The awareness movement and the social invasion of the self -- The narcissistic personality of our time -- Changing modes of making it : from Horatio Alger to the happy hooker -- The banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness : theatrics of politics and everyday existence -- The degradation of sport -- Schooling and the new illiteracy -- The socialization of reproduction and the collapse of authority -- …
Character matters -- Leaders of conviction -- How character develops, Part I : what we believe -- How character develops, Part II : what we value -- How character develops, Part III : what we serve -- The role of values in corporate life -- The origin of our moral conscience -- The power of principles -- Key concepts of character -- Tempting your character -- Core qualities of principled leader…
The author -- Part 1: The unconscious conspiracy and how to confound it -- One job, one year, one life -- Learning some basic truisms about leadership -- The new metaphysics of our age -- Part 2: A society without dreams -- The long slide from true leadership -- Back to the future -- The age of unreality -- Where have all the leaders gone? -- Part 3: Parts of the problem -- Bosses as heroes and…
1. Personal communication -- Self-disclosure and listening -- Self perception and value orientation -- Seeing and not seeing -- Closure -- Experience and language -- Environmental awareness -- Categorization -- Perceptual context -- Object awareness -- Perceptual set -- Learning and change -- Assumptions -- Observations and inferences -- Predicting attitudes -- Silence -- Personal space -- Para…
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Mr. Jarvis and his revolt -- 1. The crooked assessor -- 2. Ham ans eggs -- 3. Politicians -- 4. The campaign -- 5. The morning after -- 6. Symbol ans reality -- pt. 2. A short course on the property tax -- 7. The crooked assessor revisited -- 8. Limiting taxes -- 9. Shifting taxes -- 10. The abatement game -- 11. Who really pays the property …