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After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey takes us on a personal journey of his life, including failures, lessons learned, and moments of inspiration.
The book is based on diaries that McConaughey kept for more than 30 years. For one of the world’s leading men, his vulnerability in sharing his life story and journey is inspiring and motivating for any reader no matter their dreams and goals.
From the Academy Award (R)-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less.…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
From a young age, we are regularly asked what we want to be when we grow up. We all have contemplated our dream job, and most likely, our dream job has changed with time.
Michael Rasile’s dream was to work in the sports business industry, and he took one of the most innovative approaches to getting there. He launched a podcast called For the Love of Sports. Each week, he scheduled and interviewed leaders in sports business on his podcast. He grew his professional network in a meaningful way.
In the book, Rasile shares powerful and inspirational insights from his podcast interviews and bridges those in a way that they can apply to all of us on each of our unique career journeys.
Did you know that the movie Jerry Maguire ruined the sports agency business?
In Winning in Sports Business, Michael Rasile shares what the nuances of the sports business landscape are like, and what people need to do to get into it. He shares stories from the movers and shakers in the sports business and details many different areas of the sports business world that are still untapped.
This book will help answer these questions:
What are the types of jobs/career paths in sports?
After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
Dan Hurley is one of today’s most successful head coaches in basketball and sports.
Known for his intensity on the court, the book takes the reader through his journey, starting in New Jersey as the son of a legendary high school basketball coach, Bob Hurley. Hurley’s dedication to success led to consecutive NCAA national championships for the University of Connecticut and a pursuit by the Los Angeles Lakers to hire Hurley as their coach.
The book shares lessons in leadership and greatness.
Dan Hurley is one of the most famous head coaches in America today—in any sport. He returned the UConn Huskies men’s basketball team to their rightful place among the nation’s elite, winning back-to-back NCAA Championships, and he did it with uncommon passion. His on-court eruptions, his face-offs with refs and even fans, are legendary.
But behind all the winning and swagger is a story of intense, harrowing struggle. Son of a revered high school coach, younger brother of a college basketball icon, Hurley spent years fearing that he’d just never measure up. He suffered through several…
Transforming Pandora, women's fiction with a metaphysical undercurrent, is written with humour and a light touch. As the plot slips between two time frames, separated by more than thirty years, the reader explores her life and loves: her ups and downs.
After 30 years in marketing, I am a professor at Rutgers University, where I teach public relations and marketing courses. In each course, I consistently share an inspirational message with my students, which is the title of my new book – Pursue Your Passions! Dream Big! Anything Is Possible! I have taught approximately 4,000 students and have witnessed their journey from the classroom to career. Each of their unique career journeys is inspirational. My former students regularly return to my classroom and inspire my current students to pursue their dreams and goals. My purpose and passion today is to inspire my students and other job seekers to pursue and achieve their professional dreams and goals.
Colonel Greg Gadson (RET.) is a decorated U.S. Army war veteran.
I had the privilege of spending one year with Greg in 1984-1985 at the United States Military Academy Preparatory School in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He lost both his legs as a result of an IED attack in Iraq in 2007. Later that year, he was the spiritual guide for the New York Giants, inspiring them to a Super Bowl victory, receiving the first of two Super Bowl rings, serving as the New York Giants motivational and inspirational leader.
He has also starred on the big and small screen, including Battleship and NCIS: Los Angeles, and is an in-demand motivational speaker. Greg’s story is inspiring to all.
In military jargon, the word “ waypoints” refers to guideposts on a map used to direct soldiers in or out of a location like a rendezvous point. For Colonel Greg Gadson— a battalion commander and former West Point football player— who lost both legs as a result of an IED attack in Iraq in 2007, these waypoints were to change drastically, and inform his future life through his long, painful recovery and emergence as a spiritual guide and assistant coach to the NY Giants during their own trials of fire in the 2007 season that took them from last place…
I am a professor of American Jewish history who has written extensively on how sports have impacted the lives of American Jews. I have been especially interested in how the acceptance or rejection of Jews in the sports arena has underscored that group’s place within this country’s society. I have been likewise intrigued by how the call of athleticism has challenged their ethnic and religious identity. The saga of Marty Glickman, a story of adversity and triumph, speaks boldly to critical issues that this minority group has faced.
From the 1950s-1980s, the irascible, controversial Howard Cosell was among the most watched and listened to sportscasters.
Bloom effectively chronicles his life from his youth in Brooklyn to his emergence as the announcer everyone loved to hate. I was also pleased that he is sensitive to Cosell’s identity as a Jew with particular focus on how his views of his own ethnic-religious background changed after the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic Games.
This is the first full-length biography of the lawyer-turned-sports journalist whose brash style and penchant for social commentary changed the way American sporting events are reported. Perhaps best known for his close relationship with the world champion boxer Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell became a celebrity in his own right during the 1960s and 1970s-the bombastic, controversial, instantly recognizable sportscaster everyone "loved to hate."
Raised in Brooklyn in a middle-class Jewish family, Cosell carried with him a deeply ingrained sense of social justice. Yet early on he abandoned plans for a legal career to become a pioneer in sports broadcasting, first…
I’m an Executive who started life as an Occupational Therapist. As an undergrad, I had an innate curiosity around mental health, and what makes people thrive not just survive. This fascination sent me to university multiple times, and, as a self-confessed book nerd (my teams tell me one of my most common sayings is ‘There is a book you could read..’), constantly testing book theories at work. As an executive, I mentor up-and-coming leaders. This compilation of books represents the most common books I recommend to people to help them thrive at work as a leader. I hope you find them as useful as I have.
While we would love to think we are always rational, we are hard-wired for story not the rational data (albeit key data can be a strong anchor in a story). I started my career far more in the assumption of rational data trumps all, but recognised, through bumps and bruises, how stories can overtake decision-making. When I learned how to tell a better story, I learned how to get the results I needed. Gabrielle is such a down-to-earth, energising speaker and writer, and this book provided me with such a practical, relatable framework for always having a good story or two in my back pocket.
Learn the science and master the art of telling a great story
Stories for Work walks you through the science of storytelling, revealing the secrets behind great storytellers and showing you how to master the art of storytelling in business. Stories hold a unique place in our psyche, and the right story at the right time can be a game-changer in business; whether tragedy, triumph, tension or transition, a good story can captivate the listener and help you achieve your goals. In this book, author Gabrielle Dolan draws from a decade of training business leaders in storytelling to show you…
Mateo Taurasi and his family fled their island home when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in the Vaeringan Empire...and his family still use it every day in their cosy teahouse. The last thing they need is an Imperial barging in to…
I am a native Bostonian and I have been working in the field of negotiation for over 25 years. I have been very fortunate to have been a member of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School for all that time. As a result, I have had the privilege to work with some amazing colleagues and have been given the opportunity to engage in many fascinating negotiations in the international, governmental, corporate, and nonprofit worlds. I truly love the field because it has the potential to do so much good in the world and because it is exceedingly challenging. For me, the more I learn the more I want to know. That quest continues to this day…
I am recommending this book because Malhotra et al take on a series of very difficult negotiations that look like they are impossible to solve and they show you how it was done. The book is very practical and demonstrates to the reader that many negotiations can be solved with the right frame of mind, creativity, and persistence.
Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.
Malhotra identifies three broad approaches for breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts, and draws out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting of…
I've been a fan of gay romance for a long time, but started writing because of my own experiences growing up. I was a closeted kid that played three sports throughout middle and high school, and I deeply relate to the struggles of balancing personal identity with the pressures of the sports world. Now, as an adult, I want to write that happy ending for me and everyone else that likes jocks (and jockstraps).
This book is a perfect example of a nerd/jock romance done right.
The entire series is great, and all of them are comfort reads for me at this point. This one stands out, though, due to the classic "opposites attract" dynamic between nerdy Zach and uber-jock Foster. Their push-and-pull chemistry was just *chef’s kiss*. I found myself laughing out loud throughout the entire book.
It's a great start to the series and a fantastic read for anyone who loves a fun, low-angst sports romance.
FOSTER: “Look out for Zach and don’t hit on him.”My brother’s request sounds easy enough. Keep an eye out for his best friend on campus and keep my hands to myself.Easy.Even if Zach is a quintessential nerd, who I’ve always thought was cute, I don’t have the time to think with my … stick.There’s only one stick I should be focused on this year, and that’s my hockey stick. My goal once I graduate is to get an NHL contract.The last thing I need is a distraction. On or off the ice.Only, keeping to the rules is harder than I…
I’ve been reading hockey books since I was a kid and could usually count on finding one under the Christmas tree. I still keep many of those books from my childhood on the shelves in my office. Eventually, I was old enough to buy my own books, some of which are about hockey (and, lucky for me, I continue to receive hockey books as gifts on occasion). When I started to write books, I knew that someday I would write one about the game I love to play, watch and read about.
The night Brian Spencer first played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, his father was angry that the local TV station was airing another game. After driving to the station with a gun and forcing the staff to show the Leaf game, he died in a stand-off with the RCMP. “Spinner” played 553 NHL games, but life after hockey wasn’t easy. In 1988, a year after his acquittal on kidnapping and murder charges, he died from a gunshot during a drug-related robbery in Florida. O’Malley is an excellent journalist and this is a powerfully told story of a tragiclife.
310 pages of excellent text, with many great photos. The roller-coaster story of a life so gripping that it reads like fiction. From remote British Columbia to West Palm Beach, from $100,000 a year to drifter, from a tense murder trial to Spenser's own violent murder. First Edition.
This delightful fable about the Golden Age of Broadway unfolds the warm story of Artie, a young rehearsal pianist, Joe, a visionary director, and Carrie, his crackerjack Girl Friday, as they shepherd a production of a musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream towards opening night.
I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburbs. After a career at the University of Illinois, 150 miles downstate, I moved back to my hometown to recapture the urban vibe that I love. A historian, I love the stories that architecture tells me and wandering the streets of the city never stales. Having romance in my life is important and writing about how relationships can develop in the city is part of that. Everywhere I go in Chicago, I think of how my characters might interact with each other and the setting. Romance can be found in grand restaurants and in odd corners and Chicago has it all.
This is a hockey romance set in Chicago. This is the final book in Helena Hunting’s Pucked series and my favorite. Her fans waited for years for Helena to get Charlene and Darren’s story right. Chicago is a hockey town, so it fits in very well. Underpinned by comedy and angst, a great group of characters, the relationship between the mysterious Darren and his firefly girl, Charlene, are the compelling center.
In my own book, one scene takes place at a game at the United Center. I have been following my home team, the Blackhawks since the age of eight and when I discovered hockey romance, I was over the moon. I asked Helena why she chose Chicago for her books, and she said it was most like her native Toronto.
As an NHL player, relationships haven’t been my thing. Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, they never last very long. But then that’s what happens when you require an NDA before the first date.
Until Charlene. She’s like a firefly. She’s elusive, and if you catch her she’ll burn bright, but keeping her trapped dulls her fire and dims her beauty.
I caught her. And as much as I might want to keep her, I’ll never put the lid on her jar. Not at the risk of losing her. So I've let her set the rules in our relationship.
