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This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every black American to evaluate his or her options—from getting hired to getting fired, from adjusting one's attitude to suing an employer. Tips are offered on how African Americans can fit their styles, mindsets, and history into the workplace, and insight is provided into how best to deal with situations, problems, and issues unique to being black in a white working world.
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Excellent!.......2007-02-22
Throughout this book, Michelle Johnson illustrates attitudes, behaviors and perfect examples we all face in the work place as African Americans, and what we can do to overcome the obstacles. My favorite chapter was the advice she gives regarding language, pronounciation and syntax with people of another race.
Great book w/ humor and lessons intermingled..........2006-03-19
I was searching for "The Pact" when I saw this book, and I'm so glad I found it. I just left a temp. job for a mortgage company where 16 out of 25 employees had said something completely insensitive to black people, homosexuals, or people whose first language wasn't English. I'd grown so fed up with them down-talking other cultures that I told the temp. company I was working for that I was quitting. Luckily for me, the next week I found a permanent job in my field and accepted the position. I was relieved to find perm. work but even more relieved that I'd never have to go back to that place again. I took my anger out in writing and ended up writing an article (later published) about the racism, sexism, and narrow-mindedness that I experienced in that company that was equal to the same negative experience I watched at Northern Michigan University.
So I swallowed every single word of this book and the author was RIGHT on the money. I thought the anecdotes were very helpful because they illustrated the different types of discrimination in the workplace and why it can hurt/help a legal case. It also showed that folks who are going through situations like the ones I saw in college and with the temp. job are not alone. Even when discussing such technical topics as legal issues, the author throws in a great amount of humor, which makes this book even easier to read. Lil' Kim had me dying laughing at work. I had to excuse myself from my desk so I could laugh out loud some more. The James Baldwin quote was hot...I totally dig that. I realized that after going to NMU, I'd turned into a thriver. I refused to put up with anything. I went through several jobs after college and decided to try being a survivor at the temp. company. After the first month, the thriver bumrushed the survivor in me, and I just started lashing out. Although the comments died down, they only stayed away from black people and increased in the other two. I've learned the hard way that many folks are idiots and thrivers are the best ones to handle them. I'm far too contumacious to be a striver.
And now that I have the job I wanted (editor) and the freelance job I love (writing opinion editorials), I'm content as a thriver.
The only flaw I saw in this book was on pg. 105 when the author says that Roland and Lisa have "a lot in common..just by the two of them being the only black interns in a big company." I thought the author should've pointed out that other 85% issue because just because the two interns were black does not mean that they would have a "lot" in common. I've worked with a bunch of brothas & sistas that I would NEVER hang out with, so why should Roland try to make friends because of skin complexion? That other 85% is big in folks going out to lunch. I also thought the author was inaccurate with saying that stress was the major factor in black people being overweight--food is. Black folks have some of the WORST eating habits...and that by far outweighs stress and smoking. When we eat, we smoke. When we are stressed, we eat. And when we're happy, we eat more. And I'm not talking about carrots either. Watch "Soul Food" once and you'll get an idea of why so many of us are overweight.
But other than that, this book was on the money! Note: My $14.95 was well spent and I've had MANY paperback books of the same quality which did not mess up. Sometimes it's the way folks treat their books that lend to the problem of the condition of the book. Hint, hint.
Thoughtful, insightful and practical.......2006-02-27
Michelle Johnson addresses the common history we share as African Americans, and how it differs from the early history of other immigrant groups in that our ancestors were brought here so that others could benefit from our labor. She also articulates and categorizes subjective experiences. Often being the only or one of the very few blacks in the workplace we can feel isolated. Her anectdotes are very helpful as examples of her theories of common personality types and situations. I highly recommend this book as business literature and will also submit this review to the American Library Association Black Caucus list.
Thoughtful, insightful, and practical.......2006-02-27
Michelle Johnson addresses the common history we share as African Americans, and how it differs from the early history of other immigrant groups in that our ancestors were brought here so that others could benefit from our labor. She also articulates and categorizes subjective experiences. Often being the only or one of the very few blacks in the workplace we can feel isolated. Her anectdotes are very helpful as examples of her theories of common personality types and situations. I highly recommend this book as business literature and will also submit this review to the American Library Association Black Caucus list.
Affirmation and Facts.......2006-01-18
I found the book a great affirmation of what too often is the experience of Working While Black. True, there weren't solutions, but like reading the facts of a situation, provides comfort in establishing that you're not invisible and there's a larger institutionalized system at work. It helps when things such as stereotypes, discrimination, racism are being offered on a personal level as other than what it is, attempts to undermine your humanity and the equality of humanity.
It gave me relief, too, in its spins of humor. Yes, sometimes we have to laugh rather than cry. As far as not stirring people to act in one way or another, what the book does is provide an experienced insider's knowledge of how the system may play out. Better to know how things may play out than go in blindly believing race doesn't matter and that institutionalized racism isn't perpetuated within and outside the courts.
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What the world's poorest countries need most is not simply debt relief, but a "New Deal" in international development cooperation, contends UNCTAD in its Least Developed Countries 2000 Report. Almost two thirds of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) have an external debt burden, which is unsustainable according to international criteria. But past efforts to substantially decrease their debt service payments have failed, and recent attempts to finally resolve the debt problem through the Heavily Indebt Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative are not very promising either, the report says. The Report also looks at economic growth and social trends in the LDCs in the 1990s, financing development, and ways in which new approaches to partnerships can increase the effectiveness of aid.
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Economic how-to.(Planners Library)(Book Review): An article from: Planning
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HIPAA Compliance Handbook, 2005 Edition
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The HIPAA Compliance Handbook is intended for HIPAA coordinators, project managers, privacy officers, compliance professionals, health care record managers and others who have the responsibility for implementing the HIPAA Administrative Simplification title. It contains easy-to-understand explanations of the legal and regulatory provisions as well as sample HIPAA-related policies procedures, agreements, logs and reports.
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Physiological ecology is concerned with the way that physiological traits fit organisms for the ecological circumstances in which they live, so there is always an implicit evolutionary component to it. This book is concerned with physiological studies that make the evolutionary considerations explicit. The first part explores physiological models that predict how, under different ecological pressures, resources should be invested in such metabolic processes as costs of maintenance, growth patterns and allometries, ageing and physiological adaptability. In the context of the integrated metabolism of whole organisms, the second part of the volume considers aspects of the physiological ecology of specific organisms. The underlying theme of these chapters is the link between genotype and physiological phenotype.
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Physiological Ecology of Animals: An Evolutionary Approach
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The metaphorical nature of physical reality (Etudes bahai)
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The Nature of Physical Reality
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Reviews the Limits of Science!.......2000-04-29
Science books often do not speak of the limitations of their discipline; this book does, and that is its main virtue. It is mainly an overview of modern physics, but it connects that up nicely to old Indic ideas about space, time, and consciousness. The printing and type-setting are not good, but if the reader can ignore that, he or she will find the book worthwhile.
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A clear description of the nature of physical reality.......2007-05-16
You become an expert on the nature of statistics and finally end up comprehending the nature of what it is that we perceive as opposed to what may lie beyond those perceptions (if anything).
I personally used the content in 1960's when formulating a theory of data processing that later became known as entity-relationship, as his treatment of relationships and objects and characteristics were so clear and translated to entity, data-element, relationship ideas.
I called the idea "construct, relationship" but was later overcome by the pseudo-intellectual community that confused the concept of entity with construct.
Prof. Morganau made it clear: A construct is our concept of what exists as a function of our sensory inputs. An entity is what (if anything) actually (whatever that means) exists.
In a practical application, that means that if we have an Employee file, the entries are constructs. Whether or not there is an actual employee in real life depends on the accuracy of our database.
Of course, the work was published long before data processing, so I am interpreting it in modern terms that Prof. Morganau might find simplistic or even false, but if you read it today, you will see what I mean.
The work does not bog down with concepts such as "meaning", much less religion. It focuses on what is in our brains (constructs) as opposed to any possible external "reality" that may or may not exist.
Constructs are valid! If I see a heavy bowling ball and drop it on my foot, I will experience pain and misery for a long time. Fact.
Is there really a bowling ball? Do I really have a foot?
Who cares? It hurts like crazy!
That is the point.
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