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Just in Time Management

Just in Time Management Over 950 Practical Lessons Your MBA Professor Didn’t Teach You Cy Charney IT’S NOT THAT CY CHARNEY OPPOSES MBA and other types of academic training. It’s just that he feels academic training doesn’t go far enough — that it fails to prepare people for what life as a manager is really like. Now Charney…

Juice: The Power of Conversation

Juice: The Power of Conversation The Secret to Releasing Your People’s Brilliance and Expanding Your Leadership Influence Revised Edition Brady G. Wilson CONVERSATIONS ARE THE KEY to business success – in fact, they are the operating system of companies big and small. Not just any conversations, but powerful ones in which we: Inspire others…

Interpreting Martin Luther

Interpreting Martin Luther An Introduction to His Life and Thought Victor Shepherd “However deeply we immerse ourselves in Luther, we are no closer to exhausting the riches his mind and thought make available to us.” So writes Victor Shepherd in this immensely readable and informative book – which aids in just such an immersion….

Inland Navigation by the Stars

Inland Navigation by the Stars A Memoir Anne Coleman “Coleman’s keen observations about her long life make INLAND NAVIGATION BY THE STARS not only an intimate personal memoir but also a work of social history. Her reflections of the times she grew up in are compassionate yet critical and provide a unique and engaging insight…

I Wish Someone Had Told Me That

I Wish Someone Had Told Me That Ten Kernels of Experience for Those Beginning Their Careers from Those Concluding Theirs Tony Altilia TONY ALTILIA, A FORMER ADVERTSING AGENCY CEO, shares his own advice — and that of 49 other Baby Boomers who have succeeded in their careers — with young men and women starting out…

How to Hire the Perfect Employer

How to Hire the Perfect Employer Finding the Job and Career That Fit You Through a Powerful Personal Infomercial Jim Beqaj “Following Jim’s process gives you the tools you need to reach new heights, professionally and personally.” —ANDREW WILLIS, Brookfield Asset Management, former Globe and Mail columnist “The publication of this book … bodes well for the…

How I Succeeded in Retirement and the Biway Story

How I Succeeded in Retirement and the Biway Story Mal Coven The story of Mal Coven the family man, the businessman, and the entrepreneur for whom retirement from the Biway has meant pursuing original entrepreneurial ideas — as well as brushing up against and corresponding with celebrities Barbara Walters, Larry King, Nancy Sinatra, Jackie Mason, Bud…

How Dare You Manage?

How Dare You Manage? Seven Principles to Close the CEO Skill Gap Nick Forrest How dare you manage? These words are often on the tip of Nick Forrest’s tongue as he consults for CEOs and other senior managers. Why? Because rare is the CEO who has been taught to manage large groups of employees — indeed,…

Homosexuality and Following Jesus

Homosexuality and Following Jesus Paul Flaman JESUS’ PRAYER WAS “THAT ALL MAY BE ONE” In this clear, concise, and compelling book, Paul Flaman addresses ways in which we can contribute to fulfilling this foundational prayer of the Christian life when it comes to the issue of homosexuality — an issue that has caused much division…

Health First

Health First Winning at Weight Loss and Wellness Steve Hirsch, MD “A terrific, practical guide for anyone who wants to live within a consistent, healthier weight range forever … The big difference between this program and some fad diet or hyped training regime is that it is simple and sustainable. The program … incorporates reasonable…

God’s House Rules

God’s House Rules Seven Biblical Truths to Transform and Enrich Your Family Life Donald N. Bastian THE FAMILY TODAY – not only in society generally, but also in the church – is facing an unprecedented number of challenges and choices. Where can families turn for help in sorting through all the confusion? God’s House…

Gobi Runner

Gobi Runner Taking a Personal and Professional Challenge to the Desert Stéfan Danis In the midst of a devastating year for his and most businesses, Stéfan Danis searched for a challenge that would get him in physical and mental shape for what lay ahead, inspire others in similar situations, and raise funds for those…

Gifts of Leadership

Gifts of Leadership Team building Through Empathy and Focus Art Horn Back in print! The classic statement by a master coach and writer on what it takes to be a successful leader in times of great change and challenge — a blend of: empathy — showing presence and genuineness focus — aligning an employee’s goals…

G3: The Gift of You, Leadership, and Netgiving

G3: The Gift of You, Leadership, and Netgiving Give, Give, and Give again — that is Tim Cork’s formula for personal and professional success. The first gift is to you — when you get really good at you, everyone around you benefits. The second is leadership — the gift of raising other people’s game. And the third is netgiving — connecting…

Finding Your Voice

Finding Your Voice A Voice Doctor’s Holistic Guide for Voice Users, Teachers, and Therapists “Finding Your Voice is splendid — so well written and a great read. I have read a lot of books on singing in my time and this book is concise, to the point, friendly, and really helpful. I think every singer…

Finding the Sticking Point

Finding the Sticking Point Increase Sales by Transforming Customer Resistance into Customer Engagement Brady G. Wilson “Brady Wilson is the expert on releasing intelligent energy and energizing your customers.” – Brian Stevenson, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, LaserNetworks Inc. This brief, incisive, and entertaining book will take you to that place where sales are made with…

Creating Vibrant Communities

Creating Vibrant Communities How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society Are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada Paul Born EQUAL PARTS INSPIRATION, perspiration, and information – a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase. In Canada, “poverty reduction”…

Confessions of a Trauma Therapist

Confessions of a Trauma Therapist A Memoir of Healing and Transformation Mary K. Armstrong TO HER SURPRISE, dismay, and eventually relief, Mary Armstrong, a therapist with over thirty years of experience helping people heal from childhood trauma, uncovered her own history of child sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather and father. As she…

Community Conversations

Community Conversations Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition Paul Born COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from…

CHRIS

CHRIS A Community Health Care Success Story Colin Zvaniga IN TODAY’S COMPLEX health and communications environments, health care systems rely heavily on secure and efficient information exchange. This book tells the story of an exchange — of a major IT initiative that was designed, developed, and implemented for the sake of one of the…

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Biography of an Illness Penelope Williams “… empowering, informative and unforgettable …” – Sally Armstrong, author of Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan “… a gift of hope …” – Maureen Manningham, Breast Cancer Action Nicole phoned very early one morning from her hospital bed. It was still dark, a February darkness that…

Beyond Engagement

Beyond Engagement A Brain-Based Approach That Blends the Engagement Managers Want with the Energy Employees Need Brady G. Wilson After twenty years of trying to get it right, precious few organizations have cracked the code of employee engagement. Why? Because few could have anticipated the unbending nature of what Brady G. Wilson calls…

Beautiful Buttons

Beautiful Buttons A Memoir of Survival and Triumph Cathrine Ann UNWANTED AND NEGLECTED AS A CHILD, abused by neighbourhood perverts beginning at six years old, and then by loser boyfriends during her adolescence and beyond, Cathrine Ann became pregnant at fifteen, was pimped out by her rich uncle at seventeen, was jailed at eighteen,…

Awesome at Being Awesome

Awesome at Being Awesome A Self-Help Book for People Who Hate Self-Help Books Danny Pehar When you were a kid you dreamed of building spaceships and being a superhero. Everything was magic, everything was awesome. But then you suffered disappointments: weight issues, relationship problems, money troubles, career troubles. Eventually the impossible was no longer…