The People EquationEvery business leader knows that the key to growth is innovation—if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. Deborah Perry Piscione and David Crawley argue that ultimately the key to innovation is people. After all, creativity is a uniquely human function, something that can't be automated. So how do you design an organization so that it provides the elements that will bear new thinking and bring forth bold ideas? Through The People Equation.Based on examples from their consulting work and research into successful business practices, Perry Piscione and Crawley's The People Equation enables leaders to create a culture where psychological safety is a given, risk taking is embraced, and collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured. When experiments and new initiatives look promising, Perry Piscione and Crawley's Improvisational Innovation process provides a road map to quickly develop ideas and bring them to...

Alysha Grant has settled into her role at Leven Lodge and longs to pursue a career in real estate, but she is thwarted at every turn. The murder of a young man on the grounds of the new Rivermill Resort has her revisiting the previous year's criminal events, which nearly took her life. In addition, an unwanted romantic interest disturbs her. But when her good friend, and resident of Leven Lodge, falls under suspicion of a related murder her priorities shift. Life partner, Jeff Iverson, doesn't always provide the emotional support Alysha needs when his focus is overseeing the birth of new alpacas. Will Alysha decide the unwelcome romantic interest is maybe not so unwelcome after all? She struggles to keep her life, home, and career plans in perspective, while dealing with an irritating temporary guest, and discovering the history behind one resident's eccentric behaviour. Will she regret her decision to stay on as owner of Leven Lodge?

Cassidy Finnegan, a widow, returns to her hometown Redbird, Illinois after inheriting a book store from her mother. Ty Martin, a celebrated gallery artist and a member of the fantastical Sisters of the Legend Binder family, has moved to a home a straight shot from Cassidy's across Redbird Lake. Cass meets Ty at his book signing at her store the same day that she is visited by the ghost of her dead husband, Sawyer, whom she met at Cozy Nook Books, too. It was love at first sight with Sawyer...and maybe with Ty. When Sawyer visits Cassidy, their perfect love is rekindled. When she is with Ty, all she wants is the new love blossoming between them. Ty learns he is the unwitting third in Cassidy's spectral love-triangle. He has no problem competing with flesh and blood men. But the heaven-perfected spirit of her loving husband? Nothing in Ty's realm of experience prepares him for that contest. Cassie is forced to choose in order to mend her divided heart.

This book will help you create a personal style, while building a wardrobe that can help you dress for success. It covers everything from choosing the right color for your skin tone, to choosing the right style for your body type. It will help you decide on the right foundations to wear and how to choose accessories that work for you and not against you. This book will divulge all the fashion concepts that fashion experts work with all the time in dressing their clients but never reveal. By the time you are done reading this book you will be able to become your own fashion expert. Learn how to dress no matter whether you are petite, tall, short-waisted, long-waisted, super thin or plus size. What styles to choose to flatter your figure in everything from dresses to suits to swimwear and undergarments. Deborah Darling was a plus size model and the national spokesperson for one of the world's largest retailers of women's plus size fashion. She has taught thousands of women how to dress for their body type. Whether you are an oval body shape sometimes called an apple body type, a triangle body shape sometimes called a pear, a rectangular body shape, inverted triangle or the hourglass body type, Deborah gives you all the fashion concepts and shows you how they apply on each body type. For those of you who don't fall into one of the body types listed, she shows you how to use the fashion concepts to reveal your positives and conceal your negatives creating a body that is in proportion and balance no matter what body type you are. This book is a must read for any woman who is trying to create her own personal style, trying to create a workable wardrobe and or on her ascent up the corporate ladder. Deborah Lynn Darling is a personal development coach, author and internationally acclaimed speaker. She is the President and owner of The Presentation Pros Inc., a soft skills training and coaching company specializing in the fields of communication, presentation, and personal growth and development. She conducts powerful, provocative seminars on personal growth, transformation and communication. She is a highly sought after private coach. In addition, she's been a plus-size model; an on-camera and voice over personality for some of America's best known companies; and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including Hard Copy, The Richard Simmons Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Not wanting to get stepped on or eaten the courageous traveller begins a risky trek into the unknown. With only life experiences to depend on, this magical epic adventure triggers the realism of her past. This enlightened novel is sprinkled with personal growth tools as the gifts from her traumas are unwrapped.Imagine the wall is moving. There's a woman levitating the sun and the moon. You have entered a strange new magical dimension and you are the size of a mouse. Visualize not knowing where you are? How you got there? That is just the beginning to this unexpected journey of self discovery in a completely unfamiliar realm.Primal Power - The Unripe Apple is definitely an intriguing tale that maintains a momentum. You can see the wise souls of the intricate personalities or simply read it as an awesome adventure.The protagonist questions if this new magical dimension is part of Earth, another world, or the afterlife while having to rely on...

A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.Deborah Levy's vital literary voice speaks about many things.On footwear: "It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes without socks are destined to become my friends and lovers." On public parks: "A civic garden square gentles the pace of the city that surrounds it, holding a thought before it scrambles." On Elizabeth Hardwick: "She understands what is at stake in literature." On the conclusion of a marriage: "It doesn't take an alien to tell us that when love dies we have to find another way of being alive."Levy shares with us her most tender thoughts as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of different literary imaginations; each page is a beautiful, questioning composition of the self. The Position of Spoons is full of wisdom and astonishments...

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance.Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.So begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy's August Blue uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.