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Behavioural scientists have failed to unravel a coherent evolution and system of behaviour. It is a failure that hinders our understanding of ourselves, of others and of our dysfunctions. Homo Imperfectus is a personal endeavour to correct this failure; it is the result of decades of research and reflection.Every organism engages in behaviour which registers change, evaluates it and decides on a response. The behavioural system arose from a simple polarisation of change, and of response. Through millennia of evolution, it eventually arrived at our complex, but fragile, human neuro-psychology.The almost accidental explosion of human intelligence creates an overload of our vital decision-making hub, predisposing it to disorder and theirreparable damage of schizophrenia. It is not a disorder of our biochemistry, of our physiology, but of how we conduct our lives.

Your future success as a leader depends on your ability to extract yourself from operational minutiae and make time for strategic activity.If you're having trouble getting out of the weeds, you don't need a new productivity trick. You need to begin a deeper leadership journey to address four core factors - Tactics, Influence, Mindset and Environment (T.I.M.E.).Richard Medcalf, an advisor to some of the world's most accomplished CEOs, reveals the secrets to becoming a more strategic leader, and offers a complete set of strategies to help you elevate your focus. Learn how to:clarify on your most important strategic activitiesbuild a robust plan to quickly free up timewin over your key stakeholdersaddress the beliefs that are keeping you in busyworkcreate a culture of focus across your entire teamand much more.Making TIME for Strategy will radically change how you think about your path to leadership impact, and give you practical tools to move you away from incremental progress and closer to breakthrough results.

When she graduates from the Juilliard School in 1988, free-spirited Katherine Angelis baulks at family expectations pointing to the rigorous life of the concert circuit. A grant to study the manuscript of a composition by Dvöák in Prague gives her a year off - in a city which her family fled after the Communist coup d'état four decades earlier.Far from home, in a culture whose literature, art and music she has cherished since childhood, Katherine revels in speaking her 'second language' and the beauty of Prague. But her dream of a year of quiet reflection is complicated by a love triangle with an activist and a reclusive cellist. She readily accepts the opportunity offered by her new Czech friends to join the dangerous covert resistance against a hard-line regime in place since the 'brotherly assistance' of the Warsaw Pact invasion.As she discovers new purpose translating and smuggling human rights reports out to the West and blacklisted books in, Katherine feels that opposing the kind of tyranny that has hurt her family and millions of others is a special kind of music...In a lyrical and nuanced narrative, Janet Savin dramatises accelerating protest against a brutal and desperate regime in one of Europe's most beautiful old cities. This first of two volumes draws from her life in Prague during the buildup to the Velvet Revolution and offers a poignant, and richly detailed story of an expatriate family's longing for their home land and a young woman's search for her place in its heritage.