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In High Ten: An Inspiring Story About Building Great Team Culture, Martin Rooney draws from his extensive experience developing top-level teams around the world to help leaders of all kinds foster and sustain winning cultures. This engaging parable shows you that every business, sports team, and family has a culture.

Patricia brings the latest scientific research to life with engaging stories about real people who illustrate that the road to success is paved with relationships that are built with authenticity and trust. She offers new ways of resolving age-old relationship issues with curiosity, humility, and greater self-awareness, and explains how to bridge compatibility gaps and navigate the space between others actions and your response.

Princess Shenette Zachary’s Reach Your Dreams Through Child Care is a powerful, well-thought-out, and insightful guide on ‘making it’ in the child care industry. It x-rayed, in depth, the conscious steps to building a child care empire.Without blandishment or compromise, she has unraveled the key to reaching your dreams through child care. Thanks to her firsthand experience, she meticulously broke each stage into sizable bits that can be easily comprehended by all - both beginners and professionals alike.

When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley.

Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a truly robust artificial intelligence. Taking inspiration from the human mind, professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis explain what we need to advance AI to the next level, and suggest that if we are wise along the way, we won't need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Rebooting AI provides a lucid, clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.

How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders - the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders describe the kind of leader that undercuts the organization's capacity and capability to create its future? This book, based on groundbreaking research, shows how senior leaders describe and develop leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale.

Discover how bridges are made! Young engineers and architects are introduced to the world of bridges, including the types of bridges, how they’re built, and key terms.

Introducing Raising Kids with Heart—a must-listen for parents who want to enhance their children's lives, making them happier, kinder, and more well-rounded. This book will show you the importance of putting yourself in your kids' shoes, teaching them how to think rather than what to think. By implementing the practical strategies outlined in this book, you will greatly influence your children's lives at school, in their friendships, and even later in life.

Building your own chicken coop could be the first step to a satisfying hobby farming that could lead to healthier living and save you some dollars at the grocery store. There are many possible ways to plan, configure, and build a chicken coop, and that is the primary burden of this audiobook: to teach you all you need to know as a beginner in this exciting endeavor.

Employees that don't take ownership of their work. Friction between departments. Inconsistent results. These are the top challenges that face most businesses today. These common issues create high turnover and force managers into crisis mode where they're consumed putting out daily fires. Over time, the very nature of the business changes and a new culture emerges; one shaped by the lowest level of acceptable behavior. Beyond the Hammer approaches these concerns in two highly engaging sections.

In this updated edition, the authors show you how zero trust lets you focus on building strong authentication, authorization, and encryption throughout, while providing compartmentalized access and better operational agility. You'll learn the architecture of a zero trust network, including how to build one using currently available technology.

Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations.

America has become a beautiful mosaic filled with many colors and ethnicities - but does your church reflect this change? Are you longing to be a cross-cultural leader who can guide the church into a multicolored world for the sake of the gospel? Best-selling author and pastor Dr. Derwin Gray calls all churches and their leaders to grow out of ignorance, classism, racism, and greed into a flourishing, vibrant, and grace-filled community of believers.

When you have a problem, where can you go for answers? The library! When Eliza and her friends join Ms. Gillian, the Specialist, on another Adventure in Makerspace, they watch the Space Needle go from idea to icon. Can they build a tower of their own? Join them to complete A Building Mission!

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto defines ableism as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people and helps listeners understand that ending discrimination begins with self-reflection. Tiffany Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been “othered” and rendered invisible.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for listeners to apply in their own organizations.

You might be surprised to know how many adults pick up their heads one day and ask themselves, “how did I end up here?” Merie Weismiller Wallace, a still photographer who has worked on some of Hollywood’s most interesting films, reveals things she learned and ideas she discovered that allowed her to create a uniquely wonderful life. It all started when Merie was failing in junior high, then imagined exactly what she would prefer—and through an odd combination of events and persistence, she found her dreams and aspirations coming true.

Real-Life Discipleship explains what should happen in the life of every Christian and in every small group so that the church becomes an army of believers dedicated to seeing the world saved. With the overriding goal to train disciples who know how to make more disciples, this book offers proven tools and strategies from Real Life Ministries, one of America’s fastest-growing churches. Discover what the Bible says about true and effective discipleship with these strategies and practices.

Social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular exercise. It reduces our risk of stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. It enhances our creativity and adds years to our life span. Yet many of us struggle to form strong and meaningful bonds—and the problem lies not with our personalities but with a series of cognitive biases that stop us from fulfilling our social potential. In The Laws of Connection, David Robson describes the psychological barriers that lead us to keep others at a distance and offers evidence-based strategies to overcome them.

When Before You Quit Your Job was written and published, it was a guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs. Today - with the job market in shambles, overseas outsourcing and high unemployment - it can be a path to the salvation so many are looking for: A way take control of their life and use their skills and talents to create their future. Before You Quit Your Job asks: Do you have a million-dollar idea? Are you afraid of failing? Are you tired of making other people rich? Are you sick of taking order from your boss? Are you tired of working hard and not getting ahead?