An invaluable source of inspiration to help leaders understand themselves and overcome their barriers to success For centuries, we have learnt what’s not taught through our own experiences and the stories of others. Even today, only 3 per cent of leadership development occurs due to classroom training. In fact, for most managers, ‘the penny drops’ only when we are at the end of our careers. In this book, R. Gopalakrishnan shares some valuable learnings from his decades of corporate experience, through a series of engaging stories. When the Penny Drops encourages you to reflect on yourself, and will help you learn by identifying the success mantras embedded in you.
Benjamin Matthews, née Benjamin Pollock, is a successful businessman marketing the slimming formula “The Daisy Effect.” He is preparing for a new life with his wife Rebecah and their twins, Luke and Lucy, moving from England to the United Arab Emirates, where Rebecah just got a job as a nurse. Ben’s unfortunate white lie (that his name is Pollock) leads him to discover just as he is about to fly out of the country, that his origins are not all that they seem. The confusion over his real last name gets him stopped at the airport, whilst he watches his wife and children fly away without him. Will Ben be able to get a new passport and prove his identity so he can fly out to join them? Or will other incidents prevent him from leaving? More to the point, can he escape Daphne, the undercover cop who is chasing him? Ben’s continuing story is fraught with calamities and frustrations ... until The Penny Drops! This second book in the Penny series offers a rollicking tale of confusion and nonstop action. It is the sequel to A Penny for Them.
In a small southern California city, a creature from the depths of the Pacific is tasked with walking among the humans and retrieving one for her people. The creature, who calls herself Natalie Alvi, finds early success and is in awe of her new surroundings. But, it cannot last as she is soon confronted with a bloody secret, a forbidden love, and questions that shatter her lifelong worldview. What can she do when every choice promises a dangerous end?
A husband walks out on his family after twenty-three years, pitching his wife into a legal battle she wants no part of. As she discovers just how wealthy her secretive husband is she places her trust in her lawyer and the British Legal System, but quickly realises she is merely a pawn in a game of legal chess. Based on a true story of infidelity, injustice, passion and heartache. Ms Kennedy finds herself entangled in a million pound fraud in the midst of a fight she cannot possibly win and embarks on an affair with her lawyer. What convinces a broken and penniless woman, that despite losing all the legal battles, she can still win the war?
Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. The Child's Conception of Physical Causality, part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. The strength of Piaget's research is evident in this collection of empirical data, systematically organized by tasks that illuminate how things work. Piaget's data are remarkably rich. In his new introduction, Jaan Valsiner observes that Piaget had no grand theoretical aims, yet the book's simple power cannot be ignored. Piaget's great contribution to developmental psychology was his "clinical method"-a tactic that integrated relevant aspects of naturalistic experiment, interview, and observation. Through this systematic inquiry, we gain insight into children's thinking. Reading Piaget will encourage the contemporary reader to think about the unity of psychological phenomena and their theoretical underpinnings. His wealth of creative experimental ideas probes into the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. Technologies change, yet the creative curiosity of children remains basically unhindered by the consumer society. Piaget's data preserve the reality of the original phenomena. As such, this work will provide a wealth of information for developmental psychologists and those involved in the field of experimental science.
If we’re not careful, the 2020’s will go down in history as being more significant than the extinction of the dinosaurs, the fall of the Roman empire and the Industrial revolution all rolled into one. A handful of families with hybrid alien-human DNA who are thousands of years ahead of us technologically, have been manipulating our perceptions of reality since the first civilizations began. They are now nearing their end-game which is, a centralised one world government with a cashless society and social credit system that will make the worst form of any communist dictatorship seem like a picnic. When they installed the moon to invert the information waveform that composes planet earth, that was the end of an era known as the Golden age or the Garden of Eden. That monumentally affected our very existence and locked us into a matrix of the five senses that we’ve been trapped in ever since. In present day, man is evolved enough to utitlise the nano technology that these entities brought along but not enough to realise that it will be used against them. The original royal families have now sired enough hybrid offspring and placed them in positions of power around the world through secret societies to create this global corporate cabal. As more of the worlds wealth is transferred to this Satanic cult via taxes, government bailouts, foreign aid, commercial monopolies, asset forfeiture, banking and foundations-charities etc, and they impose further restrictions on the populous, the plan to enslave mankind through bio-tech that has been four thousand years in the making is potentially nearing its fruition. If not enough people wake up from a collective mass-hypnosis spearheaded by social and mainstream media, (cabal owned and controlled) 2020 will be recorded in the history books as the year that they ushered in the New World Order.
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
