Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsThe world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps mad...

Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.

Some things break so they can be made new.Archaeologist Yael Bar-Am has spent her life piecing together what history left behind, fragments of clay, layers of stone, the quiet proof that nothing is ever truly lost. Then Captain Daniel Carter arrives at her dig, an American Army Reserve officer sent to document cultural sites before conflict swallows them, and for one golden afternoon before the holiday, the ancient land feels only beautiful, not dangerous.On Yom Kippur, the...

England, 1940. Every night, the bombs fall.In London, Vivian drives her ambulance through the burning streets, tending to the wounded and dying with a steadiness her colleagues mistake for courage. It is not courage. It is duty - the only language she has ever been taught to speak.In Oxford, Dame Beryl stands alone in the cupola of the Radcliffe Camera and holds the magical defenses of the British Isles together by sheer force of will. Her body is failing. Her grie...

Imprisoned for over nine hundred years, the sorcerer, Ravin Dar, is finally free. With his newfound freedom, he plans to raise a mythical beast from a long slumber and destroy all that ever stood against him, yet there are those that will oppose him.Salen Valari, elven wizard and would-be archmage, is destined for greatness. Along with the dark-skinned half-elf, Somrael, and the female elven warrior Shyi-Lhanna, they feel the pull of fate as they are hurled together to face off aga...

The sorcerer, Ravin Dar, has called forth a mythical beast of legend and set it against humanity. Standing in its path are a select group of heroes destined to save the world, if they can only survive long enough to do it.Salen Valari, elven wizard and would-be archmage, along with the dark-skinned half-elf, Somrael, and the female elven warrior Shyi-Lhanna, meet up with Korr, the northern warrior, and Cerufin Flamesong, an old friend from the elven city of Tir'Oniel. Together they...

Like millions of young American men, Gould was forced to make decisions he had never expected to face. On 3 May 1968, rather than wait for the draft to decide his future, he enlisted in the United States Army. He would go on to serve as a CH-47 Chinook pilot in Vietnam, an experience that would mark the rest of his life.But this is not only a story about war. It is also a story about coming home and discovering that the home you left behind no longer exists in the same way. After V...

Applied Lubrication, Insulation, and Cooling Fluids for Electrical Power Systems provides evidence-based strategies for selecting, applying, and monitoring lubricants, coolants, and insulating fluids in power systems. It addresses the demands of turbines, wind drivetrains, nuclear actuators, and electrified systems, emphasizing fluid reliability as a critical factor in uptime, efficiency and safety.Condition monitoring is presented as a core reliability function, integrati...

"Whether you're going for that promotion, looking to jump ship, or change careers entirely, Michael Watkins' Your Next Move is a book you'll want to read." So starts the positive review of Your Next Move on the influential 800 CEO Read website. It's true that all leaders--no matter how seasoned--need guidance through the professional changes that define a career. In fact, transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're t...

This Harvard Business Review collection, featuring the work of celebrated author and advisor Michael D. Watkins on leadership transitions, includes the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded as well as the 2012 Harvard Business Review article, How Managers Become Leaders.”

International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable framework for business strategy to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically and improve their decision-making—a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change.Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy. For every good leader who has mastered of one of these disc...

Are you a good boss--or a great one?Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you master the innumerable challenges of being a manager.With insights from leading experts including Marcus Buckingham, Michael D. Watkins, and Linda Hill, this b...