A team of extinct animals embark on top-secret missions around the world in this new graphic novel series! Meet Scratch, Martie, Lug, and Quito, members of a secret organization called R.O.A.R., or the Rescue Ops Acquisition Rangers. When their boss, Dr. Z, finally calls on them for their first big mission, the team heads to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost. Scratch is thrilled at the chance to prove his worth to Dr. Z—but as soon as they land, the team runs into a mysterious enemy determined to take them down. With exciting missions, plenty of humor, and an environmental angle, this series starter from New York Times bestselling illustrator Scott Magoon is an action-packed adventure from start to finish. The book will also include nonfiction back matter about extinct animals, climate change, and what kids can do to help!
The journey of a business-from a small start-up to a large company ready for an initial public offering (IPO)-is fraught with pitfalls and landmines. To scale a company, one needs to do more than just expand distribution and ramp up revenue. Scale entails a long-term vision that includes putting in place a timeline to achieve anticipated milestones, hiring and managing the right talent, sourcing capital to support expansion and building in simple yet effective processes as well as technology. Scaling requires the founders and the leadership team to understand the different pieces of the puzzle of scale and the components of organization-building. From Pony to Unicorn lucidly describes the X-to-10X journey that every start-up aspiring to become a unicorn has to go through. The book effortlessly narrates the fundamental principles behind scaling. Peppered with anecdotes, insights and practical wisdom, the book is a treasure trove of lessons derived from the authors' rich personal experiences in both building and guiding several start-ups that went on to attain the 'unicorn' status and became public-listed companies. Guaranteed to make for a very interesting read, the book will be useful to entrepreneurs, leaders and investors involved in scaling start-ups.
The world is in a permanent state of change. We must work in new ways. To change the work we must change how we manage; how we think about management. What got you here won't get you there. There are new ways of managing which are changing business, government, and not-for-profit organisations, big and small. This isn't about leaders, it's about managers. It's not about mystical mind methods, it's about principles to work by. It's about agility, the agile Manager. This book starts your journey. The book has four sections: 1. A set of principles which you as an agile manager must get your head around in order to function in the new world. 2. A set of management practices which follow from those principles. 3. A set of agile work practices that you need to understand and support. 4. Guidance on the journey to new ways of working. . . . Agile is a way of thinking about work. Agile is a thing now, it has become a noun as well as an adjective. Agile thinking is impacting Information Technology, enterprises, government, and society. It may have started in IT but now it is transforming work everywhere, and even how we think. Its impact is far-reaching enough to talk of it as a renaissance in thinking, a refresh or step change that comes only once or twice a century. This is not an exaggeration. . . . It is not just Agile, there is a suite of new ideas transforming work. They all aim for "better value sooner, safer, happier". We simply call them the New Ways of Working, NWoW. This book is about the impact of these new ways on management in the modern enterprise. . . . The new thinking empowers people to be knowledge workers, to design the work and make the decisions. It treats them like they are over 18 and on the same side. Conventional management too often treats people like clerical workers, like plug-compatible wetware, like Human Resources, who can't be trusted, who are evaluated numerically, who are an overhead to be minimised, who need to be told what to do and how to do it. Which is not conducive to satisfaction and mental health. . . . The Agile way is iterative, incremental, experimenting, exploring complex systems. These are displacing the ideas of conventional enterprises: big-bang projects; zero risk; certainty and accuracy; plan once execute perfectly; failure is not an option. Along the way Agile is resurfacing (and standing on the shoulders of) the ideas of Lean, which ironically go back pre-second-world-war; and Agile is drawing on the principles of complex systems and the modern understanding of human behaviour and social constructs. . . . At least as important, though, is New Ways of Managing. Too often, management views the transformation to New Ways as something done to improve the practitioner workforce, not management. This can't be. For an organisation to change, the management must change. This is one of the biggest issues facing organisations moving to agile ways of working. Managers must understand and focus on empowerment, collaboration, agility, and flow. Why focus on management in agile transformation? Because we see it often neglected, and because it is the key. This book is about how to manage in an agile way, not what agile work looks like. Plenty has been written about that. . . . It is our personal offering. We hope you like it and derive value from it. Join our community and tell us how you felt about it.
Gallop through the universe with dazzling unicorns! Explore the galaxy in the most magical way possible with incredible sticker art! Gareth Moore's Sticker Mosaics: Unicorn Universe takes you to a surreal world among the stars where unicorns roam free. Begin your stickering quest with any of 12 enchanting puzzles. Match the stickers to their numbered spots on each project page, and witness the transformation from a blank page into fascinating modern art.Perforated pages make it simple for you to remove your mosaic for sharing or framing. Ignite your creativity, building scenes of colorful unicorns soaring across the universe. Immerse yourself in the completely unique world of Sticker Mosaics: Unicorn Universe and discover the satisfaction of mosaic works of art!
Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space. One response to such changes has been to make cities ecologically sustainable and 'smart'. The 'eco smart city' for instance uses networked sensing, cloud and mobile computing to optimise, control, and regulate urban processes and resources. From real-time bus information to autonomous electric vehicles, smart parking, and smart street lighting, such initiatives are often presented as a social and environmental good. Critics, however, increasingly argue that technologically driven, and efficiency-led approaches are too simplistic to deal with the complexities of urban life. Sustainability in the smart city is predominantly performed in limited ways that leave little room for participation and citizen agency despite government efforts to integrate innovative technologies in more equitable ways. More importantly, there is a growing awareness that a human-centred notion of cities, in which urban space is designed for, and inhabited by, humans only, is no longer tenable. Within the age of the Anthropocene - a term used to refer to a new geological era in which human activity is transforming Earth systems, accelerating climate change and causing mass extinctions - scholars and practitioners are working generatively by acknowledging the entanglements between human and non-human others (including plants, animals, insects, as well as soil, water, and sensors and their data) in urban life. In Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, renowned researchers and practitioners from urban planning, architecture, environmental humanities, geography, design, arts, and computing critically explore smart cities beyond a human-centred approach. They respond to the complex interrelations between human and non-human others in urban space. Through theory, policy and practice (past and present), and thinking speculatively about how smart cities may evolve in the future, the book makes a timely contribution to lively, contemporary scientific and political debates on genuinely sustainable smart cities.
New 2020 Weekly & Monthly Planner Cover Soft Cover (Matte) Size 8.5 x 11 inches (21.59 x 27.94 centimeters) Interior Blank Wide Ruled Lightly Lined White Paper 120 lined pages (60 front/back sheets) 12 months from January 2020 to December 2020. 2020 Year at a Glance showing each month. Monthly planning pages across a two-page horizontal layout. A week is featured across a two-page horizontal layout. Goals for this year page to help you to set & achieve your goals. Emmergency, Information & Contacts page. Important Dates & Birthdays page. Multiples pages specifically for taking Notes. Cute little unicorns on each page. Gray boxes on the right side of the page are mimicking monthly tabs to let you navigate easily through your planner. This beautiful & artistic 2020 Planner is the perfect tasks & goals organizer for personal or professional use, either for school, the office or home. Get this agenda for yourself, a friend, a family member or a co-worker or even your boss. Everyone needs to stay organized in their life and this is the best gift for it. Search ""Creative Spirits Planners"" on Amazon or Click under the title at the top of the page to see more styles of planners. Click the ""Add to Cart"" button and don't waste any time.
Learn to live life every day as your true, magnetic, magical self with this personal and practical guide by the author of Open. Being a unicorn means being true to your authentic self in every aspect of your life—at home, at work, and in relationships. It means having the confidence to share your shine every day, no matter what. When you’re good at being yourself, you’ll make other people feel good about being themselves, too. In Be That Unicorn, Jenny Block shows you how to stop hiding your truth and start finding your magic. Be That Unicorn shows you how to live your truth in so many ways, including: Parenting and taking care of the people you love Volunteering your time and inspiring your community Learning and growing into your best self Playing and loving with a full heart
New 2020 Weekly & Monthly Planner Cover Soft Cover (Matte) Size 8.5 x 11 inches (21.59 x 27.94 centimeters) Interior Blank Wide Ruled Lightly Lined White Paper 120 lined pages (60 front/back sheets) 12 months from January 2020 to December 2020. 2020 Year at a Glance showing each month. Monthly planning pages across a two-page horizontal layout. A week is featured across a two-page horizontal layout. Goals for this year page to help you to set & achieve your goals. Emmergency, Information & Contacts page. Important Dates & Birthdays page. Multiples pages specifically for taking Notes. Cute little unicorns on each page. Gray boxes on the right side of the page are mimicking monthly tabs to let you navigate easily through your planner. This beautiful & artistic 2020 Planner is the perfect tasks & goals organizer for personal or professional use, either for school, the office or home. Get this agenda for yourself, a friend, a family member or a co-worker or even your boss. Everyone needs to stay organized in their life and this is the best gift for it. Search ""Creative Spirits Planners"" on Amazon or Click under the title at the top of the page to see more styles of planners. Click the ""Add to Cart"" button and don't waste any time.
In The Unicorn's Shadow, Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick takes us to the forefront of an empirical revolution in entrepreneurship. New data and better research methods have overturned the conventional wisdom behind what a successful founder looks like, how they succeed, and how the startup ecosystem works.
Do you love unicorns? This is a planner to use anytime anywhere to help keep you organized and on top of your busy world. A great journal planner to keep track of your activities, thoughts, and things that make you happy. It is 6 X 9 with 125 pages that will fit conveniently in your purse, bag, car dash etc. Makes for a great gift for any occasion for all the great people in your life.
