In the "Age of Connectivity" there should be no losers, but only winners. For this to happen, we need to make the "Age of Connectivity" to be mostly about upgrading our individual mind structure and improving its connectivity level, and less about artificial connectivity and artificial intelligence development. Although the last two bring economic advantages, their over-development will inevitably create a lot of losers, and more than that, there is a high risk that we would all become los...

The best managers work smarter, not harderAfter conducting a unique global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the world-leading sales research firm Gartner identified four distinct types of manager. Incredibly, they found one type consistently performs far better than the rest, and it wasn’t the one they were expecting.Connector Managers understand that it’s not enough for managers to just encourage and teach employees themselves, and that pro...

Menace and Speedy are two local dope slingers with much in common, but two things in particular. They’re both young and hungry. Business is booming, and while most people in their position would be satisfied, Menace and Speedy aren’t “most people.” They want to be among the drug game elite, and the only way to do that is get hooked up with a “connect.” A major supplier who can provide enough product to help the duo graduate from “dealers” to “kingpins.” One day, the pair finally acquire th...

In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal protheses, as well as in the homes of patients enrolled in clinical trials as they live with these new forms of prosthetics, Middleton shows how patients’ sensory experiences and domestic w...

After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed, he aims to pick up where he and Speedy left off, and there’s no time like the present. With Menace on the “disabled list,” Speedy has grown the old gang into a force to be reckoned with, their influence, firepower, and manpower three times what it used to be. As Speedy and the boys help Menace regain his “underworld footing,” bringing him up to speed, an old foe resurfaces—...

Tragedy is a normal part of ‘the life.’ But when mid-level gangster Fuzzy loses her lover and partner in crime to it, the pain is far deeper than anything she’s ever felt before. But the hurt isn’t enough to take her out of the game completely. In fact, Fuzzy is determined to honor his memory by picking up right where her deceased sweetheart left off, aided by his apprentice Lil Man. As a duo, their first battle for gangland supremacy will come in the form of a powerful crime lord named B....

The streets have claimed two more victims in what seems like a typical gang shooting … or was it? Female gangster Fuzzy is heartsick over the loss of her two besties, Jr. and Hadji. But she’s even more devastated at the possibility that their deaths might’ve been an unintended consequence of her dubious behavior. As a nervous Fuzzy ponders the possibility of the next body to drop being her own, another queenpin named B.B. arrives home.Never in her wildest dreams did the Jersey nati...

Brought to you by Penguin.The best managers work smarter, not harderAfter conducting a unique global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the world-leading sales research firm Gartner identified four distinct types of manager. Incredibly, they found one type consistently performs far better than the rest, and it wasn’t the one they were expecting.Connector Managers understand that it’s not enough for managers to just enc...

Plug Nickels is a selection of Gary Simoni's early poetry. His preference is to consider the poems as word games rather than poetry; and prefers to think of himself not as a poet, but rather as a wordsmith. While the poems are written, for the most part, in free verse, there is some structure to each of the pieces, and, perhaps, an occasional insight.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You don’t need to “work the room”—you just need to connect for real.Networking shouldn’t feel fake, forced, or transactional. Whether you’re an introvert, tired of awkward small talk, or just unsure where to start, the key to growth isn’t collecting contacts—it’s building real relationships.The Authentic Connector is your no-fluff guide to confident, natural networking in the modern world. Wheth...

There are four distinct types of managers. One performs much worse than the rest, and one performs far better. Which type are you?Based on a first-of-its-kind, wide-ranging global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the global research and advisory firm Gartner were able to classify all managers into one of four types:Teacher managers, who develop employees' skills based on their own expertise and direct their development along a similar track to their ...

THE PLUGChicago don't forgive.It only collects.The Jungle is a Section 8 maze where cops hesitate and killers don't. One way in. One way out. And for years, Dimitrius "Big Meat" Kershaw ran it all—money, muscle, and silence—out of a neighborhood studio called Meats Beats.But when a new plug brings fentanyl into the city, the money gets bigger and the bodies stack faster.Donte "Tey" Lewis just wanted rap money and a wa...