Cerise Merola or CC as affectionately addressed by her friends was a cross between Antie Mame, Gypsie Rose Lee, and a jigger of Tulalla Bankhead.

Break through to your peak performance! Whether you're navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role, or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you're facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later: you need a new performance. In Performance Breakthrough, Cathy Salit presents the revolutionary strategies that she's proven successful through over twenty years' experience custom-creating workshops for powerhouse clients including American Express, Nike, Coca-Cola, and DIRECTV. Artfully blending techniques from theatrical performance with the new science of performative psychology, Salit guides readers through forging new relationships guaranteed to yield greater success and satisfaction. Performance Breakthrough outlines proven techniques, including taking an emotional inventory; crafting new scripts for greater confidence, stronger relationships, and better outcomes; building ensembles; improvising; and listening -- really listening -- including accepting others' criticism and input. No matter what your challenge, Salit's innovative philosophy, case studies, practical exercises, and inspiring advice will help you deliver your own top performance.

During the past two decades, it has been generally acknowledged that life-cycle bridge analysis can be a systematic tool to address efficient and effective bridge management under uncertainty life-cycle management at the bridge network level can lead to an improvement in the allocation of limited financial resources, ensuring the safety and functionality of the bridge network life-cycle management of bridges and bridge networks based on resilience and sustainability can improve their resistance and robustness to extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes bridge management should consider the impact of environmental conditions and climate change This book addresses important concepts and approaches developed recently on bridge safety, maintenance, and management in a life-cycle context. Bridge life-cycle performance and cost analysis, prediction, optimization, and decision making under uncertainty are discussed. The major topics include bridge safety and service life prediction; bridge inspection and structural health monitoring; bridge maintenance; life-cycle bridge and bridge network management; optimum life-cycle bridge management planning; resilience and sustainability of bridges and bridge networksunder hazards; and bridge management considering climate change. By providing practical applications of the presented concepts and approaches, this book can help students, researchers, practitioners, infrastructure owners and managers, and transportation officials to build up their knowledge of life-cycle bridge performance and cost management at bothproject level and network level under various deteriorating mechanisms, hazards and climate change effects.

英語老師、教授一致推薦 聽CNN練英語聽力最有效率！ 影片學習 CNN新聞影片原音教學 實戰測驗 每個單元安排多項英語聽力訓練題組 聽力技巧 反覆練習，按部就班找出英語聽力進步訣竅 想說道地的英語，聽不聽的懂才是關鍵！ 不論是出國留學、外派出差或是移民，語言能力是首要的必備生活能力，除了一般基礎的食衣住行生活英語之外，想要再進階能與外國友人隨心所欲暢談各種主題，總是要先能夠聽的懂對方說什麼，才能有適當的回應，否則也只是雞同鴨講。因此想開口說的像母語人士，必須要先學會怎麼聽的懂，進而理解對話的結構，以期能達到真正對答如流的英語能力。 最真實生動的又貼近生活的對話，都在CNN新聞裡！ 本書設計的目的在於幫助讀者，真實理解日常生活中的對話結構，能夠流利且貼切的用英語表達想法或是日常英語的交談。精選10篇主題，涵蓋多元主題的CNN真實報導，提供既有趣且生動的進階真實對話，藉由這些生活化的實際例子，有效訓練英語聽力，還可以增加在社交場合的聊天話題。 目錄介紹 Unit 1 The Natural World Listening Task A: North Pole to See Temperatures 50 Degrees Above Average Listening Task B: In the Shadow of a Killer Listening Task C: Four-Legged Aid: Animals Help Fight Covid Practice: Harvey’s Horrifying Destruction Unit 2 Globetrotting Listening Task A: Yellowstone Splendor Listening Task B: Volcano-Powered Pools Listening Task C: Sampling Büryani-Style Kebabs in Istanbul Practice: Cape Town’s Apex Predator Unit 3 Live for Fun Listening Task A: Electronic Emotion Listening Task B: Not Just Fun and Games Listening Task C: Making Layovers More Enjoyable Practice: Coin-Operated Convenience Unit 4 Entertainment Listening Task A: Award Artistry Listening Task B: Dance like a Bollywood Star Listening Task C: The Edge of Imagination Practice: Adele Soars Unit 5 Food Adventure Listening Task A: Food Innovators Listening Task B: Future Foods: Revolutionizing How and What We Eat Listening Task C: Food for Thought Practice: Sweet Obsession Unit 6 Health and Medicine Listening Task A: Canine Companion Listening Task B: Heart Disease Does a 180 Listening Task C: Digital Medicine Practice: Taking the Edge Off Unit 7 Sports and Leisure Listening Task A: The Greatest at His Greatest Listening Task B: Resplendent Roger Listening Task C: 5G: A Costly Network Practice: Studs or Spuds? Unit 8 Biz World Listening Task A: The Dark Side of Business Travel Listening Task B: Eyes on the Mobile Prize Listening Task C: Amazon’s Embrace of Future Technology Practice: Airfares: The Dark Arts Unit 9 Cutting-Edge Technology Listening Task A: Haptic Holograms Listening Task B: Glow-in-the-Dark Cityscapes Listening Task C: The Growing Importance of AI in the Workplace Practice: Performance Capture Pipe Dreams Unit 10 Politics and Social Justice Listening Task A: Man of the Hour Listening Task B: First, But Not the Last Listening Task C: The Price of Inequality Practice: A Platinum Reign

National Bestseller “Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration.” —New York Times In this national bestseller, Stew Friedman gives you the tools you need to achieve “four-way wins”—improved performance in all domains of life: work, home, community, and self. Friedman, celebrated professor and founding director of the Wharton School’s Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project, explains how three simple yet potent principles—be real, be whole, and be innovative—can help you, no matter what your age or what you do for work, become a better leader and have a richer life. In this engaging adaptation of his hands-on Wharton course, he offers step-by-step instruction to help you create positive, sustainable change in your world. This proven, programmatic method teaches you how to produce stronger results at work, find clearer purpose, feel less stressed, strengthen connections with the people who matter most to you, contribute further to important causes, and gain greater support for your vision of your future. If you’re ready to learn to lead in all parts of your life—this is the book for you. For a full array of Total Leadership tips and tools, visit totalleadership.org. Also look for Stew Friedman’s book, Leading the Life You Want, which builds on Total Leadership by profiling well-known leaders—from Bruce Springsteen to Michelle Obama—who exemplify its principles and demonstrate how success in your work is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of your life, but as the result of meaningful attachments to all its parts.

Performance Driven Thinking is a challenging journey that will encourage you to embrace the greatest performance of your life. During this journey, you will experience the call to perform in both your personal and professional existence. The truth is you were born to perform. But the question is at what level will your performance take place? During this journey you will learn how your life from the day you were born until the day you started reading this book was all in preparation for the performance of a lifetime. This journey will challenge you to never accept a sense of entitlement but to embrace a level of performance that will take you to greater heights both personally and professionally. Performance Driven Thinking will serve as your personal coach to a life of personal and professional prosperity. This journey will take you to a feeling of embracing life in the winner’s circle. It will assist you in overcoming the simple challenges of everyday issues to existing at a level which will benefit those who choose to take it. The key to this journey will begin when you discover the desire to perform and will end up with you embracing the will to perform. Non-performance in your life is no longer an option. Your stage is set. You have had a lifetime to prepare. Performance Driven Thinking will be your ticket to your personal and professional performance of a lifetime. What’s stopping you? You were born to perform.