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In a world of volatility and hyper-competition, management teams face gut-wrenching decisions about how to grow, where to diversify, and when to take on risk. As soon as a company establishes competitive advantage, its strategies are copied by competitors, requiring them to reinvent themselves once again. Momentum offers the secrets of high-growth companies and practical techniques that management teams can use to chart their course and seize the opportunities ahead.

The biggest challenge in process improvement and cultural transformation isn't identifying the problems. It's execution: implementing and sustaining the solutions. Blue-Collar Kaizen is a resource for anyone in any position who is, or will be, leading a team through process improvement and change. This book will help you take the lead in creating a meaningful, and sustainable kaizen culture one kaizen team at a time. Learn to engage, empower, and encourage your team for long term buy-in and sustained gains.

The reduction of suffering deserves special priority. Many ethical views support this claim, yet so far these have not been presented in a single place. Suffering-Focused Ethics provides the most comprehensive presentation of suffering-focused arguments and views to date, including a moral realist case for minimizing extreme suffering. The book then explores the all-important issue of how we can best reduce suffering in practice, and outlines a coherent and pragmatic path forward.

Her name is Frances Deegan. She wrote 21 stories and 35 articles under her own name for the science fiction pulps between 1944 and 1952, when few other women were selling to them at all. Yet you won't find her listed in any book about science fiction. In fact, in the years since her death, Frances Deegan has become the forgotten woman of the golden age of pulp science fiction, and none of her stories have ever been reprinted.

In 1875, 18-year-old would-be poet Jack Brennan runs away from home to avoid being pushed into the priesthood. Life soon looks rosy for Jack when he lands the teaching job he's always dreamed of and meets the love of his life, Eliza Hewlett. But his world is shattered when Mary Ellen, his landlord's daughter, falsely accuses him of fathering the child she is expecting. Jack and Eliza decide to escape to America. As they are about to sail, Jack is arrested and dragged from the ship, leaving Eliza alone en route to New York with only a few shillings in her pocket.

After Action Review (AAR) is a continuous improvement approach for reflecting on the work of a group or team. Learn how to apply both informal and formal AAR approaches. Along with a complete walk-through, the audiobook includes resources and materials you can use in your work right now. For example, the Group Insights template will help you distinguish "likes" from "wishes", and the Planning Template will show you how to optimize the time spent during the AAR.

Are your people excited to come to work? Are they passionate about your team's purpose? In Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees, leadership expert Lee J. Colan reveals the necessary steps to inspire and engage everyone on your team. By fully engaging your employees, you'll ignite stellar team performance and customer service.

Today, the buyer has the advantage over the seller. Most often, they are holding it in their hand. It’s a smart phone. They can learn everything about your product before they meet you. The major advantage you do still have is: you! This audiobook is filled with 30 short, three-page chapters providing unique insights that will ensure your advantage, not over the buyer but over your competition: those who are selling what you’re selling.

Are you looking for transformation in your life? Do you want better results? Do you want stronger relationships? In Defining Influence, Mack blends his personal growth journey with lessons on the principles he learned to apply effectively along the way.

The Alchemy of Prayer offers a step-by-step spiritual guide that puts the complex metaphysics of prayer taught in A Course in Miracles into everyday terms. If you're skeptical about the power of prayer or have little faith in the traditional Christian approach to prayer, this book is for you.

It's time for you to learn the most advanced skills for becoming a life coach in a basic fundamental way. Having the power to help someone overcome any challenge is very rewarding, and it makes you look at the world in a completely different way. Becoming a life coach puts you in a position of massive opportunities. I have put together a book that goes over everything you need to know to become a life coach and lifestyle strategist.

Have you ever wanted to write a horror story, but didn't know how to start or proceed? In this easy, step-by-step guide, HowExpert presents Randal Schaffer who is a horror fiction writer/enthusiast/fan who will walk you through the process of not just writing a compelling horror story, but writing fiction stories in general.

This book is a detailed manual of the e-cigarette. But along with hard facts, personal experiences also provide the stimulus for this publishing effort. I have been puffing cigarettes as long as I can remember, and it was inevitable that I would not only contract a sinus, but also go through a throat surgery. Undergoing the medical procedure, I was strictly warned not to smoke for a week. Since I had no other choice, I figured out that after 29 long years, the time had come for me to say goodbye to smoking.

Most jobs suck for many factors. Let me ask you: Have you ever worked at a company that had horrible management? The kind of manager that had no idea what was happening, yet he kept his job? The corporate world has become a common dumping ground for the "it wasn't me" businessperson. No one wants to be accountable for his or her actions anymore or the results - well, unless they're good results. This is the best book you'll listen to this year.

Do you sometimes feel stressed, anxious, lonely, and depressed? Are you always up in your head, constantly dwelling on the past, and worrying about the future? Do you want to live a more productive, stress-free, and happier life? If so, then you've come to the right place. With The Meditation Beginner's Bible, you will embark on an inner journey that will take you back to the state of peace, joy, and happiness you were born to inhabit.

By now, everyone knows that bad data extorts an enormous toll, adding huge (though often hidden) costs and making it more difficult to make good decisions and leverage advanced analyses. While the problems are pervasive and insidious, they are also solvable! As Tom Redman "the Data Doc" explains in Getting in Front on Data, the secret lies in getting the right people in the right roles to "get in front" of the management and social issues that lead to bad data in the first place.

You Are Not Who You Were: Leaving Behind Past Mistakes and Regrets and Moving Forward with Joy and Confidence is a convincing inward gander at ourselves, which compels us to recognize our flaws and be willing to make adjustments in every aspect of our lives. It was created to help us make progress.

Introducing Leland Hale, who will steal your heart - and all your money! Fraud, larceny, and murder are all in a day's work for this master interstellar confidence man. Leland thought the universe owed him a living - and he was collecting on the installment plan! He is about to descend on the planet Cardigan's Green with a planetary scam designed to make him rich at the population's expense. What this scoundrel doesn't know is that he is about to become a savior! And if he survives this misadventure, he has two more brilliant schemes in mind.

In today’s high stakes game of business, the players on the team are the competitive advantage for any organization. But, only if they are on the field instead of on the bench. Blue-Collar Leadership® & Teamwork provides a simple, yet powerful and unique, resource for individuals who want to increase their influence and make a high impact. It’s also a resource and tool for leaders, teams, and organizations, who are ready to engage the front line to improve the bottom line.

10 Foundational Elements of Intentional Transformation is a “how-to” road map. Transformation doesn’t just happen. We must make it happen. The principles I share throughout this book are principles I have personally applied to transform myself. After achieving success, I reflected on how it happened. The answers I discovered are what you will find in this audiobook. I will walk you through the foundational layers and teach you how they build upon each other as you lead yourself through personal transformation.