Bøker av Robert Bolton

Why is it so hard to work well with some people? Learn the key strengths and weakness of four different people styles and how better to understand and relate to them--both on the job and off.

In this collection of essays, Robert Bolton explores the nature of time and its relationship to productivity and happiness. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and personal experience, Bolton provides practical advice for making the most of our time and living fulfilling lives.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

In The Order of the Ages, Robert Bolton explains the principles that relate the modern world to earlier ages, and the position of our own era in a universal time-cycle, revealing the essential nature of time. He shows that time imposes patterns of its own on the order of events, which reveal themselves by numerical regularities. By means of a Platonic view of creation--which connects temporal with non-temporal realities--we come to see how man's inner life holds the balance between these two kinds of objective reality. Connections are made between metaphysical ideas of time and the scientific idea of entropy, along with its varied applications. The last two thousand years are analyzed numerically in terms of traditional cosmology, making possible the calculation of our present position in a universal era, together with the time within which this era will come to an end. Finally, there is a review of the possibility that this ending may coincide with what Christian tradition calls the Last Times, and what the implications of this would be for current values and religious beliefs. "Christian Platonism has a long and distinguished history, but few orthodox Catholics have tried to make a serious contribution to this tradition in recent times. Robert Bolton's extraordinary book is just such an achievement. Influenced by René Guénon's The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, and respectful of Tradition, this is a work of great creativity as well as metaphysical intelligence."--STRATFORD CALDECOTT, author of The Radiance of Being "Time, like beauty, is one of the foremost mysteries of human experience. Here Robert Bolton has made a deliberate and courageous effort to confront the nature of time. It is like a breath of fresh air to see such care taken to present what can authentically be called the traditional view. 'Recurrence' and 'Never Again' are the poles of this mystery, so well and ably covered in this book. Essential reading for the serious seeker."--KEITH CRITCHLOW, author of The Hidden Geometry of Flowers "How, when, and why did the world begin? And how will it end? Or is there no ending or beginning? What part does mind play in creation? Are we and the universe programed toward a certain end? All that can honestly be given in response to such questions is an introduction to that constant and recurrent world-view which this book uniquely provides."--JOHN MICHELL, author of The Dimensions of Paradise

In Breakthrough Project Management, Ian Heptinstall & Robert Bolton show you how, by combining proven innovations in project management and procurement, you can break the so-called ‘Iron Triangle’ of project management.It is no longer a case of “Time, Cost Quality, choose any two”.Each of the two main elements of Breakthrough Project Management has been shown to bring step-change improvements in project durations, predictability, cost and quality.Discover how Critical Chain Project Management reduces project durations by at least 25%, whilst at the same time increasing reliability and reducing cost.Learn how Project Alliancing removes the commercial and contractual obstacles to establishing a truly collaborative project team across the range of suppliers and contractors involved in the project.  This is key not only to exploiting Critical Chain, but to many other project improvement techniques, and to further increasing quality whilst reducing risk, cost and duration.Do you want to be left behind as your competitors breakthrough the constraints imposed by today’s “best practice” in project management?

La majorité des projets de construction et d'investissements lourds sont en retard et au-delà du budget, et les approches les plus utilisées en matière de gestion de projet ne font qu'empirer les choses. Ce livre présente aux décideurs des idées éprouvées qui offrent un moyen robuste et durable de réduire les risques, réduire les coûts et réduire la durée des projets de construction et d’investissements lourds.Dans ce Guide Managérial du Breakthrough Project Management, une gestion innovante des projets, Ian Heptinstall et Robert Bolton vous montrent comment, en combinant des innovations éprouvées dans la gestion de projet et des approvisionnements, vous pouvez casser le soi-disant «triangle de fer» de la gestion de projet.Ce n'est plus une question « de temps, de coût et de qualité, et choisissez–en deux sur les trois".Chacun des deux principaux éléments du Breakthrough Project Management a permis d'apporter des améliorations progressives dans la durée, la prévisibilité, le coût et la qualité du projet.Découvrez comment le CCPM, la gestion de projet par la chaîne critique, réduit la durée du projet d'au moins 25%, tout en en augmentant la fiabilité et en réduisant les coûts.Découvrez comment l’Alliance Projet élimine les obstacles commerciaux et contractuels à l'établissement d'une équipe de projet véritablement collaborative entre l'ensemble des fournisseurs et des entrepreneurs impliqués dans le projet. Ceci est essentiel non seulement pour l'exploitation de la chaîne critique, mais aussi avec de nombreuses autres techniques d'amélioration de projets pour en accroître la qualité tout en en réduisant les risques, les coûts et la durée.Voulez-vous rester à la traîne alors que vos concurrents   surmontent les contraintes imposées par les «meilleures pratiques» d'aujourd'hui dans la gestion de projet?+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++In Breakthrough Project Management, Ian Heptinstall & Robert Bolton show you how, by combining proven innovations in project management and procurement, you can break the so-called ‘Iron Triangle’ of project management.It is no longer a case of “Time, Cost Quality, choose any two”.Each of the two main elements of Breakthrough Project Management has been shown to bring step-change improvements in project durations, predictability, cost and quality.Discover how Critical Chain Project Management reduces project durations by at least 25%, whilst at the same time increasing reliability and reducing cost.Learn how Project Alliancing removes the commercial and contractual obstacles to establishing a truly collaborative project team across the range of suppliers and contractors involved in the project.  This is key not only to exploiting Critical Chain, but to many other project improvement techniques, and to further increasing quality whilst reducing risk, cost and duration.Do you want to be left behind as your competitors breakthrough the constraints imposed by today’s “best practice” in project management?

Are you having trouble communicating? Maybe you should try talking less--and listening more.

"For a long time now, religion in the West has been polarized between a democratic kind of faith meant for simple believers, and divine mysteries so high that hardly anyone can claim to know much about them. The vital connecting link between them, that of metaphysical religion, is all but lost..." (From the Introduction.) There are many books that seek to answer the fundamental questions of life: Who am I? Does life have a purpose? How should I live? Dr Bolton's book brings to these universal questions an extraordinary degree of metaphysical insight. It contains in highly condensed form a veritable library of traditional wisdom, offering a systematic reconstruction of our understanding of the soul and its relation to archetypal reality. Its starting-point is the fact that increasing numbers of people seem to lack spiritual and material power over their own lives. Modern man feels like a victim. But true power, real freedom, is closer than we think. Our mistake lies in accepting a false view of the self, and neglecting the metaphysical dimension that gives access to eternity. Dr Bolton's book offers a crash-course in liberation. It can liberate us, specifically, from a common sense idea of reality which is profoundly false, and which holds us in unconscious slavery to time and appearances. The book defends the capacity of the human mind to obtain objective insight, despite the obfuscations of postmodernism, and represents a bold development of the Platonist tradition associated with St Augustine, Plotinus, and Proclus. "This book is like a diamond: a diamond placed not in a necklace, but at the business end of a drill. It is up to us to use the drill to penetrate reality. Writing the book was a great achievement. Reading it invites us to make the achievement our own." - Stratford Caldecott (G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture)

Your success at any management level depends largely on your ability to deal with other people. In this business-oriented approach to interpersonal relationships, learn how to assess various behavior patterns and how to use that knowledge to capitalize on your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and get the results you want from others.

A discussion of whether Aristotle was a dialectic thinker. May Sim gathers together experts to offer a variety of interpretative possibilities. The contributors include Allan Back, J.D.G. Evans, Michael Ferejohn, Eugene Garver, Lenn E. Goodman and Martha Husain.