BURN BRIGHT, NOT OUT.   Stress has been called the 'Health Epidemic of the 21st Century' by the World Health Organization. It is estimated to cost North American businesses more than $320 billion a year, and studies show we are working longer and harder than ever before, leaving very little time for much else. With everything competing for your time, energy, and attention, stress is unavoidable.   But how do you manage stress without sacrificing the things you want to achieve in life and work? The Burnout Gamble is full of stories, tools and ...

This guidebook outlines the benefits of effective delegation and the fears and concerns that can prevent or hinder it, then offers four key ideas that leaders can use to enable better delegation.  The ability to delegate effectively—to assign new projects and responsibilities to individuals or a team and providing the authority, resources, directions, and support needed to achieve the expected results—is an essential leadership skill.

All the power in the world couldn't give me what I wanted...until I met her. Money. Cars. A New York Times Bestselling novel. I had them all. Still it wasn't enough. I was tired of standing in my father's shadow. Tired being known as a class-A man whore. Until my world collided with hers... She's like no one I've ever met. Her world is dusty bookshelves in a quiet country town. And amongst the books I whispered of a future...with her. A future of hopes and dreams. I should have known something too good to be true would be too ...

Does your job make you feel trapped? Like a cog in a wheel, limited by external, uncontrollable influences? Constrained? Capped? Does it feel like no matter how hard you work and grind, you still drudgingly live paycheck to paycheck? Do you want to change that? Do you want freedom? True freedom? Greater autonomy and independence? More money? More time? More just pure LIFE?! The answer isn't to work four hours a week. It isn't more school and more debt. It isn't to get in at the top of a Ponzi-pyramid. Nor is the answer to gamble away your hard-earned ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Women in Colombia will never be victims, we are and will always be survivors of the thousands of violations of our rights as human beings. Progress has been made in this area in Colombia, but there is still a lack of citizen culture for them. It is intended to analyze the progress, difficulties and challenges that our country has in terms of gender equity, taking into account the treaties ratified by the Colombian State in terms of women's human rights, its internal regulations and institutional policies. It will also highlight the facts and the main laws ...

At this point, I need to pause and explain about a game we played at the Cussin' Tree. We'd be lying on the ground around it, leaning back on our elbows, smoking and telling dirty jokes when all of a sudden one of us would say, "Hey ya'll would you give an eye to see a..." and he'd say something so gross or obscene it can't be repeated here: if it was really awful we'd hold our noses and make gagging sounds. But if it was something so sexually graphic we would sit up and lean toward the speaker with our eyes stretched wide and excited and begin to talk all ...

The Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians Volume 1, written by John Denison Champlin Jr. and published in 1888, is an extensive reference book on music and musicians. The book covers a wide range of topics related to music, including the history of music, musical instruments, music theory, and biographies of famous musicians. It is divided into several sections, each focusing on a different aspect of music.The first section of the book covers the history of music, from ancient times to the 19th century. It provides a detailed overview of the development of music ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.