For 20 years, Chris Alexander has worked with business professionals and others, studying their interpersonal connection. He's found that emotional and spiritual connection is just as important as intellectual and physical connection. In this book, Alexander explains how to connect with others at all four levels, thereby empowering people to create the ultimate connection: love.

In Creating Extraordinary Joy, Alexander takes readers on a journey of discovery. His ten Synergy Life Mastery Steps help readers discover who they are, where they are in life, and what they value highly, ultimately uncovering their authentic selves and true purpose.

All over the world, there are individuals who want to go to work-who are excited to go in on Mondays. They love their jobs because the environment they work in is free of fear and emotional toxicity; and they are unimpeded and able to focus on their work. They do their part to help achieve organizational goals. I work with people like this everyday, and I help them create the kind of workplace they have always wanted-one that delivers a sense of belonging, personal satisfaction, and job enrichment. I make this happen by working with business leaders who know that businesses and organizations are only as good as the people in them, and they recognize the importance of winning the hearts and minds of their people. I build high-performance teams: in businesses, government agencies, churches, non-profits, and even families. I have witnessed astounding personal, financial, and organizational growth accelerate when the environment is free of fear and supercharged with Synergy Team Power. This book is for all employees-from entry level all the way up to the executive suite-who are looking for a way to create a meaningful workplace that delivers continuous job satisfaction. It demonstrates that adopting the value of teamwork and service, along with the importance of treating fellow workers with courtesy and respect-as one does with a customer-makes all the difference. You will find helpful stories, examples, anecdotes, and checklists that have grown out of many years of building and working with high-performance business teams. These stories are about real people who have found a way to create satisfying, fun jobs, and at the same time, build safe, secure, and highly-profitable work environments. There are 5 Synergy Team Power success habits: Building Trust Right Mental Attitude (R.M.A.) Make It Fun Be a "First-Giver" Be a Synergist Within each of the success habit chapters, I have sprinkled humorous and relevant examples, quotes, and anecdotes to make your reading experience pleasurable and meaningful. My vision is that you will find a special message that resonates with you on a personal and professional level, and that it helps you recognize the important role you and all of us play in creating emotionally secure, profitable work environments. My larger vision is that as more and more of us recognize the value of Synergy and its profound benefits, we will work together to expand its application to build stronger families, better schools, profitable businesses, safe cities, and peaceful nations.

McNugget is an experiment in data-mirroring that documents all mentions of the word "mcnugget" on Twitter over a three-day period, from January 29th through January 30th 2012. The project was initiated as part of Collective Task II, in response to the "Durational Aesthetics" assignment. A unique edition of the book, including a "lost" tweet from the author, was produced for the Collective Task Art Auction at the Bowery Poetry Club, 3 March 2012. An extended iteration of the project, covering the month of February 2012, is forthcoming from Troll Thread Press.

Hentai a eae...i is an experiment in data-mirroring that documents all mentions of the word pair hentai and a eae...i on Twitter over a thirty-one-day period, from March 2nd through April 2nd 2012.

Kitten is an experiment in data-mirroring that documents all mentions of the word pair "kitten" and "name" on Twitter over a ten-day period, from March 1st through March 10th 2012.

Synergy Strategic Planning is an easy-to-implement, powerful 4-step process that demonstrates how to achieve extraordinary success through high-performance teams focused on a shared destiny. Synergy Strategic Planning focuses on integrating people, systems, and structure, thus directing them toward a predetermined, worthwhile vision a clear set of believable and livable values and Transformational, Exciting, Authentic, Measurable (TEAM) goals. The core principle of Synergy Strategic Planning is that organizational effectiveness is achieved through committed leaders who see the organization as a whole, and that change happens quickly through empowered individuals working in teams toward a shared destiny.The Synergy Strategic Planning 4-step Process is as follows: Step One: Creating an Internal Mission Statement, Vision Statement, Core Values, and Goal Plan;Step Two: How to Complete a Detailed SWOT Analysis;Step Three: Execution Essentials; andStep Four: What Gets Measured Gets Done.Synergy Strategic Planning is Essential Piece # 2 and a companion handbook for Synergizing Your Business The 5 Essential Pieces for High-Performance. A Series of Business Books, Seminars, and Workshops.

"One of the greatest sources of power in a business is the committed hearts and minds of the people - the unified creativity and energy of people who are excited about their work. Harnessing that commitment builds unshakable, unstoppable zones of inspiration and secure, highly profitable work environments." Chris AlexanderIn this book, Alexander includes a good mix of inspirational examples and step-by-step directions for creating joy in the workplace. Like most changes, achieving joy through synergy means giving up some old ideas, unhealthy ways and opening up and trying some new techniques and strategies that may scare you. In this book you will learn about managers and employees who have gained greater personal satisfaction and customer satisfaction and discovered how much fun it can be to get up and go to work everyday. If you're not enjoying work the way you deserve to, if you'd like to feel more energized instead of drained, if instead of getting stuck in dances of distrust and competitiveness, you'd like to feel comfortable and affectionate with your colleagues, this book was written with you in mind.