The Social Styles Handbook: Find Your Comfort Zone and Make People Feel Comfortable with You

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More than 8 million people have been trained in Social Styles by Wilson Learning and use it every day at work and home. Many say it's a life-changing experience. Your Social Style - whether you're a Driver, Analytical, Amiable, or Expressive - is the behavior you feel most comfortable with. When you know your own style and adapt it to others' Social Styles, communication gets easier, conflict lessens, and your influence increases. No wonder entire corporations have put all their employees through the course. Graduates will refresh themselves and newcomers will master the principles of Social Styles with this easy-reading handbook. Helps you understand yourself and others in a non-judgmental, proven, productive way. Wilson Learning is a global leader in human performance improvement solutions for Fortune 500 and emerging companies worldwide, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and Tokyo.

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This Oughta Be Taught in Grade School.......2006-07-14

The Wilson Learning version of the social styles matrix is one of the most valuable interpersonal vocabulary lessons most of us should take. Although there have been modifications and restructuring of these principles over time, the basic message remains very clear and timely: There are recognizable patterns of social interaction; they can all be successful; they can be accomodated positively and negatively; and we can reach each other and encourage each other effectively by recognizing them and training ourselves to be flexible and empowering in our relationships with others.

The book is an excellent recap for those, like myself, who were formally trained by the folks at Wilson Learning. It is also an introduction worthy of passing on to any who have not had the privilege. I have purchased and shared three copies of this volume with my co-workers in the past two months, and we are having (once again) a whale of a time discovering how we behave towards each other and how those behaviors affect our productivity and job satisfaction.

Invaluable.

Libraso!.......2004-07-24

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On these day of tech-changes and everything is changing up side down, never has been as necessary as it is now to nurture relationships. When Visionaries like Peter Drucker mention that knowledge society is here and we can prove that, the theme of social styles, show us the extent of working relationships, and in personal life!

Cogratulations to the people at Wilson Learning,

Francisco

Comfort Zone Investing: Build Wealth and Sleep Well at Night

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Comfort Zone Investing: Build Wealth and Sleep Well at Night
Ted Allrich
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Investing doesn’t have to be stressful. Read this book to help you make money---and relax. You’ll find what you need to know about the stock market, what moves it, what makes a great stock, and insider tips on how to invest. It’s all in language you can understand, with easy-to-follow directions, so you can start building wealth today and sleep well tonight.

Inside you’ll find the secrets of investing professionals, as well as the essentials of building a Core Portfolio that works for you in good times and bad. It’s not about overnight success. It’s about slowly and surely increasing your financial well-being with tested ideas that have proven themselves worthy of your money.

In a few hours, you’ll learn more than most investors do in a lifetime. Ted Allrich spent more than thirty years on Wall Street, including ten as an investment adviser, and his knowledge will help you succeed.

If you want to understand the stock market, invest without stress, and make sound investments, this book is for you.

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Comfort Zone Investing another useful guide
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Comfort Zone Investing
Gillette Edmunds
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worth its weight in gold.......2002-11-07

Useful as Gillette Edmunds' other book ("How to Retire Early and Live Well") is, I wished it had been possible to read this one first! For anyone who's been duped into believing stock funds are the only viable long-term hedge against inflation, who's been sold a "conservative" asset allocation and then watched it lose 25% of its value, this book is a lifesaver.

Simply by working through the steps here and understanding what mixture of "saver," "investor," and "speculator" you are will result in greatly increased clarity and vastly lower stress. Belongs at the top of the list of books the typical financial advisor would prefer you not know about!

I can't take this book seriously.......2002-11-01

I bought this book on the strength of his previous book Retire Early and Live Well, which I thoroughly enjoyed, though I did wonder about his sources and conclusions.

This book, on the other hand, I don't trust at all. I'm contemplating returning it for a refund.

In the first section he tells you that the goal of this book is to match the reader with their investment type - saver, investor, speculator. Are you the cash & bonds type, or are you the type to invest in IPO's?

The problem is he repeats himself worse than a Victorian novel. Why does he need to repeatedly tell you what he's going to tell you? Why not just get to the meat of the book already?

The second part of this book is a breakdown of the different investment types and various investments that make up each of the three types. He focuses heavily on the negatives of each investment type.

"Marketed as simple and easy to own, stocks are actually the most complex and emotionally challenging of all asset classes. Powerlessness, unmanageability, regrets, fear, social pressures, herd behavior, and complexities galore are the norm."

"The purchase of CDs and money market funds can lead to confusion and complexity. CDs have different interest rates and different maturities. Unpredictable forces including the Federal Reserve, the economy, and inflation undermine the interest rate on CDs, money market funds, and savings accounts."

"Unmanagability is a big issue with municipal bonds."

In fact, nearly every investment type is portrayed in this light with the exception of Real Estate and Real Estate Investment Trusts.

In fact, the Real Estate section starts with "Many groups and individuals have a vested interest in keeping you in stocks, including financial journalists." He goes on to say "A sense of powerlessness, unmanagability, and helplessness are infrequent with real estate. Stock prices move quickly. An individual stock can lose half or more of its value in minutes. Real estate prices change slowly."

And for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) it's the same: "REIT investors experience less powerlessness than stock investors. REIT returns are less volatile than stock returns. The worst year for REITS since 1970 was negative 17 percent. The worst year for U.S. stocks was negative 26 percent. " Etcetera.

And here comes, what I believe is the crux of this book: "My REIT report, REITs for the New Decade, explains everything you need to know about REITs in less than 100 pages." There it is, the book is an ad for his REIT report.

I actually had to chuckle at the transition from REITs to Corporate Bonds.

"The biggest emotional hurdle with REITs is a sense of bein out of sync with your fellow investors.... You must have the self esteem to run outside the herd to be happy with REITs. Those who need the herd to push them along will not stay in REITs very long.... Corporate Bonds... Unmanagability is the main issue here."

The change was so abrupt and obvious from his sheer praise of REITs (oh and by the way, buy my report) to more doom and gloom for anything that wasn't REITs.

The third section is a series of questions that "any serious investor should answer" along with several sample responses, which, by the way, show people who went from bad investments to - you guessed it - real estate.

Todd: "He had great success with real estate, and no success with any investment that was trendy or could be purchased on a whim."

Dillon: "Twelve years ago, I had about 75 percent of my money in stocks and 25 percent in real estate, REITs and oil and gas. Today my ratio is opposite."

While this is one of the few books to address investing as an emotional and potentially addictive (read: 12 steps) activity, it's heavy handed scare tactics are unwelcome. Since we'll all be living off of our investments one day (when we retire), it's important that you understand the process and risks of investing and your emotions regarding investing. I just don't think this is the book to help you with it.

Much more well rounded are The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need (Andrew Tobias) or The Millioniare Next Door (Thomas Stanley).

Comfort Zone Investing another useful guide.......2002-06-18

Gillette's latest, Comfort Zone Investing, provides a sound, practical guide for removing the inherent "flip the coin" jitters that many lay investors I and my clients (I'm a CPA) both experience as we save for retirement or other major life events (college funds, weddings, etc.). I particularly liked his grouping of investment vehicles into "savings", "investment" or "speculation" and his down to earth analysis of each. I would highly recommend this book for first time out investors as well as those who have alrady built a sizeable portfolio.

This may be the best book ever written on investing.......2002-06-18

In my investments, I have made many more emotional mistakes than I have intellectual. Finally there is a book out that says this is true for most people. This may be the best book ever written on investing. It is the first book any beginner should read. It will save you a lot of trouble. Just knowing whether you are a saver, investor, or speculator will save thousands of dollars and many nights of lost sleep. Savers like myself should have never been fooling around in the stock market.
This book debunks the myth that stocks are the best investment for the long-run. Stock returns may or may not be high, but most investors are incompatible with the volatility and games that go on in the stock market. They end up getting caught up in all the hype and buying at the top of the bubbles and then their grandiosity drops into depression as the market crumbles and they selling at the bottom. I know, I did it with two tech funds. Since most of us do not have the personality to ride out the ups and downs of the stock market, stocks are not the best investment for us, whether they do well in the future or not, because we need to face up to the fact that we won't get those returns. Plus I am tired of fighting with my wife over where I invest our retirement money.

The best thing about this book is the depth of information on many different investments. It tells you what sort of person will do well and who will do poorly with stocks, bonds, real estate, mutual funds, Ginnie Mae funds, tax lien certificates, CDs, money market funds, REITs, index funds, stamp collections, and many more types of investments.

Buy this book. You will save far more than the cover price immediately and you will start getting a good nights sleep regardless of what the market does.

An excellent resource for any investor.......2002-06-04

I've read both of Gillette Edmunds' investing books, and Comfort Zone Investing is even better than his first. It's a great book for our current uncertain climate, but I think it would make a good read regardless of what the market is doing. I have made many of the mistakes he discusses, especially in becoming over-attached to my stocks on an emotional basis. I wish I had read this book two years ago!

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This book bridges the gap between the basics of mineralogy and the applications of mineral-based materials. Over forty minerals and mineral groups are correlated among basic mineralogical properties, geological occurrence, distribution of deposits, industrial processes, and uses so that each industrial mineral is fully defined. For professionals in mineral industries as a valuable reference for research and development.

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"Provides an overview of scientific and technological issues in environmental applications of carbon materials. Emphasizes the versatility of carbon materials in both gas- and liquid-phase environmental applications, including a discussion of emerging technologies. Highlights the power and potential opportunities afforded by NMR spectroscopy for understanding the interaction of carbon materials with adsorbed molecules."

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Doodaaa : The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge
Ralph Steadman
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Ralph Steadman's alter-autobiography is a work of comical genius as well as a profound commentary on the state of contemporary art.

Creator of his own inimitable visions of Freud, Leonardo, Orwell, Alice, and the Great Gonzo, Steadman now offers the triography of his artistic alter ego, the redoubtable Gavin Twinge. Twinge, last remnant of a nineteenth-century 'domestic engineering' dynasty, founder of the Doodaaa school, and pioneer of Barcode Art, Shredded Literature, and Centrifugal Abstraction, is the original angry voice of contemporary art.

From the moment Steadman first meets Twinge in a London bookshop, it becomes his quest to get to the heart of the misery that drives the lost soul of Art. Drawing inspiration from Twinge's fellow Doodaaists-among them Lily Potsdam (Whiplash Muralist), Schlemiel Weiss (Gnat's blood Organic Watercolorist) and Aaron Dickley (Primal Scream Environmentalist)-Steadman proves to be a truly inspired biographer, matching Twinge drink for drink as he prepares for the great exhibition that will crown his life's work. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white in Steadman's (and Twinge's) inimitable style, Doodaa is a biography standing at the center of a hall of mirrors.

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Ralph STEADMAN
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In October 1962, the United States government demanded that the Soviet Union remove long-range tactical missiles that it had positioned in Cuba, a short flight from targets like Washington and New York. After nearly a week's wait, during which the world braced for nuclear war, the Soviet government finally relented. It did so, in part, because its capitalist foe had one weapon that it then did not: 10 dozen submarine-mounted nuclear missiles that could be fired from beneath the waves and reach targets inside the Soviet Union within a matter of minutes.

In The Silent War, John Craven, an architect of the Polaris missile program, writes that the episode offered unambiguous proof of the value of "a strong silent deterrent" and of the importance of a superb submarine force in preserving the balance of power. In this memoir, he recounts the evolution of the Polaris weapons system during the cold war. Along the way, he reveals little-known incidents of espionage and saber rattling that will give readers pause to wonder how war was avoided for all those years. A bonus for Tom Clancy fans (who are likely to enjoy his book in any event) is Craven's sketchy but fascinating tale of a real hunt for a lost Soviet submarine that took place during his tenure as well as his accessible but nonetheless detailed account of the advanced military technology he helped bring into being. --Gregory McNamee

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Packed with the technological details and insights into military strategy that fans of Tom Clancy relish, The Silent War is a riveting look at the darkest days of the Cold War. It reveals, in gripping detail, the espionage, innovative high technology, and heroic seafaring the United States employed against the Soviet Union in the battle for nuclear and military supremacy. John Pi?a Craven, who shared management responsibility for the submarine-borne Polaris missile system, captures the excitement and the dangers of the times as he recounts the true stories behind some of the century's most shocking headlines and reveals harrowing episodes kept hidden from the public.

Craven describes for the first time the structural problems that almost caused the destruction of the Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, and presents startling information about the race to recover a hydrogen bomb from the B-52 bomber that went down off the coast of Spain. In a report no fan of The Hunt for Red October will want to miss, he provides a fascinating, authoritative perspective on the Navy's reaction to the rogue Soviet submarine and its mission.

A major contribution to Cold War history and literature, The Silent War will appeal to military buffs and fans of nonstop adventure thrillers alike.

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The Cold War was the first major conflict between superpowers in which victory and defeat were unambiguously determined without the firing of a shot. Without the shield of a strong, silent deterrent or the intellectual sword of espionage beneath the sea, that war could not have been won. John P. Craven was a key figure in the Cold War beneath the sea. As chief scientist of the Navy's Special Projects Office, which supervised the Polaris missile system, then later as head of the Deep Submergence Systems Project (DSSP) and the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle program (DSRV), both of which engaged in a variety of clandestine undersea projects, he was intimately involved with planning and executing America's submarine-based nuclear deterrence and submarine-based espionage activities during the height of the Cold War. Craven was considered so important by the Soviets that they assigned a full-time KGB agent to spy on him. Some of Craven's highly classified activities have been mentioned in such books as Blind Man's Bluff, but now he gives us his own insights into the deadly cat-and-mouse game that U.S. and Soviet forces played deep in the world's oceans. Craven tells riveting stories about the most treacherous years of the Cold War. In 1956 Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and the backbone of the Polaris ballistic missile system, was only days or even hours from sinking due to structural damage of unknown origin. Craven led a team of experts to diagnose the structural flaw that could have sent the sub to the bottom of the ocean, taking the Navy's missile program with it. Craven offers insight into the rivalry between the advocates of deterrence (with whom he sided) and those military men and scientists, such as Edward Teller, who believed that the United States had to prepare to fight and win a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union.

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There's better stuff out there..........2007-06-07

OK, so it's a biography, not a history book or novel. However, that's not an excuse for shameless self-congratulation. The "good stuff" in this book is due to the subject material itself, not how its presented. There are better works on this subject. And to top it all off, the numerous grammatical errors point to the less than professional nature of this book. I expected better.

Inside story.......2006-11-24

"The Silent War" adds more grist to the ever-churning mill of rumors about the Soviet submarine that sank about 1,500 miles from Maui in 1968.
John Craven, a civilian who was chief scientist for the Navy's Special Projects Office, proposes that the sub may have been a rogue and that it was preparing to launch a one-megaton missile at Oahu.
Craven infers this, in part, because photos of the wreckage seem to show that the conventional explosive that surrounds the nuclear warhead exploded, leading to the loss of the sub. Such an explosion is one kind of "fail-safe" device: If some unauthorized tampering is done, better to blow up the missile than have it armed and dispatched.
Craven says the probability that the sub was a rogue is low but he seems to take it seriously. His scenario does not explain how the rogue crew hoped to reach Oahu with a missile whose range is thought to have been 750 miles.
Craven, still bound by security regulations, says he isn't revealing any secrets. A comparison of "The Silent War" to "Blind Man's Bluff," the 1999 book about underwater spying, and to "Spy Sub," a 1997 novelized version of the hunt for the Soviet sub by one of the participants, leaves plenty of mystery.
"60 Minutes" reported the sub's number was K129, but Craven says survivors of the crew said it was something else. In "Spy Sub," Roger Dunham calls it PL-751.
Whatever it was, Hawaii was involved at least after the sinking, if not before.
The spy sub USS Halibut ("Viperfish" in Dunham's book), which Craven's group supplied the still-secret hardware for, practiced its hunting off Lahaina, Maui, in the early '70s. The Glomar Explorer, the CIA ship that tried to lift the sub off the seafloor, was much noticed in Hawaii around 1974.
Craven, as interested in policy as in ocean technology, provides a novel reinterpretation of that episode.
According to him, the Navy could have explored the sunken sub with supersecret underwater craft, and nobody would ever have known. Instead, the Nixon administration pulled the Navy off, gave undersea intelligence to the CIA (which meant that Craven had nothing to do with Glomar) and -- besides blowing $500 million on a (probably) failed mission -- nearly ruined the advance of oceanic technology.
The argument, which like most of Craven's views is neither simple nor obvious, is that the cover story for the Glomar -- that it was going to recover manganese nodules off the deep ocean floor -- was stupid.
It certainly was. By 1974, it was known that you could not make money bringing up lobsters worth $5 a pound from 1,000 feet deep, so it was absurd to think it would be worthwhile to bring up nodules worth a penny a pound from 15,000 feet.
Nevertheless, according to Craven's view, the ocean scientists of the rich countries were left "misunderstanding the limits of ocean resources," which led to "the waste of precious development resources."
Maybe so, but if the people in charge were stupid enough to fall for the CIA trick, that raises the question whether they would have done any better if they had deployed their manganese-hunting millions in some other direction.
Possibly not. After leaving the Navy, Craven became a dean at the University of Hawaii, where he became project manager for two of the most hare-brained schemes ever hatched by a state government famous for fiascos, a "floating city" off Waikiki and the embarrassing ocean thermal energy conversion project at Keahole.
Craven, whose family tradition had him down from birth for the Naval Academy, couldn't get appointed. After obtaining a doctorate at the University of Iowa, he ended up in the middle of Navy business anyway, an opportunity for which he is grateful.
The earlier part of "The Silent War" concerns the development of the Polaris nuclear war deterrent. "A nation choosing a strategy of nuclear deterrence cannot also choose a strategy that would commit the nation to a tactical nuclear war," he writes, which not everybody understood, then or now.
Via another complex argument, Craven asserts that the undersea cold war allowed the United States to let the U.S.S.R. know it knew in the 1980s that the Kremlin was losing command and control of its deterrent forces, and such an understanding brought about the dismantling of the Soviet Union.
In a short review, it is not possible to give the full weight of Craven's argument on this subject. You will have to read it yourself, which is worth doing anyhow, as "The Silent War" is also a fine mix of derring-do, good old American know-how and personal strife and achievement.

A true American Hero.......2006-02-24

John Pina Craven's The Silent War is written by a genius, a patriot and an important figure of our Cold War victory. Those who have criticized the book on the basis of its chronicling of the author's recollection of his own role in the events depicted must suffer from their own inferiority complexes; Craven was there, and he played the role he played. That's history, folks. Blind Man's Bluff, which predated his book and which he did NOT write, confirms this. Finally, as one who has had the privilege and pleasure of sitting down with him and hearing some of the exploits of those he writes about, I can report that he is a true patriot and a man of peace, who did what he did to prevent war at all costs - billions but worth every penny.

The Silent War ... The Story of J.P. Craven.......2006-02-22

I was looking forward to reading this book. Made it almost through Chapter 2 and decided I was done. This book is more about J.P. Craven than it is about the Cold War and the courageous and commendable service that was provided by the Navy's Silent Service. If you want to know about how Craven saved the world, this is the book for you otherwise it is a great disappointment. Recommend reading (or re-reading) Blind Man's Bluff before opening this autobiography.

Great Book, need to read.......2005-11-18

Considering the security restrictions Dr. Craven had to adhear to, the information he was able to provide is amazing. However, the reader needs to sometimes read between the lines. The author has outfoxed his minders!

The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea.(Review): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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