The Underdog Edge

The Underdog Edge
Author: Amy Showalter
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1614480206

A prominent consultant reveals secrets to help you influence and persuade others—even when you aren’t in a position of power. We all have occasions in which we want or need to persuade someone of greater clout, prestige, or authority to see things our way. There are books that show how to effect change from a leadership position or how to work with peers within your own organization—but what can you do when you need to exert “upward influence” with decision makers who can help you achieve your goals? In this book, a popular speaker and successful consultant with expertise in grassroots efforts shows which tactics are most successful when you’re the underdog. She also shares real-world stories of everyday people who have achieved persuasion success in politics and business with someone up the food chain, the peer-reviewed science behind their success—as well as insights from those whose minds they changed.

David and Goliath

David and Goliath
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0241959608

Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, no.1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw, takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage. When does a traumatic childhood work in someone's favour? How can a disability leave someone better off? And do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? David and Goliath draws on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and on Malcolm Gladwell's unparalleled ability to make the connections others miss. It's a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking about power and advantage. 'A global phenomenon... there is, it seems, no subject over which he cannot scatter some magic dust' Observer

Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership

Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership
Author: Scott T. Allison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317426118

Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership brings together new scholarship in this burgeoning field to build an important foundation for further multidisciplinary developments. In its three parts, "Origins of Heroism," "Types of Heroism," and "Processes of Heroism," distinguished social scientists and researchers explore topics such as morality, resilience, courage, empathy, meaning, altruism, spirituality, and transformation. This handbook provides a much-needed consolidation and synthesis for heroism and heroic leadership scholars and graduate students.

The Underdog in American Politics

The Underdog in American Politics
Author: K. Trautman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230107702

One major party in American politics, the Democrats, has consciously identified itself with underdogs. This book analyzes the relationship between the party and the main political ideology of its base: liberalism.

The Art and Science of Heroism and Heroic Leadership

The Art and Science of Heroism and Heroic Leadership
Author: Scott T. Allison
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 288945889X

Heroism is a rich, elusive phenomenon. Any adequate understanding of heroic behavior requires a new type of scholarly imagination, one that taps into human artistic sensibilities as much as it does the rigors of scientific inquiry. In an important sense, we invoke a meta-version of the call to heroic imagination by Franco, Blau, and Zimbardo (2011), who describe such imagination “as a mind-set” and “a collection of attitudes” (p. 13) that can steer everyday people toward heroic achievement. This eBook also merges our understanding of heroism with heroic leadership, demonstrating that heroic leadership applies the principles of heroism in moving groups toward noble collective goals. This eBook represents an effort by a distinguished group of authors to unleash their own creative mindsets, attitudes, and imaginations in their scholarship on heroism and heroic leadership.

Right Before You Write

Right Before You Write
Author: Jonathan O'Brien
Publisher: Sandy Point Ink LLC
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780981621609

A guide to key planning strategies to prepare for grant writing.

Heroes

Heroes
Author: Scott T. Allison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199739749

Using the lens of popular culture, Heroes explores the ways that our perceptions of heroism and villainy affect the way people behave in heroic and villainous ways. Allison and Goethals use psychology to explore how these important concepts shape our lives and our world.

The Novels of Nora Roberts, Volume 4

The Novels of Nora Roberts, Volume 4
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 2823
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101562102

Four gripping romantic thrillers from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. BLUE SMOKE Bo Goodnight has been trying to find arson investigator Reena Hale for years, and now that she’s close enough to touch, he has no intention of letting go. Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena’s life—a man who will send Reena into the worst inferno she has ever faced… ANGELS FALL When Reece Gilmore sees an apparent attack while hiking in the mountains, no one believes her—except a gruff loner named Brody. Then a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone wants her out of the way, and Reece must put her trust in Brody—and herself—to find out if there really is a killer in Angel’s Fall... HIGH NOON After watching hostage negotiator Phoebe MacNamara talk one of his employees off a roof ledge, Duncan Swift is committed to keeping the intriguing, take-charge woman in his life. When a man begins to taunt her with violent threats, Duncan backs her up as she fights the faceless tormentor who is determined to make her a hostage to fear... TRIBUTE When former child star Cilla McGowan finds a cache of unsigned letters found in the attic point to a mysterious romance in her grandmother’s life, her discovery sparks a frightening, violent assault. Now, if Cilla and Ford are unable to sort out who is targeting her and why, she may, just like her world-famous grandmother, be cut down in the prime of her life...

Black Hills

Black Hills
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101082208

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Nora Roberts takes readers deep into the rugged hills of South Dakota, where the shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a friendship matures into something more.... Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills. Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe. Both of them know the natural dangers that lurk in the wild landscape of the Black Hills. But a killer of twisted and unnatural instincts has singled them out as prey....