Best Selling Books by Michael Wade

How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box—way outside. For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns—Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation, and Navigation—lead to a fresh and flexible approach to problem-solving. Alien thinkers know how to free the imagination so it can detect hard-to-observe patterns. They practice deliberate ways to retreat from the world in order to see the big picture underlying a problem. And they approach ideas in systematic ways that reflect the constraints of reality. Through surprising and compelling stories, the authors show how readers can use this method to develop out-of-this-world ideas. ALIEN Thinking can help any of us find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems.

Inventing Hebrews examines a perennial topic in the study of the Letter to the Hebrews, its structure and purpose. Michael Wade Martin and Jason A. Whitlark undertake at thorough synthesis of the ancient theory of invention and arrangement, providing a new account of Hebrews'' design. The key to the speech''s outline, the authors argue, is in its use of ''disjointed'' arrangement, a template ubiquitous in antiquity but little discussed in modern biblical studies. This method of arrangement accounts for the long-observed pattern of alternating epideictic and deliberative units in Hebrews as blocks of narratio and argumentatiorespectively. Thus the ''letter'' may be seen as a conventional speech arranged according to the expectations of ancient rhetoric (exordium, narratio, argumentatio, peroratio), with epideictic comparisons of old and new covenant representatives (narratio) repeatedly enlisted in amplification of what may be viewed as the central argument of the speech (argumentatio), the recurring deliberative summons for perseverance. Resolving a long-standing conundrum, this volume offers a hermeneutical tool necessary for interpreting Hebrews, as well as countless other speeches from Greco-Roman antiquity.

Managing employees is one of the most challenging tasks imaginable, and the relationship between supervisor and worker is not always smooth. Often this situation occurs because of poor management style, which overemphasises either results or personal relationships. This book presents an analysis of different managing methods and tries to balance the jobs of leading and managing employees.

My Power, My pleasure, My pain cuts deep into emotions from the revealings of truths we encounter and relate to in our everyday lives. For instance, the poem Gladiator is a perfect example of how we as people fight our own demons with the struggles of good or bad, right or wrong, and the plethora of difficult choices that could ultimately change our lives for the better or worse. Mizchief''s Dead i...s another powerful and riveting poem demonstrating "we reep what we sow" and we can''t change what''s been done. But when the journey is at the end we must still chose our fate still fighting the evil trying to trap our souls into misery. Then the question remains which road will you take....The light or the dark? In the end the choice is ultimately yours. Great ending for the book!

Cases in Electronic Commerce is a collection of 25 full-length case studies written by professors at the renowned Richard Ivey School of Business. Each case study is centered around a real-world company and provides sufficient detail on the implications associated with e-commerce initiatives. This managerial-oriented approach allows students to fully understand and appreciate the strategic, tactical, and operational challenges faced when launching an e-commerce-based business.

Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction of child resources, the context in which movement takes place, and the manner in which tasks are presented. The core themes of the book involve descriptions of motor development from conception through to emerging adulthood, explanations of motor development from differing theoretical, empirical, and experiential perspectives, and descriptions and explanations of atypical motor development when the resources of the child are limited in some way. Readership: Occupational therapists, physiotherapists, paediatricians, teachers (physical education, early childhood development, elementary education), educational psychologists, kinesiology and sports scientists.

The ancient oaks of one of England''s major forests had just about seen it all - wars, droughts, fires, floods, you name it, they''ve survived it. But how would they cope with a maverick golf club skipper, one Captain Mashie Niblick, intent on demolishing old dogmas and bringing in his New Model Army to put matters to rights? As it happened, the New Model Army turned out to be an Old Model Army, the bow and arrow brigade of one Robin the Hoodie who was keen on extending his domain from Sherwood to the back of beyond. In an age of mobile telephony and electronic tablets, the Outlaw was proven to be out of his depth. Niblick was not. As last man standing in the captaincy stakes Mashie Niblick strode purposefully up to the plate when duty called. Eventually he fell off it. Yet he could count himself one of the heroes of the age because, surely in the 123-year history of the golf club, there was no captain as lousy at golf as was Niblick. Here is a true tale of a loser. It is a story like no other. Niblick survived and the forest survived by gobbling up the Captain''s golf balls by the dozen. This is golfing life in the English countryside and on the links of the Costa del Sol. It tells what it is like to be a leader of men and a bleeder of golfing hearts. Mashie Niblick is unique. We shall not see his like again in the captaincy stakes, so sit up and join him on his incredible journey.

The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues. This study analyses texts of different kinds produced by the group to examine the way these deviant English-speakers see themselves, and particularly how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks who constitute a crucial part of their perceptual field. Economically powerful but politically marginal for many years, the English-speaking whites have always been mediators of their community''s experience to the world culture of the English language; the study shows how the act of mediation operates in more than one direction, producing a literary tradition that is essentially - and perhaps surprisingly - dissident.

Gary Player--winner of sixteen major championships, including three Masters Tournaments and the U.S. Open--takes golfers through the basics of playing sand traps, demonstrating how to hit, which club to use, where to stand, and whether to take a full or half swing. 150 color photos. Targeted features.

Improve your business performance through digital transformation Digital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and information that you need to successfully transform your organization. Hacking Digital is organized into six easy-to-follow sections: • Initiating Your Digital Transformation • Setting Up the Right Organizational Dynamics • Working with the Outside World • Creating Value in New Ways • Leading People and Organizations • Anchoring and Sustaining Performance How do you create a sense of urgency? How do you set up digital governance? How do you create successful digital offerings? How do you manage the relationship between digital transformation and IT? How do you scale digital initiatives? Hacking Digital answers these and many other questions you need to transform your organization and seize a competitive edge for years to come. www.hackingdigital.org

From the Executive Summary: While barriers to trade and investment across national borders have come down with the integration and the liberalization of world markets, governments and most companies retain distinct national identities. The potential for disputes, in which the parties hold differing cultural preferences, modes of social behaviour and views on what is "just" and "fair", has not diminshed....This report looks at a number of commercial disputes in Japan and China between the governments of those countries and a foreign government, namely the US; between those governments and foreign private-sector groups; and between private parties from those countries and foreign partners.

Digital disruption: seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. In Digital Vortex, you will learn how to use the business models and strategies of startups to your own advantage. Most importantly, you will learn how to build the agility to anticipate threats, sense opportunities, and seize them before your rivals do.

Monograph on the application of flexible hours of work in the UK and Western Europe - comprises brief case studies of practice in a number of organisations and describes employees attitudes, management attitudes, varieties of flexible working time and effects on nonmanual worker social status, overtime and absenteeism, trade union views, and experiences of the four-day, forty-hour week. Graphs and illustrations.

This book presents the latest evidence-based approaches to assessing and managing movement disorders in children. Uniquely, the authors have chosen to examine not just children with developmental coordination disorder, but also children with movement difficulties as a co-occurring secondary characteristic of another development disorder, including Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Specific language Impairment and Dyslexia. Guidelines are underpinned by motor learning theory, empiricism and professional practice. The authors have taken an ecological approach to management and show how professionals and carers working together can make relatively simple changes in a child''s life that aggregate to substantial support. The book is rich in case studies to demonstrate the adaptability of these guidelines and show how they may be applied to children of different ages, abilities, and environments. The final chapter is comprised of interviews of thirteen notable clinicians and academics with intervention methodologies from around the world. This book will prove a valuable guide for anybody working with children with movement difficulties, including clinicians, teachers and parents.

Los líderes empresariales sienten la necesidad urgente de transformar sus organizaciones ante la llegada de la disrupción digital. Nuevos rivales digitalizan todo lo que sea posible para atacar a las cadenas de valor de empresas consolidadas y, así, ganar cuota de mercado, erosionar los márgenes y desatar el caos en el panorama competitivo en prácticamente todos los sectores. En las empresas grandes y medianas, el imperativo de la transformación es claro. Cómo realizar dicha transformación es otro asunto. La cruda realidad es que, a pesar de los grandes esfuerzos de los líderes y de los miles de millones dedicados a la búsqueda de la transformación digital, la amplia mayoría de los programas de cambio organizativo fracasan mucho antes de aportar los efectos esperados. Debido a que los programas de transformación fallidos colocan en una situación delicada a las empresas consolidadas a la hora de enfrentarse a la competencia revolucionaria, las organizaciones no pueden permitirse que sus programas de transformación fracasen. Con este nuevo e importante libro, Orquestación de la transformación. Cómo obtener un desempeño excelente con un enfoque conectado hacia el cambio, el equipo del Centro global para la transformación digital del negocio, una iniciativa de IMD y Cisco, presenta una nueva fórmula para llevar a cabo correctamente la transformación. Las estrategias fragmentadas y los proyectos de prueba característicos de los programas convencionales de transformación son irremediablemente inadecuados para los complejos entornos organizativos en expansión de la mayoría de empresas. Los profesionales de la transformación necesitan adoptar una actitud diferente y un nuevo enfoque para ejecutar un cambio que pueda gestionar la complejidad y la magnitud de los líderes del mercado actual. La orquestación, "movilizar y habilitar para conseguir el efecto deseado", allana el camino para una nueva visión más holística de los recursos organizativos y cómo funcionan en conjunto para dirigir el cambio de manera sinérgica. La continuación del galardonado libro de 2016 Digital Vortex, Orquestación de la transformación está repleto de datos cuantitativos y cualitativos obtenidos durante años de investigación aplicada e interacción con ejecutivos de todo el mundo. El libro, una guía única e indispensable para profesionales, deja atrás la doctrina tradicional de gestión del cambio para mostrar cómo un enfoque conectado hacia el cambio puede cambiarlo todo.

Imagine sitting down with an experienced coach who will help you through the preparation and presentation stages of your talk before the city council or board. Odds are, you would like a combination of Big Picture and nitty-gritty advice, with details on how to handle hostile questions, use visual aids, reduce your fear, clarify your message, and keep on track. And you''d want it fast. How to Make Presentations to Councils and Boards is a short, information-packed guide that provides what you need to make your presentation a success. It is the book to read when you don''t have time to read a book. Written by an experienced management consultant who coaches clients and teaches workshops on the subject, How to Make Presentations to Councils and Boards gives practical information that is easy to understand and which can be put to immediate use.

Random Thoughts is a collection of reflections by management consultant, coach, trainer, and Execupundit.com blogger Michael Wade on business and life. The book, which Wade describes as "a nice hodgepodge," contains 701 pithy and eclectic thoughts, most of which first appeared in separate segments on his Execupundit blog. The blog itself has received wide praise from other bloggers: Three Star Leadership: "Michael Wade writes one of the widest ranging and most consistently stimulating blogs on this or any other planet." Political Calculations: "Michael Wade is a Sherpa in the Himalayas of the business blogosphere." Cultural Offering: "[Execupundit.com is] Elvis, Bruce and Frank all rolled up in one blog." Nicholas Bate: "It''s smart with insight. It''s funny with perception. If you''re not reading it, you need to be." Delve into the book at any point and you might discover that the random thoughts of this seasoned observer match (or provoke) your own.

Misery Melodies & Dirty Dirges by Michael Wade Johnson is a collection of lyrical verses written within the years of 1993-2001. From relationships, religion, self-suffering, and exaggerated tales of terror, MM & DD covers a wide variety of material and contains many different lyrical forms. Most songs written while playing in bands and some performed live. Misery Melodies & Dirty Dirges is a raw and passionate look into the world of a southeastern writer.

Knight After the Reign, the sixth chapter in Michael Wade Johnson''s writing saga, comes full circle and brings everything up to speed. These poems, rants, lyrics, and other ideas I simply call "writings" include themes such as love, sex, depression, self-reflection, sarcastic humor, darkness, pop culture, worldly events, and politics. Knight After The Reign represents a warrior after his time, no longer in his prime. The plot then revolves around his continuation with life beyond the reaching of his peak. How he survives out of the spotlight and away from his initial purpose. Tales of old, tales of new. Fact and fiction. This book spotlights the legacy of a fifteen year writing career.

Drawn to Dark Things is the 7th collection of poetry, rants, and other writings from author Michael Wade Johnson. Written mostly in 2007-2008. Divided into 2 sections: No Names and Named.

Each volume contains stories guaranteed to provide enjoyment, action, and fun!

"This project will determine whether the delivery model of a firearms training program affects the qualification scoring and shooting accuracy. It is hypothesized that if the training is delivered in a more periodic, less clustered method, there will be less muscle fatigue which will allow for a higher proficiency reflected in the qualification scores recorded and fewer failures. It is proposed that the new delivery model will allow for the current material to be delivered in one-day segments followed by several days rest."--Page 8.