Middle Manager Micro-habits is a practical guide for busy managers who want to make a real difference without adding more to their already full plates. Instead of overwhelming strategies or lofty leadership theories, this book focuses on small, proven habits that can transform how you lead, motivate, and support your team.

Why do people experiencing severe, chronic workplace stress often report feeling detached, paranoid, and literally unable to see the "big picture"? The answer is not just a psychological metaphor; it is a terrifying, measurable biological reality triggered within the visual cortex. When the human body enters a prolonged state of sympathetic nervous system arousal (fight-or-flight), the brain radically alters how the eyes function. To focus entirely on a perceived immediate threat, the brai...

"The hilarious story of one of St. Nick's alligators who was left behind after the toys were delivered one Christmas Eve" ( Foreword Reviews).Boudreau needs to get away. His children are hollering as they play with their new toys, and his wife has cleaned out their pocketbook after buying Christmas gifts and treats. As he drifts down the bayou on a moonlit night, Boudreau spies Pierre, one of St. Nicholas's alligators that has been left behind! Boudreau of...

Promoting health and preventing ill health is central to your role as a nursing associate. Written in clear language and full of examples from practice, this book introduces all the aspects of health promotion that you need to know. Covering essential topics such as health inequalities, mental health promotion and making sense of demographic data, and with a new expanded look at culture and communication, supporting mental health for Children and Young People and the impact of socio-econom...

The McCaffertys: SladeSlade McCafferty was a bachelor through and through—too busy raising hell to settle down. Case in point: fifteen years ago daredevil Slade had taken wild child Jamie Parsons’s innocence, and then had broken her heart. But Jamie is back in town, a lawyer, all confidence and polished professionalism. And seeing her again is setting off a tidal wave of emotions Slade thought he’d dammed up ages ago. Back then, as now, there’d been someth...

Slade McCafferty had thus far avoided being lassoed by a member of the opposite sex—the confirmed bachelor was too busy raising hell to settle down. Fifteen years ago daredevil Slade had taken wild child Jamie Parsons's innocence—and then broken her heart.But now Jamie was back in town, a lawyer, all confidence and polished professionalism. And seeing her again set off a tidal wave of emotions Slade thought he'd dammed up ages ago. What had happened between them was ancient history...

This volume highlights problems from a range of biological and medical applications that can be interpreted as questions about system behavior or control. Topics include drug resistance in cancer and malaria, biological fluid dynamics, auto-regulation in the kidney, anti-coagulation therapy, evolutionary diversification and photo-transduction. Mathematical techniques used to describe and investigate these biological and medical problems include ordinary, partial and stochastic differentiat...

First published in 2004, a fan-favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson.Was hiding the identity of her child's father worthrisking her life? Randi McCafferty seemed to believeso, and investigator Kurt Striker was hell-bent onchanging her mind. Hired by her well-meaning butoverbearing brothers to keep Randi and her son safe, Kurt knew the only way to eliminate the danger wasto reveal Randi's darkest secret…any way he could.But in uncovering he...

Would you make a deal with a big, grumpy troll?Trolls belong lurking under bridges, not in the arms of beautiful human women. That's what Hisondine tells me. He's not fooling me, though. I see the way he looks at me. I know the way he touches me. He's huge and muscled and hard as stone. But that's not the only thing about him that makes me feel safe. He treats me like I'm precious. I've been a companion to plenty of monsters, but I've never met one who makes me fee...

I might be the orc's mail-order bride, but I'll be the one giving the orders around here!Desperate and on the run from my arranged marriage to Bratva boss, Dmitri, I accept an offer to be a lonely orc's mail-order bride. Now I'm alone in a foreign country and engaged to a monster, but that is better than the alternative. I just have to pretend long enough to get my green card and make my escape.Only my new husband, Erik, makes me feel heard and cared for. H...

Would you make a deal to dominate the werewolf at full moon?Maurice is a lone wolf. Rejected, half-feral at full moon. Unable to control himself when he goes into heat.That's not what scares me.Even as a beast, he's a very good boy. All that need gets channeled into pleasing me. You see, we've met before: one night a year ago when I ran from the way he looked at me as if I was his whole world. As if he was mine.He can't be m...

The Black Sheep's Secret ChildA second chance with her son's secret father!Widow Savannah Caldwell faces the challenge of her life: begging Trent Caldwell-her former fling and late husband's brother-to save the family's ailing music business. That she's still attracted to Trent makes things hard; that Trent is her son's secret father makes things impossible!Trent is fiercely proud of making his own fortune, despite his controlling father. A...