"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...

Revised and updated for today's family, this classic guide to the Bradley Method of natural childbirth helps mothers have healthy babies and joyful birthing experiences--and makes fathers partners in the miracle of life.

Shift your mindset from manager to leader, enhancing personal growth. Learn how to increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence, expand strategic scope, and identify talent. Leadership is a skill that can be taught. In this course, executive coach Sara Canaday shares proven strategies to help you shift your mindset from manager to leader. To begin, you can learn how to enhance your personal growth by practicing self-awareness and emotional...

Vielleicht arbeitest du schon recht lange als Agile Coach. Vielleicht suchst du nach neuen Impulsen und Ideen. Vielleicht hast du bisher in verschiedenen agilen Settings gearbeitet und beschf̃tigst dich erst seit Kurzem mit Agile Coaching. Egal, aus welchem Grund du gerade dieses Arbeitsbuch in deinen Hñden hl̃tst, eins ist klar: Ich freue mich unheimlich, gemeinsam mit dir auf deine Agile Reise zu gehen. Denn du hast das vielleicht persn̲lichste...

"Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at the top, but their first promotion to leadership. They must deal with the change and uncertainty that comes with a new job, requiring new skills, and they've been promoted from...

Grounded in extensive research, this book offers practical guidelines to help professionals think, coach, converse, speak, write, meet, and negotiate strategically to deliver results. --

Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming your organization to an Agile culture. Veteran agile coach Mario Moreira teaches new adopters how to implement a robust Agile framework to derive from it the maximum business benefit in terms of customer value, revenue, and employee engagement. Agile is a ubiquitous watchword in the corporate world, but only a minority of companies understand and practice what they pay lip service to. Too many...

101 management theories from the world's best management thinkers - the fast, focussed and express route to success. As a busy manager, you need solutions to everyday work problems fast. The Little Book of Big Management Theories gives you access to the very best theories and models that every manager should know and be able to use. Cutting through the waffle and hype, McGrath and Bates concentrate on the theories that really matter to managers day-to-day....

"Steve Chandler's coaching has had a tremendous impact in my life. He was vital to my personal transformation from a man of ideas and dreams to a person of action and reality."--Radames Soto, former managing director, The Wall Street Journal "Steve Chandler lights you up with the glow of his internal neon -- what he proposes is so rock solid and reassuring."--Lisa Schnebly, The Arizona Republic The world of leadership has changed dramatically since...