Based on the chart-topping Business Wars podcast, this book offers compelling stories and leadership lessons from history’s greatest business rivalries. Using Chinese military genius Sun Tzu’s strategies as a guide for modern business strategy, Brown examines why some companies triumph while others crumble.Business is a fight for survival. In business as in war, leaders match their wills in pursuit of opposing outcomes, they devise competitive strategies, ...

I still remember the first time I saw it happen with my own eyes. A project was three weeks behind schedule, and the engineering vice president announced that three new developers would be joining the team. Everyone in the room who had ever written production code before knew exactly what was coming. Six weeks later, the project was eight weeks behind where it needed to be. The vice president looked genuinely confused. He had done what anyone would do when a project needs to go faster. He ...

"A ROLLICKING READ ABOUT THE CORPORATE WORLD'S GREATEST RIVALRIES." ADAM GRANT, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Originals, and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeBased on the chart-topping BUSINESS WARS podcast, here are the stories and lessons from history's greatest business rivalries - retold as you've never heard them before. Some o...

This military history reveals the untold story of the United Kingdom's Royal and Merchant Navies during the Falkland's War.Soldiers and journalists alike wasted no time in memorializing the campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian invasion in April, 1982. With the overwhelming focus on the role of the Army, the vital contributions of the Royal and Merchant Navies have been largely overlooked. Yet no British military forces would have been the...

The tricks that experts and top professionals use to overcome difficult people.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Dealing with Difficult PeopleIncludes how to:• Understand the different types of troublemakers• Stay calm and firm when other people can’t• Deal with difficult bosses, direct reports, and colleagues• Create win-win scenarios• Develop productive relationships with people you don’t like

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan Lake or the 1812 Overture - to the lesser known pieces. David Brown enthusiastically and sensitively guides the reader through Tchaikovsky's music in the context of his life. His writing on the music is accessible and informative, both for the professional musician and the keen...

The negotiating secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Negotiating.Includes how to:• Set clear goals and limits• Understand your potential adversary or partner• Use and interpret body language• Deal with difficult people• Close brilliant deals

The ability to give a successful presentation is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by David Brown, a leading expert on presenting as both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to get your audience to do what you want them to do.The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optio...

The Deluxe Edition of Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown’s Commentary is a verse-by-verse account of the Bible with great scholarly insight and attention to the historic teachings of Orthodox Christianity. It has great attention to detail, bringing clarity to the full meaning and inferences of words, verses, and passages, offering an in-depth understanding of the Bible. While detailed, it is not overly technical making it one of the core books for ministers and laity alike. This four volume set ...

You know the feeling. Opening a file you wrote six months ago and having no idea what it does. Every change takes three times longer than it should. This decay is not inevitable—it is the result of accidental complexity.This book gives you a practical framework for writing code with purpose. It focuses on making your code readable, testable, and easy to change. You will learn to treat your codebase as a conversation with future developers, not just instructions for a machine.

Humanity's return to the Moon is far more than a repeat of Apollo. It is the beginning of a new era of exploration that will shape the future of space travel, permanent lunar settlements, and the first human missions to Mars.With the Artemis program, NASA and its international partners are developing groundbreaking technologies, commercial partnerships, and deep space capabilities that will redefine what is possible beyond Earth. Every mission is building the foundation for humanit...

The Pentateuch, the name by which the first five books of the Bible are designated, is derived from two Greek words, pente, "five," and teuchos, a "volume," thus signifying the fivefold volume. Originally these books formed one continuous work, as in the Hebrew manuscripts they are still connected in one unbroken roll. At what time they were divided into five portions, each having a separate title, is not known, but it is certain that the distinction dates at or before ...