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Digital platforms are changing the rules of competition in the global economy. Until recently, it took Fortune 500 companies an average of 20 years to reach billion-dollar market valuations. Successful platforms now reach that milestone in an average of four years. In The Platform Paradox, Wharton professor Mauro F. Guillén highlights a key incongruity in this new world. Most platforms considered to be successful have triumphed in only some, rather than all, parts of the world. There are very few truly global digital platforms.

Phillip Ahn, MD, is an accomplished family physician and lifelong martial artist, who transformed from a shy and insecure boy to a confident yet reserved and appreciated leader. Throughout his life, Phillip has overcome obstacles to pursue his dreams and encounter unique experiences, like becoming Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat 2.

Are you searching for a new way to look at your life? Are you ready to find a path through the chaos? Do you want to find a balance that will bring you happiness? It is true that none of us have perfect lives and that there is always a balance between the good and the bad. In order to accept that there will be some level of suffering in life, to offset the good things that happen, this 12 rules for life book has been created with a set of guidelines to help you navigate the disorder.

Whether you're a business leader, sales professional, consultant, coach, or anyone who advises others about life or work, Goeff Snavely invites you to join this community of disruptors - he refers to them as Facilitators of Betterment - motivated to make a meaningful impact. By exploring his experience-based Ten Questions That Matter and other concepts, he provides you with the tools needed for digging deeper, below Surface Discovery and into the process of Disruptive Discovery. Are you ready for some disruption?

These sound profound, but lack clear action steps. Results are inconsistent. How do I choose happiness? Where is happiness within me? This book shows exactly how to shape your mind for happiness, health, and wellbeing.

The Miami Rescue Mission is now known as The Caring Place. Our vision is “No One Is Homeless.” Celebrating our centennial (100th anniversary) in 2022, we are on the path of great vision for the next 100 years to continue to serve the homeless and the hungry. We are expanding our footprint to help abused women and children and increasing more permanent housing for the future. Learn about our inspiring journey and many stories that will touch your heart. It is a miracle in the making, and yes, the best is yet to come.

The Qumran Cave 12 Manuscript centers around a young archaeologist who discovers a manuscript in an ancient cave that predates the Dead Sea Scrolls by over 1000 years. The discovery leads the archaeologist, Samantha James, on a path filled with treachery and betrayal and raises the possibility that the very core of the Judeo-Christian religion may be a well-conceived masquerade. Samantha lives to tell where there is visibility, there is justice for, in actuality, our Lord God is not what we have been led to believe.

David Congalton is a popular radio host and former newspaper columnist in the small college town of San Luis Obispo, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Congalton shares his favorite "Man About Town" newspaper columns, a mixture of humor and pathos to capture "the SLO Life", an experience he's enjoyed since 1987.

Drew Ross lost his family, identity, and nearly his life in one crushing year. After his voice box was removed, he wondered if he would ever teach, or even speak, again. But when a fellow cancer patient gave him a mysterious challenge involving the power of our stories, everything changed. Experience the journey that taught him how to not only survive, but fight for what matters most.

In his book, The Process-Driven Annual Fund, Ron Rescigno explains how Rescigno’s proven process, when followed, will result in a thriving annual fund, including more new donors, better donor retention and more major gift prospects than ever before.

America's Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations is a historical journey and a road trip through "Indian country". The surprising stories of two ancestors of the author lead into the Plains Indian Wars, the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the Potawatomi Trail of Death, and the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee.

In Sweet Shot, Dr. Vernon Wendt reveals the secret behind the motivation of one of basketball’s greatest long-range shooter of all time. Discover with Sugar a greater purpose for your gifts than personal glory. Sweet Shot will inspire you to chase after your dreams, revisit past, or discarded dreams, and dream even more dreams - to dare to be great like Sugar, and keep on shooting until you realize the sweet shot of discovering God's purpose for your dreams.

I am involved in youth sports parenting for more than 40 years, having experienced it from both sides of the coin. ParentShift, which you are about to listen to, embraces all that knowledge. The process never ends, because I am still learning; my kids teach me every day. Do you have the feeling of coming up short as a parent? Don't worry; you are not alone. It happens to me all the time, and we can fix it together.

The adventure starts now! A challenge has gone out, asking more from you as a man and father. Are you ready to take that challenge and become an empowered father? To successfully navigate this new journey and become an empowered father, you will need to challenge yourself to reach new heights. On this journey, you will: Identify with your goals and vision, draw on the relationship for your powerful foundation as a father, connect with and manage your emotional experience, learn to communicate like a hero, and so much more!

We are helpless to slow the decrease of economic damage when a recession occurs. We need a new approach! We have discovered that new stimulus is the quickest, most powerful, and useful tool to get our economy back on track. We need the American Stimulus Program! We can take a small sliver of our disposable income and funnel it together to stimulate and strengthen our economy's most vital component: consumer spending. We could take some of our spare change to build up our economy. This Program ensures stimulus each week effectively and efficiently.

In this book The Maharaja of Mastipur & the Pet Tiger, enjoy the "petrionics" of Shera, a beautiful, orphaned royal Bengal tiger cub, gifted to Prince Arjun on his 10th birthday. Shera loves the palace life so much that he refuses to grow up as a tiger. The prince is his rock star, and he imitates everything the prince does, including eating ice cream and having a bubble bath.

Essential Guide to Public Speaking for Beginners has been created to suit your objectives by providing you with simple, effective, and easy-to-follow tips and tricks about public speaking. So many of us suffer from the fear of speaking in public to a large audience. It can be extremely daunting to think about and can result in all sorts of feelings of panic and anxiety about what might go wrong.

Jack Call gives a detailed account of what his life was like during the years from 1972 through 1978, as a follower of Art Kleps, the Chief Boo Hoo of the Neo-American Church, whose members subscribe to the belief that psychedelics such as LSD are sacraments, in that they encourage the realization that life is a dream. This true story has many surprising twists and turns, but ends, predictably in hindsight, in disillusionment.

Flannsday is the first novelette in the Erinesque series by Mark Will and G.J. Villa. Here we meet Martin Wells and J.G. Vara on day one of their quixotic "literary wank" across Ireland. June 14, 2013. Wells and Vara have arrived in Dublin from opposite sides of the globe to celebrate James Joyce, their “original literary superhero”, during the annual Bloomsday festivities. But Bloomsday is still two days away, and in the meantime Wells has insisted that Irish satirist Flann O’Brien, one of the founders of Bloomsday, be honored with a day of his own.

Experience the will-power of someone with a real story, about a real experience, with a real change. Impacting communities nationwide! A former high school student, 3.8 GPA, two basketball scholarships, on her way to college in pursuit of the American Dream. In as less as two weeks after her high school graduation, Desiree Lee found herself on the other side of the law.