Verbal Judo Way of Leadership or Homo Sacer

Verbal Judo Way of Leadership: Empowering the Thin Blue Line from the Inside Up

Author: George J Thompson

What you say and how you say it critically impacts the outcome of your contact with people... be it individuals on the street or officers in your agency.

• Discover the linguistic structures and strategies that make Verbal Judo so popular.
• Learn to apply both the art and science of using words and phrases to lead, persuade, clarify, diffuse and generally navigate nearly any situation.
• Become a solid, respected and highly effective leader!

Effective communication makes effective leaders!
Learn:

• 3 key leadership ingredients
• Behavior correction skills
• Real lessons from the field
• How to avoid ego errors
• Communication profiling
• The true power of listening

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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series)

Author: Giorgio Agamben

One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Logic of Sovereignty
1	The Paradox of Sovereignty	15
2	'Nomos Basileus'	30
3	Potentiality and Law	39
4	Form of Law	49
	Threshold	63
Pt. 2	Homo Sacer
1	Homo Sacer	71
2	The Ambivalence of the Sacred	75
3	Sacred Life	81
4	'Vitae Necisque Potestas'	87
5	Sovereign Body and Sacred Body	91
6	The Ban and the Wolf	104
	Threshold	112
Pt. 3	The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern
1	The Politicization of Life	119
2	Biopolitics and the Rights of Man	126
3	Life That Does Not Deserve to Live	136
4	'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People'	144
5	VP	154
6	Politicizing Death	160
7	The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern	166
	Threshold	181
	Bibliography	189
	Index of Names	197