Outlines organizational to steps through which anyone weighed down by physical and mental clutter can revamp careers, relationships, and other life areas, and offers a four-step program for eliminating mess, prioritizing, and renewing one's motivation.

When Organization Fails: Why Authority Matters develops the study of authority as an area of investigation in organizational communication and management. As a research topic, authority has rarely been addressed in depth in the management and organizational communication literature. It is critical, however, to maintaining unity of purpose and action of the organization, and it is frequently cited by organizational members themselves. Utilizing two case studies, examined in depth and based on the accounts of the individuals involved, authors James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. van Every explore the pathology of authority when it fails. They develop a theoretical foundation that aims to illuminate authority by positioning it in communication theory. This volume sets the stage for a new generation of scholars who can make their reputations as experts on authority, and is intended for scholars and graduate students in organizational communication, leadership, and discourse analysis. It also offers practical insights to consultants and management experts worldwide.

This book is the culmination of literally more than thirty thousand hands on practical hours of log review, log assessment, enterprise-level packet capture forensics, live dynamic malware analysis, behavior malware root-cause triage analysis, use-case data analysis, and more, which have led to the remediation of nation state systemic malware infection droppers, command-and-control-compromised computers, exfiltration from targeted attackers and insider attacks, and more. This book will get you and your security operation center teams started in the correct direction instead of sitting around, pretending to do security, and not get fired by your bosses when they find out. This book will save your career and show you where your security manager or security peer lied to you about technology that they never understood. All this and more is at your fingertips. You can reinvigorate your career with security results that have been proven by my hands. Everyone in security operation center life is struggling to get into a role that is promising, and they are struggling to find a way up. Information Security is an expertise-driven field. This book and the others that will follow such as Consequence, Lies, Misconceptions, and Pains of Incompetent Security and Splunk Data Analysis Handbook and Cookbook for Everyone will invigorate your career and make you the envy of your peers. This may include your management, so be careful. Managers are scared of expertise. You will be in the driver's seat of data analysis, but first, you must walk through untying and unbinding all the broken premises and broken ideas that you have learned and relearned from year to year. You must unsubscribe to the bad notions that you take as commonplace watercooler talk. You need to do this now with this book. I will walk you through, step-by-step, to understand what is real security and what is fake security. This is where the rubber meets the road in breaking you free from the shackles of a silo-mentality or a silo-position. Too often crummy managers will leave you to rot in a security operations center with no growth and no hope to get out. This book is what you need to get your promotion somewhere else. Be the leader that you want to be. Be the discussion changer and not just the guy that nods and can never disagree or offer something fulfilling to a team. All the ideas contained in this book and the others come from results-proven security. This is not theory. This is technical, strategy guidance that is born from detecting the things that have put companies on the news, which have been hacked from exfiltration, insider attacks, nation-state botnet malware, ghost malware, network-level postcompromise, and so on. I have found them all using no alerts and no threat intelligence ever. This is the protection that you want.

The Supreme Court in Conference offers a fascinating and unprecedented look at the private debates between Justices on nearly 300 landmark cases from 1940-1985. Major decisions such as Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education are covered and the notes of Justices Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Frank Murphy, Robert Jackson, Harold Burton, Tom Clark, Earl Warren and William Brennan are opened to shed light on what goes on behind the closed doors of the secretive conference room.In this unique and revealing work on some of the most profound rulings made at a turbulent time in American history, the reader is given insight into how and why certain decisions were reached. With expert editing by Del Dickson--who provides annotations and an introduction to each case, placing them in legal and historical context--cases on issues such as free speech, the rights of the accused, religion, Presidential power, equal protection, affirmative action and the death penalty are discussed. Dickson also includes a lively and incisive history of the Supreme Court, from its beginning to the present, illuminating how the conference works, how it has evolved, its various animosities, triumphant successes and glaring failures.As the first major reference work on this subject, this easy-to-use book offers the most reliable evidence available on the internal workings of the Supreme Court. It is the ideal source for scholars, law students, historians and anyone interested in how Supreme Court decisions are truly made.

The complete understanding of organizational culture and personal values is fundamental for running and improving modern organizations. By identifying the underlying building blocks for behavior, strategy, and actions of organizations and their members, companies and researchers may discover innovative techniques to encourage productive and satisfying working environments. Recent Advances in the Roles of Cultural and Personal Values in Organizational Behavior is a collection of innovative research on how culture and personal values shape and influence leadership styles, decision-making processes, innovativeness, and other management practices. While highlighting topics including employee motivation, leadership style, and organizational culture, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, human resources professionals, recruiters, researchers, academics, educators, and students seeking current research on cultural backgrounds and personal values for organizations.