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Wer kennt sie nicht: den Kollegen, der sich mit fremden Federn schmückt, den cholerischen Chef, der seine Mitarbeiter anbrüllt, oder die intrigante Nachbarin, die liebend gern Gerüchte in die Welt setzt. Egal, ob in Beruf, Freundeskreis oder Familie - Arschlöcher lauern überall. Der erfahrene Management-Professor Robert Sutton gibt in diesem Handbuch Antworten auf die brennenden Fragen, die ihm seit Erscheinen seines internationalen Bestsellers »Der Arschloch-Faktor« am häufigsten gestellt wurden. Dabei bezieht er aktuelle Studien und Management-Techniken mit ein und liefert,...

Communes and utopian communities are groups of men and women who share a central or common belief and choose to live together away from mainstream society. Many of the individuals in these communes are characterized by or aspire to perfection. This reference source contains biographies and historical overviews of 20th-century communes and utopias in the United States and those individuals involved with them. Sutton provides a comprehensive history of both religious and secular utopian communities. Entries include Amity Colony, Farm Eco-Village, Holy City, David Koresh, Shaker Communities,...

The issues and controversies surrounding the creation of our federal republic--and the rights of the federal government--have reverberated through many watershed events in the 200+ years of American history. This book will help students to debate those issues as they played out in eight crises from 1787 to the beginning of the 21st century. Expert commentary and 54 primary documents contemporary to the time were carefully selected to represent a variety of views on each issue. Events range from the creation of the federal republic to the ongoing controversy over women's rights.

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American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but an on-going, essential part of American history. This important study begins with an examination of America's first religious utopia at Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1732 and traces successive utopian experiments in the United States through the following centuries. The author demonstrates that the utopian communal story is an integral facet of the Puritan concept of America as a city upon a hill and a beacon light for the world where the perfect society could be built and where it could...