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The Heart of Leadership: Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be-but first, you've got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest. Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more-they must be competent-but that's just the tip of the iceberg. What's below the waterline? What's deep inside the best leaders that make them...
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The acclaimed leadership expert offers a proven, research-based method for creating workplaces where everyone performs at the highest level.
All high-performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. In the fifth and final book of Mark Miller's High-Performance series, he uses his trademark business fable format...
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For millions of Americans, the COVID shock has brought retirement saving to an abrupt halt-now it's time to get back on track.
Even before the pandemic, a large share of households by Americans over age 50 faced the threat that their living standards would decline sharply in retirement. In the wake of COVID-19, these numbers will surely worsen. In Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial Strategies for Getting Back on Track, finance writer and...
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There is a long-standing truth in the world of organizations: talent wins! But how do you attract the best people? What do they really want? Based on his rigorous and extensive research, Mark Miller learned that top performers are looking for very different things than solid contributors. In Talent Magnet, Miller uses a clever and entertaining business fable to share these findings. He tells the parallel stories of Blake Brown, a CEO struggling with...
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The "Been there, done that" culture is starving for reality. Hardly satisfied with the modern conventions of citing facts and figures and pushing propositions, emerging churches are jumping into the narrative form of communication with both feet. But not all emerging church leaders have an inherent handle on the craft and skill of using narrative as a sermon form. Experiential Storytelling zeros in on the hows and whys of narrative, as well as the...
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Teams are critical to the success of every organization. Departmental, interdepartmental, cross-functional, ad hoc, task-specific-teams do everything from planning the office party to setting the annual budget to establishing performance goals. But what separates the teams that really deliver from the ones that simply spin their wheels? What is the secret of high-performance teams? As he did in The Secret, Mark Miller uses a compelling business fable...
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Cada gran empresa tiene un equipo de trabajo comprometido... y nutrir una cultura de compromiso está en el corazón del gran liderazgo. Empleados a quienes en realidad les importan su trabajo, sus compañeros y la organización pueden llevar el éxito de una empresa a otro nivel. Sin embargo, durante muchos años, el compromiso ha estado menguando. Gallup reporta que el 70% de los empleados no tienen compromiso pleno en su trabajo.
En Gane el corazón,...
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¿Adónde van las princesas de cuento después de ser felices para siempre?
La tierra de Empíreo alberga todos los mitos y el folclore de la infancia. Las princesas de antaño se convirtieron en las cuatro grandes reinas de esta tierra gobernada por la magia.
Ahora su tierra está en peligro. Una de las reinas ha desaparecido. Sin la cuarta reina, la Maldad Olvidada será liberada de su antigua prisión.
Dos hermanas, Zandria y Olena, viven en...
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A timely guide to overcoming the retirement challenges we all face
The Great Recession has placed a wake-up call to America's baby boomers. Many have not saved enough for retirement and have not taken a hard look at how many post-work years they may need to finance.
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security tackles the tough questions about retirement in the new post-crash economy.
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What makes for a truly exceptional leader? Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more-they must be competent-but that's just the tip of the iceberg. What's below the waterline? What's deep inside the best leaders that makes them different? Mark Miller contends it is their leadership character. In this enlightening and entertaining business fable, young...
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Where do fairytale princesses go after their happily ever after?
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...
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Grandes líderes crean grandes organizaciones. Sin embargo, una escasez de líderes hoy significa un déficit en el desempeño de mañana. ¡No juegue con el futuro de su empresa! No es necesario esperar que aparezcan líderes en las filas o que reclutadores puedan encontrar de forma oportuna a los líderes que necesita. ¡La esperanza no es una estrategia! Usted puede crear una cultura en su organización que garantizará que su fuente de liderazgo...
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Can you miss someone you never knew?
Zandria and Olena's mother has been missing for the past six years. In many ways, it's like they never knew her at all. The pain of their loss is realized the night after the great battle. Zandria discovers a hidden crystal imprisoning their missing mother.
This discovery sends Zandria on a new quest, while Adam leads a rescue mission of his own. However, the wicked ringleader of the Carnivale Chaotica, Raymond...
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Las ideas grandiosas no importan si no se pueden ejecutar.
Mark Miller, autor de mayor venta y experto en el liderazgo, ofrece un método basado en la investigación para crear lugares de trabajo donde todos se desempeñan al más alto nivel. Todas las organizaciones de alto rendimiento tienen una cosa en común: la ejecución.
Los hombres y las mujeres que trabajan allí mantienen su rendimiento a niveles aparentemente inauditos de precisión,...
15) Raptor Island
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Dinosaur George's uncle is missing!
Professor Stone was the world's leading paleontologist. At least, until the day he disappeared. Now George is searching for him.
No one knows where Professor Stone is, but that's not the only problem. They don't know when he is either. Thanks to Dr. Morgan's invention, the professor is lost in time.
To save his uncle, George joins a team of scientists and explorers. Armed with hi-tech gadgets, they will travel...
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Eat your vegetables. Do your homework. Save the world.
When you read this book, you become an Agent-in-Training for the Small World Global Protection Agency.
Your mission: Join star athlete Josh and computer prodigy Madison as they travel the world, trying to stop the sinister minions of BIXAR (pronounced "bizarre") - while learning about the countries they visit.
In Bulls and Burglars, Josh and Madison are on the case in Spain. The infamous...
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Five women rose in the dark of a Sunday morning on Nisan 18, AD 30. They had agreed to meet together in the most densely populated city in the Roman Empire to perform a necessary but cheerless and gruesome task. Two of them were relatives of the deceased man; each of the other three had been healed by his touch. Their mission was critical. In the rush to entomb their Rabbi by nightfall three and a half days earlier, a crucial step had been omitted-that...
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A secret, wrapped in a mystery, hidden in a ring.
There is no greater loneliness than self-doubt. Olena has been Queen of the Eastern Sky for almost a year. She is surrounded by friends, queens and servants. But her sister, Zandria, is off on another adventure without her. And worse, what little magic Olena knew has stopped working.
Olena feels alone and helpless.
Then she discovers a forgotten gift from the Prismata — a bronze ring.
When she...
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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.
The one question he asks himself is "How far would you go to keep your faith?"
The only answer Luke can find...
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The death of a child. Life-threatening illness. Plane crashes. Terror attacks. Natural disasters. Some of us never fully recover from unimaginable traumas like these, but some not only survive-they bounce back to thrive and grow. Jolt tells the stories of people transformed by trauma, and the new paths that they pursue.
• Molly McDonald was an affluent suburban Detroit mom who faced financial ruin following a diagnosis of breast cancer. She started...