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22) Backup goalie
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c2008
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63 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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Jamie, the captain and star forward of the Comets hockey team, thinks everything is perfect. His two best friends, Jill and Brett, are amazing players too. The team is bound for the state championship. But when Jill is told she can't play on the boys' team anymore, and Brettt is hurt during a match, everything starts to fall apart. To make matters even worse, Jamie is pulled from his position to fill Brett's place at goal. Can Jamie make the adjustment...
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[2016]
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xvii, 94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Today's globalized economy depends on the dissemination of knowledge rather than the manufacture of goods and the provision of services. This alone calls for new models of teaching to prepare children for an interactive future. Don Broadwell, a former Marine, college instructor, and leadership expert, offers a blueprint that will help teachers and students become more successful. He argues that changing the classroom decision-making process to encourage...
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"Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches--it is well-understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the current business--one that is still thriving--while...
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"Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the world, affecting up to one in eight adults each year, but in our workplaces, and among our leaders, anxiety has been a hidden problem-there in plain sight but ignored. Until now. The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety in the workplace and help leaders and high achievers transform anxiety from an apparent weakness into a strength. Morra Aarons-Mele argues that...
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"Leadership is hard. But how do you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in getting the job done? A global pandemic, Depression-level unemployment, civil and political unrest. From New York to Barcelona to Hong Kong, it feels as if the world as we know it is faltering. Economies are unwinding; jobs are disappearing. Through it all, our spirit is being tested. Now more than ever, it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion....
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2008
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xxiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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An introduction to leadership draws on a program developed for an elementary school to show how to apply the principles of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to help everyone, including young children, identify their individual talents and find ways to use them in everyday life.
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2011
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xxv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.
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In this rapidly transforming age of 24/7 connectivity and globalization, Cashman encourages listeners to strive, no longer for the fiction of "Balance," but instead for "Resilience Mastery." He also incorporates some powerful new insights he and his colleagues have acquired while helping thousands of leaders in more than sixty countries apply his model to themselves and their organizations. In this up-to-date, tenth anniversary edition, Cashman goes...
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2022.
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326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"En este libro, Ismael Cala te explica los 11 principios del líder bambú, un camino hacia la transformación del ser humano en un líder capaz de empezar a hacer la diferencia en su vida y en la de los demás. Estas páginas son el resultado de un proceso de investigación sobre el camino hacia la felicidad, la plenitud y la autorrealización personal."--Amazon.com.
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As the CEO of the world's largest restaurant company, with a staggering 1.4 million employees, Novak has spent the last ten years developing a program for creating effective leaders at every level. In "Taking People With You", he shows exactly how to keep your teams motivated and on track: never stop learning, always celebrate achievement and never tolerate poor performance.
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Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee.The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent.The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or free agents. Think of them...
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As nations careen from one crisis to the next, there is a growing cry for fresh leadership. Those in charge have repeatedly fallen short, and trust in institutions has plummeted. So, what does great leadership look like? And how are great leaders made? David Gergen, a leader in the public arena for more than half a century, draws from his experiences as a White House adviser to four presidents, his decades as a trusted voice on national issues, and...
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[2014]
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x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Empower yourself in today's highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond. Contains profiles of successful projects, step-by-step guides to applied changemaking, and a variety of resources.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 3
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Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.
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