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Missional Renaissance
Changing the Scorecard for the Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Reggie McNeal's bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the "missional movement," i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In that book he asked the tough questions...
Inside the Mind of BTK
The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of...
Brothers
26 Stories of Love and Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"The next best thing to not having a brother (as I do not) is to have Brothers."
—Gay Talese
Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire...
AC/DC
The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between...
The Wisdom of Failure
How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The "how-not-to" leadership book
There is a paradox in leadership: we can only succeed by knowing failure. Every accomplished leader knows there are minefields of failures that need to be navigated in order to succeed. Wouldn't it be great to have the insights to help you prevent...
by Jeffrey Cohn, Jay Moran
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Silver Medal Winner, Business and Leadership, 2012 Nautilus Book Awards
Almost 70% of Americans believe that we are suffering from a crisis of leadership, but rather than asking, why are leaders failing, we need to ask, "Why aren't we choosing better leaders?"
Ever wonder what...
The Power of Pause
How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A clear, actionable plan to fight frustration at work, make savvier decisions, and avoid costly mistakes when we're short on time, attention, and choices
One of the most frustrating dilemmas for working people today is how to be effective when we feel we don't have time or we're facing non-stop...
Up the Organization
How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management....
Life Entrepreneurs
Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"An inspirational and practical guide for anyone who wants to incorporate the dynamic skills of entrepreneurs into their own lives and work.
A new generation of "life entrepreneurs" is emerging: people who apply their vision, talents, creativity, and energy not only to their...
by John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's "owners," whether the owners are association...
Leading with Care
How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
In partnership with international relief agency CARE, an inspiring look at how women around the world are developing businesses and creating opportunity.
In this ground-breaking business book, management expert Mary Cantando examines the stories of women in the developing world who, with help...
Common Purpose
How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
From one of the most respected names in business and leadership, a rare look at the specifics of how great leaders achieve "common purpose" and success within their organizations.
What is common purpose? It is that rare, almost-palpable experience that happens when a leader coalesces...
The Trophy Kids Grow Up
How the Millennial Generation is Shaking Up the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
The first wave of the Millennial Generation—born between 1980 and 2001—is entering the work force, and employers are facing some of the biggest management challenges they’ve ever encountered. They are trying to integrate the most demanding and most coddled generation in history into a workplace...
by Sheri Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
This short form original eBook is an extension of Sheri's speaking engagements. It opens with an introduction to Sheri's key principles/rules of membership which will be expanded upon in much greater detail with examples in the full-length book publishing in January 2014.
This original, 10,000 word, short format piece focuses on the principle of Selling What Matters.