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In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done , veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are... (more)

Blue

by Joyce Hostetter

Gr. 4-7. Thirteen-year-old Ann Fay always wanted to be just like her father, but when he gives her a pair of overalls before going off to fight Hitler, her feelings are mixed: "Wearing britches so I could take the place of my daddy wasn't the same as wearing them so I could climb trees." <...> Hostetter weaves her own North Carolina community's history into heartfelt fiction, marked by an agreeable,... (more)

10 Truths About Leadership: ... It's Not Just About Winning

10 Truths About Leadership: ... It's Not Just About Winning

by Pete Luongo

Many leaders remember those life-changing moments when it suddenly became crystal clear what had to be done to reach their organizations' goals. It wasn’t until Pete Luongo was faced with that one epiphany in his life, a difficult period that required him to rebalance life’s priorities and bring a new understanding to his work, that he recognized that all results are based upon behaviors appropriate to the... (more)

The Ethics of Computer Games

by Miguel Sicart

Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent portrayals of them in the mass media as training devices for teenage serial killers. In this first scholarly... (more)

The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business

The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business

by Ken Blanchard

Mega - bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated business leaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story that reveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur. In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager ), Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning, and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning, tell the inspiring story... (more)

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

by John C. Maxwell

What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and... (more)

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

by Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz

Last Sunday, Alexander's grandparents gave him a dollar -- and he was rich. There were so many things that he could do with all of that money! He could buy as much gum as he wanted, or even a walkie-talkie, if he saved enough. But somehow the money began to disappear... Readers of all ages will be delighted by this attractive new edition of Judith Viorst's beloved picture book.

QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

by John G. Miller

Who Moved My Cheese? showed readers how to adapt to change. Fish! helped raise flagging morale. Execution guided readers to overcome the inability to get things done. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question , already a phenomenon in its self-published edition, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability. The lack of personal accountability... (more)

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

How Successful People Become Even More Successful!

by Marshall Goldsmith

America’s most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They’re intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle... (more)

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Getting Things Done

The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen