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Summary: Idealistic naivete
Review: Actually, one star is too many. Another outburst of banal Fabian drivel. Its constantly amazing to see the effect of too many years spent in the velvet isolation of academia on even previously ( one must assume) acute and analytical minds. Its no wonder the book fizzles out at the end. It has nowhere to go, considering that it started with a substanceless idea.
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Summary: Rankism in each of us and the world
Review: As I read Fuller's Somebodies and Nobodies, I realized that I have myself pulled rank and been the victim of rank-pulling. But more importantly, many problems on the world stage today could be address, maybe even solved, by taking a 'rankist' perspective: North Korea's illogical stance against the world, Osama Bin Laden's attack on the US and Bush's response in attacking Iraq - each of these are generated by issues of 'dignity' and 'indignation' as Fuller describes them. Read this book!
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Summary: A must read for anyone who's felt like a nobody -- all of us
Review: Buy this book and spread the word. Let's put an end to rankism. All you somebodies -- watch out. It's time for the Nobody Revolution.
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Summary: I read it twice and I only read Shakespeare twice
Review: Every now and then I come across an idea that is so obviously correct that I get angry for not having seen it on my own. When the idea is presented in language that is straightforward and accessible, I kick myself again. Such is the content of this book.Like "Man's Search for Meaning" one can immediately see its ideas at work everywhere. And they are helpful ideas. In my family and at work "rankism" is a factor is almost every argument, every negotiation, and every resolution. Needless to say I loved the book. I asked my employees to read it. It's short and chock full of perception.
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Summary: the great-granddaddy of all the isms
Review: Fuller's book hits a nerve with everyone! Who hasn't been a "nobody" at some time in their life? All of us. Who hasn't felt the sting of that degrading stare or phrase? We all have felt in somewhere along the line. This books pops all those nasty "I'm better than you because..." looks and comments. It is a must read if we are ever going to create a culture of equals like we claimed we wanted when we founded this country.
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Summary: the great-granddaddy of all the isms
Review: Fuller's book hits a nerve with everyone! Who hasn't been a "nobody" at some time in their life? All of us. Who hasn't felt the sting of that degrading stare or phrase? We all have felt in somewhere along the line. This books pops all those nasty "I'm better than you because..." looks and comments. It is a must read if we are ever going to create a culture of equals like we claimed we wanted when we founded this country.
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Summary: Read this book.
Review: I bought Somebodies and Nobodies in addition to Collins' Good to Great and am deeply grateful that i found both these books at the same time. Collins showed how "great" companies eliminate rankism from the work environment, but Fuller's book gives even more context and breadth to this issue. This book clearly and powerfully puts into words an underlying issue that takes great courage to expose--that discrimination based on rank is no more justified than descrimination based on race or gender. Throughout this book Fuller shows that he aims to protect others' dignity as he would his own. Many thanks to both these authors for their contributions to my personal and professional life!
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Summary: Dignity is non-negotiable
Review: I bought Somebodies and Nobodies in addition to Collins' Good to Great and am deeply grateful that i found both these books at the same time. Collins showed how "great" companies eliminate rankism from the work environment, but Fuller's book gives even more context and breadth to this issue. This book clearly and powerfully puts into words an underlying issue that takes great courage to expose--that discrimination based on rank is no more justified than descrimination based on race or gender. Throughout this book Fuller shows that he aims to protect others' dignity as he would his own. Many thanks to both these authors for their contributions to my personal and professional life!
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Summary: Dignity is non-negotiable
Review: I bought Somebodies and Nobodies in addition to Collins' Good to Great and am deeply grateful that i found both these books at the same time. Collins showed how "great" companies eliminate rankism from the work environment, but Fuller's book gives even more context and breadth to this issue. This book clearly and powerfully puts into words an underlying issue that takes great courage to expose--that discrimination based on rank is no more justified than descrimination based on race or gender. Throughout this book Fuller shows that he aims to protect others' dignity as he would his own. Many thanks to both these authors for their contributions to my personal and professional life!
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Summary: Dignity is not negotiable.
Review: In his eloquent "manifesto for a dignitarian movement," Robert Fuller has taken his ideas about our universal need for personal dignity and illustrated them with stories of people everywhere who have endured disrespectful treatment at the hands of those "in power." He explains how our relative ranking - in families, in business, in schools, in society -at-large - often determines how we are treated and the opportunities available to us. He adds that recent scandals, such as those in the Catholic Church and Enron, are examples of the wide-scale human damage that can occur when individuals abuse their positions of authority. Even our geopolitical challenges can be traced to the gap in intercultural respect: Writing about the Mideast for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman has called this "the poverty of dignity."
As we stand on the cusp of this movement, Dr. Fuller says there are remedies we can begin administering today. We can join a society-wide conversation to examine the proper uses of rank and privilege in human relations. We can help ourselves and others who are nobodied to resist demeaning treatment and other indignities. And every one of us, somebodies and nobodies alike, can learn concrete ways to guard the dignity of others as if it were our own.
At a time when the gulf between individuals, countries and cultures appears to be widening, the message that dignity for everyone is the only reliable foundation for bridges that last deserves our immediate attention.
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