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Leverage the power of failure in your organization Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave. The Other "F" Word shows how successful leaders and teams are putting failure to work every day - to re-engage employees, spark innovation and accelerate growth. Authors Danner and Coopersmith - with their rare blend of senior-level executive experience, global advising, teaching acumen and cross-discipline perspective - share these valuable new practices, and show how they can improve results across your organization. Based on exclusive interviews with prominent leaders and insightful examples from their own in-depth work, the book features a practical seven-stage framework to liberate failure as a force to advance your leadership agenda. After all, everyone creates and confronts failure on a daily basis. Why not use it to your advantage? The Other "F" Word shows you how to: Start an open, productive conversation about failure across your organization Reduce the fear of failure that stifles initiative, creativity and engagement Anticipate, prepare for and respond to failure, so you can leverage it when it happens Harness failure as a catalyst to drive innovation, improve performance and strengthen culture Failure's like gravity – pervasive and powerful. Whether you're a leader or team member of a startup, a growing business, or an established enterprise, failure is today's lesson for tomorrow. Let The Other "F" Word show you how to apply this lesson and take your company where it needs to go.

In The Americans at D-Day, the first volume of this series, John C. McManus showed us the American experience in Operation Overlord. Now, in this succeeding volume, he does the same for the Battle of Normandy as a whole. Never before has the American involvement in Normandy been examined so thoroughly or exclusively as in The Americans at Normandy. For D-Day was only one part of the battle, and victory came from weeks of sustained effort and sacrifices made by Allied soldiers. Presented here is the American experience during that summer of 1944, from the aftermath of D-Day to the slaughter of the Falaise Gap, from the courageous, famed figures of Bradley, Patton, and Lightnin' Joe Collins to the lesser-known privates who toiled in torturous conditions for their country. What was this battle really like for these men? What drove them to fight against all sense and despite all obstacles? How and why did they triumph? Reminiscent of Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, The Americans at Normandy takes readers into the minds of the best American strategists, into the hearts of the infantry, into hell on earth. Engrossing, lightning-quick, and filled with real human sorrow and elation, The Americans at Normandy honors those Americans who lost their lives in foreign fields and those who survived. Here is their story, finally told with the depth, pathos, and historical perspective it deserves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Builder personality: -- The essential force for growth -- The builders of growth: -- How drivers, explorers, crusaders and captains do it differently -- The driver: -- Relentless, commercially focused et highly confident -- The explorer: -- Curious, systems-centric et dispassionate -- The crusader: -- Audacious, mission-inspired et compassionate -- The captain: -- Pragmatic, team-enabling et direct -- Finding those who best leverage your builder personality -- Partnering with co-builders: -- Choosing the collaborator who fits you best -- Recruiting your team: -- Selecting the individuals who work best with you -- Attracting the right financial sponsors: -- Matching your builder personality with the right backers -- Becoming a stronger builder: -- Strategies for enhancing your impact -- Expanding your repertoire: -- Growing beyond the limits of your own personality.

Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding and extreme skiing.

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, from Afghanistan and Iraq through Guantnamo and extraordinary rendition, Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold, and the misbegotten 'clash of civilizations.' Introduced and edited by Tomdispatch's creator Tom Engelhardt, The World According to Tomdispatch is the essential primer for anyone seeking guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world.

In book 2 of the Luxton Danner Westerns, Range, Texas, is on the brink of becoming a ghost town. Under constant assault from ruthless outlaw gangs, settlers cling desperately to any hope for law and order.

In Vets: 50 Portraits of Veterans and Their Stories. John Thamm, a widely recognized artist and painter, has compiled a memorable collection of images and stories as told by veterans spanning WWII to the war in Iraq. Some veterans had an enjoyable, non-eventful experience in the military, while others reflect on horrific memories that defined the rest of their lives.¿¿after slowly pouring through this remarkable collection of portraits and personal stories¿ I realized why there is this connection, this brotherhood, this sense of automatic bonding with other veterans that makes being a veteran something special. We may have served in different eras, in different services, in different units, in different countries, in combat or not in combat, in a hot war or a cold war, but the bond somehow holds us together.¿ Paul Quinnett PhD-clinical psychologist and author of Suicide:The Forever Decision.John F. Thamm lives in Spokane, Washington. He teaches portrait workshops in the U.S., Mexico, Netherlands and Germany and has a Masters of Fine Art degree from the University of Idaho. John studied portraiture at the Art Students League in New York City. John has been a courtroom sketch artist for television and newspaper media including CNN, ABC, Associated Press, KREM, KXLY and the Spokesman Review. Notable trials he has covered are the Weaver-Harris Ruby Ridge Trial, Branch Davidian-Waco Trial, and the Aryan Nations Trial in Coeur d¿Alene, Idaho. You can view John¿s work at the J.F. Thamm Gallery, 11 S. Washington St., Spokane. ¿Vets¿ is featured by the local PBS station-KSPS in the November 2009 Northwest Profiles series. The project can be viewed on the ¿Vets¿ project blogsite- http://johnthammstudios.blogspot.com/Vets is a large 8-1/2 X 11 format on high quality archival text. All 50 Portraits are full color images of John¿s original oil paintings. A total of 162 pages contain portraits, interviews and commentary.

Packed with action, heart, and the spirit of the Wild West, Gunslingers is a thrilling tale of courage set in the rugged landscape of 19th-century Texas.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Volume 30 features lectures given in 2010 at Princeton University; Yale University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Utah; Stanford University; Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Harvard University; and Brasenose College, Oxford University.