The Great Chair

Author : Brian Hayward
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781525578939

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The Great Chair by Brian Hayward Pdf

The Great Chair speaks to a single issue—why board chairs are more important than ever for effective governance. This book tackles board leadership fundamentals, such as: • How effective board chairs engage colleagues to reach consensus, • How effective chairs lead the board so the board, in turn, fosters organizational effectiveness, • The trick to ensuring a focus on the highest priorities, • And—critically—how to build and sustain trust with the CEO and within the board. With nearly four decades of experience with the good, bad, and ugly of the board universe, Brian Hayward hones in on practical ways to develop the thinking and behaviour necessary for anyone taking this seat. Through real-life examples, and stories featuring Paul McCartney, Kalahari bushmen, Robert Maxwell, camels, Buddhist parables, and the Boeing 737 Max, readers will see how chairing a board requires leadership competency of its own (distinct from being a director). See what skills differentiate mediocre chairs from a truly great ones. The Great Chair has take-home value—with practical checklists you can use—and a personal development roadmap for you to develop the key skills central to effectively engaging individuals and groups. If you are on a personal journey that may include becoming a board chair—whether the organization exists for profit, and whether it is corporate, family, venture, public agency, or charity in form—The Great Chair was written for you.

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954697155

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The Stick Chair Book by Christopher Schwarz Pdf

Author : Ross Collins
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781839941665

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There's a Bear on My Chair by Ross Collins Pdf

A fantastically funny rhyming picture book, from the bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator, Ross Collins. Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favourite chair and that chair just isn't big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to shift Bear but nothing works and tired old Mouse eventually gives up. Once Mouse has gone, however, that cheeky Bear just gets up and walks home! How dare he? But what's that? Is that a MOUSE in Bear's HOUSE?! A hilariously funny family story to share at bedtime, or any time, to make children (and parents!) laugh out loud. Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour 2016 and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2016. Look for the sequel, There's a Mouse in My House. This time, the tables are turned and Mouse is the very unwelcome guest who just won't leave! Can't get enough? Look out for more brilliant picture books by Ross Collins: This Zoo is Not for You, What Does an Anteater Eat?, and This is a Dog.

Author : Jiyeon Pak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524700751

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My Grandpa's Chair by Jiyeon Pak Pdf

A young girl notices that her grandfather is unhappy and thinks a new chair might cheer him up.

Author : Ezra Jack Keats
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698165595

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Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats Pdf

From the Caldecott Medal-winning author of The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats, Peter's Chair is a picture book classic about a sibling rivalry. Peter, the hero of many of Ezra Jack Keats' award-winning books, has a new baby sister. When she arrives, his parents paint his old baby furniture pink for the new baby. There's only one thing they haven't painted yet, though: his little blue chair. He'll do whatever it takes to save it—even run away! This is a gentle and reassuring story about sibling rivalry and a perfect gift for any family expecting a new baby.

Author : Susan White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1927502381

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The Memory Chair by Susan White Pdf

The Memory Chair explores the bonds of family, loss and the devastating, multigenerational effects of racism.

Author : Bruce Wagner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101630747

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The Empty Chair by Bruce Wagner Pdf

Composed of two companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as Dead Stars, I’m Losing You and Force Majeure. In First Guru, a fictional Wagner narrates the tale of a Buddhist living in Big Sur, who achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child’s suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to the author-narrator by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, both stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit. A deeply affecting and meditative reading experience, The Empty Chair is an exquisitely rendered, thought-provoking, and humbling new work.

Author : Colette Collier Trohan
Publisher : A Great Meeting, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780976880547

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A Great Meeting Needs a Great Chair by Colette Collier Trohan Pdf

This is the most useful book ever developed to help anyone run a great meeting. It can be read in an hour or two and used for years. Rules for both Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised and American Institute of Parliamentarians Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure are included. The table of contents makes it easy to find information quickly. There are two sections: Meetings Explained and Motions Explained. Meetings Explained walks you through a meeting from call to order to adourn. Motions Explained gives virtually every motion that can come up in a meeting, arranged by its purpose rather than by its parliamentary classification. This information can be applied to any type of meeting from the smallest board or committee to the largest house of delegates. A Great Meeting Needs a Great Chair is the closest thing you’ll find to a magic gavel.

Author : Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Publisher : Arthur A. Levine Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054124477

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The Hickory Chair by Lisa Rowe Fraustino Pdf

A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left for him after her death.

Author : Rosemary Wells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534429789

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The Welcome Chair by Rosemary Wells Pdf

“An eloquent account of the American immigrant experience.” —Booklist (starred review) “Deserves to become a modern classic.” —BookPage (starred review) “A resounding welcome to immigrants.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Based in part on a 100-year-old family journal, Rosemary Wells brings to life a story that the diary’s fragile pages tell. It’s the story of a wooden rocking chair handmade in about 1825 by her great-great-grandfather, an immigrant Jewish boy who made his way to America from Germany in the early 1800s. In 1807, Sam Siegbert is born in southern Germany. Sam’s favorite pastime is carpentry, much to his father’s displeasure. His mother says he has a gift from God in his hands. After moving to America, he builds a wooden chair with the word WILLKOMMEN on the back. The chair’s back panel was later marked with welcomes by four generations of the family in four different languages. After the family lost track of the old chair, the author created a new life for it among new owners from other corners of the world. All the families who loved the chair came to America, escaping religious conformity, natural disasters, tyrannies, war, and superstition. In its lifetime, the rocking chair, with its earliest word WILLKOMMEN, stood for openness, hospitality, and acceptance to all who owned it or rocked safely in its embrace.

Author : Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143036696

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The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd Pdf

A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. When Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother’s seemingly inexplicable behavior, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life “molded to the smallest space possible.” Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk about to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right, and with the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie’s life? What happens will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, it will allow Jessie to discover selfhood and a place of belonging as she explores the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic.

Author : Charles R. Muller,Timothy D. Rieman
Publisher : Schiffer Classic Reference Boo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764317393

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The Shaker Chair by Charles R. Muller,Timothy D. Rieman Pdf

Clearly a labor of love and a definitive reference. The attribution of chairs as Shaker and the association of a chair with a particular community is based on the authors' consideration of oral tradition, provenance, place of discovery, visual examination, evaluation of design features, historic photographs, and information found in written sources. Abundantly illustrated with carefully chosen photos and purposeful drawings. 9x12" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780374713355

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Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski Pdf

Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere? In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, and of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history--of different ways of sitting, of changing manners and attitudes, and of varying tastes. The history of chairs is the history of who we are. We learn how the ancient Chinese switched from sitting on the floor to sitting in a chair, and how the iconic chair of Middle America--the Barcalounger--traces its roots back to the Bauhaus. Rybczynski weaves a rich tapestry that draws on art and design history, personal experience, and historical accounts. And he pairs these stories with his own delightful hand-drawn illustrations: colonial rockers and English cabrioles, languorous chaise longues, and no-nonsense ergonomic task chairs--they're all here. The famous Danish furniture designer Hans Wegner once remarked, "A chair is only finished when someone sits in it." As Rybczynski tells it, the way we choose to sit and what we choose to sit on speak volumes about our values, our tastes, and the things we hold dear.

Author : John DeSimone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1589190319

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Leonardo's Chair by John DeSimone Pdf

Readers looking for more of Leonardo will welcome this story of artistic pride and mysterious power-only this time the story is much "hotter"!

Author : Mike Bonem,Roger Patterson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506463308

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Leading from the Second Chair by Mike Bonem,Roger Patterson Pdf

They say it's lonely at the top. And it can be even lonelier when you are almost at the top. Church leaders who hold second-chair positions are under tremendous pressure. They are expected to do their jobs and provide leadership but to defer to the top leader too. It's a demanding balancing act. How can they lead effectively while serving under someone else's leadership? Leading from the Second Chair offers an invaluable resource to leaders who serve in second- (and third- and fourth-) chair roles, enabling them to become more productive, proactive, and fulfilled. The book reveals the paradoxes of second chair leadership. These leaders must be subordinate to the top leader yet lead in their own right. They should be deep in their expertise but wide in perspective. And they must be content in their jobs yet remain enthusiastic about their dreams for the future. Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson share their own and others' experiences of failure and success in this vital role. They offer support and practical advice for reshaping the way second-chair leaders can serve well and improve the overall performance of their church or organization. Leading from the Second Chair equips readers with the positive attitudes, skills, and strategies needed to become powerful leaders who will survive and thrive in God's service.