How does a $2 billion company become a $5 billion company in a few years? How do you accelerate business growth and innovation by transforming your people? How do you lead your organization to achieve extraordinary results through inspiration and personal power? All through the power of Breakthrough, the unique program that Bart Sayle and Surinder Kumar has delivered in many companies and to thousands of people to help them achieve dramatic personal, professional and business growth. They offer a simple but profound message- in order to build your business, you first need to build your people. Instead of imposing a new strategy from the top down, focus on unleashing creativity within your people across the organization. Get everyone excited about a common goal, listen to their best ideas, and focus their energy. ? Riding the Blue Trainfeatures dramatic success stories from companies such as P&G, Nike, Visa, Pepsi, and Wrigley, that have applied these principles in the real world

Build Your People First A Groundbreaking Management Idea That Has Helped Hundreds Of Companies Transform Their Organizations And Jump-Start Their Results How Does A $2 Billion Company Become A $5 Billion Company In A Few Years? How Do Rival Divisions Overcome Their Animosity To Achieve A Common Goal? How Do You Use Inspiration And Personal Power To Lead Your Organization To Achieve Extraordinary Results? All Through The Power Of Breakthrough, The Unique Program That Bart Sayle And Surinder Kumar Have Delivered To Thousands Of People At Companies Like P&G, Nike, Visa, Pepsi, Wrigley, And British Airways To Help Them Achieve Dramatic Growth And Innovation. They Offer A Simple But Profound Message: In Order To Build Your Business, First You Need To Build Your People. Instead Of Imposing A New Strategy From The Top Down, Focus On Unleashing Creativity From The Bottom Up. Get Everyone Excited About A Common Goal, Listen To Their Best Ideas, And Focus Their Energy. When That Happens, Your People Will Get Off The Red Train Of Defensiveness, Negativity, And Anger. Instead, They Ll Start Riding The Blue Train Of Empowerment, Enthusiasm, And Teamwork And Amazing Results Will Follow. Easier Said Than Done? Riding The Blue Train Features Dramatic Success Stories From Clients Who Have Applied These Principles In The Real World. These Companies Spend Thousands Of Dollars And Months In The Training Room With Sayle And Kumar. This Book Affords Everyone From New Managers To Ceos The Opportunity To Learn These Methods, Incorporate Them Into Their Own Corporate Culture, And Experience Breakthrough Results In Their Own Time. An Inspiring Book, Riding The Blue Train Will Change The Way You Think About Corporate Culture, Leadership, And Growth.

An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.

A biography recounts the life of the African-American woman who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Seventeen silly songs for children.

During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.

Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., recounts the 70-year history of the B & O's showcase service. Generously illustrated with over 250 evocative photographs, advertisements, menus, timetables, and maps, Royal Blue Line vividly recalls America's most regal railway journey.

Traces the development of the subway from its inception to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life - Explores how it has been represented in film and art - Gives women's experiences of the subway - Examines the city's racial tensions - Skyscapers - Spatial layout of the city - Urban space.

This book takes readers on a tour of what’s inside a train. Each car has something to find—things that make loud noises, things in different shapes—and along the way, a little child searches for his missing hat. The back of the book is a running landscape dotted with objects for children to find and count. All Aboard! Let’s Ride a Train is a fun, interactive ride from beginning to end.

After the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine additional members of the Oklahoma State basketball team and support staff, Hancock's 2,747-mile journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic became more than just a distraction. It became a pilgrimage. Photos.