Are there days when nothing you do as a leader seems to work? Are you willing to take a journey into how your employees' brains work? The trip will upend much of what you've learned about management but it will make your day easier.This guide offers you a series of useful techniques to break through organizational inertia and your employees' resistance to change. It gives you twelve powerful tips to work with human nature rather than wasting your time pushing against it.
During the 1960’s and early 1970’s, University of Tennessee basketball reached a level of excellence that placed the program among the nation’s round ball elite. The Vols had an inspirational coach in Ray Mears who created a new excitement in basketball “on the hill.” He orchestrated the pageantry of Hollywood on the court combining a basketball tradition with “show biz” along with a new winning attitude. The UT band, students, cheerleaders, and the community were all a part of Coach’s basketball extravaganza; everyone was a star in his show. Tennesseans eagerly anticipated the next game in the confines of Stokely Center as a family and community spirit prevailed. Mears operated his program with class as the All-American appearance was exhibited by his players and coaching staff. Even the atmosphere within Stokely was “spit shined” on game nights to represent the wholesomeness that Americans admired. Players--representing their communities, their families, and, above all, Ray Mears and the basketball program at the University of Tennessee--understood no misbehavior was tolerated. The players acquired a quality education at UT, and they received a second degree from Ray Mears who taught them to deal with adversity, the importance of hard work and discipline, and a great respect for authority. They practiced together, ate together, traveled together, won together, lost together, and, like it was all a dream, left the University to begin their careers. But all of them today retain the learning experiences gleaned from Ray Mears, and his influence emerges in the personalities of many of his players. Billy Justus, a former All-American, once said, “If I could ever play again, there would be only one coach I would want on my bench and that would be Ray Mears.” When Billy made that statement, he spoke for all of us. A lot has been written about Ray Mears and the basketball excellence he attained while at the University of Tennessee, but only a few young men have had the rare opportunity of participating in his program. This book is a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to perform for one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time as seen through the stories told by his former players. Ray Mears--the ringmaster; Ray Mears--the showman; Ray Mears--the miracle worker; or Ray Mears--the salesman. Pick any of these descriptions of the man who directed the Vols, and they all describe the coach that led Tennessee to some of the most successful years in basketball. Don’t Give Me the Scores, Just the Stories portrays life under the “Big Top” when Tennessee basketball players experienced some of the best years of their lives.
A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.
The first title in a brand-new action series. Across the globe, Major Joe Mears leads Leopard-1, an elite team of American Special Operations ready to risk their lives for the freedoms America stands for. Mears must uncover the mystery behind the hijacking of an American oil tanker, the spread of a deadly new virus, and millions of dollars laundered by a powerful drug cartel. Original.
In thirty years of playing in bands and sharing musical ideas and insights with some of the top musicians in his field, Mike Marshall has enjoyed an amazing opportunity to compose music for some incredible players.The individual pieces in this book reflect a desire to create something he felt would fit the musical situation at hand: the players, the instrumentation, the music that they were interested in exploring, and their collective goals and dreams. In most cases, these tunes where learned by ear and those who played them never saw charts like these. Multi-instrumentalist Matt Flinner took on the task of transcribing Mike's music into notation and tab.
Who is Mike Hill? For 49 years, he attempted to answer the question, to no avail. Hill was known to the world as the polished, versatile talent with multi-decade broadcast experience. After joining ESPN in 2004, Hill made a name for himself at the network, beginning at the highlight desk for ESPN News and later transitioning to some of the carrier's highest-priority programming, appearing as a host on SportsCenter, NFL Live, Baseball Tonight and NBA Tonight among others. In August of 2013, Hill joined FOX Sports. The embodiment of professionalism, Hill appeared to be living the American Dream; however, his private, internal struggles were taking a toll on his ability to live and to love.Eventually, the mounting trauma resulting from childhood memories of witnessing his mother victimized by domestic violence, a lack of proper male tutelage, discovering that his stepfather was a murder for hire, and the demise of two marriages, forced Hill to his breaking point. Amidst a silent cry for help and a quest to heal from within, forced him to pick up his pen to chronicle the most prolific moments of his life.
Insomniac librarian Devin MacKenzie is yanked into a maelstrom of mayhem and mystery by the punctuation-faced crime fighter known as the Answer! Can this unlikely team take on the sinister BRAIN TRUST? A thoroughly original superhero adventure from Mike Norton (Battlepug) and Dennis Hopeless (Avengers Arena, Cable and X-Force). Collects the four-issue miniseries. * Dennis Hopeless (Cable and the X-Force, Avengers Arena) is one of comics' rising stars!
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