The High-Tech Personal Efficiency Program: Organizing Your Electronic Resources to Maximize Your Time and Efficiency
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Undoubtedly, the best in the genre...Must-Read for all busy professionals!
  • Great way to organize your computer
  • Good for computer novices, Bad for computer-savvy people
  • It Cuts to the Chase
The High-Tech Personal Efficiency Program: Organizing Your Electronic Resources to Maximize Your Time and Efficiency
Kerry Gleeson
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

GeneralGeneral | Business Life | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Time ManagementTime Management | Skills | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
MISMIS | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ManagementManagement | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Manager's Guides to ComputingManager's Guides to Computing | Business & Culture | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
Information SystemsInformation Systems | Software Engineering | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
GeneralGeneral | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:
  1. The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time
  2. Getting Organized: Learning How to Focus, Organize and Prioritize Getting Organized: Learning How to Focus, Organize and Prioritize
  3. The Organized Executive: A Program for Productivity--New Ways to Manage Time, Paper, People, and the Digital Office The Organized Executive: A Program for Productivity--New Ways to Manage Time, Paper, People, and the Digital Office
  4. Order from Chaos: A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life Order from Chaos: A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life
  5. File...Don't Pile: A proven filing system for personal and professional use File...Don't Pile: A proven filing system for personal and professional use

ASIN: 0471172065

Book Description

"Maybe you think you know about time management. Unless you've read Kerry Gleeson's High-Tech PEP, you don't. This book contains a key. It unexpectedly opens up a whole world—where suddenly you can think clearly and accomplish things you never thought possible." —Duncan Maxwell Anderson Senior Editor, Success magazine "With simple, straightforward tips, [Gleeson] explains how to exploit technology as a personal information management tool.… This book offers concrete suggestions for getting our information lives in order. As Gleeson says, `Do it now!'" —Dr. Franklin Becker, Professor and Director International Workplace Studies Program, Cornell University and Partner, @Work Consulting Group LLC "As a result of PEP, I was able to reduce my workweek hours from 70 to 40, and still achieve the same results.… I have been very pleased." —Dr. Richard Bax, Head of Clinical Research SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals "Productivity through the effective use of technology and work process improvement is the key to success in the corporate world globally. PEP is the enabler." —Ed Carr, Senior Vice President of Administration Steelcase, Inc. Make Electronic Gadgets Dance to your Tune—Do More Work in Less Time. Adapted from Kerry Gleeson's internationally acclaimed Personal Efficiency Program (PEP), The High-Tech Personal Efficiency Program shows you how to apply the low-tech principles of PEP to your high-tech environment—e-mail, groupware, the World Wide Web, cell phones, beepers, and more. The easy-to-learn system Gleeson describes has already enabled hundreds of thousands of businesspeople worldwide to reduce job stress, increase productivity, and find more time to smell the roses. Why not you?

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Undoubtedly, the best in the genre...Must-Read for all busy professionals!.......2006-07-31

Just a few years after I have started my strategy consulting business (as well as my own book-store) in the early 90's, I spotted a review of this book, 'The Personal Efficiency System (PEP)', in Success Magazine. I bought it immediately & have reread it many times. A few years later, came the second book, The 'High-Tech Personal Efficiency System' by the same author. I bought it immediately too & have read - & refered to - it several times.

From the standpoint of self-management & work productivity, I consider them to be the best in the genre.

In essence, the High Tech PEP book is a further extension of the earlier PEP book. Basically, it shows the reader how to exploit technology (email, groupware, internet, cell phones, etc.) as a personal information management tool & how to apply the low-tech principles of PEP in a high-tech environment.

What I like about both books is the smorgasbord of concrete suggestions & useful checklists from the author. Also, I like the author's superb presentation of his brilliant work as embodied in the two books: each chapter comes with a preview & ends with follow-up action points. Bravo! as these aids make reading a breeze!

In a nut shell, these are the relevant chapters, respectively:

PEP:

Introduction: Personal Efficiency Program - The Missing Link;
Do It Now!
Organize It Now!
Do It Routinely;
Plan It Now!;
Follow-Up & Follow-Through;
Do It Right, Now!;
Do It Now! - From Whereever You Are!
Be a Do It Now Manager;
Organizing the Team to Act Now!;
Maintain It Now;
Epilogue: Just One New Habit;

High-Tech PEP:

Introduction;
Principles at Work;
Organizing Your Workspace;
Organizing Your Computer;
Organizing Yourself with a Computer: Time & Money;
Road Warrior Wisdom;
The Internet & World Wide Web;
Groupware;

Whether you are a desk-bound strategist or road warrior, these two books will undoubtedly equip you with all the proven strategies & practical tools to be a better manager of your projects...your people...your time... & most importantly, yourself!

To end my review, let me recap this wonderful passage from the PEP book:

"The best education doesn't teach you how to work. No matter how well you know your field, you won't be your most effective until you exercise good work habits - until you are able to get things done, on time, & with the most effective use of your resources."

5 out of 5 stars Great way to organize your computer.......2000-03-14

The author uses a great approach: first get your low-tech materials organized, and then move onto the high-tech materials. There is a parallel structure applied to both paper and electronic resources, which is really great for organizing. Great book.

1 out of 5 stars Good for computer novices, Bad for computer-savvy people.......1999-10-03

If you already have Gleeson's "The Personal Efficiency Program : How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time," don't buy this. It has pretty much the same information. It's not "high-tech" at all. Most of the book is like a Computer 101 class. I'm quite disappointed, since I was looking for ways to organize my electronic resources, NOT "how do I create a folder in Win95."

4 out of 5 stars It Cuts to the Chase.......1998-08-24

Simplicity is the greatest strength of Gleeson's suggestions for saving time and literally cleaning up your act. She appears to realize that the reader's quest to save time should not begin with a book that takes hours to read and assimilate.

If nothing else, follow one of Gleeson's first suggestions: Remove everything in your desk drawers and place it on the top. Talk about Slob, meet Thyself. The incomprehensible handwritten notes, staff memos from 1995 and rubber band collection should inspire you to at least try Gleeson's other suggestions.

Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success: Making Money Today in Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and the Real Estate (Kiplinger's Personal Finance)
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success: Making Money Today in Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and the Real Estate (Kiplinger's Personal Finance)
    Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine Editors
    Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    GeneralGeneral | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    InvestmentsInvestments | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Investing | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    IntroductionIntroduction | Investing | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It, Make It Grow, Enjoy It, Protect It, Pass It On (Third Edition) Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It, Make It Grow, Enjoy It, Protect It, Pass It On (Third Edition)
    2. Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You'll Need (Retire Worry Free) Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You'll Need (Retire Worry Free)
    3. Making Money in Real Estate: How to Start Out on the Road to Financial Independence with Residential and Commercial Property (Third Edition) Making Money in Real Estate: How to Start Out on the Road to Financial Independence with Residential and Commercial Property (Third Edition)
    4. Kiplinger's Money Smart Women: Everything You Need to Know to Acheive a Lifetime of Financial Security (Kiplinger's Personal Finance) Kiplinger's Money Smart Women: Everything You Need to Know to Acheive a Lifetime of Financial Security (Kiplinger's Personal Finance)
    5. Kiplinger's Buying and Selling a Home: Make the Right Choice in Any Market (Kiplinger's Personal Finance) Kiplinger's Buying and Selling a Home: Make the Right Choice in Any Market (Kiplinger's Personal Finance)

    ASIN: 1419535676
    Release Date: 2006-09-01

    Book Description

    Investing can often be like riding a roller coaster—your portfolio will likely experience euphoric gains and nail-biting loses. With choices ranging from stocks and bonds to mutual funds and real estate, the need for sound financial advice has never been greater.

    The updated Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success, from the editors of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, will give you the knowledge and perspective you need to reach your investing goals—from how to define those goals to tips for creating a diversified portfolio with the most effective investment vehicles to help you reach them.

    Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success includes valuable worksheets, charts and graphs as well as standard financial formulas and a glossary of terms. People of all income levels will find this book a ""must-read"" for creating the right investment plan.

    Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Kiplinger's Guide to Investing
    Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success
    Ted Miller
    Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    GeneralGeneral | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Investing | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    IntroductionIntroduction | Investing | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Finance | Accounting & Finance | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It, Make It Grow, Enjoy It, Protect It, Pass It On (Third Edition) Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It, Make It Grow, Enjoy It, Protect It, Pass It On (Third Edition)
    2. Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You'll Need (Retire Worry Free) Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You'll Need (Retire Worry Free)
    3. Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money
    4. Mutual Funds For Dummies (Mutual Funds for Dummies) Mutual Funds For Dummies (Mutual Funds for Dummies)
    5. Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

    ASIN: 1419505238
    Release Date: 2002-07-19

    Book Description

    Ted Miller reveals how an individual investor, regardless of his or her current saving and investing style, can accumulate a six-or seven-figure chunk of money while there's time to enjoy it.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Kiplinger's Guide to Investing.......2000-03-30

    A good introduction to saving and investing. Covers a broad range of subjects from CDs, IRAs, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, tax implications of investing, etc. Good first book for those who don't even know where to start. Provides suggestions on how to personalize your own investment plan and match your needs and goals. Simply and lucidly written.

    Hits many topics and provides fairly conservative and realistic advice. Provides little specific advice and where to put money. Instead it teaches the reader how do the research needed to invest wisely.

    The Litigation Explosion (Plume)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Propagandistic and Provocative Anecdotism
    • A horrifying account of civil law perverted
    • A hell of a book everyone should read!
    • Required Reading For Every American
    The Litigation Explosion (Plume)
    Walter K. Olson
    Manufacturer: Plume
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    GeneralGeneral | Law | Subjects | Books
    Practical GuidesPractical Guides | Law | Subjects | Books | Business | General | Living Wills | Real Estate | Wills
    GeneralGeneral | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom
    2. Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America
    3. The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law
    4. The Excuse Factory The Excuse Factory

    ASIN: 0452268249

    Amazon.com

    Walter K. Olson is fast becoming the legal world's foremost whistleblower. A columnist for Reason magazine and author of The Excuse Factory, Olson makes complex legal issues understandable to people without law degrees. In The Litigation Explosion, he tells of how the United States turned into the world's most litigious society. The account is entertaining because Olson is a good writer, but also infuriating because the problems he describes are severe--ambulance-chasers, junk litigation, and plaintiff awards that line the pockets of lawyers instead of the victims they allegedly represent. A good book for everybody, but a must-read for those in the legal profession.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Propagandistic and Provocative Anecdotism.......2004-02-14

    For a collection of anecdotes strung together by a layperson in the employ of a conservative think tank, "The Litigation Explosion" is pretty good. Walter Olson's tales are usually interesting, especially when he deviates from the facts of cases. His animosity toward lawyers makes for diatribes that are far more amusing than informative, so Olson's storytelling adds up to theses that seem more compelling the less that one actually knows about law. As is usual for popularizations, "The Litigation Explosion" will move the unwary to outrage and to tears. It will not educate the unwary, of course. It will instead adjust their attitudes so that they will embrace tort reform by book's end. Olson is a master propagandist, which is usually what the Manhattan Institute wants and pays for.

    Walter Olson has produced an accessible book regarding lawsuits. His writing is lively. You'll laugh; you'll cry; your blood will boil if you mistake his caricatures for reality. If you believe that lawyer jokes are not merely funny but scholarship, this book is for you.

    5 out of 5 stars A horrifying account of civil law perverted.......2001-11-20

    Most Americans are aware that something is amiss in the legal system, based on high-profile examples of baseless liability claims and sky-high punitive damages, but assume that these examples are the exceptions to the rule, and the rest of civil law hopefully functions as expected . Most laymen also assume that they have at least some of the protection guaranteed to defendants in criminal trials, such as due process. Mr. Olson has written a hair-raising account of how civil law has been corrupted into a system which infringes on the rights of and levies costs on every citizen.

    The problems with the system are legion: Allowing "scorched earth" adversarial procedures such as interminable pre-trial discovery, where basically any and all documents of a party can be requisitioned, irrespective of relevance; Expansion of class-action suit admissibility, which benefits only the lawyers in each case; The filing of cases on very vague charges, with lawyers tagging on more definite charges based on what is unearthed during discovery or the hearing; Dragging any peripherally-involved parties into the case as co-defendants, in effect blackmailing them for settlements; "Shopping" for courts to find the one where a plaintiff has the most chance to succeed; and so forth and so forth.

    Of most concern is the drift away from the Rule of Law these changes constitute: Invasion of privacy; Being dragged into a court of law not knowing exactly what you are accused of; Jurisdiction of courts becoming meaningless; Law being arbitrarily applied, resulting in a punishment not based on your crime, but on how much you can afford to pay; and the admission of evidence irrelevant to the case, but potentially damaging in a sympathetic jury's eyes. And one has little recourse to the Constitution for protection from all this, as it mostly provides for protection against abuse from the state, not abuse from you neighbors or lawyers.

    The faults of the system levy costs on everyone, even if you never actually get involved in a suit. Insurance premiums of all kinds skyrocket; Useful products or services never make it onto the market, or are withdrawn; Products and services become more expensive; Workers lose jobs when businesses are damaged by suits.

    Mr. Olson proposes several remedies that will help fix the system. The most important is that the loser of a suit should pay the opposing party's legal fees. This is a very sensible solution that would get rid of a lot of the abuses engendered by the lawyer's financial interest in the outcome of the suit. Of course the lawyer lobby will fight tooth and nail to prevent this.

    To conclude, a very important book, which should be read by al Americans interested in further improving their society.

    5 out of 5 stars A hell of a book everyone should read!.......1999-12-07

    This book will remain timeless given the new legal assault onthe tobacco industry and the gun manufacturers. To find out the details and the evolution of legal concepts as it affects society, the reader should immerse himself in this momentous and extremely witty and well-written book by former Manhattan Institute scholar, Walter K. Olson. Olson's book traces the history of legal theory and ethics, and discusses the impact of these evolutionary (and revolutionary) changes on modern American society. Olson wittily, yet scholarly, details the detrimental effects of the litigation explosion on society. The book should be prescribed reading for anyone who recognizes that he/she too may well be caught in the net of litigation - that is, everyone of us. Olson makes it amply clear that no one is immune from this societal disease and that a strong remedy is needed to cure this affliction.

    As I predicted in an editorial in the April 1993 issue of the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, "On the Liability Crisis and the Glut of Litigators," the rate of litigation and the adversarial legal system has intensified with the presidency of Bill Clinton, who we know has the trial lawyers as his greatest campaign finance supporters. The litigation industry's proclivity to generate business for itself has been given a boost with his presidency, or rather co-presidency with attorney Hillary Clinton, and medical litigation has been no exception. Today, the attorney-litigators in collusion with an authoritarian public health establishment have targeted tobacco products and gun manufacturers, and have set their sights on HMOs and in the not-to-distant future, the fast food industry and nutritional products, particularly those that are considered more caloric than others and unhealthy by the coming new health police. These legal precedents are negating citizens their personal responsibility and their autonomy by blaming all their ills and afflictions on the acts of others, changing societal values in the process, and costing society billions of dollars.

    This book does not deprecate honest attorneys who perform legal work necessary to adjudicate justice (e.g. criminal law), or who do the legal work necessary for the everyday business affairs of society: execute the required transactions in business deals, negotiate contracts, draw wills, carry out corporate work, serve in advisory or managerial capacity as general counsels and perform other non-trial work. What Mr. Olson denounces are those "wheel-of-fortune" and "lottery litigators" who aggressively participate in "the sue-for-profit litigation industry" for their own vested financial interest. As the author persuasively demonstrates these swashbuckling litigators are causing untold harm to the country and are unraveling the fabric of our nation.

    What does Mr. Olson propose to thwart the litigation juggernaut? First, structured contingency fees should be implemented with a sliding fee-cap whereby fees diminish as awards increase; or even better, contingency fees should be eliminated. Most authorities agree that the unrestricted contingency fee is one of the greatest sources of grist for the sue-for-profit litigation mill.

    For those who would drum up litigation, the "lawyers' contingency fee is like the battery in the Energizer bunny." It did not become legal in most of the United States until the 1960s. The practice is considered unethical and remains illegal in most other industrialized Western countries, because it is widely recognized that it encourages lawsuits and leads the plaintiff's attorney to overplay their client's hand in court.

    Second, and most significantly, the author correctly asserts that we should strive nationally for adoption of the English Rule, which he calls "full two-way fee-shifting." By this rule, the losing side in litigation pays the court costs and all attorney's fees. This principle is not new. It is rooted firmly in Roman as well as Anglo-Saxon law. It has been and remains the rule in Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, and other countries whose legal systems derive from the Anglo-Saxon common law and the Roman civil law models.

    This full two-way fee-shifting is, according to Olson, "the single most important and constructive legal reform that ordinary citizens can fight for over the long term. It is memorably simple and fair, and not easily subverted once put into effect. It may also be the only reform that could render tolerable today's procedural system of push-button litigation on demand, if that system is the one we want to keep....It's the heavily contingent, unlikely-to-succeed wildcat litigators who would be discouraged by fee-shifting. And they are precisely the ones who should have been driven from the courthouse....By the horror with which they react to full fee-shifting, we will get a good idea of their sincerity."

    This book should be read by all Americans concerned with the litigation explosion, not only to protect our pocketbooks, but also to preserve our personal responsibilities which come with what remains of our individual liberties.

    Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Sentinel of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and author of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine...

    5 out of 5 stars Required Reading For Every American.......1996-12-19

    Walter Olson has produced the best book on the subject of lawsuits and related problems in America today. His research is scholarly and the presentation is lively. Your blood may boil but unless you're a lawyer, you'll have a hard time arguing your way out of the illuminated nonsense in our legal system that Olson exposes. If you like cheap novels this book isn't for you; but if you want to understand one of the major problems with the crazy U.S. legal system, you can't afford to miss this one. Great reading and worth the time. I consider it #1 on the list in this subject matter area. Olson has done Americans a favor; will they do something about it?
    Fire Litigation Sourcebook (Personal Injury Library)
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Fire Litigation Sourcebook (Personal Injury Library)
      Alexander J. Patton , and John C. Russell
      Manufacturer: Wiley Law Pubns
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

      GeneralGeneral | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
      Building ConstructionBuilding Construction | Construction | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
      Firefighting & PreventionFirefighting & Prevention | Civil Service | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
      GeneralGeneral | Reference | Subjects | Books
      Social Security & WelfareSocial Security & Welfare | English Law | Law | Subjects | Books
      ASIN: 0471593532
      Is There a Litigation Explosion (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Is There a Litigation Explosion (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)

        Manufacturer: Greenhaven Pr
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback
        ASIN: 1565105028
        Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion
          Robert J. Flanagan
          Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

          GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
          Industrial RelationsIndustrial Relations | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
          Civil ProcedureCivil Procedure | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Subjects | Books
          Labor & EmploymentLabor & Employment | Business | Law | Subjects | Books
          Civil ProcedureCivil Procedure | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
          ASIN: 0815728581
          The Litigation Explosion  What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            The Litigation Explosion What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit
            Walter K. *Author SIGNED!* Olson
            Manufacturer: Truman Talley Books
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: B000J0XZDK
            The Litigation Explosion -
            Average customer rating: Not rated
              The Litigation Explosion -
              Walter Olson -
              Manufacturer: Dutton Publishing-
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Hardcover
              ASIN: B000UN1WVI
              A Nation of Adversaries: How the Litigation Explosion Is Reshaping America
              Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
              • Undocumented "chicken little" book
              A Nation of Adversaries: How the Litigation Explosion Is Reshaping America
              Patrick M. Garry
              Manufacturer: Insight Books Inc
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Hardcover

              Legal SystemLegal System | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
              Violence in SocietyViolence in Society | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
              CourtsCourts | Procedures & Litigation | Law | Subjects | Books
              GeneralGeneral | Law | Subjects | Books
              Perspectives on LawPerspectives on Law | Law | Subjects | Books | Comparative | Conflict of Laws | Customary | Gender & the Law | Judicial System | Jurisprudence | Legal History | Legal Systems | Natural Law | Non-US Legal Systems | Science & Technology
              GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
              GeneralGeneral | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
              ASIN: 0306455641

              Customer Reviews:

              1 out of 5 stars Undocumented "chicken little" book.......1997-11-21

              Author Patrick Garry claims that all events in recent American history are tied to, and usually caused by, the "litigation explosion." Little things like mass communication and advertising, two world wars, the Depression, technology, and urbanization had no impact.

              What does Garry list as examples of the evils caused by the litigation explosion? TV shows like "American Gladiators" and "The McLaughlin Group." (believe it or not!) He even blames the litigation explosion on encouraging the fad of tell-all biographies -- you'd think litigation would discourage such writings. Logic does not enter into the claims made by this book.

              Garry, Dole-like, wistfully hopes for the perfect days before the litigation explosion. In a sub-chapter titled, "An Unattainable Alternative," Garry goes on and on about the superiority of Japanese society, where in his opinion bliss is achieved by thinking alike, dressing alike, acting alike, and being so influenced by peer pressure that you give no thought to self-expression or "rights."

              Garry uses about 300 footnotes, but 95+% of those citations are to current newspaper articles.

              Although Garry changes themes and ideas every few pages, one recurrent theme is that Americans exercise their "rights" too much. That's all we think about. Another affect of the litigation explosion. (Those darn revolutionaries. Why couldn't we have been like Canada?)

              Although Garry has the paper credentials where you would think he could write a REAL book on how litigation affects American culture, this is not that book. It's written in a "Chicken Little" style to an audience that considers "Hard Copy" an intellectual exercise. (yes, he refers to Hard Copy too!)

              Here's a typical argument and "fact" from the book. Garry's fickle mind drifts to the claim that parties in a divorce litigate over picky issues -- like who should have the kids. (Imagine that.) Now, you might expect some discussion of divorce rates. Or whether no-fault is better than the fault system. Or at least what Garry proposes people do if he were made king and disallowed divorces. But no, the "fact" that Garry uses to support his idea that couples in America, generally, litigate over such picky issues, is that Marcia Clark's husband filed a motion for custody because she was consistently working late on the Simpson trial.

              If the type of person who believes everything that's written down didn't believe these unsupported conclusions, the book would even be funny.
              Dodging the litigation explosion. (CEO Finance): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
              Average customer rating: Not rated
                Dodging the litigation explosion. (CEO Finance): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
                Barry S. Engel
                Manufacturer: Chief Executive Publishing
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Digital

                GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
                Personal FinancePersonal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                Personal FinancePersonal Finance | Business & Investing | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                ASIN: B00092SDX0
                Release Date: 2005-07-28

                Book Description

                This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on May 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1841 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                From the supplier: Asset protection planning is increasingly becoming necessary for business executives in view of the expanding definitions of corporate and personal liability. There are a number of protection options open to high net-worth CEOs. One of these is the family limited partnership (FLP), a vehicle that makes assets unattractive to creditors by making the transferor the owner of partnership interests and not of the transferred assets. Domestic trusts can also be useful asset planning tools, but they have serious weaknesses as asset protection vehicle such as the lack of practical barriers. Still another common strategy for protecing assets is the use of foreign situs trusts, although this approach may prove useless without the participation of top-notch team members in the relevant foreign jurisdictions. Probably a better alternative to these options is the combination of FLPs and asset protection trusts.

                Citation Details
                Title: Dodging the litigation explosion. (CEO Finance)
                Author: Barry S. Engel
                Publication: Chief Executive (U.S.) (Magazine/Journal)
                Date: May 1, 1993
                Publisher: Chief Executive Publishing
                Issue: n85 Page: p74(2)

                Distributed by Thomson Gale
                Maybe light at the end of tunnel: is the litigation explosion imploding?: An article from: Defense Counsel Journal
                Average customer rating: Not rated
                  Maybe light at the end of tunnel: is the litigation explosion imploding?: An article from: Defense Counsel Journal
                  Arthur R. Miller
                  Manufacturer: International Association of Defense Counsels
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Digital

                  NonfictionNonfiction | Subjects | Books | Automotive | Books on CD | Books on Cassette | Crime & Criminals | Current Events | Economics | Education | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Government | Holidays | Law | Philosophy | Politics | Social Sciences | Transportation | True Accounts | Urban Planning & Development | Women's Studies
                  GeneralGeneral | Nonfiction | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                  ASIN: B00092V7YM
                  Release Date: 2005-07-28

                  Book Description

                  This digital document is an article from Defense Counsel Journal, published by International Association of Defense Counsels on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                  From the supplier: The 'litigation explosion' may be slowing down. Fueled originally by the large number of laws extending new rights to people, by easy courtroom access, contingency fees and the rapid increase in the supply of attorneys, such factors as court congestion may now be slowing the trend down. The tort reform movement is making some strides in capping damages, limiting punitive damages and containing joint and several liability. Judges are becoming case managers interested in containing court congestion as well as doing justice.

                  Citation Details
                  Title: Maybe light at the end of tunnel: is the litigation explosion imploding?
                  Author: Arthur R. Miller
                  Publication: Defense Counsel Journal (Refereed)
                  Date: July 1, 1994
                  Publisher: International Association of Defense Counsels
                  Volume: 61 Issue: n3 Page: 378-382

                  Distributed by Thomson Gale
                  Robert Wagner hosts The Litigation Explosion, an eye-opening .expose of the growing need for asset protection and financial privacy.(asset protection) : An article from: Entrepreneur
                  Average customer rating: Not rated
                    Robert Wagner hosts The Litigation Explosion, an eye-opening .expose of the growing need for asset protection and financial privacy.(asset protection) : An article from: Entrepreneur

                    Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Digital
                    ASIN: B000CSLBJE
                    Release Date: 2005-12-13

                    Book Description

                    This digital document is an article from Entrepreneur, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 752 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                    Citation Details
                    Title: Robert Wagner hosts The Litigation Explosion, an eye-opening .expose of the growing need for asset protection and financial privacy.(asset protection)
                    Publication: Entrepreneur (Magazine/Journal)
                    Date: August 1, 2005
                    Publisher: Thomson Gale
                    Volume: 33 Issue: 8 Page: 117(1)

                    Distributed by Thomson Gale

                    Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850
                    Average customer rating: Not rated
                      Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850
                      Robert C. Allen
                      Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Hardcover

                      Economic HistoryEconomic History | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
                      AgriculturalAgricultural | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | World | History | Subjects | Books
                      RenaissanceRenaissance | World | History | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                      ASIN: 0198282966

                      Book Description

                      Exploring the shift from medieval to modern institutions in English agriculture and their importance for productivity, distribution, and their contribution to British economic growth, Allen's pioneering study shows that, contrary to the general assumption of many historians, small-scale
                      farmers in the open-field system were responsible for a considerable proportion of the productivity growth achieved between the middle ages and the nineteenth century. The process of enclosure and the replacement of these yeoman farms with large-scale tenant farming relying on wage labor had
                      relatively little impact on the agricultural contribution to economic development during industrial revolution. Enclosures and large farms enriched landowners without benefiting consumers, workers, or farmers. Thoroughly grounded in archival sources, and underpinned by rigorous economic analysis,
                      this book is a scholarly and challenging reassessment of the history of English agriculture.
                      Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
                      Average customer rating: Not rated
                        Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
                        John Langdon
                        Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Digital

                        GeneralGeneral | Canada | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
                        ASIN: B00092WI68
                        Release Date: 2005-07-28

                        Book Description

                        This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 969 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                        Citation Details
                        Title: Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850. (book reviews)
                        Author: John Langdon
                        Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
                        Date: December 1, 1994
                        Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
                        Volume: v29 Issue: n3 Page: p576(3)

                        Article Type: Book Review

                        Distributed by Thomson Gale

                        Books:

                        1. The Impact of Office Automation on Clerical Employment, 1985-2000: Forecasting Techniques and Plausible Futures in Banking and Insurance
                        2. The JobBank Guide To Computer & High-Tech Companies
                        3. The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela
                        4. The Nutrition Transition: Diet and Disease in the Developing World (Food Science and Technology International) (Food Science and Technology)
                        5. The Owner's Manual for Personality at Work: How the Big Five Personality Traits Affect Your Performance, Communication, Teamwork, Leadership, and Sales
                        6. The Platinum Rule: Discover the Four Basic Business Personalities-And How They Can Lead You to Success
                        7. The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century: Late Lessons from Early Warnings
                        8. The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know: Studies in Organizational Behavior
                        9. The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
                        10. Theory-Based Treatment Planning for Marriage and Family Therapists: Integrating Theory and Practice

                        Books Index

                        Books Home

                        Recommended Books

                        1. Bodybuilding 201: Everything You Need to Know to Take Your Body to the Next Level
                        2. The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes
                        3. Moulin Rouge: The Splendid Illustrated Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
                        4. Pipefitters Handbook
                        5. Mutants & Masterminds: RPG - 2nd Edition
                        6. The Kissing Hand
                        7. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
                        8. Practical Business Math Procedures: Mandatory Package with Business Math Handbook, DVD, and Wall Str
                        9. Grundlagen der Organisation: Die Steuerung von Entscheidungen als Grundproblem der Betriebswirtschaf
                        10. The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat