Bare Knuckle People Management - Creating Success with the Team You Have - Winners, Losers, Misfits, and All

The hottest new experiential learning strategies for new levels of leadership success

In The Well-Balanced Leader, top trainer Ron Roberts shows business leaders at all levels how to identify their own strengths and weaknesses in the nine most critical behavioral areas. Through experiential techniques, you will learn how to alter your behavior in ways that benefit your people, contribute value to your organization, and launch yourself to the highest level of success.

Ron Roberts is President of Action Centered Training, Inc., and and ACT Games, LLC. He teaches at Penn State University and in the Online Gaming and Simulations Program at DeVry University.

For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the skateboard, while other boys his age are in school. He hates the unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy. Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary, no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room.

But on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy . . . and the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change everything.

A richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story, The Servants marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall Smith—the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning author of Spares.

Ana Livingston has awoken from a five day coma to find that her world is vastly different from the one she distinctly remembers.  Haunted by memories of a beloved husband and children that no-one else can corroborate, surrounded by family and friends who appear much younger than when she last saw them, she suspects that she has either traveled in time or that she is insane.  Living through events a second time, she now possesses hindsight with which to address regrets and challenges, uncertain of the effect it will have on her own future and on those around her.  With a new perspective on relationships and privileges she once took for granted, Ana embarks on a desperate search to reclaim a life she may never have lived. 

Memories of Another Life is a story of love, fate and determination and especially a tale of how, in searching for romantic love, one woman also discovers the incredible tenacity and strength of the five women in her own family.

Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced Terrence Real that there are two forms of depression: "overt" and "covert." Feeling the stigma of depression's unmanliness," many men hide their condition not only from family and friends but even from themselves. Attempts to escape depression fuel many of the problems we think of as typically male -- difficulty with intimacy, workaholism, alcoholism, abusive behavior, and rage. By directing their pain outward, depressed men hurt the people they love, and, most tragically, pass their condition on to their children.

A master storyteller, Terrence Real mixes penetrating analysis with poignant, compelling tales of the men and women whom he treats. He writes with passion and searing clarity about his own experiences with depression, as the son of a depressed, violent father, and the father of two young sons.