Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success.
The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.35 | Other | 16 July 2015
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The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue composite of all the major booklists. It brings together over 100 of the most influential book awards and reading lists from leading magazines, newspapers, reference books, schools, libraries, parenting organizations, and professional groups from across the country.
Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last-but one day, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary is written by a woman named Suzanne and is addressed to her new baby boy, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about the joy he has brought her. As Katie reads this moving story, she realizes that the man she's fallen in love with is Suzanne's husband, Nicholas' father. She reads on, filled with terror and hope as she struggles to understand what happened and whether her new love can survive.
Susan Ericksen's portraits of the characters are vivid, passionate, and at the same time tranquil which fit the style of the novel perfectly. The original files consist of 1580 mp3s, one of each lasts around half a miniute. I spent some time to make them merge into chapters, but a minor error occured which I couldn't explain: several words were lost at the end of chapter 35. The last sentence reads: I rose from the thanksgiving-took a resolve-and lay down, unscared, enlightened-eager but for the daylight. The mp3 ends at the words of "lay down". So I'd like to make an apology beforehand.
Continuing with his life's work of helping people discover their destinies--the author takes the indirect route here by sharing the writings of leaders who have influenced him. Like Dyer, his role models reached ahead of their times to make a difference and lived lives that unfolded "independent of the good opinion of others." One of the most informed spiritual teachers of our time, Dyer reads unobtrusively and with great reverence for these works. As a collection, they are powerful medicine for the estrangement that pervades so much of Western life.
