![]() ![]() One great manager asked “how can you manage people if you don’t know them, their style, their motivation, their personal situation.” (pg 14) The key finding from the survey of great managers is that they are focused, disciplined and most importantly possess a willingness to individualize how they treat each employee. The most powerful finding from the employee interviews is that “ Talented employees need great managers” (page 11). ![]() Gallup interviewed over one million employees and eighty thousand managers. The Gallup Organization set out to measure how to create strong workplaces (defined as ones which attract and retain the more productive employees and “scare way the ROAD warriors)”. This book is based on results from two massive research projects undertaken by the Gallup Organization. Most of the comments included in the following text are taken word for word for the book ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() I have a child to raise-a preteen boy who needs his mom to be all there.īut as autumn strips the trees of their leaves, falling for Thomas is exactly what I do. He can’t move on.Īnd I can’t risk falling for him. No matter how hot his kisses or how genuine his affection, he’s still reeling. An Autumn in Paris by Alix Nichols Publication Date: NovemGenres: Adult, Contemporary, Romanceīecause of Audrey Hepburn, I have foolishly…Ī) bought into the whole “Paris is always a good idea” thing without any offscreen evidence,ī) uprooted my son and left my bittersweet memories behind,Ĭ) allowed Thomas-the handsome, caring, way-out-of-my-league vet-to disrupt the dull, desensitized life I had self-prescribed for my Broken Heart Syndrome.īehind his easy smile and swoon-worthy pecs, Thomas conceals an open wound. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is one-way love.” - Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. Grace is being loved when you are unloveable. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. “Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Because the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.” - Tim Keller, The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness GRACE: The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they seemed to be totally interested in us. They would not be always telling us they were a nobody (because a person who keeps saying they are a nobody is actually a self-obsessed person). ![]() “If we were to meet a truly humble person, we would never come away from meeting them thinking they were humble. ![]() ![]() Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. ![]() She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. ![]() ![]() Read Chapters 1-5 FREE Here: Amazon / B&N Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ![]() ![]() ![]() They can change the shape of the world in which we live. The show is in its 3rd season and Pomichter, himself, has interviewed more than 500 creators about upcoming and ongoing projects ranging from books to movies. With 6 books in print, e-book, and audio book formats, Pomichter founded and hosts the Hangin With Web Show talk show series, and helps showcase the work of other independent and small press authors, artists, filmmakers, musicians, and creators of all kinds. Soon after the overwhelming success of his first book series, "The Lucky Marks series," Pomichter teamed up with friend and first-time author William DuPree and the duo penned "Yesterday's Tomorrow," a full-length Near-Future dystopian speculative fiction story set in the days following a devastating nuclear attack on U.S. Pomichter joined the writing staff at The Hometown News LLC, which is read along Florida’s Central East coast, where he penned more than 400 byline stories. ![]() His poem, “Coming of Age,” was featured in the anthology, “An Eternity of Beauty.”įollowing a college internship with The Florida Today newspaper, G.W. Army Infantry veteran who began writing at an early age and published poems in anthologies in his early 20s. He is a graduate of Florida Air Academy & the Eastern Florida State College President's Cup winner, as well as a U.S. ![]() Pomichter is and award winning author and novelist, most recently recognized with a 2018 "Spacie Award" for BEST NOVELIST in 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of the book is taken up by sentences like, “Sprout was hungry,” or “Sprout was astonished.” I got a little bored with Sprout and thought she seemed a dense at times, and I judged her for putting the whole meaning of her life on her chick and then feeling deserted and lifeless when he grew up. Proponents might call it “spare prose,” but to me it felt overly simplified, and repeated ideas as if I might not have understood them the first time they were said. The story’s not bad, but the style was hard for me to cope with. When she escapes from her cage, Sprout realizes freedom is more complicated to achieve and harder to maintain than she had first thought, and motherhood brings its own challenges. It’s the story of a laying hen in captivity who longs for simple things- sunlight and a chick to raise. ![]() Review snippets in the front compared it to Charlotte’s Web. ![]() I was excited about this book- it had a beautiful cover and illustrations (by Nomoco), and was advertised as a Korean fable, a genre-name that brought to mind some lovely books like The Little Prince and The Alchemist. – from The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, by Sun-mi Hwang, translated by Chi-Young Kim “She fantasized about sitting in a nest, on an egg, about venturing into the fields with the rooster, and about following the ducks around. ![]() ![]() ![]() History is, in this telling, accompanied by a bottle of Malbec, some fine Argentine steak, tango music, dancing, and gossip. A history of a people told not through their daily travails and successive political upheavals, but via the changes in their nightly celebrations and unwindings. “A history of nightlife! what an interesting concept. It was illegal to sell or transport any beverage containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol.” – Stanley Walker After midnight there was prohibition, final and absolute. It was not until the night of January 16, 1920, that the Volstead Act, named for a droopy old gentleman from Minnesota, went into effect. Many barrooms, facing the inevitable, closed, but many others remained open. ![]() ![]() “The Eighteenth Amendment went into effect on July 1, 1919, but the thing had no teeth in it. ” – Peri Gilpin TOP QUOTES ABOUT NIGHTLIFEįrom singers to authors to Hollywood celebrities, here are some top nightlife quotes that you should check. “The whole Hollywood nightlife thing cracks me up. But the all-nighter of the bohemian heroes was something else: it was spiritual work, the night shift they stayed awake so the demons that haunt the world wouldn’t get them in their sleep.” ― Andrei Codrescu “He also stayed awake all night many times in the neon-lit insomnia of cities where the all-nighter is culturally certified and commercially mandated. If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun Fear not! Shake that ass and misbehave all you want. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target.Īgassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world’s best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. By the time he turns pro at 16, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning-fast return. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. ![]() Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. By the age of 13, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.Īgassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. ![]() ![]() This kid just completely could not see." However, Blithe was actually shot in the upper right shoulder, not the neck, and he recovered from his wounds and received disability payment for only a year before waiving it in order to return to the army. Blithe remained in the military until his actual death in December 1967. " He was that scared that he blacked out. " Never saw anything like it," Winters recalled. We have learned over the years to pace our tour, so that you may fully enjoy the historical experience. Ambrose, who led the first Band of Brothers Tour, our long-standing relationships ensure that our tour moves smoothly and that you have a seamless experience. Some of Blithe's story in "Carentan" is accurate he really did experience an episode of hysterical blindness. The most experienced Band of Brothers Tour company. He was the first to encounter the now legendary Band of. Ron is a decorated Marine combat veteran from the Vietnam War. Ambrose hand-picked Ron, his Eisenhower Center deputy, to lead the D-Day tours. With Stephen Ambrose, he designed the original D-Day to the Rhine tour. ![]() ![]() Ambrose interviewed veterans of Easy Company like Bill Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron, and it was from their accounts that he put together the story of Albert Blithe. Ronald Drez is an award-winning and best-selling author and historian. ![]() Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, upon which the series is based. After Blithe is shot in the neck towards the end of the episode, the ending text states that he never recovered from his wounds and died in 1948 - but that date is actually off by about two decades. The third episode of HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, "Carentan," focuses on the perspective of an Easy Company paratrooper called Albert Blithe. ![]() ![]() 2013 Mighty Girl Books: A Year in Review.2014 Mighty Girl Books: A Year in Review.2015 Mighty Girl Books: A Year in Review.2016 Mighty Girl Books: A Year in Review.2017 Mighty Girl Books: A Year in Review. ![]()
|