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In this discussion, Simpson addresses the importance of coaching the largest percentage of members of any team, which is known as the "middle level".

Perceptions can be limited by social mirrors and projections, resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hear a personal story from Stephen R. Covey about dealing with his son, and how his perspective changed by evaluating his own motivations. Module 14 of 20.

Paradigms are more powerful than behavior or attitude. Stephen R. Covey expands on examples of paradigms to illustrate the dangers of making assumptions your reality. Module 12 of 20.

Character ethic is rooted in fidelity, courage, compassion, contribution, responsibility and justice. Learn the difference between adopting these traits and appearing to adopt these traits as part of a personality ethic. Module 4 of 20.

In this discussion, learn how to seek strategic clarity and create your personal mission statement.

In this discussion learn about what "whack-a-mole" leaders are, how they act, and how to avoid being one.

In this discussion learn how to create a vision that includes a strategic attack to accomplish team and individual goals.

Paradigms are formed in our minds based on personal experience and perception. Hear in this lecture why paradigms are like maps, and therefore only as useful as they are accurate. Module 11 of 20.

In this discussion Simpson introduces the Organizational Effectiveness Cycle as a way to track an entire organization's growth.

In this discussion, establish solid credibility through your trust of others and fill voids with a short list of questions.

Neglecting relationships, whether personal or professional, can have devastating consequences. Hear the story of a once-heralded clam chowder recipe that violated customers’ trust and never truly recovered. Module 16 of 20.

In this discussion refine your listening skills and learn to better recognize potential by adopting the vantage point of the individual.

In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal from Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.

In the second decade of the 21st century, many Americans feel they are subject to economic forces beyond their control. Some critics of today's economy compare it to the rampant inequality of the late 19th century, when robber barons manipulated the economy to their own benefit. Others object to the remedies that were applied in the early 20th century, insisting that markets work best when governed least.

Throughout history - from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era - there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes criminally insane, they had one thing in common: They were all Badass!

At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings.

In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, offers a compelling analysis of the emergence of these communities and their role in shaping the American economy, beginning in the country's earliest years....

Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery and the race to understand its many mysterious and counterintuitive phenomena, this Very Short Introduction audiobook explains in accessible terms the theories that have been developed and how they have influenced other areas of science, including the Higgs boson of particle physics and ideas about the early universe.

US Special Operations Command trains and equips units to undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often for the purposes of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Since 9/11, impelled by an attack on US soil, these forces have been a central instrument of America's military campaign - operating in about 100 countries on any given day. This fight - neither hot war nor cold peace - was launched and executed as a new type of global war in 2001 and has since splintered into a spectrum of regional conflicts.