**New York Times BestsellerFrom leading global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the minds behind the New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence comes a compact, insight-packed guide to navigating the distinct phases of leadership that every CEO must pass through on their way to mastery.**In the high-stakes world of corporate leadership, becoming a Fortune 500 CEO is an Everest-like ascent—with only the savviest managing to avoid fal...

Zombies always get the short straw in life. They didn't ask to be infected. They only want to shuffle along the dystopian landscape and nibble on some brains once in a while. Is that too much to ask?No, it’s not, which is why Dining with Zombies exists. The short stories in this anthology discuss the daily routines of animated corpses. Once you've read them, you'll understand their eating, dating, living, and advertising preferences. Plus, since the stories are horror come...

THE AUDACITY OF HUBRIS is a beautifully written, evocative portrayal of colonial Virginia's settlement. Aristocratics from England, including Lord Faifax, are confronted by the increasing wealth of the colony's planters, led by the Spotswood, Burwell and Carter familes. Based on actual events, the novel follows the intersecting paths of these families, their children and those who dare to challenge their power.

OVOKA, laced with historical figures and the tensions of pre-Revolutionary War America, draws readers into the daily lives of colonial Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah piedmont. Born into privilege but determined to make his own way in the world, Isaac Spotswood seeks a modest life on his own farmstead. The land-grabbing, slave-owning ways of the British aristocrats and colonial leaders, including Lord Fairfax and George Washington, clash with Isaac's humble ambitions to build a home f...

New Y******ork Times Bestseller • Wall Street Journal BestsellerFrom McKinsey & Company, the world’s most influential management consulting firm, comes CEO Excellence, an insight-packed leadership book that reveals how the best CEOs think and act—based on interviews with elite leaders from Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, Sony, and more.B...

The guide for all leaders and senior managers, offering the answers to critical questions on organizational design and management.Every year, over 10,000 business books are published-and that's before you add in the hundreds of thousands of articles, blogs, and video lectures that are produced. Leaders can't possibly hope to digest it all, and writers increasingly sensationalize and spin their ideas in order to be noticed. The result? Put quite simply, the field of...

The guide for all leaders and senior managers, offering the answers to critical questions on organizational design and management.Every year, over 10,000 business books are published-and that's before you add in the hundreds of thousands of articles, blogs, and video lectures that are produced. Leaders can't possibly hope to digest it all, and writers increasingly sensationalize and spin their ideas in order to be noticed. The result? Put quite simply, the field of...

Double your odds of leading successful, sustainable changeLeaders aren't short on access to change management advice, but the jury has long been out as to which approach is the best one to follow. With the publication of Beyond Performance 2.0, the verdict is well and truly in. By applying the approach detailed by authors Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger, the evidence shows that leaders can more than double their odds of success—from thirty percent to almo...

This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing world-class supply chain warehousing processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it explains each warehousing option, basic warehousing storage and handling operations, strategic planning, and the effects of warehousing design and service decisions on total logistics costs and customer service. This reference introduces crucial concepts including...

Ask authors Missy Hall and Rich Keller about parenting, and they'll emit primal screams while burying their faces in their hands. Then, they'll describe how raising children is an adventure filled with amazing, joyous, and downright confusing scenarios. Missy and Rich put some of these events into Thinking Inside My Box.Throughout this book of humorous essays, the authors delve into situations that include Christmas construction, television remotes, never-ending driving, C...

How can knowledge management (KM) help your firm exceed your clients' expectations and differentiate you from your closest competitors? This guide written by senior figures in legal KM in the US and UK will show how you can achieve this and more, drawing upon case studies from some of the most innovative firms using KM to their advantage. KM is helping law firms adapt to an evolving legal landscape. Increasingly, firms like yours are seeing knowledge management and its potential as an "org...

This volume focuses on the etiology and morphogenesis of congenital heart diseases. It reviews in detail the early development and differentiation of the heart, and later morphologic events of the cardiovascular system, covering a wide range of topics such as gene functions, growth factors, transcription factors and cellular interactions that are implicated in cardiac morphogenesis and congenital heart disease. This book also presents recent advances in stem cell and cell sheet tissue engi...