Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.
STORYTELLING ON AN EPIC SCALE
For more than thirty years, the Liaden Universe® novels by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have captivated fans with their unique blend of action adventure, science fiction, and interpersonal relationships. In addition to over twenty novels (and counting), Lee and Miller have written dozens of shorter works based in the Liaden Universe®, featuring the strong characterization, detailed world-building, wit, and derring-do that listeners of the series adore.
Sure to delight longtime fans and newcomers alike, these tales highlight why the nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados, with amazing settings, strong characterizations, compelling romance, and edge-of-the-chair action in stories that range from cosmic to comic.
Improvement is not innovation…and innovation is essential if your aim is to survive in today’s business environment.
Stealing Genius lays the foundation for a dramatic and long-overdue shift in 21st-century strategic marketing and branding. Most executives and decision-makers are now focused on improving what they already have. However, fixating on improvement in today’s world is a dangerous path—one that ultimately leads to commoditization and irrelevance.
Targeting your time, attention, and resources on innovation, by contrast, means identifying something that does not exist right now in any form—something that will create a powerful, uncopyable experience for your target customer.
In order to be successful both today and in the future, you need to separate yourself from the competition by practicing the breakthrough principle of adaptive innovation—or Stealing Genius. How? By delivering an experience that the competition either cannot or will not attempt to copy. You must create a new experience that is unique to you and that fosters a powerful emotional attachment with your target customer.
Featuring dozens of real-life case studies from a wide range of industries, Stealing Genius outlines Miller’s proven six-step process for creating an uncopyable experience. You’ll learn how to:
- Do more than think outside the box—you’ll build a new box completely
- Identify your “moose”, the distinctive customer/client profile for which you are hunting
- Leverage insight from daily experience, personal heroes, and organizations outside your industry to better serve your customers
- Flip the competition by doing the exact opposite of what those in your industry are currently doing
- Maximize your strategic innovation by bringing in a Stealing Genius facilitator
Create a truly original brand experience and start pioneering in your industry by implementing the game-changing process of Stealing Genius.
Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.
For more than thirty years, the Liaden Universe® novels by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have captivated readers with their unique blend of action adventure, science fiction, and romance. In addition to twenty-one novels (and counting) Lee and Miller have written dozens of shorter works based in the Liaden Universe®, featuring the strong characterization, detailed world-building, wit, and derring-do that readers of the series adore.
This fourth volume collecting Lee and Miller's shorter Liaden Universe® stories features four novelettes, two novellas, and two short stories-including the celebrated linked stories, 'Block Party' and 'Degrees of Separation.'
Sure to delight longtime fans and newcomers alike, these tales highlight why the nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados, with detailed world-building, strong characterizations, compelling romance, and edge-of-the-chair action in stories that range from cosmic to comic.
Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.
A dozen recent Liaden Universe® short works are added to the collection in the third volume of A Liaden Universe® Constellation. Ranging from comic to cosmic, only one of these works was first published before 2011. These welcome new additions bring the collected Constellation of Lee and Miller Liaden short stories to forty-five works in three mega-volumes.
The nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, world-building, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edge-of-the-chair action.
Since 1995, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller also created shorter tales, illuminating additional facets of the Liaden experience. Here is a vast tapestry of tales of the scouts, artists, traders, priestesses, sleight of hand magicians, and pilots who fill the Liaden Universe® with the excitement, action, and romance that readers of the hit series have come to adore.
Thirty-three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two mega-volumes. Seventeen tales to start with in Volume One!
The nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, world-building, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edge-of-the-chair action.
Since 1995, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller also created shorter tales, illuminating additional facets of the Liaden experience. Here is a vast tapestry of tales of the scouts, artists, traders, priestesses, sleight of hand magicians, and pilots who fill the Liaden Universe® with the excitement, action, and romance that readers of the hit series have come to adore.
Fifteen short tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.
Thirty-three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two mega-volumes. Fifteen tales complete Volume Two!
The nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, world-building, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edge-of-the-chair action.
Since 1995, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller also created shorter tales, illuminating additional facets of the Liaden experience. Here is a vast tapestry of tales of the scouts, artists, traders, priestesses, sleight of hand magicians, and pilots who fill the Liaden Universe® with the excitement, action, and romance that readers of the hit series have come to adore.
In Matthew 24, Jesus gives His disciples a profound, detailed description of what will happen during the end times prior to His return. As we strive to follow His command to keep watch, how can we know that we are drawing nearer to that day?
Foreshadows explores twelve major trends that point toward the ever-nearing of earth's final days-and how these trends reveal God's breathtaking love, faithfulness, wisdom, and strength. As you listen, you will...
identify events happening in today's world that align with prophecies described in the Bible;
discern between the prophetic truths God reveals in His Word and the common misbeliefs about the end times based on speculation; and
look with confidence and rejoicing toward the future God has promised you.
Foreshadows will inspire you to be filled with hope as God holds our chaotic world firmly within His control. Behind the scenes, He is at work-setting the stage for Christ's return and the glorious future that follows!
What separates average businesses from extraordinarily successful ones?
Better product? Nope. Your competitor will rapidly reverse-engineer your 'secret sauce' and get their 'better-than-you' version on the market faster than you can say 'Usain Bolt'.
Better customer service? Guess what? All of your competitors say they provide the best customer service. It's a wishy-washy phrase...a vague generality with no meaningful specific.
Better pricing? You're kidding, right? The company that lives on price dies on price.
More harsh reality: Almost all industries today struggle with the increasing commoditization of their products and services, putting considerable pressure on prices and margins, leading to fiercer competition.
The solution?
You must create an uncopyable attachment with your customers. They must see you as not only delivering a superior product but also as a high-value relationship they simply cannot get anywhere else.
In Uncopyable, Steve Miller compellingly argues that new advantage isn't found by going 'outside the box' - you must actually build your own box.
Uncopyable will guide you to achieving an unfair and enduring competitive advantage.
Are you tired of faddy diets and weight-loss schemes that don't work? Don't despair! Steve Miller is here to show you that losing weight doesn't have to be an uphill struggle it can be simple and exciting instead. Drawing on his own experience, Steve introduces you to his easy methods of how to lose weight through lifestyle change. Importantly, this blueprint for living will ensure that not only will you shed the pounds but that you will keep them off too. This no-nonsense, straight-talking book guides you through a number of slimming secrets, showing you how to:
* Identify your personal motive for losing weight
* Change your mindset to enable you to resist temptation
* Adopt the 80/20 rule: eat well 80% of the time and you can still have treats 20% of the time.
* Develop the habits of a successful slimmer
It also gives basic nutrition, easy meal planning and simple cooking inlcuding meals for all the family. Now there's no excuse not to lose weight and keep it off for good!
"Steve Miller has a knack for taking over companies just before they are about to smash into a wall," the Wall Street Journal observed. "In fact, it is his specialty." For thirty years—beginning with the legendary Chrysler bailout, which he negotiated as a key member of Lee Iacocca's team, to the revival of the U.S. steel industry—Miller has done the messy, unpleasant work of salvaging America's lost companies.
Though he has brought many companies back to life, Miller is deeply aware of the high price individual workers and many communities must pay to restore the health of American industry. That's why the Wall Street Journal said, "He has become Mr. Fix-It for American industry, stepping in to help large, once-dominant businesses confront and manage ugly realities."
The ugly reality is that there is a battle going on in the heart of industrial America, or what is left of it. Centered in the auto industry but radiating out to every manufacturing corporation, management and labor are at loggerheads over wages and the cost of employee benefits. At the bankrupt Delphi Corporation, Miller is cutting costs and closing plants, but he's doing the job for $1. If anyone knows what it will take for American manufacturing to return to profitability, it's Miller.
In this frank memoir, Miller reveals a rarely seen side of American management. Known for his wry sense of humor, Miller talks about what it takes to be an executive. He shares the credit for his success with his "mentor and occasional tormentor," Margaret Kyger Miller, who was his wife and ally for forty years. Her death opens the book and reminds the reader that this will be a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own education as an American executive.
