Understand the full range of systems approaches and how to use them with this innovative overview.Leaders and managers face increasing complexity and uncertainty because technical, organizational, socio-cultural, political, and environmental issues have become intensely interconnected. Systems thinking is recognized as the essential competence for managing complexity. As the demand for systems thinking grows, however, the fragmentation of the field into different m...

He played by their rules. The system didn't care.Carter is a 6'7", 300-pound college football player with a gentle spirit and a relentless drive to succeed. After four grueling years at Mansfield University, where the administration starved the football program and the trainers barely cared, he is ready to move on. With solid grades and a plan to enter the transfer portal, Carter is laser-focused on his future. Then he meets Lucretia Billingsley, an Ivy League soro...

Lance has loved Arthur for nearly a thousand years but has never had the courage to act on it—‘til now.After being away at college for a year, Lance Lotte returns to Avalon, Kentucky for the summer. Due to self-imposed isolation, he hasn’t seen anyone in months, but all that changes when Arthur – his closest friend, and the love of his life – shows up to his new job with a big toothy grin. The last time Lance saw Arthur, the two had not parted on the best of terms – with A...

In many murder mysteries, the call girl gets killed. This novella turns that tired troupe on its head. A skilled and versatile sex worker learns that one of her clients, a prominent businessman, was brutally murdered just hours after their last date. With her unique access to the upper echelon of Washington D.C. society, she embarks on an investigation that leads to a shocking discovery. Glendall C. Jackson III, an award-winning non-fiction writer, creates a vivid portrait of high-end sex ...

Maya Rivera never expected her new job as the Fire Chief’s assistant to come with so many challenges — or that her biggest challenge would be resisting her stoic, undeniably attractive boss. Captain Alex Cole has a strict no-dating policy, and Maya knows better than to cross that line. Yet every shared glance, every accidental touch, ignites a fire that’s impossible to ignore.Alex Cole has dedicated his life to his team, leading with unwavering discipline and setting boundaries to k...

Elias Voss is fifty-eight, a former financial-fraud examiner who spent three decades reading ledgers for the lie hidden at the bottom of the page — until an AI system called ARGUS did his job faster and the firm let him go. After a harrowing winter (the events of Thirty Years of Tuesdays and The Room Above the Flowers), he has built something out of the wreckage: a free Saturday clinic in a donated room above a flower wholesaler, where he teaches ordinary...

On a Wednesday at 6:47 AM, a transport van arrives at Renée Hartwell’s apartment in Detroit and takes her away on the authority of a court order signed the previous afternoon by a judge no one in her family has ever heard of. The order is supported by an algorithmic score of seventy-three out of one hundred, generated by a vendor whose name has appeared on no one’s lease, no one’s prescription bottle, no one’s tax return.Three days later, her older sister Cynthia — sixty-eight, ret...

Seven months after the election, a box of complaints nobody wanted lands on Lori Buchanan’s desk.A ballot-paper delivery that ran four hours late. A traffic light that stayed stupid all afternoon. A surge price that tripled outside a hospital. Three counties, three states, no connection—each with a complete, boring, innocent explanation. Every honest person involved would swear nothing happened.They’d be telling the truth. That’s the problem.Lori is...

COMMUNICATION HELP FOR COUPLES!Feeling like you are not on the same page with your partner lately? We all experience not being able to communicate how we feel in a relationship at times! You can get through it! This book is full of insight into relationships and communication that can help couples fix daily issues like non-communication and fighting in marriages! You deserve a loving relationship full of meaningful communication and memories! Grab your copy today!

Sirens at 2 a.m. hit differently when you've already lost someone to the job. These five firefighters know that weight, and they carry it into every shift, every burning building, every call that might not end clean.Each story follows a man built by heat, loss, and the kind of duty that doesn't clock out. They run toward the chaos. That part they can handle. What they can't always handle is what waits for them on the other side of it - a woman who gets under their skin in ways the ...

Featuring more than 525 paintings in Robert C. Jackson's iconic style of realism with a slyly irreverent twist, this beautiful book thoughtfully covers his midcareer works. Many of his signature themes are recognizable but now treated more deeply, the compelling nature of his art is intensified, and larger canvases prevail.Known especially for his realistic still-life paintings featuring objects such as soda crates, balloon dogs, and foods, Jackson creates playful, exuberant art tha...

"Albie is a little pup who loves to learn and play; he would like to help you with the Alphabet today!"Albie's Adventure Through the Alphabet is an entertaining read for beginner-readers, preschoolers, and those in kindergarten. Young children will love to follow along as Albie, an adorable and loveable puppy, finds joy in the animals and bugs he encounters, the people he meets, and the places he visits on his daily adventures. Follow Albie as he ...