Focus on PEOPLE and PROFITS will follow ”Alan and Harriet Lewis and Grand Circle Corporation demonstrate that emerging company owners are the true corporate heroes . . . the leading edge of a new approach to philanthropy and competitiveness.” ―Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School The travel industry has been one of the hardest hit by the recent recession. Yet Boston-based Grand Circle Corporation has been increasing profitability―and growing at a rate of nearly 20 percent per year―for the last two decades. Now, co-owners Alan and Harriet Lewis share the fascinating inside story of Grand Circle: how they grew their business into an international powerhouse, how they integrated their values and philanthropy into a working business model, and how they realized their dream of creating a different kind of company that profits everyone involved. In Leading Through Turbulence, the Lewises show you how to:
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<li>Adapt and thrive in times of change and crisis </li>
<li>Create a corporate culture that promotes talent and growth </li>
<li>Invest in leadership at all levels―and in people with potential </li>
<li>Give back to the world through good works and philanthropy</li>
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Whether you’re an executive, a manager, a business owner, or an entrepreneur, you’ll find real inspiration and insight in the Lewises’ incredible story. You’ll learn how one company navigated the highs and lows of a changing global market―and how you can, too. You’ll discover practical ways to balance risk and reward, profits and losses, and personal values with professional ethics. You’ll see how the travel industry bounced back after the 9/11 attacks and how one company rose to meet the challenge of new online competitors. Most important, you’ll enjoy a deeper, more satisfying level of success by staying true to yourself, your coworkers, and your community at large. Life is a journey. Leading Through Turbulence shows you how to reach your destination. Safely. Smoothly. Successfully.

Leading Through Turbulence: How a Values-Based Culture Can Build Profits and Make the World a Better Place

Business & Money

Lewis, Alan

Lewis, Harriet

Biography & History

McGraw=Hill

The Japanese Oyster: Amazing Healing Properties from the Sea

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperCollins, Publishers

Selenium: The Essential Trace Element You Might Not Be Getting Enough

Science & Math

Chemistry

Harpercollins

A Journey of the Heart: Explorations into the Experience of Prayer

Albatross Books Pty Ltd

Melatonin and the Biological Clock

In the summer of 1947, the attention of all New England was riveted upon a rape/murder trial in the historic town of Plymouth, Massachusetts -- one of those run-of-the-mill crimes that somehow captures the public imagination far out of proportion to its novelty or significance. Perhaps it was the victim, the “attractive (or raven-haired, or carefree) vacationist,” or the defendant’s mother, who somehow usurped the victim’s mother as the “gray-haired, grieving mother.” The already-sensational trial became a media phenomenon when defense attorney Matthew King enlisted the era’s leading criminal lawyer to argue the case in court. The defendant, despite a strong circumstantial case, was found innocent, and no one else was ever charged. Now, thirty-five years later, a chance encounter leads one of the trial’s participants to re-examine her memories. Winnie King brought the case to her husband after befriending the defendant’s mother at the Fascination parlor. In the uncomfortable role of wife of the defense counsel and friend of the victim’s mother, Winnie felt obligated to keep a secret that, if revealed, could have impugned her friend’s credibility and altered the trial’s outcome. Long after the trial, when she finally felt ready to tell her husband, he was already starting to lose his memory to early-onset Alzheimer’s. Haunted ever since by the victim’s unquiet sleep, Winnie is finally able to come to terms with her husband’s complicity, and her own, in letting an apparently guilty killer go free. Based on the true story of one of the postwar era’s most notorious murder trials, The Fascination Parlor is not about solving mysteries, but creating them – how the clarity of guilt or innocence dissolves in the trial’s theatrics and optics, the defense’s deconstruction of truth and memory, and the biased worldview of a jury system that excluded women.

The Fascination Parlor

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Are you missing opportunities for growth that are right in front of you? In today’s volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocus on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy can cause you to miss the substantial opportunities for growth that are often hidden in plain sight, at the edge of the core business. In this insightful yet practical book, strategy experts Alan Lewis and Dan McKone articulate a mindset that helps leaders recognize and capitalize on these opportunities. The Edge Strategy framework challenges how the boundaries of your existing products and services map to your customers’ views of the world and then provides three different lenses through which you can see and leverage value: Product edge. How to capture incremental profits and other benefits by slightly altering the elements and composition of a core offering Journey edge. How to create and capture extra value by adjusting your role in supporting the customer’s journey to and through your offering Enterprise edge. How to unlock additional value from resources and capabilities that support your core offering by applying them in a different context, for a different offering or different set of customers With engaging examples across many industries, Lewis and McKone coach you on how to identify and assess each of the different edges” and then provide concrete insights and advice on applying edge strategy and tactics to use in specific business contexts. The book concludes with a ten-step process to help executives and managers find and leverage the edges in their own companies. Edge Strategy is the concise, hands-on guide for growing your business by getting more yield from assets already in place, relationships already established, and investments already made.

Edge Strategy: A New Mindset for Profitable Growth

McKone, Dan

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business Review Press

The 1990s witnessed a number of changes in the financing of higher education in the UK. The progressive replacement of the maintenance grant by a government-backed loan means that students are increasingly forced to accept debt as an integral part of university life. This book highlights the detrimental effects of these changes and considers their long-term consequences. Uniquely bridging the gap between current education policy debates and those relating to debt, money management and financial decision making, Student debt:provides a unique insight into the causes and consequences of student debt through the use of focus groups, interviews and questionnaire surveys;draws out the theoretical and policy implications relating to different aspects of undergraduate borrowing;offers a comparative analysis of issues relating to student debt in the UK, Italy and France;covers a broad range of topics including money management styles, attitudes towards credit and debt, the psychological effects of student debt, and the student-bank relationship.This book will be of great interest to policy makers and social policy academics with an interest in financing higher education, money management in general, financial exclusion and financial literacy, and to anyone who is concerned about the impact of rising levels of debt on students' well being.

Student debt: The causes and consequences of undergraduate borrowing in the UK

Lea, Stephen E.G.

Economics

Policy Press

This book sheds new light on the dynamical behaviour of electron spins in molecules containing two unpaired electrons (i.e. a radical pair). The quantum dynamics of these spins are made complicated by the interaction between the electrons and the many nuclear spins of the molecu&le; they are intractable using analytical techniques, and a naïve numerical diagonalization is not remotely possible using current computational resources. Hence, this book presents a new method for obtaining the exact quantum-mechanical dynamics of radical pairs with a modest number of nuclear spins. Readers will learn how a calculation that would take 13 years using conventional wavepacket propagation can now be done in 1 day, and will also discover a new semiclassical method for approximating the dynamics in the presence of many nuclear spins. The new methods covered in this book are shown to provide significant insights into three topical and diverse areas: charge recombination in molecular wires (which can be used in artificially mimicking photosynthesis), magnetoelectroluminescence in organic light-emitting diodes, and avian magnetoreception (how birds sense the Earth's magnetic field in order to navigate).&nbsp;

Spin Dynamics in Radical Pairs (Springer Theses)

Springer

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