Bøger af Chris Howell

The purpose for rethinking how we communicate as men is not to try to make us think more like women, as if that were ever possible. Instead, the purpose is to help us as men find the benefits of better communication and provide examples of how we can improve, and tools we can easily employ to improve our relationships and interactions with the women in our lives. For the indomitable tough guy who needs a little help with the steps in communicating, here is a mini course for you. Try this simple three-step tutorial to help you think your way through to better communication and reduce any fear of "emotions" you may have. Step 1 - Observation. The first step in improving communication is to pay more attention to as many details as you can tolerate. (You will increase your tolerance for details with use.) Simply make a mental note of whatever you can see and hear and any other sensory perception you are able to notice. Step 2 - Evaluation. This one is the easiest step. All you have to do is develop an opinion about what you saw, heard, or perceived. You simply decide if you like it or not, or would someone else like it or find it beneficial. Step 3 - Response. This is the hardest step of all. This is the point where you give a short verbal report of what you observed and how you evaluate its usefulness. Once you have practiced these steps enough to do them without much effort or without notes, you are then ready to be certified as a "communicator."

Book of Beginnings and Ends focuses on the continuing dance between initial and terminal experiences, effects, and conditions. The poems in the book's four sections come in a wide variety of tones and emotional postures, from hilarity to deep grief, in their quest for balance, some means of containing and celebrating both extremes. The poems propose, in fact, that, along with a persistent kindness, achieving and celebrating such balance is life's essential work. This new volume takes on its subject matter with the lyric imagination, tenderness, clarity and force readers of Howell's writing have come to expect.

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade unionism in the twentieth century. Most scholars regard Britain's industrial relations institutions as the product of a largely laissez faire system of labor relations, punctuated by occasional government interference. Howell, on the other hand, argues that the British state was the prime architect of three distinct systems of industrial relations established in the course of the twentieth century. The book contends that governments used a combination of administrative and judicial action, legislation, and a narrative of crisis to construct new forms of labor relations. Understanding the demise of the unions requires a reinterpretation of how these earlier systems were constructed, and the role of the British government in that process. Meticulously researched, Trade Unions and the State not only sheds new light on one of Thatcher's most significant achievements but also tells us a great deal about the role of the state in industrial relations.