DescriptionIn a dying country town lives a young man fighting the future, a young woman fighting the past, and a long-lost animal that can teach them both the art of survival. Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf is a shimmering, ultimately joyful novel, a story of journeying towards courage and freedom, of finding the will to live a life beyond expectation.
DescriptionThe childhood of Maggie and her brother, Tom, and their conflicts and growth in a narrow, tradition-bound society, lead to tragedy.
DescriptionThe childhoods of Maggie and her brother, Tom, and their conflicts and growth in a narrow, tradition-bound society lead to tragedy.
DescriptionOf all the competing objectives every company faces, three pairs stand out: profitability versus growth, the short term versus the long term, and the whole organization versus the units. In each case, progress on one front usually comes at the expense of progress on the other. The problem, the authors discovered, is not so much that managers don't recognize the tensions; those are all too familiar to anyone who has ever run a business. Rather, it is that managers frequently don't focus on the tension that matters most to their company. In this full-length article, Dominic Dodd and Ken Favaro describe how companies can select the right tension, what traps they may fall into when they focus on one side over the other, and how to escape these traps by managing to the bonds between objectives. From the December 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review .
DescriptionIn his number-one New York Times best seller, Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen reassures us that living life to our fullest potential is within our reach. He speaks of us enlarging our vision, realizing the power of our thoughts and words, and turning our adversaries into opportunities for growth. Now, in this devotional, Joel prepares us to embrace the life God intends for us to enjoy. Joel's 90 days of motivational thoughts, inspirational messages, and helpful Scripture verses will strengthen our faith in God, in others, and in ourselves. By applying these truths, we will be able to rise above our obstacles and live in health, abundance, and victory.
DescriptionAn author, international speaker, and personal-development trainer, this versatile authority is considered the leader in motivational coaching and personal growth. Subjects include failure as an event, success as a process, hope as an activator, how to do something now, and making radical changes in minute steps.
DescriptionWinning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant. In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves, spanning more than 100 years and 30 industries, they provide a systematic approach that every company can use to render rivals obsolete and unleash new demand: Reconstruct market boundaries Focus on the big picture Reach beyond existing demand Get the strategic sequence right Overcome organizational hurdles Build execution into strategy…
