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Transformational Leaders create a legacy of success that reaches far beyond the initial impact of their work. In the first part of this book, Dr. Richard Nongard provides a clear understanding of what Transformational Leadership is and how it is unique among leadership styles. He shares the research demonstrating its efficacy in healthcare, business, community development, and the military, along with his own personal experiences as a counselor creating transformation one life at a time. In the second part of this book, practical strategies for developing the core competencies of Transformational Leadership are explored with many practical applications you can use to define your strengths, develop both social and emotional intelligence, and fulfill your calling as a leader. By applying the ideas of this book, you will transform your own experience as you transform the lives of others.
New Leadership for Today’s Health Care Professionals: Cases and Concepts, Second Edition explores various components of the health care system and how leaders should respond in these arenas. The Second Edition is a thorough revision that offers a comprehensive view of the leadership competencies necessary to be successful in today’s healthcare industry. Each chapter is written by a leader in the healthcare industry under the guidance of the editors who have many years’ experience in academia.
That night while running for my life, I jumped into Bill Haynes. Ex-military, tough, handsome, and sexy as could be. Even in my disarrayed mind I was not blind to this. Three men brutally killed my boyfriend in front of me. They were coming after me now. And then Bill offered to keep me safe, helping me fight. I was dangerously close to falling for him. And I knew it could turn deadly… But he promised to be my savage protector, or he would die trying.
This book is the story of Whistleblower Blake Percival. In 2011 Blake blew the whistle on the background investigation process of the United States government. Blake's revelations brought to light serious problems that might have allowed Edward Snowden and Aaron Alexis to slip through the cracks rather than be investigated properly and cleared or denied access as found appropriate. Blake's decision to do the right thing was easy for him to make but came at a high price. In this book, you'll hear firsthand who this man is that exposed all this. You'll learn in detail what he did and how he did it as he shares intimate details about why someone would go through such a struggle. You'll hear the inside story of what it took, why he would do it, and what it was like to win in the end. His story just goes to show that you can do the right thing and win.
Sharing personal experience and practical business blueprints, Dobbs takes the reader on a journey through the transformational process. Leaders working in organizations of various sizesand facing diverse challenges and opportunitieswill find Dobbs' ideas transformative, personally as well as professionally. This is a book for everyone who wants to be a change agent within his or her organizationfor all who want to make a difference for themselves and their coworkers.
Nestor Hyatt resides in LeFey, Louisiana, in a strange mansion she inherited from her dad. It is rich with strange history, where a wicked man named Marcio Demoni practiced a form of magic called Palo Mayombe, the darker side of Santeria. Sleepless nights torment Nestor, and she begins to wander the streets of LeFey. Then she discovers Midnight Town, a murky suburb of LeFey, a forgotten mill town just over an ancient covered bridge—a place of phantoms and an eccentric visionary. Despite cryptic warnings, she continues her journey through shadowy streets and discovers an offbeat tattoo parlor, owned by a man named Nicholas, someone she met on a train ride from New York City and back to LeFey. They develop a forbidden relationship, and Nicholas lures her deeper into his world of strange art and intoxicating desire. Eventually, she tries to breaks free of the madness. Will she succeed, or will she reside in the darkness of Midnight Town forever?
Describes the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopper Pueblo in northern Arizona, its excavation of a five-hundred-room Mogollon Pueblo occupied during the 1300s AD, and the intellectual debates the major project engendered.
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Florida Highway Patrol State Trooper Tom Verge has witnessed just about every way a person can get hurt. His memoir, After Roll Call, recalls the events that were never written in any official reports, but instead recounted only to fellow officers. Protests over the Vietnam War, race riots, and drug violence were the backdrop when, on November 15, 1967, Tom Verge became a Florida State Trooper. His memoir presents a series of stories that occurred during his many years stationed throughout Florida, but especially in Brevard County, home to NASAs Kennedy Space Center, a central location for the space race of the late 1960s and 1970s. Whether it was making a traffic stop, delivering a celebrit...
Annihilate and obliterate are oft used terms in the summer of 1962, and the village of Windsor, Iowa, is under siege by its own hysteria. The Cold War haunts every doorstep, as do threats of bombs from overseaslife extinguished in a horrific mushroom cloud. A sign of the times, people in the small town are in a constant state of readiness for nuclear war. In his fervent quest for survival, wealthy construction magnate George Dobbs builds a state-of-the-art fallout shelter big enough for the entire town. Carved into the nearby hillside, the shelter is impenetrable with a door of heavy steel and walls and ceilings of one-foot thick cement. When the nuclear holocaust begins, the town of Windsor will be ready. When it happens, this possible end to the world, the townspeople swarm to the shelter. In the days of confinement, people change their lives, make surprising commitments, and do what mankind does bestsurvive. When the truth is ultimately revealed, will life return to the way it once was in this small, peaceful town, or will all Windsor residents be changed forever?