A liberating look at the real reasons organization-wide improvement efforts fail and how, when all attempts have failed, you can help your organization to become great. As the authors of this eye-opening new work make clear, to enact real change, organizations need to shake off their immaturity and grow up. Shifting away from the tendency to lay all the blame on bad leadership, Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity offers specific answers for why most organizational improvement efforts fail. Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little explains the difficulties and dangers of organizational immaturity, then provides proven, effective tools and ideas for achieving change within the limitations of an immature organization. With this guide, leaders and other stakeholders will be able to determine the maturity level of an organization, get beyond prevailing myths about how change gets derailed, and identify potential areas for improvement.
For the Christian, trying to find one's way can be a daunting task at times. Trying to figure out what the Lord would have you to do. Figuring out how one figures into God's plan personally and corporately. And finally, trying to learn to hear the voice of God. I too have struggled with the same questions as a new believer, and still do on occasion. Contained within these pages are what I think are some helpful tips, insights, and anecdotes to help you move into that calling on your life, and to honor God and His people in the process while progressing toward your destiny.
Anthology 3.0 is a publication by Written by Veterans, a free Creative Writing Program offered by the Veterans Success Center at the California State University, San Bernardino. The program is open to all affiliated with the military and their immediate family members. We are writers of all ages and levels of experience. We support each other in our writing, publishing, and marketing. This anthology shows the range of our writing: poetry, short stories, novels, screenplays, memoirs, and non-fiction. For us, writing is a passion and an obsession; it heals the wounds of the past and opens new possibilities for the future.
Human animals - centaurs, satyrs, sphinxes, sirens and Gorgons - as well as other composite beings like Pan, Triton, Acheloos, and the Minotaur, are extremely common in Greek myth, literature, theater, and the visual arts. Understanding the phenomenon of combining human and animal elements into composite creatures is central to our knowledge of the Greek imagination. This book discusses the oriental antecedents of these fantastic creatures, examining the influence of Egyptian and Near Eastern models on the formation of Greek monsters in the Geometric and Archaic periods. Fully illustrated essays explore the nature and origin of horse men (centuars and satyrs) and the broader range of Greek composite creatures, discussing their evolving forms and changing roles during this seminal period of Greek art.
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