Jon Smith: 47 books

Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. This Harvard Business Review collection brings together the ideas and research from Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, who argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead, from total quality to customer service...

This issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of four sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from four of todays top speculative fiction writers. S. Elliot Brandis' Bloom is an eerie magical realism tale of nature and grace... and sacrifice. Hank Garner's The Hereafter...

The advancement industry has experienced tremendous growth in breadth and depth over the last few decades. Driving this growth is the chief advancement officer; however, as a relatively new position on most college and university campuses, little is formally known about the role and the people who...

Hilda Miller is recently widowed and forced to raise her two year old daughter, Emily, alone. On a shopping trip she never notices the man with the tattoos following her down the aisles. She never notices him follow her home. But later on when he rapes and tortures her she is faced with...

In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams—such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility—and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development. The result is improved...

How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other political actors do what they do. Learning to think critically about power, institutions, and rules helps citizens engage constructively...

A Capacity Girl Short Story... Emily Miller, aka Capacity Girl, has come a long way since her stint in the Baltimore State Psychiatric Facility. She's had plastic surgery. She's started over. And thanks to the Guardian, aka Isaiah Bane of Bane Enterprises, she spends most of her time these...

An old man ponders his former life as god of the sky. But can he redress his greatest wrong? Or is it too late? A short tale of thoughtform and redemption. (Short Story)

Isaiah Bane is the last in a long line of ex-Shaolin monks, heir to the darkest, and most important, secret the world has ever known. It is a secret that was gleaned from the Necronomicon 900 years ago. It is a secret that has given Isaiah Bane superhuman powers. Now he is the midnight vigilante known...

A dying god regrets his evil deeds. Four college drop outs encounter a strange cryptid in the woods. A kleptomaniac gets more than she bargained for. A child's weird encounter with the world's first humanzee turns tragic. And a Lovecraftian Western forces the world's only protector to save the world...

Roland is a general in the armies of King George with a stunning record of successes. In fact he has only been defeated once and that was the one and only time he ever faced a wizard on the field. Now on the open plains to the west of Emeraldome, the kingdom's capital city, he finds himself...

Emily Miller is a girl with powers, special powers, the power to move objects with her mind. And the whole world knows about them. Well, at least now it does. Because everyone in the house is dead, she has no memory of what happened and the cops don't believe a word she says. Now she's been...

Daniel is captain of the guard in charge of the city's defenses and he has been at war with orcs his entire life. Now his lifelong experience as the city's greatest archer is about to be put to the test. The city of Northgate, the great capital of the West and home to the world's first experiement...

The Man On The Block: Charles was just a kid. He never planned on being killed by a master of the black arts. He didn't plan on being resurrected either, just so he could be killed over and over again. But sometimes that's just how it goes. So when Saori, who happens to be over four hundred years...