Why do good teams stall? Not because of the workbut because of patterns that quietly block performance, blur responsibility, and reward talk over results. This practical guide names them success blockers and shows leaders how to spot the 7 most common patterns, ask the questions that restore clarity, and give responsibility back to the team. With ready-to-use pattern-stopper phrases, a communication playbook, and a concrete 30-day plan for clearer leadership. Less drama, more direction; fe...

In Christmas Love, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf recalls childhood Christmases in postwar Germany and his family’s later life as refugees, illustrating that love—not material wealth—defines the season. He recounts how a chance encounter with a coatless boy shaped Harold B. Lee’s lifelong service. In this Christmas booklet, President Uchtdorf urges readers to follow Christ’s example by sharing compassion, kindness, and whatever “crumbs” they have with those in need.

You know you’re in deep water when you can’t tell cop from criminalRene Beckman is a dishonoured ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. When the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel’s drug submarine, the date ends with a bang.With the cartel’s coke-for-guns deal with local bikers torched by Beckman, he’s forced to go on the run...

What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these and other questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural assets, and why we would have to save to invest. The message is a tough one: we are way off ...

"Twelve gates, and at every one somebody decides." A journalist follows the cup that stands on his kitchen counter every morning: into a forest in Kaffa, onto a slope beneath shade trees, into a fermentation tank, onto a drying bed, into a container, a roastery — and back again to his kitchen. What he learns on the way is not how to make coffee. It is how little of it depends on him. Botany, growing, harvest, processing — from the forest to the sack. Price, seals, trade: where the nine eur...

You have a good espresso machine – now get the best out of it. The Barista Course takes you step by step from the first mindful sip to your own rosetta, without jargon and without expensive detours. The common thread is the five M's: blend, dose, grind, machine and the person behind it. Ten chapters explain what really happens in the cup – why the same coffee tastes different on two days, how a puck is built cleanly, what dialing in means, how milk turns silky instead of foamy, and which c...

Train like the World Champions! Over the past few years, a new trend has become ever more prominent in the soccer world: passing often and fast, and including all players in the game. Combining this with their own personal style, we have seen teams reach new heights of success from FC Barcelona to Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund and, most recently, the German National Team at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. But what does it take to learn this 'art' of passing? What are the methodological...

Some people are always visible, always presenting, always aligningyet rarely deliver real value. This witty, practical guide exposes the corporate actors, PowerPoint rangers, and buzzword acrobats who thrive when the show matters more than the substance. Learn how to demystify the theater with friendly, specific questions, protect yourself from exhaustion, make real performance visible, and build a results-oriented culture. With case studies, anti-bullshit questions, and tools for leaders....

Five hundred years, three families, one bean. In 1583 a merchant's son from Neuss sets out for Arabia to fetch the real thing, and brings back more than he sought. In 1954 a Neapolitan carries the craft to the same grey river, and a word he takes for his own invention. In 2032 it becomes a brand that is sold. The three novels The Coffee Journey, Omaneo and The Cold Cup, for the first time as one book: continuously numbered, with the bridges between the epochs, in the order in which they ha...

Neuss, 2032 to 2040. In his retirement, the Neuss merchant Dieter Winter stakes everything on an honest espresso machine and the small brand omaneo. But sales pressure, investors, and his own impatience drive him to sell what he built. The brand is ruined, the name becomes a commodity, the coffee grows cold. A quiet, elegiac crime novel about greed, betrayal, and whether the real thing survives when everything is sold, and about the spark that lives on. The third volume of the omaneo Saga....

Neuss on the Rhine, 1583. The cities of the north do not yet know coffee. Cornelius von Rheydt, a patrician son with too much longing and too little patience, sets out south with his Neapolitan companion Giacomo Fontana, to where a black, forbidden bean is brewed into a wakeful, singing drink. In the alleys of Mokka he finds more than he sought: the secret of coffee and his love for Zaida. A historical novel about longing, distant shores, and the first cup of coffee.

Neuss, today. At seventy, Dieter Winter stakes everything he has left on an honest espresso machine from China and names his little brand after a soft, singing word he takes for a greeting to his mother: omaneo. Neuss, 1954. A young man from Naples brings an espresso machine and color into a grey café on the market square. In his song he calls Hanna, the innkeeper's daughter, omaneo and vanishes before spring comes. Seventy years, two people, the same truth: The world is cold enough. What ...