Nothing could ever come from hooking up with a human. What would I do with only four other limbs anyway? This competition for the crown must have me going crazy.TabithaI need to stay focused. My entire life has been devoted to training in my sister's shadow so that one of us will be ready to take over as the next great tentacle queen of our pod. The new queen will be chosen next week and fan favourite or not, I won't to let my twin swipe that future...

Everyone knows it's humans you need to stay away from. Humans, albeit unfathomably idiotic at times, are the apex predator. So why can't I stay away from this one?DominicAfter a bout of food poisoning forced my engaged friends into bathroom-quarantine, they got an email about a cancellation at this beachside resort wedding venue. They need to tour and accept the venue in-person today or else it'll go to the next couple on the waiting list. As much a...

Being Queen isn't as exciting as they make it out to be. I don't know. Maybe I'll start capsizing ships like our ancestors used to do. I need something new. Or someone…with a black pixie cut and a maddingly inquisitive mind.LexiI might have masqueraded as a classics major in academia but let me make it perfectly clear that I'm a marine biologist. Cecaelia are real and I'm going to prove it.When I move to Passions Bay to take up a job as the n...

Princess Tillie the Mystical Magical Flying Dragon goes on an adventure, meeting up with friends to help save the environment.

What a Unicorn Knows is your company’s best guide to becoming a well-oiled, high-velocity machine for growth on its way to billion-dollar valuation.Why do some young companies become unicorns, while others don’t? What a Unicorn Knows is a playbook that offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed.Drawing on a mastery of lean-ba...

With liability often looming just over the horizon, corporate directors and officers rely on liability insurance and indemnification for peace of mind. Finally, there is a book that spells out in detail how these protections really work—and how they differ.Directors and Officers Liability: Prevention, Insurance and Indemnification examines such topics as: the risks officers and directors face; derivative and class actions; when insurance is available; and when a co...

Why do some young companies become unicorns, while others don't?It's easy for scale-ups, giddy from early startup success, to get ahead of themselves and stumble. It's even easier to be slowed down by the many forces of resistance working against them: drag, inertia, friction, and waste.Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide listeners wit...

"Toyota is becoming a double threat: the world's finest manufacturer and a truly great innovator . . . that formula, a combination of production prowess and technical innovation, is an unbeatable recipe for success."-- Fortune, February 2006For the first time, an insider reveals the formula behind Toyota's unceasing quest to innovate and do more with less, a philosophy that has made it one of the ten most profitable companies in the world (and worth more than GM, F...

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darned irresistible? What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks? The answer is elegance.Matthew May explores why certain events, products, and people capture our imaginations and our loyalty. Defining elegance as the elusive combination of unusual simplicity and surprising power,...

Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged in dozens of fights for freedom of speech throughout the American West. The volatile spread and circulation of hobo agitation during these fights amounted to nothing less than a soapbox rebellion i...

What made the Sopranos finale one of the most-talked-about events in television history?Why is sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darn irresistible?What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks?Elegance.In this thought-provoking exploration of why certain events, products, and people capture our attention and imaginations, Matthew E. May examines the elusive element behind so many innova...

Mindful thinking is the new competitive edgeScience confirms the distinction between the biological brain and the conscious mind. Each day, a game of mind versus matter plays out on a field defined by the problems we must solve. Most are routine, and don’t demand a more mindful approach. It’s when we’re faced with more difficult challenges that our thinking becomes vulnerable to brain patterns that can lead us astray.We leap to solutions that simply don’t w...