Press Release - Taming the Dragons Press Release
The corporate world is populated with dragons. Your own particular dragons may include your worst competitor, the stock price, impending layoffs, the new computer system threatening to swallow your budget whole, the newly hired graduate from the fancy college who wants your office, or the clique of employees bent on exclusive domain over information or equipment. All of these things are challenges or opportunities that depend on your perception and your reactions to them. In her new book, Paula Gamonal leverages ideas from an online community of business executives and managers to explore the perception and the handling of these types of challenges. A strong believer in teamwork and synergy, she addresses “people issues” by outlining concrete ideas that executives, managers and staffers can use to turn fear, boredom, and competition into excitement, creativity and collaboration. “One of the exciting things about the book is that you don’t have to be ‘the boss’ to use many of the ideas,” Gamonal said. “It’s news to a lot of people right now, because there’s a sense of hopelessness in the face of the economic slump we’ve been in. But the fact of the matter is that anyone can make a very dramatic, positive change in their work environment, and can have an impact on the bottom line of the company.” Organized into fifty essays, each addresses a separate topic with an eye toward turning negatives into positives. Believing that “there is no problem without a gift for you in its hands,” she approaches each problem from the perspective of an opportunity. “Looking at artists’ renditions of dragons from the Eastern (Oriental) and Western cultures, dragons are remarkably similar- huge, reptilian creatures, sometimes with wings. Yet the perception is so different! In the Western world, dragons are seen as demonic, destructive beasts to be conquered. In the Eastern world, dragons are wise, angelic teachers and helpers” Gamonal indicates in the book’s introduction. “The corporate world has always been full of dragons. How you deal with them (and how they deal with YOU) often depends more on your point of view than on the weapons you hold.” Taming the Dragons, 50 Essays from the Corporate World, is available through iUniverse. The Ravenwerks Information Center, the online community, is available at www.ravenwerks.com. Ravenwerks receives in excess of 300 user sessions per day and has received numerous awards as an Internet resource.
Taming the Dragons iUniverse talks with Paula Gamonal, Author of Taming the Dragons Introduction- Why the Dragon Metaphor? Review of Taming the Dragons by Joseph Bentley, Professor of Management |
