Bøger af Francis Green

Most of us can't make our weight loss and fitness goals the center of our lives, but we do need to make them a part of our lives, especially when we consider the health benefits.Struggling to integrate exercise, weight loss and healthy eating plans into our lives is a common occurrence. For most of us, it's the reason we give up after starting a goal. In Before You Move a Muscle, Francis outlines an alternative approach to achieving fitness goals used to help military members who struggled to meet their fitness and weight requirements. When they faced a yearly waist measurement that could mean the end of their career, they needed to approach their goals with a determination to succeed. That's what's covered in this book. Before You Move a Muscle describes ten principles that must be addressed before you start your plan. These ten principles led to success in weight loss, work performance and many other long-term goals that required lifestyle commitments. It's not the workouts or the diets that sink many of us. It's our inability to adapt to the changes in our environment that induce failure. Our lives are too complex to assume we can insert a fitness goal without any resistance. This book shows you how to navigate that internal resistance before it negatively affects your goal. Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page.

Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting paid more for their trouble. Yet it is often alleged that the quality of work life has deteriorated, with a substantial and rising proportion of jobs providing low wages and little security, or requiring unusually hard and stressful effort. In this unique and authoritative formal account of changing job quality, economist Francis Green highlights contrasting trends, using quantitative indicators drawn from public opinion surveys and administrative data. In most affluent countries average pay levels have risen along with economic growth, a major exception being the United States. Skill requirements have increased, potentially meaning a more fulfilling time at work. Set against these beneficial trends, however, are increases in inequality, a strong intensification of work effort, diminished job satisfaction, and less employee influence over daily work tasks. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Demanding Work shows how aspects of job quality are related, and how changes in the quality of work life stem from technological change and transformations in the politico-economic environment. The book concludes by discussing what individuals, firms, unions, and governments can do to counter declining job quality.