The Young Professional's Survival Guide: From Cab Fares to Moral Snares

C.K. Gunsalus
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Imagine yourself in your new job, doing your best to make a good impression—and your boss asks you to do something that doesn’t feel right, like fudge a sales report, or lie to a customer. You have no idea how to handle the situation, and your boss is hovering. When you’re caught off guard, under pressure from someone more powerful, it’s easy to make a mistake. And having made one, it’s easier to rationalize the next one.

The Young Professional’s Survival Guide shows how to avoid these traps in the first place, and how to work through them if you can’t avoid them. Many of the problems that arise in the workplace are predictable. C. K. Gunsalus, a nationally recognized expert on professional ethics, uses short, pungent real-world examples to help people new to the work world recognize the situations that can lead to career-damaging missteps—and prevent them. Gunsalus offers questions to ask yourself (and others) to help you recognize trouble and temptation, sample scripts to use to avoid being pressured into doing something you’ll regret, and guidance in handling disputes fairly and diplomatically. Most of all, she emphasizes, choose your mentors for their characters as well as their titles and talents.

You can’t control the people around you, but you can control what you do. Reliance on a few key habits and a professional persona, Gunsalus shows, can help you advance with class, even in what looks like a “casual” workplace.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

如何改變世界: 社會企業家與新思想的威力 (How to Change the World)

戴維‧伯恩斯坦 (David Bornstein) 著
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商業企業家以經濟而言意味著什麼，社會企業家對社會變革就意味著什麼。

戴維‧伯恩斯坦寫道︰他們是那些為理想驅動、有創造力的個體，他們質疑現狀、開拓新機遇、拒絕放棄，最後要重建一個更好的世界。

《如何改變世界》講述的就是這些卓越個體引人入勝的故事。在美國，一個叫J.B.施萊姆的男人幫助了數以千計的來自低收入家庭的中學生進入大學。在南非，一個叫維洛尼卡‧霍薩的女人發展出一種以家庭為基礎的艾滋病病人護理模式，改變了政府的衛生醫療政策。在巴西，因為法維奧‧羅薩的努力，數以十萬計的邊遠農村居民用上了電。還有美國人詹姆斯‧格蘭特領導和“行銷”了一場全球兒童免疫運動，挽救了2,500萬個生命，也因此為自己樹立了聲望。再還有美國人彼爾‧德雷頓，他創建了一個自願者基地“阿育王”——資助和支持了這些社會企業家，以及千餘個像他們那樣的人，將它們的思想威力撒播到世界各地。

《如何改變世界︰社會企業家與新思想的威力》要告訴我們的是，憑著決心和創造精神，個人也能夠創造出非凡成就。對那些追求在世上留下一個正面印記的人而言，這即是一本激勵讀物也是一本無價的行動指南。它將改變你看世界的方式。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller 
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In The Secret, Debbie, a struggling leader finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance. In a desperate attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new mentoring program offered by her company. Much to her surprise, Debbie finds her mentor is the president of the company (Jeff Brown).

Debbie decides that all she needs is the answer to one question, "What is the secret of great leaders?" She is convinced that if Jeff will tell her, she can apply the secret in her leadership.

Over the next 18 months Jeff explains to Debbie that the secret is rooted in an attitude. He tells her that she must be willing to become a serving leader rather than a self-serving leader. The secret is that all great leaders serve.

After Debbie learns the secret she still doesn’t know what to do next. Jeff explains that great leaders serve in at least five ways. They…

• See and shape the future
• Engage and develop others
• Reinvent continuously
• Value results and relationships
• Embody the values

The story unfolds as Debbie learns and applies each of these imperatives with her team. As a result, Debbie’s team goes from worst to first. They become the highest performing team within the company.

In the end, Debbie understood that all the changes and improvements were the result of the choices she made as a leader. She realized that to SERVE is a choice. Debbie decided once and for all, she would no longer be a self-serving leader, she would be a serving leader! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

迎向開闊的人生

劉墉 著
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本書取名為「迎向開闊的人生」，強調超越人性弱點的藩籬、空間的藩籬、時間的藩籬和傳統的藩籬。裡面可能有不同於別人的看法，像是贊成適當的發怒，認為人要承受孤獨，主張以壓力對抗壓力，讚美「勤儉」而反對「節儉」，主張聰明人應該下笨工夫，並建議每個人為自己下一個「價碼」。

凡此，表面輕鬆的文字，都是由劉墉由多年埋藏的文化憤慨中產生。那種憤慨以兩種方式呈現，一為已經出版的「不是我教你詐」系列，一為現在推出的這本書。劉墉誠心希望讀者能兩本一起看，使自己不致過度「社會性」，而顯得江湖；也不致只知修身，而無法適應多變的社會。

(摘錄自kingstone.com.tw)

Holidays on Display

William L. Bird
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For millions of people the world over, the annual visit to a department store to view the festive window displays and visit Santa in his winter wonderland is a treasured holiday tradition. In America, the Thanksgiving holiday is almost inconceivable without Macy's annual parade. But how did holiday traditions like this begin? Who are the behind-the-scenes magicians that conjure up this unique blend of imagination, showmanship, and salesmanship?

Holidays on Display is a comprehensive overview of the art and industry of the holiday display. Author William L. Bird, Jr., traces its evolution as holiday decorations moved from shop windows to building exteriors and out into the street in the form of parade floats. In this fascinating and colorful history we are introduced to turn-of-the-century "trimmers" hired by merchants to maintain product displays, and we marvel as advances in lighting, animation, and miniaturization lead to the incredible feats of creative self-expression practiced by today's window artists. Packed with rarely seen photographs and ephemera, Holidays on Display makes it easy to see why we have such lasting emotional attachments to animated Christmas windows, passing parades, and the ambient glow of holiday lights.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

那些年， 我們一起讀的書

郭鳳嶺 編
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書緣如情緣。所有的記憶，終將上升為美好。

在無書可讀的年代裡，我們曾如飢似渴。如今有書可讀，而且書越來越多，我們反倒不怎麼讀了。正如在禁慾的年代，愛情青澀但美好，到了這個開放的年代，我們卻怎麼都愛不起來了。於是，不如懷念。就像懷念初戀一樣，懷念那些年，我們與一本書的相遇，和相戀。

這是一本關於閱讀記憶的書。四十多位作者集體回憶與一本書相遇和相戀的故事，用他們真誠的文字，傳達那些年讀書的記憶和情緒：有書可讀的年代，終究是幸福的。他們用自己的閱讀體驗，最大程度地呈現了一個時代的印記；在這個不怎麼讀書的年代，對那些曾經廣泛影響了一個時代、承載了讀書人青春與夢想的書，進行了一次盛大的回憶。

(摘錄自book.douban.com)