Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges—challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today's leaders need a set of tools specifically designed to harness the power of collaborative networks.Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You'll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules t...

Ten skills for agile leadershipComplex challenges are all around us—they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today’s leaders need to understand how to design and guide complex collaborations to accelerate innovation and change—collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations.Strategic Doing introduces you to t...

The never-before-published memoir of Major-General Sir Edward Morrison, a true Canadian hero of the First World War.The First World War marked a turning point in Canadian history and in Canada’s self-identification as a nation. Yet in memorializing the iconic events and battles of the War, certain key individuals who participated have been lost in our collective memory. One of those individuals is Major-General Sir Edward Morrison.Morrison was inst...

You only get to make this decision once, and if you get it wrong, it could cost you over $200,000 in lifetime income. If you're approaching retirement, already retired, or helping aging parents navigate Social Security and Medicare, this is the retirement planning book you need before you file another form or make another claim.The Social Security & Medicare Money Guide is the retirement income and Medicare planning guide readers are searching for in 2026, a clear, no-jargon roadma...

From Struggle to Glory is an inspiring tale of perseverance, faith, and triumph. Born into extreme poverty in a remote Ghanaian village, Kofi faces relentless hardships from childhood to adolescence. With a carpenter father and a cleaner mother, he grows up with hunger, ridicule, and countless obstacles. However, his brilliant mind and unshakable determination set him apart.Amidst his struggles, a life-changing dream leads him to a divine revelation—one that reshap...

Thankfully, most organizations do well at managing what they know how to do. The trouble is that the challenges defining this century - climate, healthcare, AI, income inequality, misinformation, unaffordable housing, and more - are "we don't know how" problems that lie beyond the reach of good management.The Fundamentals of Adaptive Practice lays out the rigorous, proven principles, disciplines, and methods for taking on exactly those challenges. Drawing on the authors' d...

Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior. Frustrated by the laws that kept African-Americans separate but very much unequal to whites, she had questions: Why couldn't she drink from a whites only fountain? Why couldn't she feel safe beyond home-or even within the walls of church? Adults all told her: Hold your tongue. Be patient. Know your place. But Beals had the heart of a fighter-and the knowledge that her true place was a free one. This memoir...

Young Neil deGrasse Tyson was starstruck when he first visited the sky theater at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He couldn't believe the crowded, glittering night sky at the planetarium was real—until a visit to the country years later revealed the impossible. That discovery was like rocket fuel for Neil's passion about space. His quest for knowledge took him from the roof of his apartment building to a science expedition in northwest Africa, to a summer astronomy camp beneath a ...

Teddy Johnson stars in this atmospheric six-part radio thrillerKorean War veteran and hip Londoner Steve Gardiner arrives in a small Scottish seaside resort, looking for his old friend Jimmy Morton. But he's picked the wrong time for a reunion. The sleepy town is being terrorised by a homicidal maniac dubbed 'the Kind Man', and panic stalks the streets.Stepping off the train after dark, Steve is almost lynched by a terrified crowd, and at the gloomy Morton ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors las...

A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really are up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back.

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The Paradise Mystery [Joseph Smith Fletcher] Helen Vardon's Confession,The Singing Bone{R. Austin Freem...