Author: Catherine A. Brennan
Publisher: Wise Ink
ISBN: 9781634892964
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Do you feel stuck? Maybe circumstances beyond your control have drastically altered your life. The people you work with are extremely difficult to deal with. Your spouse or child is having a crisis. You can't lose those extra ten pounds. You find it hard to concentrate. You feel unloved. You're not sure what you're here for. You just don't know what to do next. We all get stuck. It happens in little ways and big ways. There is a way out. We just need to find it. We get stuck because of fear, negative emotions, erroneous beliefs, our attempts to control what we can't, and our lack of skills needed to be free. But the biggest reason? We won't take the steps necessary. They all come down to one question: ''So Now What?'' Progress in our lives depends on our physical, mental, and spiritual health. These three elements build on one another and support each other when any of them wavers. The answers to your relationship questions may rely on your physical health. The answers to your physical ailments may rely on your spiritual health. And the answers to your spiritual questions may rely on your mental health. When you get unstuck, you will look better, feel better, and do better. You will have freedom. You will have love. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Catherine A. Brennan's journey includes healing from a 35-year battle with depression after doctors, counselors, and the church failed her. Throughout her life, Cathy fought hard to keep her secret hidden, but she was weighed down by her unhealthy body, mind, and spirit. Her tenacity caused her to keep asking, ''So Now What?'' until the myriad of answers came, many from unexpected places. Each of the healing professions had some of the answers, but until she took ownership of her illness and fought for her survival, she was stuck. Blame, frustration, and sadness kept her locked up until ''So Now What?'' became her friend. After freeing herself from depression, Catherine found her inner athlete, running the Boston Marathon three times and participating in many half marathons and triathlons. She started a blog and speaking business focusing on the benefits of improving physical, mental, and spiritual health. She and her husband Mike have two married sons. AUTHOR HOME: Mankato, MN
So Now What?: A Guide for People Who Feel Stuck
Author: Catherine A. Brennan
Publisher: Wise Ink
ISBN: 9781634892964
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Do you feel stuck? Maybe circumstances beyond your control have drastically altered your life. The people you work with are extremely difficult to deal with. Your spouse or child is having a crisis. You can't lose those extra ten pounds. You find it hard to concentrate. You feel unloved. You're not sure what you're here for. You just don't know what to do next. We all get stuck. It happens in little ways and big ways. There is a way out. We just need to find it. We get stuck because of fear, negative emotions, erroneous beliefs, our attempts to control what we can't, and our lack of skills needed to be free. But the biggest reason? We won't take the steps necessary. They all come down to one question: ''So Now What?'' Progress in our lives depends on our physical, mental, and spiritual health. These three elements build on one another and support each other when any of them wavers. The answers to your relationship questions may rely on your physical health. The answers to your physical ailments may rely on your spiritual health. And the answers to your spiritual questions may rely on your mental health. When you get unstuck, you will look better, feel better, and do better. You will have freedom. You will have love. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Catherine A. Brennan's journey includes healing from a 35-year battle with depression after doctors, counselors, and the church failed her. Throughout her life, Cathy fought hard to keep her secret hidden, but she was weighed down by her unhealthy body, mind, and spirit. Her tenacity caused her to keep asking, ''So Now What?'' until the myriad of answers came, many from unexpected places. Each of the healing professions had some of the answers, but until she took ownership of her illness and fought for her survival, she was stuck. Blame, frustration, and sadness kept her locked up until ''So Now What?'' became her friend. After freeing herself from depression, Catherine found her inner athlete, running the Boston Marathon three times and participating in many half marathons and triathlons. She started a blog and speaking business focusing on the benefits of improving physical, mental, and spiritual health. She and her husband Mike have two married sons. AUTHOR HOME: Mankato, MN
Publisher: Wise Ink
ISBN: 9781634892964
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Do you feel stuck? Maybe circumstances beyond your control have drastically altered your life. The people you work with are extremely difficult to deal with. Your spouse or child is having a crisis. You can't lose those extra ten pounds. You find it hard to concentrate. You feel unloved. You're not sure what you're here for. You just don't know what to do next. We all get stuck. It happens in little ways and big ways. There is a way out. We just need to find it. We get stuck because of fear, negative emotions, erroneous beliefs, our attempts to control what we can't, and our lack of skills needed to be free. But the biggest reason? We won't take the steps necessary. They all come down to one question: ''So Now What?'' Progress in our lives depends on our physical, mental, and spiritual health. These three elements build on one another and support each other when any of them wavers. The answers to your relationship questions may rely on your physical health. The answers to your physical ailments may rely on your spiritual health. And the answers to your spiritual questions may rely on your mental health. When you get unstuck, you will look better, feel better, and do better. You will have freedom. You will have love. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Catherine A. Brennan's journey includes healing from a 35-year battle with depression after doctors, counselors, and the church failed her. Throughout her life, Cathy fought hard to keep her secret hidden, but she was weighed down by her unhealthy body, mind, and spirit. Her tenacity caused her to keep asking, ''So Now What?'' until the myriad of answers came, many from unexpected places. Each of the healing professions had some of the answers, but until she took ownership of her illness and fought for her survival, she was stuck. Blame, frustration, and sadness kept her locked up until ''So Now What?'' became her friend. After freeing herself from depression, Catherine found her inner athlete, running the Boston Marathon three times and participating in many half marathons and triathlons. She started a blog and speaking business focusing on the benefits of improving physical, mental, and spiritual health. She and her husband Mike have two married sons. AUTHOR HOME: Mankato, MN
And Now What?
Author: Guido Stein
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787435407
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
When you start a new managerial role, there is an inevitable contrast between what you believed you would find and what you’re actually faced with. And Now What? helps you manage this gap between expectation and reality, ensuring that you get off to the best possible start in your new job.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787435407
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
When you start a new managerial role, there is an inevitable contrast between what you believed you would find and what you’re actually faced with. And Now What? helps you manage this gap between expectation and reality, ensuring that you get off to the best possible start in your new job.
90 Days to a New Life Direction
Author: Laura Berman Fortgang
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749925031
Category : Life skills
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Many of us know we would like to do something more meaningful, but working out what that might be can be hard. In this book life coach Laura Berman Fortgang provides an easy-to-follow 90-day, plan aimed at helping you find your new direction and then sett the course the the adventure ahead.
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749925031
Category : Life skills
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Many of us know we would like to do something more meaningful, but working out what that might be can be hard. In this book life coach Laura Berman Fortgang provides an easy-to-follow 90-day, plan aimed at helping you find your new direction and then sett the course the the adventure ahead.
I Do, Now What?
Author: Giuliana Rancic
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345525159
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Bill and Giuliana Rancic are now the hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, a new relationship show featuring three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates. Five million viewers tuned in to The Style Network for Giuliana DePandi and Bill Rancic’s fairy tale wedding in Italy, as the passions, tears, and champagne flowed. But what happened once the honeymoon was over? After all, she’s been stationed in Los Angeles as one of E! Entertainment’s most popular personalities, and he’s kept his home in Chicago, where this handsome winner of The Apprentice has been busy running an empire of his own. How, we’ve wondered, is this marriage really working out? With all the funny, frank, and characteristically down-to-earth personality that fans of their hit reality show, Giuliana & Bill, have come to adore, this glamorous couple takes you behind the scenes of their real-life marriage. Like all newlyweds, they’ve faced the big issues that wedlock manages to invite, including money (to merge or not?), household chores (she’s disorganized, he’s a neat freak), arguments (without staying mad), and trying to have a baby (it’s not as easy as they thought!). Sharing their newfound and sometimes hard-won insights, they offer suggestions on such topics as communication, giving and receiving support, trust and jealousy, quality time, friends and in-laws, fighting fair, and sex and romance. A must-read for newly married couples, or those about to take the plunge, or anyone who wants to know the secrets of everlasting love, I Do, Now What? is an upbeat real-world resource for the most ambitious journey of a couple’s life: marriage!
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345525159
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Bill and Giuliana Rancic are now the hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, a new relationship show featuring three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates. Five million viewers tuned in to The Style Network for Giuliana DePandi and Bill Rancic’s fairy tale wedding in Italy, as the passions, tears, and champagne flowed. But what happened once the honeymoon was over? After all, she’s been stationed in Los Angeles as one of E! Entertainment’s most popular personalities, and he’s kept his home in Chicago, where this handsome winner of The Apprentice has been busy running an empire of his own. How, we’ve wondered, is this marriage really working out? With all the funny, frank, and characteristically down-to-earth personality that fans of their hit reality show, Giuliana & Bill, have come to adore, this glamorous couple takes you behind the scenes of their real-life marriage. Like all newlyweds, they’ve faced the big issues that wedlock manages to invite, including money (to merge or not?), household chores (she’s disorganized, he’s a neat freak), arguments (without staying mad), and trying to have a baby (it’s not as easy as they thought!). Sharing their newfound and sometimes hard-won insights, they offer suggestions on such topics as communication, giving and receiving support, trust and jealousy, quality time, friends and in-laws, fighting fair, and sex and romance. A must-read for newly married couples, or those about to take the plunge, or anyone who wants to know the secrets of everlasting love, I Do, Now What? is an upbeat real-world resource for the most ambitious journey of a couple’s life: marriage!
Now What?
Author: Franz Weinschenk
Publisher: Evening Street Press
ISBN: 1937347427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Now What? is a collection of 10 short stories by Franz Weinschenk – Some are historically significant; some sad; some funny; some enlightening; all entertaining. They Are “Accentuate the Positive”: And what do you suppose happens when the college gets accredited by professors like Dr. Lafcadia Weltgeist? “Homecoming”: You wonder, “Now What?” as the Nazi-brownshirt searches for you and your mother who are hiding in a closet. “Just Another Day At The Office”: With the storm raging full force and the electricity off all over campus, how are you going to get those two students out of that in-between floors stuck elevator? “Memories of Brooklyn”: When first coming to America, they lived in Brooklyn. Wonderful memories – Dewey Junior High, yo-yo's, handball, Red Barber and the Brooklyn Dodgers, sewing shoulder pads, not to forget the girls jumping rope: “Lulu had a baby- She named him Tiny Tim- Put him in a . . . . pot, to teach him how to swim.” “Norm”: Nobody works harder or longer than Norm as he tells us what he thinks go into making “a really good man.” “Madera”: The family decides to move from New York to Madera, California, so that Father can have a bookkeeping job at $80 a month and a house for his family to live in free. “The Marimba Band”: “Now What?” when there is a ton of opposition to a tiny one-unit class for students who want to play in a marimba band? “If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On” says William Shakespeare. But if, while you and your fellow musicians are playing, the family that lives right above you lowers a Nazi flag so that the huge swastika in its center is right in the middle of your front window, “Now What?” “Chris” is an art teacher already very much against the war in Vietnam. One night, he has his students launch balloons with anti-war propaganda on them. And that upsets just about everybody. “Become a 'Late Bloomer' Like It Says in the Brochure”: Paul, who's been a severe stutterer for 36 years, takes Mr. Purcell's English class and gets so mad at him, that for the first time in his whole life, he starts talking.
Publisher: Evening Street Press
ISBN: 1937347427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Now What? is a collection of 10 short stories by Franz Weinschenk – Some are historically significant; some sad; some funny; some enlightening; all entertaining. They Are “Accentuate the Positive”: And what do you suppose happens when the college gets accredited by professors like Dr. Lafcadia Weltgeist? “Homecoming”: You wonder, “Now What?” as the Nazi-brownshirt searches for you and your mother who are hiding in a closet. “Just Another Day At The Office”: With the storm raging full force and the electricity off all over campus, how are you going to get those two students out of that in-between floors stuck elevator? “Memories of Brooklyn”: When first coming to America, they lived in Brooklyn. Wonderful memories – Dewey Junior High, yo-yo's, handball, Red Barber and the Brooklyn Dodgers, sewing shoulder pads, not to forget the girls jumping rope: “Lulu had a baby- She named him Tiny Tim- Put him in a . . . . pot, to teach him how to swim.” “Norm”: Nobody works harder or longer than Norm as he tells us what he thinks go into making “a really good man.” “Madera”: The family decides to move from New York to Madera, California, so that Father can have a bookkeeping job at $80 a month and a house for his family to live in free. “The Marimba Band”: “Now What?” when there is a ton of opposition to a tiny one-unit class for students who want to play in a marimba band? “If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On” says William Shakespeare. But if, while you and your fellow musicians are playing, the family that lives right above you lowers a Nazi flag so that the huge swastika in its center is right in the middle of your front window, “Now What?” “Chris” is an art teacher already very much against the war in Vietnam. One night, he has his students launch balloons with anti-war propaganda on them. And that upsets just about everybody. “Become a 'Late Bloomer' Like It Says in the Brochure”: Paul, who's been a severe stutterer for 36 years, takes Mr. Purcell's English class and gets so mad at him, that for the first time in his whole life, he starts talking.
Now What?
Author: William Cope Moyers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1616494522
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention, treatment, and recovery. Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question “Now what?” for addicts and their loved ones along every step of their journey through contemplation, intervention, treatment, and recovery.As the survivor of multiple relapses and near-fatal experiences with his addiction to alcohol and other drugs, William Cope Moyers knows what it’s like to desperately need, but not know how to find, a good treatment program. As Moyers was struggling, his parents--television journalist Bill Moyers and his wife, Judith--were also battling to understand what was happening to their son and what to do about it. Thanks to a successful intervention, intensive inpatient treatment, and a rigorous Twelve Step program, Moyers has been clean and sober since 1994, and has devoted his life to guiding others in getting the help they need.In the course of his work as a recovery advocate and ambassador with Hazelden Foundation, Moyers has talked with hundreds of alcoholics, addicts, and their families and has been a lifeline in helping them get the treatment they need. Drawing from both his own journey and the experiences of those he’s helped, Moyers applies his passion and trademark down-to-earth, style to lead readers through the process ofrecognizing when someone needs help,finding a quality treatment program,navigating the treatment process, andestablishing a support system after treatment.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1616494522
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention, treatment, and recovery. Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question “Now what?” for addicts and their loved ones along every step of their journey through contemplation, intervention, treatment, and recovery.As the survivor of multiple relapses and near-fatal experiences with his addiction to alcohol and other drugs, William Cope Moyers knows what it’s like to desperately need, but not know how to find, a good treatment program. As Moyers was struggling, his parents--television journalist Bill Moyers and his wife, Judith--were also battling to understand what was happening to their son and what to do about it. Thanks to a successful intervention, intensive inpatient treatment, and a rigorous Twelve Step program, Moyers has been clean and sober since 1994, and has devoted his life to guiding others in getting the help they need.In the course of his work as a recovery advocate and ambassador with Hazelden Foundation, Moyers has talked with hundreds of alcoholics, addicts, and their families and has been a lifeline in helping them get the treatment they need. Drawing from both his own journey and the experiences of those he’s helped, Moyers applies his passion and trademark down-to-earth, style to lead readers through the process ofrecognizing when someone needs help,finding a quality treatment program,navigating the treatment process, andestablishing a support system after treatment.
You're Fifty-Now What?
Author: Charles Schwab
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0609504223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future. For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in financial services, is here to outline the simple steps we should take to evaluate what we have, determine what we'll need, and put our money to work to make our future one of reward instead of worry. In the same upbeat, user-friendly style that made Charles Schwab's Guide to Financial Independence a bestseller, You're Fifty- Now What? offers a mix of clear and workable advice, simple worksheets, and a healthy dose of encouragement. In addition to learning how to accumulate and grow their money, readers will even find help with estate planning and charitable giving. His message is that the goal is not just financial security, but financial peace of mind. The way to get there is not by being a spectator, but a participant. It doesn't take special talent or advanced degrees; it just takes attention and a little time. With baby-boomers living longer and spending more time in retirement, the need is clear. Charles Schwab's You're Fifty- Now What? is the perfect place to get started.
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0609504223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future. For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in financial services, is here to outline the simple steps we should take to evaluate what we have, determine what we'll need, and put our money to work to make our future one of reward instead of worry. In the same upbeat, user-friendly style that made Charles Schwab's Guide to Financial Independence a bestseller, You're Fifty- Now What? offers a mix of clear and workable advice, simple worksheets, and a healthy dose of encouragement. In addition to learning how to accumulate and grow their money, readers will even find help with estate planning and charitable giving. His message is that the goal is not just financial security, but financial peace of mind. The way to get there is not by being a spectator, but a participant. It doesn't take special talent or advanced degrees; it just takes attention and a little time. With baby-boomers living longer and spending more time in retirement, the need is clear. Charles Schwab's You're Fifty- Now What? is the perfect place to get started.
I have betrayed. Now what?
Author: Sinelia Peixoto
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1071587722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
What can you do when you see that your marriage has irretreivably broken down? After ten years of marriage, Paul realises that he no longer loves his wife, that they live like brother and sister, and that libido and sex are no longer present in their relationship. They are living a sham marriage. Paul decides to seek a lover, because, for society, his marriage is perfect and divorce would not be a reasonable option, as Paul is selfish and does not like being left alone. Shall he manage to betray his wife? Shall she find out? And what would happen should he fall in love? What will happen to this couple, and how shall they manage to cope with betrayals, quarrels, lies, intrigue, doubts and fears? Shall they manage to overcome all this and stay together? A story of love, doubts, uncertainty, neuroses, and struggle.
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1071587722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
What can you do when you see that your marriage has irretreivably broken down? After ten years of marriage, Paul realises that he no longer loves his wife, that they live like brother and sister, and that libido and sex are no longer present in their relationship. They are living a sham marriage. Paul decides to seek a lover, because, for society, his marriage is perfect and divorce would not be a reasonable option, as Paul is selfish and does not like being left alone. Shall he manage to betray his wife? Shall she find out? And what would happen should he fall in love? What will happen to this couple, and how shall they manage to cope with betrayals, quarrels, lies, intrigue, doubts and fears? Shall they manage to overcome all this and stay together? A story of love, doubts, uncertainty, neuroses, and struggle.
Depression Among Christians, Now What ?
Author: Rodrigo Assunção
Publisher: Simplíssimo
ISBN: 8582457235
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Depression among christians, now what? Depression among chriatians is not just a book, but it was written to be an instrument to help people with the struggle of this disease, since depression is no longer something that we just hear about, but it became something real, and when people have to face it, they become desperate. However is possible to find a way out to that depressive moments/episodes. Furthermore, is possible to face this disease even when it becomes a chronic condition. In this guide, authors align science and faith, in order to understand the mechanisms that involvs depression, its origin, things that could trigger and symptoms, so they can point a path for treatment. When the myth arround depression is undone, and starts to be seen as a pathology that is often followed by spiritual factors, it can be faced naturally and, therefore, more effectively.
Publisher: Simplíssimo
ISBN: 8582457235
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Depression among christians, now what? Depression among chriatians is not just a book, but it was written to be an instrument to help people with the struggle of this disease, since depression is no longer something that we just hear about, but it became something real, and when people have to face it, they become desperate. However is possible to find a way out to that depressive moments/episodes. Furthermore, is possible to face this disease even when it becomes a chronic condition. In this guide, authors align science and faith, in order to understand the mechanisms that involvs depression, its origin, things that could trigger and symptoms, so they can point a path for treatment. When the myth arround depression is undone, and starts to be seen as a pathology that is often followed by spiritual factors, it can be faced naturally and, therefore, more effectively.
Too Early, Too Late, Now What?
Author: David L. Hawk
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728335035
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Contents presented here are not intended to make humans feel good about themselves, nor their futures. It provides little support to business as usual in relations between humans and nature. Many depict this relation with metaphorical hope as in always seeing glasses as half-full. Others are more pessimistic and see glasses as half-empty. Neither will find comfort herein. The reality outlined herein is closer to a glass as empty, and covered with stains. While harsh, continuance of ever-expanding environmental deterioration promises to be much harsher. One consequence of deterioration is climate change as it emerged in 1977 near the end of a study presented in this book. Climate change was a proposed consequence of the way in which humans lived via ever expanding industrialization to meet growing human needs and exploding human wants. The study began with a focus on approaches to regulating industrialization pollution. Increasing legalistic regulation was then seen as the best means to control expanding deterioration of the environment, if and when the situation might become dire. Tougher laws and stricter governance were presumed to be available to protect the conditions necessary for life. The study was begun in 1975 while based at the Stockholm School of Economics, Institute of International Business. It was funded by corporate and governmental interests. It attracted leaders from the private and public sectors in several countries. Company selections were based on those who owned production facilities in several countries, facilities with similar technology making similar products resulting in similar pollution. In this way we could document pollution flows in order to evaluate differing governmental regulations. Results surprised all involved, including the researchers. The US was presumed to be very effective in environmental pollution regulations. Research results showed the opposite. It was found to rely too much on unknowledgeable lawyers and incomprehensible legalese all based on reductionist analysis in search of cause-effect logic. Significant success was instead found where the role of 2-dimensional paper laws was greatly restricted. Such was replaced by the authority of human self-governance pursuing 3-dimensional innovation with recognition of 4-dimensional limitations. Study results recommended replacing legal order with a negotiated order. This was thought to better track the systemic processes of deterioration, processes the analytic couldn’t see. This was seen to have encouraged the needed business as unusual. Results were presented to OECD as part of their discussion of different approaches to managing environmental deterioration. Results were also presented in a dissertation for a PhD in Systems Sciences, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Reviewers were concerned about two items. First was that environmental deterioration may be better understood via deeper analysis, not broader synthesis. Second was that climate change evolving from further environmental deterioration was speculative. It needed to be dropped. In addition, the Wharton dean of the time refused to approve the work. He did not see a relation between environmental deterioration and business, and he believed students needed to concentrate on business as usual before wondering off into the unusual. Since that time relations between man and nature have not improved, nor have relations between men and between men and themselves. We now face the ultimate of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Gregory Bateson’s Double Bind. Business as usual will end in no business. The essence of the 1979 work was recently tested via posting a question on the Member Community Blog Site of the 120,000 member American Association for the Advancement of Science. The question was: Humans are changing the context for life on our planet to the negative. Does anyone see a source for hope? More than 800 responses were posted by scientists. Few saw evidences for hope in the current human project as climate changed. David Hawk has been a professor in many universities in many countries. He serves as senior advisor to several major international firms. He advises a group of female-led firms in China just now that work to demonstrate the potential of the feminine to solve problems of the masculine. He has been a university dean and written on many subjects. His awards include the IBM International Professor of the Year.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728335035
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Contents presented here are not intended to make humans feel good about themselves, nor their futures. It provides little support to business as usual in relations between humans and nature. Many depict this relation with metaphorical hope as in always seeing glasses as half-full. Others are more pessimistic and see glasses as half-empty. Neither will find comfort herein. The reality outlined herein is closer to a glass as empty, and covered with stains. While harsh, continuance of ever-expanding environmental deterioration promises to be much harsher. One consequence of deterioration is climate change as it emerged in 1977 near the end of a study presented in this book. Climate change was a proposed consequence of the way in which humans lived via ever expanding industrialization to meet growing human needs and exploding human wants. The study began with a focus on approaches to regulating industrialization pollution. Increasing legalistic regulation was then seen as the best means to control expanding deterioration of the environment, if and when the situation might become dire. Tougher laws and stricter governance were presumed to be available to protect the conditions necessary for life. The study was begun in 1975 while based at the Stockholm School of Economics, Institute of International Business. It was funded by corporate and governmental interests. It attracted leaders from the private and public sectors in several countries. Company selections were based on those who owned production facilities in several countries, facilities with similar technology making similar products resulting in similar pollution. In this way we could document pollution flows in order to evaluate differing governmental regulations. Results surprised all involved, including the researchers. The US was presumed to be very effective in environmental pollution regulations. Research results showed the opposite. It was found to rely too much on unknowledgeable lawyers and incomprehensible legalese all based on reductionist analysis in search of cause-effect logic. Significant success was instead found where the role of 2-dimensional paper laws was greatly restricted. Such was replaced by the authority of human self-governance pursuing 3-dimensional innovation with recognition of 4-dimensional limitations. Study results recommended replacing legal order with a negotiated order. This was thought to better track the systemic processes of deterioration, processes the analytic couldn’t see. This was seen to have encouraged the needed business as unusual. Results were presented to OECD as part of their discussion of different approaches to managing environmental deterioration. Results were also presented in a dissertation for a PhD in Systems Sciences, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Reviewers were concerned about two items. First was that environmental deterioration may be better understood via deeper analysis, not broader synthesis. Second was that climate change evolving from further environmental deterioration was speculative. It needed to be dropped. In addition, the Wharton dean of the time refused to approve the work. He did not see a relation between environmental deterioration and business, and he believed students needed to concentrate on business as usual before wondering off into the unusual. Since that time relations between man and nature have not improved, nor have relations between men and between men and themselves. We now face the ultimate of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Gregory Bateson’s Double Bind. Business as usual will end in no business. The essence of the 1979 work was recently tested via posting a question on the Member Community Blog Site of the 120,000 member American Association for the Advancement of Science. The question was: Humans are changing the context for life on our planet to the negative. Does anyone see a source for hope? More than 800 responses were posted by scientists. Few saw evidences for hope in the current human project as climate changed. David Hawk has been a professor in many universities in many countries. He serves as senior advisor to several major international firms. He advises a group of female-led firms in China just now that work to demonstrate the potential of the feminine to solve problems of the masculine. He has been a university dean and written on many subjects. His awards include the IBM International Professor of the Year.