From Under The Hood

You can't sell it outside if you can't sell it inside. You want maximum business performance? Look under the hood and you’ll find your employee culture: it is the power that drives the enterprise engine. To harness that rumbling power you’ve got to solve the mystery of what an employee culture actually is, how it operates and how to move it forward. These are the keys that this book will put right in your hands. Renowned business culture expert Stan Slap knows the difference between understanding your employees and understanding your employee culture. The distinction isn’t semantics; it’s the key to whether your strategies will succeed or fail. This myth-busting book reveals why an employee culture is an independent organism with its own rules, beliefs, and motivations—and the power to make or break any management plan (and any manager right along with it). Slap shows you how to get whatever you want from your employee culture, whether it’s improved accountability, innovation, flexibility, resilience, energy, loyalty, or trust. Along the way he solves mysteries that have puzzled managers since the first Mesopotamian farmer hired some help, including: Why does an employee culture really resist change? What does it care about more than money? Why does it respond to leadership differently than to management? How does it talk to itself, and what does it mean when it won’t talk to you? Why are company values the most dangerous threat to gaining its trust? If you have a wonderful employee culture, this book will help you scale it. If you have a troubled employee culture, this book will help you fix it. If you have an employee culture under pressure, this book will help you ease it. If you have a new employee culture, this book will help you shape it. And if you are investing in a company, this book will help you protect your greatest purchasable asset. Under the Hood is informed by immaculate research, including surveys of more than 15,000 employees from companies the world over. It’s packed with original tactics that have driven performance for many organizations and countless managers. And it includes jaw-dropping inside stories of employee cultures from the likes of Samsung, Oracle, Progressive, CNN during wartime, Paul McCartney’s band, and the Super Bowl film crew. It’s all delivered in classic Stan Slap style: profound and provocative, heartfelt and often hysterical. This is not simply a management book; it is the business case for humanity. Management advice doesn’t get realer or more important than this.

A mechanic welcomes the reader to his garage where he will try to fix his car, but first needs help in finding his friends, Mouse, Crocodile, and Bird under lift-up flaps and fold-out pages. Full color.

Explains how the engine, cooling system, brakes, and other parts of a car function and demonstrates what happens if they are not cared for properly.

"Illustrates the major systems of a gas-powered, four-cyclinder automobile"--

The road may be long or short with twists and curves. It is traveled with friends and pets and lovers, where the ultimate journey ends up where it needs to be. They say that it is how we get there that makes the trip worthwhile, and not the final destination in itself. In this book we will take a close look at the lives that are affected in a very positive way. Fasten your seatbelts and maybe have a box of tissues ready just in case. Emotions run high as the author will take you through a series of journeys traveled and spent on loves path.

FLINTRIDGE, MICHIGAN. It's Kathleen O'Halloran's hometown. It's also Slater Kowalski's. And it's a town divided. Kat and her exuberant family live in the part of Flintridge known as the Hill; Slater is from the Ridge. Slater is the president of Flintridge Motors; Kat's family works for his rival. Ridge and Hill have always functioned as almost separate communities, but the boundaries start to blur when Kat goes to work for Slater's company—and even more when she falls in love with him. Still, the course of love is far from smooth. Slater's exciting new project is being sabotaged. From within or without? He needs to know, and so does Kat. Then there's the strange behavior of Kat's father and Slater's dad, who have unexpectedly become allies. And what about Kat's brothers, who are determined not to welcome Slater to the family? Sabotage and secrets, old rivalries and new hopes. Can two people in love create one town…and one family?

This is book 2 of the Steel Gods MC romance series! Book 3 is available everywhere now! He hunted me down and made me his toy. NICOLETTE It took me seven years to escape my abusive relationship. My ex was a ruthless biker with a nasty mean streak. And his final cruelty was putting a baby in my belly. I took his unborn child and ran from him. But I know he won’t let me get away that easy. And out here on my own, there’s no one I can trust to protect me. Then Luka appears. He’s a biker, just like the man I ran away from, but there’s something different about him. Tall, bearded, with piercing eyes that strip me naked, I want his touch so bad I can barely take it. But Luka has secrets he’s hiding from me. And when I find out who sent him, I realize just how badly I messed up. LUKA She’s innocent, beautiful, and utterly off limits. Most of all, she’s just a job. “Bring home the goods.” That’s what I do for the club. That’s what I’m best at. But this time is different. My prez sent me to reclaim his runaway ex. I’m supposed to drag her back to the club, kicking and screaming. But I just can’t bring myself to do it. This time and this time only… I’m keeping the goods for myself. *** He had a job to do—and falling in love with the runaway bride with a secret surprise baby was not in the job description. But the chemistry between this alpha male biker bad boy and his innocent woman is impossible to ignore. Take a glimpse inside this thrilling suspense MC motorcycle club romance series and see for yourself why thousands of fans are falling in love with LUKA.