How do you make innovation a core competency of your business? This book details a process to allow innovation to seep into your company's culture. It outlines the steps necessary to generate, collect, triage, escalate, and pilot ideas which are necessary to optimize a company's chance at success with new products, services, and processes. After explaining steps of the process in detail, Infectious Innovation outlines feedback mechanisms so business leaders can continually get better at ma...

Part lament, part provocative call-to-action, Democracy in Decline charts how democracy is being diluted and restricted in five of the world's oldest democracies - the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.James Allan targets four main, interconnected causes of decline - judicial activism, the transformation and growth of international law, the development of supranational organizations, and the presence of undemocratic elites. He presents a...

The following narrative is a record of my experiences during the late memorable war between China and Japan. Without going into any detailed account of my earlier life, some few facts concerning myself are probably necessary for the better understanding of the circumstances which led up to the events here presented. It will be obvious that I can make no claim to literary skill; I have simply written down my exact and unadorned remembrance of incidents which I witnessed and took part in. No...

Ever wondered about the paths of our ancestors? "Wetion" (2nd edn) appeals to those open to discovering ways to chart a future using lessons from the past.There’s a part of us all in Addy’s tale. Combining 19 chapters of interconnected short stories with ten scene play, each with its own original song, listeners experience words making history, alongside the drama, tragedies, romance, lessons, lore and more.Addy is the character connecting early human history to the present...

Three siblings, a pilot, university professor, and marijuana grow-operator, come together every Christmas. As always, their elderly parents present to them their thoughts in a recorded message. But this year's missive causes Frederick, Maria and Marcus to flinch, intense sentiments resurface. But before they can react, they are distracted by the sudden disappearance of the family's talkative parrot, Pock. Who has stolen him? Fingers are pointed, Gypsies are blamed. As the diversion subside...

Ever wondered about the paths of our ancestors? Wetion (2nd edn) appeals to those open to discovering ways to chart a future using lessons from the past.There’s a part of us all in Addy’s tale. Combining 19 chapters of interconnected short stories with ten scene play, each with its own original song, listeners experience words making history, alongside the drama, tragedies, romance, lessons, lore and more.Addy is the character connecting early human history to the ...

Three siblings, a pilot, university professor, and marijuana grow-operator, come together every Christmas. As always, their elderly parents present to them their thoughts in a recorded message. But this year's missive causes Frederick, Maria and Marcus to flinch, intense sentiments resurface. But before they can react, they are distracted by the sudden disappearance of the family's talkative parrot, Pock. Who has stolen him? Fingers are pointed, Gypsies are blamed. As the diversion subside...

'Rogue Employees: How Your Most Prized Asset Can Be Your Worst Liability' is a short, quick-read, kick-in-the-behind book designed to nudge into action and assist those tasked with identifying and rooting out fraud from within their own organizations. The book is laid out in such a way that the most common fraud types I have investigated are highlighted in each of the ten chapters in simple layman’s terms, using real cases as an example. No theory here, just simple stories to show and tell...

Soulmate? Have You Really Found the ‘One’? is a short researched narrative book dedicated to immediately unhinging the ridiculous notion that there is only one person born on this earth who is meant to be with you. In fact, there are many potentials out there, and I’m glad of it, because if there were indeed only one, what a sad state of affairs that would be. This book is meant to contradict the silly notion that, upon birth, there is one and only one special person who is designed for yo...

Are you dating a married woman/man? Know someone who is? Would you like to help a mistress get out of a love triangle? This book is designed to assist those caught up in an illicit affair with a married person and to help break the bond that keeps a mistress in a go-nowhere relationship. This researched, narrative book tells a four-year story of a male caught up in an illicit affair with a married woman. As opposed to the usual 'woman involved with a married man', the author attempts to sh...

Josh is a young man from an unfortunate background, his mother died at the age of ten and then he ended up in dreadfull fostercare home. As he got older he moves on and he starts to make a new life for himself and at twenty he leaves the fostercare and his past behind him, not long after he meets the love of his life and stays with her for Five happy years, Josh's is finally happy until it all gets ripped away from him on his twenty fith birthday the birthday he never forgets...

Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo": this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history.When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and time was running out . . .On July 20, 1969, Neil Arm...