His friends know what they want to do with the rest of their lives, but Scott Ferdowsi can hardly commit to a breakfast cereal, let alone a passion. With his parents pushing him to settle on a "practical" career, Scott sneaks off to Washington, DC, seeking guidance from a famous psychologist who claims to know the secret to success. He meets Fiora Buchanan, a ballsy college student whose life ambition is to write crossword puzzles. Now Scott is sneaking...

This book covers about 14 years in the lives of my wife and myself. It is the story of why we decided to seek marriage, how we met, how cycling played a big role in the development of our relationship and our many cycling adventures since we met. Elizabeth was a single mother for seventeen years before she decided that since she was an empty nester, it was time to find another love. She went on Match.com, met one man, and then met me. I lost my first...

Computer coding thrives off of collaboration to solve problems. This fun activity book provides readers with ways to adapt and use collaboration in everyday life. Its key concepts include organizing data, teamwork, project management, appreciation, trial and error, and problem solving. Each activity is unplugged, using materials readers can find at home. The activities focus on building the reader's understanding of the benefits and advantages of...

Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems. If you read nothing else on collaborating effectively, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations. Leading experts such as Daniel Goleman, Herminia...

ARE YOUR WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WORKING AGAINST YOU? To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? Or when you have a boss who gets in your way? Or when you're juggling others' needs at the expense of your own? By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you're a young professional or an experienced leader. The...

The culmination of more than a decade of diligent research and careful organization, Locked-On Teams: A Leader's Guide to High-Performing Team Behavior provides leaders at all levels, from front-line supervisors to senior executives, holistic guidance to leading in the complex and volatile twenty-first century. Structured around 28 guidelines, this book outlines the principles of modern leadership, backs them up with the latest in the cognitive and...

A book of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal. The poet, a daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, navigates the epigenetics of trauma passed down, and across, the archives of war, dislocation, and witness, as she repeatedly asks, "Why did you just stand there and say nothing?" Here, the space of accusation becomes both lyric and machine, an "investigation"...