From executives complaining that their teams don’t contribute ideas to employees giving up because their input isn’t valued--company culture is the culprit. Courageous Cultures provides a road map to build a high-performance, high-engagement culture around sharing ideas, solving problems, and rewarding contributions from all levels. Many leaders are convinced they have an open environment that encourages employees to speak up and are shocked when they learn that employees are holding back. Employees have ideas and want to be heard. Leadership wants to hear them. Too often, however, employees and leaders both feel that no one cares about making things better. The disconnect typically only widens over time, with both sides becoming more firmly entrenched in their viewpoints. Becoming a courageous culture means building teams of microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates working together. In our world of rapid change, a courageous culture is your competitive advantage. It ensures that your company is “sticky” for both customers and employees. In Courageous Cultures, you’ll learn practical tools that help you: Learn the difference between microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates and how they work together. See how the latest research conducted by the authors confirms why organizations struggle when it comes to creating strong cultures where employees are encouraged to contribute their best thinking. Learn proven models and tools that leaders can apply throughout all levels of the organization, to reengage and motivate employees. Understand best practices from companies around the world and learn how to apply these strategies and techniques in your own organization. This book provides you with the practical tools to uncover, leverage, and scale the best ideas from every level of your organization.
World Café(R) has been one of public radio's most entertaining and important music shows for over 15 years. Airing weekdays on 185 radio stations nationwide from its home station of WXPN-FM in Philadelphia, it is a uniquely formatted program that features live interviews and performances with the greatest established and up-and-coming performers of today. Host David Dye originated the show in 1991 to offer listeners a new eclectic mix of musical styles including blues, rock, folk, and alt-country. Every week since the show's inception, Dye has brought out the best in such celebrated musicians as Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Wilco, and Beck, as well as introducing many listeners to newcomers like Damien Rice, My Morning Jacket, and Coldplay, among thousands of others. In The Best of World Café, Dye offers a stunning retrospective of the show, digging into its impressive vault of content to highlight the show's greatest interviews, quotes, moments, and memories. The book also includes an original 50-minute DVD (available exclusively with this edition) about World Café that features interviews with current and past staff giving insider accounts of the show's history and daily operation, behind-the-scenes footage, and select performances and interviews.
SQL Server T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server. This edition has been lightly updated for SQL Server 2014 and provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, create in-memory tables and stored procedures, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on. Solutions in this book are divided into chapters by problem domain. Each chapter is a collection of solutions around a single facet of the language such as writing queries, managing indexes, error handling, and query performance. Each solution is presented code-first, giving you a working code example to copy from and implement immediately in your own environment. Following each example is an in-depth description of how and why the given solution works. Tradeoffs and alternative approaches are also discussed. Focused on solutions: Look up what you need to do. Learn how to do it. Do it. Current: Lightly updated for SQL Server 2014 Comprehensive: Covers all common T-SQL problem domains
The Complete Writing Program is a workshop in a book. At the very least, it will show you, step-by-step, how to build stronger, more confident writers one day at a time. At its best, it will help you build an army of great writers within your class who will help you with your goal: building great writers. Have you ever taught your class how to write an essay/story; spent hours reading and editing every one; gave the students constructive feedback; then have your students revise, edit and publish it? If you have, you know that it can be incredibly time consuming. Serious, meaningful conferencing between student and teacher is a luxury most teachers can't enjoy very often. Why not work smarter, not harder? The Complete Writing Program will show you how to set up your class so your students are modeling and reinforcing the skills you teach on a regular basis, not you! For more details, go to CreateBetterWriters.com
This book spells out a home school teacher's writing plan from Grades 3 through 12. It includes fifteen steps to produce outstanding writers. The pacing guide allows teachers to begin at any grade and complete the process by the time their students take the college writing exams in high school. Some lesson plans are included and others are recommended. If this book is used with the CreateBetterWriters.com curriculum, the teacher will have a powerful, step-by-step program for writing instruction that can be used for all students simultaneously. Ten years of powerful curriculum for all your students for about $100.
Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services teaches how to take advantage of the powerful extract, transform, and load (ETL) platform included with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You’ll learn to build scalable, robust, performance-driven enterprise ETL solutions that save time and make money for your company. You'll learn to avoid common ETL development pitfalls and how to extend the power of your ETL solutions to include virtually any possible transformation on data from any conceivable source. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) facilitates an unprecedented ability to load data from anywhere, perform any type of manipulation on it, and store it to any source. Whether you are populating databases, retrieving data from the Web, or performing complex calculations on large data sets, SSIS gives you the tools to get the job done. And this book gives you the knowledge to take advantage of everything SSIS offers. Helps you design and develop robust, efficient, scalable ETL solutions Walks you through using the built-in, stock components Shows how to programmatically extend the power of SSIS to cover any possible scenario
SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server 2012. It provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and more. Tasks and their solutions are broken down into a problem/solution format that is quick and easy to read so that you can get the job done fast when the pressure is on. Solutions in this book are divided into chapters by problem domain. Each chapter is a collection of solutions around a single facet of the language such as writing queries, developing triggers, and applying aggregate functions. Each solution is presented code-first, giving you a working code example to copy from and implement immediately in your own environment. Following each example is an in-depth description of how and why the given solution works. Tradeoffs and alternative approaches are also discussed. Focused on solutions: Look up what you need to do. Learn how to do it. Do it. Current: Newly updated for SQL Server 2012 Comprehensive: Covers all common T-SQL problem domains
Chant the Hare Krishna Mantra and BE HAPPY. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. To know more about Krishna, and his LOVE for YOU, www.krishna.com; www.krishnastore.com. World Love video on you tube, thank you David L. "Davy" Munyon "All the best and miracle wellness and healing for Our Planet to you
What can you do with your Instant Pot? A lot more than dinner! Here are 50 projects anyone can make—handmade soap, infused liqueurs, tie dye, and much more! The Instant Pot is no longer just for food! This revolutionary home appliance is taking DIY to a whole new level. After going viral with his discovery of how to make wine in the Instant Pot, and then writing Instant Pot Magic, chef and blogger David Murphy has curated an astounding collection of creative crafts and projects you can make in your Instant Pot! Break out your favorite appliance and everyday ingredients, and learn the insider tips and tricks to make the most of your Instant Pot. Projects include: Handmade soaps and lotions Tie dye any clothing item Homemade lip balm Herb-infused olive oil Infused flavorful liqueurs Wax candle tutorial And more! These crafts and hacks could even double as homemade gifts!
Wilderness therapy. What is it? How does it look, and how did it look? Written in a conversational tone, this book recounts a Summer spent in the high desert lands of southern Utah, working for one of the first wilderness therapy programs. Described between the covers are stories that really happened on the trail. Eating bugs. Falling in a cactus patch. Getting lost and digging three feet down for water. Finding petrified dinosaur bones on a mountain named Death Ridge. And building bow drill fires. Yes - the fires!This same area that we roamed in, slept in, defecated in, ate in, and grew in, later became the Grand Staircase / Escalante National Monument. Or, at least most of it did. And since then, some it has been 'un-monumentized.'But this isn't about the monument, or the change in the land. It's about a change in heart; the change in the hearts of those who called this land home for 9+ weeks of their life. This is a brief glimpse into the life that we lived, the primitive survival skills we learned, and the civilized relationship skills that we attempted to make into a part of who we were and are. And it's a glimpse into the three-month evolutionary journey that we all found ourselves on. Together Alone. A journey that started then, and continues to this day.The first part of this book details some interesting, fun, and occasionally painful experiences that the 'Abos' (participants) had in the program. Read about a teen killer who was a gentle good person at heart, feasting on sheep, eating ants, and a swollen testicle.The second 'section' of the book recounts some of the successes, and abuses, that have occurred in wilderness therapy programs. There is an abundance of good 'wilderness therapy, ' or 'outdoor behavioral programs, ' now available. Read about some of the major players in these programs, as well as some of the major players in the primitive skills arena.You will also read about the experiences of three individuals who completed a wilderness survival / therapy program in different eras. The most recent account is from a young man who came back less than a year ago. He spent nearly three months in the western desert of Utah, and found this experience to be life-changing. A few years ago there was a student at a college who went on a 'final exam' as part of her college course work. Though brief in her account, the 'flavor' of the experience comes through. Then, back in the 1970's, when BYU and Larry Dean Olsen first started the outdoor survival and primitive skills movement, there were dozens of individuals who went on a 30-day course experience, hiking hundreds of miles. Read the fascinating and fun diary of one of these individuals. He shares his experiences as well as his thoughts in both a fun and insightful read.Though written by a psychotherapist, this isn't a textbook or a book of 'cases.' It's meant to be 'readable, ' and not boring. None of this textbook stuff, with ten-dollar words meant to impress. Rather, it's meant to catch and keep your attention.Lastly, included is a chapter from the book "Ruminations From the Burr Trail." A book detailing a trip along the Burr Trail, by the author with his sons. It sets onto pages the inner dialogue of a trip through this ancient, sacred land. Musings about ranchers, tree huggers, the government, and values are all addressed.Without spending $24,000 tuition to see first-hand what wilderness therapy is all about, buy this book and take a front-row seat and see how one of the earliest wilderness therapy programs operated.
* For volume pricing, go to CreateBetterWriters.com. Standards Based Grammar is a daily grammar program that systematically teaches your students every grammar skill required at the fifth grade level. The purpose of Standards Based Grammar is to give the students the spoken and written rules of the English language in an easy, step-by-step program. It seeks to teach, assess, and add to prior knowledge. Standards Based Grammar doesn't just ask students to identify grammar errors. They learn grammar rules and apply them immediately into their writing. Furthermore, it provides the teacher the exact knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of each student and allows the teacher to communicate that information to the parents. Standards Based Grammar shows your students how to become grammar experts. Not only will they be able to understand each grammar rule, they will be able to articulate the logic behind each rule. Best of all, it's easy to teach and simple to administrate. The Student Edition does not contain tests or answer keys. For more information go to CreateBetterWriters.com
Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and black masculinity. They also examine the ways in which media messages ignore an individual’s struggle against an all too frequently biased system and instead dehumanize the incarcerated as violent and overwhelmingly masculine. Together these essays argue media reform is necessary for penal reform, proposing that more accurate media representations of prison life could improve public support for programs dealing with poverty, abuse, and drug addiction—factors that increase the likelihood of criminal activity and incarceration. Scholars from cultural and critical studies, feminist studies, queer studies, African American studies, media studies, sociology, and psychology offer critical analysis of media depictions of prison, bridging the media’s portrayals of incarcerated lives with actual experiences and bringing to light forgotten voices in prison narratives.
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