Lion Taming

出版者:Sourcebooks Inc

作者:Katz, Steven L.

页数:290

价格:19.95

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9781402202179

具体描述

LION TAMING: Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses, and Other Tough Customers proves that imagination is still the fastest path to learning. Lions are the people we encounter and work with in every organization or business who wield power and influence. They roam freely across all occupations. By applying the metaphor of being a lion tamer, you will learn how to understand these lions and to team with them for effective and rewarding results.

LION TAMING is divided into three parts:

I. Lions Are Never Tame helps you identify the lions in your midst, distinguish between the good lions and the bad lions, and understand what makes them tick. Lions act differently because they think differently, and we need to understand them as lions to work more effectively together. LION TAMING introduces the concepts of The Lion’s Four Senses and The Lion’s Instinctive Identity, which will serve as useful tools to "read" the lions you encounter and approach them with newfound ways to help both you and the lions be successful.

II. The Art of Lion Taming heightens your self-awareness while teaching you the strategies and methods that real lion tamers use and how to apply them where you work. This includes the use of verbal and nonverbal cues and communication, closing the gap between attention getting and attention using; and how to avoid sticking your head in the lion’s mouth!

III. Lion Taming Is Really Lion Teaming reflects the cumulative nature of the experiences, lessons, and strategies throughout the book. These are embraced by the ultimate secret and irony of working as a lion tamer: leaders, bosses, and other tough customers are sensitive to being challenged as a lion but welcome the support, influence, and expertise of those who show that they are part of the lion’s team. The best lion tamers inside the center ring and the boss’s office understand that the foundation for teamwork is rapport, trust, confidence, and respect.

LION TAMING: Working Successfully with Leaders Bosses, and Other Tough Customers is able to bring the metaphor of being a lion tamer to life in a way no other book does because the author interviewed real lion tamers, watched them train and work, and blended their secrets and strategies with countless parallel experiences and stories from people across society and the workplace.

The book contains more than 75 Secrets of the Lion Tamers, quotes from many of the men and women whose workplace has been inside the steel-caged arena, such as: * "Lions are never tame, it takes strategies to deal with that" * "Lions always have your full attention but it is hard to hold their attention" * "Courage that is self-conscious betrays great fear!"

Every chapter concludes with specific take-aways called The Lion’s Tale that summarize each chapter and provide tips and strategies to step inside the lion tamer’s shoes!

Lion taming is everyone’s real job, and this book finally tells us how to do it!

用户评价

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天呐，我必须得说，这本书的结构设计简直鬼斧神工，简直像一个精密的瑞士钟表，每一个齿轮的咬合都恰到好处，驱动着整个故事以一种令人惊叹的精确度向前推进。不同时间线之间的穿插处理得极为高明，没有丝毫的跳跃感或令人困惑的断裂，反而形成了一种多维度的叙事张力，让真相如同多棱镜折射出的光芒，一点点完整地呈现在我们面前。作者对于人物内心世界的挖掘，达到了近乎病态的精准度，那些微妙的犹豫、无法言说的渴望，甚至是潜意识中的防御机制，都被毫不留情地暴露在阳光之下。我简直能感觉到那些角色的血液在书中奔流，他们的痛苦和狂喜都具有极强的感染力。读到后半段时，我发现自己完全代入了其中一个配角的视角，那种被命运捉弄的无力感几乎让我喘不过气来。而且，这本书的语言风格多变，时而古典庄重，时而又充满了现代都市的疏离与讽刺，这种风格上的张力有效地烘托了主题的复杂性。看完最后一页，我感觉自己像是完成了一场漫长而艰苦的攀登，最终站在山顶，看到的不仅仅是风景，更是对自我极限的一次深刻认知。

坦白讲，这本书在某些地方的处理方式相当大胆，甚至可以说是离经叛道，但这恰恰是它最吸引我的地方。作者完全打破了传统文学中对于“好人”与“坏人”的二元对立，笔下的人物都是灰色的、充满矛盾的混合体。他们可能在前一章为了微小的善举而热泪盈眶，在下一章却会做出令人发指的自私行为，而且作者对这一切都给予了充分的理解和铺陈，而不是进行道德审判。这种对人性的全盘接受，让我感受到了极大的阅读自由和精神上的解放。尤其是关于记忆和时间错位的那些章节，简直是天才之举，它们模糊了现实与幻觉的边界，让人开始质疑自己所依赖的“真实”是否真的那么稳固。这本书就像是一场精心设计的迷宫，你以为找到了出口，结果却发现自己绕回了起点，但每一次绕行都让你对迷宫的结构有了更深的理解。这是一部充满反叛精神和深刻洞察力的作品，非常适合那些不满足于既有框架的思考者。