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Leadership happens within the setting of a group, it includes affecting others, it is a procedure, and it involves objective achievement and the objectives are shared by leaders and their followers. The very demonstration of defining leadership as a procedure proposes that leadership is not a characteristic or trait with which just a couple of certain individuals are enriched with during childbirth. Characterizing leadership as a procedure implies that leadership is a transactional occasion that happens between leaders and their followers.

Success and wealth are perhaps two of the most elusive things on this planet. Countless people wish to be wealthy and are constantly doing a variety of things to achieve that wealth. Are you one of these people? Have you purchased your share of lottery tickets, or done anything else in your life that promised the wealth and success you have hoped for? What if you found out that there's no way success can be given to you?

This chapter-level audiobook can change the way you listen to BigShots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined years ago to anoint their profession with a bit of undeserved dignity. In the process, you might gain a more realistic grasp of what's going on around you and how your mind is being manipulated, aka brainwashed.

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Every single elf will disappear from the face of the earth." Princess Carella reads this prophecy in the book of Arcanscape and knows that the dark queen will stop at nothing to make it come true. Carella travels with a group of missionaries across the land to offer her gift of healing and recruit other elven tribes to help join the war against the dark queen. When Carella and her missionary group go missing, the village cleric, Ricmorn, hires an old barbarian named Kelroar to find them.

For over fifty years, fireworms have ravaged the city of Citadel Heights. Warriors and wizards have sought to find the answer to the attacks, but to little avail. Each raid has decimated the Chilan warriors, the elite guard of King Romarin, the son of Rhynathel, the warrior god. Kalena, a young squire to Cahal, the Kings Champion, knows all too well the peril that the fireworms bring. As she watches her friends and fellow warriors die in the attacks, she knows something must be done.

More than 400 years after the vampire's curse first took hold among the Dark Prince's children, the druen nation faces certain doom. The non-cursed elven tribes, angered by recent atrocities, form an unprecedented union to annihilate the druen race. The king of the vampires musters his too-few soldiers to stave off certain obliteration, but the Dark Elves and High Elves, acting in unison, have made up their minds: to invade the Dark Land and bring about the Day of Reckoning.

From the ashes of civil war, the vampire nation emerges stronger than ever. Homar son of Homar, whom history will know as the Prince of Dread, musters his troops to avenge a nearly forgotten wrong. Caught in the wake of the vampire king's ambition is Malirias, an escaped slave who would rather die than lose his false freedom. But the vampire nation does not forgive, and in the end he may perish in the tumult, threatening to remake the world.

People seem to have the misconception that only a select few are able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. That is not true at all. The fact is, creativity is very much like a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to consistently give out great results.

Bobby (Bruiser) Parker is back and in the middle of it all again. This time someone has taken two of the people he loves the most, Bailey Kelly and Karen Harris. The kidnappers demand 10,000,000 dollars in 72 hours. Money isn't the problem. The women's husbands are two of the states wealthiest and most powerful men. The problem is Bruiser knows that statistically kidnap victims are not going to make it home after the money changes hands. Add to that the feeling in his gut that this is about more than money. It's about revenge.

As the fate of the planet lies in the hands of two scientists, Dr. Vinsant and Dr. Maak develop their own opinions on what the end should hold. One scientist's loyalty to an experiment reinforces the idea of letting science take its course, while the other's love and compassion towards the planet consumes him.

Druthor, the ancient king of the vampires, sought to cheat death with alchemy but only quickened his demise. His sudden death throws Nardur into civil war as the lesser lords vie for the Crimson Throne. In the north, the Black Zealots of the Lonely Temple remain neutral but - in time - everyone must pick their allegiance; and choosing the wrong side means death.

>A century has passed since the vampire race settled in the arctic north. It seems all is well for Druthor the Great, King of the Vampires, sitting uncontested on the Crimson Throne, when an iron sorceress arrives from the southlands. With her tales of war and tumult, she brings memories of what Druthor does not have: a national heirloom, an ancestral treasure - Lifedrinker, the ancient blade of the vampires. But recovering it will prove more dangerous than any could possibly imagine.

Jon is a grade school student who has a part-time job at a labratory where they experiment with animal DNA. When he hears that one of the scientists needs a tray full of samples, Jon runs to get it, trying to show how helpful he can be. In his haste he spill the contents of nine cups of animal DNA and the contents mix together. Sure, it was an accident, but the results make for an amazing discovery.

The Crucifixion is a modern American myth reframing the Old Testament in terms of the flight of African Americans from the Deep South during the Great Migration and the New Testament as the struggle for meaning in the modern, urban America. It is the story of a young man who is lost and alone, and must return to the city of his birth to find his place in the world.

In this next standalone installment of Dark Application, Dark Application: TWO, Luke is accused of heinous crimes for which there is no evidence to save him, thrown into prison, and must find the courage to fight the prosecutors who seek the highest punishment. With the help of an unexpected ally, he must face the grand jury. Meanwhile, Sabrina Dobson is now in possession of the phone containing the unpredictable, mind-probing spyware. A budding teenager with high hopes for her future, innocent Sabrina is targeted by the very kidnappers who killed Tiffany El'Said.

Have you ever wondered why that smarmy sales guy won't quit, even when it's obvious to both of you that you're not buying what he's selling? Have you ever made a snap judgment about someone's character - only to find out that you were completely wrong? I live in California yet work for Celebrity Magician Criss Angel in Las Vegas. Needless to say, I find myself flying three to four times per week. Those who fly know. This collection of short stories set on airplanes will let you see the strangers around you in an entirely new light - and what you learn just might surprise you.

What you are about to hear will disturb you; make no mistake. Within the first few minutes, you'll be confronted with a troubling fictional story revolving around two things that are deeply rooted in modern society: the fear of death and the obsession with social media. In fact, it will challenge comforting and preconceived notions of the social order at large. Tragedy rains down upon this story, tinged with shadow, and making slippery all that we take for granted through this dark tale.

Pietro, a young man, has never killed: something rare for the corrupt city of Peregoth and totally alien to the tropics of Molkoro, where circumstances will soon take him. In the sweltering jungle, his purity has become a commodity to the ettin invaders and their lord, the dark Vexor. But how long can his innocence last in a godless land?

This story originally appeared in Mindflights Magazine in Sept. 2008.

The City on the Rock is dying. It rests on Salan, Captain of the Tower Guard, to find out why.