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For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the book “every leader should read” (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, The Four Disciplines of Execution will radically change your business.4D...

Some might say that she is an enigma: this sophisticated forty-year-old grandmother, a widow of twenty years, has been celibate for the duration. After Nyja raised her daughter, in an appropriate manner, she is ready to resume an active sex life. She finds the man of her dreams. However, after their marriage, all chaos breaks out. Nyja finds herself responsible for raising her grandson, just when all she really wants in life is the one thing she has denied herself of for so longa man. But ...

Broken Crutch tells the story of the lives of three dysfunctional individuals: Mercedes Kemp, a single mother, rebuilds her life after an abusive relationship. Desiring a more affluent life she begins transporting drugs. The money is great; but the drug lord is the devil incarnate. Intuition tells her something is wrong. Can she get out in time? Kodjoe Jackson, a widower and father, hates everything about drugs. But what will he do when he fi nds himself addicted to the very substance he d...

For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the book “every leader should read” (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 500,000 copies sold, The Four Disciplines of Execution will radically change your business.4D...

This manuscript was written during a time right after the death of my husband. I found it to be comforting to journal each day instead of talking constantly with another person. Years ago, I found writing to be an avenue to the many issues that evolved in my life. While writing, I often found that making decisions became clearer and the answers flowed smoothly. This particular transition in my life after the death of my husband compelled me to sit quietly and write about my feelings and my...

“SHE IS CHAOS. SHE IS MADNESS. AND SHE IS ALL MINE.”Archer Crone:We came from the richest families in the world. We were supposed to be invincible. But the week we partied on Zion Island, the world was ravaged by a nuclear war.In the two years since, I’ve made the island a safe haven. I built a pharmaceutical empire.Being a king is a solitary journey. To avoid insanity, I have to keep my mind at peace.But the...

“HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOB.THEN BECAME MY FAVORITE PASTIME.BEFORE I KNEW IT, HE SET MY HEART ON FIRE.”Katura Ortiz:Archer Crone wears arrogance like a badge of honor, hiding acts of kindness like they are dirty secrets.But behind the cold mask is a man with a gentle heart. A heart that could’ve been mine, but I screwed it all up.Now that he pulled away, I’m gasping for air....

Written by an international team of experts, this collection provides a comprehensive account of established and emerging methods of collecting and analysing data within the framework of personal construct theory.Covers methods such as content analysis scales, repertory grid methodology, narrative assessments and drawings, the laddering and ABC techniques, and discusses how and why they are usedExplores both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as methods u...

Department stores were a midwest institution, none more prominent in downtown Columbus Ohio than F&R Laazarus & Company. For more than 150 years, F&R Lazarus & Company was the heart of downtown Columbus. Headed by the "first family of American retailing" with an eye for flair and a devotion to the customer, this uniquely midwestern institution won the hearts and minds of a community. Look to Lazarus draws on the memories of those who worked and shopped in this grand emporium to tell the un...

**"I loved this profound, practical, and generous book." —Oliver BurkemanA transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter**Life isn’t linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentati...

**A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.**Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, an...

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles**) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals.**Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In thi...