The Invisible Lion

Author: Benjamin Fry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781095674703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
Something is missing in your life. So, you go to a store and buy what you need. You get the flatpacked furniture home, open it up and spread the pieces out on the floor. But there's no instructions. The furniture is you. These are the instructions. You have everything you need. It's there on the floor. Getting it to work together in a way which actually solves the problem you started your day with is a huge challenge. You ask friends. Each of them has a different opinion. You try it their ways. Sometimes you get close. But it's not right. You laugh at your failures. The problem remains. A family member drops by. She knows what you should do. You try that too. That doesn't work either. Which makes you annoyed and frustrated. You tell her to go away. You sit alone, baffled, frustrated. Lost. Still trying to solve the problem. Still with everything you need spread out on your sitting room floor. Then a stranger rings your doorbell. He gives you something. It tells you how it works. It is the instructions. You put your furniture together and set it up in the house. The problem is solved. You clear away the mess. Now everything is better. It's hard to remember what was missing before, or the confusion you had to deal with. I am that stranger. These are the instructions. The Invisible Lion Flatpack instructions for life

The Invisible Lion Workbook

Author: Benjamin Fry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Something is missing in your life. So, you go to a store and buy what you need. You get the flat-packed furniture home, open it up and spread the pieces out on the floor. But there's no instructions. That is your life. This book is the instructions. You have everything you need. It's there on the floor. Getting it to work together in a way which actually solves the problem you started your day with is a huge challenge. You ask friends. Each of them has a different opinion. You try it their ways. Sometimes you get close. But it's not right. You laugh at your failures. The problem remains. A family member drops by. She knows what you should do. You try that too. That doesn't work either. Which makes you annoyed and frustrated. You tell her to go away. You sit alone, baffled, frustrated. Lost. Still trying to solve the problem. Still with everything you need spread out on your sitting room floor. Then a stranger rings your doorbell. He gives you something. It tells you how it works. It is the instructions. You put your furniture together and set it up in the house. The problem is solved. You clear away the mess. Now everything is better. It's hard to remember what was missing before, or the confusion you had to deal with. I am that stranger. These are the instructions. This workbook is your 28-Day Recovery Plan based on the theory of The Invisible Lion.

Millennial Love

Author: Olivia Petter
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008412324
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A 2021 ‘BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR’ – THE INDEPENDENT ‘A mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hearts.’ Charly Cox ‘Funny and honest.’ Pandora Sykes ‘Offers readers of all stripes and ages a great overview of relationships in the digital era’. Matt Haig

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Author: Richard Rumelt
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0307886239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Author: David Bellos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0865478724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.

Moving Shakespeare Indoors

Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.

Cake Balls

Author: Robin Ankeny
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762445769
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
How to make 51 delectable cake ball recipes, including information on methods, equipment, troubleshooting, dipping and decorating, and more.

Why Icebergs Float

Author: Andrew Morris
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911307045
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
From paintings and food to illness and icebergs, science is happening everywhere. Rather than follow the path of a syllabus or textbook, Andrew Morris takes examples from the science we see every day and uses them as entry points to explain a number of fundamental scientific concepts – from understanding colour to the nature of hormones – in ways that anyone can grasp. While each chapter offers a separate story, they are linked together by their fascinating relevance to our daily lives. The topics explored in each chapter are based on hundreds of discussions the author has led with adult science learners over many years – people who came from all walks of life and had no scientific training, but had developed a burning curiosity to understand the world around them. This book encourages us to reflect on our own relationship with science and serves as an important reminder of why we should continue learning as adults.

Getting Through the Day

Author: Nancy J. Napier
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312423
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Getting Through the Day enables adults who were traumatized as children to learn new strategies to meet the demands of daily living. Counselor Nancy Napier presents dozens of exercises helpful to anyone who finds that unresolved childhood feelings are blocking life's path.

The Book of Manifestations

Author: Mishal Karamchandani
Publisher: Red Feather
ISBN: 9780764359712
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Understand and harness the most powerful and pervasive law of the universe: the Law of Attraction. Thirty processes present the most powerful and pervasive Law of the Universe in a simple, precise, and easy-to-use manner. This exciting book gets straight to the point about what needs and doesn't need to be done to live a life of true abundance via a clear, concrete, and measurable way that allows you to take giant strides toward your desires. AUTHOR: Mishal has been a professor of economics for the past eight years. The Law of Attraction has fascinated him since he was a teenager; he wrote The Book of Manifestations to help people use this Law on an everyday basis. SELLING POINTS: 30 practical and exciting concepts for using the Law of Attraction to manifest your dreams For those wanting to improve any area of their lives: relationships, prosperity, career, and more Exercises included that will help you feel your best and attract the good stuff into your life.