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Dr. Jane Allen Petrick, the vice-president of Informed Decisions International, is the retired Vice President of People Development for AT&T Wireless Services, Southeast Region. During her tenure with AT&T, People Development was built into a strong team of professionals who led the Region to the lowest employee turnover rates and highest Attitude and Opinion Survey scores of any region in the company.
Dr. Petrick's book, Making the Connection: Getting Work to Work, has been described by Tom Horton, retired president of the American Management Association, as "wisdom that will benefit you at any stage of your career". She is also the author of the book, Beyond Time Management, now in its second edition. Dr. Petrick was selected by Ebony Magazine as "one of the 100 Best and Brightest Business Women in America".
A partial list of her clients includes:
- Motorola
- Deloitte & Touche
- Nextel Brasil
- Outsource International
- IBM
- Institute of Higher Education Policy
- US Department of Education, Division of Institutional Development
- Xerox
Dr. Petrick has taught at UC Berkeley, Herbert H. Lehman College, State University of New York at Albany and Ulster County Community College. She is currently an adjunct professor in the graduate school of business at Capella University.
Dr. Petrick is the author of Making the Connection: Getting Work to Work, described by Tom Horton, retired president of the American Management Association, as "wisdom that will benefit you at any stage of your career". She is also the author of Beyond Time Management, now in its second edition, as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Dr. Petrick was selected by Ebony Magazine as "one of the 100 Best and Brightest Business Women in America."
Dr. Petrick holds a BA in Economics (Barnard College), an MA in Higher Education and Student Personnel Administration (Teachers College, Columbia University), an MS in Educational Psychology (State University of New York) and a Ph.D. in Organization Psychology (Saybrook Institute). She is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychologists. Building on work done in the area of psychocultural dynamics, Dr. Petrick 's present projects reflect her passionate interest in cultural and historic preservation and the roles these play in the nourishment of healthy workplaces and communities.
Jane Allen Petrick has spoken at events across the US and abroad, and have participated in events of all varieties: executive retreats, sales meetings, industry conferences, corporate training seminars, client appreciation dinners, and trade shows.
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Where traditional time management ends, Beyond Time Management picks up. Taking the reader through Ten Adages to Organize By, the book unlocks the key to understanding how to achieve a more effective, more balanced life. Beyond Time Management is not about To Do Lists. In fact, in Beyond Time Management, readers learn why to do list are a major source of disorganization! This book is not about managing time. Time (at least mechanical time) can not be "managed": it literally marchs on without us. Beyond Time Management is about managing values and priorities. In this book we come to understand why we fall into "priority dissonance" and persist in jamming up our mechanical time with things we don't want. Beyond Time Management provides the reader with the human "why" of organizing, the "why" that has been missing from all the mechanical "how to's". Because, as adage #10 points out, "A person who has a 'why' to live can deal with almost any 'how'."
Making the Connection reveals how work became a four letter word. Dibert has it backwards. At the root of what's making us nuts on the job is not idiotic bosses or imbecilic co-workers. At the root of our insanity is that, from mailroom to boardroom, we've all gotten addicted to bad work. And like classic junkies, we deny, cover-up and attempt to pass off our own miserable duplicity in the mess. Making the Connection tells its readers how to break this addiction, how to get out of their draining, Dilbert-induced depression. With humor and compassion, Making the Connection shows us how to hook up with the health, trust and joy that good work can bring. Because work is a four letter work. But so is life. And so is love.