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For companies and individuals stuck in in the same place, unable to move forward, this book provides not only a clear roadmap from point A to point B but also a way to arrive faster than anticipated and with measurable results. B State is about the state of transformation that removes old mindsets, inefficient behaviors, and undesirable habits to bring about breakthrough culture and business change. It focuses on where someone is going, and it helps them get there fast. In B State, Mark Samuel offers accountability-based executive and management coaching to assist individual leaders in developing strategies to create the new behaviors and habits their organization needs in order to perform at higher levels. The principles and methods he presents focus on building high performance teamwork at all levels and creating results that are both unprecedented and sustainable. Written for business executives, managers, and supervisors, this is not just a book about how to do business but also a book about how to live life. Samuel empowers readers with a way to understand and adopt his system, offers tangible solutions, illustrates how these work through case studies, and shows readers how to bring about the dynamic forward launch they're looking for. This is a useful guide for anyone but can also be a powerful complement to training and consulting programs.

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From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne's Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries. China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. A Plain Vanilla Murder is a flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door neighbors--stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.

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CEOs and team leaders from Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed start-ups often complain that they have trouble keeping their teams motivated. But what if it's actually not the job of the leaders to motivate their teams? What if team members were responsible for motivating themselves and for bringing their own professional, positive, helpful, best selves to work each day? What might change in companies if teams lived up to this expectation? In The Motivation Trap, John Hittler draws on the knowledge he has acquired from years of coaching individuals, teams, and organizations and proposes a new way to lead. He unwraps the energetic underpinnings of motivation, explains why it holds big limitations, and points out where and when to employ it as an effective tool in leading management teams. He walks readers through additional tools and suggests how and when to use them to create high-achieving teams who find enjoyment in their work and are ready to take initiative. His simple, easy-to-use tools will bring team members together so they can accomplish highly leveraged success. With the wisdom he provides in The Motivation Trap, Hittler helps leaders produce great results for their team members, for themselves, and for their organizations.

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It’s Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square—if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake’s talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter; Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect her, while she herself is confronted by a romantic puzzle. And Sheriff Norris is forced to reopen a puzzling mystery that the town thought was solved and follow a string of clues that lead to a deadly situation at the nearby prison farm. Once again, NYT best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert takes us to a place where real people have courage, respect their neighbours, and dream of doing their best, even when they’re not sure what that is. She reminds us that Christmas is a celebration of friendship, community, and what’s right with the world. There’s nothing puzzling about that.

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It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, whom President Roosevelt calls the “most dangerous man in America.” Add Ophelia Snow’s secret heartthrob, Liz Lacy’s Yankee lover, and the Magnolia Ladies’ garden of red hot pokers, fire-red salvia, and hot pink cosmos, and you have a volatile mix that might just burst into flames at any moment. Author Susan Wittig Albert has brought us another delightful assortment of richly human characters who face the challenges of the Great Depression with courage and grace. Her books remind us that friends offer the best of themselves to each other, community is what holds us together, and even when life seems too hot to handle, there’s always hope.

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Weldon Long's latest work, Consistency Selling, is a friendly, conversational book that highlights the author's excellent storytelling abilities to showcase his successful selling strategy. His emphasis on relationship building and problem solving show readers how they can greatly increase their chances of closing important sales. This book is a well-balanced combination of prescriptive advice and engaging stories that will take stress off any reader who is trying to make the best of their sales opportunities. Weldon Long is a New York Times best-selling author and one of the nation's most sought-after motivational speakers and successful businessmen.

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In 1979, John Carona founded Associa, a community association management company, with just one client. Under his leadership, Associa has grown to become the largest and most stable management company in North America. In In the Common Interest II, Carona shares the secrets of his success for those in the community management industry and any leader interested in the ""how"" of building a successful service business. Customer service is at the heart of his philosophy, guiding his employees in every action, communication, process, and relationship. It permeates every aspect of his company, from client relationships to employee culture. Carona is not bragging about his success, although he certainly could. He genuinely wants to help others create their own successes. He shares the details of his approach: Associa's mission statement, four pillars, five core values, as well an in-depth explanation on the application of these concepts: the Five Star Customer Service Model. Each chapter includes easy-to-understand explanations of these tenets, a ""Service in Action"" case study, and self-assessment questions that readers can use to guide their own organizational development. Readers will walk away with a thorough understanding of the importance of customer service and how to implement similar policies and practices to help their own organizations be the best they can be.

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The Red Key Revolution tells the story of the author's journey as he learns what really matters in life. Periodically, Jordan Kemper's competitive nature pulled him away from the path of serving others. But one touchstone remained constant-the red key given to him as a teenager by his pastor. The red key, which initially symbolized sexual purity, became a much larger symbol encompassing sacrifice and commitment and living a life of significance. With maturity and perspective (and true love!), he finds the purest pursuit to be the drive to live a significant life-one that strives to have a positive impact on others. Kemper's book presents insightful questions and suggests specific actions to help you unlock the key to the meaningful life you really want to live

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Just a Regular Lawyer Who Becomes a Spiritual Healer. The Reluctant Healer is a smart, inventive, and carefully-plotted story about a logical, left-brained New York City lawyer who meets and falls in love with a creative, right-brained spiritual healer. Erica believes in the power of energetic healing, while Will claims he's just a regular guy from the suburbs. The novel follows Will's journey of resistance, exploration, and discovery as he, in an authentic, relatable, and often humorous way, becomes drawn into a second career as a spiritual healer-for hire. Through clever narration, engaging scenes, and situational humour, Himmel paints a portrait of a reasonable man who traces a path between scepticism and belief, entering a territory he's never known before and sometimes crossing hard, moral limits along the way. Will, the protagonist is flawed, humble, and reasonably agnostic about his abilities, yet he risks everything he's known to look for meaning not only in spiritual things he doesn't fully understand but also in the conventional, mainstream life he's always lived. This is not just a book about a lawyer who lives with and loves his soul mate. It's a bigger story that says something about how people in the world get along with and coexist with others who are different from-even the opposite of-them. Written for fans of literary fiction, humorous fiction, fiction about attorneys, and literature about New Age topics, this book is about how people come together to embrace their differences, love each other well, and bring out the best in one another. And it's a book about how we figure ourselves out.

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