One of the great values of Seven Disciplines of a Leader is its reliance on a comprehensive and integrated set of guiding principles that are easy to understand and apply at all levels of the organization. Jeff Wolf, recognized as one of the country's top thought leaders in leadership development, managerial effectiveness, and organization productivity, has helped hundreds of leaders dramatically improve their performance using the same techniques contained in the book. Seven Disciplines o...

There's a thin blue line between fact and fiction. Blue Lies tells the story left out by the media. Domestic terrorism, denial of constitutional rights, wrongful prosecutions, stripping away qualified immunity, disarming and defunding police, all designed to weaken America's cops while emboldening the lawless. Radicals have declared war on American Justice. They hold public office as city council members, mayors, county prosecutors, state legislators, governors, members of congress and eve...

Recognize, develop, and embody great leadershipSeven Disciplines of A Leader is a comprehensive manual for building better leaders. Author and executive coach Jeff Wolf is a respected authority on leadership, and his strategies and inspiration have fostered dramatic growth in some of the nation's top companies. In this book, he shares the secrets of great leadership to help readers align professional development and exemplify these traits themselves. Each ...

Adolescent Dating Violence: Theory, Research, and Prevention summarizes the course, risk/protective factors, consequences and treatment/prevention of adolescent dating violence. Dating violence is defined as physical, sexual, psychological, and cyber behavior meant to cause emotional, physical, or social harm to a current or former intimate partner. The book discusses research design and measurement in the field, focuses on the recent influx of longitudinal studies, and examines prevention...

Love triumphs in As You Like It, Shakespeare’s joyous comic adventure! Rosalind, arguably Shakespeare’s greatest female character, is banished from court and follows her exiled father into the untamed Forest of Arden. Disguised as a man for safety, Rosalind’s great wit and good nature show through her male trappings as she engages with fools and philosophers adrift in the woods, and ultimately falls in love.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Lynn Collins ...

MORE STORIES FROM THE CROSSING GENRES ANTHOLOGY COLLECTIONBorn from the highly successful Tales of Monstrosity Kickstarter...comes the Lost Tales: Beyond Monstrosity anthology. Crafted by the same talented voices that brought you Tales of Monstrosity, this anthology goes beyond mere monsters. Its nine tales meld genres, conjuring a blend of fear, wonder, and amusement. Monsters, ghosts, aliens, and spaceships...Lost Tales promises to captivate an...

This fully dramatized audio adventure with sound effects and music is a follow-up toThe New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 1, which was a finalist for the prestigious Audie® Award in 2009.Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as "minor," and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman. Marty's lady friend, Helen Venn, tu...

Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage time-in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution-represent the most powerful new sources of competitive advantage.With many detailed examples from companie...

In this first comprehensive departure from the time-and-motion dictums of Frederick Taylor's Shop Management that have influenced management practices for most of this century, Kiyoshi Suzaki offers a framework for successfully conducting business at its most crucial point-the shop floor. Drawing on the principles of holistic management, where organizational boundaries are smashed and co-destiny is created, Suzaki demonstrates how modern shop floor management techniques -- focusin...

Today, tens of thousands of companies are struggling to become "time-based" competitors, inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and a myriad of others who have cut production time in half-or more. But until now, the literature has focused on the theory and philosophy of fast cycle time, rather than the tools and techniques for implementing it. Here, for the first time, Christopher Meyer, an internationally recognized expert in cycle time reduction, presents ...

Sponsor SUCCESS - The WHATs and HOWs for business improvement projects. A powerful and practical guide to delivering effective sponsorship of business improvement project. The trouble with Lean Six Sigma is that there is an awful lot written and discussed about the organisational deployment models, successes and failures, and how to run projects as a Green and Black Belt. But how do you sponsor a project? With sponsor SUCCESS, youll understand what you need to do to successfully sponsor a ...

Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms like Platts, Argus and ICIS, which are referenced every day by commodity traders and which influence billions of dollars of trade, are totally unfamiliar to consumers.The Price Reporters: A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks bri...