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Inspired leaders strive to be better at every turn. They embrace change and look to engage and encourage their people to new levels. • But what happens when the world around you is uncertain? • When incessant change is thrust upon you and fear is rampant in your teams. • What happens when the very place you work is removed? Today’s leaders have had to reevaluate where and how they do their business. That involves a new way of leading. Where’s the Office? Moving Today’s Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE provides the new perspective that the ‘office’ resides within you and that you can lead from wherever you are. It provides both the strategy and the tools for your success in...
Leadership is built not born, and it is not built in a vacuum. Great leaders are most powerfully created on the way toward a great endeavor, or in the face of a great challenge. The Brink is a leadership model that uses climbing a mountain as a metaphor for that challenge, and is a guide to creating and fostering that endeavor into reality for you and your leadership. Leadership is not built in comfortable, settled, and unchallenged people. There is nothing for it to feed and grow on in that emptiness. There is no reason or urgency to lead in the absence of a great challenge. Whether you have your own great challenge already or not, The Brink is the environment and the pathway to create and ...
Find Your Fire at Forty is an innovative combination of creative non-fiction and how-to. The story of "Find Your Fire at Forty" is a poignant look at five flawed characters lives. They end up trapped together in a coffee shop with an unlikely life coach who takes them through the process of self discovery. They each walk away with a powerful lesson of transformation that will enable them to find their passion and live more successful, joyful lives. The bonus how-to section of "Find Your Fire at Forty" provides a breakdown of the five step process upon which the story is based. Step one shows you how to release your fear and take control of your life. Step two helps you understand your strengths and find your unique talent. Step three provides compassionate practices that help you improve your relationships as you navigate your transition. Step four presents a simple, sensible process to achieve your goals by taking action. And Step five uses your newfound passion, talent, and skills to contribute to others. "Find Your Fire at Forty" demonstrates and inspires people to take their lives to the next level and love the life they live.
The author was embedded with one of the busiest wildfire crews in the United States Reveals wildfires through the experiences of the people who go face-to-face with them Focuses on challenges faced in Western states. Every year wildfires ravage forests, destroy communities, and devastate human lives, with only the bravery of dedicated firefighters creating a barrier against even greater destruction. Throughout the 2016 wildfire season, journalist Heather Hansen witnessed firsthand the heroics of the Station 8 crew in Boulder, Colorado. She tells that story here, layered with the added context of the history, science, landscape, and human behavior that, year-by-year, increases the severity, f...
"Find Your Five at Forty" combines the best of both worlds. It will entertain the reader with a story that communicates the progression of five endearing characters. Then it will teach the steps the characters took to achieve success and reveal the secret of how simple it is for anyone to enjoy their life to the fullest.
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All successful leaders have a secret power - where's yours? When leadership becomes a byword for control, and trust is outdated - how should YOU respond? 'Believe nothing, test everything'. This is the war cry of the maverick. This scream, an essential cornerstone of the maverick mindset. Leadership and maverick expert Judith Germain provides the blueprint to becoming a successful leader. - Discover the 5 maverick attributes all 'natural leaders' possess - Master the 8 maverick capabilities that all successful leaders demonstrate - Extend your influence by utilising the 3 key power bases - Become a transformational leader by deploying the Maverick DRIVEN Leadership(TM) Methodology 'Judith is one of those rare people who actually knows what she's talking about. She provides results based on good research and a professional approach'. Peter Clayton, author of 'Body Language at Work' and body language consultant for the BBC and ITV
An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won’t give up on them. Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain. She comes in the snow. She comes right up the side of the mountain, and Cal knows that's not easy riding. And all just to lend his sister some books. Why, that woman must be plain foolish—or is she braver than he ever thought? That Book Woman is a rare and moving tale that honors a special part of American history—the Pack Horse Librarians, who helped untold numbers of children see the stories amid the chicken scratch, and thus made them into lifetime readers.
South African rooibos tea is a commodity of contrasts. Renowned for its healing properties, the rooibos plant grows in a region defined by the violence of poverty, dispossession, and racism. And while rooibos is hailed as an ecologically indigenous commodity, it is farmed by people who struggle to express “authentic” belonging to the land: Afrikaners, who espouse a “white” African indigeneity, and “coloureds,” who are characterized either as the mixed-race progeny of “extinct” Bushmen or as possessing a false identity, indigenous to nowhere. In Steeped in Heritage Sarah Ives explores how these groups advance alternate claims of indigeneity based on the cultural ownership of an indigenous plant. This heritage-based struggle over rooibos shows how communities negotiate landscapes marked by racial dispossession within an ecosystem imperiled by climate change and precarious social relations in the postapartheid era.