The one primer you need to create, capture, and realize value in today's volatile and uncertain environment.No matter what business you are in, strategy plays a critical purpose and role in your company's success. But most leaders struggle to effectively define, let alone implement, a great "strategy." By ignoring essential elements in the process, they lead their companies toward confusion, misalignment, and underperformance.The HBR Strategy Handbook

A century on: sea levels have risen, the weather is lethal, and AuZtralia is a lot more complicated.Andaman Marko lives in the Jointly Administered Territory of Capricornia – a new homeland for millions of climate refugees from Asia. Marko is a playboy by day, fraudster by night: making millions of $New by decoding corporate and diplomatic komms to illegally trade on the markets.Then, in a society where prolonged peace and stability is enforced by AuZgov through mass surveill...

It's 2141, the weather is savage, energy politics is brutal, and millions of climate refugees from Asia eke out an existence in a greening Australian desert.Todd, the teenage son of powerful Indigenous energy mogul, Dr Madrigal Phipps, is kidnapped. A furious Dr Phipps gathers her old team from AuZgov Security Services and a renegade hacker, Andaman Marko, to hunt for Todd and his missing neo-Blues band, but both the climate chaos and her shadowy foes are treacherous.The yo...

A feel-good, uplifting tale of two women who make a life-changing connection.In Ethiopia, beautiful Sylvie's successful life is derailed by a disastrous childbirth. With no money and no hope, all seems lost.In London, feisty Juliet is struggling with the many challenges facing a female surgeon as well as inner traumas of her own. Unsure how to balance career, love and life, she escapes to Ethiopia.Under the vast African sky, these two women's live...

After 80 years in the shadows, Craig Collie—author of the acclaimed Where the Flaming Hell Are We? and Nagasaki—unearths the mystery of Japanese military intelligence officer Major Sei Hashida, a fascinating spy story set in World War II Australia.'An ingenious piece of historical reconstruction. It reads like a spy thriller.' Tom Gilling, author of Start Digging, You Bastards!In January 1941, the dapper, slightly...

My first love. My forever—or so I thought.We met when I was fourteen, and he was sixteen. Two teens from different schools, but somehow our paths crossed. I was shy, he was confident, and from the very first moment, I fell hard.We grew up together, laughed, fought, and dreamed—believing nothing could break us. But love isn't always enough.Late nights, secret messages, and lies I never expected began to surface. And when I went through his phone… everything changed. ...

Fate will not be denied.Faith should be crowned "Queen of the Wrong Place and Wrong Time." Her impulsive, solo trip to Paris seems like a genius idea – until she loses her way back to the hotel. In the rain. At night. When the two men she flags down for directions shove her into the nearest alley, she fears the worst.Soren was irritable. Not surprising as he'd held off feeding as long as possible. The thought of feeding from someone he knew turned his stoma...

Although these lectures were given during 1916, they have much to teach us about the political spin, media distortions, propaganda and downright lies we encounter on a daily basis in public life. Rudolf Steiner's calm and methodological approach penetrates the smokescreen of accusations and counterclaims, of illusion and untruth, surrounding the Great War. Hiding behind this fog, and under the guise of outer events, he reveals the true spiritual struggle that is taking place. His words giv...

His heart belongs to one woman, his life to another.Keir didn't exist. Not anymore. The Lady of Galbraith had saved him from death. Forever indebted to her alone, Keir had become her confidant, her spy, her assassin. He was her secret weapon against those trying to remove her from power. When Keir is ambushed by a pack of demons, he used the last of his strength to return home and warn the Lady of impending danger.To say she was stunned when a dying man fel...

Rudolf Steiner draws a clear distinction between the spiritual meaning of the word Intuition and its ordinary definition. As the highest form of spiritual perception, Intuition has an existential significance for our process of knowledge. Through systematic schooling, thinking can be developed into an intuitive organ by means of which the spiritual can consciously be understood and penetrated. Intuition can reveal the essence of the spirit, the processes through which human beings and the ...

Ever wondered what AI actually is, without all the sci-fi nonsense and marketing hype?I asked three different AI systems every question I could think of - what are you? How do you work? Why do you mess up in such weird ways? This book is what I learned.No robot uprising. No mysterious digital consciousness. Just honest, sometimes funny conversations that demystify the whole thing for people who are curious but don't have a computer science degree.If...

When the enemy is your mind, there is no escape.Bette feared the city, and for good reason. Valenna had become corrupt, targeting citizens with any substantial amount of wealth or power to their name. Her self-imposed solitary confinement caused her to lose track of time, and her sanity. She could no longer live this way. Only three solutions existed: allow Valenna to dictate her fate, die in the sun, or flee to the fabled city of peace. Bette ran.Rollin wa...