The motivating host of one of the nation's largest leadership conferences offers a collection of inspirational and applicable life lessons through conversations with various high profile people. Albert Einstein once said, “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” What is true of science, I’m convinced, is true in all of life. Great questions are often the keys that unlock possibilities for human advancement. That truth has been proven again and again throughout human history, as great interviewers from Bob Costas to Barbara Walters have captivated audiences and ignited imaginations. In a world where the messages of public figures and politicians are carefully crafted by publicists and media consultants, we often receive only partial pictures and manipulated facts. The right questions uncover truths we might not otherwise know. They pull back the curtain on the wizard and give us a more accurate view of reality. —Excerpt from the Introduction If you could sit down with the people you most admire and ask just one question, what would you ask? One Question invites you to peer over the shoulder of a master interviewer with access to today’s best and brightest as he delivers carefully crafted questions and collects answers guaranteed to surprise, challenge, and inspire. • What is Coach Tony Dungy’s advice for achieving success while maintaining integrity? • What advice does Malcolm Gladwell give parents about instilling a work ethic in our children? • How does President Jimmy Carter suggest we continue forward and reinvent ourselves in new seasons? • What does Robin McGraw have to say to women about reaching their full potential both inside and outside their homes?
Work isn't supposed to be a four-letter word! Does the work you do matter to you? Are you unsure what you want to do for a living? Are you in the right place but looking to advance? No matter where you are in your career, you were born to do work you love. National bestselling author and career expert Ken Coleman was stuck in an unfulfilling career until he realized he didn’t have to be. In his latest book, he draws on what he learned from his own ten-year journey as well as from coaching thousands of others to walk you through the seven stages to discovering and doing meaningful work. Relevant to any job or industry, you’ll learn step-by-step how to: Get Clear on the work you were uniquely made to do and why. Get Qualified to do the work you were created for. Get Connected with the right people who can open the doors to your dream. Get Started by overcoming the emotions and mistakes that often hold people back. Get Promoted by developing winning habits and traits. Get Your Dream Job by doing work you love and accomplishing results that matter to you. Give Yourself Away by expanding the dream to leave a legacy. This is your moment. You are needed, and you were made to contribute. It’s time to exit the daily grind and use your talents to start living your dream once and for all.
Right now, 70% of Americans aren’t passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They’re sick of “average” and know there’s something better out there, but they just don’t know how to reach it. One basic principle―The Proximity Principle―can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love. In his latest book, The Proximity Principle, national radio host and career expert Ken Coleman provides a simple plan of how positioning yourself near the right people and places can help you land the job you love. Forget the traditional career advice you’ve heard! Networking, handing out business cards, and updating your online profile do nothing to set you apart from other candidates. Ken will show you how to be intentional and genuine about the connections you make with a fresh, unexpected take on resumes and the job interview process. You’ll discover the five people you should look for and the four best places to grow, learn, practice, and perform so you can step into the role you were created to fill. After reading The Proximity Principle, you’ll know how to connect with the right people and put yourself in the right places, so opportunities will come―and you’ll be prepared to take them.
You were born to do work that matters Are you looking for more than a J-O-B? Do you want to find purpose instead of just a paycheck? There's a reason you can't shake the feeling you were meant for more. But 61 percent of us aren't even engaged at work--let alone doing work we love. In his new book, From Paycheck to Purpose, national bestselling author and career expert Ken Coleman lays out the seven stages of discovering and doing the work you were born to do. You'll go from a day job to your dream job by learning how to: Get Clear on the work you were uniquely made to do and why. Get Qualified to do the work you were created for. Get Connected with the right people who can open the doors to your dream. Get Started by overcoming the emotions and mistakes that often hold people back. Get Promoted by developing winning habits and traits. Get Your Dream Job by doing work you love and accomplishing results that matter to you. Give Yourself Away by expanding the dream to leave a legacy. This is your moment. You were born to do work that matters. You are needed, and you were made to contribute. It's time to exit the daily grind, find your passion, and use your talents to start living your dream once and for all.
The Ripple Effect by Ken Coleman Asks one of the most controversial and important questions of our time. What do we do with a child that commits murder? A cold blooded murder is committed in a sleepy, quiet, North Carolina town. The Ripple Effect explains, the character of a man is not in the way he acts. It's in the way he reacts, even more so, the way he reacts to tragedy. Because, in one moment in time, through controversy and the court of public opinion, everything can change. The story explores the relationship of a solid, Godly family that breaks, as well as a broken family that find their way back together. Sterling Sharpe, the suave and handsome defense attorney, uses the event to rekindle past relationships, while the urban and gritty talk show host Great Dane, uses the controversy to gain national popularity. The riveting tale is not so much about true crime, as much as it is real life. Website: www.kencoleman.me Southrnauthor@aol.com
Talking on Air: A Broadcaster's Life in Sports highlights the 40-year career of Ken Coleman. The book details a broadcasting life seen not only from inside the booth, but also from inside the minds and throughout the experiences of many of sports' greatest names. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
DRUM MAJOR is the dramatic story of a reporter that goes to Venezuela investigating the drug cartel, then realizes he cannot get back out of the country. Estenio Morales, Cuban American, is a mediocre reporter for the Miami Sun. Through the murder of his best friend and fellow reporter, he stumbles onto the story of the year. His blind ambition leads him into a world of Latin organized crime, to which he becomes a king pin in the world he came to expose. Meanwhile, Estenio's wife, the waspy daughter of a successful businessman, gathers support from Congress, businessmen and the White House in an attempt to free her jailed husband. The story continues as supporters eventually betray them, and friends are murdered. Each chapter alternates the events by the perspective of Estenio & his wife. His imprisonment takes the real world of poverty, power, inhumanity, murder, race, secrets and betrayal, and changes his materialistic ideals as he becomes a drum major for human rights.
Right now, 70% of Americans aren't passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They're sick of "average" and know there's something better out there, but they just don't know how to reach it. One basic principle--The Proximity Principle--can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love. In his latest book, The Proximity Principle, national radio host and career expert Ken Coleman provides a simple plan of how positioning yourself near the right people and places can help you land the job you love. Forget the traditional career advice you've heard! Networking, handing out business cards, and updating your online profile do nothing to set you apart from other candidates. Ken will show you how to be intentional and genuine about the connections you make with a fresh, unexpected take on resumes and the job interview process. You'll discover the five people you should look for and the four best places to grow, learn, practice, and perform so you can step into the role you were created to fill. After reading The Proximity Principle, you'll know how to connect with the right people and put yourself in the right places, so opportunities will come--and you'll be prepared to take them.
The story of a 14 year old boy who accompanies a young and beautiful, but murderous woman on her quest to find and destroy the killers of his parents. Raised by Indians, she is no stranger to violence and killing and is quite willing and able to meet violence with violence in her desire to avenge the killings of the boy's parents and the abuse of her friend. During their pursuit of the desperadoes, the pair cover hundreds of miles of territory from Kansas to Texas and travel to some of the wildest and lawless towns in the west facing danger every step of the way, until their pursuit of the killers comes to a bloody and unexpected conclusion.
“The most truthful, straight-talk book on managing people to come along in eons. This is an exceptional tool for business.” —Harvey MacKay, #1 New York Times-bestselling author In the newly updated edition of this classic empowerment business fable—over 400,000 copies sold—Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph show you how to shift to an empowered, employee-driven work environment. Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute tells the story of a young manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around through traditional top-down, command-and-control management are failing. Reluctantly, he contacts an expert in empowerment, even though he feels like he’s already tried that approach. Step by step, the expert helps him understand why his past and present efforts have fallen short and figure out what he needs to do to create an empowered workforce. The process as it unfolds is complex, paradoxical, and counterintuitive—but well worth the effort. This new edition dispels the notion that empowerment is a bygone fad. No matter what its name, the essential concept—that organizations can achieve extraordinary results by recognizing and taking advantage of the skills, experience, and knowledge already existing in the organization—will always be relevant. Although sometimes arduous, the journey to empowerment is well worth embarking on. In fact, unleashing the power of people in an organization may be the only way to continue to do business in a competitive, complicated marketplace. “One of the very best organized, thought out, planned, and written books on any business subject I have read.” —Stanley Bass, Human Resources Consultant, Stan Bass Consulting
This is the story of a woman's search to find her children and the unlikely alliance she forms with their kidnapper as they make an epic journey across the Great Plains of Kansas and Colorado. The longer they dwell in each other's company, the closer they become, even though she struggles to understand the enigmatic Indian who not only throws her into ice cold rivers just for the hell of it, but likes to add insult to injury by spanking her butt afterward. Then by complete contrast, he tenderly, cares for her and her daughter as they journey west facing danger at every turn. Although violent and harrowing, this is also a love story set in 1875 when there was much resentment between Indian and white settlers resulting in more than one massacre of innocent women and children of various tribes. This is a work of fiction but history tells us that such atrocities happened. One notable example was Custer's raid on peaceful Cheyenne people in Colorado, resulting in the deaths of numerous women and children.
They were a 100-1 long shot to win the American League pennant, but the 1967 dream team went all the way to the World Series. Written by the man who was there from the first inning of spring training to the last out of the World Series--legendary Red Sox broadcaster Ken Coleman.
An epic story of a man's journey to seek out and kill the brutal outlaws who killed and defiled his family in the most horrific and degrading manner imaginable. His journey spans many years and thousands of miles as he doggedly searches for and picks them off one by one. Along the way he visits some of the most lawless towns in the west, with dire consequences for the gunmen and ruffians who bring trouble to his already, troubled existance. However, worse than any gunslinger, is the crazy woman who enters his life and try as he might, he cannot shake her off. Her name is Chameli Gonzales and apart from being crazy, she is the most irritating, unpredictable and fiery female he has ever known. She is also the most beautiful and endearing woman ever to enrich his troubled life and try as he might he cannot shake off her image, even when they are miles and years apart, she is always somewhere at the back of his mind. Sooner or later, they must face their combined destiny with bloody and tragic consequences.
The author of Blitz and the author of the Jesse Stone novels collaborate on a “rough and profane read” about two childhood friends who become criminals (Daniel Woodrell). Nick’s Irish-American father, a Brooklyn rent-a-cop working security in the World Trade Center’s North Tower, named him after a Hemingway hero. The old man must have been expecting a different kind of kid. Because, like the R&B song says, Nick was born under a bad sign. As aimless as a stray bullet, his only constants are ’Nam movies, pulp novels, and an unquestioning devotion to his childhood friend, Todd, a Jewish New York con artist with connections to the Boston mob. When Todd inducts Nick into his world of petty crime, it starts with reckless fun—scoring weed, low-level stings, and burglary. But the deeper they sink into the world of the syndicate, the more they realize how unknowable a friend can be, and how unprepared they are to rescue themselves, and their souls, from the gutter. Alternately telling this “brutally poetic” story from the perspectives of Nick and Todd, award-winning “noir masters” Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Colemen “shine, dropping in-jokes, experimenting and displaying all the literary chops that have made their novels such cult favorites among mystery fans” (Publishers Weekly).
Meine Gedanken überschlugen sich. Jeff war tot, meine Fingerabdrücke waren auf der Pistole, und wenn ich Todd nicht um die Ecke brachte, würden sie mir die Sache anhängen. Ich schnupfte eine Prise Koks, um wieder klar oder wenigstens überhaupt denken zu können. Ich musste abhauen, so viel stand fest." New York, 2001. Nick und Todd, zwei Kleinkriminelle, die sich seit Kindesbeinen kennen, geraten in die Fänge eines brutalen Drogenrings. Sie treffen auf skurrile Typen, verführerische Frauen und Mord. Ein Geheimnis, das Todd mit sich trägt, stellt ihre Freundschaft schließlich auf eine harte Probe ... und über allem ragen symbolträchtig die Türme des World Trade Centers in den Himmel. In Tower ziehen Ken Bruen und Reed Farrel Coleman gemeinsam alle Register ihres Könnens, das viele schon aus ihren Kult gewordenen Kriminalromanen kennen. Eine Mischung aus Martin Scorseses Departed und Quentin Tarantinos Pulp Fiction.
The story of Queenie Jones, the most famous, notorious, and controversial black female entertainer of all time encompasses a century of her life, troubles, and lessons learned. Yet it twists as the story is told to a young, Jewish writer and he becomes infatuated, fascinated, and envious of her life's choices. It's a love story of a very odd couple. Memories Vision is not a story only for people of color. It's the journey of a man who was presented an opportunity to learn from an unlikely source, became engulfed in the over powering words and wisdom of the teacher, that he grew well beyond his world of understanding. In the tradition of Driving Miss Daisy and Tuesdays with Morrie, there's Memories Vision.
Focus on the 5 introduces a new, innovative concept to the World that is the backbone of the 5%er Movement. I'm sure you're thinking "what the heck is a 5%er?" well, they are out-of-the-box thinkers, entrepreneurs, early adopters, disruptors, founders, visionaries, inventors & risk takers. We believe 5% of the population have this in their DNA. That's why they start companies, invent things and change the World. The sad thing is the other 95% misunderstand them and some even go so far as to try and limit 5%ers. Focus on the 5 provides the platform for 5%ers to be true to themselves! There are psychological, spiritual + financial benefits for everyone in understanding this fundamental core of how and why we make decisions. "This book inspires the 5%er in all of us. Obviously some come by it naturally, some need motivation to become their destiny. I hope this book motivates leaders for generations to come!"- LES GARLANDInventor & Founder of MTV: Music Television & VH1
After spending six years in the mountains and forests of Colorado learning, from an early age, to shoot, fight and kill, Ruth sets out to avenge the death of her mother at the hands of Colonel Bridgeport and his army of killers. During her epic journey through some of the most violent and lawless towns of Colorado, Kansas and Texas, she makes many friend and enemies though wherever she goes trouble follows often resulting in violence and death. In her troubled and often confused mind, she sees herself as a victim and knows only one way to deal with threats, that is to kill which she does often and in a cold and remorseless way, until she finally reaches her goal and her quest comes to a bloody, violent and tragic end.
In "Altitude: Tales of Resilience", journey with Ken and his team of climbers as they travel up the mountain of success. Along the way, they will meet adversity in many forms and have to work together to survive the travel and make their way to the top. In conjunction with the story of Ken's journey, you will receive leadership lessons based on real-life experiences from the author.Reading "Altitude: Tales of Resilience" will help you: -Accept your past mistakes and utilize them to build a resilient life-Understand your strengths and weaknesses and harness both to build self-confidence-Identify distractions that could be preventing you from achieving your max potential-Understand that there is strength in "BOTH numbers and in being alone"-Define your personal worth so that you can teach others to value your presence and time-Leverage the tools that you already possess to become the best you.
The definitive guide to all of Florida's training sites and activities. Beginning with a slightly irreverent introduction to baseball's pre-season season, it includes a camp-by-camp, city-by-city guide to each of eighteen team's training sites.
Describes the location and facilities of each major league baseball team's spring training headquarters, and offers advice on sightseeing in each region of Florida
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