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Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"I call this book a novoir--a memoir with true characters and actual dialogue, but with the structure and stylistic elements of a novel. It is my story and that of my mentor Anaïs Nin, intertwined as we were, based on her diaries, published and unpublished, and on mine. I have taken liberties with chronology, point of view, and dramatization of events, disguised a few identities, and used novelistic devices to quicken the narrative--but the emotional...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"More than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a startup find the funding it needs to survive? When, if at all, should a company go public? How does an entrepreneur build and manage a work place--and create a lasting legacy? Maynard Webb has helped found, fund, and grow dozens of successful companies, and has driven strategic change at Salesforce, eBay, Everwise, and Visa, among other worldwide corporations. Known for offering savvy...
Author
Publisher
Career Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In this time of downsizing, layoffs, buyouts and mergers, managers are faced with the unique challenges of boosting employee morale, mentoring and team-building and being more than just a boss and more like a coach to employees.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife. When brought face-to-face...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The missing how-to manual for being an effective team leader
The Art of Coaching Teams is the manual you never received when you signed on to lead a team. Being a great teacher is one thing, but leading a team, or team development, is an entirely different dynamic. Your successes are public, but so are your failures-and there's no specific rubric or curriculum to give you direction. Team development is an art form, and this book is your how-to guide...
109) Hook shot hero
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Tim Daniels, now fourteen, returns to Camp Wickasaukee he serves as mentor to three rookie basketball players, continues to work on keeping his short stature from getting in his way, faces a bully, and gets help from NCAA player Dick Dunbar.
112) You're on your own (but I'm here if you need me): mentoring your child during the college years
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Publisher
American Library Association
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Outlines a focused and results-oriented plan for achieving the best results from library staff through a coaching style of management. Real-world examples and coaching scenarios specific to library work demonstrate how to be both a coach and a player; utilize the abilities and talents of staff at all levels; encourage innovation, flexibility, and problem-solving; and spotlight the big-win opportunities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mina is excited to start her mentorship at A Batch Made in Heaven, a bakery famous throughout Washington State for their unique cookies, because she would like to become a baker herself, and she wants to enter the cookie competition in Seattle to win money to help her father open a restaurant to replace the one he left behind in Delhi; but she is soon frustrated because the owner's annoying son, Flynn, will not even let her near the kitchen--clearly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomberg Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"This guide explains what coaching, and its cheaper and simpler alternative, mentoring are, outlining the different types of coaching and their costs. It assesses the effectiveness of coaching and mentoring, and gives advice based on the lessons learned by those interviewed on making coaching work successfully and avoiding mistakes that lead to disappointment or even harm"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Integrity Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Using the biblical story of Naomi, as well as a wealth of personal experiences, Bourke offers essential principles that will help older women to blaze new trails in their best years and mentor younger women encouraging them to build for the future with wisdom and strength"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Un profundo misterio envuelve la trágica muerte de Rosalía Albayeros, una magistrada reconocida por sus principios a la hora de impartir justicia. Ante las crecientes dudas acerca de su rectitud, Rodrigo Láynez, un joven abogado que ha sido su asistente personal inicia una investigación con el fin de desentrañar el enigma y reivindicar el nombre de su preceptora. En el camino, conocerá una serie de personajes relacionados con ella y se irá...
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