Corporate America, the naked truth exposed in a brilliant book introducing the AQ Principle?
(ContentDesk) February 12, 2004--How's Your AQ Today? offers a fresh, new humorous look at the business world we all live in. It takes you on an enlightening tour of corporate life through Ed Rychkun's view of his lifetime of climbing corporate ladders. This provocative and hilarious expose' focuses on what really goes on behind those boardroom walls. It cleverly reveals the flip side of a company's naked underbelly by showing how people universally conform to laws on how they feel about each other? called AQ'ism. Ed examines the social behaviour of corporate citizens and develops universal laws about how this feeling is quantified as an AQ? a measurement that can have a direct impact on how fast you can climb or fall from the corporate ladder.
Ed tells it like it is, revealing how the real professionals? the executives, use a set of secret AQ Arsenals to hide their incompetence? and maintain their positions of power in the corporate hierarchy. You will immediately recognize a similarity with your own situation and derive humour from it. How's your AQ Today? features a completely new look at business antics using satire through the author's almost sardonic sense of humor that transports ideas in seconds, provoking a new look at our everyday working relationships. Using a fascinating satire of graphic wit, the author provocatively draws out the leading question of "How's Your AQ Today?" Revealing the management farce using dozens of cartoons and graphic illustrations, Ed introduces his executive playground, quantifying prototype behaviors that leaves no one exempt to his hilarious but brutal expose'. Yes, a new perspective of corporate life will unfold as you begin to understand the nature of this silly AQ phenomenon that insidiously creates productivity suffocation in so many companies.
The Author takes you on a journey through his own first hand experience, starting at the bottom and working his up the ladder in both small and large corporations over 30 years. Working through supervisory roles, into management, through executive positions and finally chairman, director, partner and owner, Ed Rychkun transcribes his experience from Fortune 500 companies to his own smaller enterprises revealing a common phenomenon he calls the AQ Principle. Using prototype characters and a corporation of 100 members, Ed Rychkun reveals the social interplay and behavioral characteristics he cleverly names AQ ?ism. Somewhat exaggerated but so humanly realistic, the portrayal is sure to keep you giggling as he exposes the hidden tactics he calls the AQ Arsenals. The books impact is best asserted in a critique written by a business executive: "This riveting non-fiction work deals with how corporations function, how the players treat each other and how one really climbs the corporate ladder.
Rychkun's question How's Your AQ Today? sets the stage for a great read. No one is exempt from Rychkun's inky dagger as he graphically tells us why many businesses and business people suffocate and lose their humanity. From the lowest man or women on the totem pole to the top of the heap, Rychkun's book provokes and invokes us with the thought and question - Are we all just a bunch of assholes? With his telltale scenarios, cartoons, and some real-life corporate experiences, Rychkun informs and entertains us while he bares the backside of the corporate world. A must read." Jim Green, CEO Challenge Entertainment Corp, Jan 2004"Never was the raw naked truth so aptly expressed as in this earthy examination of the blatantly exposed underbelly of the modern corporation. This incisive satire could one day become a ribald classic, so pick up your copy and join the enlightened.", Tom Scrase, January 2004How's Your AQ Today? can be ordered directly from the publisher by online at www.rrpbooks.com where you will find a full description of the book.
The price is US$14.95, plus shipping and handling of US$2.00 if ordered in Canada, US $4.00 in US or US$8.00 if ordered outside of North America. Alternatively, you may fill out an order form from the website at www.rrpbooks.com and fax it to the Publisher, then send a check or money order directly to Rychkun Recreation Publications, 23951 58A Place, Langley BC, Canada V2Z 1A5 for an autographed copy. The book is also found on www.amazon.com.
Be a Carenter for Uncle Sam - Part 1
Carpenter Grade 7General: Carpentry workers at this grade level measure, cut, construct, install, repair, and modify wood; composite, and wood substitute items where specific fit and accuracy are within allowable limits to produce a serviceable product. Finished appearance of work products is not the primary consideration at this grade level. Grade 7 carpentry workers apply standard measurements, specifications, and instructions when constructing, installing, or repairing items such as frame structures, decking, partitions, shelving, doors, forms, siding, and scaffolds. They apply a general knowledge of wood, composite materials, wood substitutes, and woodworking techniques, as well as basic shop mathematics to plan, measure, and lay out materials according to dimensional requirements and specifications. Workers at this level typically follow specific instructions and are aided through the use of templates, or preplanned, or precut materials.
Skill and Knowledge: Grade 7 carpentry...
Be a Carenter for Uncle Sam - Part 1
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Amazing New Digital Measuring System Saves Sign Shops Time, Effort And Money
La Mesa, CA (ContentDesk) June 16, 2006 -- Commercial sign shop owners, operators, and graphic designers now have an innovative new tool to save time , effort and reduce costs when measuring projects.
Thanks to the Amazing Sticky Yard" Digital Measuring System, sign makers can take measurements of any size object quickly and easily using a digital photo, their computer and the Amazing Sticky Yard software.
With the Sticky Yard www.stickyyard.com
as a reference, measurements can be taken as often as neededwith just a few clicks of a mouse.
The Amazing Sticky Yard Digital Measuring System saves valuable time during the estimating phase of a new sign project.
Sticky Yard eliminates the need for ladders, clumsy measuring tapes that do not stay in place, and repeat measuring trips.
Graphic designers and sign makers can even forget about spending time sketching...
Amazing New Digital Measuring System Saves Sign Shops Time, Effort And Money
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The risk from working at Heights
In 2004/ 2005 53 people died in the UK and nearly 3,800 were seriously injured as a result of a result of a workplace fall. Falls are the most common cause of death at work.
If you work at height for any task then your employer has a duty under the Working at Height regulations which places a duty of care on employers to protect their employees safety at all times who may be at risk of personal injury from a fall from height.
Latest projects launched by the Health and Safety Executive highlight the risk to the health of workers who conduct duties whilst at height but do insist that this does not mean a ban on the use of ladders as previously reported in the media.
The working at height regulations do not outright the ban in the use of stepladders but place emphasis to employers that they must carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of risks connected with the working duties. This also entails finding reasonable alternatives if possible...
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HOW D' YA LIKE THEM APPLES?
HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? -- Or, things you might have said to Eve had she tricked you into eating the apple --Copyright by
2004. All rights reserved.There are a few things that you might be tempted to say, if you had the chance, (especially if you're a fly on a wall in the proverbial "Garden of Eden").Speaking of flies, here are some choice lines you wish Adam might have told Eve before chomping into that fateful apple on what appears to have been another perfectly twee day in paradise.-- I don't do "bobbing for apples"!-- Let's share the guilt.-- You know I hate "Little green apples in the summertime", so play something else!-- Before we get down to business -- when was your last dental check-up?-- Not now, I'm busy killing the bugs, worms, and Trojan Horses in my frigging PC.-- I can't imagine why you think I'd want to read your new diet book, "How to Be Happy on 500 Calories or Less a Day ? Lessons From A Tart With A Heart".-- If eating an apple a day keeps the doctor...
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Graphic Designers Save Time Using Digital Camera and New Measuring Tool
LA MESA, CA (ContentDesk) July 17, 2006 -- Emerge Industries announces that graphic designers and sign makers report savings of up to an hour on every sign job using The Amazing Sticky Yard" Digital Measuring System.
For about the price of a tank of gas, sign makers and graphic designers can easily take measurements of any size object in a snap with a digital camera, a computer and the Sticky Yard software.