Letting Go
Letting Go

Author: Angela Day

Publisher: Petrol Blue Publishing

Published: 2024-07-27

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 173862840X

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BATH NOVEL AWARD 2024 TOP 100 When the past is broken and the present is full of uncertainty, it's time to let go. A heartwarming, standalone story about finding the courage to move toward the people and places that can make us whole again. Callie Winters is the Chief Medical Officer for a pharmaceutical company and has dedicated her adult life to building a solid future for her son—a boy who has grown up without his father. But just as her hard work and dedication are about to pay off, she must put it all at risk and race against time to protect him. Callie revisits a life she lived differently and questions everything she's told herself these last eighteen years. Brett Jenson is a teenager who sees the world through the lens of his digital camera. But when he needs to build a picture of his past for his final assignment, the search for truth uncovers a family he has never known and secrets he begins to wish could stay hidden forever. Dave Woods has reservations about getting into bed with a big pharmaceutical company—until he meets Callie Winters for the second time. She was the one who got away last Thanksgiving, and he's been kicking himself ever since for not telling her how he feels. Callie's offer to bring their botanical product into the mainstream seems too good to be true, and when he reads the fine print, Dave realizes she could put their small-town co-operative out of business and destroy the lives of the people he cares about. In the heart of Colorado's scenic landscapes, Jackson's Bridge comes alive with characters who navigate life’s intricacies against the breathtaking backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. This close-knit community embodies the spirit of overcoming contemporary challenges, cherishing connections, discovering love in unexpected circumstances, and protecting what they all value most--their beloved community. If you crave unpredictable twists, multi-dimensional characters, and richly layered small-town dynamics, then you've found your next read.

The Threat From Within
The Threat From Within

Author: Charles F. Lee

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1493184393

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Mary Ann Morgan and her six high school classmates help defeat the Eastern Romanian arch-villain’s plan for the destruction of the American teenager’s brain......in the rest of the story.

The Influential Product Manager
The Influential Product Manager

Author: Ken Sandy

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1523087471

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This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the core skills, activities, and behaviors that are required of product managers in modern technology companies. Product management is one of the fastest growing and most sought-after roles by job seekers and companies alike. The availability of trained and experienced talent can barely keep up with the accelerating demand for new and improved technology products. People from nontechnical and technical backgrounds alike are eager to master this exciting new role. The Influential Product Manager teaches product managers how to behave at each stage of the product life cycle to achieve the best outcome for the customer. Product managers are under pressure to drive spectacular results, often without wielding much direct power or authority. If you don't know how to influence people at all levels of the organization, how will you create the best possible product? This comprehensive entry-level textbook distills over twenty years of hard-won field experience and industry knowledge into lessons that will empower new product managers to act like pros right out of the gate. With teaching experience both from UC Berkeley and Lynda.com, the author boils down the most complex topics into principles that are easy to memorize and apply. This book methodically documents the tools product managers everywhere use to align their teams with market needs and organizational goals. From setting priorities to capturing requirements to navigating trade-offs, this book makes it easy. Not only will your product succeed, you'll succeed, too, when you read the final chapter on advancing your career. Let your product's success become your success!

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 1978

ISBN-13:

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Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress Senate

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 3460

ISBN-13:

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Managing Transitions (25th anniversary edition)
Managing Transitions (25th anniversary edition)

Author: William Bridges

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0738219665

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The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change. As veteran business consultant William Bridges explains, transition is successful when employees have a purpose, a plan, and a part to play. This indispensable guide is now updated to reflect the challenges of today's ever-changing, always-on, and globally connected workplaces. Directed at managers on all rungs of the corporate ladder, this expanded edition of the classic bestseller provides practical, step-by-step strategies for minimizing disruptions and navigating uncertain times.

All In
All In

Author: Adrian Gostick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1451659849

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To have any hope of succeeding as a manager, you need to get your people all in. Whether you manage the smallest of teams or a multi-continent organization, you are the owner of a work culture—congratulations—and few things will have a bigger impact on your performance than getting your people to buy into your ideas and your cause and to believe what they do matters. Bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle and The Orange Revolution, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton return to answer the most overlooked leadership questions of our day: Why are some managers able to get their employees to commit wholeheartedly to their culture and give that extra push that leads to outstanding results? And how can managers at any level build and sustain a profitable, vibrant work-group culture of their own? These leading workplace experts teamed up with research giant Towers Watson to analyze an unprecedented 300,000-person study, and they made a groundbreaking finding: managers of the highest-performing work groups create a “culture of belief.” In these distinctive workplaces, people believe in their leaders and in the company’s vision, values, and goals. Employees are not only engaged but also enabled and energized (termed the three Es), which leads to astonishing results—average annual revenues three times higher than for organizations lacking such a positive culture. And this was true during a period that included this most recent recession. Based on their extensive consulting experience and in-depth interviews with leaders and employees at exceptional companies such as American Express, Cigna, Avis Budget, Pepsi Bottling, and Hard Rock, the authors present a simple seven-step road map for creating a culture of belief: define a burning platform; create a customer focus; develop agility; share everything; partner with your talent; root for each other; and establish clear accountability. Delving into specific how-tos for each step, they share eye-opening stories of exceptional leaders in action, vividly depicting just how these powerful methods can be implemented by any manager. All In draws on cutting-edge psychology and all of the creative genius that have made Gostick and Elton a must-read for leaders worldwide. This vital resource will empower managers everywhere to inspire a new level of commitment and performance.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1970-06

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

The Unicorn Project
The Unicorn Project

Author: Gene Kim

Publisher: IT Revolution

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1942788770

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The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Wall Street Journal bestselling The Unicorn Project! “The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project…”—FERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, Adidas “Gene Kim does a masterful job of showing how … the efforts of many create lasting business advantages for all.”—DR. STEVEN SPEAR, author of The High-Velocity Edge, Sr. Lecturer at MIT, and principal of HVE LLC. “The Unicorn Project is so clever, so good, so crazy enlightening!”––CORNELIA DAVIS, Vice President Of Technology at Pivotal Software, Inc., Author of Cloud Native Patterns This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development. In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals. One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies. The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms—this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity. “The Unicorn Project provides insanely useful insights on how to improve your technology business.”—DOMINICA DEGRANDIS, author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop ——— “My goal in writing The Unicorn Project was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together.”—Gene Kim, November 2019