Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best and Learn from the Worst
Good Boss, Bad Boss does a wonderful job of challenging conventional wisdom while outlining a clear and compelling rationale for thinking differently. From Sutton's useful steps for getting "in tune" with what it feels like to work for you, to evidence that eliminating the negative is more powerful than accentuating the positive, to the importance of demonstrating confidence with the admission that you're not always right. Good Boss, Bad Boss teaches the art and the science of practical leadership for the 21st century.
Learn to Draw: Horses & Ponies (Draw and Color)
This newest title in the Watercolor Made Easy series makes it possible for aspiring artists to re-create a range of horse and pony paintings. Expressive and fluid, watercolor is the perfect medium for portraying the grace of these majestic animals. Accomplished artist Janet Griffin-Scott guides you through the basics, from anatomy to mixing various coat colors. Then she walks you step by step through a number of engaging projects, including portraits and horses in action. Full of inspiring artwork and effective instruction, this book is an essential for all equine-loving artists!
What I Didn't Learn in Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World (Audiobook)
Meet Justin Campbell. He's a newly minted MBA who's landed a coveted job in consulting. He's headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven't yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities. Justin is energized by this challenging assignment, but soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn't as straightforward as he'd expected. The political and organizational forces swirling within HGS complicate his analyses and test his fundamental understanding of important strategic concepts.
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Audiobook) 2012
When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to every member of the incoming freshman class in 2003, they didn’t expect the uproar that followed. Critics called it a waste: What educational value could a music player have for college kids? Yet by the end of the year, Duke students had found academic uses for the new devices in virtually every discipline. The iPod experiment proved to be a classic example of the power of disruption — a way of refocusing attention to illuminate unseen possibilities.
Few artistic subjects can compete with the vibrant, colorful splendor of the ocean and its inhabitants. Now kids can learn to re-create their own underwater world with the award-winning Sea Creatures, where they’ll find easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for drawing 25 different aquatic creatures of all shapes and sizes. Starting with basic shapes and following through to finished illustrations, kids can learn to re-create their own underwater world in no time at all! And fun facts about the featured animals provide additional entertainment along the way.
