Resilient people have an easier life - they can overcome setbacks better than others. This pocket guide contains techniques and strategies for greater resilience. Numerous practical examples will help you to strengthen your powers of resistance. Managers who want to make their companies more robust will find all the answers in this book. Contents: - The meaning of being resilient: inspiration from the fields of brain research and neuroanatomy - Managing crises and change with confidence: coping with insecurity and mastering complexity - The three elements that foster resilience - Self-regulation and stress management - The resilient company as a mission statement: eight guiding principles for resilient leadership
Just recently, a chain of unfortunate events has violently shaken the financial world and contributed to exposing our irrational exuberance in Ponzi schemes and our vulnerability as human beings. Sweeping fear and uncertainty have mushroomed overnight into the corporate consciousness, an aura of powerlessness and defeatism that still lingers within the anxieties of Wall Street's daily fluctuations. To make matters worse, nature seems to play its part with subtle spiritual language, through a chain of cataclysmic events predicted and coded in the Book of Revelation. Is it the labor pains for spiritual growth and maturity? Or is it the sign of the end of an age? In What If All Organizations Were Sinless? author Joseph St.Fort offers a roadmap for corporate leadership transformation specifically intended to achieve financial prosperity here on earth, while harvesting righteous values and spiritual maturity as investments for eternal life, thereafter. Although practical and spiritual wisdom are mutually exclusive constructs, he masterfully bridges their disconnect within a patient, methodical, comprehensive process of self-change, leading to stewardship for the sake of our generation and future generations. What If All Organizations were Sinless? offers one last, ultimate lease to all. Beware!
Josie Giancola, owner of the Button Box shop, knows her buttons. But when she comes into contact with a rare charm string, she never imagines it will lead to murder... Josie is approached at her shop to appraise a very rare item—a complete charm string. In Victorian times, girls strung buttons on long strings to make the charms. Once the string reached 1,000 buttons—no two alike—the legend was that the owner would meet her beloved. But the owner of this charm string is not looking for love—she’s desperate to donate the piece to a museum and be rid of it. She believes the string is far from charmed—it’s cursed. When Josie finds the woman strangled with the charm string, she doesn’t know whether the curse is real...but the killer certainly is. Includes tips on antique button collecting!
Focusing on practical approaches for the experienced investigator, Michael R. Napier, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, presents Behavior, Truth, and Deception: Applying Profiling and Analysis to the Interview Process, 2nd Edition. This hands-on volume, drawn from years of experience interviewing suspects, reveals the targeted subject interviewing process (TSI). This technique combines all known tactics learned from criminal personality profiling and investigative analysis into an effective strategy for interviewing a suspect. The book describes the skill sets and essential elements that directly contribute to a successful interrogation and outlines an interview plan using these analytical and profiling concepts. Topics discussed include: Origins of offender motivation An analytical methodology for criminal investigative analysis Indirect personality assessment before the suspect interview Interview and interrogation techniques, including verbal strategies and nonverbal communications Interviews in rape cases Analysis of 911 calls made by a potential suspect Homicidal behavior Child molesters and stalkers Cultural considerations Tips for making interviews withstand legal challenges A blend of insight from seasoned law enforcement professionals and behavioral experts, this fascinating volume helps investigators get under the skin of the suspect, expose deception, and bring out the truth. Employing crime scene scenarios to demonstrate concepts, the book includes a victim questionnaire capturing offender behavior, form templates, and a glossary, making this a one-stop reference for law enforcement professionals charged with solving crimes and bringing offenders to justice.
Elevate Your BaZi Knowledge to Another Level The oft-mentioned topic of the quality of the Five Elements in a BaZi Chart and the topic of Missing Elements are explored in great details in this fifth instalment to the immensely popular Destiny Code Series. Take your knowledge and analysis of BaZi to the next level by adding detailed knowledge of assessing the quality of the individual Five Elements and 10 Gods within the BaZi Chart. What You`ll Learn: •The concept of Quality of an Element and Quality of a 10 Gods means within the context of BaZi •Techniques to assess the quality of the Five Elements in a BaZi chart •Understanding the concept of Missing Elements •Step-by-Step method for analysing your own BaZi chart and determining the quality of every single 10 Gods •Deriving conclusions about a person's Character based on the quality of the 10 Gods •Analysing Wealth, Career, Relationship and Health Matters within a chart •Developing smart action plans to help offset the challenges and obstacles created by poor quality Elements or 10 Gods
If you have an anxiety disorder or experience anxiety symptoms that interfere with your day-to-day life, you can benefit from learning four simple skills that therapists use with their clients. These easy-to-learn skills are at the heart of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a cutting-edge therapeutic approach that can help you better manage the panic attacks, worries, and fears that limit your life and keep you feeling stuck. This book will help you learn these four powerful skills: Mindfulness helps you connect with the present moment and notice passing thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them. Acceptance skills foster self-compassion and a nonjudgmental stance toward your emotions and worries. Interpersonal effectiveness skills help you assert your needs in order to build more fulfilling relationships with others. Emotion regulation skills help you manage anxiety and fear before they get out of control. In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety, you’ll learn how to use each of these skills to manage your anxiety, worry, and stress. By combining simple, straightforward instruction in the use of these skills with a variety of practical exercises, this workbook will help you overcome your anxiety and move forward in your life.
This time, Paige isnt going against a quintet of smelly boys. This time, shes up against an army of them who are more than excited to use their guns. Cameron Lyndd and his innocent wife are being held hostage in an amusement park during the last few days it is open to the public. Whats worse, the DPA has reason to believe the suspects are from an organization that Paige inspired after one final tragic affair. Now a gloomy and grieving Paige, as well as the second grader Annie, must hold on to the key to the Earths future in the territory of booby-trapped rides and toxic cotton candy - what could be more fun?
The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines--including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges--was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instance of the early appropriation of digital computing technology. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research on homebrew creators in 1980s Australia and New Zealand, Swalwell explores the creation of games on microcomputers as a particular mode of everyday engagement with new technology. She discusses the public discourses surrounding microcomputers and programming by home coders; user practices; the development of game creators' ideas, with the game Donut Dilemma as a case study; the widely practiced art of hardware hacking; and the influence of 8-bit aesthetics and gameplay on the contemporary game industry. With Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality, Swalwell reclaims a lost chapter in video game history, connecting it to the rich cultural and media theory around everyday life and to critical perspectives on user-generated content.
Natalie Lindstrom was once one of an elite group of investigators with the power to interview the dead victims of violent crime. But now Natalie has had enough. Enough of the violence. Enough of the darkness that has already gotten too close to her five-year-old daughter. Yet as she tries to build a new life and protect her child from the world she has left, Natalie still knows injustice when she sees it. And she knows that in a high-profile California trial, a young man is getting away with murder. The case against Prescott Hyland Jr. is airtight–until a corrupt Violet delivers devastating testimony against another man. Now Natalie is being drawn back into her former career and a danger far worse than she can imagine. For while one killer is being tried in a courtroom, another has gone horribly free: to unleash a storm of vengeance–aimed straight for the heart of Natalie’s new life. Because, in the world of the Violets, sometimes your past can literally come back to haunt you. . . .
