Why is more of the motivation and direction behind behavior, not How or What. Lead with context and carrots, beginning with purpose, cause, and beliefs.Building high-performance teams considering neuroscience, psychological safety, and empathy.I’ve summarized some of the key takeaways I’ve had. While many business books are full of fluff, are dry, and at times hard-to-read, there are many gems that have left an impact lasting years. Join Practically Leading on Discord! Books Discord Chatįirst, I’ll pitch a new Discord channel where you can discuss and promote additional resources that have helped shape you. These are the resources that come to mind that may help other engineering managers, staff engineers, or other leaders in their journey. I have learned from the best over the years, and many resources have shaped who I am and philosophies for how I lead. Now as a Director of Engineering at Docker, I’ve been doing some type of engineering leadership for the last decade.
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Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again-a home. For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. About the Book Tova lives amongst the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue, but when two neighboring clans bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.įrom Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep, comes her new gut-wrenching epic The Girl the Sea Gave Back.įor as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Join us as Niall Ferguson offers an explanation of disaster response and strategies to make us better at handling the next catastrophe we will inevitably face. He offers the lesson he says the West urgently needs to learn if we want to handle the next crisis better and avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline. In his new book, Ferguson uses centuries of knowledge to understand the complex pathologies at work that make societies fail in the face of disaster. In the new book Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, popular historian Niall Ferguson explores the reasoning behind this phenomena and offers solutions on how to handle unforeseen circumstances of mass misfortune.įerguson has spent his academic career lecturing on the international, financial, and economic history of British and American imperialism. Unexpected calamities have happened all throughout human history, yet even in the 21st century we are ill-prepared to recover from them. We cannot predict the next earthquake, wildfire, financial crisis, war or pandemic, but we can predict how to handle each situation better. Disasters are inherently inevitable in life. 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McGregor in her best bonnet.ĪS soon as they had passed, little Benjamin Bunny slid down into the road, and set off-with a hop, skip and a jump-to call upon his relations, who lived in the wood at the back of Mr. He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony.Ī gig was coming along the road it was driven by Mr. ONE morning a little rabbit sat on a bank. Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas. Hannah Mary lives in Oakville, Ontario, with her family. Her suspense novels include THE NEIGHBORS, bestsellers HER SECRET SON, SISTER DEAR, YOU WILL REMEMBER ME, NEVER COMING HOME, and THE REVENGE LIST. The Widow is slated for publication by Thomas & Mercer on Dec. Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. “Kaira is vibrant, outgoing, and the last person you would ever think to figure out ways to kill people,” he told the newspaper. Harley Rouda doesn’t seem to be worried about life imitating art. It was calling to me to be a setting for a book.” “It’s such a fascinating place, D.C.,” she said. The author said she decided to write her latest novel after traveling to the nation’s capital with her husband. Her husband of 32 years served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Kaira Rouda, a former journalist, is the author of nine novels, including The Favorite Daughter, The Next Wife, and Somebody’s Home. “A couple of character names and descriptions the consultants felt were too close to home,” Kaira Rouda said. The ex-congressman didn’t have a problem with the book, Kaira Rouda said, but his staff “got a little concerned.” Their fears were assuaged when the novelist agreed to make some changes to the novel. congressman husband, caught the attention of some on the staff of her own husband-former U.S. The suspense author’s forthcoming The Widow, about a woman who kills her unfaithful U.S. Kaira Rouda’s next novel might hit a little too close to home, the New York Post reports. When it began and I realized it was a story about hockey players I nearly stopped listening since I'm not personally a hockey fan. I chose this book because of the amazing reviews. This is the first book I've read in its genre since I was a curious teenager who bought a naughty book at a bookstore in the airport in Copenhagen. Warning: Contains sexual situations, hotties on hockey skates, skinnydipping, shenanigans in an SUV, and proof that coming out to your family on social media is a dicey proposition. When Wesley turns up to coach alongside Jamie for one more hot summer at camp, Jamie has a few things to discover about his old friend.and a big one to learn about himself. Jamie has waited a long time for answers but walks away with only more questions - can one night of sex ruin a friendship? If not, how about six more weeks of it? But all it takes is one look at his longtime crush, and the ache is stronger than ever. Now, with their college teams set to face off at the national championship, he'll finally get a chance to apologize. Ryan Wesley's biggest regret is coaxing his very straight friend into a bet that pushed the boundaries of their relationship. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were 18? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Four years ago, his tattooed, wisecracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Can he protect those he loves in time?ĬW: Homophobia, bullying, racism, teenage drinking and smoking, death of parents, sibling abuse, attempted murder, violence, explicit content. Unfortunately, I keep irritating him too much for him to really notice me.Ĭan the two men stop dancing around each other and colliding long enough to realize they are the perfect match? Will Jonas’ family finally accept him as he is? And danger lurks too close to home for José. José is a fiery nurse I work with, and I want him. But after eighteen years of absolute loneliness, there is only one man who could finally pull me out to see the light of day. So, back into the closet I went to maintain the peace. When I came out as gay at thirteen, it threatened to tear the family apart. Family is life and goodness, and I would do anything to protect them. But I’ve been lonely, too, until the bumbling nurse standing a foot taller than me had me constantly irritated, yet, I found him strangely endearing.įamily is everything. As a nurse, I can finally do something meaningful. I have been living life day to day to make a good life away from gangs and violence. Dixon April 17 Other Girls by Diane Ayres Alondra by Gina Femia Allured by Her by Chelsea M. Mom and I were doing just fine on our own, but when Cade walked into my house for the first time, I was instantly drawn to him. My parents were murdered, my best friend was sent to prison for a drug deal gone wrong, and eventually, my grandmother, who raised me since I was fifteen, died. Dillon At first, when Cade and his dad came to the farm to live, I didn’t want a brother or a new father. To heal the body you must first heal the soul. Read on for a deeper dive into the meaning of this theme, but first, let’s dig into a few of these clues. Sherwin’s notes to explain its significance.Īnd that’s OK! Sometimes a theme will take a little extra nudge to click (heck, that’s why this column exists), and this puzzle, for me, presented one such occasion. Although I could see the pattern, I still needed Mr. The theme of this puzzle, as I explain further below, initially had me feeling a bit foolish, but I don’t need your pity! After figuring out the first two theme entries, I was able to use the shaded squares to my advantage, predicting which letters would go in the second set of squares once I had the first set figured out. MONDAY PUZZLE - I’ve long wanted to see the debut constructor Zach Sherwin’s “ The Crossword Show,” in which a group of comedians and other personalities solve a crossword live onstage, so I was thrilled to see his name, along with that of the veteran constructor and all-around delight, Andrea Carla Michaels, in the byline for today’s puzzle. It revolves mostly around the lives of Gary McCullough, a drug addict, his ex-wife Francine "Fran" Boyd, also an addict, and their older son DeAndre McCullough, a high school student who begins to sell drugs. Although written like a novel, the book is nonfiction it uses the real names of those people and recounts actual events. Simon and Burns spent over a year interviewing and following around the people who lived on the Fayette & Monroe corner. The book covers a year in the life of an inner city drug market at Fayette & Monroe Streets in Baltimore. The authors eventually spent three years working with the people of the neighborhood. He took a second leave of absence from the Baltimore Sun in 1993 to research the project. Simon believes Sterling was expecting a neighborhood story but he knew that "the corner" also had connotations for Baltimore's open-air drug markets. Simon credits his editor John Sterling with the suggestion that he observe a single corner in Baltimore. It was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. This book follows the lives of individuals who lived on the corner of Fayette Street and Monroe Street in West Baltimore over one year. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood is a 1997 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon and former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns. Arden has a gift for writing a creepy story made for a younger audience. It's hidden from the outside world in a fog and unless everyone works together to find a way to escape, they won't survive long. But when a lake monster destroys their boat, they end up shipwrecked on a deserted island. They haven't had the best of luck on their recent trips and even worse their frenemy Phil is on the boat as well. So when Ollie's dad and Coco's mom plan a "fun" boat trip on Lake Champlain, the three are apprehensive to say the least. By staying together and avoiding remote places, they've steered clear of him so far but their constant worry and stress is taking a toll on their lives and friendship. Having met and outsmarted the smiling man in Dead Voices but fearful of when he'll come again, Ollie, Brian, and Coco are anxiously searching for a way to defeat him once and for all. New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces and Dead Voices. |