts special emphasis on such mechanisms and processes. The contents discusses the role of coat proteins, tethering complexes, small rab GTPases, Sec1-family proteins and SNARE molecule phosphorylation in exocytosis, endocytosis and membrane fusion. In addition, the role of lipids in vesicle formation and membrane fusion, and some specialized cell biological denovo membrane generation processes are discussed.

Cell Biology and Membrane Transport Processes, Volume 41 (Current Topics in Membranes)

Average customer rating:

Cell Biology and Membrane Transport Processes, Volume 41 (Current Topics in Membranes)

Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Physiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Medicine | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0121533417

Book Description

This volume brings together contributors from several different fields of cell biology, physiology, and molecular biology. The common thread that runs through all of the work presented is that cell processes regulate the activities of membrane transport proteins and classes of membrane transport proteins participate in a number of critical cell phenomena. This volume is unique in covering three different members of the ATP Binding Cassette family (MDR, CFTR and STE6) in one place, as well as in including structure and function analysis of the sodium pump in the same forum where its cell biology is considered. The book will appeal to a broad range of biologists with interests in membrane transport, membrane biology, cell biology, and sorting.

Cell Surface Glycoproteins: Structure, Biosynthesis, and Biological Functions. Current Topics in Membranes and Transport, volume 11. Edited by Felix Bronner & Arnost etc.

Average customer rating:

Cell Surface Glycoproteins: Structure, Biosynthesis, and Biological Functions. Current Topics in Membranes and Transport, volume 11. Edited by Felix Bronner & Arnost etc.
R. L., & Aser Rothstein, eds. Juliano
Manufacturer: NY:
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LSKJ70

Cell Volume Control: Fundamental and Comparative Aspects in Animal Cells (Current Topics in Membranes)

Average customer rating:

Cell Volume Control: Fundamental and Comparative Aspects in Animal Cells (Current Topics in Membranes)
R. Gilles , and L. Bolis
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Natural History | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

Physiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0121533301

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Sodium Transport (Current Topics in Membranes)

Average customer rating:

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Sodium Transport (Current Topics in Membranes)

Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Physiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books

Nutrition | Special Topics | Medicine | Subjects | Books

Current Topics in Membranes & Transport Vol. 23: Genes & Proteins: Transport Proteins & Receptors

Average customer rating:

Current Topics in Membranes & Transport Vol. 23: Genes & Proteins: Transport Proteins & Receptors

Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Physiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books

General & Reference | Technology | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0121533239

Current Topics in Membranes & Transport Vol. 25: Regulation of Calcium Transport Across Muscle Membranes (Current Topics in Membranes and Transport)

Average customer rating:

Current Topics in Membranes & Transport Vol. 25: Regulation of Calcium Transport Across Muscle Membranes (Current Topics in Membranes and Transport)

Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Physiology | Basic Science | Medicine | Subjects | Books

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Average customer rating:

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0121533115

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport (Carriers and Membrane Transport Proteins, Volume 12)

Average customer rating:

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport (Carriers and Membrane Transport Proteins, Volume 12)

Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QREPAI

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport (Current topics in membranes and transport ; v. 14)

Average customer rating:

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport (Current topics in membranes and transport ; v. 14)

Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Natural History | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 012153314X

Book Description

Builds Raman theory up in stages without overloading the reader with complex theory
Includes two chapters on instrumentation and interpretation that shows how Raman spectra can be obtained and interpreted
Explains the potential of using Raman spectroscopy in a wide variety of applications
Includes detailed, but concise information and worked examples

Download Description

This book reflects the dramatic increase in the number of Raman spectrometers being sold to and used by non-expert practitioners. It contains coverage of Resonance Raman and SERS, two hot areas of Raman, in a form suitable for the non-expert. Builds Raman theory up in stages without overloading the reader with complex theory Includes two chapters on instrumentation and interpretation that shows how Raman spectra can be obtained and interpreted Explains the potential of using Raman spectroscopy in a wide variety of applications Includes detailed, but concise information and worked examples

Customer Reviews:

Proabably The Most Concise and Basic Information Needed By Everyone.......2007-01-01

I have searched for the perfect book on Raman spectroscopy which would be short and complete. After looking high and low, I must recommend this text to everyone who want an explanation detail by detail. The concepts are handled quite nicely so that anyone with basic physics and chemistry understanding will comprehend. Also, there are plenty of examples of compounds which makes analysis easier to identify different bonds and vibration modes. Keep this handy with you and treasure it forever. This one is a keeper.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent textbook on superconducting electronics.......2000-08-08

This book starts from the basic physics of superconductivity and deals with superconducting devices, such as SQUIDs, SIS mixers and Single Flux Quantum devices. The treatments of each device are based on the current research, so that readers easily get the front of the fields. It also includes a prenty of important papers as the references and thus you can easily get into the deep level. I found one disadvantage that there is no statements on single electron/Cooper pair tunneling phenomena. I recommend this book for the persons to study superconducting electronics from students to the experts in this field. This book is valuable even for the persons who read the first editon because each treatments are updated.

Principles Of Superconductive Devices And Circuits

Average customer rating:

Principles Of Superconductive Devices And Circuits
Turner , Duzer
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Ptr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIPUY4

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books