Paul McCarthy
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To survive disruption, organizations need disruptive leaders.
So they hire them. And then they fire them.
It's the open secret everyone in the leadership industry knows but nobody is addressing: leadership culture is toxic, and leadership systems have failed. Publicly, organizations say they want leaders to be innovative thinkers who challenge the status quo. Privately, conventional leadership culture wants nothing of the sort. Leaders deemed as...
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Letterati spans the history of competitive Scrabble® in North America from the colorful hustlers of the 1960s New York game rooms, to the hard driving quantitative tile pushers who dominate the game today with strategic skills and memorized vocabularies. Yet, there is more to the history of Scrabble® than just playing the game. There is a parallel plot line that revolves around many of the top players, who over the years have wanted to see the game...
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Graduate text designed to prepare student for further study in the theory of fields, especially in algebraic number theory and class field theory. Galois theory and theory of valuations examined; special attention to development of infinite Galois theory, also detailed analysis of prolongation of rank-one valuations. Reviews. Over 200 exercises. Bibliography.
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Claude "Sweet Tooth" Barbee and his gang of cutthroat outlaws – the most wanted men in Texas – are on a desperate ride across five hundred miles of badlands to recover a fortune in hidden loot from their most daring robbery. But Barbee and his crew aren't the only coldblooded killers riding the range. With a large "dead or alive" cash bounty on their heads, the outlaws are being picked off one by one. What began as a hard journey driven by greed...