Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead

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A poetic collection

inspiration for the many facets of leadership

Chew and Digest this one

Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead
Sam M. Intrator , and Megan Scribner
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0787988693

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Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work. The contributors represent a wide range of professions including Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, several members of Congress, Christian activist Brian McLaren, business guru Peter Senge, and many other leaders from business, medicine, education, nonprofits, law, politics and government, and religion. In their reflections, these leaders explore how they have been inspired by poets such as T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Rumi, May Sarton, Wallace Stevens, Wendell Berry, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

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A poetic collection.......2007-10-09

Never before has there been a collection of poetry so profound, yet so in touch with human nature. Boldly, yet subtly, one of my favorite collections, will not fall off of my reading desk anytime soon.

inspiration for the many facets of leadership.......2007-10-01

This beautifully written collection brings together experience and insight from a wide range of leaders--executives, educators, clergy, politicians, and entrepreneurs, just to name a few. The poems they share are themselves beautiful and profound; the reflections accompanying them speak to both the challenges and potential of inspired leadership. A powerful source of encouragement for all those who seek to change our world for the better.

Chew and Digest this one.......2007-09-25

Francis Bacon said that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested." This one deserves to be chewed and digested--read from front to back, back to front or from the middle out, or just on a happen-to-be-open page. The poems are eclectic, the comments are refreshing and easy to identify with. A perfect gift opportunity!

The Poetry of Business Life: An Anthology

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The Poetry of Business Life: An Anthology

Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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The Poetry of Business

ASIN: 1881052591

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This unique collection brings together poems by contemporary corporate people and more recognized literary figures in and around the expanding world of business. Included are young, unpublished "business poets," well-known contemporary writers such as James Autry, Harry Newman, and Dana Gioia, as well as some of the most distinguished poets in history such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Kipling.

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"Vertigo--that dizzy, confused state of mind where your surroundings whirl about you--is disastrous for pilots who suffer disorientation and lose control of their aircraft," says Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan, "and it is no less catastrophic for businesses and their investors who are now plunging headlong into an increasingly unpredictable economic landscape." In Dot Vertigo, Nolan proposes an antidote based on the way leading bricks-and-mortar firms and Web companies (including IBM, Merrill Lynch, drugstore.com, and Amazon.com) are successfully using the technological advances causing this frenetic confusion among others to meet the challenges of the new "permeable" or less rigid corporate world. The core of the solution is something he dubs the I-Net, which is sort of a combined Internet-Intranet that thoroughly and seamlessly integrates all internal and external functions of a given company.

The first part of the book examines this vertigo or business disorientation and relates it to the need for permeability that Nolan marks as key to future success. The second completely outlines the I-Net infrastructure, including financial benchmarks and metrics necessary for building one that is fully attuned to a company's specific financial and operational realities. The third draws upon Nolan's extensive case studies of the above-mentioned firms and others to show how successful planning and implementation can be achieved. One of a growing wave of management books to reach beyond the technomarket meltdown for associated best practices that remain viable for spurring long-term strategic improvement, this will be welcomed by anyone who recognizes that technology is not the total solution but rather one critical piece of an evolving puzzle whose impacts (both good and bad) are here to stay. --Howard Rothman

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Harvard Business School's leading technology expert reveals a bold new concept: the permeable-and highly profitable-business
Richard Nolan is one of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley today. A Harvard Business School professor and an advisor to business leaders such as Cisco and Charles Schwab, Nolan's reputation as a thought leader in high-tech is unparalleled. In Dot Vertigo, Professor Nolan explores the ways in which both blue chip brick-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies are responding to an onslaught of new competitors; and how, in some cases, they have adapted to meet these competitors head-on. Introducing the concept of "permeability," as the number-one indicator of long-term growth and profitability, Nolan shows why it is so important for a company to make the transformation into a completely networked organization. Nolan warns that the first sign of serious trouble is "dot vertigo," when companies, like pilots, lose sight of their reference points and can't adapt to a changing landscape. Nolan illustrates how to beat dot vertigo by building a permeable business using the I-Net-the next generation of the Internet in which an organization's intranet is seamlessly merged with the Internet.
Richard Nolan, PhD (Boston, MA), is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A leading expert on managing technology, his ideas and views have been embraced by the technology industry, and he has gained the trust of Wall Street's top performers. Professor Nolan is the author of four books and hundreds of articles and published cases.

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Highly Recommended!.......2002-09-11

Bad news for corporate executives: Any IT investments you made before 1995 are now obsolete.
That's the message from Richard Nolan, who advises companies to forget about updating their legacy systems and begin anew from scratch. Why is such a dramatic gesture required? Because technology advances over the past decade have totally revamped the competitive landscape, making speed and flexibility the business imperatives of the 21st century. Sure, there are echoes of `90s Net hysteria here, but we from getAbstract strongly recommend this book as a warning that, just because the bubble has burst, decision makers cannot afford to neglect their IT systems.

ANTIDOTE TO OVERREACTION.......2002-01-05

"Dot Vertigo" makes the case that industries, companies and the economy itself are forever and significantly changed by Internet technologies. There's thin ice here: the reader who wants to reject this technological revolution may, by superficial reading, see "Dot Vertigo" as an echo of hype from the dot.com glory days. Such a reading would be wrong.

What Dick Nolan accomplishes is superb use of established analytical concepts from academia and management practice to explain and extend the implications of the new technology. Thus, he documents illustrations of leadership (as in the turnaround of IBM), and of systemic interaction of resources, organization and technology (as in CISCO in its heyday). He builds on established ideas like stages of organizational learning to lay out scenarios for challenges that different kinds of companies (incumbents, start-ups, dot-com survivors, and bricks-and-clicks) are now facing. This is the stuff a great course on management should include these days, the stuff every executive should read and reflect in strategic thinking and execution.

The book is an excellent reflection of its author: a field-research academic with years of advisory experience and, significantly, a man as creative with ideas as he is with practical advice. Very few can match Nolan's combined understanding of information technology, organizational behavior, and the executive mind.

"Dot Vertigo" shows the balance and the insight that make it the antidote to some current overreaction to the dot.com phenomenon. Ignore the impact of the Internet at your peril!

Understanding the New New -- Really New Economy.......2001-11-08

Dick Nolan takes as his theme the disorientation that Michael Lewis talks about in his book Next. If you are only going to read one business book this year, Dot Vertigo is that book. Dick Nolan has spent his life explaining things. He is an accomplished educator at the Harvard Business School. I was fortunate enough to work with him during the early days of his research on how computers impact and operate in organizations. `Suits' didn't know what to make of these machines. Dick was able to create the framework that made computers and computing understandable. In Dot Vertigo Dick applies his superlative analytical gifts to first understanding and then explaining what can be done about the apparent chaos surrounding us. Dot Vertigo - that dizzy, confused state of mind where your surroundings whirl about - is curable. The cure requires recognizing and then treating the seven symptoms of Dot Vertigo:

1. denying that the world has changed;
2. maintaining a complacent corporate culture;
3. responding with business as usual;
4. failing to cannibalize your product line before your competitors do;
5. letting egos get in the way;
6. always being in catch-up mode;
7. failing to adopt the new business model for the industry

Misunderstanding lies at the center of many of these symptoms. Dot Vertigo goes a long way toward clearing up that misunderstanding.

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•Accurate, easy-to-read guide to selecting, caring for, and enjoying a horse in Florida •The only horse guide devoted to Florida's special challenges of heat, humidity, insects, poisonous plants, and unique varieties of hay •Many helpful tips and quotes from top horse people •Includes updated information about equestrian trails in state parks

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Crystallography Made Crystal Clear makes crystallography accessible to readers who have no prior knowledge of the field or its mathematical basis. This is the most comprehensive and concise reference for beginning Macromolecular crystallographers, written by a leading expert in the field. Rhodes' uses visual and geometric models to help readers understand the mathematics that form the basis of x-ray crystallography. He has invested a great deal of time and effort on World Wide Web tools for users of models, including beginning-level tutorials in molecular modeling on personal computers. Rhodes' personal CMCC Home Page also provides access to tools and links to resources discussed in the text. Most significantly, the final chapter introduces the reader to macromolecular modeling on personal computers-featuring SwissPdbViewer, a free, powerful modeling program now available for PC, Power Macintosh, and Unix computers. This updated and expanded new edition uses attractive four-color art, web tool access for further study, and concise language to explain the basis of X-ray crystallography, increasingly vital in today's research labs.

* Helps readers to understand where models come from, so they don't use them blindly and
inappropriately
* Provides many visual and geometric models for understanding a largely mathematical method
* Allows readers to judge whether recently published models are of sufficiently high quality and detail to be useful in their own work
* Allows readers to study macromolecular structure independently and in an open-ended fashion on their own computers, without being limited to textbook or journals illustrations
* Provides access to web tools in a format that will not go out of date. Links will be updated and added as existing resources change location or are added

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Crystal Clear.......2007-01-17

The delivery was prompt and in the item was in an excellent condition

Clear, but lack depth and practice problem.......2006-12-07

Crystallography Made Crystal Clear does clearly explain the principles of X-ray Crystallography. I used this book for a graduate class in introductory x-ray crystallography when I deemed that the assigned book for the class, Principles of Protein X-Ray Crystallography, unhelpful.

Crystallography Made Crystal Clear presents the theory behind crystallography in the most straightforward way possible. Whenever possible, concepts are explained in words and by examples instead of with equations. This elimates derivations that are not necessary to understand key concepts.

Although explanations in the book are clear, they are often too brief. The book also does not have any practice problems, which is a major drawback. If you are taking a crystallography class, I would take a look at this book but focus more heavily on the lecture notes and problems from class. Honestly, I haven't found a really good crystallography book, but this one at least is not too confusing.

Clear as a crystal!!!!.......2005-01-30

This book is a good one. Explains every aspect I always want to know about crystallography. In my first class of biochemistry I discover that I really like the macromolecular models, but my biochemistry book doesn't content much information about this subjet. When I discover this book I bought it, and read it, and I must to say that this book explain every aspect of the process of create a molecular model.
After read this book I thinking about to become a crystallographer.

The best introduction to the subject.......2004-06-15

This is the best introduction to crystallography I have ever come across. Which is quite an achievement, because its a difficult subject to understand. In crystallography, its very rare to find a book which does not deal with either a totally descriptive approach or a totally mathematical approach. Rhodes' book bridges the gap between the two and gives the reader the right dose of jargon and explanation. He illustrates every point with plenty of figures as well as real life computer models of proteins. Before I came across this book, I was struggling and failing to understand Isomorphous Replacement, MAD, Solvent Flattening, Maps and Models, as well as the iterative refining of models. I think no other book comes even close to this book in explaining all these concepts in simple format. This, I think is as clear as it can get without becoming oversimplified. A must have for all researchers and students whose work is even remotely connected to crystallography.

"The" clearest one out there...........2003-06-04

When it comes to this field of research, you get two types of references: (1) the 2-5 page quick intro that leaves you with the most basic overview of crystallography and (2) the 'hard core' books that go into such detail as to leave you breathless. This book is, in my opinion, the best transition book.

For non-crystallographers, this book will teach enough about crystallography to allow you to read crystal structure articles and understand what is meant by all of the used statistics and such.

For apprentice crystallographers, this is a wonderful intro into the field. Master the book, then move on to harder books to master it.

Highly recommended. I still go back to it, when I teach people, to help me explain in the way that Gale Rhodes does!

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Crystallography Made Crystal Clear, Third Edition : A Guide for Users of Macromolecular Models (Complementary Science)
Gale Rhodes
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHQXDW

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Quite good, not great.

"Newton and Classical Physics" is a brainstormed surprise.

User-Friendly Newton

Let Newton be!

Introducing Newton and Classical Physics (Introducing...(Totem))
William Rankin
Manufacturer: Totem Books
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ASIN: 1840461586

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Newton was arguable the greatest scientific genius of all time and yet remains a mysterious figure.

Customer Reviews:

Quite good, not great........2007-06-14

I would recommend for someone into the Introducing... series, but not one of their best works.

"Newton and Classical Physics" is a brainstormed surprise. .......2007-03-14

This could be the best book in the "Introducing" series. It seems to have the best story, illustrations and topics. Newton is considered smarter then Einstein by many. It reads like an action movie. This is the best place to start on physics however I recommend that you also try "Introducing Mathematics" in this series if you need an maths refresher.

Core material:

Arithmetic
Geometry
Pythagoras
Squaring the Circle
John Bate's The Mysterious of Nature and Art
Sundials
Fireworks
Physis - The nature of a thing is its end
Crystalline Spheres
Ptolemy and Earth as the centre
Copernicus and Sun as the centre
Strange motions of Mars
Tyco disproves Aristotle fixed stars hypothesis by discovering Supernova
Tyco proves a comet in past the moon
Kepler covers 900 folio pages of Mars' orbit and discovers it is oval.
Kepler creates Copernicus model with oval elliptical orbits.
Galileo proves heavy and light bodies fall at same speed
Giovanni Battista della Porta develops telescope and Galileo develops it
Galileo talks about four moon of Jupiter, Venus phases, Saturns rings, Spiral Galaxy in Andromedia
Galileo pushes Copernicus on the Church
Galileo publishes resistance, cohesion, motion and acceleration, projectile curves
Descartes, matter only effecting matter by contact, everything parts of a machine, doctor is a mechanic, vivisection and animals have no feelings.
Euclid's Geometry, Schooten, Oughtred, Wallis and Descartes.
Binomial Theorem and infinity
Fluxions
Calculus
Optics
White is a mixture of colors
Mirror telescope
Principia
Laws of Motion
1. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
2. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.
3. III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Core pages of the discoveries and math is on p.122-129

User-Friendly Newton.......2002-04-04

This is one of the best of these illustrated "Introducing" books I've read so far. You won't learn that much practical knowledge of calculus or physics from this 170-page volume; however, you will get a lot of tasty info on Newton's life, his theories, his conflicts, and his eccentricities.

I found particularly interesting the fact that Newton wrote as many words about alchemy and other occult subjects as he did about mechanics and calculus. His notion of "action at a distance" (e.g., gravitational attraction), for example, was probably inspired by his alchemical research.

Also, it's a shame Newton decided to spend his later years running the British Mint, wanting do something more useful with himself than perform further research!

I also enjoyed the author's brief polemic against Galileo, apparently one of the most obnoxious takers of credit in the history of ideas.

It's a fun book, and informative. I may track down a few of the others mentioned in the bibliography.

Let Newton be!.......2001-06-06

This is a book from series of book including Einstein,Quantum theory,The Universe,Chaos,Stephen Hawking,etc.If you like this book,you might want to collect other books in series.The book presented Newton's life and works on science in illustrative,humurous way.It is also factual so for those who want detail descriptions and formal presentation probably dislike.For general reader it is an excellent book.Everyone know that Newton is the great man in science so this book tried to tell you in different way. Also recommended for secondary students.They will find about a giant in Physics in very interesting way.

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Way too religious

Indispensable!

Author knows how to put thoughts in words

For when you REALLY don't know what to say

A true treasure

Special Words: Notes for When You Don't Know What to Say
Joyce Landorf Heatherley
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2005-08-30

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Using actual notes as examples and inspiration, this helpful book provides the encouragement and practical advice everyone needs to convey exactly what they want to say for special times such as Mother's Day, birthdays, and Christmas, as well as words of apology, congratulations, and consolation.

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Way too religious.......2004-10-14

This book has great letters for very religious folks (numerous references to God, etc.), but I do not believe it reflects how everyday folks express themselves. Would only recommend to a very religious person.

Indispensable!.......2002-11-01

It's on my short list of books that everyone should have on their bookshelf.

Author knows how to put thoughts in words.......2001-08-13

This is a well-written and certainly useful book. I just want add one note. The writing is very feminine. Male readers should use caution when working with this book!

For when you REALLY don't know what to say.......2001-03-09

This book is not full of the usual hard to write letters, these are the REALLY hard to write letters. How to tell your relatives you don't want to spend the holidays with them again. Write a teacher to tell them what a poor (or good) job she did with your child. Tell your Pastor he's not being very supportive of his congregation. These may sound a little harsh but they are written in just right way, with forgiveness and hope for a change. There are also condolence letters, dealing with cancer letters, and all those touchy situations when you don't know what to say. Keep it right next to your stationery.

A true treasure.......2000-02-23

I found this book at the libray one day just browsing. I took it home and fell in love with it. I had to have one of my own. There are so many wonderful letters and ideas. I think everyone would benefit greatly from just this one book.I used several of the letters just the first day that I had it. What can I say, I love it!

Special Words Notes for When You Don't Know What to Say

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Special Words Notes for When You Don't Know What to Say
Joyce Landorf Heatherley
Manufacturer: Moorings
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GR536S

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Special Words : Notes for When You Don't Know What to Say
Joyce Landorf Heatherley
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ASIN: B000OVGXA6

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