Beyond Traditional Performance Management: A Comprehensive and Fresh Approach to Performance Reviews provides a compelling new picture of what an effective performance management system could look like. By giving examples of how each element can be improved and implemented, a comprehensive picture of how the entire system could look begins to emerge. This book achieves this by examining the key questions that performance management system designers should ask, exploring realistic ...

He’s no Saint... Assassin Xavier Saint has only one rule: kill no innocents. But on a supposed clean hit in Montenegro, he discovers his target has two kids and a woman with him. Why didn’t his client tell Saint? What’s worse, the woman is Saint’s former girlfriend…While Saint processes this strange turn of events shots are fired. He watches the target and his ex fall. Rushing in to assess the damage, Saint’s ex reveals he’s a father. Not only that...

A killer wakes up...Tom Maverick isn't just a killer; he's an old-school assassin forged in the fires of a life gone wrong. He spent decades believing his conscience was a luxury he couldn't afford. He took contracts without asking questions, telling himself the world was a dirty place and he was just the broom.But the broom broke when he was framed for slaughtering an innocent family—a crime that fina...

What if you had nothing to live for and nothing to lose…Devastated after his wife and daughter disappeared in a mysterious plane crash, Jack Storm, former CIS extractor, is failing to keep it all together. When a crucial asset is trapped in Tehran, the agency has no choice but to bring their top agent Jack back into service. They assign him a nearly impossible mission, knowing he’s a ticking time bomb…Sent in with a know-it-all rookie, despondent J...

When covert operations go wrong, CIS sends in . . . The Corrector.After loosing his wife in a tragic accident and never wanting to lose in any way again, Javin Pierce has buried his feelings in work. Fixing every mistake anyone else has made in hopes it will redeem his own guilt for not being able to save her life. When an elite CIS team botches a retrieval operation, the agency calls Javin in from Albania to fix it. But they want him to t...

The New York Times BestsellerThe urgent and definitive guide to working, learning, and living in the new age of artificial intelligence from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack.'The very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit...

What if all you had left … was survival?When an act of treason leaves Justin and his Arctic team stranded on the ice, they must fight for survival in a deadly battle at the top of the world.Demoted and demoralized Canadian assassin Justin Hall is desperate to return to field operations. When the agency learns about a potential enemy incursion in the Arctic, he volunteers for the mission. Tried and tested as never before, not knowing the enemy within,...

Meet Justin Hall, a deadly covert assassin working for the Canadian Intelligence Service. He never listened at home; or at school… Why would anyone think he’d listen now? But no one’s better at getting the job done. Justin serves alongside his red-tape ripping partner Carrie O’Conner, and together they’ll stop at nothing to make sure justice is done. Dispatched to execute near-impossible missions with no time, no back-up, and no options. If you love clean, adrenaline-drenched, heart-poundi...

The Jack Storm Spy Thriller Series – Books 1-3Getting in is hard; getting out… impossibleMeet Jack Storm, an impulsive, double-crossed, former CIS extractor. With nothing to live for and nothing to lose after the devastating disappearance of his wife and daughter, Jack returns to serve on deadly missions all over the globe to ensure those in danger make it out alive…What happens when you mix a fearless loose cannon with a st...

In a time when the Russians seem unstoppable, can one man make a difference?Ethan Jones, the master of international intrigue and bestselling author, brings you his complete, impossible-to-put-down, five-book spy thriller series, featuring agent Max Thorne.Max, struggling with a troubled, unknown past and aimless future learns his mysterious past may tie him to the CIA. Blindsided by those he trusted, Max is determined to do the right thing… Even if it mean...

He’s no Saint…Assassin Xavier Saint has done many things, but never killed an innocent person. Now, he has uncovered a network of assassins eliminating innocents for profit, and he is being framed as the fall guy.With more to lose than just his life, Saint must bring down the entire network. But how?He never claimed to be a saint, but he’s no demon either. In a world full of sworn enemies, how will Saint strike back, destroy the n...

Under the ever-changing skies of Connemara, where the peat bogs stretch as far as the eye can see and the ocean roars against the cliffs, Baptiste thought he had found a sanctuary. First in Dublin, then in Galway, his path crossed Finan's—a flamboyant young Irishman whose tenderness and raw passion act as a balm on his wounds. Together, between rain-soaked Gaelic football matches, shared complicity in a microbrewery, and passionate embraces, they try to build a haven sheltered from the wor...