Lead your organizations, solve problems, and sustain your company’s growth with effective practices for complex, uncertain, and unpredictable environments In Move to the Edge, Declare it Center, CEO, entrepreneur, and strategist Everett Harper delivers a powerful and pragmatic take on solving complex problems by, and making decisions through, uncertainty. You’ll learn to discover insights quickly by experimenting, iterating, then building infrastructure to sustain your innovations in your teams and organizations. The author demonstrates a set of practices, processes, and infrastructure that addresses complex problems alongside a set of methods to systematize, scale, and share best practices throughout an organization. In the book, the author offers a new framework for leadership that’s perfectly suited to an increasingly volatile, uncertain, and unpredictable world. You’ll also get: Effective ways to make decisions in situations without complete information Strategies for sustaining your team through highly uncertain times Techniques for managing personal anxiety—a key leadership skill for the next decade Case studies of World Central Kitchen, COVID public health policymakers, and California wildfire responders illustrate the framework, while pragmatic playbooks about salary transparency, remote work, and diversity and inclusion will help leaders apply the framework in their own organizations. The author shares personal stories and winning strategies that help leaders maintain high performance, avoid burnout, and enable companies to thrive. Move to the Edge, Declare it Center is perfect for business leaders facing complex problems that require immediate decisions in the face of uncertain outcomes. It’s also a must-read for anyone interested in modern leadership and looking for a way to help them make solid decisions with incomplete information.

Eighteen-year-old Cayenne barely remembers her mother, who died of breast cancer when Cayenne was four. The women in her family have a history of dying young. Cayenne figures she'll meet the same fate, so she might as well enjoy life now, engaging in death-defying risks like dodging trains and jumping off cliffs with her boyfriend. When Cayenne receives a series of video messages her mother made for her before dying, she isn't sure she wants them. Her aunt Tee has been her true mother figure. But then Aunt Tee tests positive for a BRCA gene mutation—the one that doomed Cayenne's mom—and decides to get a mastectomy to reduce her chances of developing cancer. As Cayenne helps her aunt prepare for the surgery, she finds herself drawn to her mother's messages, with their musings on life, love, and perseverance. For the first time, Cayenne starts to question what it truly means to live life to the fullest, even when death might be written into her DNA.

After the death of her parents two and a half years ago, Olivia Mayor moves to Pinecrossing, Wyoming with her sister, Christine. Idaho has been the only state she knows and she feels like there’s truly nothing left for her anymore after she’s forced to move to Pinecrossing, WY. For two and a half years, Olivia has submerged herself deeply into a numb state. The death of her parents was tragic and she can’t accept the fact that they are gone. Rather than accept reality, she pushes herself as far away from it as possible. In denial, she submerges herself deeper and deeper into this numb world that she’s created for herself. However, after being in Pinecrossing for several weeks, the numb state begins to leave her and she is forced to step back into the world...what awaits her is nothing like she thought. Many ‘myths’ are going around the town about the forest. According to the legends, scary things—monsters—come out on the night of the full moon. Olivia knows for a fact that there is nothing going out in the forest like everyone believes...or is there? Tempting fate, Olivia goes out into the heart of the forest on a night of the full moon. What she discovers while there will change her whole thinking. She’s determined to solve whatever it is that’s going on in the forest. Along the journey to discovering answers, she falls deeply in love with the handsome and very mysterious Mark Walker. It does not take Olivia long to realize that he is a part of this mystery, too. He knows what’s going on in the forest on the nights of the full moon, but like everyone else, he pushes her away. Finding comfort in a strange white wolf who always lingers around her home, Olivia begins to open up to the wolf...giving him her whole heart. She doesn’t understand what is going on, but she promises that she will protect her wolf...no matter what. This wolf seems to be apart of her life...sewed to her, even. Without him she is positive that she won’t be able to breathe. But...after discovering the truth, will she feel the same? After Mark suddenly withdraws from her and her world seems like it’s crashing down, she discovers the truth. She discovers what’s really going on in her forest. She also uncovers the truth of what Mark is... On this long journey, can Olivia accept the truth of her parents ́ death and heal? Can she open up and let someone love her, giving her love in return? Can she, all in all, continue on with life even with all the pain and grieve that is a constant companion in her life?

Sequel to the Edgar-nominated The Edge of Nowhere, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George A mysterious girl who won’t speak; a coal black seal named Nera that returns to the same place every year; a bitter feud of unknown origin—strange things are happening on Whidbey Island, and Becca King, is drawn into the maelstrom of events. But Becca has her own secrets to hide. Still on the run from her criminal stepfather, Becca is living in a secret location. Even Derric, the Ugandan orphan with whom Becca shares a close, romantic relationship, can’t be allowed to know her whereabouts. As secrets of past and present are revealed, Becca becomes aware of her growing paranormal powers, and events build to a shocking climax anticipated by no one. Acclaimed author Elizabeth George brings her extraordinary talents to this intriguing story that blends mystery and myth. "A ripping good thriller." —School Library Journal

Poetically fashioned and emotionally candid, this collection of personal reflections savors the joys of life after 50 with past regrets and triumphs balanced by eager anticipation of a future built on wisdom gained along the way.

The federal offshore oil leasing program has generated more than billion for the federal government, and the Outer Continental Shelf represents the greatest potential for oil and gas reserves remaining in the United States. But most U.S. coastal states oppose offshore development, and the battle resulting from these conflicting forces has raged through the last five presidential administrations and concurrent sessions of Congress. This book tells the history of the debate, puts it in perspective, and explores the prospects for future development. It traces the factors that led to the ascendancy of oil as an energy source, the emergence of the technology that made undersea extraction possible, the political forces that led to the dramatic offshore boom in the Gulf of Mexico, and the national policies that eventually produced the closing of virtually all offshore federal lands to the agency created within the Department of Interior to exploit them.