Guardian's Best Non-Fiction, 2019The Tablet's Highlights of 2019Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-plan offices. Acronyms. Diminishing job security. Hot desking. Pointless perks. Hackathons.If any of the above sound familiar, welcome to the modern economy. In this hilarious, but deadly serious book, bestselling author Dan Lyons looks at how the world of work has slowly...

Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock ...

What separates a group of talented individuals from a team that can win a world championship - or transforms an organization? Dan Lyons has spent a lifetime finding out.As a seven-time U.S. national team rower, Naval officer, Olympic-level coach, and thirty-year leadership consultant, Lyons has built high-performance teams across every arena of human endeavor. In A CHAMPION'S MINDSET; The Eight Secrets of Inspiration Leadership, he distills that experience into eight prove...

Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-plan offices. Acronyms. Diminishing job security. Hot desking. Pointless perks. Hackathons. If any of the above sound familiar, welcome to the modern economy. In this hilarious, but deadly serious audiobook, bestselling author Dan Lyons looks at how the world of work has slowly morphed from one of unions and steady career progression to a dystopia made of bean bags and unpaid internships. And that's the 'goo...

The reality of animal experimentation and its regulation in Britain have been hidden behind a curtain of secrecy since its emergence as a political controversy in the 1870s. Public debate and political science alike have been severely hampered by a profound lack of reliable information about the practice. In this remarkable study, Dan Lyons advances and applies policy network analysis to investigate the evolution of British animal research policy-making.

Dan Lyons resigned as dean of Gonzaga University in Spokane to become the free world’s leading advocate of winning the war in Vietnam, visiting seventeen times between 1963 and 1975. His five hundred daily radio and television broadcasts, plus his nationwide weekly columns and debates on college campuses, reached millions every week for twelve years. In this book, he presents a brilliant exposé of why we lost the war—and why and how we should have won.No one is more adept at puttin...

Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while?We live in a world that doesn’t just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When success is measured by how much attention we can attract, how long we can hold on to the mic, it’s no wonder that we feel compelled to spout endlessly on Twitter, to document every detail of our lives on Instagram, start that podcast, or lead that conference.And yet, oddly enough, the m...

Olivia reunited with someone she never expected at the wedding venue she worked at: her first love, Dominic. He reminded her of her reckless passion ten years ago. His hot skin, lips and… She hadn’t known anything about the act of making love at the time, so Dominic taught her everything. However, their relationship ended miserably. Even if he tells her that he loves her after all this time, there’s no way she can believe him. She knows that even in her times of weakness, she can’t give in...

Olivia reunited with someone she never expected at the wedding venue she worked at: her first love, Dominic. He reminded her of her reckless passion ten years ago. His hot skin, lips and… She hadn’t known anything about the act of making love at the time, so Dominic taught her everything. However, their relationship ended miserably. Even if he tells her that he loves her after all this time, there’s no way she can believe him. She knows that even in her times of weakness, she can’t give in...

Today, the ability to influence is one of the most marketable skills a manager can possess, and the ability to influence is vital for anyone who wants to accomplish their vision through others. It is especially required for anyone who has a worthwhile cause.Dan Mann has developed an effective roadmap that increases influence. He calls it ORBiT, an acronym that means Optimized Reality Behavior Training. Here it is in greater detail:Optimized: To carry out with maximum efficien...

**Prophecy and magic combine in The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons' powerful epic of imperial politics, dragons, gods and demons.Performed by Dan Bittner, Saskia Maarleveld and Lauren Fortgang.**You can have everything you want. If you sacrifice everything you believe . . .Kihrin D’Mon is a wanted man after killing the Emperor of Quur – and not in a good way. So he heads for Jorat, to find the fourth person named in prophesy, who will either save or damn th...

The hurts of people often spill over into the life of the congregation causing conflict.Your chair of finance is going through a nasty divorce and is mad at God. The mother of one of your Sunday School teachers is chronically ill. A major factory in your community has relocated, taking with it many of your church members’ jobs. Some losses in your own life remain painful and unresolved. And you wonder why the church council meetings are so rancorous and your church is mired in unpr...