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The High-Tech Personal Efficiency Program: Organizing Your Electronic Resources to Maximize Your Time and Efficiency
Kerry Gleeson Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471172065 |
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"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 worldwhere 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 TuneDo 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 environmente-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:
Undoubtedly, the best in the genre...Must-Read for all busy professionals!.......2006-07-31
Great way to organize your computer.......2000-03-14
Good for computer novices, Bad for computer-savvy people.......1999-10-03
It Cuts to the Chase.......1998-08-24
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.
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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.
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Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success
Ted Miller Manufacturer: Kaplan Business ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1419505238 Release Date: 2002-07-19 |
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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:
Kiplinger's Guide to Investing.......2000-03-30
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.
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The Litigation Explosion (Plume)
Walter K. Olson Manufacturer: Plume ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0452268249 |
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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:
Propagandistic and Provocative Anecdotism.......2004-02-14
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.
A horrifying account of civil law perverted.......2001-11-20
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.
A hell of a book everyone should read!.......1999-12-07
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...
Required Reading For Every American.......1996-12-19
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Fire Litigation Sourcebook (Personal Injury Library)
Alexander J. Patton , and John C. Russell Manufacturer: Wiley Law Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471593532 |
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Is There a Litigation Explosion (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets)
Manufacturer: Greenhaven Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1565105028 |
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Labor Relations and the Litigation Explosion
Robert J. Flanagan Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0815728581 |
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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 |
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The Litigation Explosion -
Walter Olson - Manufacturer: Dutton Publishing- ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UN1WVI |
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A Nation of Adversaries: How the Litigation Explosion Is Reshaping America
Patrick M. Garry Manufacturer: Insight Books Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306455641 |
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Undocumented "chicken little" book.......1997-11-21
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.
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Dodging the litigation explosion. (CEO Finance): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
Barry S. Engel Manufacturer: Chief Executive Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092SDX0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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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.
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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 ASIN: B00092V7YM Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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 ASIN: 0198282966 |
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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
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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 ASIN: B00092WI68 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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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.Books:
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