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This book equates leadership with problem-solving. Don proves this with 30 years tutoring experience and by the rationale (and examples) in the written pages. Leaders solve problems.Don's book shows the methodology of collaboration, i.e. how-to collaborate. The initial section depicts collaboration as facilitated by a third party. It recommends this as a learning tool before engaging in deliberations where the facilitator "owns" a stake in the problem. A follow-up section discusses collaborating amid anger, hidden agenda and two-party collaboration. In other words, when a stakeholder and facilitator are one. In this manner, learning is incremental, develop-mental; knowledge is added to what has already been learned. A Handbook for Collaborative Leaders: Millennials Assess the Workplace of Today introduces a twin-poled leader model to replace the Situational Leadership of Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. It argues that H/B's accepted model, now some 60 years in use, misidentifies the situation as revolving around internal measures such as knowledge, trust, and closeness. Rather, the actual situation must be defined by external measures -- chiefly, what is confronting workers and what problem does this situation present. Bi-Polar leading reconciles authority-based leading with participatory models as challenged by jurist Michael Josephson in 1989. Until now, that challenge has gone unanswered.Throughout the book, readers will find a sense of supervisors and the rank-and-file bonding into something greater than themselves. Examples of such are found in the case studies, all written not by Don, but by his former students. Without a one-size-fits-all, workshop participants design their unique leader template, one which offers a menu of more than 24 intervention styles.

In light of the authors first novel, ''The Curse of Blackbeard's Ghost'', comes his latest, ''A New Collection of Short Stories''. A useful addition to any library.

This book will take you on a journey of how you can change your life, thoughts, and decisions by making the right choices and deciding to start a plant-based lifestyle. We will dive into the pain, struggle, progress and finally to a life of abundance as we go through what led me to write this book and how I went from the plane to the planet.

The young reader will appreciate the wonderful world of mermaids, sea creatures. Sea wizards and sailors of the seven seas; and how all these elements interrelate into an understanding of the life of mermaids , the sea, the sea creatures, and the sailors with whom they are intertwined.

Insightful and common sense ideas explored and overlaid with the wonderment of mystery and paradox. Why are we here, where did we come from, where are we headed as we live out our days in the goodness of America. We need to reclaim common sense while speaking against all absurdities.

This book was written to inform the reader that a few selected far left ideas of today's Democratic Political Party is simply poison for America or any nation for that matter. As it leads to mass demonstrations and active shooter situations that are horrible in today's society - in the mind of the author. Hopefully the reading of this book will turn one's mind away from the far left back to the moderate right and rational sanity, smaller Federal government, and peace and tranquility for the American people.

The Dead Side: Fight brings the Dead Side trilogy to its exciting conclusion as Sam and Sarah carry the fight to The Enemy. In The Dead Side, they with others escape a brutal dystopian world in America, fleeing to the East Coast and only reaching safety after a series of battles with an Enemy whose only goal is their destruction. Their escape continues in Flight when the sail in a ship they built to escape the Enemy, nearly drowning in a gale in the Atlantic. Rescued by a British ship, they rebuild their lives in England. Sam joins the Royal Marines, while Sarah becomes a civil engineer and an officer in the Royal Army Engineers Reserve. In Fight, Sam leads the Royal Marines onto the Continent to destroy the Enemy, with Sarah's engineers providing support. Their journey comes full circle when they return to America to help liberate the continent.

Yesterday's Falcon opens as Gawain collapses at the portals of an isolated castle in the midst of a terrible snowstorm. He is taken in by Rhiannon, a striking young Druid who has been living alone since the murder of her husband. In order to heal the ailing knight, Rhiannon decides to take him to the Terran Stone, an ancient monolith left behind by the Far Druids before they disappeared. The mystical Stone stands on a small island in the center of the Natal Lake - a lake fed by waters flowing south from the ruinous wastelands. If Rhiannon is to find redemption and Gawain the answers he seeks, they must look to each other on the harrowing journey, for somewhere there lies hope and love in a dying world.

This book is the second of the series about the imperatives for the search for new psychiatry. As stated in my recent 2021 book about: The Search for New Psychiatry, current psychiatric practices have failed many: patients and their families, their doctors and the society at large. That was the end of the 2021 book and the beginning of this book as a follow up in search for pathways to a new and more effective science-based practice Based on its major contributions to the recent successful and expedient development of the Covid 19 vaccines, I am proposing the same pathway of using the new revolution in informatics as the way to save and secure the future of psychiatry and that is what I am recommending in this book reaping the benefit of AI and Big Data Analytics but with a wide open eye on its limits, reliability, risks, unforeseen or unintentional harms.Part Two of the book deals with a number of perineal and also new challenges that continue to require better understanding and resolution. Among the phenomenological and nosological challenges, the recent development by Neurology of its subspeciality of Behavioral Neurology in competition to Neuropsychiatry, is reviewed in terms of an opportunity for integration of the tow subspecialities towards the creation of a new third field of "Clinical Neurosciences". Other challenges included are: The Subjective /Objective Dichotomy, Lunacy and the Moon- reflections on the interactions of the brain and environment and Woke Psychiatry, what is it?Several other clinical challenges include: The Past is Coming Back as The Future -The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Psychedelics, Loneliness as the silent disorder and several other challenges. At the end, a postscript has been hastily added in memory of a close friend, a pioneering psychopharmacologist but above all an empathic humanist, Professor Thomas Arthur Ban or as he always preferred, Tom.

Consolidating and expanding upon the ideas from his previous works (Autistic Symphony, Autistic Songs, and Concerto for Intelligence), Griswold's Autistic Rhapsody offers a unique and innovative perspective upon the events of the human revolution, including a compelling explanation for the origin of human behavioral modernity.Drawing on the notion of Big History for context and perspective, and challenging the conventional wisdom regarding such topics as human evolution, the Flynn effect and autism, Autistic Rhapsody celebrates human history by offering new insights into how that history has unfolded.

Rev. Dr. Ron Hobden over the years has learned through his many experiences andactivities the joy of allowing God to take complete control in every situation. This approach has served as the foundation for his future entry through the Gate of Glory.

This book was created for every child that loves a great birthday party.

Where's Jesus? a metaphysical mystery is about Madam President of Switzerland, Pope Philip Neri, Schatzi a short-legged, low-bellied dachshund and others looking for Jesus in the flesh on earth now. Wicked White Warlock, Lucy Lucifer, and their ilk would of course do their damndest to prevent this.

Manfred Wolf, a longtime bold, original thinker, returns with a new collection of fearless, entertaining and often contrarian essays on a multitude of subjects. From the personal to the political, from "the righteousness mob" to the ramifications of giving advice, from our current cultural divide to the constantly evolving landscape of the way we speak now-Wolf examines each topic with his fierce, unique perspective, going beyond the easy clichés of conventional wisdom, whether it comes from the Left or the Right. Few readers will find their minds completely unchanged by these compelling and appealing explorations.

Lebron is on the adventure of a lifetime... his first trip to North Nyes Pond. The pond is a magical place, a place where dreams and imagination come to life. The pond is also a place where fears are confronted with the help of friends.

Set in a post-apocalyptic earth, it's inhabitants survive segregated until the water supply runs dry. Chosen by a council of elders, Renier must venture beyond the borders of the village. Accompanied by Veruca, a warrior princess, together they must find a path through the ooze of the black mountains and solve the mystery behind the village water supply. The truth they discover will change the course of Earth forever.

THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND REFLECTIONS THAT WERE WRITTEN THROUGHOUT A LIFETIME. REFLECTIONS OF FUN TIMES, CHALLENGING TIMES, TIMES OF PAIN, AND TIMES OF UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS THAT SHAPED A LIFE.REBECCA, A MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER BELIEVES THAT OUR MEMORIES AND EXPERENCIES ARE WORTH SHARING.

Had a bad day. No one listening. On your last leg. Identity stolen and do not know who you are supposed to be. Just plain tired. Welcome to this little girl day. Good things someone took time to enlighten her on simple things in the Bible. Here is Danielle's world. How worse could this day get? Or how good can it become? When in need of a miracle. It can be just a nap away. Slow down, relax, and LISTEN! Most of the time we get up in the morning expecting a repeat of the day. Children are caught in a cycle that adults have set their day. They can do little to change that just hold on for the ride to completion. God can reboot us. Yes, He renew us with one gesture of his presence, and we become complete. We are whole again in his Love. He constantly reassures us there are good things in store for us. Jeremiah 29:11- 14 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; God is good.

Early in the twentieth century, three children of poor Jewish immigrants stagger beneath the grueling promise of the American Dream.Nate Cohen, the pint-size, angry son of an alcoholic San Francisco prizefighter and Bohemian mother, becomes a parttime criminal. Working at a restaurant, he hurls bacon grease at an anti-Semitic employee and flees the city. As Ned Christianson, he cooks on cattle ranches in Northern California and Wyoming. After sleeping with a rancher's daughter, Ned joins a Wild West show.Kayleh Rubenstein, a red-headed tailor's daughter, becomes the child vaudeville star Clara Robbins. Her Uncle Henry (Zeev) manages her then sells her contract to a vaudeville star who abuses her and, when she finally resists, destroys her career. Clara descends into liquor and morphine.Jake Orlinsky, a New York orphan, performs as the child-magician Joseph Hartwig in a saloon below a brothel. After losing his job, he picks pockets and entertains on the street. Harry Houdini briefly befriends him. Following a fatal run-in at a New York nightclub, Jake escapes to California.The three young performers, all hiding their Jewish identities, meet at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Clara and Joseph have a brief affair. All go south to Los Angeles, ultimately seeking careers in silent films.Through the ex-gunfighter and lawman Wyatt Earp, Ned and Joseph are hired for a western-and get fired. Clara becomes the kept woman of a series of Hollywood executives and is raped at the home of Fatty Arbuckle. A murder prompts Ned and Joseph to leave Los Angeles. A suicide sends Clara north.They reunite in San Francisco where two violent events lead to tragedy and redemption.

It takes longer to phone the florist and order flowers than it does to hand write a personal note that lasts longer than flowers and will lift the spirits of the receiver. You can write that card. The small volume you hold in your hand was designed as a blue print for personal development into a positive encourager of those you know in need of an uplifting word. A simple card with your carefully chosen words hand written - no texting here - will bring positive affirmation to those discouraged, down-hearted, under appreciated, sorrowing or deserving of thanks for a deed of kindness. The process is broken down, outlined and flows with examples of what works and what not to say. With a little practice you will easily become a positive encourager.

Some choices are just meant to be.After saving her brother from possibly facing jail, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Scott, is about to face the consequences for protecting her brother's most recent antics. As a political speech writer for Boston's mayoral campaign, her boss can't have his number one employee tied to any sort of scandal on the evening of his incumbent race.As the only remaining bloodline of the Worthington monarch, King Maxwell Worthington finds himself in a precarious situation. With the recent passing of his sister, Maxwell's lineage is called into question and whether a new monarch should be instituted. Maxwell has the perfect idea-adopt his niece from his late sister to secure a living heir to the Worthington name. With all his competing priorities, Maxwell needs a governess that can be trusted with discretion and give his niece the attention he is unable to.To avoid potential consequences to the mayoral race, the mayor sends Lizzie to take a temporary position as governess to help his friend, The King, Maxwell Worthington. Only Lizzie has entered a world that is more than what she bargained for. As Maxwell faces increased pressure of removal from the monarch, he soon discovers there is a group of people that would rather see him dead than removed from the throne. From threats, secrets, an arranged marriage, and slow burn romance, the decision begs on whether Lizzie should cut and run back home, or whether she was Made for Petrova.