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Why do so many change efforts in our organizations fail? One of a handful of reasons ... unprepared managers. Managers often feel their leaders cook up changes, unleash these changes, then expect managers to do the heavy lifting. That heavy lifting includes both coming to terms with changes personally, then getting their teams on board as well. This is the "Manager's Dilemma". Are managers helpless in this kind of situation? Are they set up to fail and disappoint? The answer is no. Even when senior leaders struggle to do their jobs as sponsors of change, there are plenty of things a manager can do to advance the change agenda and perhaps save the day. Steve King unpacks three key roles managers need to play in moments of change: change communicator, change coach, and change advocate .... and provides some simple tools and tactics for getting this job done.

"The aim of this book is to offer readers a comprehensive academic reference where specialists, students, and researchers in the literary and critical affairs can refer to the issues raised by the poet, and the strategies and rhetorical methods invoked by his writings." The manuscript clearly contributes to scholars and students interested in learning about the Arabic language through the writings of renown poet Ali Abdullah Khalifa. Each chapter emphasizes the political, economic, historical, phonological, syntactical, and grammatical elements of Arabic morphology and literature. The final chapter by French poet and researcher Geneviève Buono displays the power of Khalifa's writings and how well his poetry displays a determination to make meaning of the world. Khalifa offers clear and concrete similes to get his views across. He offers readers the opportunity to reflect on the written word and create their own interpretations through rhyme scheme and irony. His words are strung together to form sound, images, ideas, and meaning defined by 10 researchers through their meticulous analysis of his work. -Abdessattar Jamai, PhD________________________________________________________________________Anyone interested in acquiring an appreciation of Arabic poetry should delve into this book. The authors of Structures and Visions turn each moment of Khalifa's poetry into an emotional reality through a step-by-step explication of his writing. They examine with keen astuteness his language style and poetic skills. The resulting text, adeptly translated for the reader of English, emphasizes the uniqueness of Khalifa's choice of words and unusual use of punctuation marks.Nancy Owen Nelson, PhD: Poet, and memoirist, most recently Divine Aphasia: A Woman's Search for Her FatherIf you are looking for poetry that merges language, culture, and history in a single poem, this book is for you. The analysis of Ali Abdullah Khalifa's poetry is inviting and compelling as readers become deeply immersed in his life experiences and struggles resulting from the replacement of nature with modernized living.Ed Demerly; author of First Years: A Farm Boy Faces the Future; past president of the College English Association. Khalifa's writing is deeply engaged with the world, specifically transformations driven by the demographic growth and conservational changes in Bahrain. His poetry and precise choice of words interconnect with various nostalgic elements, symbols, and images that provoke a reader's curiosity. L. Glenn O'Kray, retired college administrator and instructor, editor/co-editor of six books, the most current¬-Building America: Immigrant Stories of Hope and Hardship.

Image Transformations of the Brain-Mind is his latest book that addresses basic questions about SELF and CONSCIOUSNESS. Dr. Just has two major concerns-how the mind emerges from its fetal beginning and matures through adulthood to enable free will (the Supervening SELF) and how sensory image transformations of the brain-mind lead to subjective experience. This book shares numerous insights into:¿ Virtually transformed sensory images that feel like a little person (homunculus) in our brains. ¿ How the Physical-SELF is transformed into the Virtual-SELF. ¿ How the SELF in dreams feels just as real as it does in waking. ¿ The author's dream classifications according to type of sensory experience. ¿ Transformative brain-mind images that underlie altered mental states and various religious experiences. ¿ How dream memories and the 24-hour mind become waking déjà vu experiences. ¿ Psychological and philosophical questions of autonomy and determinism.

A new millennium has begun and brought with it challenges, opportunities, excitement, and, in one deadly event, terror. The Warrior Spirit Investigations team and their extensive circle of family and friends have seen many startling changes in their personal and professional lives. Marriages and partnerships have endured, and broken, and blossomed on the new horizon. Besides the stunning events that christened the new century there are secrets surrounding the clan that will have lifelong impacts in unexpected ways. A hidden group of people have come together to play a deadly game whose rules accommodate a lack of conscience down to sheer evil. One by one they target innocent individuals; they have a pattern whose theme would on first glance seem innocent but is anything but. Guided by sociopathy they feed on fear and soon enough come to feed on one another. Their actions draw in Memphis, Sage, and their team and associates, and the fates of the evildoers and those who battle to uncover and punish them become deeply intertwined. What no one expected as the pursuit began and continued was that a deep, dark secret hidden forty years earlier would explode into everyone's lives with shocking revelations that would redefine the sense of safety and family that had been the backbone of the clan's lives for decades. A shocking secret that no one saw coming. A secret with devastating consequences.

A new millennium has begun and brought with it challenges, opportunities, excitement, and, in one deadly event, terror. The Warrior Spirit Investigations team and their extensive circle of family and friends have seen many startling changes in their personal and professional lives. Marriages and partnerships have endured, and broken, and blossomed on the new horizon. Besides the stunning events that christened the new century there are secrets surrounding the clan that will have lifelong impacts in unexpected ways. A hidden group of people have come together to play a deadly game whose rules accommodate a lack of conscience down to sheer evil. One by one they target innocent individuals; they have a pattern whose theme would on first glance seem innocent but is anything but. Guided by sociopathy they feed on fear and soon enough come to feed on one another. Their actions draw in Memphis, Sage, and their team and associates, and the fates of the evildoers and those who battle to uncover and punish them become deeply intertwined. What no one expected as the pursuit began and continued was that a deep, dark secret hidden forty years earlier would explode into everyone's lives with shocking revelations that would redefine the sense of safety and family that had been the backbone of the clan's lives for decades. A shocking secret that no one saw coming. A secret with devastating consequences.

Split into two parts, Volume three of the Nonsense Papers series sheds light into the new vaccine era for humanity. In the final part, misinformation, and altering of data by government agencies to hide deaths by emergency use inoculation are continuing over the last year. The push for injecting all citizens around the world under the guise of "public safety" has been the message hammering into our minds. No one is safe from draconian laws set in motion to punish those that refuse to get with the program. Slander, ridicule, and loss of jobs are a result of those who question unknown motives of our world leaders.A new breed of separation of humanity has occurred with the vaccinated and unvaccinated. The elimination of a "live and let live policy" has commenced as the Biden administration pushes new laws and penalties to those who want no part of the lies and propaganda. A one-sided view presented by mass media coerces those they deem "hesitant" to omit the details and conform. Alternative outlets strive to reach people with the other side; however, Social Media giants, and Big Pharma stand in their way and censor any attempt to broadcast. Humanity has dug its own grave where we have left no means for escape. The future indeed looks lost....

Unser Kampf was inspired by true stories of life early in Hitler's Germany, which were told to author Stephen W. Adams by a friend who was very young when her family and their friends lived them. Fritz and Val are friends. Sigi and Trina are sisters. With their love of family, country, freedom, common sense human rights, and Christian values these young people soon find that they have opened the door to mystery, love intrigue, hope, danger, opportunity, and even the chance to help others. Through exploring the references noted in the book, you will undoubtedly recognize similarities to today and ask yourself, "What would I have done then? "and "What can I do now?"