Golf Shots and Unicorns

Golf Shots and Unicorns
Author: Brad Myers
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979985062

If you want to learn how to play golf or have played for a long time and want to improve your game, understanding a few setup basics is a must. Awarding Winning PGA of America Golf Professional Brad Myers is here to teach you every step of the way in Book One of his brand new series - Golf Shots and Unicorns. Brad has been successful teaching all levels of players (from pure beginners to professionals) how to reach their desired playing goals. This includes players who just want to play with friends and family, players who have won Men's/Women's Club Championships as well as players who have gone on to play Division 1 college golf. Brad wants to help you play the golf that you want to play. By starting out with a fantastic story on why trying to hit a straight golf shot is like trying to find a unicorn, Brad welcomes you onto his lesson tee and uses his humor and past experiences to explain the ins and outs of how to properly setup to a golf ball. Just as if you were with Brad for a live lesson, he starts off by explaining the parts of the golf club, the various ways to grip or hold the club, how to take a proper stance and how to find your best ball position. The journey of playing golf is made of multiple paths. The good news is that there are multiple ways to play good golf, and Brad can help you choose the best path for you. Check out Brad's website for lots of great tips, tools and tricks - www.ballflightacademy.com PRAISE FOR BRAD MYERS, PGA "Coaching nationally ranked tennis teams for years while at Tulane University for 13 years, I know what it takes to coach at a high-level. Brad has been able to take my game to levels that I did not know that I had. That is what a good coach does." - Robert Klein - Former Tulane Men's Head Tennis Coach "Brad's passion for teaching clearly shows in his depth of knowledge about the mechanics of the golf swing. I am always excited to see what I am able to learn from him each time we talk." - Ryan Briggs - PGA Professional - Whispering Pines Golf Club - US Top 100 Golf Course

Be the Unicorn

Be the Unicorn
Author: William Vanderbloemen
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140024711X

Want to stand out from the crowd? We have studied 30,000 top leaders and have discovered the 12 habits they share that make them as rare as a unicorn. Learn these habits, and you’ll be one of the best at whatever you do! How do I stand out? How do I become irreplaceable? With a crowded workforce, an unstable job landscape, and the rise of AI, these questions are the ones that everyone either is or should be asking. William Vanderbloemen has asked these questions over the past 15 years while running one of the world’s top executive search firms. Through extensive research of over 30,000 top leaders and proprietary data, Vanderbloemen has identified the 12 habits that the best of the best have in common. Traits such as authenticity, responsiveness, agility, and the ability to problem solve, among others. Each habit includes information on What We Know (the hard data behind why the habit is so transformative), What We’ve Seen (first-hand accounts by high-achieving professionals on how they live the habit), and What We Do (simple ways to build this habit into your daily routine). Be the Unicorn will help you: Discover the top twelve soft skills the most successful leaders, the top 1%, have. Understand how to develop these soft skills in your own life for better job success. Learn how to apply soft skills to interpersonal relationships outside of work. Understand how these soft skills can be applied in different work environments and job fields, especially with the rise of AI technology.

Stalking the Unicorn

Stalking the Unicorn
Author: Mike Resnick
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2024-12-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504099362

A beleaguered PI searches for a missing unicorn in a city full of strange creatures in this classic humorous fantasy by a five-time Hugo Award winner. It’s New Year’s Eve, and private investigator John Justin Mallory is drowning his sorrows in whiskey. His wife ran off with his partner, his business is in bad shape, and the mob is out to get him. He begins to wonder if he’s had enough to drink when his next client walks in. Mürgenstürm the elf is missing his unicorn, and if he doesn’t get it back by dawn, his guild will kill him. Mallory’s search soon leads him into a fantastical world—a shadowy side of Manhattan full of strange creatures including goblins, trolls, cat people, ghosts in the Stock Exchange, and gnomes in the subway. But in this world of new friends and unusual rules, there’s also a malevolent demon named Grundy. He will do anything to get his hands on the unicorn, and if he succeeds, Mallory’s client won’t be the only being who suffers . . . A terrific choice for fans of Alan Dean Foster. “[An] enchanting blend of fantasy and hard-boiled detection. . . . The crisp dialogue and imaginative setting will have many fantasy readers wanting to revisit Manhattan’s magical side.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s clever, funny, and exciting, with a likable hero, plenty of offbeat supporting characters, and that beguiling blend of fantasy and mystery.” —Booklist

Riding the Unicorn

Riding the Unicorn
Author: Paul Kearney
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849978573

Warder John Willoby is being pulled between worlds, disappearing for minutes at a time from the prison and appearing in the midst of a makeshift medieval encampment before tumbling back. That, or he’s going mad, his mind simply breaking apart. It’s clear, to him and to his family, it must be the latter. His wife can barely stand him, and his daughter doesn’t even try; he drinks too much and lashes out too easily. He isn’t worth anyone’s time, even his own. But in this other world—this winter land of first-settlers—he is a man with a purpose, on whom others rely. A man who must kill a King so as to save a people. With a second chance, Willoby may become the kind of man he had always wanted to be.

Bad Unicorn

Bad Unicorn
Author: Platte F. Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1442450134

In this start to a hilarious middle-grade fantasy trilogy, Max Spencer discovers that a killer unicorn is hunting him. Stuck in another world and with a carnivorous unicorn on his trail, Max must find the courage to save himself, his friends, and the entire human race.

Operation Unicorn

Operation Unicorn
Author: Catherine Bruno
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1665712635

Faced with impossible circumstances, author Catherine Bruno became a unicorn to survive. In Operation Unicorn, she shares her story. In this memoir, she reflects on her family’s history in Iowa and Kansas and discusses how she processes her father’s potential demise amidst the social restrictions of the covid pandemic. Through narrative and examples of letters and Facebook messages sent, Bruno offers a look into her world as a daughter, wife, mother, woman of faith, and volunteer. In Operation Unicorn, she tells how she came to a new understanding about herself, her family, and what she can give to the world.

What a Unicorn Knows

What a Unicorn Knows
Author: Matthew E. May
Publisher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1637742819

What a Unicorn Knows is your company’s best guide to becoming a well-oiled, high-velocity machine for growth on its way to billion-dollar valuation. Why do some young companies become unicorns, while others don’t? What a Unicorn Knows is a playbook that offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed. Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide readers with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow. Called The Unicorn Model™ and built on five foundational principles, the authors deliver a compelling narrative of stories and experiences in an easy-to-remember mnemonic: Strategic speed Constant experimentation Accelerated value Lean process Esprit de corps Drawn from the authors’ successful track record with a wide variety of unicorn-level companies, What a Unicorn Knows offers a necessary guide for rapid but lasting growth. As more companies than ever vie for unicorn status, your competitive edge will depend on learning from the best.

How to Kill a Unicorn

How to Kill a Unicorn
Author: Mark Payne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804138737

The president of innovation consultancy firm Fahrenheit 212 describes the company's methodology for combining "magic" with money to bring to market unique products and ideas that will transform a company's business and growth.

The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn
Author: William deBuys
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0316232882

An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth. In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in fifty years. Rare then and rarer now, a live saola had never been glimpsed by a Westerner in the wild when Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in central Laos. Their team endured a punishing trek up and down white-water rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers who roamed the forest, stripping it of wildlife. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, The Last Unicorn chronicles deBuys's journey deep into one of the world's most remote places. It's a story rich with the joys and sorrows of an expedition into undiscovered country, pursuing a species as rare and elusive as the fabled unicorn. As is true with the quest for the unicorn, in the end the expedition becomes a search for something more: the essence of wildness in nature, evidence that the soul of a place can endure, and the transformative power of natural beauty.