All In: Risking Everything for Everything that Matters by author W. Allen Morris is a freedom manual for hard-driving, success-oriented leaders who are ready to explore the terra incognita of their hidden self in order to find and experience the life they deeply want—the path to greater freedom, joy, creativity, and power. All of us are leaders, or have the potential to be, in our circle of influence—in our work, in our families, and in our world. We will either be powerfully healing, inspiring, and effective leaders or hurtful and injuring leaders. The difference is in the awareness and healing we have experienced in our secret inner life. As a business leader and entrepreneur, Allen Morris discovered that the very same drive and skills that had brought him so much success were also sabotaging everything and everyone he cared about. It was as if an unseen enemy was at work behind the scenes, ambushing his happiness and undoing his relationships right as he stepped into the winner’s circle. And he noticed he was not alone in his struggle. All In: Risking Everything for Everything that Matters follows the author’s story and that of other CEOs and leaders who found themselves stuck or unfulfilled but chose to risk authenticity and transparency to understand how their blind spots and childhood wounds were limiting their true potential. Drawing on the insights of neuroscience, psychology, addiction recovery, and biblical wisdom—and sharing dramatic stories from his own life and those of other leaders—Morris delivers a practical and inspiring plan for how men can achieve exponentially greater effectiveness, fulfillment, creativity, and influence for good.
Sharing nothing but loneliness and a certain watchfulness of soul, the lovers in "Last Year's River" are a privileged New York debutante, pregnant from a rape, and a World War I veteran, exhausted from combat in the trenches.
In a north Florida turpentine camp in 1915, the birth of Jack Thomas, an illegitimate child, to a 15-year old single girl was nothing extraordinary. Neither was Jack's kidnapping and enslavement in an illegal child labor camp. But his leading federal authorities to arrest the operators and close those labor camps at the age of 15 made the national news. So did his leadership and bravery in World War II that led to his winning the Congressional Medal of Honor. Jack's search for a healthy beverage for the public leads to the discovery of how to make orange juice that tastes nearly as good as fresh-squeezed but is more convenient and available year around. He subsequently builds a juice manufacturing and marketing empire. This is a historical novel comprised of both fiction and non-fiction. The fictional part tells an incredible story about one man's determination to succeed against overwhelming odds. The non-fiction part is a factual description of the birth, growth and challenges of a unique industry in its endeavor to satisfy the consumer's search for product superiority, fresh-squeezed taste and convenience. It also enables readers to experience the old Florida, the way it was before all the theme parks and condos. PRAISE FOR THE ORANGE JUICE KING - "I enjoyed reading this story of a Florida family and their many experiences and efforts to establish their dreams in the difficult environment of their day. Their success story is one of great effort and bravery, overcoming the many problems and pitfalls of their time. It is a true American story, recalling the hardships, family, economical, cultural and other challenges of that era. I look forward to reading more of this author's recollections of the development of one of our most dramatic cultures in a land so environmentally challenging." - Mary Kate Buckley, Library of Congress, retired ""The Orange Juice King" is a historical novel that is very well written and captures the flavor to several industries that were central to the economic development of Florida in the early to mid-1990s. The characters are composites of people who were pioneers in the sense that they were the innovators and risk takers who were providing Florida with an economic base that exists today. Woven into the stories of the character's lives is a sense of what it felt like to be poor and beaten down in early Florida and what it felt like to be wealthy and very successful. The author, Allen Morris, grew up in a family that was similar to some of the characters in this novel and during his career he has met and known most of the leaders of the orange juice industry. He has carefully woven his understanding of the characters of the industry into a very entertaining book and does a very good job of giving the reader the historical flavor of how orange juice became a large industry in the Americas. This history is still evolving as is the history of Florida. The book is easy to read and very interesting. It may well be adaptable to a short TV series about the history of modern Florida and the impact of the orange juice industry. Having been a part of the citrus industry for many years, I understand and appreciate the depth of knowledge about the subject that Allen Morris shows in this story. He is to be congratulated on researching and writing "The Orange Juice King."" - M. Brent Gabler, Former Vice-President of Manufacturing and Engineering, Tropicana Products, Inc.
The prodigious but humble scion of a New York theatrical family, Chester Morris acted on Broadway as a teenager and earned an Academy Award nomination for his first role in a Hollywood "talkie," Alibi (1929). He became leading man to filmdom's top female stars and starred in the popular series of "Boston Blackie" mysteries before creating substantial characters in the theater and the burgeoning medium of television. This first book about Morris provides a detailed account of his life and career on stage, film, radio and television, and as a celebrated magician. It also constructs a fascinating record of his previously undocumented labor activism during the early years of the Screen Actors Guild and his tireless efforts to aid U.S. troops on the home front during World War II.
Are you living someone else’s life? Should you be? Karen was a runaway who had survived the streets but finally run aground. The Existential Society offered a way out – a path to another life. But what would their offer cost her?
This approach to remote facilitation makes virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to accommodate a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities. Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings. With a little awareness, some planning, and some practice, you can make your remote meetings an effective, engaging, and powerful mechanism for collaboration within your organization. This book is for anyone seeking to get more value from remote meetings. Whether you're a seasoned facilitator, a new facilitator, or someone hoping to improve team meetings, you will be empowered with principles and actionable methods to enhance your organization's effectiveness.
Many names of Florida places evoke fantastic images: Caloosahatchee, Okeechobee, Loxahatchee, Everglades, Miami—to mention only a few. Did you know that Florida's places were often named to honor prominent local citizens such as postmasters, landowners, or war heroes? Jacksonville, for example, was named for Florida's first American governor, Andrew Jackson. Later the state's interest in attracting new residents produced names that suggested pleasant places to live, such as Belle Glade and Avon-by-the-Sea. From Alachua (from the Seminole for "jug") to Zolfo Springs (from the Italian for "sulphur"), Florida Place Names delights and educates with a rich and varied offering of Florida lore.
Philadelphia Stories is a kind of family album. As in their earlier volume, Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, Miller, Vogel, and Davis have collected photographs of ordinary lives and daily events from 1920 to 1960 that have shaped the collective memory of people in the Philadelphia area. Through a series of photo essays, Philadelphia Stories evokes the mood of an era that embraced the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the complacent prosperity of the 1950s. Contemporary photos document physical changes in the metropolitan area: the developing skyline, the streets of rowhouses, the expanding suburbs. Details on homelife, food prices, school activities, local politics, shopping, social mores, and neighborhood customs chronicle experiences that are in many ways distinct to Philadelphians but also indicative of dramatic social, political, and economic shifts in the United States over forty years. Using photojournalism as the dominant style of documentary photography—and consciousness making—the book also features three prototypical family albums. These collections of snapshots taken by local residents to record weddings, holidays, and other family events not only depict how people saw themselves at various times but reveal the kinds of memories they wanted to keep. While major national events create the context for this social history, the book focuses on the daily lives of Philadelphians: as they cope with the Depression, participate in New Deal programs, buy automobiles and television sets, grow Victory Gardens, hold air raid drills, visit the Freedom Train, move to the suburbs, cling to old neighborhoods, and maintain tradition amid flux.Philadelphia Stories celebrates the recent past in the words and images of those who experienced it. It is a family album for all who know and love the city. Author note: Fredric M. Miller is Curator of the Urban Archives Center, Paley Library, Temple University.Morris J. Vogel is Professor of History, Temple University.Allen F. Davis is Professor of History, Temple University.
In "A Legacy Lived," Allen Morris tells how he managed a career as one of South Florida's most successful real estate developers while committing himself fully to his family and his faith. The real life struggles of Allen and his wife, Ida, offer insight and inspiration for men and women who face the challenge of living in the twenty-first century
The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage problems that are generally too complex, too expensive, and too politically divisive for one agency to manage or resolve on its own. Governments have organized multi-sector collaborations as a way to achieve better results for the past two decades. We know much about why collaboration occurs. We know a good deal about how collaborative processes work. Collaborations organized, led, and managed by grassroots organizations are rarer, though becoming more common. We do not as yet have a clear understanding of how they might differ from government led collaborations. Hampton Roads, Virginia, located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, offers an unusual opportunity to study and draw comparative lessons from three grassroots environmental collaborations to restore three rivers in the watershed, in terms of how they build, organize and distribute social capital, deepen democratic values, and succeed in meeting ecosystem restoration goals and benchmarks. This is relevant for the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed, but is also relevant for understanding grassroots collaborative options for managing, protecting, and restoring watersheds throughout the U.S. It may also provide useful information for developing grassroots collaborations in other policy sectors. The premise underlying this work is that to continue making progress toward achieving substantive environmental outcomes in a world where the problems are complex, expensive, and politically divisive, more non-state stakeholders must be actively involved in defining the problems and developing solutions. This will require more multi-sector collaborations of the type that governments have increasingly relied on for the past two decades. Our approach examines one subset of environmental collaboration, those driven and managed by grassroots organizations that were established to address specific environmental problems and provide implementable solutions to those problems, so that we may draw lessons that inform other grassroots collaborative efforts.
Todd Sweeney's small-town Montana life is upended when he comes home to find a corpse in his recliner and his past as a wiseguy catching up with him." --
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