Most people will admit to telling the odd white lie in order to wangle a day off work but only a master excuse-maker could conceive of alibis including milking a walrus contracting osmosis & FOHP (Fear of Having Peaked)
- all of which & more are presented in this surreal & off -the-wall book! CAUTION: Not recommended for use in actual workplace scenarios.
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Weve wished at one time or another that there were scripts for those tricky situations in life
- when a foot gets stuck in a mouth
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People are forever using excuses & defending those excuse patterns as if they were actually true. Such statements as It would be very difficult for me to change
- If I changed it would create family dramas
- Im too old/young to change
- & Ive always been this way
- are all excuses that are used regularly without challenging the truth of these thinking habits. When you eliminate excuses that explain your shortcomings or failures youll awaken to your infinite possibilities. In this groundbreaking work Wayne Dyer presents a compendium of conscious & subconscious excuses employed by virtually everyone along with a revolutionary concept that guides you to put those excuses to rest once & for all. Youll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse & then proceed through the steps of the Excuses Begone!" paradigm."



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Exe to Otter Through Time is a celebration of the glorious countryside & coastline from the River Exe to the River Otter inspired by a map from the 1875 Exmouth guidebook entitled Exmouth & its Neighbourhood. Part of East Devons Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty & the beginning of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Jurassic Coast this area has a timeless beauty but has also seen much change over the last 150 years. The book focuses on some of the changes comparing images from yesteryear with modern photographs & takes you through Exmouth & Budleigh Salterton where changes are distinct to the more preserved villages & hamlets of Exton Lympstone Knowle East Budleigh Otterton Colaton Raleigh Yettington & Woodbury. Explore the East Devon of the past today with Exe to Otter Through Time. ...

When Execution" was first published in 2002 it changed the way we did our jobs. By analysing the discipline of getting things done it helped thousands of business people to make the final leap to success. Now Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan reframe their empowering message for a world in which the old rules have been shattered & radical change is becoming routine. For the foreseeable future: Growth will be slower. But the company that executes well will have the confidence speed & resources to move fast as new opportunities emerge. Competition will be fiercer with companies searching for any possible advantage in every area. Governments will take on new roles in their national economies. & companies that execute well will be more attractive as partners & suppliers & better prepared to adapt to new waves of regulation. Risk management will become a top priority for every leader & every company will be looking for the edge in detecting new internal & external threats. Forget formulating a vision then leaving others to carry it out: " Execution" shows you how to link together people strategy & operations
- the three core elements of every organisation
- & create a business based on dialogue intellectual honesty & realism. With case histories from the real world
- including such recent examples such as the diverging paths taken by Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase & Charles Prince at Citigroup
- " Execution" provides the realistic & hard-nosed approach to business success that could only come from authors as accomplished & insightful as Bossidy & Charan."



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Inside a Los Angeles church on the altar steps lies the blood-soaked decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned legs stretched out arms crossed over the chest the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later the forensic team discover that on the victim's chest the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing. But as more bodies surface he is forced to reassess. All the victims died in the way they feared the most. Their worst nightmares have literally come true. But how could the killer have known? & what links these apparently random victims? Hunter finds himself on the trail of an elusive & sadistic killer somone who apparently has the power to read his victims' minds. Someone who can sense what scares his victims the most. Someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his twisted aim. ...

In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row
- & could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America no one had been executed for ten years. But Gary Gilmore wanted to die & his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity
- & ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.

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Praise for Executive Coaching with Backbone & Heart In this book ONeill brings form & structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation." --Daryl R. Conner CEO & president ODR-USA Inc. " Mary Beth ONeills executive coaching gave me the tools & clarity to become a far more effective leader & change agent. The bottom line was that we succeeded with a monumental organizational turnaround that had seemed impossible to accomplish." --Eric Stevens former CEO Courage Center "ONeill writes in a way that means that you can see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!" --Geoff Bellman consultant & author The Consultants Calling " Mary Beth brings a keen business focus to coaching by not just contributing insights but through helping me & my team gain the insights that we need to solve our own problems. She has the ability to see through the sometimes chaotic dialogue & personalities in order to help a team focus on the real issues & dynamics that can impede organizations from achieving their goals." --John C. Nicol general manager MSN Media Network " Effective leaders require courage compassion & initiative. ONeills systems-based coaching serves as a guide for both coaches & executives to better enable good decisions & good decision-makers." --Paul D. Purcell president Beacon Development Group " With Mary Beth ONeills coaching Ive become the kind of leader who balances both the needs to get results & to develop great working relationships.since I started working with her Ive won accolades as the Top Innovator for my company & as Professional of the Year for my industry.? More important Ive been able to scope my job in a way that allows me to learn & contribute at the same time all the while delivering great results to the bottom line." --Lynann Bradbury vice president Waggener Edstrom" ...

Executive Writing Skills for Managers" deals with the English business writing you need at the top of your career. It focuses on writing English as a key business tool in international business which may have to be tailored for a multicultural readership. The invaluable guidance

Includes:: how to harmonize the English you & your teams use (for example for performance evaluation sales pitch etc) & introduces the notion of Word Power Skills 2.0 for unified writing that keeps everyone in the loop. The book is for anyone who has to excel in their English business writing & the guidance helps you understand how to write successfully for both a native or non-native English readership avoiding the misunderstandings & other impediments to performance that can so easily arise."

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This is the second of a three-volume series to define our current knowledge & future directions to address issues of active living cognitive functioning & ageing. This book continues to expand on our understanding by examining whether & how physical activity could indirectly affect cognitive function by influencing mediators that provide physical & mental resources for cognition. This volume also seeks to identify & study key sources of individual variations or differences in exercise & cognitive processes. Internationally known experts provide a review of the state of knowledge" for their topics. At the beginning of each chapter an introduction to the contributor is presented along with editors notes on how the chapter fits into the general model introduced to organise the volume contents. Following each chapter a summary provides the reader not only with highlights of the chapter but also a flavour of either the consensus or controversies associated with the topic." ...