What do Enron, the Space Shuttle Columbia and 9/11 have in common? How a chain of mistakes can lead to disaster if they go unrecognised. How to build internal systems that prevent failure chains from spiralling out of control. Practical techniques for avoiding business failures - whether they arise from preparation, strategy, execution, or culture.
Award-winning author Dashka Slater spins a tale of friendship, magic, and eternal life in The Book of Fatal Errors, an evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy. Rufus doesn’t just make mistakes – he makes fatal errors. Clumsy and awkward, he feels entrapped by his teasing classmates and their constant laughter. But now it is summer. Rufus is free. He roams the wildlands of his grandfather’s mysterious homestead, blissfully unaware of the danger up ahead. And there is much danger. Rufus and his snooty cousin Abigail soon become entangled in the tantalizing world of the feylings, mischievous fairly-like creatures desperate to find their way home. In helping the feylings, Rufus tumbles down a dark path rich with age-old secrets and difficult truths. Any move he makes might be his final fatal error. Or perhaps, his most spectacular beginning.
Jim Muehlhaussen has traveled the country collecting the best and worst practices from business owners. The 51 Fatal Business Errors provides a quick and easy format to learn from other business owners' successes and failures. Each error contains a real-life example and definitive action-steps needed to improve common areas of weakness in small business. The 51 Fatal Business Errors is designed to be used as a reference that you can come back to repeatedly as new issues arise in your business that need toning. The dangerous (but common) mistakes described are outlined in four categories: Myth -Busters, Improving your personal effectiveness, Using best practices, and Mule-kicks - Muehlhausen's bluntly honest tips that realign the way small business owners typical lines of thought. Readers will be able to use it to energize themselves about the boundless possibilities of their businesses while giving them practical steps to move forward to the next level.
'10062019Kandivali help avntika mam do smthng pls' Mysterious, coded text messages. A plea for help from an anonymous sender. And... nothing else. That's it. Now, let's play Da-Vinci-Code-Da-Vinci-Code. This is what Mumbai Daily reporter Avantika Pandit wants: To cover crime. To not be a feature writer. To never have to write another listicle in her life. Ever. This is what she actually has: One enraged editor. One garbage assignment (literally). And a bunch of mysterious texts that hint at deadly, hidden crimes, which she absolutely, positively shouldn't be digging into. Oh, well. Can she unearth the truth, without pissing off her boss - even more? Can she brave Dhruv Juneja's incessant flirting? Will she finally cross over to the hallowed ground of crime reporting, preferably with all her limbs intact? Or will she discover, that all it really takes to end up begging for your life, is one fatal mistake?
Now in paperback—the author of Killer Choice delivers another nail-biting novel about a hit-and-run and a lie that goes horribly wrong in this thriller “full of shocks and twists you won't see coming” (Lee Child). Her son accidentally kills a man. They cover it up. Then everything goes wrong. When eighteen-year-old Joshua Mayo takes a man's life in a terrible accident, he leaves the scene without reporting the crime to the police. He hopes to put the awful night behind him and move on with his life. But, of course, he ends up telling his mother, Karen, what happened. Karen has raised Joshua on her own in Cedar Rapids, Iowa—and she'd thought they'd finally made it. He was doing well in school and was only months away from starting college at his dream school. After hearing his dark confession, she's forced to make a choice no parent should have to make. A choice that draws them both into a web of deceit that will change their lives forever—if they can make it out alive.
With straightforward, insightful advice, renowned business trainer W. Steven Brown provides managers--from new to experienced--with essential leadership tools. This is the book that "ought to be in the top drawer of every manager's desk"*. Are you guilty of... * Being a buddy, not a boss? * Never admitting that you are accountable? * Managing different people in the same way? * Failing to set common business goals? * Trying to control your people instead of influencing their thinking with enthusiasm? These are just a few of the 13 fatal errors managers make. Errors that waste valuable time, money, and talent. This book will show you how to recognize problems--and avoid them--before they happen. Author Steven Brown, a nationally recognized professional trainer and consultant, provides the essential guide for effective managers and shows you how to get the best from your workers, your company--and yourself.
There are approximately 12.2 million salespeople in the United States-that's about 1 out of every 23 people! Salespeople are everywhere, selling everything imaginable. Some are making a killing, but a greater percentage end up victims of the sales industry-and their own mistakes. Some are normal bumps in the road toward success. Others are more damaging. But many are fatal to a career. Duncan addresses these catastrophic mistakes with clarity and directness. Whether you're a seasoned sales professional or someone considering sales as a career, Duncan's wisdom can help you avoid errors in perception, practice, and performance that could not only kill a sale but also your career.
Fatal Mistakes Most Women Make reader begins to communicate from an emotional place of passion in her heart today and examines the down-dirty truth about most women today and the lack of a healthy self-image and respect they have for themselves! Women face many obstacles, issues, and challenges today that have caused them to have no standards! (what they will and will not tolerate) due to desperation of finding a man in their life or should I say keeping a man. She includes her commentary to enrich your spiritual awareness by empowering in her readers by enhancing your spiritual knowledge of who you are in Christ. Felisha also provides biblical verses to enhance your fundamental knowledge of the Bible, she shares personal experiences to make all women, from of all walks of life, the rich, the poor no one escapes problems in life!! In her gentle, loving way, she provides encouragement and comforting ways to resolve problems in the difficult areas women struggle with the most! By reading this book, it is my desire that you become the woman God intends for you to be. Dare to be me, strong and courageous, bold and beautiful, confidently respected and loved by yourself and others. You can do this; hold your head high; keep your standards high and don't settle for less than you deserve. If you settle for less, you have no one else to blame but yourself! "Knock, the door will open; seek and you shall find" (Matthew 7 vs. 7&8). God has wonderful plan for your life. Say this daily, "I can, I will, I must. Go get your blessing. Blessing awaits you, your sister in Christ" Felisha Lynch
In August 1991, Nina de Villiers, a university student, was abducted while jogging in an affluent suburban neighbourhood, and subsequently murdered. She was the random victim of Jonathan Yeo, a man with a history of explosive violence, who later murdered a second young woman before taking his own life. Yeo had just been turned away from the United States border, where he was detained by customs officials for carrying a loaded gun, but eventually released - and allowed to keep his gun. The book recounts the life story of these two strangers from different worlds, showing how more effective intervention with Yeo could have prevented the murder. The book also describes the formation of the victims' rights group CAVEAT (Citizens Against Violence Everywhere Advocating its Termination.) by Priscilla de Villiers, Nina's mother.
From an acclaimed military historian, a fascinating account of just how close the Allies were to losing World War II. Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality and his military strategy was critical in causing Germany to lose the war. With an acute eye for detail and his use of clear prose, Bevin Alexander goes beyond counterfactual "What if?" history and explores for the first time just how close the Allies were to losing the war. Using beautifully detailed, newly designed maps, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II exquisitely illustrates the important battles and how certain key movements and mistakes by Germany were crucial in determining the war's outcome. Alexander's harrowing study shows how only minor tactical changes in Hitler's military approach could have changed the world we live in today. Alexander probes deeply into the crucial intersection between Hitler's psyche and military strategy and how his paranoia fatally overwhelmed his acute political shrewdness to answer the most terrifying question: Just how close were the Nazis to victory?
