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Hope for a Healthy Workplace: Introducing Philanthropian Leadership

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Finally a little reality is painted on the picture of what is happening all over the the working world... and better yet a solution is provided with Dr. Lisa Barrow's breakthrough in Organizational Behaviour:
The Philantropian Leadership model.

A very fast reading book, as Dr. Barrow takes us on her own journey of discovery through the workplace. We find experiences so easy to relate to, anecdotes that tear at heart strings and courage that gives us Hope.

No Holds bared, Dr. Barrow tells it like it is, workplaces can be filled with abuse of power, and bullying. Some examples we learn about:
"Abusive leaders may:
Scream at their employees;
Belittle their employees;
Isolate employees;
Use abusive language;
Damage property;
Withhold career advancement opportunities;
Throw temper tantrums when they feel a loss of control."

Not only does experience help to build this model, but careful research and thoughtful study have gone into it as well. Just when you think America is sinking, there is Hope, and Dr. Barrow outlines her new model of Hope for a Healthy Workplace.

Finally a more realistic approach to a surprisingly common problem in the workplace today.

I highly recommend this excellent, authorotative, and easy to read book.

Inspiring! Love and hope are seldom mentioned as ideals in the workplace. But it is much needed, as psychological harassment in the workplace is growing at an epidemic rate.

Call it Bullying, Mobbing, or WorkPlace Psychological Harassment; it is a culture that is just coming to the forefront of public and political awareness; A wave of hopelessness that could reach tsunami proportions in today's job economy.

Dr Lisa Barrow beautifully lays out this phenomenon in a quick read book, with much to ponder. The book provides an intimate perspective of how peoples/employers' on the job behavior can take a lifelong toll in the personal lives of workers; the very people they have been entrusted to guide in the work place

Many States, as well as Canadian Provinces are in the throes of legislation to make psychological harassment in the work place illegal. Everyone, including the employer, wins when this ugly behavior is abolished. In a number of Countries such laws already exist.

Dr Barrow provides a look at the bully who gives little thought to how ones' behavior insidiously burdens a worker's personal life, as well as their families. The results are devastating and can last a lifetime.

Through personal experience and educational pursuit, her perspectives have evolved into a thought provoking, positive theory of how to turn this issue around. She provides a unique approach in resolving a worldwide epidemic of basic mean spirited intent in the work place.

At long last, books on this topic are entering the market. Dr. Lisa Barrow's Hope for a Healthy Workplace: Introducing Philanthropian Leadership is a must read

Great storyline however the author spends too much time on emotions vs. dealing with the facts. People are looking for answers on proper leadership; how a person derives to that point is not worth the time spent in this fast paced world we call America. After pointing the above out this one is different and if you pass it by you will be doing yourself a grave injustice for the message could be career saving and maybe even life saving to one of your employees.

Well worth the read!