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Innovation may be a buzzword du jour in entrepreneurship and business circles but knowing how to nurture and grow an innovative culture tends to be elusive. This is particularly true within a big bureaucracy and especially within government.Few organizations learned that better than AFWERX, a government startup created to unleash the US Air Force''s culture of innovation. Starting as an idea in the Pentagon, AFWERX ended up being ranked #16 on Fast Company''s 2020 list of Best Workplaces for Innovators-ahead of companies such as Amazon and Intel-in less than three years'' time.To guide AFWERX to its world-class cultural capabilities, co-founder and startup-years leader Dr. Brian "Beam" Maue developed an original strategic framework that drew upon ideas ranging from Sun Tzu to Silicon Valley. In The Experiment That Succeeded, Beam chronicles the principles and practices AFWERX used during its startup years to realize its remarkable achievements.Bouncing between gravitas and a bit of buffoonery, Beam takes readers on a journey through his Factors Linking Organizational Will (FLOW) framework. The exploration includes right and left-brain thinking, thought-provoking culture graphics and more than 50 questions to help internalize insights absorbed along the way.Achieving innovation success may be challenging, but it is not random. The Experiment That Succeeded reveals hidden principles of innovation success from a truly unique voice in the world of creative cultures. By applying its lessons, organizations-even those within the government-will accelerate up the learning curve and warp reality more readily in their favor.

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Are drama and resentment draining your energy? Is the joy missing from your life? Are you stuck in a cycle of poor decisions? Are you paralyzed by indecision? These are all red flags that you need help with your personal boundaries. Often, we only notice boundaries when they have been broken. But they don''t have to be broken to be better. We all have boundaries-but what are they? Boundaries are far more than thin lines in the sand or vague concepts discussed in therapy. They are a highly personal and dynamic set of rules we each develop in our relationships with the world-and if you''ve never thought about yours, you should. In Better Boundaries, Kari Kwinn guides the reader through what she calls the marvelous missteps of her life, sharing her hard-won wisdom. From her early days as a "grown-up" navigating office politics, to life as a young military wife, a birth doula struggling with fertility, a yoga teacher traveling the world seeking enlightenment and a young divorced woman learning to be independent, Kari''s experience contains at least a few lessons for everybody. This is not your mom''s self-improvement book. Kari offers Better Boundaries in a virtual world where rage texting, dick pics and ghosting cause actual emotional distress. Everything, from when to return a text to what to eat for dinner can be an opportunity to set boundaries. There are hilarious and sometimes uncomfortable examples we will all recognize. With ridiculously cringe-worthy stories from her real life, Kari shows the reader how to recognize what she calls "adorable" behaviors. By identifying her own adorable dysfunctional and codependent tendencies for the reader and explaining how she''s grown, Kari offers useful everyday wisdom generously. We all need help to navigate the complicated world of self-improvement and healthy relationships in the post-pandemic digital age. Better Boundaries is the ultimate guide to being better, doing better and feeling better.

In October 2016, 59-year-old Chris Joseph was stunned when he learned he had third-stage pancreatic cancer. In the midst of the panic and tremendous fear that immediately ensued, Joseph followed the doctor''s orders without hesitation and underwent chemotherapy-a choice that was almost a fatal mistake.Months of chemotherapy poisoned his body and nearly destroyed his spirit. With no immediate plan in mind, Joseph fired his oncologist and embarked on an alternative path of recovery, including both natural and Western medicine immunotherapy-one that, against all odds, opened his eyes and healed him, both physically and spiritually.Life is a Ride documents Joseph''s journey from terror and doubt to independence, redemption, love and hope. Whether he''s launching a "borrow and pay back" company for all manner of musicians in New Orleans, making his journey to Germany for cancer treatment and watching his friends put together a GoFundMe campaign to make the trip possible, or finding opportunities to bond with family and friends, Joseph''s spirit, determination and courage will inspire anyone who''s struggled-with illness or any other seemingly hopeless situation.By changing the narrative and choosing to write his own story, Joseph found new levels of determination and courage, as well as joy, wisdom and gratitude. Life is a Ride is the tale of a man that turned a death sentence into a life embrace.

The clinical side of addiction-a disease that takes the lives of over 150,000 people a year-is written about, analyzed and hotly debated by media outlets the world round.As a result of the overwhelming attention to the facts and figures, the personal side often gets neglected.The Addiction Diaries: Stories of Darkness, Hope and All That Falls in Between is here to remedy that. By turns amusing and insightful, disturbing and illuminating, 18 writers from all socioeconomic levels, races and relationships with addiction share stories that will stay with you long after you read them.A woman trying to save her brother from his gambling addiction. A child heroin user who recovers and finds a calm life. A mother of two addicts who watches them go from jail to freedom. A former bank robber reflecting on nearly two decades of sobriety. Some of the stories may rattle, disturb and bemuse you; all will illuminate addiction like nothing that has come before.An instant classic in the addiction recovery genre, The Addiction Diaries will leave you astounded by the triumph of the human spirit and give you an understanding of addiction that goes far beyond the headlines.

We've all made a mess.And that means we all have a message.This is the book that shows you how to take the former and make it into the latter.FROM THE NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWhen Anna David got sober and sold a book about her recovery to the biggest publisher in the world, she thought she'd made it. She was wrong.Still, after years of struggle and self-discovery, she ended up thriving personally and professionally. Now she's sharing what she's learned-and showing others how to do the same.In this page-turning and useful memoir-meets-manual, David reveals her personal lows (doing cocaine by herself while contemplating suicide), her career lows (a past-his-prime celebrity hurling a phone at her as she wrote his biography) and how her life today wouldn't be possible without those experiences.The last quarter of the book is a practical guide so that readers can make their own mess into a message-and memoir.In this completely comprehensive "biz-oir" packed with proven and authentic tools and techniques, memoirists-in-the-making will travel with David on her journey from struggling addict to New York Times bestselling writer/entrepreneur and also learn:-How to determine a memoir message and "why"-How to select scenes-The advantages and disadvantages of traditional and self-publishing-How to come up with a title, rewrite a book and hire editors-Potential legal concerns and how to avoid them-How to gather blurbs, write acknowledgments and arrange for a foreword-How to be set up for success on Amazon-The importance of an Advanced Reader TeamAnd much more.The best time to write a book was 10 years ago. The second best time is now. To start creating the business tool that will change your career-and life-click ADD TO CART before the price changes.

A music prodigy, head of her class, and well-liked in school, Emily Paulson decided early that embellishment paved the road to success. As she grew up, she figured out how to make the picture look even better - with a successful husband, five beautiful children, and all the required accompanying accoutrements.Then along came social media, where those pictures of the perfect life grew her a following of women who believed that everything about Emily was #blessed #inspo. But behind the filtered façade was a reality filled with trauma, addiction, and dysfunctional behavior. From disordered eating to breaking the law and nearly destroying her marriage, Emily had been running from her own trauma for years. Living a life shot through with more self-destruction than she could track, Emily knew things had to change when she woke up one morning and realized that she was barely participating in the picture she had so carefully crafted.Highlight Real: Finding Honesty and Recovery Behind the Filtered Life is the true story of what happens when a so-called perfect mother and businesswoman is forced to find reckoning with her past and build a future based on the authenticity she has always sought. Searingly honest, heartbreaking and packed with uncountable did-she-actually-just-say-that moments, Highlight Real is a memoir of healing as well as a fully modern look at what happens when the filters fall off and real life emerges into the light.