Books

Lost Wyoming

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Lost Wyoming is a tale about love, loss, and family ties. Maggie Winslow is in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. Disillusioned and sick of second-guessing, well, everything, Maggie is bobbing along at the edge of her life, wondering how it all got so lackluster. When a family crisis jolts her out of her malaise, Maggie is forced to take charge, to rethink the meaning and the import of the losses that inevitably accompany growing up, and to take stock of the choices and convictions that have stopped her from being the person, and living the life, she always envisioned. Poignant, heartbreaking, and unflinchingly honest, Lost Wyoming is an ultimately uplifting tale about the puzzles we must solve for ourselves – and the joys that await once we learn to get out of our own way…

A Merger of Equals

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A Merger of Equals is a love story set in the business world, told by Jane-brilliant, cynical and determined to succeed– and Charlie, the quintessential golden boy on the fast track to the top. Jane and Charlie meet at the Firm, a big-time investment bank, when he is assigned as her mentor. Over the next 10 years, first as colleagues, then as friends, partners, and parents, they navigate up the corporate ladder, discovering along the way that a lot of what they thought was true about success is not really true at all. With humor, spice, and insider insight, A Merger of Equals reveals how differently forces like ambition, intelligence, work, sex, love, and marriage shape men’s and women’s identities, expectations, and experiences – and it demonstrates what success, professional and personal, really means…

Working Easier: A Toolkit for Staff & Board Members of Nonprofit Arts Organizations

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Good organizational design makes it possible for people to work smarter and easier – instead of simply harder. It creates an environment that lets both the organization and its staff perform, develop and shine. Working Easier is an easy-to-follow handbook designed to provide arts management professionals with strategies and tactics to increase productivity, eliminate waste, and build a strong, scalable, and adaptable foundation for future operations. Informally written and full of useful tips, examples, charts, checklists, forms, and sample job descriptions, Working Easier is sure to strengthen both your organization and your employees’ job satisfaction, whether you’re managing an arts non-profit or any other department, group or small business…

The Productive Culture Blueprint: For Corporate Law Departments & Their Outside Counsel

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As companies continue to seek ways to improve operating efficiency, they also face more legal and compliance issues. At the same time, the legal profession is being buffeted by a variety of trends with the power to force change in the way legal services are purchased and delivered. The Productive Culture Blueprint offers a blueprint based on sound business principles for building sustainable strategic productivity into the law department and enduring, effective relationships with outside law firms. A highly readable resource containing case studies, explanatory examples and practical tools, The Productive Culture Blueprint will benefit anyone looking to improve business efficiency, job satisfaction and vendor management…