Author: Jeanie Daniel Duck
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0609808818
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A Powerful Look at Corporate Change and Why Mergers, Reorganizations, and Transformations Succeed or Fail “[One of the] best business books of 2001 . . . [a] useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life).” —Miami Herald “Provocative imagery . . . useful questions for managers to ask themselves.” —Harvard Business Review “The Change Monster not only talks intelligently about the social dynamics and emotions of people [in change efforts], it does so with wisdom, insight, and practicality.”—Daniel Leemon, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Charles Schwab Corporation “A practitioner’s primer on revitalization that puts you in the shoes of some who have failed and others who have succeeded. In doing so, Jeanie Daniel Duck graphically delivers her main message to management: Learn to master the emotions and obsessions of those who stand in the way of change, including your own, and once you do, you have your hands on a miraculous engine for change.” —Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment and Leading Up “Duck is an acute and empathetic observer of the changes erupting in the workplace from the convulsive nature of corporate evolution. . . . Jeanie Duck’s terrific book is a . . . useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life). Sensitive but tough, Duck’s compassionate wisdom is street smart without a trace of glibness.” —Miami Herald
The Change Monster
Author: Jeanie Daniel Duck
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0609808818
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A Powerful Look at Corporate Change and Why Mergers, Reorganizations, and Transformations Succeed or Fail “[One of the] best business books of 2001 . . . [a] useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life).” —Miami Herald “Provocative imagery . . . useful questions for managers to ask themselves.” —Harvard Business Review “The Change Monster not only talks intelligently about the social dynamics and emotions of people [in change efforts], it does so with wisdom, insight, and practicality.”—Daniel Leemon, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Charles Schwab Corporation “A practitioner’s primer on revitalization that puts you in the shoes of some who have failed and others who have succeeded. In doing so, Jeanie Daniel Duck graphically delivers her main message to management: Learn to master the emotions and obsessions of those who stand in the way of change, including your own, and once you do, you have your hands on a miraculous engine for change.” —Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment and Leading Up “Duck is an acute and empathetic observer of the changes erupting in the workplace from the convulsive nature of corporate evolution. . . . Jeanie Duck’s terrific book is a . . . useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life). Sensitive but tough, Duck’s compassionate wisdom is street smart without a trace of glibness.” —Miami Herald
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0609808818
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A Powerful Look at Corporate Change and Why Mergers, Reorganizations, and Transformations Succeed or Fail “[One of the] best business books of 2001 . . . [a] useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life).” —Miami Herald “Provocative imagery . . . useful questions for managers to ask themselves.” —Harvard Business Review “The Change Monster not only talks intelligently about the social dynamics and emotions of people [in change efforts], it does so with wisdom, insight, and practicality.”—Daniel Leemon, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Charles Schwab Corporation “A practitioner’s primer on revitalization that puts you in the shoes of some who have failed and others who have succeeded. In doing so, Jeanie Daniel Duck graphically delivers her main message to management: Learn to master the emotions and obsessions of those who stand in the way of change, including your own, and once you do, you have your hands on a miraculous engine for change.” —Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment and Leading Up “Duck is an acute and empathetic observer of the changes erupting in the workplace from the convulsive nature of corporate evolution. . . . Jeanie Duck’s terrific book is a . . . useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life). Sensitive but tough, Duck’s compassionate wisdom is street smart without a trace of glibness.” —Miami Herald
Monster Portraits
Author: Sofia Samatar
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
ISBN: 9781941628102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
ISBN: 9781941628102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
Bedtime for Monsters
Author: Ed Vere
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805095098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A hungry monster seeks a different type of bedtime snack.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805095098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A hungry monster seeks a different type of bedtime snack.
Managing Monsters
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothers, strangers, and the idea of home.
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothers, strangers, and the idea of home.
How to Tame Your Thought Monster
Author: Katie McClain
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484084175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A fun book for parents, kids, and teachers to enjoy together! Create happiness and success with your kids. Teach your kids tools that will help them take responsibility, improve grades, overcome worry & stress, increase happiness and understand bullying so you can stop it before it starts. The fun activities in this full color book will create hours of enjoyment for you and your kids. Teachers, teach the tools to your students and create a common language for a successful thriving classroom. Charlie the Robot, Meet Your Thought Monster, Find Your Feelings, Action Annie and Be the Magician are just a few of the fun and colorful activities you can do with your kids. Exercises for adult and child are side by side in the book so you can work together if you'd like. Bonus exercise are available to download with a link provided in the book. Adults and kids will feel better and improve their confidence when they use the exercises contained in the book. Everyone wins!
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484084175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A fun book for parents, kids, and teachers to enjoy together! Create happiness and success with your kids. Teach your kids tools that will help them take responsibility, improve grades, overcome worry & stress, increase happiness and understand bullying so you can stop it before it starts. The fun activities in this full color book will create hours of enjoyment for you and your kids. Teachers, teach the tools to your students and create a common language for a successful thriving classroom. Charlie the Robot, Meet Your Thought Monster, Find Your Feelings, Action Annie and Be the Magician are just a few of the fun and colorful activities you can do with your kids. Exercises for adult and child are side by side in the book so you can work together if you'd like. Bonus exercise are available to download with a link provided in the book. Adults and kids will feel better and improve their confidence when they use the exercises contained in the book. Everyone wins!
Jonathan James and the Whatif Monster
Author: Michelle Nelson-Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952013737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This best-selling book that has helped literally tens of thousands of children (and adults) overcome anxiety is now being re-released in hardback. The redesigned book will have bonus content from the author.If your little one struggles with big anxieties, this is a picture book that offers a simple solution that your child can easily understand. With a simple shift of the mind, this book helps you reframe any scary and worrisome whatif into a question of opportunity and possibility. Whenever Jonathan James finds himself in a new situation, he hears his Whatif Monster asking all kind of questions to stop him trying something new: What if it's scary? What if they laugh? What if it's hard? Finally, Jonathan James has some questions of his own: What if they don't? What if it isn't? What then?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952013737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This best-selling book that has helped literally tens of thousands of children (and adults) overcome anxiety is now being re-released in hardback. The redesigned book will have bonus content from the author.If your little one struggles with big anxieties, this is a picture book that offers a simple solution that your child can easily understand. With a simple shift of the mind, this book helps you reframe any scary and worrisome whatif into a question of opportunity and possibility. Whenever Jonathan James finds himself in a new situation, he hears his Whatif Monster asking all kind of questions to stop him trying something new: What if it's scary? What if they laugh? What if it's hard? Finally, Jonathan James has some questions of his own: What if they don't? What if it isn't? What then?
We're Going to Find the Monster
Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241401313
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A rip-roaring picture book adventure from superstar pairing Malorie Blackman and Dapo Adeola. Over the shimmering ocean, up the huge, high mountain, through the deep, dark forest . . . WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE MONSTER! Join two intrepid adventurers as their imaginations transform their house into a wild wonderland - and their big brother becomes a mighty monster. A joy to read-aloud with its cumulative refrain, and full of funny, relatable characters, this is a contemporary celebration of creativity, fantasy and family. Written by bestselling author of Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman, this story was originally published as Marty Monster. This new version has been stunningly brought to life by the award-winning illustrator of Look Up!, Dapo Adeola.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241401313
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A rip-roaring picture book adventure from superstar pairing Malorie Blackman and Dapo Adeola. Over the shimmering ocean, up the huge, high mountain, through the deep, dark forest . . . WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE MONSTER! Join two intrepid adventurers as their imaginations transform their house into a wild wonderland - and their big brother becomes a mighty monster. A joy to read-aloud with its cumulative refrain, and full of funny, relatable characters, this is a contemporary celebration of creativity, fantasy and family. Written by bestselling author of Noughts & Crosses, Malorie Blackman, this story was originally published as Marty Monster. This new version has been stunningly brought to life by the award-winning illustrator of Look Up!, Dapo Adeola.
The Colour Monster
Author: Anna Llenas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787412736
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
One day, Colour Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through colour. A gentle exploration of feelings for young and old alike.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787412736
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
One day, Colour Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through colour. A gentle exploration of feelings for young and old alike.
My Teacher is a Monster!
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549127540
Category : Monsters
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all." -- Verso.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549127540
Category : Monsters
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all." -- Verso.
How to Tame My Anxiety Monster
Author: Melanie Hawkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734165081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How To Tame My Anxiety Monster is about a child with a monster that no one else can see but him. He doesn't like when his monster comes around because it makes his stomach hurt, or makes it hard to concentrate or sleep. It makes him feel lots of other upsetting and uncomfortable things as well. He decided to talk to his parents about it and his mom told him that she had one too. He learned that his monster's name was Anxiety. Throughout the book the child talks about the ways that he can tame his anxiety monster. He can play sports, do yoga, art, or talk to a therapist to help calm him among other things. He then discovers the good ways that his anxiety monster can help him; during a test, a report, or riding a big scary-fun rollercoaster! He may not be able to make his monster go away, but he can learn to tame him! In the back of this book are some parent helps that can be great conversation starters for children that deal with anxiety.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734165081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How To Tame My Anxiety Monster is about a child with a monster that no one else can see but him. He doesn't like when his monster comes around because it makes his stomach hurt, or makes it hard to concentrate or sleep. It makes him feel lots of other upsetting and uncomfortable things as well. He decided to talk to his parents about it and his mom told him that she had one too. He learned that his monster's name was Anxiety. Throughout the book the child talks about the ways that he can tame his anxiety monster. He can play sports, do yoga, art, or talk to a therapist to help calm him among other things. He then discovers the good ways that his anxiety monster can help him; during a test, a report, or riding a big scary-fun rollercoaster! He may not be able to make his monster go away, but he can learn to tame him! In the back of this book are some parent helps that can be great conversation starters for children that deal with anxiety.