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Jeff Howe, Scott Zolak

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If These Walls Could Talk

An insider's look at the New England Patriots' rise to greatness.The New England Patriots are one of the most successful teams in the NFL, with five Super Bowl championships and a perpetual playoff presence. Broadcaster and former player Scott Zolak and writer Jeff Howe team up to provide a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into the great moments, the lowlights, and everything in between.Through singular anecdotes and conversations with current and past players...

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Jeff Howe

“The amount of knowledge and talent dispersed among the human race has always outstripped our capacity to harness it. Crowdsourcing corrects that—but in doing so, it also unleashes the forces of creative destruction.”—From CrowdsourcingFirst identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired article, “crowdsourcing” describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe ...

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Jeff Howe

On the border of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Eastern Montana, two executives reunite at a pheasant lodge for five days of upland hunting. But when the unthinkable occurs in those prairie grass fields with their guide and man's best friend, Garrett Ingram and Hollis Baumgartner are forced to make a decision that pits their band-of-brothers bond, and ultimately their survival, against their love of family, pushing both to the edge of ruin.

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Jeff Howe

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Secret

The history of the ancient town and port of Dover goes back to the Roman times and beyond. Lying at the shortest crossing point to France and continental Europe, the port has long played an important role in the history of this country. In Secret Dover Jeff Howe reveals the hidden history lurking behind Dover’s streets, buildings and seascapes. Along with the more obvious landmarks, there was the Grand Hotel, which was bombed out in 1940, and in it at the time, an American reporter who doc...

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Jeff L. Howe

From the limited perspective of the present, the path weve chosen in life may often seem random or of little consequence. But when we examine our journey from the vantage of hindsight, we find that we have participated in life-changing moments and have been witness to singularly remarkable things. This is a collection of moments and stories from the life of one man. Some are humorous, some are poignant, and some are terrifying. Some moments are as brief as the wink of a firefly or the exac...

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Joi Ito, Jeff Howe

This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, transforming every aspect of society, from business to cultur...

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Jeff Howe

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Drew Creal

Aspen, 1985. One bad decision is about to send Alex Cavanaugh deep into the Rockies—and into far more trouble than he ever imagined.Fresh out of college, twenty-two-year-old Alex Cavanaugh heads west with his girlfriend, Erin, determined to build a new life in Aspen. But paradise comes with a price. Jobs are easy to find. Affordable housing isn’t.Then Alex is offered a way out: carry sixty pounds of c☠️caine through the rugged Colorado backcountry ...

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Dave Hanson, Ross Bernstein

More than 30 years after its cinematic debut, Slap Shot remains one of the most popular sports movies of all time, and this book is actor Dave Hanson's firsthand account of its making. Starring the legendary Paul Newman, the movie was based on the hilarious and outrageous antics of the fictitious Charlestown Chiefs, a tough-as-nails minor league hockey team in the early 1970s. In financial trouble and due to fold at the end of the season, they bring in the Hanson Brothers—three of...

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Jeff Howe

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Kirby Heyborne

“The amount of knowledge and talent dispersed among the human race has always outstripped our capacity to harness it. Crowdsourcing corrects that—but in doing so, it also unleashes the forces of creative destruction.”—From CrowdsourcingFirst identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired article, “crowdsourcing” describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe ...

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Joi Ito, Jeff Howe

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James Foster

This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, transforming every aspect of society, from business to cultur...

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Robert Kegan, Matthew L. Miller, Andy Fleming, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Deborah Helsing

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Stephen R. Thorne

What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth?Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such companies—Deliberately Developmental Organizations. A DDO is organized around the conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with people's strongest...

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Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

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Paul McLain

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HBR's 10 Must Reads

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy wi...