Download or read book Adaptive Leadership The Heifetz Collection 3 Items written by Ronald A. Heifetz and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of constant change, adaptive leadership is critical. This Harvard Business Review collection brings together the seminal ideas on how to adapt and thrive in challenging environments, from leading thinkers on the topic—most notably Ronald A. Heifetz of the Harvard Kennedy School and Cambridge Leadership Associates. The Heifetz Collection includes two classic books: Leadership on the Line, by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, and The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, by Heifetz, Linsky, and Alexander Grashow. Also included is the popular Harvard Business Review article, “Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis,” written by all three authors. Available together for the first time, this collection includes full digital editions of each work. Adaptive leadership is a practical framework for dealing with today’s mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty. It has been used by individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments worldwide. In a world of challenging environments, adaptive leadership serves as a guide to distinguishing the essential from the expendable, beginning the meaningful process of adaption, and changing the status quo. Ronald A. Heifetz is a cofounder of the international leadership and consulting practice Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is renowned worldwide for his innovative work on the practice and teaching of leadership. Marty Linsky is a cofounder of CLA and has taught at the Kennedy School for more than twenty-five years. Alexander Grashow is a Senior Advisor to CLA, having previously held the position of CEO.

Download or read book Funny How written by Alex Clayton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy appeals to the funny bone and engages our philosophical imagination. He suggests that since humor is about persuading an audience to laugh, it can be understood as a form of rhetoric. Through vivid, highly readable analyses of individual sketches, Clayton illustrates that Aristotle's three forms of appeal—logos, the appeal to reason; ethos, the appeal to communality; and pathos, the appeal to emotion—can form the basis for illuminating the inner workings of humor. Drawing on both popular and lesser-known examples from the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere—Monty Python's Flying Circus, Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, Airplane!, and Smack the Pony—Clayton reveals the techniques and resonances of humor.

Download or read book Allured written by MzSassytheAuthor and published by Amethyst Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Weeks is all he needs One weekend is all she needs A favor for a favor Nightclub owner Jacen Turner finds himself as Boston’s Most Eligible Bachelor Calendar feature. An event he has been looking forward to, but now has come at the most inconvenient time. Focused on finding a second location for his club, he also needs a date for the calendar events. Book Editor Chelsea Stone receives an invite to her estranged sister’s wedding. Dreading to go, she seeks the advice of her best friend, who prompts her to ask Jacen, her long-time secret crush, to accompany her. Jacen accepts Chelsea’s invitation to her sister’s wedding with her also agreeing to become his date for the calendar events. Assuming Chelsea is a safe choice, Jacen feels he is in no danger of her plotting to become the next Turner wife. However, Jacen begins to see Chelsea differently, and now thoughts of having a real relationship with her are more alluring than ever before.

Download or read book Legends of War written by C.A. Portnellus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1943 in Beaumont, Texas, and Barton Barre's life has just veered from a carefully planned path to fame and fortune. After a drunken night with friends, the recent college graduate is coerced into volunteering for the army. With fate and perhaps the legacy of the La Barre family curse hovering over him, Barton signs on for officers' training and begins serving in England. It is not long after D-Day when Barton finds himself in France, the same area his father once fought in during the summer of 1918. Intrigued by the contents of an earlier letter from his father, Bart searches to find the truths behind a family mystery. Meanwhile back home in America, the Barre family and Bart's pen pal, Elise Boulanger, spends their days fretting about him and attempting to survive the hardships of war rationing. Elise is torn by her devotion for Bart-a man she met only once-and a blossoming new romance. She and the Barre family have no idea that as Bart battles loneliness and worry amid the chaos of war, destiny waits to play a cruel joker card. Legends of War is the second book in the La Barre Family Saga-it is a compelling and heartfelt story of fractured families' lives both at home in America and on the battlefield in Europe during World War II.

Download or read book Early to Bed written by Zeena Green and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early to Bed unfolds against a cozy seaside town where the sudden interest in a proposed bike path throws the new intern at the nature preserve into a web of romance and danger. As she digs deeper into the controversy, she inadvertently puts her life in jeopardy as powerful people move behind the scenes to thwart her and her new romance seems doomed in the conflict.

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Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Constance O'Day-Flannery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the past. An angelic hero. A divine romance from the New York Times–bestselling author who “proves that love is timeless” (Nora Roberts). Working in the accounting department of a large soap manufacturer isn’t exactly where Casey O’Reilly saw her life as going. She had always pictured something more glamorous, more exciting. But, she never pictured something so exciting as time travel. A freak lightning strike near Sante Fe somehow sends Casey back to the year 1878. Thrown into vibrant yet unfamiliar past, Casey finds herself lost and alone. That is, until a mysterious man named Luke arrives, claiming to be a time traveler himself. He wants to guide Casey on her journey, even arranging for her to be the guest of an aristocratic Hispanic family. Will Casey be able to handle the shock of traveling back in time? Will she finally take control of her life and realize that love is staring her right in the face? In Heaven on Earth, Constance O’Day-Flannery, the original “Queen of Time Travel Romance,” shows readers that true love can lead us toward our destinies... even if those destinies are lifetimes apart.

Download or read book The Midwife s Longed For Baby written by Caroline Anderson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marriage worth fighting for Obstetrician Nick Jarvis and midwife Liv had the perfect marriage—until not conceiving the baby they ached for tore them apart. But separation has only compounded how much they need each other, and now they’re working together again, delivering babies every day! It could be their chance to rekindle their relationship, but only if they can rediscover the sheer joy of loving—the one thing that will make their marriage whole and give them the courage to try for a baby again.

Download or read book DJ Rising written by Love Maia and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thing I hear is music. The first thing I've always heard is music. Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music like oxygen. In between caring for his heroin-addicted mother, and keeping his scholarship at a fancy prep school, he dreams of becoming a professional DJ. When chance lands Marley his first real DJ job, his career as "DJ Ice" suddenly skyrockets. But when heart-rending disaster at home brings Marley crashing back down to earth, he is torn between obligation and following his dreams.

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Download or read book Harlequin Superromance May 2015 Box Set written by Kathleen O'Brien and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Superromance brings you four new novels for one great price, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes The Rancher's Dream by Kathleen O'Brien, One More Night by Jennifer McKenzie, Catching Her Rival by Lisa Dyson and Her Hawaiian Homecoming by USA TODAY bestselling author Cara Lockwood. Enjoy more story and more romance from Harlequin® Superromance with 4 new novels every month!

Download or read book Outfection written by Craig Stucko and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most powerful syndicates are hunting down a man only known as The Ghost. As they do their best to find him, the elusive Ghost takes on a more active role in changing the world and bringing life back to those lacking hope. John Thimes is harboring a family secret that is allowing him to defy the odds and allude capture while pulling people back from the brink. As he takes the battle to those who will do anything to maintain their empires, John journeys throughout the United States and eventually falls in love with the beautiful Emily Bronson while scaling mountain peaks, exploring caverns of ancient cultures and surviving perilous car chases through city streets. Nowhere is safe. While the FBI watches John, only time will tell if they will help or hinder his important mission to rescue humanity, before it is too late. In this action-packed tale, powers beyond comprehension bring together a man and woman who fall in love and then risk everything to save those who cannot be saved.

Download or read book Shadeborn written by Jason Craft and published by Supremacy Press. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new power is rising in Shreveport, escalating tensions between Shade and Illumin. Every Shade in the city feels this shift and works to carve out their own section in the new order. The Raven family unites against their growing enemies to prepare for the upcoming war. Still recovering from the wounds of betrayal, the Ravens wrestle with painful memories of their losses, set aside old feuds, and reforge their alliance with the Illumin. In the end, all may succumb to this powerful force that threatens the city. In the second installment of the Shadeskin Anthology, two authors interlace stories of ancient beings and their impact on the human race set against the backdrop of a Louisiana city.

Download or read book Sleigh Bells written by Judith Mccoy Miller and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The betrayal and embarrassment of a broken engagement is something Teddi Yorke can't bare to repeat. Not surprisingly, she is apprehensive when Captain Phillip Hamilton--whom she once cared about deeply--comes marching back into her life. Amid the Christmas celebrations at Fort Riley, Kansas, lies and deceit circulate, threatening to devastate the careers, reputations, and the future plans of residents on the military reservation. And, unfortunately, it appears Teddi will once again be confronted with the trickery of a man seeking only beauty and allure in the woman he will choose as a wife. Can hearts be changed in time to stop the web of deception? Can Teddi be convinced that she need not possess outward beauty to please the man God has chosen for her?

Download or read book Dancing Dirty written by Ryan Field and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1978, it's the middle of the disco era, and dancing is one of the hottest trends. But 18 year old Junior has never seen the inside of a gay bar or danced with another man. His mother and father think he's just shy about meeting girls and that he'll grow out of it. His little sister drives him insane with her constant invisible companion, a talking dog named Elmer. All Junior cares about is meeting the right man and falling in love. But when his parents buy a summer home in an exclusive resort community in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, his prospects of finding love don't look too promising. His first day there he meets an aggressive, abrasive young woman who isn't the least bit shy about letting him know she wants to get to know him better. And the more he ignores her, the more she chases after him. While his mother and father are enjoying all the amenities of the resort, and his sister is flirting with one of the waiters, Junior mopes around watching everyone else have fun. That is until he meets a handsome young dance instructor named Carlo who changes his life in ways he'd never dreamed were possible. From the minute Junior lays eyes on Carlo, he knows he's in love. And in order to prove his love, he's willing to make personal sacrifices that no one else has ever been willing to make for Carlo...

Download or read book Power of the Moon written by Tina Carreiro and published by Time and Tide Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by visions of death, and a past that holds her prisoner, Mia Starr never imagined her life could become even more complex. Untapped psychic powers spark to life, and her chosen solitary existence fills with creatures that shatter her safe reality. Now the very thing she fears the most is the one thing that will complete her in every way possible. Detective Cole Barnett has mastered the vampire within. It has earned him respect and a position with Sector 13, the hardest job a vampire can hold. When a beautiful mortal is thrown into his investigation, with powers able to subjugate vampires, she tests his restraint. Cole and Mia’s passion ignites, but Mia’s fear holds her back and she struggles to forget his touch and possessive kiss. What she doesn’t realize is the more she runs from him, the more excited he becomes, and the hunt is something he cannot resist.

Download or read book She Danced Anyway written by J.J. Ranson and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one thinks Elizabeth Alter can manage independent living, and even she questions a future of eating only toast. She watches friends test society’s boundaries, desperate for similar courage to push back. She loves dancing but the city’s harridans and preachers want promiscuous dancing, wild jazz, and skimpy dresses ended and send the police often. In 1920s New York City. Elizabeth works at the public library. She befriends co-worker James, to whom she introduces the delight of dancing. James imagines a traditional future, while Elizabeth dreams of dancing and living alone. After a violent altercation with her mother, Elizabeth flees to her grandmother. She meets George, a piano player, and embarks on a tumultuous flirtation. Caught in the crosshairs of society’s narrow expectations, will Elizabeth chase her dreams? Or will her own heart conspire against her?