Process Development

Small businesses often fail because owners are unaware of the many elements that can prevent the business from growing and being successful. Often, small businesses are organized around the manager's specific area of expertise, such as marketing, accounting or production. This specialized expertise often prevents the busi¬ness owner from recognizing problems that may arise in other parts of the business. This guide will provide you, the small busi¬ness entrepreneur, with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems in your production system. This...

Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and tells writers how to achieve the dream space necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction.

For over a decade, Jesse Cannon has been pushing creative ideas in music. Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices and Habits Used to Make Music You're Happy With is the culmination of four years of poring over scientific studies, books and thoughts from top creators as well as his own experience to write a book every musician should listen to about what goes into making great music versus what bands do when they make a bad album.

No matter how many affirmations you say, nothing seems to be coming your way. Maybe you’re ready to give up trying to “attract” what you want, convincing yourself it doesn’t work, or believing it’s for other people except you. Sound familiar? Here’s the truth: most people don't know how to release what is keeping them stuck from manifesting what they want. It’s time for a new solution.

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges.

Everyone will experience grief at some point in their lives. There is no one answer to overcoming the grieving process, but understanding it is key. According to The 5 Stages of Grief, there are five stages that a person goes through after a loss: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Each stage has its own challenges and needs that must be addressed in order to move on. However, by recognizing these early signs and addressing them head-on, most people can overcome their grief and move on with their lives.

This 3rd Edition has been expanded and includes many more corporate training tools. This 3rd edition of "How to be a Sizzling Professional Corporate Trainer" is an instructive and practical guide on how to conduct training in a business setting. It aims to transform ordinary trainers into extraordinary ones by equipping them with the necessary skills, techniques, and strategies. The book's big idea is that anyone can become a remarkable trainer if they understand the psychology of learning, engage in thorough preparation, utilize effective presentation skills, and create interactive ...

You look like you’re thriving—but inside, you’re holding it all together by sheer force of will. If you’re a high-achieving professional silently struggling with anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, or a past you rarely speak about, this book was written for you. EMDR Therapy: The Breakthrough Approach for High-Functioning Professionals with Hidden Trauma reveals how unresolved childhood wounds, emotional trauma, and even addiction can hide beneath the surface of a successful life—and how to finally release what’s been holding you back.

Address anger, anxiety, and violence in the classroom with strategies and best practices that work in classrooms. Under-resourced students, wealthy students, and students in all demographics can benefit from calming and healing techniques Ruby Payne, author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty, shares in this book.

Daily writing taught Klint Guerry the values of process and discipline. It also showed him how to believe in himself and aspire to achieve more than he ever knew. The result is an inspiring story of individual transformation in both his personal and professional life that can be replicated by anyone. A Guide to Self-Disruption is Guerry’s promise to offer you the tools you need to develop your own process . . . now!

Whether you are struggling with your own loss or a collective sense of grief, the evidence-based skills in this book will help you mourn in healthy and resilient ways—leading to profound personal growth and a renewed sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Whether you wish to create a work of art, a novel, a thriving business, nourishing relationships, or a deeply satisfying life, Robert Fritz, composer, artist, writer, and entrepreneur, reveals the guiding principles that can empower you to reach your goals.

In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of argument from ancient Greece down to its many modern mutations. He introduces verbal villains from Hitler to Richard Nixon—and the three musketeers: ethos, pathos and logos. He explains how rhetoric works in speeches from Cicero to Obama, and pays tribute to the rhetorical brilliance of AC/DC's "Back In Black". Before you know it, you'll be confident in chiasmus and proud of your panegyrics—because rhetoric is useful, relevant, and absolutely nothing to be afraid of.

Without creative powers mankind would still be living in caves, without any new ideas or advancement, so it is important to understand and harness this power. There is no better person to teach us how than Thomas Troward. He was a major pioneer in the New Thought movement, which bridges the gap between the inner world of thoughts and the physical universe. With command of your creative powers you can manifest your potential and offer unique things to the world that are waiting inside of you.

The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up will be the new bible for the vast audience of parents whose children, already diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder, are entering the adolescent, tween, and teen years, as well as those who do not yet have a diagnosis and are struggling to meet the challenges of daily life. This book picks up where The Out-of-Sync Child left off, offering practical advice on living with SPD, covering everyday challenges as well as the social and emotional issues that many young people with SPD face.

A healthy and sound mentoring relationship is something you do not want to miss in this life. In order to expand your consciousness, you must be willing to open-mindedly listen to information beyond your present level of consciousness. You are what you think you are and you are what others think you are, so without mentoring you will only have half of the information about yourself. To advance morally and spiritually, you will require an outside, well-meaning consciousness to participate with that part of you that wishes to develop and grow morally and spiritually to achieve a better life ...

What if you knew how to sell on the subconscious level? What if you knew the tactics and techniques that allowed you to penetrate through your customer’s conscious faculty and reach them on a deep and influential level? What if you knew exactly how to produce the emotional reaction that would cause them to buy? What if you knew how to read your customer’s body language so well that you could lead them to the decision you wanted, with ease? Listen to find out more.

How do some organizations maintain 24-7 internet-scale operations? How can organizations integrate security while deploying new features? How do organizations increase security within their DevOps processes? This practical guide helps you answer those questions. Steve Suehring provides unique content to help practitioners and leadership successfully implement DevOps and DevSecOps. Learning DevSecOps emphasizes prerequisites that lead to success through best practices and then takes you through some of the tools and software used by successful DevSecOps-enabled organizations.

The Gift of Success and Happiness offers a set of simple systems - based on the world’s most reliable business principles - that empowers listeners to meet and overcome challenges posed by money, work, relationships, and other factors, most of which impede our success and impinge on our happiness. Based on two decades of lessons Chip Sawicki has learned as a senior executive, parent, and community leader, this book’s structured approach will help listeners maximize the opportunity for success and happiness in all aspects of life.

Personal problems? World problems? Healing issues? Creativity challenges? They can all be resolved with a fun new method called “remembering.” The Remembering Process reveals a breakthrough creativity technique that anyone can use to easily create, produce, innovate, solve, resolve...and more! Beyond any New Age or self-help teaching, this process taps into the future as not only possible, but accessible in this very moment.