by Teresa Douglas Holly Gordon Mike Webber ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 22, 2018
Insightful and reassuringly positive; should help remote employees avoid land mines.
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Three remote workers share their experiences and offer advice in this debut guide.
The concept of a remote workforce is often addressed from the employer’s viewpoint considering the impact it might have on the business. What sets this book apart is it is written from the perspectives of three employees who work remotely. Douglas, Gordon, and Webber team up to tell their stories through vignettes while offering “pro tips” to help prospective remote workers meet the unique challenges of operating in a location other than their employers’ places of business. Whether the information they share can be defined as “secrets” may be questionable, but their intent is sound: to provide the remote employee with an informal manual in order to navigate a nontraditional work arrangement. The authors break the book into six parts (effectively chapters) intended for remote workers and a seventh part directed at their managers. The guide’s first part is one of the most intriguing because it focuses on the psychological aspects of toiling remotely. Here, the authors’ own experiences, related conversationally, contribute to their intimate understanding of what it really takes to work “alone.” For example, a common misconception, according to the authors, is the notion that remote employees have more free time, but “the reality is actually the opposite…working from home means working more.” Less surprising is the difficulty associated with separating home life from work life. Thankfully, the authors do more than just observe these conditions—they suggest strategies for handling them throughout this timely and beneficial book. Other chapters concerning physical environment, logistics, and communication are more utilitarian, providing content one might expect, but they are no less helpful. The final chapter is basically sensitivity training for managers of remote workers. Here, the authors seem to not so subtly advocate for what might be regarded as preferential treatment: “As a manager in this environment, you need to take more overt steps to show recognition than you would in a traditional office setting.” Still, this chapter competently discusses the special managerial challenges of a remote workforce.
Insightful and reassuringly positive; should help remote employees avoid land mines.Pub Date: Aug. 22, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5062-4856-1
Page Count: 134
Publisher: 750 Publishing
Review Posted Online: Oct. 24, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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