The Game of 108 Wishes is very simple, funny and at the same time spiritual. You must be able to write up to 108 wishes in a year.Does this seem easy to you? Yes it is, probably for the first 10 or 15 wishes. Later it will start to be more and more difficult, and there will be a need to search in the depths of the soul to find new wishes.Use this notebook to write down your wishes and your thoughts about them. For each wish you will have two pages of high quality cream-colored paper.Explore the depths of your soul by expressing your desires!
Peg Meier's candid interpretation of the joys and pains of childhood through the decades--at home, at school, at play--reminds us that we were all children once, too.
As a Conveyor of the messengers that came before me, I hope that the messages that have been conveyed to me inspire and encourage everyone and all to seek for greater justice and peace in humanity and bring a greater understanding of the wisdom presented before them through the writing of these poems by me. Ashanti.
The Complete and Comprehensive Guide to Business Transformation As digital technologies and consumer expectations continue to disrupt almost every industry sector, companies are placing greater emphasis on developing and implementing transformation programs. Changing the Game offers the practical knowledge required to create a dramatic step-change in company performance. Designed for executives and managers responsible for a transformation in any type of company and situation, this comprehensive real-world playbook covers the change process from start to finish — from assessing the situation and determining strategic priorities, to developing a roadmap, establishing the governance structure, managing initiative delivery, and evaluating the impact of the transformation. Adopting a robust and pragmatic approach to every stage of business transformation, this authoritative volume explains where to start, identifies key areas of focus, and describes the strategies, decisions, and actions necessary for achieving results. Throughout the text, case studies of leading organizations highlight essential tools and approaches, examine key challenges, and evaluate their impact. A wealth of practical tools help readers build a foundation for change in their organization, define a clear path forward, mobilize teams, assign responsibilities, execute initiatives, track progress, sustain momentum, and more. Provides detailed guidance on envisioning, designing, managing, and delivering a successful company, function or team transformation Enables readers to create a dramatic change in company performance with a results-focused approach based on leading management practices Contains more than 20 in-depth sections representing the entire transformation journey Includes numerous ready-to-use tools and templates, including 50 exhibits, that can be adopted in any organization to accelerate results Features tips and advice from top-level executives at leading companies and government organizations Changing the Game: The Playbook for Leading Business Transformation is an invaluable step-by-step blueprint for executives, managers, teams, and consultants involved in devising and executing transformation programs.
From award-winning Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, an “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) and nostalgia-filled retelling of the 1980s Boston Celtics’ glory years, which featured the sublime play of NBA legend Larry Bird. Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the United States and abroad. But it wasn’t always this successful. Before primetime ESPN coverage, lucrative branding deals like Air Jordans, and $40 million annual player salaries, there was the NBA of the 1970s and 1980s—when basketball was still an up-and-coming sport featuring old school beat reporters and players who wore Converse All-Stars. Enter Dan Shaughnessy, then the beat reporter for The Boston Globe who covered the Boston Celtics every day from 1982 to 1986. It was a time when reporters travelled with professional teams—flying the same commercial airlines, riding the same buses, and staying in the same hotels. Shaughnessy knew the athletes as real people, losing free throw bets to Larry Bird, being gifted cheap cigars by the iconic coach Red Auerbach, and having his one-year-old daughter Sarah passed from player to player on a flight from Logan to Detroit Metro. Drawing on unprecedented access and personal experiences that would not be possible for any reporter today, Shaughnessy takes us inside the legendary Larry Bird-led Celtics teams, capturing the camaraderie as they dominated the NBA. Fans can witness the cockiness of Larry Bird (who once walked into an All-Star Weekend locker room, announced that he was going to win the three-point contest, and did); the ageless athleticism of Robert Parish; the shooting skills of Kevin McHale; the fierce, self-sacrificing play of Bill Walton; and the playful humor of players like Danny Ainge, Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell, and M.L. Carr. For any fan who longs to return—for just a few hours—to those magical years when the Boston Garden rocked and the winner’s circle was mostly colored Boston Green, Wish It Lasted Forever is a masterful tribute to “the Celtics from 1982–1986 [that] is so good even fervent Celtics haters will have trouble putting it down” (New York Post).
Written by Adams's editor and close-friend, an authorized biography of the late author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels offers a larger-than-life portrait of the inimitable Douglas Adams, based on material from the author's family. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
The events of this novel unfold through the eyes of Hershl, who leaves his small town to become educated only to return to the Pale of Settlement in the wake of the pogroms in 1881. S. Y. Abramovitsh's famed epic novel explores the social upheaval of Russian Jews who are forced by poverty to leave their homes. The novel achieved canonical status both in its Yiddish original and in its Hebrew version, under the title In the Vale of Tears. In this work Michael Wex renders the time-worn tale with the skill and ease of a modern storyteller and humorist. Abramovitsh's artistry lies not in the plot but in his descriptions and ever-shifting narrative voice. Sometimes the narrator (Mendele the Bookseller) speaks from within the shtetl and sometimes from outside; and often he interweaves the high rhetorical prose of Hershl himself, reborn by the novel's end as Heinrich Cohen. Wex's adroit new translation will appeal to scholars of Yiddish fiction and general readers alike.
99 Things You Wish You New Before Making It Big In Media It's about how to chase your dream and stand above the crowd In life there is a formula for success. In his book 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big in Media author Steve Kowch gives you a short cut to 40 years experience of surviving the media jungle from reporter to running some of the largest news talk radio stations in Canada. This book is about how to chase your dream. Understanding that your dream is part of your DNA. It is who you are. It is the path in life you must follow to succeed in reaching your destiny! 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big In Media is about how Steve Kowch channelled his passion, attitude, determination, luck and commitment to being a story teller and making others shine so that they can stand above the crowd. His experience translates into all forms of employment because at the end of the day it's all about you and your dream! This book is about attitude! It's about determination! It's about sacrifices! It's about that fire in your belly that won't let you sleep nights until you get your chance to chase and live your dream. It's about tapping into your inner strength and talents you were born with to exploit and to ignore those around you who have no faith in what you know you can do best! Steve Kowch has had an incredible career reporting on some of the biggest stories, mentoring some of the biggest names in Canadian media and generating award winning coverage of events that shaped the lives of an entire generation. It is no wonder many journalism professors would like to see 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big in Media as required reading for their students. Steve Kowch provides you with his tricks of the trade to demonstrate how YOU too can succeed by using your imagination and the power of positive attitude. The author's message is simple. You can't stand out if you're not better than everyone else where you work. If you're lost in the crowd at work how will a prospective employer even know you exist?
