Download or read book Facing Our Futures written by Nikolas Badminton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future. Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events. In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy. Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.

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Download or read book The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations written by Charles Harrington Elster and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.

Download or read book I Just Hope To Slowly Like You written by Angela G VanDenbark and published by Angela G VanDenbark. This book was released on with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is she! It was the "monkey's ass" that year that made him blush four times if he moved a little? Ha ha! Worn about even the shoes and couldn't find them, but now they've grabbed them without any effort! You may not know, how did he feel about the "deserving" thing you did that year, pay attention, Noticing so many years, every night he still "hates" to sleep, If she had gone to heaven with no way to go, and rushed to hell beside him, Don't blame him for using perverted revenge tricks on her. Didn't expect her to grow up so much, to become a mature woman, But still moving a little is blushing, making him "play" more and more addicted, But this wasn't enough, after all, she lacked an explanation for him, If she doesn't obediently "Pay" him, he won't let her go easily,

Download or read book The Bad Girl s Guide to Getting What You Want written by Cameron Tuttle and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious follow-up to the wildly popular Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road is the ultimate guide to getting itanything and everythingin Bad Girl style. Delayed gratification is a thing of the past with this inspired collection of tips and tricks for scoring love, fame, money, power, parking spaces, and other essentials. With sure-fire schemes for everything from free food and airline miles to insider lingo for paving pesky resume gaps, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want shows how to fake it fabulously. But spin and strategy are just the beginningthe truth can be an even more wicked weapon. Learn the secrets of men's hair, the landlord's Achilles' heel, and the maitre d's darkest desires, and the dream date, great apartment, and best table are yours! Racy bad-girl confessions and edgy illustrations make this indispensable volume even dishier. Ethics are overratedit's the results that count! Pack this sassy package in your purse and knowing what you want is as good as getting it.

Download or read book Study Thai Language by Aon written by Thamolwan Aon Uhni and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We do it every day, but talking to people with different values and cultures can sometime be mistrusting creating reservations, or skepticism. Don't get tricked by frustration brought onto yourself by your own entrapment. Express yourself with confidence at any occasion. Learn how to talk on the streets, at a cocktail party, at a job interview or giving a speech. Learning with Aon you will also learn the cultural aspects of presenting yourself with enthusiasm. Learn to empathize respecting Thai culture, the monarchy and yourself. Use a proper sense of humor and look at things from the listener's angle. ............................................................. How to overcome shyness theirs and yours. How to overcome worries over questions to avoid. How to concern yourself only with workable. How to use the true peace of mind communicating in Thai. How to get your message across effectively and overcome bloopers. How to improve fearlessly. ............................................................. All that and more by serving others you serve yourself.

Download or read book Bad Girls written by Jane Yolen and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Delilah to Cleopatra, from Anne Boleyn and (bloody) Queen Mary, to Calamity Jane, Typhoid Mary and more, the 26 notorious women analyzed here all have rotten reputations. But were these vixen really as wicked as they seemed?

Download or read book Bad Boys Need Love Too Gage written by Christa Tomlinson and published by Christa Tomlinson. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Bad Boys Make You Feel So Good? Everyone has had their experience with him. The Heartbreaker. The one with rips in his jeans and a lazy, devil may care smile on his mouth. The man who can make you do bad things that feel so good. For Joseph Naderi that man was Gage Mason. The second Joseph laid eyes on Gage he knew he was trouble, but something about the sexy mechanic drew him in. Maybe it was the dark eyes that studied Joseph like Gage wanted to know everything about him. Maybe it’s the way he made Joseph feel with the rough touch of his hands and a possessive grip on his hair when they kissed. Or maybe it’s the way Gage grows to need Joseph, even though he won’t admit it. For once in his life Joseph is taking a risk. Despite everything that tells him he shouldn’t, he’s taking a chance to be with his heartbreaker. Gage and Joseph’s story is book one in a complete three book series.

Download or read book Love Is a Four Letter Word written by Vikki VanSickle and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where love and friendship are concerned, if you don't move forward, you'll get left behind. Love: little word, big consequences. Clarissa has never given much thought to the word herself; she has other things to worry about. Her mother is still recovering from breast cancer, and until Clarissa hears that magical word "remission," she doesn't think she'll ever be able to relax. As a distraction, she and best friend Benji try out for a community production of The Wizard of Oz. But sadly only he makes the cut, leaving her disappointed and best-friendless, and forced to spend her time with other people, like boy-crazy Mattie. When Mattie becomes distracted by a new crush, and Clarissa's mother starts spending far too much time with her personal trainer, Clarissa wonders when she stopped being enough for all the people in her life. Enter Michael, who seems to be interested in more than just friendship. But is that what Clarissa wants?

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Download or read book Bad Day at Riverbend written by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one ever left. The day the stagecoach stood motionless in the center of town, Sheriff Ned Hardy knew something was terribly wrong. What was the mysterious substance on both coach and horses? It would not come off. Soon it was everywhere in the tidy little village. Something had to be done, and Sheriff Hardy aimed to do it.

Download or read book Good Chinese Wife written by Susan Blumberg-Kason and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Cai—and his culture—where not what she thought. In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect traditional "Chinese" wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. With keen insight and heart-wrenching candor, she confronts the hopes and hazards of intercultural marriage, including dismissing her own values and needs to save her relationship and protect her newborn son, Jake. But when Cai threatens to take Jake back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future. Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother's love—across any border.

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Download or read book Network World written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

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