Will you be LinkedIn (R) or linked out? Learn to dominate in an age of digital noise and competition with Tactical LinkedIn (R) Secrets. In his debut book, Tactical LinkedIn (R) Secrets, David Cobb teaches business professionals to stand out and gain competitive dominance. The advice and knowledge provided through read-worthy mixed metaphors, humor, and rants prepares readers with, what Cobb coins as, arrows for digital quiver. Tactical LinkedIn (R) Secrets educates, creates awareness, advances businesses, assists career seekers, and simply makes an impact on the industry-affecting empathic voices, futures, and financials. Cobb illustrates strategic tactics to maximize the use of LinkedIn for any motivated individual. This text is a digitally immersive experience for business professionals, and tantamount to developing one's Digital Quiver-an ever-evolving skillset.

Every picture tells a story-even one on a postage stamp. Presented hugely enlarged, the 144 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office started to lavish color on its stamps and to hire the best midcentury talents to design them. The roster includes Japanese American children's book illustrator Gyo Fujikawa, barrier-busting Black graphic artist Georg Olden, industrial design legend Raymond Loewy, and sultan of psychedelia Peter Max. Photographed at five, ten, and even fifteen times actual size, each stamp is presented with a morsel of fun info that will broadly appeal to stamp collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, midcentury design fans, and everyone who likes to geek out on magnified views of tiny, beautiful images.

From Wales to Romania, Herzegovina to Hungary, Russia to Spain, this anthology offers 80 haiku from 26 countries, each published both in its native language and in English.

Japanese haiku has for many centuries been a much-loved form of poetry. Composed of 17 syllables, it can convey the essence of an emotion, a fleeting moment in nature, or a throwaway comment. This collection is a selection of 60 classic haiku by masters such as Basho, Kyoshi and Shiki, arranged by season and covering all the most popular subjects. The text features an introduction explaining the background to Japanese haiku and a short biographical note about each of the major poets. It should serve as an introduction to the treasures of Japanese poetry and art.

Punctuated with award-winning research and practical solutions, Too Proud to Lead is a fascinating investigation into how leaders' confidence can transform into hubris, which has the devastating potential to lead not only to their own downfall, but also to the collapse of entire organizations.

While confidence is a vital attribute for any successful business leader, it is often taken too far - they fall into the pitfalls of hubris and, like Icarus, find themselves flying too close to the sun. Laying out the dangers of arrogant overconfidence for both individuals and organizations, this book explores both the economic and psychological costs of this destructive behaviour, and boldly argues for a new, revolutionary approach to leadership.

Written by three world-renowned experts, Too Proud to Lead provides readers with the essential arsenal of tools for understanding, identifying, anticipating and coping with hubris, in both themselves and in their workplace. Supported by fascinating case studies and enlightening analysis, this is a much-needed antidote to the hubris plague spreading through the leadership of today.