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White - Omicron Kitchen Padded Bar Stool List Price: $299.99 Sale Price: $89.00  |
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The Omicron Bar Stool in White is adjustable from 22''-30''. Featuring Vinyl leather padding in both the back and the bottom of the seat, the Omicron Bar Stool is now available in White finish. Rigorously built, this stool is perfectly suitable for both resisdential and commercial interiors... |
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Acrylic Clear Transparent Bar Stool List Price: $299.99 Sale Price: $99.99 |
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Clear Acrylic Modern Bar Stool Chair. Swivels and comes with Adjustable Lever. A classic piece for your home or office. |
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Clear Acrylic Transparent Bar Stool (Set of 2) List Price: $599.99 Sale Price: $199.99 |
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A vivid polycarbonate seat enlivens the pneumatic Clear stool with glowing transparent color. A sleek chrome pedestal base and curvacious seat contribute to the stool's liquid-like fluidity and design... |
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Polish Satirists: Stanisaw LEM $14.14 Polish Satirists: Stanisaw LEM |
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LEM, a New England Village Boy $21.33 LEM, a New England Village Boy |
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Jack and Lem $11.09 A chronicle of the lifelong relationship between John F. Kennedy and his oldest friend, Lem Billings, a gay man, maintained despite the inherent political danger |
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The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem $27.95 Leading scholars examine the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris. |
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A Stanislaw Lem Reader $14.1 In The Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of writings by and about, and interviews with, one of the most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.Stanislaw Lem has a large and devoted following. Best known for his work in science fiction -- his novels and short stories have been translated into over forty languages and have sold over twenty-five million copies -- Lem is also a prolific writer of nonfiction monographs. Though not widely available in English, Lem's extensive studies of literary and contemporary culture, and of philosophy, rhetoric, and social theory, have been widely read and analyzed in their original Polish and in German and Russian translations.The Lem Reader forms an introduction to Lem's nonfiction oeuvre: it includes two interviews conducted with Lem, as well as a fascinating introductory essay by Swirski and an essay by Lem himself, Thirty Years Later , in which he discusses the predictions he has made in his extensive philosophical works. Chief among the works discussed is Lem's Summa Technologiae (1964), in which Lem presents a series of wide-ranging prognoses on the social, cultural, and technological destiny of our civilization. Lem also analyzes the cognitive parallels, aesthetic differences, and shared social responsibilities of the science of futurology and the literary genre of science fiction. Included are a complete bibliography of Lem's works in English and Polish, and a bibliography of critical sources.Anyone interested in Lem's provocative and uncompromising view of literature's role in the contemporary cultural environment, in Lem's opinions about his own fiction, and about the relation ofliterature to science and technology, will be fascinated by this eclectic collection. |
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Telling your Boss He's Wrong
So, the weekend is over and you're slumped in a chair in another interminable meeting, half-focusing on your boss who is doing "yadda-yadda-yadda" about widgets or sales forecasts or customer complaints or whatever the harangue de jour is, and all of a sudden you have a blinding vision of the way things should be done, followed by an overwhelming urge to share this brilliant idea that directly contradicts what the boss is saying.
It's the moment of truth.
Do you speak up, saving the company (possibly) thousands of work-hours and dollars, and risk making your boss look like an idiot, or do you sink back into the pack and run over the cliff with the rest of the lemmings?
Yes. No. Wait...what was the question?
Telling the boss he/she is wrong is tricky. It requires thoughtful analysis, willingness to compromise and knowing when to throw in the cards or go "all in". Here are some tips for getting it right.
1. Timing is Everything. The earlier you can get your ideas in about a project, the better you'll be. Don't wait until the blueprints are finalized to point out that the access door needs to be in a different place.
2. Choose Your Battles. How important is this issue? Some people just like to be contrary and challenge the status quo. Examine your motives for speaking up and, if you have a clear conscience and a better way of doing things, then go for it.
3. Always Have a Suggestion. If you're going to disagree with your boss, you'd better have an alternative solution in mind. No one wants a nay-sayer who doesn't like the current plan but can't come up with anything better.
4. Discretion is the Better Part of Valor. Take your opposing idea to your boss in private. Challenging him or her directly in front of a group doesn't offer a face-saving way out. Unless the situation is critical (think, life-threatening), it won't hurt to wait.
5. Talk Around It. Instead of coming right out with your own plan, sit down with your boss for a talk, and do a little mental maneuvering. Think aloud about the situation and bring up pros and cons while gradually shifting around to the plan you want the boss to consider - sort of a two-person brainstorming session.
6. Be a Team Player. Before you jump in with your own version, make absolutely sure you understand all the ramifications of what your boss is proposing and what she/he is trying to accomplish. Make it a problem-solving exercise, not a win/lose scenario. And if your idea wins out, keep it to yourself. Let your boss decide when, and how, to share the praise.
7. Learn to Lose. If your boss is operating under constraints that you're not aware of, it doesn't matter how good your idea is. You don't have the final say-so and you have to be able to live with that. And, sometimes, your boss is just going to disagree with you and nothing you can say or do is going to change that. Accept it gracefully and live to fight another day.
Speaking up with your boss can be a challenge, especially if you're not used to putting yourself out there. Good managers, though, want to hear different ideas and encourage their workers to speak up -- loudly and often - and if you always just go along with the flow you may find yourself overlooked at promotion time. Follow the suggestions above and start making a positive name for yourself.
About the Author
Joan Schramm, the Workplace Solutions Expert, is a career, executive and personal coach with twenty years experience in management, training and coaching. Joan can work with you to figure out exactly what you want from your life and your career, and how to get there without a lot of detours. For more information, or to talk about what's going on in your life, go to:
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