Boredom Slayer

Boredom Slayer
Author: Richard Mulholland
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0639926444

Any fool can put together a presentation; this book exists because so many do. There's something sucking the life out of audiences everywhere, transforming them from the very people who can change your business into the disengaged masses. It's called The Boredom ... and your job is to slay it! It's time to fight back. It's time to save the world ... ... one bored audience at a time. Whether you're a seasoned public speaker, or getting ready for your first company presentation, this candid and practical guide by renowned global speaker and presentation coach Richard Mulholland will give you key insights. Grabbing and keeping an audience's attention. Structuring talks that command fees and change companies. Dispelling the myths around public speaking that are getting in the way of that standing ovation. Speaking like a true leader. Richard Mulholland is the co-founder of global presentation powerhouses Missing Link and TalkDrawer. He is a renowned speaker and has presented his thinking in many countries including Canada, Puerto Rico, UK, USA, Germany, Kenya, and Pakistan. When not activating his audiences he can be found coaching many top CEOs and TED speakers to activate theirs.

Beholding

Beholding
Author: Strahan Coleman
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830785191

Move from a transactional experience with God to a transformational friendship with Him through prayer. How can time with God be a source of peace in a loud and distracting world? In Beholding, spiritual director and poet Strahan Coleman invites readers to discover the joy of being with God, not just working for Him. As they inhabit the art of resting in God’s presence, prayer becomes not only a place of seeking, but becoming. Beholding calls Christians to understand how: Prayer is so much more than spoken conversation between us and God; it’s a way of existing together. Beholding God in prayer is profoundly connected to beholding and dignifying others. Embracing prayer practices from different Christian traditions digs a deep well of peace in the soul. Our everyday ordinary lives can become the meeting place for God through silence, solitude, community, creation, and hospitality.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
Author: James B. South
Publisher: Open Court
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0812697472

Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy). Though the show already attracted much scholarly attention, this is the first book to fully disinter the intellectual issues. Designed by Whedon as a multilevel story with most of its meanings deeply buried in heaps of heavy irony, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has replaced The X-Files as the show that explains to Americans the nature of the powerful forces of evil continually threatening to surge into our world of everyday decency and overwhelm it. In the tradition of the classic horror films Buffy the Vampire Slayer addresses ethical issues that have long fascinated audiences. This book draws out the ethical and metaphysical lessons from a pop-culture phenomenon.

SPIN

SPIN
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1989-05
Genre:
ISBN:

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Max Q for Youth Leaders

Max Q for Youth Leaders
Author: Andy Stanley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451605218

This life-changing book helps students learn how to influence their peers—both saved and unsaved—without being negatively influenced. Maximum Quotient: It is the point in time when a rocket's speed is the highest and air pressure is at its extreme. It is what young Christians feel during their teenage years. Pulling from many years of successful youth ministry, Stanley and Hall introduce youth leaders to a new realm of youth ministry through this dynamic new plan. Youth leaders will learn about: A Ministry of Influence, Jesus & Influence, Maximum Dynamic Pressure, Setting Standards, Establishing Priorities, Maintaining Accountability, Unconditional Acceptance, Sustaining Influence, Using Leverage, and Partnering with Parents.

Train Naked

Train Naked
Author: Pierre du Plessis
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0639992986

The ancient Greeks trained in the nude in the gymnasium and also competed in the buff in the Olympic Games. They literally had skin in the game. The ancient Greek word for gymnasium, gumnasia, means to train naked. However, the ancient Greek gyms were not just for physical training but also had dedicated spaces for intellectual exercise, for philosophy, teaching and conversation. To train naked is to show up just as you are. No pretences, no masks, no BS. We train to compete, we practise in order to nail a presentation. We should also be training to become better human beings, to craft meaningful lives, do work that matters, and to thrive in chaos. Pierre du Plessis's daily reflections, meditations and practices presented in this book are a call to train naked, to practise for the ultimate marathon, and to have skin in the game. Train Naked is a curated selection of short reflections, prompts to get skin in the game, on building a meaningful life and doing work that matters. Combined with a selection of ancient practices, such as meditation, Pierre's thoughts and ideas aim to inspire each reader to take charge, to try, to act, to learn and to do. Get skin in the game.

Lead with Super Clarity

Lead with Super Clarity
Author: Maanda Tshifularo
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2022-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1776260910

These are difficult times. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved to us that we cannot rely on tomorrow to be like today, there is no such thing as 'business as usual'. The social and economic upheaval has been devastating, and its effects long-lasting, making these times even more uncertain. The antidote to this uncertainty is clarity. Maanda Tshifularo has had the privilege of interacting with successful innovators, culture shifters, business leaders and thought leaders, and their 'common success denominator' is the ability to see, say, and do things, with purposeful clarity. He has identified 'Super Clarity' as the differentiator that helps leaders navigate the ambiguity and half-heartedness which have become the default state in many organisations, leading to plummeting employee morale and productivity. Not only does a super-clear leader achieve and make a meaningful contribution, but they also experience remarkable joy and personal growth in the journey. It has never been more crucial for leaders to provide clarity and, in this book, Maanda defines and explains the importance of Super Clarity, and how to translate purpose into our day-to-day activities to unlock exceptional results, job satisfaction, team cohesion and employee engagement. He outlines in Lead with Super Clarity the critical steps that we can take, as business leaders or in our own lives, to foster clarity, and, in so doing, create an environment characterised by purpose, insight and alignment. Maanda Tshifularo is the CEO and Founder of SuperLead Advisory (a strategy, operations and leadership consultancy), an adjunct faculty at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), an executive coach (Integral Coach UCT GSB and certified Gallup Strength Coach) and host of the SuperLead podcast and leadership summits. As an experienced executive, he has a track-record of leading business turn-arounds, new business ventures development and driving innovation and growth initiatives.

Bored and Brilliant

Bored and Brilliant
Author: Manoush Zomorodi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1250124956

WNYC's "Note to Self" host, Manoush Zomorodi, gives readers permission to unplug from their devices, get bored, and tap into a greater storehouse of creativity.

Keep Me in Mind

Keep Me in Mind
Author: Nancy Holder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005
Genre: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 0689869568

You make your own destiny, with the interactive story lines. Your decisions determine your fate. Do you have what it takes to be a slayer, or will you fail and summon a successor?

The Chart of Tomorrows

The Chart of Tomorrows
Author: Chris Willrich
Publisher: Pyr
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633880591

The poet Persimmon Gaunt and the thief Imago Bone had sought only to retire from adventuring and start a family, but they never reckoned on their baby becoming the chosen vessel of the mystical energies of a distant Eastern land. With their son Innocence hunted by various factions hoping to use him as a tool, they kept him safe at the cost of trapping him in a pocket dimension of accelerated time. Now free, the thirteen-year-old Innocence has rejected his parents and his "destiny" and has made dangerous friends in a barbaric Western land of dragon-prowed ships and rugged fjords. Desperately, Gaunt and Bone seek to track him down, along with their companion Snow Pine and her daughter A-Girl-Is-A-Joy, who was once trapped with Innocence too. But as the nomadic Karvaks and their war-balloons strike west, and a troll-king spins his webs, and Joy is herself chosen by the spirit of the very land Innocence has fled to, Gaunt and Bone find themselves at the heart of a vast struggle -- and their own son is emerging from that conflict as a force of evil. To save him and everything they know, they turn to a dangerous magical book, The Chart of Tomorrows, that reveals pathways through time. Upon the treacherous seas of history, Gaunt and Bone must face the darkness in each other’s pasts, in order to rescue their future. From the Trade Paperback edition.