The Firefly Effect

How can you tap into your team’s creativity to tackle today’s toughest business challenges? In The Firefly Effect, Kimberly Douglas presents inspiring yet pragmatic insights into getting your entire team firing on all cylinders and aiming in the right direction. Comparing the difficult act of harnessing and capturing creativity to the act of catching fireflies on a summer night, she will explain: What to do when the fireflies don’t show up (or when creativity dries up) How to know when it’s time to find a new meadow (or a new approach, place or process) What to do if the leader is keeping too tight a lid on the jar (and team innovation is gasping for air) How to get inventive when it rains on your firefly hunt (or parade of ideas) What happens when everyone is too busy to join in (and group problems remain unresolved)

It was supposed to be nothing more than a fantasy. All right, so I'll admit that maybe steamy, impulsive sex isn't the ideal way to cope with a total stranger wandering into your beach house unannounced. But discovering that my anonymous lover is none other than Shane-the-Pain Becker, the dirtbag spawned only to torment me throughout adolescence...well, somebody kill me now. To add insult to injury, there's a major hurricane bearing down on us and we're stuck together for the duration. I don't know which force of nature scares me the most - Hurricane Elliott or Shane. *** Never in my wildest dreams would I have envisioned a scenario where Melanie Lane would be wrapping her sweet legs around me. Scratch that - there were, in fact, an abundance of wild dreams where Felony Melanie was concerned. I just never thought I had a chance in hell of making them reality. I mean, the girl thinks I'm sewer scum and always has. Even now. She still believes I'm not good enough for her. I'm assuming that's why she seems bound and determined to shut me out. She keeps insisting this is just sex. But as long as the hurricane keeps her trapped in my arms, I will make it my mission to convince her otherwise.

It is the year 2072, and Sophie has accompanied her disabled father to Mars as he plays the final rounds of Electoral 2072, a bracket election system that tests candidates on every level imaginable, from empathy, reason, capacity for violence, and everything in between. The Electoral Competition serves to determine Earth's leadership over the planet's most vital assets: technology and information. But, unbeknownst to her, a rare universal phenomenon dubbed The Sixth Attraction has placed Sophie at the heart of the first multi-dimensional war of the Multiverse. Sophie alone has been chosen to help the the Multiverse face this deadly threat, which extends far more deeply than the existence of a handful of species.Events continue to accelerate as Sophie and her father arrive on Mars. Facing the constant struggle of deciding who is a friend and who is an enemy, Sophie must walk into unknown territory with only her conscience to guide her.This story is designed as a refreshing mental puzzle for even the greatest science fiction fans. An exploration of the human, and not-so-human examination of existence, the choices we make, and the soul.