Scaling up excellence is the key to creating a great organisation It's how a small enterprise expands without losing focus It's how a brilliant new idea or plan developed by the few goes on to be adopted by the many & in hard times & tough situations it's how pockets of smart new thinking overcome cultures of indifference or negativity An organisation that doesn't know how to scale up what is best within it won't achieve long-term success Bestselling author Robert Sutton & his Stanford colleague Huggy Rao have devoted nearly a decade to uncovering what it takes to create & spread outstanding performance & in Scaling Up Excellence they share the fruits of their research Drawing on case studies that range from Silicon Valley enterprises to non-profit organisations they provide crucial insights into corporate cultures both good & bad & offer a road map for establishing & stimulating excellence In the process they show how to use premortems' when making big decisions about change They reveal why seven is so often the magic number when it comes to team size They examine successful & unsuccessful quests for improvement
- in hospitals schools & elsewhere & they discuss when a single corporate mindset is best (Catholicism') & when local variation is preferable (Buddhism') Scaling Up Excellence is the first management book devoted to what is
- or should be
- a core priority for every organisation As such it is destined to become the standard bearer


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SCALLYWAGGA appeals to the subversive juvenile in us all Featuring devilishly distinctive characters like ASBO PIN who has an uncanny knack of predicting people's PIN numbers the dad who uses toys to explain the harsher facts of life to his son & Adrian whose parents resort to increasingly bizarre measures to disown him

Includes:: all the episodes from the show's second series

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Organized crime & current Native American culture hit head-on in this brutal series as the lead characters inch closer & closer to the vices that could do them in for good Fifteen years ago Dashiell " Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty & utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation searching for something better Now he&s come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks a hell-bent-for-leather attitude & one dark secret to change "the Rez" for the better In his way? Merciless mob boss & casino owner Red Crow In this latest deluxe edition volume Dash & the men he&s trying to take down inch closer & closer to the vices that could do them in for good The new edition collects writer Jason Aaron&s critically acclaimed series in a deluxe format with bonus material & exclusive sketches from artist RM Guera Collects SCALPED 25-34 ...

Celebrated writer Jason Aaron (Original Sin Southern Bastards) & artist RM Guera (BATMAN ETERNAL DJANGO UNCHAINED) turn up the heat on their epic chronicle of crime sin & salvation Undercover FBI agent Dashiell Bad Horse may not believe in God but recent events suggest that some higher power is working overtime to keep him alive In fact after several well-placed needles & a few well-aimed bullets he’s better positioned than ever to take down the kingpin of the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation Chief Lincoln Red Crow But for all of Dash’s good fortune his mother is still dead & her murderer is still at large He’s still strung out on heroin & so is his unborn child’s mother— Red Crow’s daughter & now he’s triggered the suspicions of the Chief’s deadliest enforcer Shunka a man more than willing to employ violence in the service of both discovering & keeping secrets SCALPED THE DELUXE EDITION BOOK FOUR also features guest art by Davide Furnò Danijel u 017 Deu 017 Eelj & Jason Latour & covers by Jock Collects SCALPED 35-49 Meet the Author Jason Aaron is an Eisner & Harvey Award nominated comic book writer whose best-known work

Includes:: the Native American crime series Scalped for Vertigo & stints on series such as Star Wars Ghost Rider Punisher MAX Wolverine Incredible Hulk Wolverine & The X-Men Thor & Avengers vs X-Men all for Marvel Jason was born in Alabama but currently resides in Kansas City He enjoys many things but shaving is not one of them

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Gambling gunfights G-men Dawg Soldierz massacres meth labs trashy sex fry bread Indian pride Thunder Beings & the rugged beauty of the Badlands In other words life on the rez FBI agent Dash Bad Horse has been forced back into a life & a place that he thought he escaped years before The Prairie Rose Indian Reservation To bring down local crime boss Lincoln Red Crow Dash goes undercover as one of Red Crow’s hired guns But when Dash’s own mother is slaughtered & scalped the double agent’s loyalties become even more tangled-until not even he’s sure who the real bad guys are In SCALPED THE DELUXE EDITION BOOK TWO star writer Jason Aaron (Thor Original Sin) & artist RM Guera (BATMAN ETERNAL DJANGO UNCHAINED) continue their critically acclaimed tale of Native American noir with guest art by John Paul Leon & Davide Furnò & covers by Jock Collects SCALPED 12-24 by Jason Aaron RM Guera ...

Written by Jason Aaron Art by RM Guera Cover by Jock This volume collecting issues 6-11 of the acclaimed new series by Jason Aaron (THE OTHER SIDE) explores Dash Bad Horse&s troubled origin & chronicles his day-to-day life on The Rez working for Chief Red Crow ...

Written by Jason Aaron Art by RM Guera & John Paul Leon Cover by Dave Johnson In this third volume of the acclaimed series collecting issues 12-18 undercover FBI agent Dashiell Bad Horse home reservation wakes up the morning after the opening of the Crazy Horse Casino to find that two women have been murdered during the night It up to Dash to find the killers & in the process come to grips with his relationship with his own mother ...

Written by Jason Aaron Art by Davide Furno & RM Guera Cover by Jock In the latest SCALPED collection featuring issues 19-24 Chief Red Crow is doing everything he can to walk the straight & narrow but how far will he let Mr Brass push him? Advance-solicited; on sale April 22 o 144 pg FC 1499 US o MATURE READERS ...

Written by Jason Aaron Art by RM Guera Davide Furno & Francesco Francavilla Cover by Jock In this latest SCALPED volume collecting issues 25-29 of the acclaimed series we see the landscape of the Prairie Rose reservation & casino through the eyes of a newcomer
- a card shark & con man
- whose presence could spell doom for one of our main characters Advance-solicited; on sale October 21 o 128 pg FC 1499 US o MATURE READERS

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Written by JASON AARON o Art by RM GUERA o Cover by JOCK In this new collection featuring issues 30-34 of the monthly series Red Crow commits a murder in front of witnesses & the FBI thinks they can finally put him away Meanwhile Dash loyalty is tested as his addiction to heroin intensifies ...