Book Description
From the bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App
You can win life’s popularity contests
The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, buy from them, marry them, and spend precious time with them. The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By raising your likeability factor.
The more you are liked, the happier your life will be. In The Likeability Factor, business guru Tim Sanders shows how to build your likeability factor by teaching you how to enhance four critical elements of your personality:
• Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others
• Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs
• Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings
• Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity
When you improve these areas and boost your likeability factor, you bring out the best in others, handle life’s challenges with grace, enjoy better health, and excel in your daily roles. You can win the close calls and tight competitions that define and determine success and happiness at work and in life—The Likeability Factor can show you how!
Customer Reviews:
L-Factor is the key element of Biz Success.......2007-09-28
The L-Factor of what Tim calls "Likeability" is the key element of success in business or personal relationships. As a therapist and business consultant for 25 years I believe that this approach will guide you toward a more fun and fulfilling way of life. I can't say enough good about the power of this resource as Tim coaches you toward a strategic approach that will sharpen your ability to instantly connect with others to achieve greater results. This is must reading if you are struggling in your career, and essential reading if you are just getting started because once you know how to use the secrets of the "L-Factor" you will avoid problems to rapidly reach your potential. Pick it up and read it twice!
Who Doesn't Like Likeability?.......2007-07-23
Tim Sanders does a great job with his book "The Likeability Factor" in showing business executives that their personality, and how others see them, really will make a difference in the bottom line. Being liked leads to opportunities, and Sander's uses his personal experiences (I have met him, he is very likeable), research and his easy writing style to educate the reader on how to improve their "L-Factor"
We all have limited time, but this book is worth the time investment to read it, take notes, do the exercises, and incorporate the wisdom into our daily lives.
is it too late for hillary to read.......2007-06-27
If only Hillary did not scare so many people. This is the book that anyone should read to make themselves more in touch with their village.
Made me a better person.......2007-05-20
The first thing to note here is this is a short book. Only 224 pages, including the table of contents, introductions, etc. The first 131 pages are basically an infomercial for the book, telling you why it was such a good idea to purchase it. Nothing really helpful or exciting, it talks about why it is important for people to like you. Obviously you realize how important it is to be liked, otherwise you would not even be looking at this book.
On page 132 things get interesting. Tim Sanders does not let you sit back and be passive. There is a little writing and a lot of thinking involved with the self-exploration exercises Tim gives you. You are required to look inward to see what about you is already likable, and what needs improvement.
The best advice I got from this book is to "observe no unfriendliness." If you are able to visualize yourself as a friendly person, you will become friendlier, and thereby you will become more likable. There is plenty of advice like this to help you become a better person. I know, because it worked for me.
Are likeable people also prone to filling entire books with their ramblings?.......2007-05-20
Okay, I get it. Likeable people are happier, more successful, have better sex lives, more face time with their doctors, long marriages, bulletproof job security, and longer lives.
Do I need to read a whole book supporting this controversial theory with hundreds of anecdotes and statistics?
If you woke up this morning and asked yourself: "Should I be disagreeable today? I really feel like screaming at everyone. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea," then this book would be a great antidote. Church might also do the trick, if that's what you're into.
For the rest of us, I'm not sure this is anything more than a pleasant distraction from a long car or airplane ride. And I'm not sure I should be reading this book in that case. Wouldn't it be better to have a conversation, so as to increase my likeability? Do people really like people who read books?
Bottom line: this book is a bloated ramble. It feels like he created it for the purpose of handing it out to business associates to show them how cutting edge he is. Likeability Factor! A New Buzzword! Don't waste your time. Read some thing else or go meet a friend for coffee. Yahoo!
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Charisma has come to be understood today as a special gift or talent that celebrities–artistic performers, athletes, movie stars, or political leaders–possess, a quality that makes their lives exemplary and transforms them into objects of universal appeal or attraction.
In Charisma, Philip Rieff explores the emergence and evolution of this mysterious and compelling concept within Judeo-Christian culture. Its first expression was in the idea of the covenant between God and the Israelites: Charisma–religious grace and authority–was transferred through divine inspiration to the Old Testament prophets; it was embodied by Jesus of Nazareth, the first true charismatic hero. Rieff shows how St. Paul transformed charisma into a form of social organization, how it was reworked by Martin Luther and by nineteenth-century Protestant theologians, and, finally, how Max Weber redefined charisma as a secular political concept. By emptying charisma of its religious meaning, Weber opened the door to the modern perception of it as little more than a form of celebrity, stripped of moral considerations.
Rieff rejects Weber’s definition, insisting that Weber misunderstood the relation between charisma and faith. He argues that without morality, the gift of grace becomes indistinguishable from the gift of evil, and it devolves into a license to destroy and kill in the name of faith or ideology. Offering brilliant interpretations of Kierkegaard, Weber, Kafka, Nietzsche, and Freud, Rieff shows how certain thinkers attacked the very possibility of faith and genuine charisma and helped prepare the way for the emergence of a therapeutic culture in which it is impossible to recognize that which is sacred. Rieff’s analysis of charisma is an analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.
Customer Reviews:
the foundations of charisma and natural leadershp.......2007-07-27
The author details the foundations of charisima , indicating what true qualities establish people to have this trait and without these foundations , the charisima is not real. This is a very deep book, sometimes difficult to comprehand and follow and thats why I gave it three stars. The author writes like an intellectual, but I think he may be missing his mark to appeak to a large audience as a result.
An intriguing discussion.......2007-06-17
CHARISMA: THE GIFT OF GRACE, AND HOW IT HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM US tells of the idea of charisma from its earliest recognition by Old Testament prophets to the first charismatic, Jesus of Nazareth, and how charisma became part of the Christian church's evolution. Rieff argues for a different understanding of the relationship between charisma and faith, examining traditional and modern perceptions and paving the way for a dialogue between believers on the topic. An intriguing discussion, CHARISMA should prove of interest to any serious religious collection.
Diane C. Donovan
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A Literary Theology Response to Postmoderns.......2007-04-08
"Charisma" and Philip Rieff are not for everyone or for most. (Read the prior review from G. Lehman about the difficulty of the writing style to see this.) If you have not read widely, especially in the Bible, and the postmodern precursors like Freud, Nietzsche, or Weber then "Charisma" will likely strike you as an academic bore.
Rieff accomplishes what seems to be a postmodern impossibility: thinking "intellectually" about the Bible and theology. By "intellectually" I mean that secular, academic, scientific perspective of conceptualization, rationalization, and articulation of ideas that is foundational in higher education and "elite" groups. It's what professors and public intellectuals do. Within that class of people, the Bible and theology are most typically viewed as intellectual deadends of proven unworth that appeal to sweaty snakehandlers under the tent on a hot August night. Rieff demonstrates that it is possible and interesting to think like an "intellectual" about Biblical and theological concepts in much the same way he did with his recent work, "Sacred Order," (another Rieff book I'd highly recommend and with the same caveats as observed with G. Lehman).
"Charisma" traces the meaning of the term, "charisma," from its original theological roots to its current postmodern corrupted state, explaining along the way how this corruption occurred (primarily through the writings of the postmodern precursors like Weber), but more importantly, the intellectual, moral, and cultural implications of this corruption. While we live in the postmodern Humpty Dumpty world where words mean whatever we chose them to mean, Rieff explicates "charisma" as a religiously derived term that springs from God and His Authority and then observes how the Humpty Dumpty changes in meaning that have occurred in the past 150 years have transformed the term into the postmodern foolishness of "charisma" as something that George Clooney, Madonna, and the latest American Idol possess. Please consider briefly the implication behind "charisma" as an element of fame versus "charisma" as the force of God's authority. If this is not an interesting or challenging comparison, you are not curious how this change in meaning developed, and you don't see any cultural or moral implications in the shift, then this book is not for you.
One appealing element of "Charisma" is that Philip Rieff has actually read the Bible and can pass the standard true-false test on its content. He continually demonstrates the bad misreadings of that text by writers like Weber and Freud who clearly read the Bible selectively (or more charitably with the map of misreading as described by Professor Bloom) in their attempts to discredit that theology and inflate their proposed substitutes. It's one thing to reject a perspective because you simply disagree with it, but it's another thing to reject it through misreading. As someone who was trained in the postmodern university, it is with considerable embarassment that I realize how much of the postmodern criticism of religion I accepted without reading the footnotes in that criticism. Freud makes a lot more sense when you uncritically accept his view of the Bible. If you know the Bible, Freud becomes just an another intellectual on the make trying to push his theory.
As I noted in my review of "Sacred Order" I've been a constant reader for over 40 years. I found "Sacred Order" to be one of the strongest, most interesting, and compelling books I've read. I see "Charisma" in the same light. This is a great book and worthy of reading, rereading, and reflection.
And, there awaits publication of a third volume in this series!
cloud of verbiage.......2007-04-05
If you think run-on sentences and page-long paragraphs are a necessary conduit to recondite wisdom, then you might want to wade into this morass of Latinated English prose. For myself, I think if the professor can't speak ordinary English I suspect that he's not thinking clearly. I wish I would have been warned that this is a project of two of his adoring pupils. And I wish I had been warned that couched in the ponderings are rationales, it seem to me, for disgust for the world as we know it, and reasons that Christianity almost has to be pivoted against Jewish religion. I myself have thought that many good persons have been working on this issue to a much more agreeable resolution.
Book Description
A proven six-step process for acquiring the style, flair, and credibility needed to make it to the top
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, managers who do not exude an allencompassing self-confidence, style, poise, and energy, in short, "executive presence," are highly unlikely to make it to the corner office. Unfortunately, the vast majority of managers, even the most talented and ambitious ones, are not born with these personal qualities. In this breakthrough book, bestselling author and world-renowned executive development coach D. A. Benton helps readers acquire executive charisma.
In Executive Charisma, Benton outlines a proven six-step approach for learning how to think, act, and relate to others like an executive.
She provides powerful tools for fine-tuning the complete executive charisma skill set, including:
- Interpersonal communications
- Managing upwards
- Confidence building
- Business humor
- Executive bearing, and more
Drawing upon her experience coaching clients at American Express, Century 21, Merrill Lynch, Nabisco, Viacom, Pepsi, and other top companies worldwide, Benton clearly defines executive charisma and explains why projecting a commanding professional demeanor is so fundamental to corporate success.
Customer Reviews:
Be all that you can be.......2007-08-29
Benton's advice is very much in line with Napolen Hill's and Dale Carnegie's: be friendly and give acceptance to maintain esteem; ask questions and favors; show weakness, be human; slow down, shut up and listen. The author expands on each of these points and more, and provides great overview and examples on every topic. It's a great refresher, and a well-written book.
Stretching Good Material.......2006-12-14
Deborah Benton is a serious student of what makes successful business people successful, and her book 'How to Think Like a CEO" reflects the seriousness and depth of her work there.
This book, on the other hand, is a very long hike for a very small picnic. She has essentially re-worked very familiar ground for her into a book that simply doesn't have enough to say to fill its length.
There are times, for example, when while reading, one realizes that the last paragraph has been nothing but semi-connected quotes from people in the large archive of Ms. Benton's interview files. It doesn't really go together and it doesn't really make any new points.
I would strongly recommend 'How to Think Like a CEO' but I would definitely not recommend this book.
How to Make Friends with Influential People.......2005-04-21
D.A. Benton's Executive Charisma is a basic book on working your way to the corner office via popularity contest. There is a lot of common sense stuff in this novel, so much so that it begs the question "How did my VP, Director, Manager, Supervisor, get his/her job?" Clearly charisma is not a prerequisite to climbing your way up the corporate ladder in 98% of companies today. Maybe this book should be mandatory (prerequisite) reading for managers.
Although I enjoyed this book, I have to say that it is highly superficial, perhaps purposely, and does not address any one area in great detail.
DA Benton outlines the "Sacred Six Steps" to becoming an outstanding leader as:
- Be the first to initiate
- Expect and give acceptance to maintain esteem
- Ask questions and ask favours
- Stand tall, straight, and smile
- Be human, humorous, and hands-on
- Slow down, shut up, and listen
All in all a good basic read for leaders or those aspiring to project their ability. And god knows that we need more people in the workplace who are willing to project their ability????
I long for a book on leadership that details how you become a great leader by being capable, producing measurable results, coming up with great strategic ideas, and making friends with those that you truly like and not just those that have influence over your career.
A Good Read!.......2004-03-01
Remember everything your mother told you. Stand up straight. Pull your shoulders back. Be outgoing. Smile. If you've forgotten these lessons, this is for you. It's not what you know, it's who you know - and what they think and feel about you - that makes all the difference in your career. Be human. Ask for favors. Ask for information. Pitch in. Have a sense of humor. Speak slowly and listen carefully. Author D.A. Benton's presumably deep, probing interviews with 500 executives convinced her that charisma isn't inborn. She believes that everyone can learn to be charismatic. Just follow the six steps that can turn even the most repulsive excuse for a manager into a charming, charismatic executive. So, read this and practice. There's no harm in it, and it might do some good. However, while recommending this basic manual, suspects that the nature of charisma is a bit like the way a jazz musician explained the nature of jazz - if you have to ask what it is, you'll never know.
Exploit Your Charisma, Your Personal Key to the Top.......2004-02-18
If you are an executive, or aspire to be one, read this book. Debra Benton simplifies the mystery of charisma into six practical, proven steps that anyone can immediately apply.
"Executive Charisma" is full of time - tested advice from the top business leaders of our time. It is a fast read, perfectly suited for busy people committed to life-long development.
As a practicing executive, I witness first-hand how top leaders relate to others on a daily basis. Those who know how to access and apply the 'soft' leadership skills are the winners, period. No matter how bright and classicaly educated a leader is, those who rise to the top have mastered the art of charisma.
Read Benton's book and learn how easy it is to turn up the juice on your executive charisma.
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- A great book on communication, presentation and persuasion
- Important, practical, and useful book
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- Bring a little magic into your life
- You don't have to be a magician to love this book!
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Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship
Steve Cohen
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Book Description
Would You Like to Become More Commanding, Convincing, And Charismatic?
In this book, Steve Cohen, master magician and star of the long-running Chamber Magic show in New York City, will reveal the secrets of all great showmen and magicians—how to persuade, influence, and charm, and ultimately accomplish the things you've always wanted to do. As Cohen writes, "You'll discover how to take over a room, read people, and build anticipation to a feverish pitch so people are burning to hear what you have to say."
Win the Crowd will teach you Steve Cohen's Maxims of Magic, simple rules you can use to take charge of practically any situation, from on-the-job disagreements to dating to important cocktail parties. The Maxims of Magic will wash away insecurities and hesitations, and replace them with confidence, poise, and leadership. What's more, Steve Cohen will show you:
- How to Create a Magic Moment. Capturing people's imaginations and attention so they listen carefully to every word you say.
- How to Command a Room. Showing everyone in the room that you are speaking right to them, making them all feel unique—and completely focused on you.
- How to Read People. Learning to sense what people are feeling and thinking as you speak, what they want from you, and how to make them feel like they are getting it.
- Misdirection. The most important trick in all of magic—getting inside people's heads, and directing what they are thinking at every minute.
When you strip away the sleight of hand tricks, magicians are essentially masters of attracting and holding attention and impressing audiences, exactly the psychological secrets you need to be successful in life and business.
Customer Reviews:
A great book on communication, presentation and persuasion.......2007-05-09
First of all, I must confess that I was a little prejudiced against the author and his book before reading it. I simply regarded it as a gimmick of a not so successful magician who wrote just to promote himself. I had been terribly wrong. Riding on his five maxims of magic, (1. be bold 2. expect success 3. dont state - suggest 4. practice, practice, practice 5. be prepared), with plentiful of interesting anecdotes, the author did teach much on how to improve one's skills on communication, presentation and persuasion, the important qualities of a successful magician who did private performance for Mr. Bloomberg, the Japanese Emperor and so on. He even covered on breathing and acupressure exercises, reading eye movements, which I really found them helpful. The use of words in Chapter 10 is profound. Perhaps the only drawback is that he had taught very little on how to do magical tricks. Anyway, a very useful book for all. Highly recommended!
Important, practical, and useful book.......2007-03-17
In Win the Crowd, Steve Cohen not only teaches how to think like a magician, he explains why it's important to think like a magician. This is the best self-help, success-in-business book I've ever read. I wish I read it 30 years ago, but of course it wasn't available then.
Cohen teaches how to approach relationships and business from a whole new direction, and shares practical applications that can be applied immediately. Whether your crowd is one or a thousand, you'll learn how to win them over.
You'll even learn a few magic tricks along the way. In doing so, and with some of the other insights he reveals about magic, you'll learn that everything isn't always what it seems, and this in itself is important for success in life.
Get Motivated ~nt.......2007-02-12
Enjoyed the book. I don't recommend doing the "quarter slip" but the concept of what the author is trying to get across is enlightening.
Basically if your going to get ahead you can't be afraid and confidence (without conceit please) is key.
Bring a little magic into your life.......2006-10-10
Not everyone wants to be a practicing magician, but everyone needs to bring a little magic into their lives. None of us makes a pretension to be as captivating as a professional magician or Las Vegas showman, but we are all captivated by these people and wish that we could harvest some of their charismatic power for our personal and business lives.
Wouldn't you like to learn how a magician can focus his eyes on you, so that you become mesmerized by his gaze and feel that you must follow each one of his moves? Wouldn't you like to learn how a Las Vegas showman gives "presence" to his human frame - sometimes despite his actual size - and "fills" the room with his personality? Have you ever wondered how a magician gets you to focus on one part of his body, while another part of his body is actually putting the trick together?
What Steve Cohen conveys to you is that these are simple techniques, but they require almost daily practice. Steve talks about "eye contact" drills you can perform while you're walking through the mall, "posture" drills you can practice before your next big presentation, and "misdirection" techniques that, somewhat contradictorily, actually help focus your audience's attention on you.
You can read books about public speaking, which all repeat the same mantras about "eye contact," "breathing," and "body language," or you can take Steve's unorthodox approach to give your speeches a little "magic."
Steve's book is extremely well-written, and very entertaining. A little bit of talk about "magic," but nothing that would make a non-practitioner's eyes glaze over.
You don't have to be a magician to love this book!.......2006-07-05
You don't have to be a magician to love WIN THE CROWD
by Steve Cohen because
it applies to virtually any profession and/or thing that
may do in life.
Cohen, aka The Millionaires' Magician, entertains celebrities,
tycoons and aristocrats at private events the world over . . . he
also performs his public show, CHAMBER MAGIC, at New
York's famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel . . .and as a result
of reading his book, I'm going to try to make a performance
in the near future.
I want to see how commanding, convincing and charismatic
he is--all traits he shows you how to develop in CHAMBER
MAGIC . . . now if this sounds like a bit much to promise,
consider the following game that the author plays:
As quickly as you can, answer the following questions:
1. How many fingers does one man have on his hands?
2. How many fingers on ten hands?
If you're like most people, you answered "ten" and "one hundred."
The first answer is correct. The second answer is wrong. Go back
and read it again. (If you still can't figure it out, I'll help; it is
"fifty.")
This shows what misdirection is all about. It moves you down
a particular path and puts you in a certain state of mind. You'll
learn this technique and many, many others as well.
You won't become an accomplished magician; in fact, there's
only one trick that he actually shows you how to do. However,
you'll gain many other valuable tidbits that you can use in
countless situations . . . among them:
* When I read the previous sentence to a friend of mine, a successful
businesswoman, she said, "That is so true!" She lives by the following
aphorism: "Don't ask first; just apologize later." Instead of running a
new idea by her boss, she just goes ahead and tried it out. According
to her, too many "managers" are entrenched in their ways of doing things
and are likely to say no to something new. She just plows ahead and
does it on her own.
* If you're supershy, start in a nonthreatening, location such as an elevator.
The next time you are on the elevator with a stranger, break the silence
and compliment her. That's right. Find something noteworthy about that
person and say, "That's a nice (sweater/hat/watch) you're wearing. I
like it." This simple act forces the person to react. You've taken a risk,
and you've taken control of the situation. You've done something bold.
Bravo! If the stranger ignores you, or thinks you're a creep, don't worry.
You'll both be getting off the elevator soon enough. The pain of rejection
will come and go so quickly that you'll never even notice it. If you're not
in the habit of speaking to strangers, you'll be pleasantly surprised
at how easily people will chat with you. If you're shy, challenge yourself
to compliment five people daily. This is your first step toward conquering
shyness.
* When I was a student at Tannen's Magic Camp, professional magician
Tom Ogden explained how he handles incoming phone calls. When
someone calls for a potential booking, he taught us:
1. Say, "One moment, let me check my date book."
2. Put down the phone.
3. Go make a sandwich.
4. Come back.
5. Pick up the phone and say, "Yes, I'm available that day."
If you jump quickly at someone's offer to buy from you, you appear
desperate. Never appear too eager to make a sale. Ogden was clearly
joking about the sandwich, but it served as a lesson, reminding us to
hesitate before saying yes.
Book Description
Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world.
William Clark argues that the research university—which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic.
Customer Reviews:
An impressive Foucaultian work on the university -- and an often enjoyable read!.......2007-06-19
At the end of the book, Clark tells us that in 1989 he (then a newly minted PhD in history) received the following comment from one of his former teachers, who had just read the original "Urtext" from which this book grew: "It is too bad I did not have time to combat in you your pernicious Foucaultian reading of Weber's rationalization theories!" This is funny (the book often is -- I found myself laughing out loud several times -- no doubt because some of the analyses struck a little close to home!). It's funny in part because it makes his old teacher look a bit like a hopeless fuddy-duddy (the kind of historian who approves of Weber but not Foucault -- a real generational divide!). But it's also revealing: Clark's book really does read as a Foucaultian micrology of the university, one which teases a "grand metanarrative" about its historical development out of a series of analyses of mundane material items like lists, charts, drawings, etc. found in the archives.
Clarks's grand narrative -- the eclipse of the oral by the written in the Academy -- sounds more Derridean than Foucaultian actually, but the real point of the book seem to be to show how productive an exercise in Foucaultian method can be, to show how much can be learned from a series of painstaking analyses of miscellaneous material from the archives. These analyses are often extremely entertaining and interesting. (I did find some for me uninteresting stretches, but they never lasted too long, and the book rewards the reader's patience by eventually getting good again -- indeed, it keeps you reading for nearly 500 pages... no mean feat these days!) Still, there's something funny about them (I imagine future historians trying to deduce the nature of our culture by studying such things as collections of plastic Denny's placemats preserved in some archive...), but one cannot help but be dazzled by the depth and breadth of the research this book displays.
The irony here, of course, is that Clark's book clearly participates in the triumph of research whose history it deconstructively reconstructs. Clark recognizes this, and tells us (again showing his good humor) that he was surprised by his former teacher's reaction, since he himself thought his book would be read as "a long-winded diatribe on the ultimate identity of narcissism and nihilism." I think few readers will take it that way, but the book does open up that abyss. Here one cannot help but recall what Clark says about the early dissertations he researched in his own dissertation:
"Most of the erudite dissertations in appendix 4 do not add up to anything beyond themselves. They are specimens of erudition. They resemble displays and exhibitions. ...One cultivated the classical or illuminated the obscure. In either case, the point was display, virtuosity the key."
Clark goes on to show, however, that the early dissertations which were erudite displays of useless knowledge soon evolved into the more familiar, cumulative genre in which dissertations became overlapping pieces of a larger puzzle, thereby contributing to the birth of modern scholarship. Clark's own book is impressive not only for the mountains of research it digests and presents, but also because it is sure to encourage all manner of future research into the fascinating topic of the history of the institutions that continue to shape so many of us. While undeniabley dazzling, Clark's book strikes me as a useful (rather than useless) display of erudition. I cannot predict how the book will be received, other than well, but I suspect that Clark -- instead of (or at least in addition to) being seen as a narcissistic nihilist -- will soon find himself teaching at an elite research university!
I might just add that the book, as a work by a historian intended primarily for historians, does not seem to have realized how widely it would be read, and so does not systematically present much of the historical background against which its various analyses unfold, instead assuming its readers will already possess that historical background. Still, the narrative is rich enough that one can absorb most of the historical background by induction.
Superb.......2007-04-09
Fascinating beyond measure, and a work that should be read by anyone who has experience in academia, this book details the history, attitudes, and influences behind the modern research university. The latter has been subjected to harsh criticism of late, and some of this is justified, so this book will be helpful in assessing the validity of this criticism, in addition to providing information to the purely curious reader. The author interjects humor into the text, and sometimes a great deal of cynicism, but as a whole the book should sit on the shelf of every academician, both professor and administrator. Those who contemplate entering the academy will also benefit from its perusal, although it might scare off a few who expect the university to be populated by seekers of truth and wisdom. At times in the book the author it seems has an axe to grind, but his intentions are irrelevant in this regard. All that matters is whether or not he has provided evidence for his views. The huge collection of references at the end of the book reveals that he has done his homework, and those who disagree with his words will thus have to counter them with references of their own, a project that would of course be extremely time-consuming, but worth the effort.
For those (such as this reviewer) who are not familiar with the history behind the research university, but who crave to understand why it functions the way that it does, will find many surprises in this book and many questions answered. What are the origins for example of the doctoral dissertation, the oral exam, and the seminar? When did faculty salaries become an issue for the university? What is the origin of the endowed chair? Why are some professors held in such high esteem when their credentials are really weak in comparison to others? When was the first doctorate given? The answers to these questions will be surprising for the reader who has viewed the university as a citadel of truth that is completely divorced from historical context.
It is a little odd to view a professor as possessing "charisma", a word that the title of this book contains. When one calls an individual charismatic it is usually a person such as a military or political leader, who is able, through rhetoric or some other equally nefarious technique of power mongering, to convince others to rally behind his causes. But the charisma of a professor or a holder of an academic chair is tied to a spirit of uncritical adulation, generated by fame and a certain display of "originality" in their writings, the author argues, and he traces the art of charisma acquisition to the German Protestant Lands of the eighteenth century. It survived the rationalization of the Enlightenment and the Romanticist countermovement to bring about the system that we have today: one of "fame through publication" instead of the oral tradition of centuries ago.
The author sounds disappointed, and rightfully so, that this doctrine of charisma was spared, referring to history as being "cunning" in allowing it to survive. But unfortunately the academy is stuck with it, along with anonymous refereeing that encourages verbal sadism, a "publish or perish" mentality that favors lesser problems over ones of fundamental significance, and unbridled sycophancy to faculty who chair institutes and rule adroitly if not robotically. If anything this book will begin a dialog that will grow to such an extent that it will counter the "self-evident" truths that are axiomatized by the members of the current academic elite. It shows at bare minimum that institutions are the result of history and cultural evolution, and their expressions are not carved in stone. It will be interesting to see how rapid the research institution will change. It is currently facing a population of researchers who reach each other through the free exchange that technology provides them. The research journal may become a thing of the past, replaced with rapid communications enabled by the Internet and very inexpensive publication. Will the charisma of the research professor survive this (cunning?) technological and historical whirlwind? Maybe, but most probably not.
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Call it what you want: charm, personality, or sex appeal. Fact is, wildly successful people seem to have a lot more than their fair share of it. Fortunately for the rest of us, Tony Alessandra, author of a dozen books and popular speaker on marketing tactics and business relationships, believes everyone has the ability to cultivate and take advantage of it. In Charisma: Seven Keys to Developing the Magnetism That Leads to Success, he teaches the basics with the aid of "quick quizzes" and demonstrates their uses with the help of inspiring examples. --Howard Rothman
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Call it what you want: charm, personality, or sex appeal. Fact is, wildly successful people seem to have a lot more than their fair share of it. Fortunately for the rest of us, Tony Alessandra, author of a dozen books and popular speaker on marketing tactics and business relationships, believes everyone has the ability to cultivate and take advantage of it. In Charisma: Seven Keys to Developing the Magnetism That Leads to Success, he teaches the basics with the aid of "quick quizzes" and demonstrates their uses with the help of inspiring examples. --Howard Rothman
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Interesting.......2007-06-28
I liked especially the straightforward step-by-step illustrations on how to make properly make personal and successful connections with people.
Rediscover the Incredible You!.......2007-04-06
This book halps put things in perspective when you wonder what wonderful things people see in you that you can't see for yourself. I have ben enlightened and can see the charisma that resides in myself and the opthers that I am surrounded by. This is a great book for those of youwho want to improve you and be the best you , you can possibly be!!
More Management Advice.......2006-09-06
This book has nothing to do with charisma and everything to do with selling and management. If you want to learn how to sell cars or inspire your secretary, go ahead and get this book. If you want to sway crowds with your powerful words, look elsewhere. And no, I haven't found the book that teaches that yet.
Excellent !.......2005-02-07
You don't need to born with charisma. You can learn it, but you must read this book.
"An expert on charisma--because he is charismatic".......2002-03-22
There is a lot of information packed within these pages. More in fact than I could get from one reading. I found this book to be better than any I've read yet on the subject... yet, it still seems that there is an elusive, magical aspect of charisma that each author seems to miss. This may just be my personal viewpoint. Who knows, maybe I need to find the magical gem, insert it into the puzzle, and write the book myself. I have listened to tapes; watched videos; and read books by Tony Alessandra, and this guy rocks. Read this book by all means and add to your own charisma.
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The 10 Qualities Of Charismatic People: Secrets of Personal Magnetism
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You walk into a room and notice a small group of people having an animated conversation. You're attracted to their energy, so you join them. But when one fellow turns to talk with someone else, the original group drifts apart, while that man quickly becomes the center of another high-energy discussion. Throughout the evening, you watch this person effortlessly draw others to him. What is it about this man that attracts others so readily? How does he always become the center of attention? The 10 Qualities of Charismatic People answers those questions.
With this informative program, you'll learn about or improve the following:
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Retread Material.......2002-09-28
Not very enlightning; tired old leadership topics stringed together (active listening, dress-for-success, goals setting, morals, situational leadership, etc). I was hoping for more but it did not deliver. The CD's summary is: have goals, dress and play nice.
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Charisma is that special something that separates leaders from followers and winners from also-rans. In this new, updated edition of her bestselling classic, Doe Lang shows that at any age, in any job, and with any educational degree, anyone can learn to access and radiate his or her charisma. Through Lang's internationally renowned and proven program, readers learn to trust themselves and share with others their unique and positive qualities--and become the people they've always desired to be.
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Great Teacher, Great Book.......2006-11-22
I had the good fortune to take Dr. Lang's class in 1977. The other students included heads of businesses and others needing to speak regularly before small and large audiences.
At first the exercises, which are in the book, seemed strange or embarrasing in a group. But I learned that each of them was a way to teach the body and/or emotions to lose self-consciousness, old negative self-images, unfortunate mannerisms, etc. A number of the voice exercises really taught one to be free of the cultural inhibition to be quiet and then to say what you believe with confidence. Dr. Lang videotaped us before and after, and the improvements for each of us were amazing. The class helped me later as a lawyer in court to present my client's case and then as a political candidate.
It is not as easy to learn from a book as from a class, but if you are willing to free yourself up to your true inner self and gain confidence, I highly recommend doing the exercises in this book.
Charisma can be learned!.......2006-06-26
If you are looking for a way to achieve rapport easily and effectively with lots of people in lots of different situations, this book is definitely a must read.
A treasure and very helpful .......2005-12-31
This book will permanently improve your life. An enjoyable read and fun to dip into. All the exercises work and are fun to do.
Couldn't Get Through It.......2005-05-02
I was hoping for a book to show me how to be more charismatic, of course. But this book feel far short of that goal. The subtitle is, "How to Discover and Unleash Your Hidden Powers," but it didn't help at all with that. It is a good book for self-help and explaining charismatic characteristics. But helping YOU become mroe charismatic will require far more than this book. Thirteen kinds of charisma, imagination, how to stop putting yourself down, anger, breathing, overcoming performance anxiety.... Just a few things covered in this book that will help you feel calmer, perhaps more in control around others, but that's about it.
Great Book, May seem strange at first........2003-12-11
I think that this was a great book to read. You could learn a thing or two even if you didn't learn anything else throughout the whole book. It has alot of motivational words it has to say and i tried some of the exercises that it suggested. Some seemed strange and odd to do but others seemed like it was a great thing. I adjusted some of the exercises to fit me better.
I think in order to read this book and to fully enjoy it you must come to it with an open mind and to let yourself feel not to shy to try some exercises.
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When you are ready and open to the idea, it is well worth it.......2007-01-09
A pastor at my church loaned me her copy of the book, but at the time I was not ready to read it. I was later urged by a good friend and bishop to read it from cover to cover, so I did. If asked what I think, you have to be spiritually ready to read it and once you do it is well worth it. I recommend it to babies in Christ who are seeking to better understand the how important praying with spiritual authority and power is and that only through putting God in rememberance of His word and His promises will doorways open up where you hear from God and obtain better understanding of His will for your life. It is my desire to read it again, this time in conjunction with the bible and I suggest you do too.
Prayer is a dialogue.... actually a response..........2006-01-20
Judson Cornwall does an excellent job of explaining that our conversations with our Heavenly Father should be a RESPONSE to what He has already said. As we delight ourselves in the Lord and in His Word, He will place His desires in our hearts (Psalm 37:4). If we abide in Him, and His Word abides in us, we will ask whatever we desire and it shall be done for us (John 15:7).
It would be prudent to read this book at least once a year.
Prayer That Takes God At His Word.......2005-03-23
Judson Cornwall's book is a challenge to pray the Scriptures. Cornwall offers easy to follow chapters on the power and purpose of praying the Bible directly back to God. Cornwall doesn't misuse the text to force God to act but rather he sees the Bible as God's promises to believers and we are to act upon those promises (2 Cor. 1:21).
Cornwall balances his chapters with much Scripture and with personal illustrations to help the reader grasp the importance of his principles.
This a book that every praying disciple should read and study.
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Charisma and Leadership in Organizations
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"[This book] offers a comprehensive review of the new approaches to leadership research. . . . What becomes clear from this book is that the kind of leadership research that emerged in the 1980s is still in an infant stage and that there are a lot of issues that require further attention. By exploring the ambiguities, inconsistencies or matters that require clarification, Bryman succeeds in writing a valuable contribution to understanding new approaches to leadership. . . . This book is recommended reading for any scholar in the field of leadership." --Organization Studies "The sheer breadth of the text means that it is a book one will return to recurrently. . . . Bryman's text proves a useful way of sociologically connecting some more influential recent approaches in the management field with traditions of serious scholarship that have slightly longer legs than the latest business school fad. . . . The book offers many excellent examples and discussions of identities which might be considered to be charismatic, from religion, social movements, politics, and organizational life in business. . . . The book is a useful and timely contribution to the sociology of organizations and management. . . . It redefines a field of analysis in ways that are provocative and may be important. . . . The book is to be recommended." --Sociology "Charisma and Leadership in Organizations is an excellent book. The clarity of style and argument is exceptional, the mixture of theory and exemplification just right. Indeed, some of the cases drawn on to illuminate the arguments are fascinating as well as diverse --Gladstone, Hitler, and Tony Benn are to be found here as well as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Reverend Moon and the film directory Michael Cimino. . . . Perhaps the beauty of this text from the point of view of both author and publisher is that it could have very wide uses: not only the business undergraduate and MBA market but also sociologists and other social science students as well as, of course, their lecturers. Certainly, Bryman's book is the kind of text that could lead you unhesitatingly to constructing an option on leadership and charisma, or to dwelling at length upon these topics within a more general course. Within business studies and organisational behavior courses it is to be hoped that Charisma and Leadership comes to be seen as more than just another specialist text." --The Service Industries Journal "Alan Bryman . . . has extended our understanding of this subject through his latest book. . . . The use of vignettes located within several chapters illustrated and clarified many of Bryman's major points. Moreover, the integration and reference to leadership theories presented in the early chapters connected major ideas presented by either supporting or refuting them. I also found the brief summaries at the end of each chapter to be helpful. . . . Bryman clearly and simply removes the cloud that often surrounds charisma and leadership. He enunciates his presentation concisely and enables readers to easily assess the strengths and weaknesses of the New Leadership. From a theoretical perspective, I think it is time we accept such a paradigm. I recommend a copy of this book to those interested in expanding their knowledge about an exciting area within the leadership domain." --Business Horizons "The author provides a detailed review of the literature associated with the concept of 'New Leadership,' together with some ideas of his own on a fascinating subject." --Long Range Planning "The author has thoroughly researched the topic of charisma and its effect on leadership. . . . We desperately need the 'new leaders' he describes." --Henry F. Houser, Professor of Management, Auburn University at Montgomery How do executives like Lee Iacocca and Steve Jobs consistently reap excellent job performance, loyalty, and praise from employees? In recent years, researchers and practitioners concerned with the effective functioning of organizations have scrutinized this subject carefully. In Charisma and Leadership in Organizations, Alan Bryman explores the nature of these charismatic qualities by questioning the differences between management and leadership, the role of vision, and the nature of transformational leadership. By examining the vanguards of contemporary business and by drawing examples from the lives of holy men of late antiquity, Sufi saints, nineteenth century millenarian chiefs, and political figures like Nkrumah and Gladstone, Bryman brings a fresh perspective to the discussion of charismatic leadership. Most notably, he specifically and emphatically rejects the notion that charisma is a mystical quality that denotes personal magnetism. Finally, Bryman discusses the nature of charisma in relation to the 'New Leadership' school of thought. Intended for students, academics and professionals in management and organization studies as well as for sociologists and social science students, Charisma and Leadership in Organizations is a timely work that provides a much needed critical review of current leadership literature.
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