Thousands of companies survey employees, but how do you translate data into action? This book provides concise guidelines on how to plan, execute and act on employee surveys, whether they measure culture, teamwork or leadership style using 360 feedback.

Leslie and his sister, Mary, are gifted teenagers who have just been reunited with their father after more than twelve years apart. Leslies abilities include a photographic memory, the ability to leave his body and transport himself anywhere, and a knack for reading minds and communicating without talking. Meanwhile, Mary is harboring an enormous secret from everyone but Leslie: she is gifted as well. As Leslie, Mary, and their father work to build their lost relationship through a mutual love of dogs, a villain lurks in the shadows. Sir Alastair Woodford, who illegally appointed himself as Leslie and Marys guardian when they were little, is now facing several charges that include kidnapping. While Leslie deals with the legal issues surrounding Sir Woodford and his associates, his purpose and morality become clearer by the day. But what he does not know is that Marys purpose is beginning to unfold as well. The Promise continues the tale of a modest, gifted boy and his equally talented sister as they both learn to use their powers for the good of each otherand the world.

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Raise the bar to become the best version of you Most of us set the bar too low in our lives, both personally and professionally. Bob Deutsch, a cognitive neuroscientist/anthropologist turned entrepreneur, has spent a lifetime studying people and found that we choose not to pursue our greatest ambitions because we feel we are incapable of reaching them. But he has also found that we are each born with the fundamental abilities to live the full, creative, dynamic lives we dream about. Curiosity, Openness, Sensuality, Paradox, and Self-Story—these are our five inner resources. Through interviews with inspiring people, including Wynton Marsalis and Richard Feynman, and case studies of personalities like Bruce Springsteen and Anna Quindlen, Deutsch shows us how to access and use these resources to open our lives to unimagined possibilities.

Using a canned approach to organizational change opens a can of worms.NoMore Darn Buzzwords helps senior executives choose which methods oforganizational change are best for them, from strategic planning to SixSigma, mission development to employee surveys.

Jo Bannister's police procedurals have been widely praised not only for outstanding plotting and suspense, but also for their brilliant and compelling characterization and with Perfect Sins she again proves that she is "one of the genre's best." (Booklist) Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken—and probably killed—by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope when a senior policeman suggests that his sons might still be alive—until that policeman is murdered. Still, there seems to be some link to a local operation, and Ash, no longer a government agent, is determined to find it. Meanwhile, his friend Hazel Best has been having a tough time of her own. A police constable whose last case ended with her shooting someone dead, she is just beginning to regain her balance. Hazel and Ash are both beginning to take more of an interest in the outside world, when a neighboring archaeologist decides to dig up a curious mound of earth near the ice house on his land. It might be a burial mound, he thinks. It is, but not the ancient one he expects; it holds the bones of a little boy from perhaps thirty years ago, carefully laid to rest with twentieth-century toys. As Hazel is slowly drawn back into police work, Ash finds himself under threat from someone who must think his investigation into his family's disappearance is finally getting somewhere...

Fantasy collides with alternate history when an American nobility emerges from the ruin of the Civil War.