Celebrities are more in the tough spot now than ever before and are easy targets for ridicule on social media. But they are people with a lot of leadership influence i.e. they dissent, they don't conform, they balance morality and power, etc. These all traits get reflected in their creational work be it movies, any other form of art, or even private lives too.

Master today’s breakthrough strategy for developing and sustaining high-performance sales teams! Long-time sales team leader Max Cates shows how to go far beyond "old school," "command and control" sales management, unleashing the full power and energy of your salespeople through a participatory management approach that works. Drawing on 36+ years of sales and sales management experience, Cates presents proven tactics for: Developing your own mental toughness, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and promotability Becoming a true servant leader in sales: providing the right structure, challenges, respect, involvement, and support Hiring more effective and productive salespeople – including expert tips for interviewing, recruiting, reading body language, using data, and choosing amongst candidates Building winning teams that meet sales objectives and delight customers Empowering sales reps and teams in decision-making that increases sales productivity Measuring individual and team performance towards objectives Keeping people on target without micro-managing them Promoting team growth and continual improvement Leveraging Six Sigma and the Deming Cycle to sustain success, morale, and performance And much more Seven Steps to Success for Sales Managers presents proven sales management tactics in a "bulletized" format that’s easy to read – and just as easy to use. Cates combines decades of in-the-trenches experience with cutting-edge research on the latest sales trends and tactics. Whether you’re a working sales manager, VP of sales, account team leader, executive MBA program participant, or aspiring sales manager, this guide will help you build an outstanding team, empower it, and lead it to sustained success.

STEAL, CHEAT, AND LIE YOUR WAY TO THE TOP-a growing practice on both sides of the Atlantic that's costing consumers millions each year. Marine insurance is based on Uberrimae Fidei or utmost good faith but it hasn't worked out that way. Author Ed Geary closely examines the schemes of marine insurance fraud and conspiracy that involves not only boat owners and policy holders, but insurance brokers, and marine underwriters. During his five year USCG training mission of the Venezuelan Coastguard Geary's disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Operation Deep Six to destabilize the elected government of Venezuela and install Hugo Chavez as president put him in the cross-hairs of the Agency. Silencing him became an even greater priority when Geary exposed the CIA's theft of high value yachts used in idiotic schemes to smuggle narcotics from Colombia to the United States. Gotcha delves into the flawed business practices of The London Salvage Association that ultimately destroyed an organization that's been around before the reign of Queen Victoria and exposes the fraud and "trickle-down-corruption" that has tainted the Lloyd's Agency System. After the melt-down of ENRON and WorldCom the cover-up of Arthur Andersen's fraudulent ship valuation conspiracy by the once reliable Lloyd's List in London challenges the imagination.

“...my favorite kind of satire; wonderfully observed and bitingly funny. It cuts so close to the bone, you’ll think you’re a staffer on the campaign. It’s the perfect tonic to help you through these insane times.” —Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer Nine-time Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Ed. Weinberger, known for his work on such legendary comedies as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Cosby Show, imagines an alternate Trump 2020 presidential campaign in this hilarious new novel. In GOTCHA! Weinberger creates a chaotic world inhabited by America’s 45th President where cheating at golf is taken for granted; Fox anchors are valued advisors; and hydroxychloroquine is promoted as a COVID-19 cure. Spanning the critical period from March 5, 2020 to January 24, 2021, GOTCHA! takes readers into Trump’s private world as he meets with his re-election committee, has a hush-hush dinner with Laura Ingraham, makes an angry early-morning call to Don, Jr., and asks Melania whether his bullet-proof vest makes him look fat. Trump tries to rush through a COVID-19 vaccine; attempts to build rapport with African Americans; and even gets away with shooting a protester on Fifth Avenue—an incident applauded by the NRA. With an entertaining mix of fiction and satire, this provocative novel looks into the corrupt, three-ring-circus that is Washington in the new normal.

This fifth Gotcha! book, aimed at public and school librarians and teachers, discusses well-reviewed and kid-tested nonfiction titles for third through eighth grade readers published in 2005-2007 with a few extra oldies but goodies added in. Chapters are built around the high- interest topics kids love. Irresistible book descriptions and book talks guide librarians and teachers to nonfiction books kids want to read. New features include numerous booklists to copy and save (similar to the bookmarks in Gotcha for Guys!) and profiles and interviews of some innovative authors such as Sally Walker, Kathleen Krull, Catherine Thimmesh, Steve Jenkins, Ken Mochizuki, and others. Grades 3-8. This fifth Gotcha! book, aimed at public and school librarians, as well as elementary and middle school teachers, discusses well-reviewed and kid-tested nonfiction titles for third through eighth grade readers published in 2005-2007 with a few extra oldies but goodies added in. Chapters are built around the high-interest topics kids love as the authors provide irresistible book descriptions to guide librarians and teachers to nonfiction books kids will want to read. Features include numerous booklists that can be copied and saved (similar to the bookmarks in the authors' Gotcha for Guys!), as well as profiles and interviews of some innovative nonfiction authors such as Sally Walker, Kathleen Krull, Catherine Thimmesh, Steve Jenkins, Ken Mochizuki, and others. Grades 3-8.

Peopled Leadership is a new dynamic model aimed at creating new leaders and new futures. It is people centric and people oriented with a focus on developing and empowering others, serving with humility, and expressing gratitude. Peopled Leadership provides the much-needed shift from accountability and outcomes focused driven leadership behaviors to behaviors that focus on people, while assuring accountability and organizational improvement. Peopled Leadership is a model which orients a leader’s focus on people and their commitment to the people, organizations, communities, and institutions they serve. This new model empowers others to lead, be innovative, engage in collaboration, solve complex problems, and further outcomes. The result of Peopled Leadership is the transformation of people and the transformation of practices that mitigate the complexities intrinsic to peopled organizations.

It's "bead season" at slippery rock high. This year the bead-snatching grad game called "Gotcha" has been banned as an official school activity because the teachers have decided to put an end to a dangerous tradition. After paying an entry fee the players are given a bead and someone's name. The object of the game is snatch the bead of your victim and take their name. The winner ends up with all the beads—and all the money. After the game is banned it becomes even more appealing. The game goes underground and more grads than ever are participating. Katie is reluctant to join in, but as a member of grad council she feels she has to go along. The game quickly spins out of control. Katie finds herself losing friends and falling victim to her classmates' obsession with the game. She considers dropping out of the game but then devises a better way of getting even with her classmates. Katie finds herself sliding further and further down the chute that leads to disaster. Can she bring a safe end to this deadly game?

Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes demonstrates the importance of creating cultures in the design and construction industries grounded in sophisticated-caring leadership, high-performing collaborative teams, and master-level decision-making discipline, informed by values, to finally address massive inefficiencies, waste, and unpredictability. Barbara White Bryson offers specific guidance to industry stakeholders to succeed in achieving project-related predictable outcomes by focusing on culture rather than process. This includes selecting the right team members by hiring and firing bravely, valuing psychological safety, leading with values, practicing respect and transparency, fostering empowerment to make decisions at the right level at the right time, and more. This book is a must-read for design and construction professionals who want to finally understand how to set goals and meet those goals for their clients as well as for their teams.

THERE IS ONE VIEW OF journalism, generally accepted by reporters, that portrays its practitioners as the objective guardians of the public trust, as writers who are almost always on the side of "right," and as professionals who do not "make the news," only "report it."?Then there's the other view, which paints a slightly different picture. According to this way of thinking, members of the media do indeed play a significant role in shaping the public's opinions, particularly about politicians, and are often biased and judgemental in their daily assessments of these leaders; and they also refuse to take full responsibility for their errors, inconsistencies, and distortions of the truth.?It is this latter perspective that is represented in Gotcha!, a hard-hitting expose of the Canadian media by the journalist George Bain. A veteran of the Ottawa press gallery, where he covered politics for the Globe and Mail for many years, and now a columnist on the media for Maclean's magazine, Bain has a commonsense approach to the world and a writing style that has always been logical and easy to follow.?Bain's main thesis is simply this: if we currently live in a country where politicians are disliked, distrusted, and in some cases reviled, then it probably has a great deal to do with how journalists have presented politicians to the public for the past 15 years. According to Bain, among members of the media there is a discernible "inbred anti- governmentalism" that has permeated newspapers and television broadcasts for far too long. Such an attitude has transformed political coverage into what Brian Mulroney referred to as "gotcha journalism," or what Bain labels "issue-making by entrapment." Mulroney's various troubles with the media -- from Tunagate to Sinclair Stevens -- serve as Bain's main examples of media unfairness and distortion, but he also analyses the Globe and Mail's manufactured assault on the former Alberta premier Don Getty (in a series of investigative articles published in 1990) and journalists' critical treatment of the former prime minister Kim Campbell.?In marshalling his case on the media's dealings with Mulroney, Bain underplays the former prime minister's blustery style and his unfulfilled promises of a new, cleaner government, both of which may have contributed to the contempt many journalists had for him. Nevertheless, in every so-called scandal that Bain examines, his evidence that the media got all or part of the various stories wrong is difficult to dispute.?Canadian editors and journalists clearly have a lot to answer for. But will this book or any other significant commentary make a difference? Bain is not overly optimistic, and rightly so. He suggests that more quality control be introduced into newsrooms and calls for a return to more coverage of Parliament. Unlike the politicians they write about and often condemn, however, journalists do not take criticism like this easily. As Bain concedes, his advice will be regarded not only as an intrusion into the media's private affairs, but, more important, as an assault on the "freedom of the press." And nothing, not even the truth, at times, is more sacred than that.