Build a high-performance workforce by abandoning skills-based hiring practices and focusing on employee attitudeHiring for Attitude offers a groundbreaking approach to recruiting, assessing, and selecting people with both tremendous skills but, more importantly, an attitude that aligns with the organization’s culture.Murphy cites his own company’s research and examines recent scientific studies about the practical effects a person’s attitude has on...

It is a tribute to the Psalms’ ability to capture the human condition that so many people have translated, re-written, re-visioned, and unfolded these prayer/songs. Thousands of years after being revealed to a faithful people, they can be meaningful to a person of any denomination or faith. I have over a thousand pages of journal entries about all 150 of these prayers. The pages capture my comments, thoughts, and feelings about each prayer as the meaning unveiled itself to me every morning...

Travel is so much more than getting on a plane and jetting off to some foreign locale. Even when you are close to home you can Travel Forward on an exciting journey of self-discovery and fulfillment. And, you'll positively impact the world while you're doing it. This is your roadmap. Writing about everyone from Nelson Mandela, Paul McCartney, Condoleezza Rice and Jon Bon Jovi, to loved ones, friends, neighbors and memorable people he's encountered on airplanes, in Cambodia and on the New Y...

Drum Kit Fills Volume 1 is the first book in a series of publications designed to develop the ability to play fills around the drum kit. Volume 1 contains 8th note, 16th note, 3 stroke, flam and triplet fills. It also contains 6 solo pieces. The content is suitable for beginners through to intermediate drumming levels.The fills are not merely development exercises; they can all be used in practical situations, whether that be rehearsing with a band, performing live, creati...

The New York Times–bestselling author of Hundred Percenters and Hiring for Attitude shows you how to build the most successful teamThe conventional wisdom is wrong about how great teams are built. Effective leaders worry less about cohesion and more about assembling the right group of people with complementary talents and personalities. No amount of teambuilding, trust, or cohesion can overcome having the wrong mix of people in the room.

This core text, now in its second edition, provides an easy-to-read, comprehensive introduction to educational research that will develop your understanding of research strategies, theories and methods, giving you the confidence and enthusiasm to discuss and write about your research effectively.Specifically written for undergraduate education studies students, the book guides you through the process of planning a research project, the different research methods available and how t...

Social Theory and Education Research is an advanced and accessible text that illustrates the diverse ways in which social theories can be applied to educational research methodologies. It provides in-depth overviews of the various theories by well-known and much-debated thinkers – Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida – and their applications in educational research*.*Updated throughout and with new extended introductions to each theorist an...

Drum Kit Fills Volume 2 is the second book in a series of publications designed to develop the ability to play fills around the drum kit. Volume 2 contains 16th note, 12/8, 32nd note, triplet and double bass drum fills. It also contains 5 solo pieces. The content is suitable for intermediate through to advancing drumming levels.The fills are not merely development exercises; they can all be used in practical situations, whether that be rehearsing with a band, performing li...

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts. Each chapter is devoted to a specific thematic area, including the state, governance, the economy, civil society, culture, language, knowledge, the self, emotions, the body, and social justice. Each chapter details the key issues for debate and the relevant theories while linking those debates and theories to everyday life. Distributed throughout the c...

The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission and delivers a definitive contribution to the understanding of Habermas's oeuvre as it applies to the field. The authors examine the contribution Habermas's theory has and can make to: pedagogy, ...

This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community’s policymaking since its creation. Policies are all too often placed in their individual silos, which can sometimes work against deeper understanding of policymaking and its reach across policy domains. This project avoids such compartmentalisation and instead crosses...

One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. He has inspired researchers in a range of disciplines with his multidimensional social theory, however an overview of his theory in applied settings is long overdue.This collection brings together in one convenient volume a set of researchers who place Jürgen Habermas’ key concepts such as colonisation, del...