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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds. They follow the spearhead. They keep a blue head. They are good ancestors. In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business. Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success - sustained success? How do you achieve world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at the highest level? What do you leave behind you after you're gone? What will be your legacy?
"Read this book, apply its concepts, and see how your business transforms.” — Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and #1 Leadership Thinker Outstanding leaders make business indispensable. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "Indispensable" as being absolutely necessary and not subject to being set aside or neglected. INDISPENSABLE: Build and Lead A Company Customers Can’t Live Without provides a framework that you can follow to transform your business and features dozens of examples from industry including those drawn from Amazon, Uber, Facebook and more. Each business example illustrates how the concepts offered in the book are already being used to make businesses ...
The photographs were taken, during June 2010, when the All Blacks' played against Ireland and Wales in the Steinlager Series.
Buy now to get the main key ideas from James Kerr's Legacy In Legacy (2013), business consultant James Kerr divulges the secrets behind the All Blacks’ unique culture and what made them one of the most successful rugby teams in the world and a household name in New Zealand. Kerr provides a series of fifteen lessons that teach both individuals and businesses how a deep sense of purpose and responsibility, rigorous persistence, sacrifices, and clear goals are the foundation of good leadership and sustained success. It’s an essential guide for people and organizations looking to build an extraordinary legacy.
No Regrets, Parts 1 & 2 is a Western story, set in Texas just after the end of the American Civil War. It follows the adventures of Brent Walker and his friends, Fergus and Ethan, all of whom are veterans of the war. They set out to rescue two children who have been taken captive by raiding Comanche Indians. The story traces their rescue attempts and their subsequent journey to California, in search of a new and better life. The Shed, relates the story of John, who has been an avid collector of various artefacts for many years. His collection ranges from Native American figurines and 'Wild West' books to all sorts of aircraft, ship and transport models. It is only when John's wife, Jane, points out to him that his collection is taking over all of the space in their home, that John realises that he will have to build a shed, in which to store, his ever growing collection. Prison Earth tells the story of the origins of Human Beings on planet Earth, and describes the unearthly world, from whence they came. It is only after a chance encounter with a strange earthly object in space, do visitors from another place and time, decide to pay a visit to 'Prison Earth', once more.
A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program. The book provides a best-practice checklist for 8 core areas: Strategy Setting, Technology Alignment, Business Renovation, Project Management, Communications Renewal, Employee Engagement, Staff Transformation, and Organizational Design.
With the name inspired by a racial slur coined by his student's, Teacher Black delves into the experience of James Prescott-Kerr, a young Black graduate who lived in China for a year. James threw himself in the deep end of a culture that has obscured itself from the Western world, to see whether he would be able to sink or swim. Through euphoric highs and dehumanising lows of a whirlwind year, he strives to embrace his new environment and the challenges that come with it. But the question was, will the environment embrace him?
'Inventive and original' The Times 'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary Mantel Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction comes the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. To Calais, In Ordinary Time is an exploration of love, death and power, against the backdrop of catastrophe.
Concerned with practical politics in particular the raising and management of political funds in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, Germany and France.
The first book to explore the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Experiences at the end of life testify to our greatest needs: to love and be loved, to be nurtured and feel connected, to be remembered and forgiven. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has tended to thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love, meaning and grace. They reveal that there is hope beyond cure as they transition to focus on personal meaning. In this extraordinary and beautiful book, Dr. Kerr shares his patients' stories and his own research pointing to death as not purely the end of life, but as a final passage of humanity and transce...