Books by Chris Alexander

This Blood Spattered Book will spotlight a selection of genre film writer Chris Alexander's favorite-filmed fever dreams; underrated horror, dark fantasy and cult genre pictures that aren't quite mainstream and in some cases are woefully obscure and/or unfairly maligned by many. Includes: Alice Sweet Alice, Angel Heart, Anthropophagus, Bloody Moon, A Bucket of Blood, Chosen Survivors, City of the Living Dead, The Company of Wolves, Count Dracula's Great Love, Daughters of Darkness, Demon Seed, The Devil's Nightmare, In the Folds of the Flesh, The Keep, Lair of the White worm, Land of the Minotaur The Last Man on Earth, Legend of the Werewolf, Lifeforce, The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, Maximum Overdrive, Nomads, Nosferatu, Psychomania, Psycho III, Ravenous, /the Sentinel, The Shout, Sole Survivor Interviews with Mickey Rourke; composer Fabio Frizzi; Norman J. Warren; Roger Corman; Stephen Rea; Harry Kumel; Danielle Ouimet; composer Allesandro Allessandroni; Amanda Donohoe; writer Richard Matheson; Tobe Hooper; Mark Damon; composer John Cameron; director Michael Winner; composer Paul Zaza

Set at the beginning of the second year of the First World War the book tells the story of a working family and how war touched everyone in so many ways. Left to run the family narrow boat when his father goes to war and his mother is injured in a bombing raid on London, Harry and his dog Milly set off from London to Birmingham delivering coal to local people who live close to the canal. The story is one of friendship, understanding and kindness towards all they meet and of hope for mankind even in the middle of war.

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.

Alexander introduces an easy-to-implement, powerful four-step process that demonstrates how to achieve extraordinary success through high-performance teams focused on a shared destiny. He 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.

"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 Alexander In 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.