In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when she departed in 1873 for St. Augustine. During the next six years, she made her way across the South and reported what she saw, first in illustrated travel accounts and then in the poetry, stories...

Jack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job.Now, as a teacher, he faces new challenges. Conference calls have been replaced with parent conferences. Product testing has given way to standardized testing. Instead of business cards, Jack now passes out report cards. The only thing that hasn't changed noticeably is the maturity level of the people surrounding him all day.Learn Me Good is a hilarious fir...

Pourquoi les organisations ont-elles tendance à s'opposer aux transformations ? Quelle démarche adopter pour surmonter cette inertie? Comment éviter les angoisses et dépasser les blocages au moment d’évoluer ? En quoi le leadership est-il indispensable pour relever les défis que pose le changement ?Dans un monde de plus en plus instable et concurrentiel, les entreprises doivent sans cesse prendre de nouvelles initiatives. Cette stratégie, devenue essentielle pour réussir, suppose, ...

Il était une fois une colonie de pingouins qui vivait depuis des années sur le même iceberg et n'avait aucune raison d'en changer...Un beau jour, Fred, un pingouin un peu plus curieux que les autres, découvre que la banquise est en train de fondre et risque de se briser. Il s’en ouvre à Alice, l’un des membres du Conseil du leadership. Ensemble, ils s’efforceront de convaincre les autres de l’imminence du danger et de la nécessité de modifier les habitudes de la tribu. Doit-on croi...

Mesurez enfin ce qui est important! Découvrez comment mettre en place la méthode OKR grâce aux nombreux exemples et témoignages de managers et de leaders ayant vécu la coirssance de l'intérieur.Applicables tant à l'échelle de l'entreprise qu'à celle d'une équipe, les Objectives & Key Results - OKR - constituent une méthode pour l'action et l'alignement stratégique étayée par des données pertinentes de suivi.Intel, Walmart, YouTube, Coursera, Adobe : tous ne jurent que par l...

À l'automne 1999, John Doerr présente sa méthode aux fondateurs de la start-up qu’il vient de financer à hauteur de 12 millions de dollars. Ses dirigeants, Larry Page et Sergey Brin, possèdent une technologie, une énergie entrepreneuriale et une ambition hors du commun, mais n’ont pas de véritable business plan. Afin que Google réussisse, ils devront apprendre à faire des choix difficiles en abandonnant les fausses pistes au bon moment pour pivoter rapidement. Ils auront besoin de données ...

**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada.**John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform and immigration. On his watch, First Nat...

A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the Episcopal Church.What are we as Episcopalians? This concise booklet explores five main areas of Episcopal life: identity, authority, spirituality, temperament, and polity. A great introduction to the Episcopal way of thinking in readable prose for any newcomer or seeker in the Episcopal Church who may wonder what makes Episcopalians different than Roman Catholics or other protestants.

The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. John Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and ...

Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them. After they were jailed in 1969 for thirty years for murder, Pearson's biography The Profession of Violence enjoyed a cult following among the young and was said to be the most popular book in H.M.'s prisons, after the Bible.Ron died in 1995. Reg followed him five years later, and both of their funerals drew crowds on a scale unknown ...

_____________________________At Ronnie Kray's funeral, London crime expert John Pearson saw a man he didn't recognise - but who all the notorious criminals present deferred to.This is the remarkable true story of that man: 'the Englishman'.Investigations revealed that the Englishman was never mentioned in any of the previous books on organised crime, not because he wasn't involved, but because everyone was too scared...

In our family baseball, flyfishing, and the piano were not just activities we enjoyed frequently; they were life itself. Our lives were lived in them, through them and the trail they wove held our love, understanding of one another and our sense of trust in an unbreakable bond. Years later as time moved on and was in some ways unkind and our bond was tested, no storm of life, no trial, no error could ever weaken or cause us to turn away from one another. No matter the miles between us a ph...