This master class on leadership, written by one of America's most prominent and successful health-care executives, enables readers at any career stage to learn the leadership strategies that deliver personal, interpersonal, and organizational success. In Learning to Lead, Ron Williams provides practical, tested leadership advice for readers searching for a new career, professionals looking for proven management solutions, and executives seeking to transform their organizations. Developed from Williams's own personal and professional journey, these strategies emerge boldly from his engaging stories, outlined with practical steps for readers to accomplish goals such as- * Improving career focus * Avoiding professional pitfalls, wrong turns, and wasted effort * Overcoming interpersonal challenges and conflicts * Building and leading an effective team * Prioritizing and solving problems from multiple perspectives * Developing a leadership voice and mastering communication * Casting a vision and changing the culture of an organization After finishing Learning to Lead, readers will be well equipped to take the next step to success in their personal and professional leadership journeys.

Possessed by a Shadow centres around Danielle, who lives in the Deep South of America. As a child and following the death of her Uncle Adam, Danielle comes across a mysterious book with the words: "Having formed the elemental doll from loam and bombus wax, hold it in thy cupped hands and call its name aloud, then visualize your wish fulfilled and command the elemental to obey." Danielle discovers that the doll is called Zatael and calls its name. Little does she know the destruction that will befall her and those around her once the `shadow-man' is let loose...