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If you enjoy it can you call it work?

Transforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, & Passion in the Workplace
Patricia Boverie , and Michael Kroth
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In Transforming Work, Boverie and Kroth draw from their original research and experience in the field to show executives and HR professionals how to create inspiring, employee-friendly work environments in order to recruit, develop, and retain talent. They also show employees how to discover and develop passion for their work, transforming themselves and the organization in the process.

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Valuable insights into the congruency of passion and the wor.......2002-08-03

This book is one of a series on New Perspectives in Organizational Learning, Performance, and Change. The series is designed to showcase current theory and practice in human resources and organizational development. While there are practitioners on the editorial board, this looks like more of an academic series. I'd describe this publication as one for professionals, but a volume that individuals can benefit from, as well.

The focus of this book is passionate work. This concept will be difficult for many readers, since passion is emotion and emotion and work are usually considered incongruent. The authors point out, early in the book, that "Passion is at the root of creative genius, personal transformation, and notable events. Passion is emotional energy; it stimulates life and energizes individuals to work toward goals. ...New products, new ideas, creative ways to deliver services, inventions, an scientific discoveries are produced because someone or some organization is passionate." OK. Passion seems to be consistent with what we're striving to accomplish in employment organizations today.

How might we approach this? The authors explain that they've done some research that connects learning with passion. Put the concepts together and you get meaningfulness, and there are a lot of people looking for opportunities to feel a greater sense of meaning in what they do. Readers will be guided through an interesting study into passion, what it is, how it fits, and what to do with it. Individuals will gain, but trainers and organizational development professionals will find it most thought-provoking and stimulating.

The book is organized into eight chapters: Introduction to Passion and Work, The Foundations of Passionate Work, Passion Transformation Process and Cycle, Occupational Intimacy, The Discovering Process, The Designing Process, The Developing Process, and Transforming Work---the five keys to achieving trust, commitment, and passion in the workplace. An index will help you find your way back to those things you want to work with again. A number of exercises are included to stimulate your thinking and help you gain some sense of measurement in the emergence of passion in your personal and corporate life.

The book may seem a bit pricey for only a couple hundred pages, but there is a lot packed into those pages. The book is set mostly in 11 point type, so find a nice quiet place with good light to absorb all the authors have to share.

If you enjoy it can you call it work?.......2002-03-16

They say work is the hardest way to earn money. Michael Kroth and Patricia Boverie have zeroed in what we need to easy up the hard. "Transforming Work" for me hit the core of what is needed in all aspects of life --passion. This is not just a business book, I found myself connecting the dots with the rest of my life. While TW is a bit pricy try, living a life with unconnected dots.

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Review of Gardening in Clay Soil.......2005-08-04

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This new adaptation of Arfken and Weber's bestselling Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive, modern, and accessible text for using mathematics to solve physics problems. Additional explanations and examples make it student-friendly and more adaptable to a course syllabus.

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Weak on rigor & physical insight = bad book.......2006-01-18

Strengths:
- Fairly complete coverage of the various properties of special functions. The introduction of these subjects is not good, but one could use it as a refrence for formulas.

Weaknesses:
- Topic selection and rigor are weak. Many important areas of mathematical physics are skipped over, or short changed. For example, the section on tensors is far too short. In addition, everything is introduced in index notation instead of coordinate free form. Also, the group theory section is very weak (not to mention short). The rotation group and lorentz group are discussed briefly, but there is no systematic introduction to lie groups or other important topics.
- The book seems to focus on special functions, and solving differential equations. However, it does not introduce hilbert spaces well, and therefore the presentation seems like a bewildering array of bessel this and fourier that, without anything to tie it all together.

Overall, I'd say the book sacrifices depth by covering too many topics. If you want to really succeed you're going to need a full course each on linear (& some multilnear) algebra, mutlivariable calc & vector analysis, differential equations, complex analysis, differential geometry and group theory. If you want a condensed version, get byron and fuller. It's written systematically, and strikes (in my opinion) a perfect balance between rigor and pragmatism.

Won't teach you much.......2005-04-08

This book, like others have said, is a good book to go to if you need to look something up quickly, but is not something to learn from. We use this book in an undergrad math methods course in the physics department. Luckily i major in math, and know the topics we are covering, otherwise, this book would be useless.

Great undergrad physics major book!.......2005-03-23

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Better Overview then Book.......2005-02-17

This book is much better as a reference book for someone who already understands the material then for a student just learning. The book covers everything from Coordinate Systems to Calculus of Variantions, PDQ's, and Special Unitary Groups in highly dense sections, with little or no examples.

The problems are extraordinarly tough, and they seem disjointed, lacking any real focus and coherence, exp. towards the front of the book. Once you get past the physics in the first part, and into the math section of the book, it slows down, and really explains ideas, as well as providing excellent problems to work.

I would recommend this book as a reference, but there are better books out there. For reference, I would also recommend Schaums Outlines; and for a text book, I would recommend David Hilbert's Mathematical Methods Vol I, and Vol II.

Better as a reference.......2005-01-26

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This book was written for those who have suffered a heart attack to help them put their lives back together. It also tells us how we can avoid having one. The author, a 54 year-old cardiologist suffered a heart attack himself and is now sharing his personal experiences so others do not have to wait to be stunned into changing their lifestyle. Health is first and foremost a personal responsibility.

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Dual perspective of heart disease -unique lessons and advice.......1999-06-10

This book provides the rare opportunity to read about both sides of the stethoscope. Dr. Tenney, as a cardiologist, shares his own enlightenment from the surprise of having a heart attack. Best stated in his own words in his chapter on Denial, "...I needed and longed for an explanation of my lab results, and my blood pressure. Like anyone else, I was no longer a doctor, just another middle-aged individual lying on the emergency room table experiencing a heart attack."

He states his objective in chapter 17, "What have I done in the past 26 months that produced a normal electrocardiogram?". His book details his answer, and this answer is important to everyone with a tendency towards heart disease.

His book climaxes, as it should, with a chapter title Recommendations where he states emphatically, "Be aware that health is foremost a personal responsibility, not the physician's or the medical system's." Dr. Tenney wants the patient to be empowered; to be in charge; to be attuned to life's signals.

Dr. Tenney confirms what I and all the patients in my Cardiac Rehab program have learned: a cardiac event is a gift, and each survivor's life is permanently changed by such an event, and those who do as Dr. Tenney has done, live longer, healthier, and richer lives.

"Not worth your time or money".......1999-04-23

Presumably, this book, written by a cardiologist who suffered a heart attack,should enlighten the layman with a dual perspective, doctor and patient simultaneously. It does not.

By virtue of his profession, Dr. Tenney knew what cards were to be dealt him in diagnosis and treament of his myocardial infarction. The rest of us have no such luxury. We are surprised and frightened at each step of the healing process. I had hoped this cardiologist would express enlightenment, "So this is what it's like being a patient!" He does not. Sadly, the book results in a kind of confessional,how he denied his own heart attack, how he had not followed standard medical advice about prevention, and so on. The book sheds no new light on heart disease, treatment, or recovery. In his chapter titled "Empathy", he claims he now has empathy with his patients, yet gives no examples of such. In fact, throughout the book, he mentions no patient other than himself, the text heavily populated with the pronoun "I", or "my heart attack" and "my feelings."

No doubt Dr. Tenney felt better after writing this confessional, but your money is better spent on other popular books about heart disease. It merits a single star.

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