The Change Monster

The Change Monster
Author: Jeanie Daniel Duck
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002-08-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0609808818

A Powerful Look at Corporate Change and Why Mergers, Reorganizations, and Transformations Succeed or Fail “[One of the] best business books of 2001 . . . [a] useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life).” —Miami Herald “Provocative imagery . . . useful questions for managers to ask themselves.” —Harvard Business Review “The Change Monster not only talks intelligently about the social dynamics and emotions of people [in change efforts], it does so with wisdom, insight, and practicality.”—Daniel Leemon, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Charles Schwab Corporation “A practitioner’s primer on revitalization that puts you in the shoes of some who have failed and others who have succeeded. In doing so, Jeanie Daniel Duck graphically delivers her main message to management: Learn to master the emotions and obsessions of those who stand in the way of change, including your own, and once you do, you have your hands on a miraculous engine for change.” —Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment and Leading Up “Duck is an acute and empathetic observer of the changes erupting in the workplace from the convulsive nature of corporate evolution. . . . Jeanie Duck’s terrific book is a . . . useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life). Sensitive but tough, Duck’s compassionate wisdom is street smart without a trace of glibness.” —Miami Herald

Managing Monsters

Managing Monsters
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1409028704

In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination. She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current despair about children and the loss of childhood innocence; the changing attitude of myths about wild men and beasts and the undertow of racism which is expressed in myths about savages and cannibals. The last lecture, on home, brings the themes together to examine ideas about who we are and where we belong, with reference to the British nation and its way of telling its own history. Using a range of examples from video games to Turner's paintings, from popular films to Keats, Marina Warner interweaves her critique of fantasy, dream and prejudice.

Calming the Stress Monster

Calming the Stress Monster
Author: Benjamin C. James
Publisher: Llama Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Stress is crippling. If you let it, stress can easily worm its way into all parts of your life, making it hard to be productive. All too quickly your mind floods with feelings of worry, doubt, and anxiety. The worst part is that it can happen almost instantly. One minute you are calm, cool and collected, smashing your to-do list out and living your best life. Then suddenly you get thrown a curve ball and within five minutes you are moving around agitated. Your head is spinning and you don't have a clue what to do next. Living like this from day to day can be extremely tiresome and overwhelming. It can lead to many negative outcomes, such as a lack of productivity, and a lack of motivation. So, let's make sure that you never get attacked by the stress monster again. Calming The Stress Monster is the perfect book to help you manage stress in your life, before it begins to manage you! It will provide you with everything you need to understand what is happening when stress attacks you. That includes the signs that you may find difficult expressing or explaining to other people in a calm manner. This book will help break down the signs and symptoms of stress, and how it can impact you in an emotional and physical way. It will also highlight relaxation techniques that you can use to help keep your mind calm and productive. If you struggle with the stress monster visiting you all too often, then this book is an absolute must-read for you! Isn't it time that you took your life back into your own hands, and banished the stress monster for good? You're damn right it is! Grab a copy of Calming the Stress Monster today and turn your life around!

Managing Monsters

Managing Monsters
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Arrow
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothers, strangers, and the idea of home.

Monster Portraits

Monster Portraits
Author: Sofia Samatar
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781941628102

"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.

Overcoming Emotions that Destroy

Overcoming Emotions that Destroy
Author: Chip Ingram
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0801072395

With the help of this useful book, you too can overcome those emotions that destroy. --

How to Tame Your Thought Monster

How to Tame Your Thought Monster
Author: Katie McClain
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2013-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781484084175

A fun book for parents, kids, and teachers to enjoy together! Create happiness and success with your kids. Teach your kids tools that will help them take responsibility, improve grades, overcome worry & stress, increase happiness and understand bullying so you can stop it before it starts. The fun activities in this full color book will create hours of enjoyment for you and your kids. Teachers, teach the tools to your students and create a common language for a successful thriving classroom. Charlie the Robot, Meet Your Thought Monster, Find Your Feelings, Action Annie and Be the Magician are just a few of the fun and colorful activities you can do with your kids. Exercises for adult and child are side by side in the book so you can work together if you'd like. Bonus exercise are available to download with a link provided in the book. Adults and kids will feel better and improve their confidence when they use the exercises contained in the book. Everyone wins!

Frankenstein Takes the Cake

Frankenstein Takes the Cake
Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547539738

No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes everyone would stop drooling over his delicious pumpkin head. And can someone please tell Edgar Allan Poe to get the door already before the raven completely loses it? Sheesh. In a wickedly funny follow-up to the bestselling Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Adam Rex once again proves that monsters are just like you and me. (Well, sort of.)

Bedtime for Monsters

Bedtime for Monsters
Author: Ed Vere
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805095098

A hungry monster seeks a different type of bedtime snack.