Human Performance

Doing something for its inherent satisfaction – rather than external rewards – is the key to success and satisfaction in any endeavour. Motivation is the essential and comprehensive guide to how you can achieve this. Filled with practical methods and techniques Stefan Falk developed at McKinsey & Company, and through twenty-five years as a senior executive and performance coach working with elite athletes, top executives, special operators in the armed forces, and leaders from all walks of life.

Now, for the first time, athletes from all sports and skill levels can easily learn and master the same Sport Psychology Training Skills previously only available to professional and Olympic-level athletes. Own the Game will provide you the hands-on tools necessary to increase your self-confidence, focus, concentration, and poise -ultimately allowing you to play to your highest athletic level!

Modern society moves at an incredible speed. If you’re not careful, it is easy to feel like you are falling behind while your friends, coworkers, and close family seem to be learning and growing. Perhaps you have always struggled to read quickly, which has put you off reading and educating yourself. Or maybe you can read quickly but struggle to comprehend much of the content you consume and therefore struggle to retain it. Well, not for much longer! Modern Speed Reading is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how to inhale and absorb written content and improve their speed, ...

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.

Essays spanning three decades—reflective yet contemporary, philosophical and practical—address human nature and environmental ethics; personal and metapolitical intention; radical insight and live freedom in thought, emotion and action. While it might be said that everything pre-2020 is irrelevant in the light of our global paradigm shift, it is important to recognize both the long history of our present oppression, and the more ancient tradition of positive human spirit ever capable of rising to the challenge, to assert the primacy of our fundamental values and aspirations.

Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer. He is the author of an endless stream of beautiful, insane jokes on Twitter. He is sober. He is sometimes brave. He speaks French. He has bungee-jumped off the Manhattan Bridge. He enjoys antagonizing political figures, powerful retailers and the Kardashians. He listens to metal while he works out. He broke into an abandoned mental hospital with his mother. He played Sir Lancelot in Camelot. He has battled depression. He is funny as s***. He cleans up well. He and Margaret Atwood have a thing going on Twitter.

In this comprehensive guide, you will learn everything you need to know about DevOps release management, from the basics to the more advanced topics. Discover how to effectively plan, schedule, coordinate, and deploy software releases using the latest tools and techniques. With practical examples and real-world scenarios, this book is ideal for software developers, IT operations professionals, and managers who want to improve their team's software delivery process.

The secret to unlocking human athletic performance has nothing to do with increasing your physical training. It has to do with a new groundbreaking formula (revealed in this book). It has to do with clearing your limiting mind garbage!

Eat this book! Bury it, hide it, or give it to another favorite canine pal, but A Dangerous Book for Dogs should not be allowed to fall into the paws of humans. Do not reveal all the goodies that Bandit, a fabulous Furever dog, has compiled for your eyes only. Here it is, the definitive collection of training tips, human behavior modification techniques, and super secrets to better living all from his own experiences and those of his buddies.

Keeping the Upper Paw: A Cat's Guide to Training Your Human is a humorous look at life, humans, and living with humans through the eyes of a cat. All of the cats in this book were once a part of the family, cohabiting together in the household of Ms. Moran and Ms. Bishop.