New Releases by Mike Morrison

Big Heart Feels, third in the Small Voice Says trilogy, follows little Angela as she discovers her own big heart - and learns to empathize with her family and friends at school. Your child will be inspired by Angela's new adventures!

In 2017 we launched a new podcast series called "Behind the Membership". Its aim was to dig deep into the stories of real people running real, successful online membership businesses. Not to give them a platform to blow their own trumpet, but to get to the heart of what made them tick, how their journey had unfolded and what insights they'd picked up along the way. We had the privilege of uncovering some absolute gold in those conversations - an incredible wealth of insight and experience that was just too valuable to leave languishing in the archives of the podcast, so we've compiled the biggest takeaways into this book. These are real people, real memberships, real stories. Enjoy.

Member Machine gives you bite-sized but in-depth information on all aspects of membership site creation, with daily activities and exercises for you to complete in order to get your online membership up and running easily. This 30 day guide to launching your own membership website gives you with a clear path to follow that will give you the best start for your website. Each day focuses on a specific area and, most importantly, gives you the action steps you need to take in order to move forward.

SWOT, PESTLE & PRIMO-F analysis are amongst the most commonly misused tools in business. This book sets out the myths and practical applications of these and other diagnostic approaches is a robust but practical way.

Our lives – and our leadership journeys – tend to follow one of two paths: the “conventional” and the “unconventional.” The conventional path is driven by our work cultures – cultures that tend to thrive on action, activity, and results. That's why it's called work. So, when we are at work, we need to be doing something (anything). We also know that our lives are accelerating in terms of increasing complexity, unmanageable aspects of time, escalating expectations, and declining resources. Welcome to the age of anxiety. In the process, we are losing our sense of community and our ability to be fully present for each other when we are needed most. As a result, our work cultures are losing their capacity to create enough gravitational pull to keep the organization “whole.” It is no surprise that we are living at the outer edges. Without a connection to a unifying center, we play the smaller game, where vulnerability and anxiety rein. This is not working. The center is not holding. We need to rethink our way forward. That is the ultimate aim of this book -- to bring both hope and clarity in defining that pathway forward.

For over 10 years, the ESPN Sports Almanac has been the definitive source for answers to almost every sports question. Record holders to champions, auto racing to the Iditarod, ballparks to business news, plus a who's who of the dearly departed athletes of the year past--the ESPN Sports Almanac 2009 tracks them in hundreds of photos, thousands of tables, countless facts and figures, plus expert analyses from ESPN's most popular personalities (Chris Berman, Stuart Scott, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, Dick Vitale, et al.). Add fan input from ESPN.com's SportsNation polls, along with ESPN's unique brand of humor, and this latest edition will keep the ESPN Sports Almanac the reigning champion and a New York Times best-seller.

This text provides an overview of database design and implementation topics using Microsoft SQL Server 2005, with an emphasis on database application development using Visual Studio .NET.

New from leadership pioneer Mike Morrison The Other Side of the Card is a compelling parable on finding one's true leadership voice. Using the business card as a symbol of personal identity and power, it helps readers understand that the blank side of their card-and the hidden part of their identity-is not empty space but limitless possibility. Through lively discussions and engaging exercises, Morrison introduces the principles and practices of personal leadership development. Readers discover how to find purpose in life and in the organization and to create meaningful change-the key to reaching one's true potential as a leader. “This is a critical pause point - a yellow light representing the need to slow down for one of the most dangerous intersections in our lives. If we are going to have any chance for a meaningful life, we need to define the other side of the card.” So says Seth Stevens, a retiring CEO who has one last chance to reclaim his leadership voice. His final duty, orienting a group of newly promoted managers, serves as the perfect opportunity to reveal the timeless truths of his remarkable leadership story. This compelling story also serves as a personal journey for developing your own authentic leadership voice. Through lively discussions and engaging exercises, Morrison introduces the foundational principles and practices of the “Me” and “We” paths of personal leadership development. The six progressive steps on the “Me/We” path will give you the power to find your purpose in life and your organization and to create meaningful change-the key to reaching your true potential as a leader and fostering a workplace environment that promotes high levels of satisfaction, engagement, and productivity. You will be able to answer these essential questions about yourself: Beyond the job title and contact information on your business card - who are you? In a go-go world that puts our true identities at risk - what have you become? Most importantly, where are you on the journey to developing your authentic leadership voice? Morrison's powerful prescriptions demonstrate clearly how the intangibles of promise-keeping, meaning-making, and service-to-others drive the outcomes of organizational success. Get ready for a story that will change your life and the way you view leadership. It's time to discover what's on the other side of your card.

This book "is ideal for courses that require a thorough introduction to the tools and techniques of Oracle database applications development. Author Rocky Conrad takes the Morrison's proven approach to the next level with a single running case throughout the chapters, and provides hundreds of opportunities for hands-on work, including step-by-step tutorials and problem-solving cases at the end of the every lesson. You and your students will also appreciate the free Oracle Developer Suite 10g included on two CDS with every text." - back cover.

Learn to build and deploy dynamic Web applications that interact with a powerful database. Readers with two prior programming courses will learn to get the most out of Visual Studio .NET, Oracle9i and Microsoft Access 2002.

Accompanying 2 CD-ROM set titled: Oracle9i developer suite.

The authors use common business situations, provided by two running cases, to prepare students to create an Oracle database and write user applications."--BOOK JACKET.

Blackbird takes advantage of familiar and easy to use content creation tools. This book covers all of the techniocal and content issues related to creating an online multimedia with Blackbird, Microsoft's hot new suite of online development tools. The CD contains all of the samples and examples discussed throughout the book.

This book contains coverage of the hottest image editing and manipulation programs, including Adobe Photoshop, Aldus Photostyler, and Caligari's trueSpace and the latest advances in popular technologies, including PhotoCD, morphing, image processing, and 2-D and 3-D animation.

This book is a complete survey of the field of interactive entertainment, packed with product reviews and inside information from product developers from the hottest companies in the industry. The CD contains evaluation copies of some of the hottest PC and Mac games in the industry, as well as test-drive samples of multimedia products and shareware games.

The audience for this book is everyone that has an interest in the images they see daily. Regardless of your occupation or station in life, you are affected daily by image processing. Even readers who are not computer literate will find this book informative. The book starts very simply--describing image processing, then progresses to more advanced concepts such as video morphing.