Reaching The Top

Spiritual allegory.

Reaching The Top: Factors That Impact the Careers and Retention of Senior Women Leaders examines why, there there are so few women in corporate leadership positions both in the U.S. and in Europe. The research addresses why progress continues at such a slow pace and offers insights and recommendations for women executives and their respective employers on what can be done by all parties to ensure maximum success for everyone. Dr. Wallace offers recommendations that will help women excel in their careers and help employers retain talented women executives.

What Does It Take to Play Master-Level Chess? Becoming a master is a goal many chessplayers seek. And for most, it is an unfulfilled dream. Now, for the first time, the topic is squarely addressed. Not by a super grandmaster or high-powered international master, but by a “regular” national master, a master who earned his stripes in the trenches, battling his way to the title. In Reaching the Top?!, author Peter Kurzdorfer shares his journey to the coveted 2200 Elo mark. Using his own games, major topics covered by the author include: Learning From Past Mistakes; Choose Openings to Suit Your Style; Handling Material Inequality; Practical Endgames; How Sound Do Your Openings Need to Be?; When Things Go Terribly Wrong; Overcoming Difficulties; and How to Win. This guide shows what it takes to play at the master level. What you need to know. What you do not need to know. It is a practical presentation that will not only help aspiring masters, but also any player seeking to improve his game. So come on in and sit by the side of a chess master as he plies his craft, marveling at the wonderful, intricate combinations and positional ideas and shuddering at the opportunities that supposedly strong chess players missed time and time again. However, there is one requirement: you do have to love the game and give it your best shot, every game, every move. Mix in some discipline and concentration, and you too may be able to play master-level chess... About the Author After a 30-year adventure spent immersed in chess beginning in the early 1970s, Mr. Kurzdorfer is back. He is a longtime national master, chess teacher, certified coach and tournament director, former contributor and later editor of Chess Life and School Mates magazines, a former judge for the Chess Journalists of America, and author of The Everything Chess Basics Book and the Tao of Chess.

This life is a mysterious journey. It is like a Plant which gives shelter to flowers and thorns on the same branch. This book tells such a story of a young man named Rahul, a small town young boy, who falls in love with a lovely girl named Reema. He wants to marry the girl, but his dream shatters when Reema refuses, for they belong to different casts. Despite being in deep love with Rahul, she had to sacrifice her happiness in order to prove herself a good girl and save her family social reputation. Reema’s parents fix her marriage with a boy from their caste. The separation causes an unbearable pain to Raoul. He loses interest in his life, abandons his city forever and moves to hardware. Rahul wants to lead the rest of his life as a recluse, a kind of deliberate punishment that he had chosen to obliterate the memory of Reema from his heart, but his destiny wants to take him somewhere else. It chisels a different man out of him and gives him a chance to climb the world’s highest peak: Mount Everest. At the very moment, echoes reema’s words in Rahul's ears: one day you will reach the top. Will Rahul be able to prove her words true? Be ready to read the story full of love, heartbreak, pain, separation and about transformation of an ordinary young boy.

Reach for the Top: The Musician's Guide to Health, Wealth and Success by Dr. Timothy Jameson, (author of Repetitive Strain Injuries: Alternative Treatments and Prevention) is a book specifically geared towards helping any musician master their mental, physical and spiritual well-being... Are you considering a career as a musical artist? Are you a musician or vocalist reaching a plateau in your career? Do you have a nagging injury that is holding you back from excelling in your musicianship? Are you looking for the secret clues that the highly successful musicians already know? Then this is the book for you! This book is a summary of what Dr. Timothy Jameson has learned about the amazing attributes of the human mind, body, and soul over his 20+year career as a Doctor of Chiropractic and as a musician working week after week as a music director and worship pastor of his church. Dr. Jameson has spent many years working intimately with musicians, caring for human beings dealing with injuries, emotional stress, performance stress, and addictions. Through that time, Dr. Jameson has thoroughly enjoyed providing wellness enhancement, encouragement, and relief from debilitating injuries. This book was the result of one of my greatest joys; seeing a musician's career saved by chiropractic, and then allowed to flourish due to positive constructive coaching to work on the mental aspect of the game. Dr. Jameson says: I created this book in order that you can achieve a level of success that you only dreamed for your career. This book will set in motion your desires to reach the top! It is an action-oriented book that will guide you in your path to wholeness, wellness, and success. I believe it will be a workbook that you will keep in your travel bag, or next to your bed, so you can constantly revisit your goals, affirmations, and action steps to achieve the results you have desired for your life. I also created this book so that you can achieve a level of physical wellness that will allow you to perform music throughout your entire life. Musicians must care for their bodies to engage in the "sport of music." In the pages that follow you will receive advice in everything from nutritional intake, stretching, exercises and breathing techniques to enhance your musicianship. I pray that this book encourages you to just "GO FOR IT" and not hold back due to fears or the "what ifs." Set a path for greatness and then do not hold back even though the trail may be full of potholes, diversions, and roadblocks. You can do it! Thank you for reading this book, and may you be blessed by the information presented in the pages of 'Reach for the Top'.

Why another book on prayer? Because no other book on prayer does what this one does. It takes the reader by the hand and, step by step, leads them through the foothills and up in to the mountain regions of prayer. Prayer: Reaching The Mountain Top is divided into two sections. Part One consists of a series of short chapters, each with a practical exercise to help develop the reader's prayer life. Part Two is a series of short devotions, illustrative of the strategies learned in Part One. The book is written in a light style and honestly acknowledges the difficulties we all face in prayer whilst giving practical help from a Biblical perspective.

Every year thousands of ambitious individuals embark on a career in finance, attracted by its potential to offer meaningful work, good remuneration and professional advancement. Yet finance is also a highly competitive profession, so it is tough to reach the top. Those who make it to the most senior positions in the finance sector have roles that extend far beyond number-crunching: they often fill the right-hand position to the CEO and are expected to advise on strategy, manage relationships with investors and other stakeholders, and oversee change management and IT projects. This range of responsibilities calls for a unique skill set. Reach the Top in Finance is the definitive guide to career success for finance professionals who want to know how they can succeed as trusted advisors, business partners, senior leaders and innovators, regardless of whether they work in industry, not-for-profit or public practice. Sally Percy explains how you can acquire the range of skills that underpin personal and professional growth in the finance sector. Featuring interviews with current and former CFOs in the UK and overseas, as well as commentary from recruiters and headhunters, Reach the Top in Finance provides the ambitious finance professional of today with the guidance, insight and knowledge they need to become the respected CFO or senior partner of tomorrow.