Avoiding the Arrogance Cycle

Avoiding the Arrogance Cycle
Author: Michael Farr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0762768177

What is the arrogance cycle? We’ve just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. Like Dr. Frankenstein breathing life into inanimate flesh, investment professionals sought ever more novel ways to create wealth. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In this book, Michael Farr examines the forces at work on individuals and markets and explains in clear, concise, layman’s terms how we got to where we are. Farr focuses on individual factors—such as rampant consumerism, a sense of entitlement, narcissism, resentment toward the upper class—that combined to create the perfect economic storm. By consulting with leading psychologists and relaying first-hand experience with investment clients, he provides a case study of the arrogant investor. In reviewing failed enterprises like Enron, AIG, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns, as well as the illegal activities of Bernie Madoff and others through the lens of arrogance, the book sheds light on those disasters and offers a means to detect the insidious presence of arrogance so that in the future we can contain the damage before it spreads.

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
Author: John R. Dallas, Jr.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2014-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1105305201

We Need to Have a Word, Words of Wisdom Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere by John R. Dallas, Jr., is written and designed as a week-by-week reader. The 438-page volume contains 52 letters to readers for a full year of rapid immersion with high-impact key words. Personal purpose, passion and potential to be found within selected evocative words are honored as valuable buried treasure. Toward work-life alignment goals and objectives, the book leads readers to find themselves shining within the complexity and brilliance of 52 word gemstones. These are words to be. These words are action. These words support work-life alignment. From conference tables to kitchen tables, and from war rooms to locker rooms, these are words to support readers to dig, drill and think deeper so each person will reach, climb and stand higher. These are grown-up words for leaders of all ages. Some eager readers enjoy reading cover-to-cover, then again reading week-by-week for a full year of building value word-by-word.

Overhearing the Gospel

Overhearing the Gospel
Author: Fred B Craddock
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0827227337

Revised and Expanded Edition! When originally published in 1978, Overhearing the Gospel introduced "narrative preaching" and forever changed the shape of contemporary preaching. Now a new generation of preachers can learn from the master himself in this revised and expanded edition of Craddock's groundbreaking method.

God's Charge/Warning To Americans

God's Charge/Warning To Americans
Author: Nworah Ifeanyi Anakwenze
Publisher: Anti-CRIME Publishers International
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 276591785X

This powerful God-inspired special e-book, which is dedicated to the welfare of all Americans and to the fight against crime/evil/social ills in America, contains powerful God-inspired special message to all Americans, including American men and women, old and young. The powerful God-inspired special e-book also contains many powerful words of wisdom/admonitions for all Americans, including powerful words of wisdom/admonitions for American political leaders/political office holders, and for American statesmen/elders, and for American religious leaders/religious faithful, and for American workers, and for Americans who are jobless or unemployed, and for American professionals, and for American businessmen and women, and for American youths, and for American parents, and for American children, and for Americans who are rich/wealthy, and for Americans who are facing hardships/challenging problems, and for Americans who engage in criminal/evil acts. Americans from all walks of life, irrespective of religious or political beliefs, will find this powerful God-inspired special e-book very useful for getting great inspiration towards successful/prosperous/fulfilled living, and towards making great/outstanding achievements in life, and towards avoiding falling into crime/evil which leads to disgrace/regrets/destruction.

Spiritual Transformation

Spiritual Transformation
Author: Richard W. Clark
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1460297695

Spiritual Transformation examines the subtle and complex nature of addictions and poly-addictions—alcohol, drugs, pornography, shopping, eating, work, etc., the myths and traps that defeat recovery from them, the structure and intent of each of the twelve steps, the related roles of psychology, therapy, medicine, the underlying spiritual philosophy of each of those steps, what ‘being recovered’ actually means, the over-riding importance of the five spiritual principles, and much more. It is written for anyone in any twelve-step program, for family and friends of addicts of all stripes, for educators, for professionals who work with addicts and alcoholics, and anyone who wishes to understand the intricate workings of addiction. Richard Clark has presented this material in various formats since 1986 to over ninety thousand people.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility
Author: Mark Alfano
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351107526

Humility is a vital aspect of political discussion, social media and self-help, whilst recent empirical research has linked humility to improved well-being, open-mindedness and increased accuracy in assessing persuasive messages. It is also a topic central to research and discussion in philosophy, applied ethics and religious studies. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of humility, whilst also covering important interdisciplinary topics. Comprising 41 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into seven parts: • Theories of humility • The ethics of humility • The politics of humility • Humility in religious thought • The epistemology of humility • The psychology of humility • Humility: applications to the social world. Essential reading for students and researchers in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy and philosophy of mind and psychology, this Handbook will also be extremely useful for those in related disciplines such as psychology, religious studies and law.

A Million Is Not Enough

A Million Is Not Enough
Author: Michael Farr
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2008-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0446511749

Will you have over $1 million ready for your retirement? If the answer is no, and this figure sounds totally out of reach, think again. A million dollars isn't what it used to be. The truth is that Baby Boomers, who have enjoyed more abundance and pleasures than any previous generation, need more than a million dollars for a comfortable retirement. And you can achieve this-even if you don't already have a net worth close to a million dollars-by starting now. In A MILLION IS NOT ENOUGH, Michael Farr, one of America's leading financial strategists, shows you that this goal can absolutely be accomplished-no matter what your income bracket. Farr has decades of experience as an investment strategist advising thousands of clients. With this inside information he provides a step-by-step program that includes: STEP 1: Save it...the 25 simple things you can do today to save an extra $300-$500 a monthSTEP 2: Invest it...the techniques all of us can use to demystify investingSTEP 3: Personalize it...investment strategies for readers in their thirties, forties, and fiftiesSTEP 4: Manage and protect it...how to keep investments safe in volatile marketsSTEP 5: Pass it on...creating a legacy for the future This strategy is ambitious, but Michael Farr shows you how painless it can be. Whether you're thirty-five, forty-five, or fifty-five; getting a head start, starting on time, or playing catch-up, A MILLION IS NOT ENOUGH can help you establish the financial security you really need for your retirement years.

Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle
Author: Lynne B. Alvine
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In this important new book, Lynne Alvine and Linda Cullum provide real examples of classroom situations in which gender bias occurs and, more important, specific suggestions for addressing gender inequity in school contexts.

More Precious Than Silver

More Precious Than Silver
Author: Joel Bennett
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1973634376

Growing up can be a struggle. Today, an entire generation is colliding with adulthood without ever knowing life before social media, and this has left us striving to attain the life we project there. But what we need isn’t there. In our search for fulfillment, we wander in all the wrong places: relationships, sex, pornography, and even marriage. But life still fails to live up to our expectations. In More Precious Than Silver, author Joel Bennett reveals that fulfillment isn’t found in a person—nor are our devices a substitute for real, live relationships. With practical guidance and a bit of humor, Joel helps you discover how the discipline of singleness can better prepare you for a lasting relationship. You’ll learn how to dispel the myth about finding “the one” and recognize the truth that love alone is not enough to keep a relationship together. As Christians, we must move beyond the cultural lies about sex and relationships, and instead submit to the intimacy of God’s design. It’s harder than ever to live the #ChristianLife in the digital age, but with wisdom and truth, you can discover life as God intended it to be lived: with abundance.