Who needs to study for an MBA when you have this book? The five-minute MBA is a deceptively simple little book that presents wise business advice in a clear and concise way. Written by New Zealand’s top ‘corporate doctor’, Wayne Brown, it teaches ten crucial lessons vital for everyone at every level of business. By distilling the MBA into under 100 pages, Brown has ensured that only the most important and necessary bits remain, those that will lead to dramatic improvements in any business. From treating customers correctly and fixing mistakes upfront to doing the right thing and remaining accountable, The five-minute MBA is a practical, experience-based MBA crash-course that is guaranteed to offer genuine value, whether you are a junior, mid-level or senior businessperson. Now you, too, can learn how to bring everyday good health to your business.

Battling a chronic disease can often be a lonely and frustrating ordeal. It doesn't have to be. "Alone in My Universe, " compiled by Wayne Brown, presents a series of writings from patients suffering from acromegaly. Based on actual personal experiences, these narratives provide a primer of understanding for others dealing with this chronic, debilitating disease that affects many of the body's systems.This collaborative effort, written by real people touched by acromegaly, attempts to raise awareness of this low-profile disease. Each patient tells his or her story as it relates to the disease and its complications. Topics include the following: Handling pre-diagnosis frustration Dealing with fears of medical treatment and surgery Managing family issues and work issues Talking with children Managing negative energy Coping with good and bad days Living life each dayWith sympathy, empathy, and mutual support, "Alone in the Universe" shares the heartfelt stories of those suffering from acromegaly to show others that they are not alone in their battle.

Encapsulating life in the Caribbean in the last decades of the 20th century, these pieces, collected from the highly popular weekly column "In Our Time," are carefully infused with a poet's delight in the power of language and a craftsman's regard for meticulous structure. Deliberately blurring the lines between fiction and reality, these stories form an unrivalled portrait of a rapidly changing Caribbean society. Invoking memories to resurrect the people and places the author has known or loved, this is a seminal work from a mentor to a whole generation of West Indian authors.

What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires. In most organizations, strategy and functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of either provides only limited long-term advantage. Highly effective organizations add Plasticity as a third dimension and rack up stellar breakthroughs-again and again. It is the key ingredient that allows strategy and functional excellence to deliver value. As the authors show in Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel, Plasticity also enables great organizations to break down barriers and collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective, and to reconfigure or rewire themselves to face down challenges or reach ever-stronger competitive positions. Through entertaining stories and astute analysis, this book demonstrates that Plasticity spurs sports teams to become champions, companies to book record earnings, and artists to attain worldwide fame. You can use its principles-adaptability, flexibility, fluid networks and roles, lofty goals, and innovation, among others-to achieve operational excellence, tear down silos, and create more vibrant, creative enterprises. Your organization can become not just highly profitable and fun to work for, but an organization that can change the world. Plasticity allows an organization to choose its own destiny, become versatile, and dare more than others. Its success lies in a set of abilities called the Magic 7: Purpose: Your company must discover, select, and express what it is meant for. Focus: Your company must have the courage to ignore everything that is not in line with its purpose, and then see that purpose through. Culture: Your company must create the conditions that allow people to work across boundaries and outside of predefined roles. Spirit: Your company must inspire people to feel part of a cause that is bigger than they are. Networking: Your company must provide the means, freedom, and encouragement for people to nurture and grow their internal and external networks continuously. Knowledge: Your company must encourage experts to provide their knowledge and make it readily available to everyone who needs it. Leadership: Your company's leaders must model and personify the characteristics they want others to adopt. Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an organization. That-along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp execution-will unleash the power you need to reach both personal and corporate goals. You might even change the world.

Dennis and Sita have seven sons, who start their early life in Jamaica, until they immigrate to Brixton in the1960's. The main protagonist Basil embarks upon a brutal career as a bare- knuckle prized fighter. He forms a street gang the 'untouchables', they accept employment from Ronny Kray as south London enforcers to the firm. Basil later joins the Black Panthers from Shakespeare Road. Before he is mysteriously found dead in a prison cell on the eve of his release. Wayne the youngest brother then embarks on a personal investigation to uncover the real truth surrounding the untimely death. This investigation opens up a Pandora's box that gives the story an unimaginable twist.

At the time this collection of poems was first published in 1972, Wayne Brown's careful formalism--which belies a turbulence of ideas and emotions--was out of fashion and the poetry of revolution was in full swing. Now, however, these poems are seen as seminal in Caribbean poetry, both for their intrinsic qualities and for Brown's crucial role as the mentor of a current generation of Caribbean poets. Exploring the ties between creativity and contentment, the poems enumerate the threats to these human goals, and through anecdotes--frequently drawn from the poet's own family life--reflect on the rewards and pain of remaining in the Caribbean while others have gone abroad. To understand their exile, which has its own heartache, several poems are odes to the artists the author admires most, including Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tobagan poet Eric Roach.

Greek Natural Philosophy presents the primary sources on the Presocratics in a straightforward way in order to tell a coherent story about the astonishing development of natural philosophy in ancient Greece and its relevance today. The book begins with historical influences on the birth of natural philosophy, especially literacy and the ecosystem services provided by the natural environment of ancient Greece. It argues that the individual philosophers' thoughts about the nature of the cosmos, living things, humankind, and human culture were linked by a "diachronic dialectic of ideas." Each philosopher's speculations were subjected to a critique by the next generation who crafted more subtle theories. The dialectical transition is traced from the mythopoeic worldview of Hesiod to the rational worldview of Thales and his Milesian successors, followed by Xenophanes and Heraclitus, then Parmenides and his Eleatic successors, and the qualitative pluralisms of Anaxagoras and Empedocles. An entirely fresh interpretation is provided of the Atomists and later Pythagoreans, whose work culminated in the ideas upon which Galileo, Newton, and the other architects of modern science, continued to build. In the span of only two centuries, the Presocratics developed the basic principles of philosophy and natural science, ecology, mathematical astronomy, the atomic theory of matter, an inertial theory of motion, and the possibility that our solar system is only one of infinitely many scattered throughout infinite time and space. The concluding chapter traces natural philosophy through subsequent centuries until its abandonment in 20th century philosophy, leading to the moribund state of philosophy by the end of that century. The authors show how environmental philosophy represents a return to natural philosophy and a model for the revival of philosophy's vigor and relevance in the 21st century. Greek Natural Philosophy is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient Greek philosophy or in environmental philosophy, and will be of interest to scholars in these fields.

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Battling a chronic disease can often be a lonely and frustrating ordeal. It doesn't have to be. "Alone in My Universe, " compiled by Wayne Brown, presents a series of writings from patients suffering from acromegaly. Based on actual personal experiences, these narratives provide a primer of understanding for others dealing with this chronic, debilitating disease that affects many of the body's systems.This collaborative effort, written by real people touched by acromegaly, attempts to raise awareness of this low-profile disease. Each patient tells his or her story as it relates to the disease and its complications. Topics include the following: Handling pre-diagnosis frustration Dealing with fears of medical treatment and surgery Managing family issues and work issues Talking with children Managing negative energy Coping with good and bad days Living life each dayWith sympathy, empathy, and mutual support, "Alone in the Universe" shares the heartfelt stories of those suffering from acromegaly to show others that they are not alone in their battle.