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Chad Bowser, Andi Newton; Contributions by Mike Mason
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The Digital Age is having a broad and profound impact on companies
and entire industries. Rather than simply automate or embed digital
technology into existing offerings, your business needs to rethink
everything. In this practical book, three ThoughtWorks
professionals provide a game plan to help your business through
this transformation, along with technical concepts that you need to
know to be an effective leader in a modern digital business.
Chock-full of practical advice and case studies that show how
businesses have transitioned, this book reveals lessons learned in
guiding companies through digital transformation. While there's no
silver bullet available, you'll discover effective ways to create
lasting change at your organization. With this book, you'll
discover how to: Realign the business and operating architecture to
focus on customer value Build a more responsive and agile
organization to deal with speed and ambiguity Build next generation
technology capability as a core differentiator
"The injunction 'Get real' usually means 'Leave your world of
fantasy and return to what really is.' True Realism always and
everywhere is to find out where joy resides. In the past year this
magical gift got lost or mislaid in my life. Mike Mason has located
it, given it voice, and helped me to recover it. Even one sip of
Champagne for the Soul is a heady, exhilarating experience."
-Brennan Manning, author of A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to
Self-Hatred If you were given the chance to be happy for the rest
of your life, wouldn't you jump at it? In Champagne for the Soul,
bestselling author Mike Mason explains that the Bible does make
this offer. Yet most of us hang back, reluctant and skeptical.
Theologically most Christians will agree that the Bible teaches and
offers a life of joy; yet deep down we're not convinced that such a
life is practical-for us or any ordinary person. But, says Mason,
such joy truly is ours to claim and embrace. What you now hold in
your hands is a call to throw off all worries and complaints and to
"come and share your master's happiness" (Matthew 25:21). Is it
possible to live every day in joy? You will never know if you don't
try. These pages, drawn from the author's own ninety-day experiment
in actively pursuing joy, will lead you on a journey that will help
you-no matter what your circumstances-to escape the trap of worry,
fear, and dullness and grab hold of the joy of the Lord. Mike Mason
is the best-selling author of several books, including The Mystery
of Marriage, The Mystery of Children, The Gospel According to Job,
and Practicing the Presence of People. He and his wife, Karen, an
M.D. in general practice, live in Langely, British Columbia,
Canada, with their teenage daughter, Heather.
Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time. As history
is being written in fire in California and Greece, in the warming
waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and in the melting ice of the Arctic
and Antarctica, Carbon Blues demystifies current debates on climate
change, discussing everything from carbon dioxide increases in the
atmosphere caused by cars, coal, and oil to global warming and
worsening natural disasters. A detailed examination of the history
of climate change and its present and future consequences, Carbon
Blues traces the essential economic importance of coal in the
nineteenth century and oil in the twentieth, emphasizing the role
of the automobile and the internal combustion engine in the
dereliction of our planet. Exposing campaigns to mislead the
public, Mike Mason reveals that the fatal consequences of CO2 and
NO2 have been widely known for decades but successfully discounted
and manipulated by the carbon lobby led by Exxon, BP, figures such
as the Koch brothers, and democratically elected governments. The
book underlines the disturbing truth: that despite current attempts
to remediate climate change, the harm already done - melting polar
ice and the warming and rising of the seas - will be virtually
irreversible. As the fight against climate change comes to a head,
Carbon Blues searches for fruitful ways forward.
An insightful account of the recent histories of nearly two dozen
states, Global Shift is a dynamic, nuanced study of what is
sometimes referred to as the "Third World." Seeking to illuminate
the deep economic chasm between the global East and West, Mike
Mason presents a new perspective of decolonization, neocolonialism,
and global capitalism in the context of the rise and decline of a
hegemonic America. Global Shift begins with the end of the Second
World War, telling the story of a ravaged, but still dominant West,
as well as the emergence of the Third World - a zone of competition
and contention ultimately engulfed by the rising tide of capitalist
development. Mason suggests that historic focus on the West as the
centre of the global economy may soon be superseded by the rise of
the East Drawing on history, comparative politics, and development
studies, Global Shift traces the contours of state histories from
Asia, Africa, and Latin America to create a comprehensive portrait
of the current state of global politics that is breathtaking in
scope.
"Unstoppable Success" inspires the uninspired and challenges the
already motivated to dream bigger and demand more of
themselves.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the ultra-successful think in
order to create their own future.
Begin to think like they think and your personal vision will be
expanded and the limits will be removed from your current ideas of
what is possible. Begin doing what the ultra-successful do, and
you'll make these elevated possibilities a reality.
Dr. Mike Mason's personal experience and expertise in motivation
offers a unique perspective on how to establish your goals, set
your priorities and develop a personalized plan for the daily
motivation needed to achieve your potential.
Learn how to govern your daily agenda by prioritizing the events
that will bring you closer to reaching your goals.
You will learn about the 2 most powerful influences in your life,
how to harness the power of these 2 influences from your past and
how to utilize them to help shape your future.
You can be, do and have more from this day forward by implementing
this easy-to-use approach for creating your own roadmap to
success.
"Unstoppable Success" will fill you with hope for a better
tomorrow by giving you the tools you need to create virtually any
future that you choose. This system teaches you how to get
everything you could ever want out of life by giving everything you
have to it.
If your goal is to reach the top 1% in sports, scholastics,
business or finances, then the methods contained in these pages
will help pave your way.
Discover the greatest motivational tool that you will ever have
and follow this secret formula to become unstoppable in every facet
of your life.
An orphan faces an evil magician in this literary fantasy for
readers of all ages that probes the depths of good and evil. When
Zac Sparks's mother dies, he's sent to live in Five Corners with
his cruel old Aunties. It isn't long before Zac knows something
strange is going on. Five Corners is populated with weird
characters--a midget butler, a girl who doesn't speak, a blind
balloon seller, a mysterious singer, and the Aunties' father, Dada.
Zac's first encounter with Dada is so terrifying he faints dead
away. The one bright spot is Sky Porter, a friendly soul who
encourages Zac and shows him kindness. But Sky isn't what he seems
either, and when Zac learns Sky's amazing secret, he sees that this
wonderful man may have a very dark side as well. Discovering that
Dada is an evil magician who is intent on stealing the ultimate
treasure, Zac knows many lives are at stake, including his own.
In the 20th anniversary edition of this Gold Medallion Award
winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the
wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly readable,
first-person style, Mason's writing stimulates readers' thoughts
and prayers and propels couples to deeper intimacy. "A marriage is
not a joining of two worlds," says the author, "but an abandoning
of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed." Rich
chapters on "Otherness," "Vows," "Intimacy," "Sex," "Submission,"
and an all-new chapter on "Oneness" lift readers to view the
eternal, spiritual nature of this faith-filled, "impossible," wild
yet wonderful frontier.
Anyone who has suffered knows that there is no such thing as
"getting a grip on oneself" or "pulling oneself up by the
bootstraps. The only bootstrap in the Christian life is the Cross,"
says Mason. "Sometimes laying hold of the cross can be comforting,
but other times it is like picking up a snake."
Job knew this firsthand. From him we learn that there are no
easy answers to suffering. That the mark of true faith is not
happiness, but rather, having one's deepest passions be engaged by
the enormity of God. And through Job we learn the secret of the
gospel: that "mercy is the permission to be human." The Lord never
gave Job an explanation for all he had been through. His only
answer was Himself. But as Job discovered, that was enough.
The Gospel According to Job sensitively brings the reader to
this realization, using a devotional commentary format that reminds
them that it's all right to doubt, to be confused, to wonder-in
short, to be completely human. But what will heal us and help us
endure is a direct, transforming encounter with the living God.
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