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  God is My Success - Transforming...

  Larry Julian

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  On the outside, many of today's businesspeople appear strong and in charge. On the inside, however, many struggle with five obstacles that deter them from the success God intended: pain, financial slavery, lack of confidence, busyness/distractions, and fear.GOD IS MY SUCCESS shows that your adversity holds the key to your destiny and to the accomplishment God planned for you. God doesn't promise a life free of adversity. He does, however, promise to be with you in your adversity. As you partner with God to overcome your obstacles, you'll discover that ultimately, God Himself is your success. In this remarkable and straightforward book, you'll:• Discover God's unique calling for your life• Integrate your faith into every facet of your work and life• Find clarity and direction in the midst of challenging circumstances• Apply a spiritual coaching process to overcome your toughest obstacles• Redefine success to experience more meaning and significance.User-friendly and inspirational, GOD IS MY SUCCESS offers unique insights and encouragement for transforming life's obstacles into personal destiny. Through compelling stories of leaders who've sought God's aid to overcome adversity, practical applications to help you immediately apply what you've learned, and discussion guides to connect you with God and others, you'll discover the God-ordained success you've been looking for.

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  Building the Future - Big...

  Susan Salter Reynolds, Amy C...

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  A case study of how an award-winning start-up used a large-scale collaboration to achieve a bold objective, and what it shows us about leadership.Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”That’s what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore large-scale systemic innovation that calls for “big teaming”: intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. This demands leadership combining an expansive vision with deliberative incremental action—not an easy balance.To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future we need, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of Living PlanIT. This award-winning “smart city” start-up was launched with a breathtakingly ambitious goal: creating a showcase high-tech city from scratch to pilot its software—quite literally setting out to build the future. This meant a joint effort spanning a truly disparate group of software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, construction companies, and technology corporations. By taking a close look at the work, norms, and values in each of these professional domains, we gain new insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging. And we get to know Living PlanIT’s leaders, following them and their partners through cycles of hope, exhaustion, disillusionment, pragmatism, and renewal. There are powerful lessons here for anyone, in any industry, seeking to drive audacious innovation.“Building the Future provides a rare inside look at how a start-up company takes on the world and copes with numerous challenges along the way. Go it alone or partner? Keep the bold goal or go for small wins? Seize other opportunities in technology or stick with the smart-cities plan? Edmondson and Reynolds present thought-provoking lessons for those who want to dream big and need big teaming to get the work done.”—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and bestselling author of Confidence andMove “This unique book by a brilliant researcher and a veteran journalist not only illuminates the problems of large-scale innovation for a sustainable future but, in the process, teaches us about industry cultures, leadership, and the massive problems of collaboration in an increasingly complex multicultural world.” —Edgar Schein, Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of Helping, Humble Inquiry, and Humble Consulting

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  rEvolution - How To Thrive In...

  Bill Lucas

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  We have reached a turning point in our development as a species. In the coming decades we face significant global challenges in terms of climate change, biodiversity, food and water resources and violent extremism. At the local level, these seem like crazy times, with the speed of change accelerating faster than ever. In rEvolution, best-selling author Bill Lucas suggests some of the ways we can all succeed in today's complex world. 150 years after Charles Darwin invented the concept of natural selection, Bill argues that the rules of evolution are changing. To thrive in our current crazy world we need a new kind of "mind-ware". Specifically we need to develop our adaptive intelligence. Drawing on new and emerging sciences and using approaches previously applied in other domains, this book describes some of the practical steps you can take at home, at school, in the workplace and in the wider community to ensure that you can constantly adapt to new circumstances. Bill's analysis, optimism and suggestions for practical learning make this an essential addition to the book shelf of all thoughtful questioning members of the species!

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  Afterburn - Society Beyond...

  Richard Heinberg

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  Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon future Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a "civilization reboot" on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions.Afterburn consists of 15 essays exploring various aspects of the 21st century migration away from fossil fuels including:Short-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adaptThe origin of longer-term trends (such as consumerism), that have created a way of life that seems "normal" to most Americans, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainablePotential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge.From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies, to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, Afterburn offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands.AWARDSFINALIST | 2015 Foreword INDIES: Essays

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  The 90 day Marketing Plan

  Cody Butler

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  The 90 Day Marketing Plan is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to improving, scaling and automating your marketing over the next 90 daysYou're going to learn:How To Create And Instant Cash Windfall in your businessThe most profitable marketing modelHow to eliminate 80% of marketing activity and retain resultsHow to produce results on a tiny budgetHow to get more customersHow to make more salesHow to automate 90% of the processWhere to find buyer ready customersUncover the tools and strategies needed to create a completely new marketing machine in only 90 days.

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  Personal Narrative of Travels to...

  Alexander von Humboldt

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  In 1799, with extensive travel permissions from the Spanish government, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland departed for the Americas on a journey of exploration that would last well into 1804. In writing the “Personal Narrative…”, von Humboldt combined a description of the places and people of their travels with diverse scientific observations; but particularly of plants and animals, geology, weather and astronomy. von Humboldt’s narrative (and Thomasina Ross’s translation) of their adventures is marvelously well written and at times poetically descriptive. Volume I of the “Personal Narrative….”, covers their preparations, departure from Spain, and their travels to the Canary Islands, Tobago, Cumana and vicinity, and Caracas and vicinity in Venezuela.Alexander von Humboldt was a member of the Prussian aristocracy. He was well educated and as a young man worked as an inspector of mines. After receiving an inheritance from his Mother, he was able to follow his desire to explore and follow scientific pursuits, and was sufficiently wealthy to equip and fund his scientific expeditions. Although not a household name today (unless you live in one of the 18 places named after him), von Humboldt was the best known naturalist of his day, and his published observations and interpretations have a very important place in the history of science. For example, he strongly influenced Charles Darwin. He aimed to find the universal principles that integrate all aspects of nature (the Unity of Nature) rather than to just describe and as such is considered to be the founder of biogeography; and he is recognized as being among the first to describe the effect of human activity on climate.(written by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

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