Performance coach Tom Dawson-Squibb tells the entertaining and inspiring story of his five years as the head coach of the University of Cape Town’s Ikey Tigers rugby team.

At the heart of Humanball lies the story of a team that is more than just the sum of its parts. It's a story about getting the best out of those around you. It's a story about defying expectations—those imposed by others and the ones we set for ourselves.

Performance coach Tom Dawson-Squibb tells the entertaining and inspiring story of his five years as the head coach of the University of Cape Town Ikey Tigers rugby team. Tom reveals how the most potent teams connect and inspire individuals to give effort far beyond what's expected. He shows us how to find joy, meaning, and connection in our work.

Humanball will move and inspire you to write your own story and transform your sports team, workplace, or home into a cohesive, motivated, and purposeful environment.

Tom Dawson is a man with many experiences, stories, thoughts, and insights. He polishes and hones his contemplations during his treatments of lymphoma, making the atrium of his healthcare center his office. The latent time he spends during these treatments is fertilizer for his focus, clarity of thought, and his ultimate priorities, which are made clear by the perspective a life-threatening illness can offer. Pieces is a blend of long and short stories. The entries are imaginative and inventive. The book's snippets are easy to read due to their varied length. The real beauty of this book is that you can pick it up, get into it, read, and consider; then you can put it down, go about your day with seeds of meaningful thought growing into opinions and beliefs inside your soul. But Pieces is more than simply thought provoking. Dawson hopes to inspire readers. To make them ponder. To draw out wonder. To encourage the examined life from a variety of perspectives. This is his goal. His tools? Informative, relevant, and humorous multi-layered truths. In Pieces, Dawson lets us in on a life of lessons, hard-won and wise. The book is a collection of Dawson's writings and drawings that can be found in his first book, Cottonwood, and on his website. Sometimes it helps to look at the big picture when you overemphasized the details of life, often to the point of stress and worry. If you are looking to step back, take a breath, and put it all into perspective, read Pieces. It will come together in the end.

For Tom Dawson and Sam Wilson, life in the northwestern Colorado town of Cottonwood Springs proceeds without any profound awareness or deep concern for a final objective, and certainly with no sense that their personal journeys are destined to deliver them to a strange-sounding town in Mexico known as the City of the Dead. Best friends who served together in Vietnam, the recently widowed Tom and divorced Sam now inhabit each other's life in a ritual of familiar habits and shared history. Tom, a writer since his days as a combat correspondent, tends to nod and observe, while Sam, a Nighthawk who flew in Huey gunships, continues to be in the thick of things, carrying on about conspiracies, dropping culture references, and offering his interpretation of quantum mechanics and karma. When Sam finds himself in a contentious property transaction, both men wind up with their lives turned on end, with each in his own way searching for answers and possible solutions that will provide some sense of closure and certainty. These goals, however, may prove only more elusive late in life and Tom and Sam are in store for adventures they never could have anticipated.

Building Blocks is the history of Buckeye CableSystem. Buckeye is part of a family empire started in 1900 by the son of an immigrant in upstate New York. This book is a fascinating tale of the family's progression into the fourth generation and through the myriad of daily newspapers, radio and television stations, cablevision firms, a telephone company, a fiber-optic construction company, and other related communications and advertising firms which the family owns or has owned. This book shows some of the trials and tribulations faced by family members as they employ a nimble strategy to compete with the industry behemoths. It also examines the unique factors that have spelled success for 50 years and looks at what the competitive future holds for smaller cable and Internet firms Buckeye's size.