Tim Baker: 24 books
High Surf
The World's Most Inspiring Surfers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Inspiring stories from an eclectic cast of surfers 'tim Baker may well be the most brilliant and incisive surf writer working today, or on any givenday for the last twenty years.' worldprosurfers.com Leading surf journalist tim Baker has profiled the surfing world's most inspiring characters, encountered...
by Tim Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
On the Road meets Endless Summer as Tim Baker, bestselling author of Occy, High Surf and Bustin' Down the Door, embarks on the classic surfing road trip around Australia.
All surfers dream of shedding responsibilities and answering the siren's call of ocean swells. For
most, it is an ideal...
by Mark Occhilupo, Mick Fanning, Tim Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Two surfing legends in one book!
Occy is the magically talented child star who crashed and burned, then miraculous crawled from the wreckage to claim his destiny.
Mick is the ferociously determined, disciplined athlete, who overcame personal tragedy and devastating injury to pursue his...
State of Horror: New Jersey
State of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
WHAT IS YOUR STATE OF HORROR?The birth of a devil in the 18th century resonates in today’s world. A storm hits a small mountain town and the resident must evacuate, where will they go? Visit a zoo unlike any you have experienced. The sins of the past haunt the present in a once thriving industrial...
by Tim Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
2017 Shamus Award Finalist
If you took James Ellroy at his most imaginative and Oliver Stone at his most conspiratorial, and mixed them up in a supersized martini shaker, you would produce the vivid writing, explosive events, and irresistible entertainment of Fever City.
The story kicks...
Bringing the Human Being Back to Work
The 10 Performance and Development Conversations Leaders Must Have
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
For the past 100 years, we’ve progressively dehumanized our places of work. We’ve learned to systemize, homogenize, and mechanize – all in the quest for greater efficiency and cost-saving. We’ve forgotten that the human being is the centre of work.
This book highlights the ten essential...
The Rip Curl Story
50 years of perfect surf, international business, wild characters and the search for the ultimate ride
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The Rip Curl Story is the remarkable tale of two young surfers - Doug 'Claw' Warbrick and Brian Singer - who pursued an audacious dream to make a living in pursuit of the ultimate ride.
The brand they built, Rip Curl, not only satisfied their own surf wanderlust, but also inspired countless...
Performance Management for Agile Organizations
Overthrowing The Eight Management Myths That Hold Businesses Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Baker takes on eight dysfunctional people management practices originating from the scientific management and offers practical solutions for changing these practices and increasing organizational agility.
Agile is the new black. Every business now has to be adaptive, nimble and ready to pivot...
The End of the Job Description
Shifting From a Job-Focus To a Performance-Focus
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
'That's not my job.' If you don't want your employees to say that, why do you start your relationship by giving them a narrow task and competency focused description of their job? We need people to fulfil many different roles at work yes the need to do their job, but they also need to contribute positive...
by Mick Fanning, Tim Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
An inspirational tale of overcoming the odds to become world champ
Mick Fanning might only be 28 but he already knows how a lot of things feel that most of us never will. How does it feel to lose a brother? Win a world title? Rip your hamstring muscle clean off the bone? Weave through a zippering...
by Mark Occhilupo, Tim Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In his own words, Occy tells the complete, remarkable story of his spectacular rise, terrifying fall and miraculous rebirth.
'Occy was always a missile going hyperspeed, about to blow up at any moment. - it's true of so many highly intelligent or gifted people . . . All of his passion was put...
The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies
Creating Wealth from a New Employment Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A must-have in any manager's library. — Sergio Carlo Maresca, author of BREAKAWAY!
If you think you are doing it right, think again and read this book. — Dr Roxanne Zolin, QUT
An excellent read for organisation specialists. — Hermias C. Hendrikse, Director of Organisation Effectiveness,...
Conversations at Work
Promoting a Culture of Conversation in the Changing Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Organizations are about conversations. For any organization to achieve its goals, people need to interact and those interactions require dialogue and conversation. Yet, thanks to technology, we seem to be having fewer genuine conversations. This book seeks to change this, through "how to skills" and wider cultural change advice.
Creative Bible Lessons in Psalms
Raw Faith and Rich Praise---12 Lessons from Israel's National Songbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Let your students experience the raw faith and rich praise in Israel’s national songbook--the Psalms.The 12 sessions in Creative Bible Lessons in Psalms (the latest in Youth Specialties’ Creative Bible Lessons series) unwrap this Old Testament book so your students understand the passion, anguish,...
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