Author: Bill Heller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929387055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Timberwolves Stalk the NBA
Author: Bill Heller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929387055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929387055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Founder's Mentality
Author: Chris Zook
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing—and Avoiding—the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company’s Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external—increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What’s more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further—and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen’s research is that managing these choke points requires a “founder’s mentality”—behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder—to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: • An insurgent’s clear mission and purpose • An unambiguous owner mindset • A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors’ decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder’s Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds—not just start-ups—and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader—not only a founder—can instill and leverage a founder’s mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing—and Avoiding—the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company’s Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external—increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What’s more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further—and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen’s research is that managing these choke points requires a “founder’s mentality”—behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder—to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: • An insurgent’s clear mission and purpose • An unambiguous owner mindset • A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors’ decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder’s Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds—not just start-ups—and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader—not only a founder—can instill and leverage a founder’s mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.
The Terminal
Author: Jeremy Gosnell
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681811170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Scuba diver Eric Rayner disappears while diving at Dean’s Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas. Atlantis researcher Allison Chandley is approached by Italian billionaire Sergio Franca. USGS political liaison Walker Reade is studying a report by a young seismologist detailing a possible eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera. Each of these seemingly unrelated incidents is tied together, leading to an incredible journey back in time to the ancient kingdom of Atlantis. While following in Eric’s footsteps, Allison is whisked away, pulled 70,000 years into the past to end up in the fabled Atlantis. She finds the kingdom in shambles and under constant attack by strange creatures called the Abaddon. When Allison is captured by the creatures, the people of Atlantis deploy an ancient biological weapon to destroy them. Eric and Allison must join together to find a control system called The Terminal, which can alter time and space. The Terminal is a stunning sci-fi thriller that adeptly explores how a past civilization could exist and what that existence could teach today’s world.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681811170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Scuba diver Eric Rayner disappears while diving at Dean’s Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas. Atlantis researcher Allison Chandley is approached by Italian billionaire Sergio Franca. USGS political liaison Walker Reade is studying a report by a young seismologist detailing a possible eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera. Each of these seemingly unrelated incidents is tied together, leading to an incredible journey back in time to the ancient kingdom of Atlantis. While following in Eric’s footsteps, Allison is whisked away, pulled 70,000 years into the past to end up in the fabled Atlantis. She finds the kingdom in shambles and under constant attack by strange creatures called the Abaddon. When Allison is captured by the creatures, the people of Atlantis deploy an ancient biological weapon to destroy them. Eric and Allison must join together to find a control system called The Terminal, which can alter time and space. The Terminal is a stunning sci-fi thriller that adeptly explores how a past civilization could exist and what that existence could teach today’s world.
The Discipline of Masters
Author: Scott Allan
Publisher: Scott Allan Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1989599311
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Crush Tough Obstacles, Lead with Confidence, and Develop Greater Creativity Are you tired of being a slave to circumstances beyond your control? Lacking discipline and need a clear direction on how to be more productive, prolific, and purpose-driven? Are you blocked by obstacles that stop your progress? The Discipline of Masters focuses on teaching you how to empower your natural drive for excellence. You will learn to master the core areas of your life that impact happiness, achievement, growth, productivity and creativity. Once you take action with the strategies and techniques in this book, you can become more creative, build more income, and live the life you were born to lead through mastering the essential key strategies. The Discipline of Masters will teach you to: Overcome big obstacles blocking your growth Identify and eliminate your greatest self-defeating behavior Build superior performance activities with the best time-management techniques Confront the habit of procrastination and learn to do it NOW Help people through a commitment to mentorship and leadership development skills Create a system for capturing your most prolific ideas. The Discipline of Masters focuses your thoughts and actions toward conditioning your mind and attitude. You will become more prolific in achieving your goals, become more focused, and condition yourself to practice a new set of behaviors that set you up for unlimited success.
Publisher: Scott Allan Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1989599311
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Crush Tough Obstacles, Lead with Confidence, and Develop Greater Creativity Are you tired of being a slave to circumstances beyond your control? Lacking discipline and need a clear direction on how to be more productive, prolific, and purpose-driven? Are you blocked by obstacles that stop your progress? The Discipline of Masters focuses on teaching you how to empower your natural drive for excellence. You will learn to master the core areas of your life that impact happiness, achievement, growth, productivity and creativity. Once you take action with the strategies and techniques in this book, you can become more creative, build more income, and live the life you were born to lead through mastering the essential key strategies. The Discipline of Masters will teach you to: Overcome big obstacles blocking your growth Identify and eliminate your greatest self-defeating behavior Build superior performance activities with the best time-management techniques Confront the habit of procrastination and learn to do it NOW Help people through a commitment to mentorship and leadership development skills Create a system for capturing your most prolific ideas. The Discipline of Masters focuses your thoughts and actions toward conditioning your mind and attitude. You will become more prolific in achieving your goals, become more focused, and condition yourself to practice a new set of behaviors that set you up for unlimited success.
Late Bloomers
Author: Rich Karlgaard
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1524759775
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A groundbreaking exploration of how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness. “What Yogi Berra observed about a baseball game—it ain't over till it's over—is true about life, and [Late Bloomers] is the ultimate proof of this. . . . It’s a keeper.”—Forbes We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy League colleges to landing an amazing job at Google or Facebook—or even better, creating a start-up with the potential to be the next Google, Facebook or Uber. We see coders and entrepreneurs become millionaires or billionaires before age thirty, and feel we are failing if we are not one of them. Late bloomers, on the other hand, are under-valued—in popular culture, by educators and employers, and even unwittingly by parents. Yet the fact is, a lot of us—most of us—do not explode out of the gates in life. We have to discover our passions and talents and gifts. That was true for author Rich Karlgaard, who had a mediocre academic career at Stanford (which he got into by a fluke) and, after graduating, worked as a dishwasher and night watchman before finding the inner motivation and drive that ultimately led him to start up a high-tech magazine in Silicon Valley, and eventually to become the publisher of Forbes magazine. There is a scientific explanation for why so many of us bloom later in life. The executive function of our brains doesn’t mature until age twenty-five, and later for some. In fact, our brain’s capabilities peak at different ages. We actually experience multiple periods of blooming in our lives. Moreover, late bloomers enjoy hidden strengths because they take their time to discover their way in life—strengths coveted by many employers and partners—including curiosity, insight, compassion, resilience, and wisdom. Based on years of research, personal experience, interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and countless people at different stages of their careers, Late Bloomers reveals how and when we achieve our full potential. Praise for Late Bloomers “The underlying message that we should ‘consider a kinder clock for human development’ is a compelling one.”—Financial Times “Late Bloomers spoke to me deeply as a parent of two millennials and as a coach to many new college grads (the children of my friends and associates). It’s a bracing tonic for the anxiety they are swimming through, with a facts-based approach to help us all calm down.”—Robin Wolaner, founder of Parenting magazine
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1524759775
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A groundbreaking exploration of how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness. “What Yogi Berra observed about a baseball game—it ain't over till it's over—is true about life, and [Late Bloomers] is the ultimate proof of this. . . . It’s a keeper.”—Forbes We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy League colleges to landing an amazing job at Google or Facebook—or even better, creating a start-up with the potential to be the next Google, Facebook or Uber. We see coders and entrepreneurs become millionaires or billionaires before age thirty, and feel we are failing if we are not one of them. Late bloomers, on the other hand, are under-valued—in popular culture, by educators and employers, and even unwittingly by parents. Yet the fact is, a lot of us—most of us—do not explode out of the gates in life. We have to discover our passions and talents and gifts. That was true for author Rich Karlgaard, who had a mediocre academic career at Stanford (which he got into by a fluke) and, after graduating, worked as a dishwasher and night watchman before finding the inner motivation and drive that ultimately led him to start up a high-tech magazine in Silicon Valley, and eventually to become the publisher of Forbes magazine. There is a scientific explanation for why so many of us bloom later in life. The executive function of our brains doesn’t mature until age twenty-five, and later for some. In fact, our brain’s capabilities peak at different ages. We actually experience multiple periods of blooming in our lives. Moreover, late bloomers enjoy hidden strengths because they take their time to discover their way in life—strengths coveted by many employers and partners—including curiosity, insight, compassion, resilience, and wisdom. Based on years of research, personal experience, interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and countless people at different stages of their careers, Late Bloomers reveals how and when we achieve our full potential. Praise for Late Bloomers “The underlying message that we should ‘consider a kinder clock for human development’ is a compelling one.”—Financial Times “Late Bloomers spoke to me deeply as a parent of two millennials and as a coach to many new college grads (the children of my friends and associates). It’s a bracing tonic for the anxiety they are swimming through, with a facts-based approach to help us all calm down.”—Robin Wolaner, founder of Parenting magazine
Aloft
Author: Chang-rae Lee
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101217278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and My Year Abroad. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that plague his family, neighbors, and loved ones on the ground. But he can't stay in the air forever. Only months before his 60th birthday, a culmination of family crises finally pull Jerry down from his emotionally distant course. Jerry learns that his family's stability is in jeopardy. His father, Hank, is growing increasingly unhappy in his assisted living facility. His son, Jack, has taken over the family landscaping business but is running it into bankruptcy. His daughter, Theresa, has become pregnant and has been diagnosed with cancer. His longtime girlfriend, Rita, who helped raise his children, has now moved in with another man. And Jerry still has unanswered questions that he must face regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of his late wife. Since the day his wife died, Jerry has turned avoiding conflict into an art form-the perfect expression being his solitary flights from which he can look down on a world that appears serene and unscathed. From his comfortable distance, he can't see the messy details, let alone begin to confront them. But Jerry is learning that in avoiding conflict, he is also avoiding contact with the people he loves most.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101217278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and My Year Abroad. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that plague his family, neighbors, and loved ones on the ground. But he can't stay in the air forever. Only months before his 60th birthday, a culmination of family crises finally pull Jerry down from his emotionally distant course. Jerry learns that his family's stability is in jeopardy. His father, Hank, is growing increasingly unhappy in his assisted living facility. His son, Jack, has taken over the family landscaping business but is running it into bankruptcy. His daughter, Theresa, has become pregnant and has been diagnosed with cancer. His longtime girlfriend, Rita, who helped raise his children, has now moved in with another man. And Jerry still has unanswered questions that he must face regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of his late wife. Since the day his wife died, Jerry has turned avoiding conflict into an art form-the perfect expression being his solitary flights from which he can look down on a world that appears serene and unscathed. From his comfortable distance, he can't see the messy details, let alone begin to confront them. But Jerry is learning that in avoiding conflict, he is also avoiding contact with the people he loves most.
Supermen
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312275693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A science-fiction anthology highlighting mind-expanding stories of the future of the human form includes more than 20 classic stories from the most imaginative writers in the field.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312275693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A science-fiction anthology highlighting mind-expanding stories of the future of the human form includes more than 20 classic stories from the most imaginative writers in the field.
The Unfuckingstoppable
Author: Hiral Nagda
Publisher: Hiral Nagda Inc
ISBN: 9334034033
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The Unfuckingstoppable was born after hitting rock bottom and realizing that rock bottom was a priceless treasure to begin a never-before adventure to become limitless. This book offers you ways to collaborate with your inner powers and begin tapping the unlimited capacities positioned within you. By connecting with your boundless potential, you can create and experience every impossibility that fires up your heart because you are not just a human being with no control over your destiny, you are the power that can shake the universe by entirely redefining your destiny. Get ready to not just fulfill your grand destiny, but also to have a bash each day in the process of doing it. Living an extraordinary life is not a privilege for a few. It's the birthright of every single person to live a life of absolute bliss, joy, happiness, peace, wisdom, zest, energy, strength and prosperity (of all kinds) The book will help you to: • Knock out all the seemingly looking obstacles, difficulties, and challenges and keep moving forward with or without anyone. • Fill up with power, courage, and strength right during massive difficulties. • Not just live but thrive through life because that’s how life is intended for you. • Rise with zest and vigor in your passion, purpose and mission. • Not waste precious energy thinking about what others think and retain all that attention on things that drive your heart and soul. • Cherish wonderful hours, days, weeks, months, and years doing what you love to do, instead of what you have to do. • Turn every unwanted circumstance into fuel to become an unbreakable superstar. The UNFUCKINGSTOPPABLE is not just a book. It's the beginning of a lifestyle, a movement that starts from here. It's not a trend that turns viral and fizzles out. It's a fire that gets stronger in our hearts to illuminate the world. The book is a starting point. I aim to go beyond the book and connect directly with you and your fired-up mission. Hiral Nagda
Publisher: Hiral Nagda Inc
ISBN: 9334034033
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The Unfuckingstoppable was born after hitting rock bottom and realizing that rock bottom was a priceless treasure to begin a never-before adventure to become limitless. This book offers you ways to collaborate with your inner powers and begin tapping the unlimited capacities positioned within you. By connecting with your boundless potential, you can create and experience every impossibility that fires up your heart because you are not just a human being with no control over your destiny, you are the power that can shake the universe by entirely redefining your destiny. Get ready to not just fulfill your grand destiny, but also to have a bash each day in the process of doing it. Living an extraordinary life is not a privilege for a few. It's the birthright of every single person to live a life of absolute bliss, joy, happiness, peace, wisdom, zest, energy, strength and prosperity (of all kinds) The book will help you to: • Knock out all the seemingly looking obstacles, difficulties, and challenges and keep moving forward with or without anyone. • Fill up with power, courage, and strength right during massive difficulties. • Not just live but thrive through life because that’s how life is intended for you. • Rise with zest and vigor in your passion, purpose and mission. • Not waste precious energy thinking about what others think and retain all that attention on things that drive your heart and soul. • Cherish wonderful hours, days, weeks, months, and years doing what you love to do, instead of what you have to do. • Turn every unwanted circumstance into fuel to become an unbreakable superstar. The UNFUCKINGSTOPPABLE is not just a book. It's the beginning of a lifestyle, a movement that starts from here. It's not a trend that turns viral and fizzles out. It's a fire that gets stronger in our hearts to illuminate the world. The book is a starting point. I aim to go beyond the book and connect directly with you and your fired-up mission. Hiral Nagda
History of Political Thought
Author: Jeffrey Bercuson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487525907
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A History of Political Thought analyses market society by surveying the ideas of its most perceptive, thought-provoking observers - critics and defenders - from ancient Greece to the present day.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487525907
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A History of Political Thought analyses market society by surveying the ideas of its most perceptive, thought-provoking observers - critics and defenders - from ancient Greece to the present day.
Richard Strauss's Salome
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 0977145514
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's SALOME, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English side-by side, and over 25 music highlight examples.
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 0977145514
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's SALOME, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English side-by side, and over 25 music highlight examples.