This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Unlock your inner speaker and deliver unforgettable speeches, no matter how nervous you feel today!Has stress kept you from pitching that incredible idea to your boss or potential investors?Does the idea of giving a toast to friends make you want to avoid get-togethers altogether?Delivering a speech can be nerve-wracking, especially when you don’t do it frequently. The pounding heart, trembling h...

Book SummaryMy desire and intent in writing this book is to capture in print and with photographs; glimpses of my younger years during the great depression and share it with my readers.Being born and raised on a farm in rural Mississippi I strive to share the good and bad times I experienced as a young lad in a time when we had lots of love for family, love and respect for God and Country but precious little financial resources.The book covers a span of time from my ...

This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with new ones.In their six-year, five-country study of seventy-sev...

The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas. Ideas Are Free sets out a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way companies are structured and operate. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder draw on their ten years...

Cosmic Rays is a two-part book that first elucidates the discovery, nature, and particles produced by cosmic rays. This part also looks into the primary cosmic radiation; radio waves from the galaxy; extensive air showers; origin of cosmic rays; and other cosmic radiations. Part 2 consists of reprinted papers involving cosmic rays. Papers 1 to 10 treat the nature of the radiation, arranged chronologically; in Papers 11 to 16 the scene moves away from the Earth.

In their much-anticipated sequel to the bestseller Ideas Are Free (over 50,000 copies sold), Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder explain that employee ideas are no longer a "nice-to-have" but rather the very lifeblood of competitiveness, culture, and strategy. Their new book shows how to align every part of the organization around generating and implementing ideas at the front line.

France's master comic playwright has a field day with the subjects of hypochondria and our blind obedience to doctors. Molière’s witty attack on the medical profession has more than a little resonance today. Translated by John Wood, adapted by Beth Milles.Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in December 1997.Directed by Beth MillesProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, sta...

**"Examples from all over the world make it fun to read . . . convincingly demonstrate[s] the power of incorporating frontline thinking into your organization." —Marshall Goldsmith, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of TriggersToo many organizations overlook, or even suppress, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation—and it's right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products...

What if the path to a meaningful life isn't about what happens to you, but how you respond?Learn to master your mindset when it matters most. The Stoic Habit offers a practical pathway to developing the strength of character needed to handle any of life's challenges with wisdom and purpose.For centuries, the greatest minds faced obstacles just like ours. From Marcus Aurelius's Meditations written amid war and plague, to Epictetus's teachin...

This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants efficient government. But most innovation efforts try to change the very nature of government-such as dismantling bureaucracy or privatizing services-and thus they usually fail.Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder accept government on its own terms and simply ask how some existing o...

In "Is it I? A Book for Every Man," Horatio Robinson Storer delves into the profound psychological landscape of masculinity, self-examination, and moral integrity. A blend of personal reflection and philosophical inquiry, the book employs a succinct yet impactful literary style, utilizing evocative language to engage the reader both emotionally and intellectually. Storer's context emerges from the intellectual climate of the late 19th century, marked by evolving societal norms and the incr...

This book shows how schools can--and must--develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Barringer shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning strengths, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those stud...