By Stanley Bing
Since the latter a part of the century simply previous, Stanley Bing has been exploring the connection among authority and insanity. in a single bestselling e-book after one other, reporting from his hot-seat as an insider in a world-renowned multinational company, he has attempted to appreciate the internal workings of these who lead us and to inquire why they appear to be powered, a lot of the time, via demons that lead them to obnoxious and unsafe, even to themselves.
In What might Machiavelli Do?, Bing checked out the problem of why suggest humans do higher than great humans, and located that during their specific type of madness lay significant strength. In Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the paintings of coping with Up, he provided a non secular course towards dealing with the unruly government beast. And in Sun Tzu used to be a Sissy, he taught us how one can develop into one in all them, and salary battle at the enjoying box that leads to a dream domestic in Cabo. Now he returns to his roots to provide the final word at the entity that shapes our lives and stomps through—and on—our desires: The loopy Boss.
Students of Bing—and there are various, secreted within tortured companies, longing for blunt tools with which to fight—will observe that he has walked this flooring earlier than, trying to find solutions. In 1992, he released the 1st version of Crazy Bosses, which was once superb, so far as it went. Now, a few 15 years and a number of other dozen insane bosses later, he has up to date and rethought a lot of the paintings. again within the final century, Bing was once a small, trembling creature, taking a look up at those that made his lifestyles depressing and studying the psychological ailment that gave them their energy. at the present time, whereas nonetheless trembling a lot of the time, he's in reality a type of humans his past paintings has warned us opposed to. His personal hard-won knowledge and now institutionalized dementia make this re-creation thoroughly clean and crucial to someone who works for someone else or lives with someone else, or want to.
In brief, Bing is again on his domestic turf during this humorous, actual, and crucial e-book, peering together with his willing and frosty eye on the loopy boss in all his guises: the Bully, the Paranoid, the Narcissist, the Wimp, and the self-destructive catastrophe Hunter. should you enjoyed the unique, vintage Crazy Bosses, you'll be extremely joyful to plunge again into the hot, refurbished pool. while you're new to the ebook, strap your self in: it's going to be a loopy ride.
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Scholars suggest that the ascetic movement was particularly beneficial to women since it freed them from the legal constraints and (often emotional and physical) hardships of marriage (Clark 1981). Although Paul’s sexual ethic was not part of a feminist agenda, it nevertheless had real consequences for women’s positions within the church. Paul, furthermore, argues for the equality of men and women in marriage: the husband has authority over his wife’s body, and the wife has authority over her husband’s body (1 Cor 7:3–4).
20 L. Stephanie Cobb Two Case Studies: Perpetua and Thecla as Christian Leaders Women’s roles in the early church are often described in stark terms: either there was a golden age of egalitarianism at the beginning that devolved into sex-differentiated roles, or the earliest texts ref lect an original misogyny that women have been fighting for 2,000 years (Coon 1997, xix; Cobb 2009, 380–381). The evidence, however, is more nuanced than these polarized positions allow. To highlight the complexity of women’s leadership in the early church, my discussion will follow a reverse chronology—from the second and third centuries working back into the first—because our resources are richer in the later centuries and will help illuminate the earlier texts.
Paul writes the name Junian, which can either be a form of the feminine name “Junia” or a form of the masculine name “Junias,” depending solely on where one places the accent (Haines-Eitzen 2012, 91; Epp 2005, 23). For the first 19 centuries of Christian history there was almost unanimous agreement that Paul wrote about a female apostle named Junia. 28 L. Stephanie Cobb All of the earliest translations of the New Testament preserve the feminine form of the name (Thorley 1996, 20). The fourth-century archbishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom, writes this about Junia and Andronicus: “To be an apostle is something great.