From executives complaining that their teams don’t contribute ideas to employees giving up because their input isn’t valued--company culture is the culprit. Courageous Cultures provides a road map to build a high-performance, high-engagement culture around sharing ideas, solving problems, and rewarding contributions from all levels.Many leaders are convinced they have an open environment that encourages employees to speak up and are shocked when they learn...

An essential guide to master any workplace conflict with confidence and ease, have less drama, better results, and thrive at work.In many workplaces today, workplace conflict is an escalating issue. The shift to remote work and hybrid teams has left many people longing for deeper human connection. On top of this, add a younger generation clamoring for more feedback and impatient for change, steady advances in technology that can feel threatening to job security, or...

When a mysterious SOS echoes across the Strait of Malacca in 1947, the crew of the SS Silver Star discovers a ghost ship whose entire complement is frozen in terror-lifeless bodies twisted as if facing an unspeakable evil. The lone clue: a chilling Morse transmission... "The lid has been opened."As a modern-day researcher follows this trail of forgotten telegrams, lost manifests, and classified dossiers, he uncovers a secret stretching back much further than the O...

SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2012. It provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on...

Central America, though affected for decades by profound socioeconomic transformations, has been more or less quiescent politically. The sudden eruption of revolutionary turmoil in the region, as seen in recent events in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, has shattered the political status quo and cast Central America into the U.S. foreign poli

SQL Server T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server. This edition has been lightly updated for SQL Server 2014 and provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, create in-memory tables and stored procedures, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution for...

To succeed in today’s hypercompetitive economy, managers must master creating a productive work environment for employees while still making numbers.Tense, overextended workplaces force managers to choose between results and relationships. Executives set aggressive goals, so managers drive their teams to deliver, resulting in burnout. Or, employees seek connection and support, so managers focus on relationships and fail to make the numbers. However, managers need t...

What if the world's most terrifying maritime mystery wasn't a legend—but the beginning of something far older and far more dangerous?Do Not Open by David Dye, expertly narrated by Allen Donnelly, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a gripping supernatural historical thriller that masterfully blends historical fiction, paranormal suspense, World War mysteries, ancient myt...

What if the world's most terrifying maritime mystery wasn't a legend—but the beginning of something far older and far more dangerous?Do Not Open by David Dye, expertly narrated by Allen Donnelly, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a gripping supernatural historical thriller that masterfully blends historical fiction, paranormal suspense, World War mysteries, ancient myt...

From executives complaining that their teams don’t contribute ideas to employees giving up because their input isn’t valued--company culture is the culprit. Courageous Cultures provides a road map to build a high-performance, high-engagement culture around sharing ideas, solving problems, and rewarding contributions from all levels.Many leaders are convinced they have an open environment that encourages employees to speak up and are shocked when they learn...

Read by the authors.To succeed in today’s hypercompetitive economy, managers must master creating a productive work environment for employees while still making numbers.Tense, overextended workplaces force managers to choose between results and relationships. Executives set aggressive goals, so managers drive their teams to deliver, resulting in burnout. Or, employees seek connection and support, so managers focus on relationships and fail ...

Read by the authors.An essential guide to master any workplace conflict with confidence and ease, have less drama, better results, and thrive at work.In many workplaces today, workplace conflict is an escalating issue. The shift to remote work and hybrid teams has left many people longing for deeper human connection. On top of this, add a younger generation clamoring for more feedback and impatient for change, steady advances in technology ...