Video is how we do business and how you show up says a lot about you. You can be just as influential on camera as you are in person. But nothing about being present is automatic, especially on screen. Learn how professionals like yourself have adopted video and achieved real success. See what it means to create more connection and engagement across the lens. And discover what it takes to prepare, position, and punch up your professional video presence to have more confidence and credibilit...

Arun, the Indian student, Suniti's travelling partner, and radiating his trademark permanent smile, raises his hand. They wait for him to speak. I would firstly like to ask you, Mr Bull Longmore, what you think leadership is and what skills you think a leader needs?This is the story about seven flustered bushwalkers, trekking overland from Katoomba to Canberra, leaderless and lost, seven very different people united by the wish to just make it back home…alive.It could also ...

Canaries in the Sunshine is a collection of verse, mostly in sonnet form, that surveys the enigmatic world of radiant energy research. It explores the inventors, researchers and investigators into this field, their ideas and the inventions and seeks to find musicality in the names of the machines and even in the places where the researchers worked and lived.What is radiant energy? Some may be more familiar with the term 'free energy', though this has become a controversial term to ...

Pick up the Pearl is a collection of martial arts poems by a long term tai chi enthusiast. Noticing that those with a passion for tai chi and related self defence arts are so deeply involved in their subject, so immersed in their study, so in love with where their art is beckoning them, they often forget that others on the outside know little of what they are doing, of how rich it all is, so Pat McGowan decided to capture a few of these moments and experiences in verse form.You don...

Marco Gentolini wants to discover what he can about jade in Australia. It started after he visited the world’s biggest carving of a single piece of imported gem-quality green jade housed at the Buddhist Temple near Bendigo, where he was prompted to ask: is there any gem-quality jade in Australia? The experts say no. And no white jade either. But whisperings tell him otherwise. Quitting uni, dropping his girlfriend and leaving his lifelong mates behind, he takes to the road to find answers....

Shipton Kingsgate, 40, lives in Riverwood. He’s an electrical engineer, is divorced, has one son and a drinking problem he wants to be rid of. One day he attends a talk on jade. His serendipitous interest in the stone grows to become an obsession even as he is forced to learn to discern the true stuff from false.Shipton’s big day comes when he buys a major piece in Guangzhou, a carved white jade nine-dragon ink brush holder. He visits Harbie Throwley, resident jade expert, who appr...

What happened on Friday nights in the Sydney suburbs in the seventies? Read these stories about Campbell and his mates from Campbelltown, told in the style of The Adventures of Don Juan though with not so many heroes. Too many characters in these stories are preoccupied with getting out of it. If you weren’t out of it, you just weren’t there. That was the whole idea! Here is a set of stories that examines the powerful asking made by your average teenager in the suburbs back then, told lovi...

Anna Waters, 17, is a smart girl from a good home who has a passion for natural medicine. Inspired by a medieval miracle worker, she wants to bring the people of her town to healthier ways of living.Al Flanagan, 24, a smooth talking and super ambitious businessman who works for a multinational pharmaceutical company is not going to let some reckless young schoolgirl threaten his market share or career path. But how far will he go to protect his patch?We all wish every David...

Best described as a discontinuous novel, this is a story told in six parts. Each part is told in first person by a different member of the team in Canberra preparing a report on the international geopolitical crisis of the break up of the Russian Federation. Nev, team leader, is ex-army, with a fixation on language for its own sake, and not real good at politics as it's played in the public service. His number two, Vic, is an ambitious, career public servant who goes after what she wants. ...

Operation Golden Light (Principles of Taiyi Golden Light Practice) is a book about meditation. It is a fresh translation of a Chinese text known in the West as The Secret of the Golden Flower.This new translation focuses on the goal of returning to the essential light of Being- something achieved ironically by doing nothing. In this translation, the translator wanted to see the book through the eyes of the original author(s), avoiding much of the philosophical, psychological and re...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Latin american studies professors job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your applicati...

A story about seven flustered bushwalkers, trekking overland from Katoomba to Canberra, leaderless and lost, seven very different people united by the wish to just make it back home...alive. It could also be read as a handbook on the distinctly Australian art of how we do politics, how we lead and manage as members of a group with a common goal. In fact, if this story became a movie, it could very easily become that movie which screens on the eve of every national election, just to give us...