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¶ … Filling the Glass: The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business" by Barry Maher
For years, the world of business and commerce have been immersed and introduced with books that deal on quality management and effectiveness as an employee or member of the business environment. These self-help books often deal with the dichotomy of 'half-full' and 'half-empty' perspective philosophy. This old tradition of dealing with managerial (business or non-business related) is broken by the book, "Filling the Glass: The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business" by Barry Maher. Maher offers whole new way of looking into the problems and dilemmas that people commonly encounter in the business and management world. One of the most important philosophies that the book subsists to is the following statement from Maher's discussion of 'filling the glass' and destroying the old dichotomy rule of "half-empty' and 'half-full' glass of water" philosophy: "the person I...
And that's what the strategies in this book are all about: taking that half full or half empty glass and filling it..."
Maher's positivist and active stance on how people can effectively accomplish their tasks is best illustrated in the guidelines and tips that he provides for his readers in the book. The book is an easy read because of the author's conversationalist tone and realistic way in which he portrays the problems encountered by people in the business and management field. Maher also wants to show flexibility in the 'reach,' or market that he targets for his book, that is, "Filling the Glass" is not only for business people, but for non-business people as well, who have the…
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Maher, B. "Filling the Glass: The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business." USA: Dearborn Trade Publishing. 2001.
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