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BUSINESS IS A MACHINE, AND ULTIMATELY THE BEST ROBOT WINS. Today's trend is to believe that everything in business rises and falls on leadership, but where is the strategy in that approach? Encompassing both strategy and leadership are the four basic elements that are the bedrock to business management: planning, leading, organizing, and control. Artificial intelligence and the robot revolution have created the need for an evolution of these vintage management principles.Whether you are a task-oriented or a people-oriented leader, Krystal Parker, former executive for a Fortune 200 publicly traded oil and gas company, believes that any leader who wants to construct the best machine must align human workers, processes, and systems with their enterprise's mission, vision, and values.THIS IS WHERE AND HOW THE BEST ROBOT WINS!

In Kali's Travels, I aim to help parents and guardians understand how scary it is for a little child to see their world packed up in boxes and their life uprooted. I hope these words will help explain to your little boy or girl what happens when we, as adults, are asked to move our families. This book shows them it is okay to be scared to move away from our homes and friends and that there will always be more exciting adventures in the next place filled with new friends, new places, and new memories to be made. --Marlene Norgard

This book began as a poem I wrote while my husband was deployed through his first child's first year. He struggled as he missed his son's first words, first foods, first steps, and first birthday. While only seeing his son's little world through photographs, he emotionally grappled to connect with him and become a father figure. In what I wrote, I hoped to capture all of the sentiments associated with military families-parents and children-when facing a deployment. Nothing can give them that time back with their children, and nothing makes up for that initial absence of connection between deployed parent and their children, especially a first child. In this book, I highlight the similarities of their current geographical worlds and draw father and son closer by showing they are both looking at the same moon, stars, and sun. It helped my son connect with his daddy, knowing when he looked up in the sky at the same time his daddy was too. They could share a moment together, and my son and I could feel less alone. -Marlene Norgard

REMEMBERING Paule is the compelling story of two friends, novelist Paule Marshall and folklorist and literary critic Daryl Cumber Dance, both committed truth-tellers, teachers, cultural critics, writers, and activists who wielded their pens to revolutionize their literary world. Marshall is often hailed as the matriarch of the Black Women's Literary Renaissance. Her Brown Girl, Brownstones signaled a new day in African Diasporic women's writing. Daryl Dance has been dubbed 'the Dean of American folklore' for her work in African American and Jamaican folklore.

Praise for The Double Win...Rodney's book is a proven roadmap to health in your work, your faith, and your family.Every chapter is simultaneously entertaining, inspiring, and incrediblypractical for real-life issues. This message is so needed in our culture. I needed it! I'm thankfulfor The Double Win, and you'll be thankful for this book too.-Dave Willis , Pastor, Podcaster, and AuthorThe Double Win is a timely and thought-provoking book to help you avoid the almost inevitablecollision between your "calling" to your career and your family. I lived it. Rodney Gagegives busy individuals and families the godly, practical wisdom, and logical steps to say no to themany good options so they can say yes to the best. -Dave Brat, Ph.D., Dean, School of Business, Liberty UniversityMy friend Rodney Gage had me at "Work and at Home" in the subtitle of his latest bookThe Double Win. Relationally healthy people don't live compartmentalized lives.We all live by patterns. You can't be one way at home and another at work. There are names,even memes, for those who do! No doubt, living a congruous life is healthy, winning,and helpful to you and those around you. Go for The Double Win. -Sam Chand, Leadership Consultant and author of Change Has Changed (www.samchand.com)Finally a book that provides actual steps to help create balance and success in your personaland professional life. As a wife, mother, and executive leader, the demands arehigh, and the North Star can become cloudy. Not only can I apply these principles in my ownlife, but can help those around me to create a broader impact.-Emily Gray, SVP, Customer Success & SaaS ExecutiveRodney Gage's book challenges readers to focus on what truly matters and reevaluate whatis necessary versus what is negotiable. The Double Win is an incredible resource thatgives practical ways to incorporate work with God's purpose for your life. An excellent read!-Penny Nance, CEO and President, Concerned Women for America

You don''t just need a team; you need a killer team.A staff doesn''t make a team, but it can become one. In this work, Shawn Lovejoy will teach you how to build, in the words of Merriam-Webster, a "strikingly impressive and effective" team without killing yourself or your team in the process.In this practical application guide, you''ll discover how to:Foster Togetherness.Identify, Recruit, and Retain Top Talent.Have Meetings That Matter.Bolster Accountability.Build a Deeper Bench.Inspire Your Team.Deal with Underperformers.Release team members the right way.And so much more!You will not get very far without a killer team. The book you hold in your hand will help you build that team while maintaining your sanity and credibility in the process.

The Double Win8 Questions Everyone Must AskTo Win at Work and at HomeOur lives have become much more complicated and fast-paced than only a few decades ago, and people in all seasons and from all walks of life are struggling to juggle the demands of work and home. Whether you are single, married, parents, or attempting to lead your blended family, or if your stark reality is that you are on an unsustainable trajectory and something has to give, Rodney Gage's The Double Win is for you.As you search your heart and answer pivotal questions in the areas of:Motives, Beliefs, Dreams, Values, Priorities, Expectations, Success & LegacyYou will step off the treadmill of stress and find balance, meaning, peace, and strength. Yes! You can have a healthy, functional, and fulfilling life-at work and at home. It's a Double Win!"I have watched up close as Rodney lived out the message of this book. He has the moral authority and the gifting to help you accomplish the double win!"-Shawn Lovejoy,Founder & CEO, CourageToLead

Should you wish to take a few moments to bask in kingdom truth and values, Change Your World: Inspiration to Empower the Church in the Marketplace will provide just such an opportunity. This collection of inspiring and innovative reflections from book excerpts, interviews, and articles from Inspire magazine, and the Inspire podcast include topics such asgrowthpurposecommunitygiftsand more, shared by entrepreneurs and changemakers with a vision to impact culture and influence change. Regardless of your sphere of influence-business, media, government, education, or elsewhere-prepare to feel supported and encouraged by these excellent and praiseworthy thoughts. Connect on a deeper level as you come alongside others who, like you, hope to share kingdom blessing and influence with the world beyond the church.

┬┐EST├üS LISTO PARA ESCALAR?En su aclamada serie "Escaleras", el Dr. Sam Chand utiliza la imagen de escalar una escalera para describir aspectos clave en el trayecto de un l├¡der. En L├¡deres de escalera, el Dr. Chand destila los principios transformadores que lo han hecho un reconocido consultor, orador y "coach" de miles de l├¡deres efectivos. Este libro est├í construido en torno a tres ├íreas de competencia que todo l├¡der debe dominar: desarrollar gente a tu alrededor ("El equipo"), desarrollar tus habilidades ("La tarea") y desarrollar un plan para tu pr├│ximo movimiento osado ("La transici├│n")."El desaf├¡o del liderazgo es prestar atenci├│n a estas tres grandes ├íreas en simult├íneo", escribe el Dr. Chand. "Mi esperanza y mi oraci├│n es que este libro estimule la reflexi├│n y provea herramientas que nos fortalezcan en las escaleras que cada uno de nosotros escalamos".La mirada pr├íctica que encontrar├ís en L├¡deres de escalera resonar├í en ti sin importar en qu├⌐ etapa de tu trayecto de liderazgo te encuentres. 

Preparing Integral Leaders of TomorrowEvery person on earth is a leader in some shape or form. Whether you are established or you aspire to have more impact in your sphere of influence-your home, academic institution, nonprofit organization, or for-profit business-what does your leadership style reflect about you?Because Nicholas John believes that "Leaders have the singular effect of shaping our world-both past and present," he has made his mission Preparing Integral Leaders of Tomorrow . . . PILOT. In PILOT you will find timeless and priceless building blocks to help you build a solid foundation of future leadership as you embark, or continue, on your leadership journey. Gauge your effectiveness based on principle-centered measures: Responsibility before results.Character before conduct.Faithfulness before fruitfulness.If you have a desire to live a meaningful and purposeful life and leave a lasting memory on earth as a true leader, then PILOT: Preparing Integral Leaders of Tomorrow will certainly help you achieve this.

Excellence in EverythingIf service were a simple task, there wouldn''t be so many scathing Yelp reviews or dissatisfied customers venting online, on their smartphones, or at the nearest restaurant or dry cleaners. Such pique has a cost: One survey found that 94 percent of respondents avoided a purchase after reading a negative online review. Eighty percent changed their mind about a recommended purchase because of a "thumbs down."  Mike Kai has encountered reasons for such reactions, be that botched food orders, unreasonable delays, or service with anything but a smile. The way to overcome such business killers lies in the teaching implicit in a centuries-old story: King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Although details of the queen''s visit to the famed, wise leader of Israel are brief, in this creative reflection Mike weaves the details of what we do know into modern-day business principles. In doing so, he shows how it is possible to employ the kind of excellence that turned the heads of royalty years ago-and will still impress others.

Are you ready for the climb?In his acclaimed "Ladder" series, Dr. Sam Chand utilized the imagery of climbing a ladder to describe key aspects of the leader''s journey. In Ladder Leaders, Dr. Chand provides an accessible distillation of the life-changing principles that have made him an in-demand consultant, speaker and coach to thousands of effective leaders. This book is built around three areas of competence every leader must master: developing people around you ("The Team"), developing your skills ("The Task") and developing a plan for your next bold move ("The Transition")."The challenge of leadership is simultaneous attention to all three of these broad areas," Dr. Chand writes. "My hope and prayer are that this book will stimulate self-reflection and provide tools for strengthening our grip on the ladders each of us climbs."The practical insight found in Ladder Leaders will resonate, no matter on what stage of your leadership journey you find yourself. 

DO YOUR PERSONAL HABITS KEEP YOU FROM REACHING YOUR ultimate life? Are they aligned with your goals? Are they inhibiting your personal growth? Have they limited your efforts to advance in life? If you answered "Yes!" to any of these questions, you are not alone, and Dave Martin, America's #1 Christian Success Coach, knows how to help you change that.In his latest book, Make That, Break That, he applies stories of historically successful men and women with the latest statistical evidence to prove that anyone-yes, even you-can succeed at developing new, productive habits. His deliberate, multi-step method is so easy to implement that your old habits will seem to fade away with little or no effort on your part.As you read Make That, Break That, you will: Discover God's plan in creating people with a habitual nature. Learn how to make your habitual nature work for-not against-you. Recognize your habits of mediocrity, so they can be replaced by habits of greatness. Implement a plan to make those great habits permanent in your life.Nothing is more important to your success in life than developing habits worth having-habits that drive you toward the destiny embedded in your soul.

When my brother and I were very young, my father would tuck us in bed and tell us bedtime stories. He had a great imagination and would tell us these fantastic tales and embellish them with descriptions of the characters and places. My brother and I would get excited with all the fun things he would describe. I remember as I got older that I would lie there and make up different endings to his stories that I thought were better. At the time I had no idea that this creative and stimulating atmosphere would be the foundation for my fantasies. As a young boy my mother nicknamed me the, "Dreamer", as I often escaped into the world of my own fantasies. My mother said I would never amount to anything if I spent all of my time pondering the magical. I have learned that all people and all things are only what is conceived in the mind. I was guided into the art world, and art and music became my sole interests. Sometime later I discovered girls, then my fantasies became sexual about the women that I knew. It was in a way the means to making interesting evaluations, which in many cases were accurate. I started to illustrate the ideas I had about people and sex and their aberrations. My serious interest in art then paved the road to art schools, good professors and attaining the skill for traditional work. But, in the back of my mind was lingering the mystical and magic of my fantasies. I started to use shorthand symbols that were my own alphabet of meaning, and the scope grew and has never stopped. I am very much aware that most of my imagery is very foreign to the viewer, but with time and emotional response, I think people will get into my world. I am so entertained while executing the drawing, I can't help but think the viewer can reach this same level. It is my world and I would like to share it with you.- Christian Title