Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don’t know where to start?
The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it’s not about better ideas, it’s about actually doing the work.
Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance – a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.
“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.”
Available in both a 5-pack and 48-pack for you to share, as well as a special collectible edition, Do the Work may be just what you need to get out of your own way.
Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage
Irrepressible memories. Vacant eyes. A child being dangled from a third story window. A boy tied to a chair. Children sleeping in layers of clothing to fight off the bitter cold. An infant dying from starvation. Some things your mind will never allow you to forget.
Silent Tears is the true story of the adversity and triumphs one woman faced as she fought against the Chinese bureaucracy to help that country’s orphaned children.
In 2003, Kay Bratt’s life changed dramatically. A wife and mother of two girls in South Carolina, Bratt relocated her family to rural China to support her husband as he took on a new management position for his American employer. Seeking a way to fill her days and overcome the isolation she experienced upon arriving in a foreign country, Bratt began volunteering at the local orphanage. Within months, her simple desire to make use of her time transformed into a heroic crusade to improve the living conditions and minimize the unnecessary deaths of Chinese orphans.
Silent Tears traces the emotional hurdles and daily frustrations faced by Ms. Bratt as she tried to change the social conditions for these marginalized children. The memoir vividly illustrates how she was able to pull from reservoirs of inner strength to pursue her mission day after day, leaving the reader with the resounding message that everyone really can make a difference.
Abisina had found a home in Watersmeet–the community her father led until he was killed by the evil White Worm.
But now, Watersmeet is as divided as the village she fled as an outcast.
The land faces a new threat, and an uneasy alliances between the humans and the creatures will have to be formed to survive. If Abisina doesn’t become the leader Watersmeet needs, she may lose everything.
But can she take her father’s place? This powerful and moving fantasy deals with timely issues about identity, prejudice, and war. This is the sequel to Watersmeet, which was an IRA Young Adult Book Award Notable and a YALSA Teens’ Top Ten Nominee.
Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business
What simple innovation brought billions in new investments to Fidelity? What basic misunderstanding was preventing Office Depot from achieving its growth potential? What surprising insights helped the Mayo Clinic better serve both doctors and patients?
The solution in each case was a focus on customer experience, the most powerful—and misunderstood—element of corporate strategy today.
Customer experience is, quite simply, how your customers perceive their every interaction with your company. It’s a fundamental business driver. Here’s proof: over a recent five-year period during which the S&P 500 was flat, a stock portfolio of customer experience leaders grew twenty-two percent.
In an age when customers have access to vast amounts of data about your company and its competitors, customer experience is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. But how to excel at it?
Based on fourteen years of research by the customer experience leaders at Forrester Research, Outside In offers a complete roadmap to attaining the experience advantage. It starts with the concept of the Customer Experience Ecosystem—proof that the roots of customer experience problems lie not just with customer-facing employees like your sales staff, but with behind-the-scenes employees like accountants, lawyers, and programmers, as well as the policies, processes, and technologies that all your employees use every day. Identifying and solving these problems has the potential to dramatically increase sales and decrease costs.
Dan Gordon goes undercover to infiltrate and destroy an international Hezbollah funding plot.
But when his cover is blown he wonders if he’s been a sacrificial lamb for the CIA all along.
One Amazon reviewer describes the book like this:
Dana Sloan is an investigative reporter for The Globe. Her boyfriend is Detective Al Bruno. The combination of an investigative reporter and a police detective make for a very touchy relationship. Dana’s boss Sam comes to her with his belief that his mentor and friend, retired reporter Leona had been murdered and not died of natural causes while living in the Peaceful Pines retirement home. After talking to the director of the home, and confirming that Leona was murdered, Dana decides to go undercover working as a receptionist for Peaceful Pines. Bruno, who is busy trying to turn up clues as to who the “Royal Flush Killer” might be, doesn’t have time to listen to Dana’s suspicions. Not even when the murder of a political figure’s wife seems connected to her investigation.
While running on a shaky relationship to begin with, Dana is hit extra hard when Bruno ends up arresting her when he finds she has given refuge to his number one suspect in for the Royal Flush killings. So, who is right? Dana believes he is totally wrong in his suspicions and Bruno feels the same about hers. Will this become a no win situation for both of them? I’ll give you one clue…they are both wrong.
As I read A Deadly Hand, I was tossed from one suspect to another and like Dana and Bruno, I too was wrong. This was an ending I simply didn’t see coming. This is my kind of mystery!
A killer is prowling New York City’s Lexington Avenue subway line during rush hour, stalking young women with red hair, and injecting them with a syringe full of a lethal substance.
The subway murder of three redheads within two days throws the city’s red-haired women into panic.
Amateur sleuth Liz Rooney dyes her naturally strawberry-blond hair brown and, as usual, sets out to help her fiance, NYPD Homicide Detective Ike Eichle, solve a baffling crime.
Feeling safe without her red hair to give her away, she delves into the list of suspects but eventually finds herself face-to-face with the killer in a situation where her new hair color offers her no protection.