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Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges - challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today's leaders need a set of tools specifically designed to harness the power of collaborative networks. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You'll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won't find anywhere else.

Starships come in many shapes and sizes. Their crews and passengers are an eclectic lot. They venture into the deep voids of space on their assigned missions. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they do not. This collection tells the stories of the crews and passengers aboard six of these starships.

True love; is it born of duty or unabashed romance? Nia was born to a line of women whose idea of love and marriage seemed contradictory to what she felt in her heart. As the story explores the similarities and the differences between the generations, the common thread connecting them is woven through their wedding dresses - fortitude, resilience, passion, determination to find love. As Nia searches for meaning and love in life, she discovers her own authenticity, flaws and all. Will finding herself be the key to fulfilling her own cherished childhood Bride Doll story?

In our professional lives, we spend far too much time doing things that negatively impact our ability to function well at work. Why do we do that? Because despite learning the technical side of work, rarely are we taught the other stuff you need - so called soft skills, interpersonal skills, etc. Do you want to improve your leadership skills, be a better manager, or simply cope with the everyday demands of work? This professional development podcast will do that. Join me, an Organisational Psychologist, as I use evidence-based recommendations to help you be well while you work well!

Discussions surrounding self-care, personal development, marriage relationship tips and advice, and everything parenting. How to balance all three in a busy demanding world. It’s SO HARD MAMA! We see you! Trying your best to do it all! Care for the kids, create lifelong memories, keep your marriage going, and find the time for self-care. Work life balance, mastering our time and productivity hacks have us pushing to do more and more to get it all done. We believe you can have a life you dream of without burning out. Let’s get picky with who and what get our time. Let’s choose what’s ...

With each passing season in their first year of married life, Cheryl and Levi Miller find a fresh set of challenges and adjustments to be made as the Englisher and her Amish farmer husband learn to live together. But by observing their friends and loved ones in the Sugarcreek community, the newlyweds see, firsthand, how God uses each new phase of life to reveal inspiring insights, spiritual truths, and future surprises - all while they harvest a whole new crop of mysteries, as well!

Determined to climb the social ladder in Missoula, Montana, Hilary knows appearances are crucial to getting ahead - but she’s in for a rude awakening. With a rough home life, Doll seeks every chance she can to escape and hang out with one of the local bad boys, but her need to be noticed may land her in serious trouble. Janet hasn’t inherited the smarts of her doctor father, but she’s content to let life lead her rather than grab the steering wheel. Kathy’s the smartest of the group, but her know-it-all attitude can be a real turnoff.

The charming, and not entirely trustworthy, unnamed narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz invites three friends to join her for lunch at the elegant Ritz-Carlton in Boston to celebrate her birthday. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married couple and her best friends from college. The third, Wes, was once her lover. As the afternoon gives way to evening and as the drinks flow, the past and present intrude upon the festivities and the atmosphere turns somber. Before the night is through, truths and secrets slip out that will change their relationships forever.

Wisteria Lane has nothing on these grandes dames of mystery. In the expert hands of two of the mystery world's top storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning.These two never-before-published stories by Nevada Barr and Sara Paretsky explore the dark side of the housewife psyche and are guaranteed to delight.

It’s morning at Meadow Brook Nursing Home. During the last 10 months, this has been my mother’s abode. Most days, I feel it is mine, too. Life, as I have known it, is a blur. Alzheimer’s has taken mother from herself, her family, and her friends. It has demanded a grit and grace in our everyday lives beyond human comprehension. I know that I must tell her story - which ultimately is my story, too - with hope that it may bring a degree of peace to the hearts of those who have walked, or will walk, the same road.