Improve yourself - and your workplace - with GRIT Leading With GRIT is a practical and proven guide for transforming the workplace, offering pragmatic insight on value-based strategies that improve the individual and the business. Based on the author's proprietary principles of GRIT - Generosity, Respect, Integrity, and Truth - this book describes how working toward individual improvement produces better organizational results than traditional approaches...

Join DJ Lance Rock and his friends Brobee, Plex, Muno, and the rest, as they teach kids simple life lessons in a magical world filled with colorful puppets. Playing and dancing with friends is always a blast, but it's also important to respect each other. You're invited to a party in your tummy and learn to give new foods a try. It's time to dance, so move to the left, to the right, up and down and all around. Friends come in all shapes, sizes and...

A humanitarian, a social activist, anthropologist, and Buddhist teacher, Joan Halifax has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, Halifax has identified five psychological territories she calls Edge States?altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement?that epitomize strength of character. Yet each...

Newark Municipal Court's former chief judge discusses how her reforms transformed her courtroom into a place of problem-solving and a resource for healing, showing how we can transform courtrooms, neighborhoods and our nation to support the vulnerable and heal community rifts.

This is a charming, touching story about an imaginative boy whose best friend is an oak tree named Bertolt. The boy admits to being an outlier among his peers, but insists that while he is alone, he is never lonely. Being independent suits him, and he considers his difference to be his advantage.