Bøger af Greg Smith

Suitable for teens who like to watch zombie movies and the Walking Dead.

An exciting epic action adventure awaits fans of international crime stories that starch into a contemporary semi-military thriller fraught with wild car chases, gun battles and vicious human traffickers.Capt. Kramer, USMC, continues his confrontation with Valdiron, the vicious drug lord working to expand his criminal empire by including human trafficking to his long list of operations. Kramer is realizing that the fighting on his own home front is far more dangerous than his Afghanistan deployments.THE FIGHT IS STILL REALTHE TASK OF TAKING IT ON EVEN MORE STAGGERINGIf you love fast-moving adventures with unexpected twists & turns in forms ofpage-turning thrillers like the Bourne series, the Bosch series, by the likes ofPatterson and Connelly - then this new epic series is for you.

Barbara Eisenhart seemed to be living the perfect American teenage life. As a popular, active eighteen-year-old entering her freshman year at Kent State University, she had a bright future ahead of her. In one night, that all changed when she made the decision to get in the car with her friend after they had been drinking alcohol. Barb's friend walked away with a crashed car and in trouble with parents and the law, but Barb would never walk again. Barb suffered a broken neck, leaving her paralyzed from the shoulders down. In Stop Wishing (for the Life You Don't Have), and Start Living (the Life You Do), Barb shares her remarkable story of hope and perseverance as she recovers from this one life-changing event. Barb's journey through hurt, pain, and fear leads to profound joy and contentment as she learns to live again.

An exciting epic action-adventure awaits fans of international crime stories that starch into a contemporary semi-military thriller fraught with wild car chases, gun battles, drug lords, and murder.A new adventure inviting you to join an U.S Marine as he discovers an insidious criminal industry of pandemic proportions that exists worldwide, even right here in his own backyard - activity that needs to be tackled by no less than the best fighters. THE FIGHT IS REAL THE TASK OF TAKING IT ON STAGGERINGWhen those involved come from every walk of life-from average suburban couples, cops, doctors, judges, even politicians of the highest level-can they ever be stopped?If you love fast-moving adventures with unexpected twists & turns in forms of page-turning thrillers like the Bourne series, the Bosch series, by the likes of Patterson and Connelly-then this new epic series is for you.Let the fight begin.

An exciting epic action adventure awaits fans of international crime stories that starch into a contemporary semi-military thriller fraught with wild car chases, gun battles and a plan to exact revenge from America on a monumental scale.Capt. Kramer, USMC, continues his campaign to bring down the Valdiron criminal empire, at a terrible cost to himself. However, this time he faces a woman's thirst for revenge that unleashes a plan that makes 9/11 pale in comparison - but she is not finished. She has one more target in her sights.THE FIGHT REACHES NEW HEIGHTSTHE TASK OF TAKING IT ON MIGHT PROVE FAR TOO COSTLY THIS TIMEIf you love fast-moving adventures with unexpected twists & turns in forms ofpage-turning thrillers like the Bourne series, the Bosch series, by the likes ofPatterson and Connelly - then this new epic series is for you.

NOTE: This is the small group, companion workbook for "Heard: The Power and Promise of Christian Prayer." It divides the material in "Heard" into six study sessions, each containing a mix of fill-in-the-blank and questions for individual reflection and group discussion. DESCRIPTION OF "HEARD: " God is waiting for his people to pray. But the contemporary Western Church is blighted by a prayer famine. It is plagued with dry eyes, few tears and no fire in the gut. Conversation with God ought to be a part of the natural rhythm of our lives, like eating or sleeping, yet we have neglected this most basic need. Our churches have kept us so busy with activities, carefully-crafted music presentations and non-offensive preaching that we are often too tired to pray, and impatient when we do. As a result, altars are vacant, church members come in and go out the same, the local culture remains unchanged. Dale Van Steenis calls us to recapture our energy and excitement, to catch our "second wind" in prayer. God still answers. He said he would. Whenever God's people have turned to him in prayer, they have been heard.

As Mark Twain said, "Golf is a good walk spoiled." Our careers would be great walks if they weren't spoiled by the same sort of mistakes we make on the course. If we could master our mistakes and develop our discipline, we could find more success in the game of golf and the art of business. Bob is a decent guy and a great businessman-but only an average golfer. He has a dream to play the famous Bethpage Black Course, scene of two recent U.S. Opens, and survive with his dignity intact. To keep from spoiling that famous walk, he brings along his mentor, Scott Seifferlein, who has played the Bethpage Black Course many times before as a coach and competitor. While showing Bob how to think his way around the course, Scott gives him crucial tips for overcoming common mistakes. Together, they realize how the same mistakes that can spoil a scorecard can spoil any business or career. In The Game of Golf & the Art of Business, Scott tells the story of how he kept Bob's big day on Bethpage Black from becoming a bust. He shares the most important tips and tactics that he has learned from coaching thousands of players over the years. Through Scott, we learn how these are also strategies for success in the marketplace. The Game of Golf & The Art Business sprinkles an entertaining story with keen insights and useful nuggets for succeeding at whatever you do, whether on or off the course.

God is waiting for his people to pray. But the contemporary Western Church is blighted by a prayer famine. It is plagued with dry eyes, few tears and no fire in the gut. Conversation with God ought to be a part of the natural rhythm of our lives, like eating or sleeping, yet we have neglected this most basic need. Our churches have kept us so busy with activities, carefully-crafted music presentations and non-offensive preaching that we are often too tired to pray, and impatient when we do. As a result, altars are vacant, church members come in and go out the same, the local culture remains unchanged. Dale Van Steenis calls us to recapture our energy and excitement, to catch our "second wind" in prayer. God still answers. He said he would. Whenever God's people have turned to him in prayer, they have been heard.

The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) houses half a million publications that are a valuable means of information to researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. These documents are all aerospace related with much scientific and technical information created or funded by NASA. Some types of documents include conference papers, research reports, meeting papers, journal articles and more. This is one of those documents.

The ReExamined Life is a manifesto for those that are losing not only a job, but a career, and possibly the dream of retirement as well. It is a call to action for anyone who finds themselves facing unemployment and an uncertain future. It is a guidebook for the journey that begins the day the job is lost. It counsels the newly unemployed to not become victims, but to take control of their lives, to form a plan and to walk through the steps of finding a new job. Van Steenis gives hard-hitting advice on how all of us can all become more valuable, productive and content. He urges us to reclaim our heritage and become the Next Greatest Generation.

Collaboration can be so much more than just assembling as a team to do work. Collaboration done well builds decisions better than anyone expected, supported enthusiastically by all of the team's members. Opinions are substantiated by data. Goals are developed and documented by the team. The team generates, considers, selects, and implements its own decisions. There is lots of conversation, lots of wall charts, lots of productive learning. Team performance improves, and improved team morale follows quickly. The Good Thinking Series of books can help you learn that you don't have to be captive to personal agendas or corporate dysfunction. We can understand why our meetings are frustrating, why our projects don't turn out like we expected, and why our goals are just beyond our grasp. We can understand why our teams seem to achieve less than the sum of the team members' abilities. We can recognize unhealthy expectations, ineffective thought patterns, and unproductive communication styles.

Idea generating skills are crucial to an organization's success. They are the stepping stones to decisions and support. Implemented well, the ideas are transformed into improved business performance. Considering that you cannot realize what you cannot imagine, your ability to realize improved ideas can differentiate you from your competitors. Considering that you cannot will yourself a new idea, your ability to purposefully imagine improved ideas on demand can differentiate you from your competitors.

Think or Sink is a cautionary tale about what can go wrong when people don't work together effectively, and a hopeful one about what they can accomplish when they do. Think or Sink sets a stage that may occur multiple times every day in companies and organizations around the world. The headquarters of a major corporation sends a request for proposal to three of its regional branch managers. The company has won a major contract, and one branch will get the new business, while the other two will be downsized. Each regional management team has six months to prepare a presentation that will determine the next chapter of their careers. The teams in Phoenix, Atlanta and Indianapolis illustrate that the quality of the ideas we generate, and the buy-in we build for those ideas, is rooted in the way we think and work together. Think or Sink provides an opportunity to consider, compare, and choose a leadership style very likely to help you achieve sustainable gains over the long term - a leadership style driven by good thinking. Dysfunction is an all-too-often used word to describe social and political speed bumps and road blocks in the workplace. It means a thing not functioning properly, or not functioning in a way that would achieve its purpose. Dysfunction in the work place is waste. Think or Sink presents structured, deliberate collaboration as the primary strategy to reduce/eliminate dysfunction. Collaboration can be so much more than just assembling as a team to do work. Think or Sink is intended to be a rallying cry for better collaborators, better leaders, and better employees. The goal of Think or Sink, and the rest of my Good Thinking series to be completed by early 2011, is to provide the approach and tools to help minimize the waste/dysfunction in workplaces. I am hoping Think or Sink will serve as a call to action for many employees and leaders who really want to improve their workplaces.

Some people always get job offers, they never get laid off during lean times and if they are self-employed they always have a full pipeline of clients. What's their secret? In his new book, In Demand: How to Get Hired, Develop a Career and Always be Successful, Bill Van Steenis offers practical advice about being a valuable player in the business world. He explores the personalities and practices of the workers and contractors that have their pick of jobs and projects. He shows how they understand and respond to the market for their work, and why they are always the most highly sought after people in the labor pool. Follow his sometimes tough, sometimes tender but always useful advice and become In Demand.

"Generation X" grew up with Star Wars, prepared to deal with the problems of a fantasy universe. They grew up during the longest period of economic growth in American history. When the first Star Wars movie came out the Dow Jones Industrial Average was around 900 points; when the last movie was released it was more than 10,000. Their parents' 401ks got fat and the little houses they had collected Star Wars toys in became worth ten times what mom and dad had paid for them. Now Gen Xers are in their thirties and forties and starting to run for Congress and to run major corporations. As the legions of Baby Boomers retire to live out their eternal "hipsterness" with megadoses of Viagra and iPod's full of classic rock, the Star Wars kids are going to take their turn leading America. Are they ready? Rob Stam rode the wave of the last two bubbles economies, with luxury houses, cars and toys before he was thirty years old. He lost it all in bankruptcy court and became a cautionary tale of easy times and easy credit. He learned the hard way that the values and way of life of his grandparents are timeless truths that made America great. In Almost Our Time he argues that Generation X is assuming leadership of a very different country than the one they grew up in. Even so, if the Star Wars generation will learn and apply classic American principles they can defeat the "Debt Star" and other real world problems and pass on a better nation to their children.

Facebook friends are not really friends, Twitter followers are not really followers, and you aren't really linked to anyone through LinkedIn. Too much of our business technology emphasizes the quantity of our business relationships, but not the quality. If our business relationship skills are bad, then all the networking techniques in the world only multiply our dysfunction, and we end up with lots of bad business relationships. The purpose of NetPlus Connections is to help you to become a valuable asset to everyone you meet and do business with. I want every one of your business connections to be glad they have you on their contact list, and consider you well-worth any time, money, or energy they spend on you. I want them to consider you so valuable that they introduce you to others, so their connections can have the benefit of knowing and working with you as well. The key to being this sort of valuable asset is simple: make everyone else's world bigger and better. Be a gateway to people, ideas, solutions, and opportunities. Deliver such value in everything you do for other people that you are more than worth everything you cost them. If you are worth more than you cost, you are a net asset. If you cost more than you are worth, then you are a net liability. Assets get protected and invested in, liabilities get dropped. Be worth more than what you cost, and you will have all the connections and business you can handle. This book will teach you how.

Purposeful Breathing is a practical, user-friendly guide to simple breathing skills that can rapidly reduce states you don't want (such as stress and anxiety) and increase states you do want (such as feeling stronger, performing better or relaxing).The breath is a remarkably powerful mind-body connection. Anxiety, anger, deep calm or steady concentration each have their own patterns of breathing and we move between different styles of breathing every day without usually realizing it. If we can recognize these styles of breathing, we can also consciously change them and this in turn produces change in the emotional state.People usually think of thoughts, feelings and physical states as different things, but if we think of moving between different 'modes' - survival mode, calm modes, anxious states - then it is easy to see that ways of thinking, feeling, perceiving and breathing are all interlinked. The breath can then be used as the key to change these modes.For anyone suffering from anxiety, feeling calmer can happen in a breath or two. For anyone wanting to boost performance, the right breathing skills will help them to get into 'the zone' of peak performance. Purposeful Breathing also teaches breathing skills for longer term health and healing, all of which are informed by new discoveries from psychology and neuroscience.

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "e;Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs."e; The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch, and New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg. Mostly, though, it hit a nerve among the general public who question the role of Wall Street in society -- and the callous "e;take-the-money-and-run"e; mentality that brought the world economy to its knees a few short years ago. Smith now picks up where his Op-Ed left off.His story begins in the summer of 2000, when an idealistic 21-year-old arrives as an intern at Goldman Sachs and learns about the firm's Business Principle #1: Our clients' interests always come first. This remains Smith's mantra as he rises from intern to analyst to sales trader, with clients controlling assets of more than a trillion dollars.From the shenanigans of his summer internship during the technology bubble to Las Vegas hot tubs and the excesses of the real estate boom; from the career lifeline he received from an NFL Hall of Famer during the bear market to the day Warren Buffett came to save Goldman Sachs from extinction-Smith will take the reader on his personal journey through the firm, and bring us inside the world's most powerful bank.Smith describes in page-turning detail how the most storied investment bank on Wall Street went from taking iconic companies like Ford, Sears, and Microsoft public to becoming a "e;vampire squid"e; that referred to its clients as "e;muppets"e; and paid the government a record half-billion dollars to settle SEC charges. He shows the evolution of Wall Street into an industry riddled with conflicts of interest and a profit-at-all-costs mentality: a perfectly rigged game at the expense of the economy and the society at large.After conversations with nine Goldman Sachs partners over a twelve-month period proved fruitless, Smith came to believe that the only way the system would ever change was for an insider to finally speak out publicly. He walked away from his career and took matters into his own hands. This is his story.

This book provides an invaluable introduction to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of interactionist approaches to everyday life.

A host of concepts linked to Goffman's name such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' are now staples in academic discourses. This book traces the emergence of Goffman as a sociological virtuoso, and offers a guide to his sociology and to the criticisms and debates it has stimulated.

Retain your talent with a proactive approach to employee development, one conversation at a time When employees are happy at work, the energy and creativity they possess is virtually limitless. But many leaders are ill-equipped to discuss and gauge the career satisfaction of their employees, and risk losing their talent to their competitors. Career Conversations is your guide to developing the skills needed for effective career discussions with your staff, providing step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate this capability into your leadership routine. Packed full of case studies, practical exercises and key insights, career development expert Greg Smith explains how leaders can guide their employees to achieve career satisfaction by taking an active, dynamic and ongoing interest in their development. Learn how to: engage with employees on career aspirations listen critically and build trust help employees reinvent themselves for the future of work gain self-insight and become a more effective leader empathise and respond to your staff's needs. An indispensable book for anyone in a management or leadership position, Career Conversations will help you guide your employees through their careers and, in turn, help your company thrive.

Community involvement is seen as essential for urban regeneration, but it often proves elusive. The UK government has identified 'faith communities' as an important resource. This report explores the present and potential contribution of religious communities and their members, and the tensions and controversies involved in engaging with 'faith'.