Managing innovation is a challenge in any organization and demands a wide range of skills. How can you judge whether your department or company is as innovative as it could be? And if it isn't, what can you do and where do you start? Innovation Management begins by separating innovation into five interlocking topics: The Innovation Pentathlon. Using this framework, the authors present the best insights from theory and practice for each topic, together with a variety of tools that can be used to boost performance. Students will value the clear coverage of the academic background and managers will benefit from the 75 case studies that illustrate real-world outcomes. Key Features include: - Complete and authoritative coverage of the academic background - Easy-to-follow structure based on The Innovation Pentathlon - Indispensable practical tools and examples - Illustrated with 75 case studies from international organizations, covering both service and manufacturing issues - Web site with additional material for teachers and students - Equal emphasis given to service and manufacturing organizations throughout.
With up-to-date case studies and the tools necessary to improve performance, Innovation Management is a must for business administration students and managers. Companion Website: http://www.palgrave.com/business/goffin2/

Innovation Management: Strategy and Implementation using the Pentathlon Framework, Second Edition

Business & Money

Goffin, Keith

MITCHELL, Rick

Business Culture

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Garth Brooks: one of a kind, workin' on a full house

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

SIDGWICK JACKSON

When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson's classic concert anthem "Whiskey River," and singer of hits such as "You Gave Me a Mountain," "Undo the Right," "Jim, Jack and Rose," and "I'll Be There," Johnny Bush is a legend in country music, a singer-songwriter who has lived the cheatin', hurtin', hard-drinkin' life and recorded some of the most heart-wrenching songs about it. He has one of the purest honky-tonk voices ever to come out of Texas. And Bush's career has been just as dramatic as his songs—on the verge of achieving superstardom in the early 1970s, he was sidelined by a rare vocal disorder that he combated for thirty years. But, survivor that he is, Bush is once again filling dance halls across Texas and inspiring a new generation of musicians who crave the authenticity—the "pure D" country—that Johnny Bush has always had and that Nashville country music has lost.
In Whiskey River (Take My Mind), Johnny Bush tells the twin stories of his life and of Texas honky-tonk music. He recalls growing up poor in Houston's Kashmere Gardens neighborhood and learning his chops in honky-tonks around Houston and San Antonio—places where chicken wire protected the bandstand and deadly fights broke out regularly. Bush vividly describes life on the road in the 1960s as a band member for Ray Price and Willie Nelson, including the booze, drugs, and one-night stands that fueled his songs but destroyed his first three marriages. He remembers the time in the early 1970s when he was hotter than Willie and on the fast track to superstardom—until spasmodic dysphonia forced his career into the slow lane. Bush describes his agonizing, but ultimately successful struggle to keep performing and rebuild his fan base, as well as the hard-won happiness he has found in his personal life.
Woven throughout Bush's autobiography is the never-before-told story of Texas honky-tonk music, from Bob Wills and Floyd Tillman to Junior Brown and Pat Green. Johnny Bush has known almost all the great musicians, past and present, and he has wonderful stories to tell. Likewise, he offers shrewd observations on how the music business has changed since he started performing in the 1950s—and pulls no punches in saying how Nashville music has lost its country soul. For everyone who loves genuine country music, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, and stories of triumph against all odds, Whiskey River (Take My Mind) is a must-read.

Whiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk

Bush, Johnny

University of Texas Press

A photographic portrait of country music's Entertainer of the Year chronicles Garth Brooks' rise to success, from his youth in Oklahoma and his musical roots to his artistic development and success in the music world

Garth Brooks: One of a Kind Workin' on a Full House

Fireside

Airacobra Advantage: The Flying Cannon : The Complete Story of Bell Aircraft Corporation's P-39 Pursuit Fighter Plane (Paperback) One of the unsung workhorses of the second world war was Bell's P-39 Airacobra, and the disasterous experiences of this aircraft in British service could be the main reason for this, for very few of this aircraft served in the prestigious European Theatre of Operations (ETO) and most were relegated to the Far-East and the Russian Eastfront instead. The fact that the plane acquited itself very well there remained relatively unknown to most people, and Mr. Mitchell was one of the first to put things right in his book. It is a good book about the Airacobra

Airacobra Advantage: The Flying Cannon, The Complete Story of Bell Aircraft Corporation's P-39 Pursuit Fighter Plane

Science & Math

Technology

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

Ventriloquist: Two Plays & Ventriloquial Miscellany goes deep into the world of notable American playwright Rick Mitchell’s performative and diabolical examination of ventriloquism and the duality of man, featuring two of his most respected and autobiographical works: Ventriloquist Sex and Ventriloquist Adrift; as well as Bone, a poem with a nod to Jasper Johns’s Ventriloquist; Radical Ventriloquism: Mimesis, Violence, and the Caste War of Yucatán; Dr. Mitchell’s Ventriloquism & Comedy Workshop; How to Build a Quick and Cheap Puppet; an introduction by Mitchell; and a foreword by the acclaimed author of No ApplauseJust Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, Trav S.D., a modern-day vaudevillian and theater critic.

Ventriloquist: Two Plays

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book

When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson's classic concert anthem "Whiskey River," and singer of hits such as "You Gave Me a Mountain," "Undo the Right," "Jim, Jack and Rose," and "I'll Be There," Johnny Bush is a legend in country music, a singer-songwriter who has lived the cheatin', hurtin', hard-drinkin' life and recorded some of the most heart-wrenching songs about it. He has one of the purest honky-tonk voices ever to come out of Texas. And Bush's career has been just as dramatic as his songs—on the verge of achieving superstardom in the early 1970s, he was sidelined by a rare vocal disorder that he combated for thirty years. But, survivor that he is, Bush is once again filling dance halls across Texas and inspiring a new generation of musicians who crave the authenticity—the "pure D" country—that Johnny Bush has always had and that Nashville country music has lost.In Whiskey River (Take My Mind), Johnny Bush tells the twin stories of his life and of Texas honky-tonk music. He recalls growing up poor in Houston's Kashmere Gardens neighborhood and learning his chops in honky-tonks around Houston and San Antonio—places where chicken wire protected the bandstand and deadly fights broke out regularly. Bush vividly describes life on the road in the 1960s as a band member for Ray Price and Willie Nelson, including the booze, drugs, and one-night stands that fueled his songs but destroyed his first three marriages. He remembers the time in the early 1970s when he was hotter than Willie and on the fast track to superstardom—until spasmodic dysphonia forced his career into the slow lane. Bush describes his agonizing, but ultimately successful struggle to keep performing and rebuild his fan base, as well as the hard-won happiness he has found in his personal life.Woven throughout Bush's autobiography is the never-before-told story of Texas honky-tonk music, from Bob Wills and Floyd Tillman to Junior Brown and Pat Green. Johnny Bush has known almost all the great musicians, past and present, and he has wonderful stories to tell. Likewise, he offers shrewd observations on how the music business has changed since he started performing in the 1950s—and pulls no punches in saying how Nashville music has lost its country soul. For everyone who loves genuine country music, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, and stories of triumph against all odds, Whiskey River (Take My Mind) is a must-read.

As the last note of Hail to the Chief reverberates through the crowd gathered at the South Lawn ceremony it is suddenly punctuated by gunfire. An American soldier, a member of the U.S.A.F. Presidential Honor Guard, has assassinated the President of the United States, and gravely wounded the visiting President of Mexico. As Airman First Class Douglas Morgan lies dead on the lush green lawn, the two countries immediately begin to demand answers. The Secret Service investigation yields nothing to indicate that Doug Morgan’s actions were tied to terrorism, a conspiracy, or personal ideology and they want nothing more than the case to fade away. Dallas attorney Reed Morgan also wants closure for his family, but refuses to accept that his brother was wholly responsible for the assassination. Secret Service Agent in Charge Pat Drice and Reed Morgan are forced into a guarded truce as small truths begin floating up from the depths of lies. Truths that the United States can never be allowed to break the surface.

Half Staff

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

It has been fourteen months since shots rang out during a White House ceremony. An American president is dead, and the world still believes it was the act of a single disillusioned soldier. Only a handful of people know the truth; and neither side is ready for it to be exposed. A conspiracy theory surfaces which forces an all-out search for its author. Both camps eager to learn if the traitor is one of their own. Secret Service Agent Pat Drice, and his team, are again called upon to head off the coming carnage. It's a race against the clock, and the only chance of finding the conspirators rest on their uncovering the theorist who opened the cage.

The Iscariot Factor (Half Staff)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

At the country’s main desalination facility, an Iranian chemist uncovers a water molecule never before detected. Unsure if the molecule is a byproduct of the desalination, or a microorganism left unfiltered during the process, he injects the tainted water into lab rats. A soldier, just back from deployment in Afghanistan, murders his young wife, and takes his own life. The investigation leans toward PTSD, but Agent Emily Watts is not convinced. In Jordan, a CIA operative is dead, and the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is missing. During the rescue, the team uncovers a terror cell; a splinter of a once powerful ISIS group. Its leader, an American jihadist, was reportedly killed years earlier. A plan backfires and the team is left bloodied and battered; one member never to fight again. In the end they will find there is more than one ghost returning from the ashes.

The Thirst (Half Staff)

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Books by MITCHELL, Rick

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Innovation Management: Strategy and Implementation using the Pentathlon Framework, Second Edition

Garth Brooks: one of a kind, workin' on a full house

Whiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk

Garth Brooks: One of a Kind Workin' on a Full House

Airacobra Advantage: The Flying Cannon, The Complete Story of Bell Aircraft Corporation's P-39 Pursuit Fighter Plane

Ventriloquist: Two Plays

Whiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk

Half Staff

The Iscariot Factor (Half Staff)

The Thirst (Half Staff)