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Failure Is Not an Option

Author : Gene Kranz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439148815

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The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket.

Failure Is an Option

Author : H. Jon Benjamin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781524742171

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“Writing this funny requires immense talent.” —AV Club H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure. Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option. In this book, he tells stories from his own life, from his early days ("wherein I'm unable to deliver a sizzling fajita") to his romantic life ("how I failed to quantify a threesome") to family ("wherein a trip to P.F. Chang's fractures a family") to career ("how I failed at launching a kid's show"). As Jon himself says, breaking down one's natural ability to succeed is not an easy task, but also not an insurmountable one. Society as we know it is, sadly, failure averse. But more acceptance of failure, as Jon sees it, will go a long way to making this world a different place . . . a kinder, gentler place, where gardens are overgrown and most people stay home with their pets. A vision of failure, but also a vision of freedom. With stories, examples of artistic and literary failure, and a powerful can't-do attitude, Failure Is an Option is the book the world doesn't need right now but will get regardless.

Apollo 8

Author : Jeffrey Kluger
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627798310

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The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell’s co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.

Failure's Not an Option

Author : Jeff Nyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057876833X

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In the thirty years I spent in Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), I participated in some of the most highly publicized events in law enforcement history, which generated national and even international attention, including the takedown of the DC snipers. I was also involved in a hostage rescue incident by a lone-wolf domestic terrorist who the FBI determined was "the first suicide bomber with hostages in the United States" at the Discovery Headquarters Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the capture of a violent group of serial bank robbers featured on John Walsh's America's Most Wanted. These events and the 4,500 raids and barricades I participated in over my career helped to prepare me for the life-threatening medical incidents that transpired beginning in 2010 and continue to today. At the height of my career as a SWAT commander, I was struck down by two diseases that at the time were deemed terminal with no available cure: multiple myeloma cancer and cardiac amyloidosis. Doctors told me I had less than two years to live-at best. I prepared for what would be the greatest fight of my life. A career in SWAT had trained me for this fight, with its quarterly fitness tests, numerous high-risk operations, and the mindset to persist against seemingly insurmountable odds. I overcame many obstacles, including "coding" in 2013 during a stem- cell transplant that required chest compressions and saline to bring me back to life and then a stroke precipitated in 2015 by the chemotherapy I was undergoing to forestall the myeloma and amyloidosis. I applied the same expectations that I had of the SWAT Team to myself, always telling the team, "Never complain, never quit, and the mission comes first. Failure's not an option as it relates to the mission." My mission is simple: survive. Eight years have passed since my initial diagnosis, and I am still alive and in remission, and by all medical accounts, I have defied the odds. This memoir consists of three elements: high-profile SWAT operations; my medical journey; and lessons on fitness, diet, and drug routines that have helped me manage these medical obstacles and improve my quality of life. My hope is that by sharing these incidents in SWAT and the medical odyssey that followed, I can help others manage their illnesses, improve their quality of life, and enjoy (directly or vicariously) the high-speed SWAT experiences and the medical risks that my medical team took for me.

Success is My Only Motherfucking Option, Failure's Not

Author : Panda 13
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1660882419

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Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not: motivation Quote lined notebook/journal gift,120 pages, soft cover, matte finish

Failure's Not an Option

Author : Linel Wingate
Publisher : Linel D Wingate
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578740621

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Self-awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self-awareness allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment. Although it took Dion to hit rock bottom to start exploring becoming self-aware, that is where the shift began for him to be able to change his future. Ironically, I believe his soul was so tortured by not being able to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol and also not being allowed to be swayed because of his incarceration by the circumstances and the people in his life to distract him from his reality that ultimately forced him to face the stone hard cold truth of the life he was living.

Failure is Not an Option

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:656062376

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How to Read Like a Writer

Author : Mike Bunn
Publisher : The Saylor Foundation
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?

Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Failures

Author : Dena Fam,Michael O'Rourke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429556883

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Unlike other volumes in the current literature, this book provides insight for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners on what doesn’t work. Documenting detailed case studies of project failure matters, not only as an illustration of experienced challenges but also as projects do not always follow step-by-step protocols of preconceived and theorised processes. Bookended by a framing introduction by the editors and a conclusion written by Julie Thompson Klein, each chapter ends with a reflexive section that synthesizes lessons learned and key take-away points for the reader. Drawing on a wide range of international case studies and with a strong environmental thread throughout, the book reveals a range of failure scenarios for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, including: • Projects that did not get off the ground; • Projects that did not have the correct personnel for specified objectives; • Projects that did not reach their original objectives but met other objectives; • Projects that failed to anticipate important differences among collaborators. Illustrating causal links in real life projects, this volume will be of significant relevance to scholars and practitioners looking to overcome the challenges of conducting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

The Strategy Paradox

Author : Michael E. Raynor
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385521918

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A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t even realize it. The reason? Managers feel they must make choices with far-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices on assumptions about a future they cannot predict. It is this collision between commitment and uncertainty that creates THE STRATEGY PARADOX. This paradox sets up a ubiquitous but little-understood tradeoff. Because managers feel they must base their strategies on assumptions about an unknown future, the more ambitious of them hope their guesses will be right – or that they can somehow adapt to the turbulence that will arise. In fact, only a small number of lucky daredevils prosper, while many more unfortunate, but no less capable managers find themselves at the helms of sinking ships. Realizing this, even if only intuitively, most managers shy away from the bold commitments that success seems to demand, choosing instead timid, unremarkable strategies, sacrificing any chance at greatness for a better chance at mere survival. Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the bestselling The Innovator's Solution, explains how leaders can break this tradeoff and achieve results historically reserved for the fortunate few even as they reduce the risks they must accept in the pursuit of success. In the cutthroat world of competitive strategy, this is as close as you can come to getting something for nothing. Drawing on leading-edge scholarship and extensive original research, Raynor’s revolutionary principle of Requisite Uncertainty yields a clutch of critical, counter-intuitive findings. Among them: -- The Board should not evaluate the CEO based on the company’s performance, but instead on the firm’s strategic risk profile -- The CEO should not drive results, but manage uncertainty -- Business unit leaders should not focus on execution, but on making strategic choices -- Line managers should not worry about strategic risk, but devote themselves to delivering on commitments With detailed case studies of success and failure at Sony, Microsoft, Vivendi Universal, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T and other major companies in industries from financial services to energy, Raynor presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today’s opportunities while simultaneously preparing for tomorrow’s promise.

Flight

Author : Christopher C. Kraft
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aerospace engineers
ISBN : UOM:49015003159044

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This book is the account of Chri Kraft and the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs.

The Daily Stoic

Author : Ryan Holiday,Stephen Hanselman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735211742

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From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Meltdown

Author : Chris Clearfield,András Tilcsik
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735233331

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Winner of the 2019 National Business Book Award A groundbreaking take on how complexity causes failure in all kinds of modern systems—from social media to air travel—this practical and entertaining book reveals how we can prevent meltdowns in business and life. A crash on the Washington, D.C. metro system. An accidental overdose in a state-of-the-art hospital. An overcooked holiday meal. At first glance, these disasters seem to have little in common. But surprising new research shows that all these events—and the myriad failures that dominate headlines every day—share similar causes. By understanding what lies behind these failures, we can design better systems, make our teams more productive, and transform how we make decisions at work and at home. Weaving together cutting-edge social science with riveting stories that take us from the frontlines of the Volkswagen scandal to backstage at the Oscars, and from deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico to the top of Mount Everest, Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik explain how the increasing complexity of our systems creates conditions ripe for failure and why our brains and teams can't keep up. They highlight the paradox of progress: Though modern systems have given us new capabilities, they've become vulnerable to surprising meltdowns—and even to corruption and misconduct. But Meltdown isn't just about failure; it's about solutions—whether you're managing a team or the chaos of your family's morning routine. It reveals why ugly designs make us safer, how a five-minute exercise can prevent billion-dollar catastrophes, why teams with fewer experts are better at managing risk, and why diversity is one of our best safeguards against failure. The result is an eye-opening, empowering, and entirely original book—one that will change the way you see our complex world and your own place in it.

Doable

Author : Deborah Reber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781582704661

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Offers a guide for teenage girls to develop a strategy for setting goals and achieving them through a straightforward, step-by-step process.

The Wisdom of Failure

Author : Laurence G. Weinzimmer,Jim McConoughey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118238721

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The "how-not-to" leadership book There is a paradox in leadership: we can only succeed by knowingfailure. Every accomplished leader knows there are minefields offailures that need to be navigated in order to succeed. Wouldn't itbe great to have the insights to help you prevent from makingavoidable mistakes? Unfortunately, in business talking aboutmistakes can be taboo, and, at a certain level, learning fromfailure is not an option. Weinzimmer and McConoughey speak franklyabout the things that are difficult to talk about – theunvarnished truths necessary to become a successful leader. Based on a groundbreaking 7-year study of what almost 1000managers across 21 industries really think about lessons fromfailures Includes exclusive interview material from CEOs at a wide rangeof organizations, including major firms such as Caterpillar,Priceline.com, and Allstate; startups; and entrepreneurial smallbusinesses Drills down into failure to uncover the strategies thataspiring leaders need in order to avoid the most damning leadershipmistakes: unbalanced orchestration, drama management, and recklessvanity Learning from the mistakes of others is a necessary part of thejourney of effective leadership, and this book offers anindispensable guide to learning these powerfullessons—without paying the price of failure.