Download or read book Failure Is Not an Option written by Gene Kranz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket.

Download or read book Failure Is Not an Option written by David Rosell and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that there are endless books on how to accumulate wealth and how to get out of debt. However, few resources teach what to do once you have reached the top, even though you are faced with unique and potentially devastating risks as you begin the second half of your financial journey. This book was written to fill that gap. Through an unexpected melding of travel and even family stories coupled with financial survival tips, Failure Is Not an Option will lay out the eight fundamental risks every retiree faces and help you create more certainty in the uncertainty of retirement. In the process, it will help you achieve far greater financial peace of mind, since just like climbing mountain those who recognize and address these risks are most likely to safely and successfully complete their journey. Don Yaeger sums up the the book with his quote A 'Road Less Traveled' meets 'Think & Grow Rich'.

Download or read book Failure Is Not an Option written by Alan M. Blankstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Improvement that lasts: find out how with this masterful guide! Common Core requirements, merit-based pay, new teacher evaluations, project-based learning-21st century learning is a demanding and rapidly changing landscape. Advance from overwhelmed to empowered with the third edition of Alan M. Blankstein's Failure Is Not an Option®, used by more than 350,000 educators to create schools that sustain success for every student. New case studies and field-tested techniques uncover indispensable insights into successful school change. Develop high-performing leadership teams through Powerful engagement strategies and capacity-building questions to help staff and students leverage what's working and target measurable goals, New real-world examples to help stakeholders maintain collaborative cultures in the face of new teacher evaluations and merit pay, sustain successful RTI and Common Core initiatives, thrive in diverse settings, and promote community engagement, New tools, forms, and video segments on a companion website Use this handbook to discover what makes results-oriental, enduring school improvement models work! Book jacket.

Download or read book Why Nations Fail written by Daron Acemoglu and published by Currency. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

Download or read book Zero Fail written by Carol Leonnig and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work—the determinative work—in this field. . . . Terrifying.”—Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6—by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today—from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. By Barack Obama’s presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and alarming lapses in judgment: break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump’s arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret Service to rack up political and personal gains. To explore these problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that’s in desperate need of reform. “I will be forever grateful to them for risking their careers,” she writes, “not because they wanted to share tantalizing gossip about presidents and their families, but because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love.”

Download or read book Strategies in Failure Management written by Sebastian Kunert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting. It features contributions by experts from diverse fields, who share unique insights from their real-life experiences. Readers will find perspectives from leadership, project management, change management, innovation management, human resource management, counseling, restructuring, entrepreneurship and sports. Each chapter combines the latest empirical findings with relevant case studies, making for a unique book that offers a fascinating exploration of the largely unexplored area of setbacks, pitfalls, flops and disappointments in the business world.

Download or read book No Gain No Pain written by Franciene Marie Zimmer Ph.D and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO GAIN! NO PAIN! is an inspirational and insightful preparation for a lifetime of weight management success. Regardless of any diet you may try, this book is a MUST if you want to understand what could be blocking the progress of achieving your weight goals. Having a mindful approach is a necessary ingredient to your weight management strategy. The author takes you on a journey and walks you through the mindful process of recognizing barriers to your success. The author explains how self-love and self-talk are crucial to the weight management process. How you feel and what you say is the instruction your body listens to and follows, which ultimately directs your destiny. Learning new ways to say what you mean and understand how you feel will ultimately lead to new ways your body responds. Achieving your goals is a continuous process. Wearing the appropriate weight for your height is essential in matters of health and wellness. Obesity is becoming the norm in a society that promotes the disease. The cost of obesity is great and the health risks far out-weigh the benefits. Your health matters!!! YOU matter!!! As you learn to replace the word loss with the word management, the feeling of being deprived is suddenly eliminated. There is no failure and no pain. Suddenly the very process of reducing your weight becomes enjoyable and exciting because you are the creator of the process and the designer of the outcome. The inspiration messages at the beginning of each chapter and the food for thought at the end of each chapter will motivate you into decisive action. You have decided! You are on your way! You are in the process of successful weight management! It never ends. Whether you want to reduce or maintain, the process is continuous. This book will whet your appetite to learn more about yourself and how to overcome the very obstacles that block your success. The sooner you read it, the sooner you will learn new ways of talking to yourself, new ways of choosing, and new ways of adjusting to the new you that you are becoming every minute of your life. This is your life, designed by you, enjoy the journey. Dont weight!

Download or read book Realistic Decision Theory written by Paul Weirich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within traditional decision theory, common decision principles -- e.g. the principle to maximize utility -- generally invoke idealization; they govern ideal agents in ideal circumstances. In Realistic Decision Theory, Paul Weirch adds practicality to decision theory by formulating principles applying to nonideal agents in nonideal circumstances, such as real people coping with complex decisions. Bridging the gap between normative demands and psychological resources, Realistic Decision Theory is essential reading for theorists seeking precise normative decision principles that acknowledge the limits and difficulties of human decision-making.

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Download or read book Fail More Embrace Learn and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success written by Bill Wooditch and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***#4 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** ***PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER*** The business professional’s guide to building success out of failure Learning from our mistakes is the only way to make sure we don’t make the same ones twice. But what if you could use every failure—large and small—to actually create a successful business, career, and life? You can. Fail More provides the knowledge, insight, and tools to do just that. This one-of-a-kind guide teaches you how to take active, strategic measures to turn the sting of failure into the reward of growth. It reveals the setbacks that are both inevitable and valuable, and it delivers practical ways of quickly moving past self-judgment and -recrimination to: • Create large and small goals • Establish milestones for achieving them • Analyze data to determine what worked and what didn't • Make the necessary corrections to your method • Determine what you need and adjust accordingly • Evaluate your actions • Assess your progress while refining your game plan • Use failing as a core tool for motivation By embracing failure, not just “getting past it,” you will fly past your competition, whether you’re building a startup, advancing in your career, or improving your personal life. The most underrated tool for success is failure. Now, you have a pragmatic program for turning failure today into profits and growth tomorrow.

Download or read book The Scheme Programming Language fourth edition written by R. Kent Dybvig and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly updated and expanded edition brings this popular introductory text and reference up to date with the current Scheme standard, the Revised6 Report on Scheme. Scheme is a general-purpose programming language, descended from Algol and Lisp, widely used in computing education and research and a broad range of industrial applications. This thoroughly updated edition of The Scheme Programming Language provides an introduction to Scheme and a definitive reference for standard Scheme, presented in a clear and concise manner. Written for professionals and students with some prior programming experience, it begins by leading the programmer gently through the basics of Scheme and continues with an introduction to some of the more advanced features of the language. The fourth edition has been substantially revised and expanded to bring the content up to date with the current Scheme standard, the Revised6 Report on Scheme. All parts of the book were updated and three new chapters were added, covering the language's new library, exception handling, and record-definition features. The book offers three chapters of introductory material with numerous examples, eight chapters of reference material, and one chapter of extended examples and additional exercises. All of the examples can be entered directly from the keyboard into an interactive Scheme session. Answers to many of the exercises, a complete formal syntax of Scheme, and a summary of forms and procedures are provided in appendixes. The Scheme Programming Language is the only book available that serves both as an introductory text in a variety of courses and as an essential reference for Scheme programmers.

Download or read book It Won t Fail If it is Faith written by Samuel O. Joseph-Israel and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian author Samuel O. Joseph-Israel writes in his book It Won't Fail, if it is Faith! that faith is the cornerstone to reaching God's realm. The book examines the very core and fundamentals of new creation reality as it regards spiritual rebirth. Travel through the world of faith by exploring its many sides. The four ingredients of faith are NOW, SUBSTANCE, HOPE, and EVIDENCE. Learn how to use your evidence to keep your hope alive. God uses disbelievers to test our faith. The enemies of faith are unbelief, doubt, fear, anxiety, unforgiveness, other sins, the devil's faith, and dead faith. The Holy Spirit was the inspiration for the book. There is a realm called God's realm. It is heaven's atmosphere, conducive to only heaven's citizens, and accessible only through faith. So many have tried to gate crash into this realm, but it has always proven illusive. Many thought they were in the realm, until they realized they couldn't find God. Access to the spiritual realm is not through prayer, but through faith. Faith is the vehicle that drives your prayers to God. A prayer that disregards faith will not reach God. It is important to remember that you are also a spirit, and the spiritual realm is not tangible to the physical eye. In the same way, faith is also not tangible to the physical eye. Through faith, we can access the things freely given to us and can cause their manifestation. If that thing you are holding on to is faith in God, then don't drop it, hold on. For it won't fail you if it is faith! This book takes you through the world of faith by exploring its many sides, so redirect your focus and explore the pursuit of wisdom by understanding the concepts of big faith, small faith or little faith. The enemies of faith are unbelief, doubt, fear, anxiety, unforgiveness, other sins, the devil's faith, and dead faith. Samuel O. Joseph-Israel is the General Coordinator of the Dominion Armies of God Ministry and currently pastor the Faith City Church of the Ministry in Dallas, Texas, United States of America. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/SamuelOJosephIsrael Author's website: http: //dominionarmiesofgod.org and www.faithcity.org

Download or read book RBI Assistant Prelims 15 Practice Sets and Solved Papers Book for 2021 Exam with Latest Pattern and Detailed Explanation by Rama Publishers written by Rama and published by Rama Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Type - Practice Sets / Solved Papers About Exam: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central bank that regulates the entire banking in India. The bank plays an important part in the development strategy of the government of India. RBI Assistant is responsible for maintaining records/files, document verification, ensure financial stability, issue & circulate new currency, day-to-day transactions, for attending Government Treasury Work, replying of mails and more. Subjects Covered- English Language, Numerical Ability, Reasoning Ability Exam Patterns - There will be 100 questions from 3 sections. The time duration of RBI Assistant Prelims Exam is 60 minutes. There will be a negative marking of 0.25 marks for each incorrect answer, no deduction for unanswered questions. The questions will be of Objective type Except English Language, other sections will be in English and Hindi. Negative Marking- 0.25 Name of the Organization- Reserve Bank of India

Download or read book RBI Security Guard 15 Practice Sets and Solved Papers Book for 2021 Exam with Latest Pattern and Detailed Explanation by Rama Publishers written by Rama Publishers and published by Rama Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Type - Practice Sets / Solved Papers About Exam: The Reserve Bank of India conducts examinations for recruitment to various posts in the RBI. The RBI was established in 1935 and nationalized in 1949. Subjects Covered- Reasoning Ability, Numerical Aptitude, English Language Exam Patterns- The RBI Security Guard Exam consists of Two Stages. Stage 1 consists of an Online Computer Based Test for a total of 100 marks and Stage 2 is a Physical Test that is qualifying in nature. Candidates appearing for the Physical Test also need to produce a medical certificate. Stage 1 will be Objective Type (Multiple Choice Questions). Each question will carry one mark. There shall be no negative marking. No mark will be deducted for questions left unanswered. There shall be no sectional cut-off. Duration will be 80 minutes. Negative Marking- No Exam level- National Conducting body- Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Download or read book Case Reports in Cardiac Rhythmology 2022 written by Matteo Anselmino and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Topic aims to collect all the Case Reports submitted to the Cardiac Rhythmology section. All the Case Reports submitted to this collection will be personally assessed by the Specialty Chief Editor before the beginning of the peer-review process. Please make sure your article adheres to the following guidelines before submitting it.

Download or read book Why did Anticorruption Policy Fail written by Roby Arya Brata and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the cases of implementation failure of the Indonesian Anticorruption Law 1971 of the authoritarian New Order regime, and of the Anticorruption Law 1999 of the democratic Reform Order regime. It investigates to what extent and for what reasons the implementation of these Laws failed to attain the policy objectives of eradicating corruption in the public sector under the two different political systems. The book concludes that combating corruption in a developing country undergoing political transition from an authoritarian to a democratic political system is problematic and difficult. When corruption has systematically infected and distorted the institutional structures and processes of the government, in particular the law enforcement mechanisms, implementing anticorruption laws is expected to be suboptimal and subsequently fail. To overcome this problem, the factors contributing to the policy implementation failure must be eliminated.

Download or read book Moral Failure written by Lisa Tessman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can." In some cases, it is because two non-negotiable requirements conflict that one of them becomes impossible to satisfy, and yet remains binding. In other cases, performing a particular action may be non-negotiably required -- even if it is impossible -- because not performing the action is unthinkable. After offering both conceptual and empirical explanations of the experience of impossible moral requirements and the ensuing failures to fulfill them, Tessman considers what to make of such experience, and in particular, what role such experience has in the construction of value and of moral authority. According to the constructivist account that the book proposes, some moral requirements can be authoritative even when they are impossible to fulfill. Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness and to feminist care ethics.