Well Management

Inspired to extend a helping hand to ambitious women working in corporate America, a veteran executive offers honest, practical, slightly irreverent advice about navigating companies that are run and populated predominately by men: how to interpret their sometimes surprising behavior, avoid common mistakes, flourish with the good guys, deal with the bad guys, and nurture a wonderful, satisfying career in a non-traditional role.

Organizational cultures are as broad and diverse as the people who build them. However, certain aspects of corporate culture are essential for any business offering a product or service for sale. A service culture is one of them. The Service Culture Playbook challenges all owners and managers within any service industry and all instructors within schools of hospitality management to take a cold-blooded, honest look at your service standards and practices and make course corrections as needed so you can play to win!

In Improv Leadership, Stan L. Endicott and David A. Miller share five leadership competencies: story mining, precision praising, metaphor cementing, lobbing forward, and going north. IMPROV leaders apply these five competencies to initiate powerful conversations, create memorable moments, and craft personal coaching strategies that help people grow. Improv Leadership cultivates teams of people who love their work (and each other), who perform at a high level, and who stop the disruptive carousel of staff turnover.

The newly revised cover and audiobook edition of The Bliss Principle book takes an upbeat and easy approach to reducing the negative effects of stress and anxiety. Davis shows how easy stress-free living can be achieved through her Bliss Principle lifestyle approach.

What happens when you find out that Grandma's vase mistakenly sold at a yard sale is worth tens of thousands of dollars - and somebody else is about to cash in on it on Antiques Roadshow? Of course, you hop on a plane with your best friend and race off to Las Vegas to get Grandma's vase back! Filled with action and suspense, hunky blackjack dealers, divine drag queens, strange sex, and sex in strange places, plus a Federal agent or two, Divas Las Vegas puts the sin in Sin City.

Shane Allison has put together that rarest of anthologies- bedtime reading for gay couples. Filled with romance, passion, and lots of lust, Afternoon Pleasures is irresistibly erotic yet celebrates the coming together of souls as well as bodies. So lie back with the one you love or the one you lust after and enjoy. Clothing is optional.

Many a confident urban gay man in the Castro, West Hollywood, and Chelsea was once a wide-eyed newcomer. Every year thousands of young men arrive in these queer-friendly neighborhoods, seduced by city life and its sexual possibilities. In Where the Boys Are, Richard Labonté collects raunchy memoirs and stories about these newly arrived country boys. Here are stories of first times, initiations, bars, backrooms, dance clubs, and parties, reading (or misreading) the codes....

Do you believe leaders are born? In the early years of my career, I believed that I didn’t stand a chance of ever becoming a successful leader. This was largely because I had developed a belief that leaders were born and not made. Perhaps many of you have heard or come to believe this as well. I’m here to tell you, after 30 years in the Air Force, I have learned that nothing is further from the truth. In this audiobook I will share with you nine of the lessons I learned throughout my career.

Do you want to get more done, have more free time, and stop feeling so overwhelmed? We all do. But distractions stress us out, slow us down, and destroy our productivity. Discover how to rewire your brain to turn all that around and become more calm, healthy, focused, productive, and successful. The key to achieving more while doing less is relaxed concentration, the ability to focus on the task at hand until completion, and the clarity of mind to know what's worth doing in the first place.

People and organisations can either fail well or fail badly. If an incident is managed well, people and the organisation they are in will fail well. They will learn and adapt as a result of the failure, understand the fault lines in their processes and increase their resilience. Ultimately, they will grow more successful. However, people and organisations too often fail badly.

If you want your team to be well-oiled machine like the team Steve Jobs created for Apple, then keep reading! When I started out, I created a team that needed my constant attention. Nothing would get done without my leading and guidance which meant I was doing it. You can learn from my years of stress and pain. You can create a team that is excited about your vision and willing to do the work necessary to win. Even if you just take on the new mindset from this book, it will boost the productivity of the team you create. Your team can become a well-oiled machine!

The nurturing words gathered here offer the courage to move toward recovery and healing and to summon faith and grace in the midst of pain to anyone who is ill, as well as to their families and friends. Wise and compassionate, this uplifting volume encourages listeners to find solace in simplicity, take comfort in ritual, and welcome the healing touch of a loved one's warm embrace.

The Time Machine cemented author H.G. Wells as the father of modern science fiction. In it, the Time Traveller embarks on a staggering journey 800,000 years into the future, where he is propelled to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he encounters the highly evolved Eloi, as well as the brutish Morlocks who lurk beneath in tunnels. The Time Machine offers a harrowing and penetrating look into a proposed future for mankind, and illuminates its roots in the present.

This short audiobook condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less. It is also a true and accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.

Can prosperity economics be the answer you need? Typical financial advice - what you listen to and hear in the mainstream financial media - will get you typical results. But what if you want better-than-typical results? If your goal is wealth and prosperity, not just safety and security, then you want the financial advice wealthy and prosperous people follow. The mission of the Prosperity Economics Movement is to share exactly this - making it available not just to the wealthy, but anyone who truly seeks wealth.

Greg’s book The Good Soldier opens the Bible in a fresh and relevant new way and provides actionable steps that you can take to fight well, finish the race, and keep the faith. This is the leadership book that is redefining what it means to be a leader and a modern-day warrior.

This short book condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less . It is also a true and accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies. You can trust that what I'm telling you will improve your abilities to communicate and think and make you more productive, promotable, and happy.

15 Steps to Team Success is a must-listen for any contemporary business owner, team manager or group leader. Short, concise, and to-the-point, it is one of the most effective team building tools ever written. Features of this book include learning how to: improve teamwork, facilitate productivity, build trust, increase revenues and boost morale - no matter the size of your team or company. You will see results almost immediately.

Many aspects of our current society, such as mental health stigmas and the fast-paced nature of our lives, only exacerbate these issues. However, with the right mindset and a better understanding of what makes your brain tick, you can learn how to better navigate your mental pathways and strengthen your mind, just like you would strengthen your body. You can become mentally fit.