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Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

Great ideas don’t matter if you can’t execute - best-selling leadership expert Mark Miller offers a proven, research-based method for creating workplaces where everyone performs at the highest level. The author uses his trademark business fable format to show how any organization can cultivate the kind of everyday habits that yield extraordinary results. Miller gives you proven tools to release the untapped potential in your people, create a strong competitive advantage, and win not just on game day but every day.

Change Your Space, Change Your Culture is a guide to transforming business by rethinking the workplace. Written by a team of trail-blazing leaders, this audiobook reveals the secrets of companies that discovered the power of culture and space. This insightful guide reveals what companies lose by viewing office space as something to manage or minimize.

Legacy in the Making celebrates an active, dynamic form of "modern legacy," seen through the eyes of a select group of extraordinary men and women who are pursuing their enduring ambitions in the age of now. More than caretakers of the past, these modern legacy builders are also the authors of a vital today and tomorrow. Rather than leaving their legacies behind them, they are looking ahead to harness their long-term ambitions and inspire others to help carry them forward. These are not static, traditional legacies. These are legacies in the making.

¿Qué es lo que hace que un líder sea verdaderamente excepcional? Sin duda, los líderes necesitan don de gentes, habilidades de ejecución, un conocimiento profundo de las tendencias de la industria, y la capacidad de articular una visión; y más aún: deben ser competentes. Pero eso es sólo la punta del iceberg. ¿Qué hay debajo de la línea de flotación? ¿Qué se esconde dentro de los mejores líderes, que los hace diferentes? Mark Miller sostiene que es el carácter.

There are not many successful entrepreneurs who will enthusiastically break off in the middle of a multi-million pound deal to have a huge snowball fight in the car park with their finance director. But then, Mark Mills is not just any successful entrepreneur. Whether organizing one of his infamous summer Christmas parties, flying to New York to find a new business idea, or staying up all night to celebrate a successful deal, Mark Mills has always believed in the absolute importance of having fun in business. And not just for him, but for his employees, customers, and suppliers, too.

In the fourth book in Miller’s High Performance series, CEO Blake Brown sets out to discover how to create the kind of workplace where everyone feels excited to come to work, passionate about what he or she brings to the company, and energized at the end of the day. It’s a journey that takes him literally all over the world - from Italy to Greece to Green Bay and more. What he discovers from the pages of history is as relevant as the evening news.

Based on interviews and analyses (qualitative and quantitative) of thousands of the world's leading salespeople, across a mix of industries, cultures, and context, the authors present the most rigorous evaluation of how salespeople behave and how they are driven. The authors of The Salesperson's Secret Code combine hard data with intelligent insight to tell, with verve and skill, how the world s best salespeople continue to thrive in uncertain times and how others can learn from their success.

The land of Empyrean is home to all the myths and folklore of childhood. The princesses of once upon a time became the four great queens of this land ruled by magic. Now their land is in danger. One of the queens has disappeared. Without the fourth queen, the Forgotten Evil will be freed from its ancient prison. Two sisters, Zandria and Olena, live in a tiny village by the sea. Their world is about to get bigger. With his dying breath, Zandria’s father tells her that she is to be the new queen. The sisters flee their home, chased by werewolves, facing danger at every turn....

Luke Umble believed he was a man of God. One fateful decision could test all of his beliefs. With the support of his wife Annie, they uproot their family in an attempt to save the ones they love. Luke is challenged on all sides by his cantankerous father, his oldest son’s rebellion and even his youngest daughter’s Muscular Dystrophy.

Sometimes, only a kid can save the day.... Star athlete Josh and computer prodigy Madison begin the adventure of a lifetime when they discover the Small World Global Protection Agency. The GPA is a secret organization dedicated to helping other kids and saving the day when adults can’t. In New Kids on the Rock, their first mission takes them to Australia, where they go from the Outback to the top of the Sydney Opera House!

The most important attribute high-performing organizations have in common is that they are well led. Every organization dreams of having enough leaders. Yet too many organizations take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. The result is a dearth of leaders and a failure to leverage the full capacity of the enterprise.

In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask", a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent corporate authoritarianism threatened to subvert constitutional democracy.

A return to the period adventure thriller in Where Dead Men Meet reestablishes Mark Mills as 'a master storyteller' (Val McDermid). For fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming or Robert Harris. Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton - a junior air intelligence officer at the British embassy - finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity, or so it first appears.

Are you struggling with debt and saving money? Do you find that near the end of the month, there is more month left than money? Does your family need and want more out of life than you can financially afford? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you.

Doggo ist der wahrscheinlich hässlichste Hund der Welt. Und er gehört jetzt, mehr so aus Versehen, Daniel. Doggo stellt Daniels Alltag völlig auf den Kopf - und wird sein ganz spezieller Freund. Und den kann Daniel gut gebrauchen, denn er hat nicht nur einen Großvater mit Alzheimer und eine Mutter, die viele Jahre ein ziemlich großes Geheimnis mit sich herumgetragen hat, sondern auch Probleme an der Liebesfront.

Daniels Freundin haut ab - und hinterlässt ihm nichts als einen Brief voller Beleidigungen und einen hässlichen Köter namens Doggo. Eigentlich wollte Daniel nie einen Hund, aber schon bald wird Doggo ihm ein ganz spezieller Freund. Und den kann Daniel gut gebrauchen, denn er hat nicht nur Probleme an der Liebesfront, sondern erfährt auch etwas, das sein Leben ziemlich auf den Kopf stellt. Doch auch Doggo trägt ein Geheimnis in sich, und eines Tages kann Daniel sich endlich bei ihm revanchieren...

In his latest business fable, top leadership author Mark Miller tells the story of newly appointed CEO Blake Brown, who takes over a company distressed by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous job seems to help him deal with the bigger, more complex problems he now faces. The game has changed. As his new mentor points out, Blake is playing a simple game of checkers when he should be playing chess.

Now several years post-divorce, relationship expert and humorist Mark Miller has experienced more than 500 first dates. In 500 Dates, composed of 55 humor essays, Miller features the highlights and lowlights of those dates.

No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love.