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Strategic thinking has become a core competency for business leaders globally. Overused and under-defined, the term is often used interchangeably with other strategic management terms. This book delineates and defines strategic thinking as an advanced, conceptual cognitive capability, focusing on the nonlinear, divergent, a-rational, and informal nature of strategic thinking. This unique and practical book is an original primer of how successful strategists learn to think strategically.

It’s the artist’s age-old dilemma: follow your conscience or follow the cash. So when a canceled movie star reaches out to up-and-coming writer Ivey Viola to discuss a mysterious project, she uses the opportunity to escape mid-pandemic New York for his private island with her roommate in tow. However, once on the island, she realizes that the cost of working with the toxic, closeted actor might be more than she’s willing to accept...or can refuse.

Stephen Sheerin was born to play on Broadway - or at least, under it. He's a musician, a conductor, and his dream is to music-direct a big Broadway musical. After years of toiling in the pit of some of the best-loved (and loathed) hits on the Great White Way, he's just been given his big break. Can life really be going that well? Of course not.

Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze is a music-filled holiday comedy starring Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, with a jolly cast including Patti LuPone, Rachel Dratch, and Richard Kind. In this heartwarming story of love and friendship, we follow the journey of “Sugar” and “Booze” as they go from inseparable college buddies to busy working moms who mostly keep in touch with each other, and their close friends and family, through annual holiday letters.  

On a stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest known for the country’s highest number of serial killers, cold cases pile up across state lines, stumping the local police. An elite FBI unit is formed, with brilliant special agent Rylie Wolf at its head—and Rylie is summoned urgently to a region where unsuspecting accidents have converged with murders. Can she find the link?

On a stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest known for the country’s highest number of serial killers, cold cases pile up across state lines, stumping the local police. An elite FBI unit is formed, with brilliant special agent Rylie Wolf at its head—and this time Rylie is summoned to a lonely stretch of highway where active and cold cases converge. Has an old killer re-surfaced? 

When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a town's livelihood and skewers the complicity of the masses in his classic and still timely play.

Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policeman try to determine who among the passengers of a bus at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than 30 refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue.

On a stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest known for the country’s highest number of serial killers, cold cases pile up across state lines, stumping the local police. An elite FBI unit is formed, with brilliant special agent Rylie Wolf at its head—and this time she must crack the case of a string of hitchhikers who’ve gone missing. Are they all the work of a single killer? And can she save the next one before it’s too late?

On a notorious stretch of highway rife with serial killers, victims are appearing across multiple state lines, seemingly no link between them. Rylie, pitted against territorial police departments, must tap her brilliant mind to crack the riddle and save the next victim before it’s too late. 

Clifford Odets’ masterpiece, starring Mark Ruffalo, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Kind, and Ben Gazzara, brings to life the struggles of a working-class family aspiring to the promise of the American Dream. Even as they endure the country’s worst economic nightmare, three generations of an immigrant family are crowded into a Bronx tenement, fiercely determined to stay afloat, no matter what the cost.

Starting a cannabis company is supposed to be chill, right? George, Brandy and Marcus are about to find out just how sobering the cannabis business can be.

Sidney Blumenthal, White House presidential adviser, renowned journalist and author of numerous books on American politics, takes us inside the well-groomed Washington Press Corps, who yawn when they hear about peace treaties - but snap to attention at the chance to uncover a little dirt on the First Dog.

For most people an afternoon trip to the dentist is the very definition of hell. When Deb's routine dentist appointment turns out to be a meeting with Lucifer himself, she bargains her way back to living with a promise to secure a certain number of souls. Naturally she begins her scavenger hunt in the corporate sector - the Disney Corporation, to be exact! Sharp and refreshing, Keith Reddin's Synergy is an uproarious and wry look at life on the corporate ladder.

A notorious stretch of highway is rife with serial killers, unsolved murders, and missing-persons cases. The FBI, knowing it must crack this Bermuda Triangle of death, assigns its most brilliant mind - and flawed agent - Rylie Wolf, to dive headfirst into this road of danger. Rylie must tap her brilliant instincts to decode these cases and enter the twisted mind of killers - while battling demons from her own dark past. 

Die schönsten Märchen - ein Hörspielklassiker nach den Gebrüdern Grimm. In dieser Folge hört ihr Brüderchen und Schwesterchen.

Finding themselves profoundly disappointed by their human family, being left home from the family vacation they have always been a part of, and having to take care of themselves, seven dogs have to decide what to do next.

With the second of his series Mr. Kind's unique, at times off-beat, lyrical rhyme is once again complimented to life by the graphic expression of Zacc Pollitt's dynamic neo-visualization techniques. Clyde wants nothing more than to share with his friend. But an apple tree, you see, can not chew and so Clyde, for the sake of friendship, takes it upon himself to journey to the moon. He will have so much to do when he arrives there and with the help of a talkative white table, he just might find something to share. 

George Kinder invites listeners to imagine a thousand generations have passed and humanity has at last accomplished a Golden Civilization. What does it look like? Who are we there? Of all our systems and structures currently in place, which of them got us there? And which of them were irretrievably heading in the wrong direction? He challenges listeners to immediately abandon habits, structures, and systems that won’t take us to a Golden Civilization and adopt those that will.