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Take One for the Team

Author : Thomas Slater

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 35,53 MB

Release : 2014-12-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1593094388

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Wisdom Jones's mother needs a kidney and the only donor is one of his old enemies, Highnoon, who offers the organ for the chance to kill Wisdom. Jones accepts the proposition, but issues a stipulation of his own: he wants one week to intervene in the lives of his trifling family members and steer them away from a pathway of destruction. Take One For The Team leaves Wisdom Jones matching wits with deadly adversaries in an attempt to free his family from the hand of destruction and deliver them into the land of righteousness.



HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

Author : Harvard Business Review

Publisher : Harvard Business Press

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 10,30 MB

Release : 2018-01-16

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1633694356

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The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, mental toughness, and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business. If you read nothing else on management lessons from the world of sports, read these 10 articles by athletes, coaches, and leadership experts. We've combed through our archive and selected the articles that will best help you drive performance. This book will inspire you to: Improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths Take care of your body for sustained mental performance Increase your confidence and manage your energy before an important event Turn a struggling team around Understand the limits of performance metrics Focus on long-term goals to overcome setbacks Understand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't work This collection of articles includes "Ferguson's Formula," by Anita Elberse with Sir Alex Ferguson; "Life's Work: An Interview with Greg Louganis"; "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; "The Tough Work of Turning a Team Around," by Bill Parcells; "How an Olympic Gold Medalist Learned to Perform Under Pressure: An Interview with Alex Gregory"; "Mental Preparation Secrets of Top Athletes, Entertainers, and Surgeons," an interview with Daniel McGinn by Sarah Green Carmichael; "SoulCycle's CEO on Sustaining Growth in a Faddish Industry," by Melanie Whelan; "Life's Work: An Interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"; "Major League Innovation," by Scott D. Anthony; "Looking Past Performance in Your Star Talent," by Mark de Rond, Adrian Moorhouse, and Matt Rogan; "Life's Work: An Interview with Mikhail Baryshnikov"; "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; "Life's Work: An Interview with Joe Girardi"; "Why There Is an I in Team," by Mark de Rond; "Life's Work: An Interview with Andre Agassi"; and "Why Sports Are a Terrible Metaphor for Business," by Bill Taylor.



Sissy Boyfriend

Author : Barbara Deloto

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 50 pages

File Size : 28,35 MB

Release : 2018-11-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781729676929

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A boy becomes a girl? A girlfriend decides that her fem, sissy boyfriend is that way for a reason and takes him on a journey into male feminization. She transforms him by crossdressing him, getting him a feminine haircut, manicured long nails, ear piercings, and makeup. The final result is a lovely, sexy, sensual girl, who knows what she truly is. Can this new girl's male ego give up her past paradigms to enter into a newer and better life? Will she see that her new feminized presentation can be a benefit for her, or will she fight it to the end? What will she do with the attention men want to give her? Will she lose her loving girlfriend to a real man, or will she find a man to love herself? Experience a world of discovery as a sissy boyfriend enters a new way of looking at things, and fights her old self, gaining love and a new life in this LGBT, bisexual romance, where gender-bending and feminization are a way of life and a source of joy. Experience the transformation in this hot and steamy, short-read, new adult, first-time romance. Look inside now!



Team Topologies

Author : Matthew Skelton

Publisher : IT Revolution

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 22,89 MB

Release : 2019-09-17

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1942788827

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Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.



Everyone Deserves a Great Manager

Author : Scott Jeffrey Miller

Publisher : Simon & Schuster

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 24,47 MB

Release : 2019-10-08

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1982112077

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***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.



The Discipline of Teams

Author : Jon R. Katzenbach

Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press

Page : 71 pages

File Size : 35,79 MB

Release : 2009-01-08

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1633691039

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In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams—such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility—and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development. The result is improved productivity and teams that can be counted on to deliver more than just the sum of their parts. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.



Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 25,60 MB

Release : 2015-07-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0309316855

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The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research, referred to as "team science." Scientific research is increasingly conducted by small teams and larger groups rather than individual investigators, but the challenges of collaboration can slow these teams' progress in achieving their scientific goals. How does a team-based approach work, and how can universities and research institutions support teams? Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science synthesizes and integrates the available research to provide guidance on assembling the science team; leadership, education and professional development for science teams and groups. It also examines institutional and organizational structures and policies to support science teams and identifies areas where further research is needed to help science teams and groups achieve their scientific and translational goals. This report offers major public policy recommendations for science research agencies and policymakers, as well as recommendations for individual scientists, disciplinary associations, and research universities. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science will be of interest to university research administrators, team science leaders, science faculty, and graduate and postdoctoral students.



The House of Enchanted Feminization

Author : Thomas Newgen

Publisher :

Page : 62 pages

File Size : 44,74 MB

Release : 2019-08-26

Category :

ISBN : 9781688760141

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A house that turns boys into girls? A college student is looking for a house to rent and comes across an unbelievable deal. According to the gorgeous girl vacating it, the place is enchanted and has a closet with women's clothing and accoutrements that can never be emptied. She also claims it turned her from a boy into a very special girl while she lived there. Convinced the renter is a bubble off, and there is no such thing as an enchanted house, plus the fact the deal is irresistible and the house and yard so perfect, Chris decides to rent the place and invites his roommate and best friend Bill to join him. Will the house turn out to be what the last renter said, or is it all a farce? Will Chris grow into a fully feminized special girl, or will he and Bill continue to live as two regular guys enjoying renting a knock-out house together? Immerse yourself in Chris's tale of growth, change, and finding love in this new-adult, LGBT, transgender, crossdressing, feminization, first-time, short-read romance.



Extreme Ownership

Author : Jocko Willink

Publisher : St. Martin's Press

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 10,56 MB

Release : 2017-11-21

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 125018472X

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An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields. Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.



Zombies! Evacuate the School!

Author : Sara Holbrook

Publisher : Wordsong

Page : 57 pages

File Size : 13,6 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1590788206

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Book Description

Presents a collection of more than forty poems about school.