A Book for People Who Want to Become Stinking Rich but Aren’t Sure How Benrik
Benrik • 978 0 7522 2670 5
that it will come true – that’s needed, so is much else. And that’s where a book of this sort, from someone who should know, comes in.
This is less a book than a series of ideas, any one of which, presumably, you might be able to pick up and market – thereby fulfilling the title of the book, perhaps. But the people behind this book are deeply anarchic and there’s a real question about what it’s true purpose may be. Best you go look for yourself to see what that might be.
CBT for Work: A Practical Guide Gill Garratt
Icon Books • 978 1 8483 1419 1
Your Infinite Power to be Rich Joseph Murphy
Prentice Hall Press • 9780 1397 9591 6
Whether you’re struggling to make ends meet or are looking to grow what wealth you have, this book is meant to show you how to have complete control over your financial success. There are numerous gems, but among them this one: why a grateful heart attracts riches. Sounds like The Secret – and it is. But as so many people have pointed out in the wake of the worldwide success of The Secret, there’s more to living your dream life than dreaming intensely
For those who don’t know, CBT stands for cognitive behavioural therapy (which is capped up, for ‘true believers’), a currently in-vogue stream of psychology which combines elements of what was previous cognitive therapy (thinking and speaking about your thinking, feeling and behaviour with a therapist) and behaviour therapy. The latter has moved a long way from Skinner and his crew of crypto-fascists who believed, following the example of Pavlov and his dogs, that humans could be conditioned to behave in standardised ways by certain key triggers. CBT has become the ‘industry standard’ for a strand of modern therapeutics which is in something of a crisis. As Freudian-based psychotherapy (you sit/lie in the shrink’s office and babble about your childhood and current neuroses, while the therapists goes ‘Hmmm – tell me more’ from time to
time) falls into ever diminishing use by virtue of being, more or less, not very good and very slow and expensive, so something has been needed to replace it. With the rise of more sophisticated psycho-active drugs to control anxiety, and a range of other psychological ‘conditions’ has become ever-more widely used, so CBT has come to the fore. No doubt it has some insights into our workings. No doubt it can be applied in the workplace. But so could common sense – and that would have a great deal to offer too. Elevating CBT to being the solution to a vast range of organisational ills may or may not be sensible – especially when its underlying goal is improved functionality in the workplace, which is in the end about the organisation and not its members. But that may be best for the reader to decide, in this case.
The Dharma of Capitalism Nitesh Gor
Kogan Page • 978 0 7494 6422 6
'A guide to mindful decision-making in the business of life' is the subtitle of this one. Written in the wake of the global downturn, this book points out the obvious – managers and
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