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The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life
by Eviatar ZerubavelThe fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide-is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial--the keeping of "open secrets." The author shows that conspiracies of silence exist at every level of society, ranging from small groups to large corporations, from personal friendships to politics. Zerubavel shows how such conspiracies evolve, illuminating the social pressures that cause people to deny what is right before their eyes. We see how each conspirator's denial is symbiotically complemented by the others', and we learn that silence is usually more intense when there are more people conspiring--and especially when there are significant power differences among them. He concludes by showing that the longer we ignore "elephants," the larger they loom in our minds, as each avoidance triggers an even greater spiral of denial. Drawing on examples from newspapers and comedy shows to novels, children's stories, and film, the book travels back and forth across different levels of social life, and from everyday moments to large-scale historical events. At its core, The Elephant in the Room helps us understand why we ignore truths that are known to all of us. "Eviatar Zerubavel gathers intriguing ideas for books the way ace foreign correspondents acquire great stories: by reflecting on the obvious, then probing as well as reporting."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Elephants in My Backyard: A Memoir
by Rajiv SurendraRajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life."This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump." --From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself--both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo--when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.
Elévate
by Wayne CordeiroEl éxito no sucede por lo que la vida te da sino por lo que tú haces con lo que ella te da. En Elévate, Wayne Cordeiro te da consejos valiosos de cómo vivir mejor en cada situación, de tal forma que vivas victorioso.
Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others (Ignite Reads #0)
by Robert GlazerWhat are your limits? Care to break them?To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down. In Elevate, Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles — or capacities — that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, and find your "why." The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you.
Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research
by Jonathan SchwabishLearn how to make data-driven research accessible to decision makers, policymakers, and the general public Many researchers, scholars, and analysts fail to develop communication strategies that work in today’s crowded landscape of content, research, and data. To be successful, modern researchersneed to share their insights with the wider audience that lies beyond academia. Elevate the Debate helps researchers of all types more effectively communicate their work in any number of areas, from traditional news outlets to the new media platforms of the digital age. After reading this book, you will be inspired and equipped to use traditional and digital media environments to your advantage. This real-world guide helps you present your data-driven research with greater clarity, coherence, and impact. An array of practical strategies and proven techniques enables you to make your research accessible to diverse audiences, form engaging narratives, and design and implement meaningful outreach plans. Each chapter examines a specific communications strategy, such as data visualization, presentation skills, social media, blog writing, and reporter interactions. Written by expert members of the Urban Institute’s Communication department, and edited by Jonathan Schwabish, a Senior Fellow at Urban, Elevate the Debate guides you on how to use the media environment to your advantage and make a difference through policy insights and policy solutions. This valuable book teaches you how to: Develop and apply data-driven and story-focused communication Use the “Pyramid Philosophy” of rooting accessible, engaging communications products in sophisticated research. Solve problems with your research by defining goals and recommending conclusions-based actions Identify the researchers, organizations, funders, influencers, and policymakers who are most important to your goals and precisely target their information needs Employ communication styles and strategies to get your work in the hands of people who can use it and act upon it. Elevate the Debate: A Multi-layered Approach to Communicating Your Research is a must-have resource for academic researches, policy researchers, and all analysts of data-driven research.
Elevate Your Excellence: The Power of Doing Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well
by Dave AndersonBuild a custom plan to boost performance both inside and outside of the workplace, with simple everyday strategies anyone can use. How you do anything is how you do everything. Great performance, whether at work or at home, starts with the little things: making your bed, organizing your closet, maintaining your yard, shooting a basketball, closing a deal. Elevate Your Excellence offers a foolproof approach to improve the often-neglected everyday disciplines like hydration, sleep quality, and mindset maintenance that can make all the difference in generating high-quality performance. Based on his most popular seminars and trainings, LearntoLead.com founder Dave &“Mr. Accountability&” Anderson encourages readers to make simple and immediately actionable tweaks to begin doing ordinary things extraordinarily well to transform their lives—in areas including: Winning your morning hours to set the pace of success for the day Improving mental toughness and staying locked in to what matters most to tackle your most challenging days Mastering intentional breathing and sleeping to add years to your life Regardless of industry, position, age, experience, or geography, Anderson&’s guidelines are proven techniques to make excellence an innate part of your personal brand. Whether you&’re running a household or building a corporate culture, the game-changing action items in this book will inspire you to do and be better—and will truly elevate your excellence.
The Elevated Communicator: How to Master Your Style and Strengthen Well-Being at Work
by Maryanne O'BrienDiscover your communication style and elevate consciousness at work to build trust, strengthen collaboration, relieve stress, and improve well-being. Our work lives revolve around effective communication. It is essential for cultivating trust and team collaboration, as well as strengthening our motivation and well-being at work. And with teams experiencing more anxiety, stress, and burnout than ever before, strong communication skills have never been more essential. The key to this clear and effective communication begins with understanding our own personal communication styles. Bringing our whole and authentic selves to work improves relationships and teamwork. The better we know what drives us, how we impact others, and how our wellbeing impacts our communication, the faster we can close communication gaps to build healthy, successful, and satisfying work lives and more intentional careers. Drawing on more than a decade of original research on communication tendencies and proven mindfulness and habit-formation techniques, Maryanne O&’Brien has developed a proprietary model of communication styles: Expressive, Reserved, Direct, or Harmonious. In The Elevated Communicator, you will find: -A self-assessment to discover your style -An in-depth style profile to strengthen self-awareness and help you play to your strengths -Strategies to manage your communication style under stress -Practices to improve your wellbeing and reduce conflict -Ways to care for your communication style and improve your wellbeing -Methods to flex toward other styles to communicate more effectively with people -Advice on building healthy, trusted, and productive working relationships Perfect for fans of StrengthsFinders 2.0 and Gretchen Rubin&’s The Four Tendencies, The Elevated Communicator is a &“refreshing, insightful, and user-friendly&” (Tara Peyerl, executive coach and success director, Salesforce) approach to develop daily practices to spiral up, raise consciousness, inspire accountability, and discover your full potential at work.
The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development
by Ryan GottfredsonThe Elevated Leader is a cutting-edge leadership development book that explains how vertical development can guide leaders to effectively navigate the rising change, pressure, ambiguity, and complexity they are increasingly facing, while having a positive and uplifting influence on the world around them.
Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work
by Amelia DunlopHave you ever struggled to feel worthy at work? Do you know or lead people who do? When Amelia Dunlop first heard the phrase "elevating the human experience" in a leadership team meeting with her boss, she thought, "He is crazy if he thinks we will ever say those words out loud to each other much less to a potential client." We've been conditioned to separate our personal and professional selves, but work is fundamental to our human experience. Love and worth have a place in work because our humanity and authentic identities make our work better. The acknowledgement of our intrinsic worth as human beings and the nurturing of our own or another's growth through love ultimately contribute to higher performance and organizational growth. Now as the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, a leading Experience Consultancy, Amelia Dunlop knows we must embrace elevating the human experience for the advancement and success of ourselves and our organizations. This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study to better understand feelings of love and worth in the workplace and introduces three paths that allow individuals to create the professional experience they desire for themselves, their teams, and their clients. The first path explores the path of the self, an inward path where we learn to love ourselves when we show up for work, and examines the obstacles that hinder us. The second path centers around learning to love and recognize the worth of another in our lives, adding to the worth we feel and providing a source of meaning to our lives. The third path considers the community of work and learning to love and recognize the worth of those we meet every day at work, especially for those who may be systematically marginalized, unseen, or unrepresented. Drawing on her own personal journey to find love and worth at work in her twenty-year career as a management consultant, Amelia also weaves together insights from philosophers, theologians, and sociologists with the stories of people from diverse backgrounds gathered during her research. Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work is for anyone who has felt the struggle to feel worthy at work, as well as for those who have no idea what it may feel like to struggle every day just to feel loved and worthy, but love people and lead people who do. It’s a practical approach to elevating the human experience that will lead to important conversations about values and purpose, and ultimately, meaningful change.
The Elevation Approach: Harness the Power of Work-Life Harmony to Unlock Your Creativity, Cultivate Joy, and Reach Your Biggest Goals
by Tina Wells&“A powerful, innovative plan for finding creative fulfillment and bringing your passions to life.&”—Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything Is Figureoutable Make room for your dreams and revolutionize how you manage your time and energy using this groundbreaking framework for finding work-life harmony from an accomplished entrepreneur and business strategistThroughout her multifaceted career, Tina Wells has always found a way to transform her dreams into reality. She turned a business that she launched at sixteen into an award-winning marketing agency, led boardroom meetings as the youngest (and sometimes only) Black woman in the room, and pursued her childhood dream of traveling around the world.But all that success came with burnout, and Tina had to rethink how she thought about work and life. The result of her deep thinking and some trial and error, The Elevation Approach presents Tina&’s four-phase plan, a flexible and foolproof technique that helps you meet your goals without sacrificing joy for productivity and progress. Rather than treating work and life as separate and necessarily opposing forces, The Elevation Approach integrates your personal and professional ambitions, values, and responsibilities at every turn:• Preparation: Ask the right questions, get curious about the possibilities, and figure out what you have, what you need, and what you can give.• Inspiration: Expand your beliefs of what&’s possible—create spaces for mind-wandering, relearn how to pay attention, and collect creative sparks.• Recreation: Hit reset, make room for rest and play, and when something isn&’t working, give yourself permission to try something new.• Transformation: Evaluate the work that you&’ve done, decide whether to stay the course, and celebrate the changes and goals you&’ve accomplished.Whether you want to start a new business, find time for a new hobby, or reevaluate a relationship, The Elevation Approach can help you make impactful shifts and realize your most cherished dreams—without losing sight of what matters most to you. With exercises featuring writing prompts and worksheets, real-world insights from business leaders and creatives, and &“Instant Elevation&” practices that ensure your efforts align with your priorities in each phase, The Elevation Approach is a one-stop solution to work-life harmony.
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
by Phil JacksonThis is the story of a preacher's kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen meditation. This book is full of revelations: about fascinating personalities and their drive to win; about the wellsprings of motivation and competition at the highest levels; and about what it takes to bring out the best in ourselves and others.
Elf-help for a Happy Retirement
by R. W. Alley Ted O'NealWhimsical Elfin characters offer simple, sage advice for dealing with life's challenges!
Elf-help for Being a Good Parent
by R. W. Alley Janet GeiszPractical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.
Elf-help for Busy Moms
by Molly Wigand R. W. AlleyWhether juggling career and family, or tackling the feat of being a stay-at-home mom, mothers have a strenuous job. The endearing elves on these pages offer busy moms affirmation, inspiration, and nurturing advice on how to care for themselves as they care for their families. For every mom who's ever gotten bogged down in the home trenches, Elf-help for Busy Moms is just the pick-me-up needed!
Elf-help for Coping with Cancer
by R. W. Alley Joel SchornElf-help for Coping with Cancer suggests how you can react to your illness and also act in ways that will help you heal. It will also help you see how having cancer, despite the limitations and downright terrors it may present, can offer opportunities to grow closer to God and those around you, and to focus on what's really important.
Elf-help for Coping with Pain
by R. W. Alley Anne Calodich FoneThis book offers no quick-fix solutions. What it does offer are gentle reminders that any journey from woundedness to wholeness is a process and not to be traveled alone. There are things we can do to make the trip easier--and blessings to be found along the way.
Elf-help for Dealing with Difficult People
by R. W. Alley Lisa O EngelhardtSome people are just plain difficult--or, at least, we have difficulty dealing with them. Elf-help for Dealing with Difficult People is a sensible little guidebook empowering readers to achieve peace and harmony in life's inevitable problem relationships.
Elf-help for Healing from Divorce
by R. W. Alley Kathryn LankstonElf-help for Healing from Divorce is written for anyone whose life has been touched by divorce. It features 38 small ways to face the reality of divorce, and to begin the healing that needs to happen. The book helps people to realize that, although something has ended, life will continue, and be good again.
Elf-Help for Living with Joy
by Karen Katafiasz R. W. AlleyIn Elf-Help for Living with Joy, author Karen Katafiasz--with the help of the whimsical illustrations by R. W. Alley--offers insights into how to hold onto a spirit of true, profound joy that can remain with us, even when things seem to be at their worst. The clear, life-affirming wisdom of this small book will truly help you discover the passion of being fully alive and the elation of living with joy!
Elf-help for Overcoming Depression
by R. W. Alley Linus MundyElf-help for Overcoming Depression shows how to look into your own heart and soul, as well as to others, for help in managing emotions. Linus Mundy has written a number of books for children and grown-ups, as well as articles for the religious press. The founder of the popular CareNotes and CareNotes for Kids booklet series from Abbey Press, he has written Slowdown Therapy and Keep-life-simple Therapy, and several books on prayer and spiritual growth. Linus and his wife, Michaelene, wrote the Bringing Religion Home newsletter for a number of years. R. W. Alley is the illustrator for the popular Abbey Press adult series of Elf-help books, as well as an illustrator and writer of children's books. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife, daughter, and son. See a wide variety of his works at: www.rwalley.com.
Elf-help for Raising a Teen
by Jim Auer R. W. AlleyPractical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.
Elf-help for the Mother-to-be
by R. W. Alley Claudia BollwinkelWise and whimsical advice and inspiration for about-to-be mommies!
Elige triunfar: Los secretos del ser y el hacer de mujeres emprendedoras
by Héctor TemeNuestro mundo actual se distingue por la emancipación femenina. La mujer emprendedora entiende que la relación de esclavitud ya no se acepta y que la relación de dependencia no satisface; sin embargo, la relación de independencia no sirve. No obstante hay nuevos modelos para llegar a ser triunfadoras, lo cual es posible en una relación de interdependencia. Moviéndose juntas, viéndose crecer unas a otras, ayudándose más y más cada día. Disfrutando el éxito de la otra como propio, mientras se persiste en lograr el particular.* ¿Quieres ser una mujer triunfadora y todavía no lo logras?* ¿Te gusta lo que haces pero deseas hacerlo menos tiempo y sacarle el máximo provecho?* ¿Estás a punto de pasar al siguiente nivel, comprar tu casa, ganarte el bono máximo y necesitas herramientas?* ¿Trabajas mucho y ganas bien, pero no lo disfrutas?* ¿Has tenido que empezar de nuevo muchas veces?* ¿Te cuesta saber exactamente cómo hacerlo?Si la respuesta ha sido sí, entonces este libro es para ti.
Elimina la prisa de tu vida: Cómo mantener la salud emocional y espiritual en el caos del mundo moderno
by John Mark ComerUn Bestseller de la Asociación de Editoriales Cristianas (EPAC)• Un alegato emocional y espiritual contra la prisa y a favor de una forma de vida más sencilla y más lenta. "Siendo alguien muy familiarizado con la enfermedad de la prisa, me doy cuenta de que necesitaba este libro urgentemente ". -Scott Harrison, autor de Thirst / Sed, bestseller del New York Times . "¿En quién me estoy convirtiendo?" Esa pregunta le molestaba e incomodaba constantemente al pastor y autor John Mark Comer. En el exterior parecía muy exitoso pero, por dentro, las cosas no lucían muy bien. Así que se dirigió a su mentor en busca de orientación y le escuchó decir estas palabras: “Elimina, sin piedad, la prisa de tu vida. La prisa es el gran enemigo de la vidaespiritual”. No era la respuesta que esperaba oír,pero fue y sigue siendo la respuesta que necesitaba. Con frecuencia, tratamos los síntomas tóxicos de nuestras vidas modernas, en lugar de identificar la causa. Un número creciente de voces están señalando a la prisa o el ajetreo como la raíz de muchos males. En este libro, encontrarás una fascinante hoja de ruta para mantenerse emocionalmente saludable y espiritualmente vivo dentro del caos de nuestro mundo moderno.