The Style Of Connectedness

Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826206251
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Style of Connectedness written by Thomas Moore and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, arguably one of the greatest works of fiction in this century, has often been considered despairing, absurdist, or niilistic. Now, in a monumental effort to make Pynchon's work more accessible, Thomas Moore surveys all the major, and often confusing, backgrounds in Gravity's Rainbow--from archaic myths to quantum-physical theory; from romantic thought to rocket technology; from seventeenth-century Puritanism, through the ideas of Weber, Jung, and Marhsall McLuhan, to the worlds of Weimar and Hollywood movies--to help Pynchon's reader understand the weird, frightening, funny, lyrical, surreal, and ultimately hopeful cosmos of Pynchon's fictions. By exploring the novel's internal strategies and its brilliant integrations of background information, Moore illustrates how Gravity's Rainbow remains movingly humane, as its author, the agonized mediator of a bewildering field of cultural information, remains excruciatingly sensitive to every human image and gesture, searching for the chances for love and connection that still hide in the vast designs of things. The reader of Moore's work should emerge with a thorough appreciation of Pynchon's unique style of genius, of his optimism, of his intense moralism, and of the justness of the widespread claim that Pynchon is the most brilliant "encyclopedic" writer of fiction since Joyce.

Author : Arnie Warren
Publisher : Pallium Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0965514846
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Connection written by Arnie Warren and published by Pallium Books, LLC. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a former top CBS celebrity interviewer, Arnie Warren posed a question to himself, “How can you believe in that which you do not know?” His first book "The Great Connection" found its title reflective of the gift this book imparts; the reader finally understanding who they are, thus making the Great Connection! "The Great Connection," is an uplifting and relatable short story designed to be read and reread as we grow through the seasons of our lives. It is a part auto-biographical story whose characters reflect one of the four DISC behavioral styles. As you read this fast moving story, you will see yourself, friends, family, colleagues or bosses interacting in multiple situations and finally begin to understand who you are, as well as others. Life long learners, entrepreneurs, human development professionals, leaders, as well as spiritual and life coaches have found this book to be a great resource to solidify a person’s understanding of self, strengthen one's confidence, move through one's fears or insecurities to become the best they can be.

Author : Richard Yeager
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781480131620
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarity written by Richard Yeager and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, leaders at all levels are under tremendous pressure to perform, despite the constant changes and forces around them. Therefore, the need for connectedness within an organization has never been more important. As the number one untapped execution issue today, the degree to which an organization is “connected” to its formula for success remains an essential part to being successful. However, organizational unity is impossible without the common understanding that shared clarity provides. A groundbreaking new approach to creating organizational unity through shared understanding, Clarity: Creating Organizational Connectedness through Shared Clarity is based on the simple truth that connected organizations outperform. A remarkable new method to unlock human, team, and overall performance, this one little book produces big results. As experienced business professionals, the authors behind Clarity recognize that organizational stress and transition are the norm rather than the exception in today's workplace. As a result, they believe the ability to create and maintain shared clarity across the organization is more indispensable to success than ever before.Clarity is a revolutionary new business tool that emphasizes the principle of shared clarity as the gateway to organizational connectedness and high performance. By showing how great companies find ways to make everyone act “connected,” this remarkable guide illustrates how leaders can make employees be and feel important to the organization's formula for success.In today's hectic environment where the lack of clarity is often “the elephant in the room”, this revolutionary new book is one of the first to focus on this critical issue. From individual members of the organization to the organizational leaders, everyone can pick up this book and learn how to quickly become a more valuable contributor to success starting today.

Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610447107
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Connected written by Claude S. Fischer and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National news reports periodically proclaim that American life is lonelier than ever, and new books on the subject with titles like Bowling Alone generate considerable anxiety about the declining quality of Americans' social ties. Still Connected challenges such concerns by asking a simple yet significant question: have Americans' bonds with family and friends changed since the 1970s, and, if so, how? Noted sociologist Claude Fischer examines long-term trends in family ties and friendships and paints an insightful and ultimately reassuring portrait of Americans' personal relationships. Still Connected analyzes forty years of survey research to address whether and how Americans' personal ties have changed—their involvement with relatives, the number of friends they have and their contacts with those friends, the amount of practical and emotional support they are able to count on, and how emotionally tied they feel to these relationships. The book shows that Americans today have fewer relatives than they did forty years ago and that formal gatherings have declined over the decades—at least partially as a result of later marriages and more women in the work force. Yet neither the overall quantity of personal relationships nor, more importantly, the quality of those relationships has diminished. Americans' contact with relatives and friends, as well as their feelings of emotional connectedness, has changed relatively little since the 1970s. Although Americans are marrying later and single people feel lonely, few Americans report being socially isolated and the percentage who do has not really increased. Fischer maintains that this constancy testifies to the value Americans place on family and friends and to their willingness to adapt to changing circumstances in ways that sustain their social connections. For example, children now often have schedules as busy as their parents. Yet today's parents spend more quality time with their children than parents did forty years ago—although less in the form of organized home activities and more in the form of accompanying them to play dates or sports activities. And those family meals at home that seem to be disappearing? While survey research shows that families dine at home together less often, it also shows that they dine out together more often. Americans are fascinated by the quality of their relationships with family and friends and whether these bonds fray or remain stable over time. With so many voices heralding the demise of personal relationships, it's no wonder that confusion on this topic abounds. An engrossing and accessible social history, Still Connected brings a much-needed note of clarity to the discussion. Americans' personal ties, this book assures us, remain strong.

Author : Niobe Way
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479867101
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Connection written by Niobe Way and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the roots and consequences of and offers solutions to the widespread alienation and disconnection that beset modern society Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and the world around them. A “crisis of connection” stemming from growing alienation, social isolation, and fragmentation characterizes modern society. The signs of this crisis of connection are everywhere, from decreasing levels of empathy and trust, to burgeoning cases of suicide, depression and loneliness. The astronomical rise in inequality around the world has contributed to the critical nature of this moment. To delve into the heart of the crisis, leading researchers and practitioners draw from the science of human connection to tell a five-part story about its roots, consequences, and solutions. In doing so, they reveal how we, in modern society, have been captive to a false story about who we are as human. This false narrative that takes individualism as a universal truth, has contributed to many of the problems that we currently face. The new story now emerging from across the human sciences underscores our social and emotional capacities and needs. The science also reveals the ways in which the privileging of the self over relationships and of individual success over the common good as well as the perpetuation of dehumanizing stereotypes have led to a crisis of connection that is now widespread. Finally, the practitioners in the volume present concrete solutions that show ways we can create a more just and humane world. In a time of social distancing and enforced isolation, it is more important than ever to find ways to bridge the gaps among individuals and communities. The Crisis of Connection illuminates concrete pathways to enhancing our awareness of our common humanity, and offers important steps to coming together in unity, even across distances.

Author : Nicholas A. Christakis
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 031607134X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected written by Nicholas A. Christakis and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives. Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Dr. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.

Author : Dave Gray
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491919450
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Connected Company written by Dave Gray and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Alex Osterwalder.

Author : Marissa King
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743801
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Chemistry written by Marissa King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of 2021's Most Highly Anticipated New Books—Newsweek One of The 20 Leadership Books to Read in 2020—Adam Grant One of The Best New Wellness Books Hitting Shelves in January 2021—Shape.com A Top Business Book for January 2021—Financial Times A Next Big Idea Club Nominee Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about “networking.” Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal relationships, work life, and even your global impact. Are you an Expansionist, a Broker, or a Convener? The answer matters more than you think. . . . Yale professor Marissa King shows how anyone can build more meaningful and productive relationships based on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and network analytics. Conventional wisdom says it's the size of your network that matters, but social science research has proven there is more to it. King explains that the quality and structure of our relationships has the greatest impact on our personal and professional lives. As she shows, there are three basic types of networks, so readers can see the role they are already playing: Expansionist, Broker, or Convener. This network decoder enables readers to own their network style and modify it for better alignment with their life plans and values. High-quality connections in your social network strongly predict cognitive functioning, emotional resilience, and satisfaction at work. A well-structured network is likely to boost the quality of your ideas, as well as your pay. Beyond the office, social connections are the lifeblood of our health and happiness. The compiled results from dozens of previous studies found that our social relationships have an effect on our likelihood of dying prematurely—equivalent to obesity or smoking. Rich stories of Expansionists like Vernon Jordan, Brokers like Yo-Yo Ma, and Conveners like Anna Wintour, as well as personal experiences from King's own world of connections, inform this warm, engaging, revelatory investigation into some of the most consequential decisions we can make about the trajectory of our lives.

Author : Julia Hobsbawm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472926854
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fully Connected written by Julia Hobsbawm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018 Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and starting to become entwined as never before. Truly, it is an Age of Overload. We can never have imagined that absorbing so much information while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex, dissatisfying and unproductive. Something is missing. That something, Julia Hobsbawm argues in this ground-breaking book, is Social Health, a new blueprint for modern connectedness. She begins with the premise that much of what we think about healthy ways to live have not been updated any more than have most post-war modern institutions, which are themselves also struggling in the twenty-first century. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined 'health' as 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' What we understood by 'social' in the middle of the last century now desperately needs an update. In Fully Connected Julia Hobsbawm takes us on a journey – often a personal one, 'from Telex to Twitter' – to illustrate how the answer to the Age of Overload can come from devising management-based systems which are both highly practical and yet intuitive, and which draw inspiration from the huge advances the world has made in tackling other kinds of health, specifically nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, this book provides a cornucopia of case studies and ideas, to educate and inspire a new generation of managers, policymakers and anyone wanting to navigate through the rough seas of overload.

Author : Barry Wacksman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118907213
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connected by Design written by Barry Wacksman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of fierce global competition and rapid technological change, traditional strategies for gaining market share and achieving efficiencies no longer yield the returns they once did. How can companies drive consumer preference and secure sustainable growth in this digital, social, and mobile age? The answer is through functional integration. Some of the world's most highly valued companies—including Amazon, Apple and Google—have harnessed this new business model to build highly interactive ecosystems of interrelated products and digital services, gaining new levels of customer engagement. Functional integration offers forward-looking brands a unique competitive edge by using transformative digital technologies to deliver high-value customer experiences, generate repeat business, and unlock lucrative new business-to-business revenue streams. Connected By Design is the first book to show business leaders and marketers exactly how to use functional integration to achieve transformative growth within any type of company. Based on R/GA's pioneering work with firms at the forefront of functional integration, Barry Wacksman and Chris Stutzman identify seven principles companies must follow in order to create and deliver new value for customers and capture new revenues. Connected By Design explains how functional integration drove the transformation of market-leading companies as diverse as Nike, General Motors, McCormick & Co., and Activision to establish authentic brand relationships with their customers, enter new categories, and develop new sources of income. With Connected by Design, any company can leverage technological disruption to redefine its mission and foster greater brand loyalty and engagement.