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"[
Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled shows] us how success in the workplace can be something more-but is never less-than the sum of our experiences, emotions, and intelligence. I really liked this book."
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Marcus Buckingham, International speaker and best-selling author,
Now Discover Your Strengths and
First, Break All the Rules
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Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled is one of those books that really makes you want to be a better manager, a better leader, a better person. The stories are powerful, the anecdotes are right on the money, and the wisdom is so evident and clear."
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Pat Lencioni, Author,
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and President, The Table Group
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Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled grabbed me from page one and never let go. It's one of those rare business books full of fresh, original stories that inspire us to take a look at our three Cs: commitment, character, and competence."
-Ken Blanchard, Coauthor,
The One Minute Manager® and
Leading at a Higher Level
"As a member of the senior White House staff and a veteran in banking and the executive search fields, I have interviewed thousands of highly successful people. In
Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled, Dr. Tim Irwin nails the essential differences between those who do well and those who don't. If you want to know what it takes to make it in any endeavor, read this book!"
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J. Veronica Biggins, Senior Partner, Heidrick & Struggles
"In this inspiring and adventure-filled book, Tim Irwin creatively weaves in stories from his own experiences with hard-hitting corporate examples. It's a great read for those willing to do the work required to experience their own spectacular results and enjoy success."
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Roger Staubach, Chairman/CEO, The Staubach Company and Super Bowl MVP
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Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled features Tim Irwin's seven critical success factors as well as six common career derailers. With compelling real-life stories to launch each chapter, Irwin distills not only his experiences as a successful corporate psychologist but also what he has learned from others in thousands of interviews with senior executives. Inside you will also find how you can access free online self-assessment exercises and developmental resources.
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Commitment, Character, Competence.......2007-07-31
The advice in this book extends beyond the professional world and echoes in everyday life. This makes sense; we don't live double-lives, and there exists no magic, secret formula for success in business, medicine, or raising kids. It comes down to basic human virtues.
Commitment. Character. Competence. These attributes fuel the engines of success in life.
It boggles the mind how many books or programs offer axiomatic platitudes such as "it's not what you know but who you know" or "success is what makes you happy, so be true to yourself."
None such wasteful advice finds its way into this book. Rather, Dr. Irwin points out the objective, observable standards that exist in life, and our need to continually evaluate ourselves and measure our choices against those standards.
As the book says; it's simple, but it isn't easy. I highly recommend this book.
Run with the Bulls Without Getting Trampled.......2007-07-08
Tim Irwin's book, "Run with the Bulls," is by far the most insightful business book I have read this year. It causes you to take a look beneath the surface and determine how you can lead a life of significance and find meaning in your work. There are very few business books that take you to this level of personal reflection. "Run with the Bulls" is one of them.
run with the bulls.......2007-04-19
"Run with the Bulls" offers a practical approach to finding meaning and fulfillment in our careers. Tim Irwin uses straightforward language to express complex ideas. He has an engaging way with personal anecdotes that serve both to clarify his themes and share aspects of his family life. One of the book's many pleasures is its frequent use of cultural references. Dr Irwin's interests range from "New Yorker" cartoons to TS Eliot to popular movies like "Groundhog Day." His experience as a psychologist has given him unique insight into the complex issues that so often derail our attempts to pursue excellence.
If you are running your career you need this book.......2007-03-08
The best complete compilation and illustration of the keys to a great life and career.
Great Stories with a Powerful Message.......2007-01-31
"Run with the Bulls" is hard book to put down. I savored each chapter. The author tells real life stories as the foundation for a powerful message on principles of leadership. After reading the book I passed it on to my 18 year-old son who read it in a week. I wish I had known the principles which Irwin sets forth so clearly when I began my career! The stampeding bulls will trample the energy and enthusiasm out of many young professionals. I ordered six copies for my family members to help them avoid that fate.
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GET YOUR LIFE ON TRACK.......2007-03-18
Robert Kiyosaki and his team of writers have a unique way of teaching without preaching. All of his books have been inspirational, motivating guides that have helped me to increase my financial literacy. Any book that has his name attached to it, I will buy.
Excellent Resource.......2007-02-24
This is one of the best books on Debt and how to turn it around to work to your advantage. There are several strategies for reducing and consolidating debt, as well as dealing with creditors and credit reporting agencies. A must read for anyone interested in turning bad debt into good debt!
Old News.......2007-01-15
I was very disappointed in this book. Most of the information given is easily found on the internet for free. I thought there would be more tips on getting out of debt, but most of the book seemed to be about credit reports. I would not recommend this book at all. Just do some searches on the internet and you'll be able to get the same info. Or just borrow this book from your local library - just don't waste your money buying it.
An Excellent Consumer Resource.......2006-06-16
This book does a great job of covering several areas of debt that all consumers will find helpful. It is written in an easy to understand language, yet rich with detail and a variety areas covered. The chapter on debt collections touched on the topic of statute of limitations, which is very important to many consumers, including me. I found that two other books that I read on consumer debt did not deal at all with this important topic. I thank Garrett Sutton (and contributor Gerri Detweiler) for a very valuable book.
Good book with lots of different information........2005-01-14
I read this book to get a little more famaliar with budgets, and was very impressed with how many things this book touched on.
Very well written!
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At last, there’s a business leadership book that really tackles the tough issues of integrity and governance. Taking a unique approach to leadership, this book gathers the path-breaking perspectives of influential shareholder activists; opinion-leading CEOs of major firms; trailblazing, distinguished academics; and courageous regulators. The all-star roster of contributors from the corporate world and academia includes Vanguard's John Bogle, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, and Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Sherron Watkins, Enron whistleblower and Time Person of the Year, shares an inside look at Enron, and Barbara Ley Toffler, former head of Arthur Andersen's Ethics Practice, paints a picture of Anderson Consulting before their fall.
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Expert contributors on the challenges facing today's business leaders
No business leadership book tackles the tough issues of integrity and governance as does Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out. Taking a uniquely holistic approach to leadership, this book gathers the path-breaking perspectives of influential shareholder activists; opinion-leading CEOs of major firms; trailblazing, distinguished academics; and courageous regulators. The all-star roster of contributors from the corporate world and academia includes Vanguard's John Bogle; former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt; Professor Michael Useem of the Wharton School; Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana; Robert Lane, CEO of (John) Deere & Company, shareholder activist Nell Minnow; and Philippe Haspeslagh, Professor of Business Policy at INSEAD. Sherron Watkins, Enron whistleblower and Time Person of the Year, shares an inside look at Enron, and Barbara Ley Toffler, former head of Arthur Andersen's Ethics Practice, paints a picture of Anderson Consulting before their fall.
Robert Gandossy (Redding, Connecticut) is a Global Leader for Hewitt Associates' Talent and Organization Consulting. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (Hamden, Connecticut) is the Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University's School of Management, as well as founder, President, and CEO of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of Yale University.
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- Stands alone as a managment book
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The New Partnership: Profit by Bringing Out the Best in Your People, Customers, and Yourself
Tom Melohn
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"This highly readable, practical, principle-centered book absolutely inspires honesty and caring."â Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
"The New Partnership kept me up half the night, engaged with [Melohn's] insights and humor. . . . I loved it."âWarren Bennis, Distinguished Professor, University of Southern California, Author of An Invented Life
"Tom Melohn's many anecdotes bring home the personal investment in partnership. There are important lessons here for each of us."âBob Galvin, Chairman, Executive Committee, Motorola Corporation
"A wonderful book! The kind of leadership Melohn describes takes guts and hard work, for it's built on competence in relationships and moral purpose. The results can make capitalism human and fruitful."âMax De Pree, Former CEO of Herman Miller, Author of The Art of Leadership
"North American Tool & Die is one of the truly significant success stories I've encountered in all my years at Inc. If anything, I think the moral of the great NATD parable is more relevant today than ever."âGeorge Gendron, Editor in Chief, Inc. magazine
The New Partnership offers a timeless business philosophy that can produce real bottom-line results in any organization. Relying on fundamental values such as trust, honesty, dignity, equality, mutual respect, teamwork, recognition, and caring, Tom Melohn and his partners produced remarkable results at North American Tool & Die. As the result of a "new partnership" forged with each co-worker, customer, and supplier, NATD experienced record growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
In The New Partnership you'll discover how NATD transformed their company, and you'll learn how to make their experience a lasting reality in your own business, division, or department.
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Stands alone as a managment book.......2003-05-29
I'm amazed that this book hasn't been discovered by more people.
It is clear that the author's view on valuing employees passes the real-world test because, unlike the many management consultants and academicians who have written primarily theoretical works, Melohn actually delivered outstanding business performance through the implementation of his approach.
If you're only going to read one book on this topic, you've just found it.
A refreashing outlook on empowering people.......1999-09-30
The author has a rare view of himself in corporate America. He sees himself as a servant to the people and works on drawing out the best in them. I loved the book because it is proof the managing and directing a force of people through values works! Perhaps the best aspect of the book is that he gives practical steps to incorporate these steps in a organization. However he makes it clear that unless the leaders of a organization embrace these values the efforts of others really wont' matter. He calls leaders to the carpet. You can't expect things (values, work ethic etc) from others until you do it yourself and model it consistently. Personally I have never worked for someone like Tom, however I would love the chance to.
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Designed to appeal to salespeople of all religious affiliations and backgrounds, this book is ideal for those who want to learn why the art of successful selling doesn't have to mean selling out your own spiritual principles. Milteer includes hints for changing our perception of the sales profession along with changing our perception of ourselves and our life's purpose. "Power" sections throughout the book help readers understand and unleash the power of integrity, intuition, imagination, and more. For more than twenty years Lee Milteer has been a highly-regarded motivational speaker and executive coach whose repeat clients have included Disney, Ford, IBM, AT & T, and FedEx. End
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Spiritual Power Tools for Successful Selling.......2007-07-16
"Everyone is in sales. No matter your title or profession, anyone who has succeeded at anything is an effective salesperson. You sell your knowledge. Talents, abilities, experiences, point of view, beliefs, values, and your enthusiasm daily."
Spiritual Tools for Successful Selling reminds the reader if you believe in what you do and allow yourself to be enthused about your job you will automatically be more successful. Too often money becomes the sole purpose of our work creating a cycle of stress, decreased enthusiasm about one's work, and reduced ability to perform. However, once the job becomes more about being present, helping others with their needs, and enjoying the experience, we naturally become less stressed, passionate, and creative about our work allowing success to follow naturally.
Sometimes we all need a little reminder that our chosen life work isn't just about money. Yes, money is pretty helpful to have but often we get so stressed about earning it that we never really get to enjoy the things we do have: our friends, our family, and others that we make connections with each day.
Great book!.......2006-11-02
Lee Milteer's book, "Spiritual Power Tools for Successful Selling" has helped me greatly in my everyday life. As a small business owner and not a "professional salesman", it has helped me to put my marketing efforts in perspective. In my opinion, my business and myself are better for having read this book.
A Persuasive Approach to Selling.......2005-12-03
This book has a rather unusual, somewhat low-key approach toward sales expertise, but it is couched in such logical, practical, useful terms that it brings a different perspective to selling. Granted, it does emphasize the fact that one should like, or feel good, about whatever one sells, as though it was a joy and privilege to offer people something useful and desirable. The book offers specific guidance to this end. Lee Milteer, author of the previously well-received "Success is an Inside Job," makes a strong case for merging the spiritual aspects of one's life with a professional career. The rewards of such a merger, both personally and professionally, are worth examining. If anyone on your gift list is involved in sales or marketing, this could be a welcome offering.
Tools for Everyone.......2005-11-28
Spiritual Power Tools is an amazing book that will keep you from every feeling rejected again in the business world. Lee Milteer encourages the reader to not take what others do personally. This book goes beyond the average self help-sales book to tell the reader how important it is to acknowledge your true nature, stay in integrity, use your imagination to create your own reality. This is a rare book of insight, wisdom and uplifting tools to assist anyone in the business world blend their own personal spiritual beliefs with the reality of the business world. After reading Lee Milteer's other books I can say that she continues to share the most practical and useful information in an easy to use format. Guaranteed to make you feel more successful.
Successful Sales Tools.......2005-11-28
This book is an inspiration! The more you read, the more motivated, enthusiastic and inspired you become. The book teaches you how to approach any situation positively so you will succeed!
I truly recommend this book to everyone, even if you are not directly in sales! You won't be disappointed.
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Ethics out of Economics
John Broome
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John Broome's work has always combined sophisticated economic and philosophical expertise, and Ethics Out of Economics brings together some of his most important essays, augmented by a new introduction. This book examines some of the practical issues that lie between economics and ethics, and shows how utility theory can contribute to ethics, as many economic problems are also ethical problems. Professor Broome raises some fundamental questions about economic equality, preserving the environment, and the allocation of medical resources, and powerfully shows how economic methods can contribute to moral philosophy.
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Many economic problems are also ethical problems: should we value economic equality? how much should we care about preserving the environment? how should medical resources be divided between saving life and enhancing life? This book examines some of the practical issues that lie between economics and ethics, and shows how utility theory can contribute to ethics. John Broome's work has, unusually, combined sophisticated economic and philosophical expertise, and Ethics Out of Economics brings together some of his most important essays, augmented with a new introduction. The first group of essays deals with the relation between preference and value, the second with various questions about the formal structure of good, and the concluding section with the value of life. This work is of interest and importance for both economists and philosophers, and shows powerfully how economic methods can contribute to moral philosophy.
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Nice to hear a different perspective.......2007-10-08
As someone who has no medical choice but to have her children by cesarean, I was pleased to come across this book. With all of the negativity surrounding cesarean birth, it's nice to read a different perspective and have a medical doctor verify what I have long since thought-that c-sections are not the villians that society makes them out to be. Thank you, Dr.!
To section or not to section.......2004-05-16
I am writing this review as a woman, mother, and health care professional. I delivered two children vaginally, twins by scheduled c-section and had an elective hysterectomy two years ago. Due to the "normal, uncomplicated" vaginal births I developed a rectacele, which is a prolapse in the vaginal wall between the rectum and vagina. When I found out I was having twins I opted for a scheduled c-section. My babies were born healthy and were delivered with NO complications. I can honestly say I bonded immediently with my babies, and NURSED BOTH babies with NO difficulty. Two years later, my scar is nothing more than a very fine line about 2 inches long. After successfully delivering four children I opted for a hysterectomy when my periods were causing me pain.
Now having all that said lets discuss all of this in detail. First, these were all my choices. As a woman I feel it is my right to decide what I think is best for me. Dr. Walters book gave me comfort in my decision with a section. As a nurse I have seen the results of physicians who wait too long to section. Also, in my investigation of c-sections there is very little medical research in today's medical journals speaking out against sections. Malpractice is too risky. Also for those of you trying to make that decision remember: Most women who have a section the first time REQUEST a second one. Mine, because it was scheduled, was a piece of cake. Thank you Dr. Walters for caring enough about women to give them this book! I recovered from my section much quicker than I did from the rectacele.
I chose the hysterectomy to eliminate my pain. I have not regreted my decision for one minute and have NEVER talked to a woman who regreted having a hysterectomy. I have now eliminated two potential types of cancer and have a very enjoyable, pain-free life.
As a health care professional I can speak first handedly about everything Dr. Walters writes about. Dr. Walters speaks candidly about issues that need to be discussed in our "sue-happy" society. As an obvious "poster child" for Dr. Walter's book, I give it my full support and hope more women will benefit from his expertise, insight and concern. This doctor truely cares about women, their decisions about their bodies, and their unborn babies.
Reinforcement for those who want nothing more........2003-03-26
This book is written my someone that doesn't really have the expertise or medical background to write a book of this sort. People that want the FACTS about cesarean, repeat cesarean, or VBAC, and the evidence based risks and benefits, are not going to get it here. Cesarean IS a valid birth, IF it is medically necessary. Unfortunately, what is said to be medically necessary, in most cases, is about 1/6th of cesareans proformed, "Medically necessary" is VERY debatable. Cesarean for conveince is a crime. We have WAY too high a cesarean rate, and not the infant mortality to back up this rate. Many feel birth to be something to be indured. Something someone else makes decisions for you about. If you want reinforcement to that, here ya go. Vaginal birth isn't all it is cracked up to be? Tell that to me, who after a hospital birth with a midwife, chose even LESS intervention, and had freestanding birth center waterbirth. Why? Becasue I was the director. I was not coached, discouraged, persuaded into anything. I had a birth expereince I enjoyed, and I took responsibility for my decisions. Or tell it to a friend of mine, who made the emotional journey after a pelvic disproportion cesarean, that just had a VBAC at a freestadning birth center with a midwife-who is STILL beaming of empowerment months later. You CAN choose cesarean for yourself. BUT be sure the choice IS truely yours, for yourself, for your baby. Read the FACTS about the risks, not just what your doctor tells you. Yes cesarean IS valid birth, but your contentment with it is a whole other subject. There IS more to birth than a healthy baby. How about a healthy mom too?
Ethics? Economics for who? (correction to previous review).......2003-03-05
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS: THIS REVIEW IS A REVISION TO ONE I SUBMITTED YESTERDAY. Upon reviewing the guidelines I realized that a few comments could be construed as spiteful or sarcastic, and there was one incorrect observation. Please print the revised review.
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I have to say that while I disagree with many of the points that Dr. Campbell addresses in "Just Take It Out", I do agree with him on one issue: freedom of choice, as long as a woman is properly informed. The problem is that very few women are adequately informed and this book does nothing to help matters. In fact it plays upon the fears of woman to promote an agenda that consists of two things: Lawsuit avoidance and "daylight obstetrics" promotion. Instead of encouraging women to develop confidence in their ability to give birth and educating them on how to reduce their chances for a first time cesarean, Dr. Campbell dramatizes worst-case scenarios which in actuality are quite rare in an attempt to convince women that cesarean section is the preferred way to give birth.
Dr. Campbell mentions that the majority of women in this country deliver vaginally with no complications at all, but he buries it in one sentence at the very back of the book. If this were my first pregnancy and I would have read this book, I would have been miserable and terrified during the entire pregnancy. Unfortunately, "Just Take It Out" is silent on the fact that many women suffer emotionally after having had a cesarean. They feel as if they have run a race and did not get to cross the finish line. Many women who deliver by cesarean also have difficulty bonding with and breastfeeding their babies.
Dr. Campbell espouses the doctrine of "Science will make all things better". This is not always so. Many years ago science thought that it could develop a baby formula superior to breast milk. It has now been established that this could not be done and now we are once again admitting that nature could not be improved upon. I find it dangerous that this representative of science is suggesting that cesarean delivery is or could be superior to vaginal birth except when a demonstrable medical situation warrants it. Do we see veterinarians sectioning animals in the name of superior technology? Are we to believe that we are the only species on earth incapable of safely giving natural birth to our offspring?
I would like to revisit the freedom of choice argument and take it one step further. If physicians are saying that women have the right to choose how they give birth as long as they are properly informed, then it should be argued in all fairness that homebirth should be accepted in all states and that a woman who wants a midwife to attend her birth should have one. Therefore the practice of midwifery should be legal in all states. Women who choose homebirth are actually more informed about birth than your average woman who chooses a hospital birth. In support of a woman's right to choose physicians should volunteer to support homebirth as a backup for the midwife. I don't think women would have a problem signing a consent form for homebirth.
And last but not least I would like to address the fact that on the one hand Dr. Campbell states that cesarean section for a live baby is safe and actually tries to frighten women into choosing one, but on the other hand in his chapter "Dead Babies" he says that they do not perform cesareans to remove a fetus that has died because it is placing the patient at unnecessary risk. In fact he states that it is a cardinal sin of the greatest proportion to deliver a baby that is known to be dead by cesarean section. For the sake of argument, let us take the baby out of the scenario. Are we to believe Dr. Campbell that a cesarean is better than vaginal birth for the mother in one case but places the patient at unnecessary risk in the other? Are they not undergoing the same operation in both cases? He contradicts himself by admitting that this is a risky if not dangerous procedure. If so, then why recommend it at all unless medically necessary?
This makes you think doesn't it? I am an informed woman who has had a cesarean and a vaginal birth after cesarean without an epidural. My cesarean was medically necessary. Comparing the two experiences, I would still choose vaginal birth hands down.
Ethics??Economics for who??.......2003-03-05
I have to say that while I disagree with many of the points that Dr. Campbell addresses in "Just Take It Out", I do agree with him on one issue: freedom of choice, as long as a woman is properly informed. The problem is that very few women are adequately informed and this book does nothing to help matters. In fact it plays upon the fears of woman to promote an agenda that consists of two things: Lawsuit avoidance and "daylight obstetrics" promotion. Instead of encouraging women to develop confidence in their ability to give birth and educating them on how to reduce their chances for a first time cesarean, Dr. Campbell dramatizes worst-case scenarios which in actuality are quite rare in an attempt to convince women that cesarean section is the preferred way to give birth.
Dr. Campbell mentions that the majority of women in this country deliver vaginally with no complications at all, but he buries it in one sentence at the very back of the book. If this were my first pregnancy and I would have read this book, I would have been miserable and terrified during the entire pregnancy. Unfortunately, "Just Take It Out" is silent on the fact that many women suffer emotionally after having had a cesarean. They feel as if they have run a race and did not get to cross the finish line. Many women who deliver by cesarean also have difficulty bonding with and breastfeeding their babies.
Dr. Campbell espouses the doctrine of "Science will make all things better". This is not always so. Many years ago science thought that it could develop a baby formula superior to breast milk. It has now been established that this could not be done and now we are once again admitting that nature could not be improved upon. I find it dangerous that this representative of science is suggesting that cesarean delivery is or could be superior to vaginal birth except when a demonstrable medical situation warrants it. Do we see veterinarians sectioning animals in the name of superior technology? Are we to believe that we are the only species on earth incapable of safely giving natural birth to our offspring?
I would like to revisit the freedom of choice argument and take it one step further. If physicians are saying that women have the right to choose how they give birth as long as they are properly informed, then it should be argued in all fairness that homebirth should be accepted in all states and that a woman who wants a midwife to attend her birth should have one. Therefore the practice of midwifery should be legal in all states. Women who choose homebirth are actually more informed about birth than your average woman who chooses a hospital birth. In support of a woman's right to choose physicians should volunteer to support homebirth as a backup for the midwife. I don't think women would have a problem signing a consent form for homebirth.
And last but not least I would like to address the fact that on the one hand Dr. Campbell states that cesarean section for a live baby is safe and actually tries to frighten women into choosing one, but on the other hand in his chapter "Dead Babies" he says that they do not perform cesareans to remove a fetus that has died because it is placing the patient at unnecessary risk. In fact he states that it is a cardinal sin of the greatest proportion to deliver a baby that is known to be dead by cesarean section. For the sake of argument, let us take the baby out of the scenario. Are we to believe Dr. Campbell that a cesarean is better than vaginal birth for the mother in one case but places the patient at unnecessary risk in the other? Are they not undergoing the same operation in both cases? He contradicts himself by admitting that this is a risky if not dangerous procedure. If so, then why recommend it at all unless medically necessary?
This makes you think doesn't it? I am an informed woman who has had a cesarean and a vaginal birth after cesarean without an epidural. My cesarean was medically necessary. Comparing the two experiences, I would still choose vaginal birth hands down.
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Of the world's biggest 100 economies, 51 are corporations, not countries. As the most powerful institution of our time, the multinational corporation dominates not only global economics, but politics and culture as well. But the mechanisms of corporate control and the details of corporate abuses have remained largely hidden from public perception-until now.
In this compelling collection of columns, investigative journalists Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman critique corporate power from a relentlessly human perspective. While mainstream media cheerfully laud big business's record profits, Mokhiber and Weissman ask the real questions-Where is profit coming from? When working Americans' incomes have dropped dramatically since 1980, while salaries of corporate CEOs have risen 500 percent in the same period, is the economy really booming? Whose economy is this, anyway?
From union-busting to food irradiation, from faulty air bags that kill but are left on the market anyway to judges who take bribes, from the IMF to oil companies-wherever corporate crime strikes, Mokhiber and Weissman are there, covering an amazing range of issues, to sound the alarm and call people to action.
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collection of recycled newsletter columns, not a real book.......2000-05-02
The text, after the three page intro by Nader, consists of 202 pages with some cartoons as well as section title pages included, followed by a ten page index that includes subjects and publications as well as names.
Mokhiber is the editor of the "Corporate Crime Reporter" and Weissman is the editor of the "Multinational Monitor." The text of the book consists of 60 articles taken from these two periodicals divided into eight sections as follows:
1. Corporate Crime and Violence
2. The Corporate Attack on Democracy
3. The Global Hunt for Mega-Profits
4. Corporation Nation
5. The Big Boys Unite: Merger Mania in the 1990's
6. Commercialism Run Amok
7. Of Sweatshops and Union Busting
8. Do I Have to Arrest You? Corporations and the Law
As a collection of news columns, the book consists of anecdotes with conclusions that tend toward hyperbole, but for the most part are accurate, if a bit emotionalized. Since each article was written for the intended audience of subscribers to the two periodicals (the date is indicated at the beginning of each), they read like they are preaching to the converted. No neoliberal will be convinced of such a statement as:
"Most corporate criminologists agree that corporate crime and violence inflicts far more damage on society than all street crime combined. That includes killings and deaths."
The authors provide no non-anecdotal evidence for what might seem an astounding statement, but I have read widely enough to know that it is essentially true, depending on how you define "corporate crime." This assertion is repeated twice elsewhere, indicating little or no editing before assembly here. A few of the articles are followed by a one or two paragraph update bearing on events that happened between original publication and the date this book went to press. There are no footnotes, and scant reference to any sources for their information. I suppose if you have access to Nexus or something similar, you could do a date-limited search (based on when the article was written) to find out more.
It would have been nice if Mokhiber and Weissman had provided an over-arching introductory essay of, say, 20 pages, giving an overview of the problems involving the ever-increasing expansion of corporate behemoths, drawing a relationship between relative power and systemic greed-driven flaunting of the law, and putting into historical context the privatization of profits and socialization of costs. It was lazy and irresponsible of them not to do this, and that is why it gets only three stars.
The book is a quick and fascinating read, but I recommend you check it out from your local library. That's what I did!
Documents Need for Corporate Governance Reform.......2000-02-28
Mokhiber and Weissman provide plenty of potential fuel for the fire with their insightful discussions on corporate chartering, democracy for sale, and Constitutional abuses. Unlike many, they name names and reference credible sources. Unless the dangers of corporate dominance are addressed, we can expect books such as Corporate Predators to become very popular during the next economic downturn. Read it now and not only avoid the rush, avoid the dangers they point to so well.
One-star, long-winded review misses the point.......1999-07-22
The one-star, long-winded review offered below by Greg Peisert almost entirely misses the point of this rich and rewarding book. Peisert's comment cites low unemployment in the United States, but ignores the atrocious condition of overseas work for American corporations and the proliferation of unlivable-wage jobs here at home. Both of these trends are well-documented in "Corporate Predators". You may also notice that Peisert's refutation of the book is based upon cases in which one corporation succumbs to another; he forgets the subject matter of the book is the treatment of workers by corporations, not the treatment of corporations by one another. As the book documents, the treatment of many workers by their employers has become simply shameful, and much of this trend is due to the rise of de facto corporate government here and world-wide. A book well worth reading, and one that's long overdue.
INTRODUCTION by RALPH NADER.......1999-06-15
For the past twenty years, after a decade and a half of populist resurgence against corporate abuses by consumer, environmental, women's rights and civil rights forces, big business has been on a rampage to control our society. Whether these business supremacies are called corporatization, commercialism, monopolies or the corporate state, the overall concentration of power and wealth in ever fewer multinational corporate centers is a matter of record.
In arena after arena -- government, workplace, marketplace, media, environment, education, science, technology-- the dominant players are large corporations. What countervailing forces that our society used to depend upon for some balance are not in retreat against the aggressive expansion of corporate influence far beyond its traditional mercantile boundaries?
The enlarged power that corporations deploy to further increase their revenues and socialize their costs comes from many sources -- old and new. Roughly eighty percent of the money contributed to federal candidates come from business interests. The mobility to export capital has given transnational companies major leverage against local, state and federal officials, not to mention against organized and unorganized labor. The swell of corporate welfare handouts has reached new depths. The contrived complexity of many financial and other services serves to confuse, deplete and daunt consumers who lose significant portions of their income in a manipulative marketplace. Alliances, joint ventures and other complex collaborations between should-be competitors have made a mockery of what is left of antitrust enforcement.
The opportunities to control or defeat governmental attempts for corporate accountability that flow from transcending national jurisdictions into globalized strategies to escape taxation and pit countries and their workers against one another appear to be endless. The autocratic systems of governance called GATT and NAFTA reflect to the smallest detail ways that giant corporations wish to control the world. These firms are on a collision course against democratic processes, and the merging of states and businesses, to the latter's advantage, weakens relentlessly both the restraints of the law and the willingness of legislators to do anything about it.
Taken together, the world is witnessing its subjugation to the large corporate model of economic development, the large corporate model of technology and the large corporate model of culture itself. These accelerating trendlines invite accelerating comprehension and response. History demonstrates that commercialism knows few boundaries that are not externally imposed. All the major religions have warned their adherents against the excesses of commercial value systems, albeit with different languages, images and metaphors.
Specific descriptions of corporate misbehavior do nourish proper generalizations that in turn lead to more just movements and practices. Here, columnists Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman provide a distinct service in Corporate Predators. It is not just the versatility of their writings -- covering bribery, pollution, corporate crime, fraud and abuse, failure of law enforcement, union-busting, the mayhem inflicted by product defects and toxics, the deep gap between the rich and the rest of America, corporate front groups, the media censorship and self-censorship, the profiteering, the pillaging overseas and more-- but it is also the impact on the reader that comes from aggregating evidence. Our country does not collect statistics on corporate crime e way it does on street crime. For it to do so would begin to highlight a little-attended agenda for law enforcement and other corporate reforms. Neither Congress nor the White House and its Justice Department have made any moves over the years to assemble from around the country the abuses of corporations in quantifiable format so as to drive policy.
So, description -- accurate, representational description -- must now suffice. As the editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter (Mokhiber)and the editor of the Multinational Monitor (Weissman), the authors know well the difference between anecdotes that are illustrative and that are idiosyncratic. This volume of their weekly columns carries the evidence that illustrates patterns of continuing corporate derelictions, not lonely deviations from a more congenial norm.
The authors' experience over the years with the impact of disclosures has led them to the conclusion that the facts must be linked to civic engagement and democratic activity for change. If disclosure produced its own dynamic imperatives for change, the recurrent exposure of corporate abuses in such mainstream publications as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and some national television programs like Sixty Minutes would have caused these changes. Such, unfortunately has not been the case. The linkages between knowledge and action have not been sufficient. But readers of Common Courage Press published books tend towards citizen activism. They want to know because they want to do. Some may even agree with the ancient Chinese saying that "To know and not to do is not to know."
So, go forward readers who wish to be leaders in the advancement of justice -- what Daniel Webster once called "the great work of men on Earth"-- and savor the writings that will motivate more and more women and men to band together in organizations that build a more just democracy.
Ralph Nader, 1999
Refuting irrational, profit driven pseudo-science.......1999-05-01
While the gentleman bellow makes some good points about a balance that should be maintained in this type of work, I think that some level of extreme is needed in a counter attack against the un-emotional, profit driven pseudo-science that staunch capitalists spout as if pure Capitalism and the so-called "free market" were the only option this world has. If the previous reviewer were realy concerned about balance and fairness, then he would recognize that some level of emotion is needed to help the people of the world achieve some level of economic and social equality. The rapidly growing gap between rich and poor is an obvious result of the type of socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the poor that exists in this country, and this book does a good job of exemplifying the extreme consequences of this situation. Besides, Capitalism is just a eco-philosophical theory espoused as science.
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