Acting Up is about finding and being your most authentic self. Using theatre skills and neuroscience as well as ancient spiritual practices this book is about discovering and acting the role you were meant to play at its highest level.. Through self-inquiry and an exploration of what it is to live and communicate a creative life, Acting Up takes living to a higher level with insights and laughter. Is this the last book you will ever need to read? No. But if you listen to it and try the exe...

Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives—with lessons and techniques you can apply to your own company, and career, right now.In Working Backwards, two long-serving Amazon executives reveal the principles and practices that have driven the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Ama...

‘Essential for any leader in any industry’ – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical CandorWorking Backwards gives an insider’s account of Amazon’s approach to culture, leadership and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.Colin Bryar and Bill Carr joined Amazon in the late 90s, working closely with Jeff Bezos. Their time at the company covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products...

**This program includes a preface read by the authors.Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.**Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever...

'Essential for any leader in any industry' – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical CandorWorking Backwards gives an insider's account of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.In 2018 Amazon became the world’s second trillion dollar company after Apple: a remarkable success story for a company launched out of a garage in 1994. How did they ach...

In Working Backwards worden de geheimen achter het succes van Amazon blootgelegd door twee voormalig top-level executives. Colin Bryar begon zijn carrière bij Amazon in 1998, Bill Carr in 1999. Zij stonden aan de wieg van producten en services zoals Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studies en Amazon Web Services. Bryar en Carr geven een waardevolle kijk achter de schermen; het is bewezen dat de drijfveren achter het succes van Amazon schaalbaar en toepasbaar zijn op andere bedrijven. Bryar en ...

Von den einen geliebt, von den anderen gehasst – doch wie schafft man es, so erfolgreich wie Amazon zu sein?Kindle, Prime, Alexa – Amazon hat die Wirtschaftswelt wie kein zweites Unternehmen verändert. Wie ist es dem Netzgiganten gelungen, sich derart auf die Bedürfnisse seiner Kunden einzustellen, um alle anderen Konkurrenten zu überholen? Welche wesentlichen Bausteine der Unternehmenskultur führten zu diesem Erfolg, und was sind die 14 Leadership-Prinzipien von A...

WORLDBUILDING: Videospiele und Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Gaming und zeitbasierter Medienkunst. Es ist die erste generationenübergreifende Ausstellung dieser Größenordnung, die einen Überblick vermittelt, wie sich zeitgenössische Künstler*innen weltweit Ästhetiken und Technologien aus dem Videospielbereich für ihre Praxis aneignen.Das Projekt präsentiert Arbeiten von mehr als 50 Künstler*innen, darunter Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, LaTur...

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way' by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as t...

Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups.These groups not only buttressed a state or empire’s military might but crucially connected, policed, and administered (parts of) realms as a transcultural and transimperial class while representing the polity’s universal or at least cosmopolitan aspirations at court or on diplomatic and military missions. Case studies of...

A New Lawyer's Guide to Starting and Building a Law Practice, Economically!A current and relevant guide for the new lawyer facing today's employment challenges. A "must read" book for every law student about to enter the job market, or the new lawyer wanting security and control of their own profession. An excellent "step by step" guide that is easy to follow. Loaded with specific and practical tools to successfully start and grow your law practice, economically!Whether you w...

With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago’s South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting rise of community activism: the shootings of two local teenage girls outside of an elementary sch...