Performance Action

Assassin’s Creed: Gold follows Aliyah Khan, a card shark and hustler who’s been dealt a rough hand in life. Surviving through her smarts and street scams, Aliyah struggles to get by until she loses big time to a mysterious older man, Gavin Banks. Her only option to repay Banks is to become an Assassin. During her training, Banks tells Aliyah of the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars, imploring her to help him decode a secret message inscribed on an illegal form of currency during the Great Recoinage of 1696.

To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and learning is integrated into the everyday. Yet we often get stuck in a well-worn pattern of habits that don’t move us forward. Why? Because many of us get trapped in the Performance Paradox: the counterintuitive phenomenon that if we focus only on performing, our performance suffers. How can we give ourselves the space to experiment and grow while also delivering high-level results?

Unstoppable Teams show managers at every level, at both large and small organizations, including private, public, and nonprofit, how to inspire, motivate, and lead the people around them.

Chances are, if you're a manager in most any organization today, coaching has become an integral part of your responsibilities. And there's no more effective approach to coaching than Action Coaching.

It's 1753; the golden age of piracy is dead along with its famous Pirate Captains; still pirates are sailing the seas and Pirate Captain Nathanael Blackthorne is "out there" doing what he does best captaining the Ciara Morganse, seeking revenge, when Providence dumps a treasure on his deck: Cate Mackenzie, a Jacobite War criminal. It's a story of people, scarred of both spirit and flesh, coming to grips with that ol’ demon, Trust. It’s the story of what a man will do to preserve his most treasured. It’s the story of what a woman will risk to gain what she desires most.

Four horror stories, over 30 hours of audio entertainment. Horror stories are intended to frighten, startle, and even disgust the listener. The tales of blood-sucking vampires, headless horsemen, hideous creatures, and transformed humans will leave you terrified yet compelled to listen to the next.

Leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to overcome the great disconnect between employers and employees by inviting individuals to become part of something bigger than themselves—to belong. Belonging Rules gives leaders the tools, knowledge, and confidence to harness belonging to address the workplace’s most critical challenges.

This book is about one of the most important factors that leads to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy.

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert, gives you powerful  scripts and templates you can apply immediately to your employee reviews and development conversations. This handy quick-guide turns a task many managers dread—giving performance reviews—into a positive opportunity to hone your leadership skills and guide your employees to the path for success.

Broadway star Margo Channing, played to perfection here by Tallulah Bankhead, is at the top of her game and has successful collaborations with her husband, playwright Lloyd Richards and close friend, director Bill Sampson. Enter centre stage, Eve Harrington, a manipulative minx that uses and abuses the lives of Margo and her friends to fulfil her ambitions of theatre stardom. As she manoeuvres her way into taking over Margo's part in the current Broadway hit.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Do you ever procrastinate? Do you somehow convince yourself that your tasks can always wait...when they can't? Do all the tasks you put off for a long time overwhelm you? And when the deadline arrives - panic time! You don't know where to start. The time to start changing is right now. Learn to focus on your most important tasks and get them done before the deadline. Daily Routine Makeover examines the causes and solutions of procrastination like no other book.

Captain Bligh leaves London for Tahiti in charge of his crew on the Bounty. At sea he shows himself to be a brutal tyrant and cruel whilst enforcing discipline which includes flogging the men, cutting rations and over zealously working them too hard. On the return voyage, first mate Fletcher Christian, wonderfully played here by Orson Welles, leads the crew to mutiny and sets Bligh and his supporters adrift on a boat. What they did not count on is the Captain's return in this gripping tense drama.

A dramatized, abridged performance of Alice in Wonderland with Eva Le Gallienne, Bambi Linn, and Margaret Webster.

Set in current-day Afghanistan, the fascinating story of a very young, behind-the-lines British agent and a chance saving of 20 captured girls condemned to a life of slavery and abuse. The Afghan girls and the agent form an alliance. As time passes, the 20 Afghan girls support the agent in a number of covert and very dangerous missions. Then love and fate join hands, and the team decides to join the agent full time. They train endlessly, the oldest 17, the youngest, Mi, just 12.

Kaiser Napoleon Bonaparte, seit einem Jahr auf die Insel Elba verbannt, plant seine Rückkehr nach Frankreich und den Sturz König Ludwigs XVIII. Vor diesem historischen Hintergrund vollzieht sich das abenteuerliche Schicksal des jungen Kapitäns Edmond Dantès, der infolge eines teuflischen Intrigenspiels zu lebenslänglichem Kerker verurteilt wird. Nach 18 endlosen Jahren gelingt ihm die Flucht aus der Festung Chateau d'If, und er gelangt auf wunderbare Weise in den Besitz sagenhafter Reichtümer.

The exploits of this almost-all-women Afghan team continue. The oldest 18, the youngest just 14. Set in modern-day Afghanistan, this fascinating story continues to unfold. Their deeds are acknowledged by the Americans, the British, and Russians, which in itself is very unusual. They have been welded into a behind-the-lines fighting unit by Kate Murphy and the man who released them from sexual slavery, known only as “the Commander”, who is British.

This audiobook brings the listener up to the pull-out of troops from Afghanistan and the flight of the Afghan government. The Afghan female team are all young - the oldest 20, the youngest just 13, saved from a life as sex slaves; their exploits in combat have won them international praise. Their focus is to tackle terrorists, drug suppliers, arms suppliers, and human traffickers mainly behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. In this audiobook, events seem to stretch their abilities to the limit. Those fleeing Afghanistan are of little help.

Book seven sees the platoon involved on some difficult and knife edge missions. The Afghan female team are all young - the oldest 19, the youngest just 13; saved from a life as sex slaves, their exploits in combat have won them international praise. Their focus is to tackle terrorists, drug suppliers, arms suppliers, and human traffickers mainly behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. In this book, events seem to be working against the platoon.

Book 6 sees the platoon travelling on several top-secret missions, including Russia, as well as Sangin, in Afghanistan. The Afghan female team are all young - the oldest 20, the youngest 17; saved from a life as sex slaves their exploits in combat have won them international praise. Their focus is to tackle terrorists, drug suppliers, arms suppliers, and human traffickers mainly in Afghanistan.