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Free Download The Façade of Excellence: Defining a New Normal of Leadership
Author: John Dyer
Narrator: John Dyer
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0D9HWHR91 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 22m | 454 MB
The crucial need to substitute true leadership for bad management practices such as Management By Objectives (MBO) and the use of fear is now well known and was often championed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. The executives of these organizations might give permission for the tools of Lean and Six Sigma to be taught but many of them still refuse to look in a mirror and change their own leadership style. They have built a "façade of excellence" that crumbles quickly whenever a bit of chaos is introduced. Not being able to sustain improvements over the long term is one of the top complaints from improvement professionals. What ingredient is missing that prohibits changes to occur throughout the leadership ranks that might create a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration, and improvement?

Free Download Michael S. Heiser, "The Façade"
English | 2012 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1577995686 | EPUB | 5,7 mb
Sci-fi meets historical fact in this thrilling novel by ancient-language scholar Michael S. Heiser.

Free Download Executive Design of the Façade Systems: Typologies and Technologies of the Advanced Building Envelopes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031448928 | 224 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB
The book examines the typological and technological constitution of the principal advanced façade systems in the contemporary design and experimental scenario, proposing itself as a knowledge and operational tool currently lacking in the technical literature of the sector at an international level. It considers the field of advanced façade systems in a scientific way, constituting a support for the study and the executive design. The book investigates in detail, in an analytical form, the constitution of the components on a typological and geometrical, functional and constructive level, on the basis of the documents and knowledges acquired from the essential contemporary production and construction references. At the same time, the book is configured in a handbook form as a reference for understanding and application with respect to traditional and complex façade systems. For each main type of façade, the book provides explanations and scientific information for investigating and designing the advanced façades according to the characteristics of the mullions and transoms façade system (stick system), of the structural sealant glazing façade system, of the unit façade system, of the suspended façade system and of the double-skin façade system.

Free Download Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLWJCN88 | 2023 | 14 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 412 MB
Author: Sean Howe
Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel
The life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who-between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts-battled both the US government and fellow radicals. At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forçade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering government surveillance and harassment, he embarked on a landmark court battle to obtain White House press credentials. But his audacious exploits-pieing Congressional panelists, stealing presidential portraits, and picking fights with other activists-led to accusations that he was an agent provocateur. As the era of protest faded and the dark shadows of Watergate spread, Forçade hoped that marijuana could be the path to cultural and economic revolution.