Organizational resilience and adaptability have never been more important; however, few leaders are truly prepared to lead through crisis. Rise Up: Leadership Habits for Turbulent Times is a call to action for leaders to accept that many of their habits diminish the resilience of their organizations and to commit to a plan that will reposition them as twenty-first-century leaders. In this engaging and thought-provoking guide, authors Ali Grovue and Mike Watson present six distinct yet deeply interconnected habits that all leaders must adopt: Trust, Inquisitiveness, Humility, Optimism, Courage, and Discipline. Embracing these habits will help create a high-functioning culture where employees feel enabled to be the best versions of themselves in pursuit of a common, noble goal. The habits are also foundational to a transformative and enduring strategy, one that is developed and owned not by the leader, but by everyone within the organization. Brought to life through real-life examples taken from Grovue and Watson's work as strategic leadership advisers in business and sport, and combined with intelligence from academic and psychological research, Rise Up provides leaders with a clear, insightful, and actionable path to building organizations that can adapt-and even thrive-despite hard times.

Towards a Conceptual Militancy is aimed at the interested art-viewing public, artists, the politically disillusioned, and readers of both European Philosophy, particularly of Speculative Realism/OOP, and Accelerationism. This book calls on the artist to mount a defence of subjective freedom in opposition to the twin objectifying factors of Science and Capital, personified by growing surveillance technology. Presenting the artistic declaration of freedom as exemplary of how the subject might circumvent its objectification, Towards a Conceptual Militancy brings art back into the social sphere following decades of cultural commodification.

Two novels of dominant Eastern women and the Western men they enslave comprise book-one of "A Mike Watson Reader." The Chinese femme fatales of "The Double Agent" and "Meeting Ms Chen" - together with a vengeful and ultra-dominant Indian wife; know exactly what they want from the unsuspecting men who cross their paths. And will spare their victims no humiliation in order to get it. CONTAINS EXPLICIT ADULT MATERIAL

Mike Watson's two stories of the erotic and dominant "Garima" are brought together under one cover. An expat businessman in India is about to be put under the heel by a young woman he has employed in "Garima Madam's Bitch"; while with "Garima Madam - the Prequel" that same expat tells us how the young Indian woman who is now his wife and owner became the erotic and dominant force of nature she is. WARNING: Adult Material

The husband enslaved by his significant other is the theme of the two tales in this bargain read. "Cucked & Spanked," by Merrick Scanlon, tells the story of a wife who uses her husband's debilitating tropical illness to effect a complete change in their household. This while reducing him to little more than a dependent child to both her and her lover in the process. China is the location for the second of our tales, in Mike Watson's "Meeting Ms Chen," and, while the methods are different, the results for this Indian wife are very, very similar. WARNING: Adult Material FDC Publications

Exotic femdom, corporate femdom, and female domination of the male from antiquity are the themes of the three novels in Book-Two of the "As Flies to the Spider," collection. This volume contains: "Serving an Indian Goddess" by Mike Watson; "A Corporate Serf" by Darren Garroway; and an updated tale from the old world by Sandrine Bessancort in "Ancient Sorceries Revisited." WARNING: Adult Material.

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So called "small projects" can have potentially alarming consequences if they go wrong, but their control is often left to chance. The solution is to adapt tried and tested project management techniques.This book provides a low overhead, highly practical way of looking after small projects. It covers all the essential skills: from project start-up, to managing risk, quality, and change, through to controlling the project and implementing a simple control system. It cuts through the jargon of project management and provides a framework that is as useful to those lacking formal training, as it is to those who are skilled project managers and want to control smaller projects without the burden of bureaucracy. This is the new North American edition of a best-selling U.K. title.