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No matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey—whether formulating your dreams, running a thriving company, or anywhere in between—it's important to have guidance and mentoring to keep you on the right path. In Leaping Forward author Pat Phelan will give you both the guidance and mentoring you are looking for while you are Finding Purpose and Understanding Your Journey as an Entrepreneur. With more than sixteen years of experience running successful companies, Pat has raised more than $100M in private equity for various hospitality projects, supplied and manufactured more than $75M in hospitality furniture and recruited hundreds of talented people for some of the top food and beverage brands. He has now written a must-have guide for all business owners in which he shares lessons learned to help you avoid mistakes, along with wisdom as you find your path to making your business as success!Pat will help you understand: • That you have to own your decisions, because you will be the one who reaps the rewards and/or learns from the consequences. • Why you need to be able to pivot in the moment and make adjustments and transitions as needed. • How having a vision for your business keeps you on track and also allows you to open the door when opportunity comes knocking. • The need to have the foresight to walk through a door and take a path that you don't know where it will end.This insightful book will help you take a look at things you may not have thought about such as: the pros and cons of hiring family members; the importance of joining a business mastermind group; when and how to give over control of parts of your business to trusted employees or contractors. At the end of each chapter, you will find “Pat's Points to Ponder” giving you specific insights to consider as you build and grow your business.As an entrepreneur, you desire personal and financial freedom that working for someone else will never bring you. You know the journey you want to take, and Leaping Forward will help you define the path that leads to the freedom you seek.

This book provides the reader with a fresh and comprehensive approach to both considering and implementing an uncommon governance practice that emphasizes a lasting, effective, and a sustaining relationship between the board and president. This discussion encapsulates pre-hiring practices, and principles regarding CEO selection, onboarding, various board membership constructions (both appointed and elected), and new dimensions of board governance that emphasize competition, agility, transparency, effectiveness, and new business models. The discussion also includes elements of policy and by-law design, intentional governance design and development, committee structures and use, parliamentary procedures, meeting construction and effectiveness, CEO contracts and evaluation, board self-evaluation, generative thinking and planning, transparency and addressing board and organizational challenges. Given that transitioning to a new, enhanced or blended governance model can be difficult, the book will offer suggestions and guidance about how to move toward a more preferred, effective model. This component will include tools, such as a strategy canvas, and other processes to assist boards in addressing questions along the way, such as how and where to begin, how to evaluate the efficacy of the current model and how to structure the transition process and the timing thereof.

Arguably, the nation's community colleges have experienced more change in the last several years than they have over the prior 115 years of their existence. Rapid changes in technology, external pressures for accountability and student completion, aggressive competition from other higher education institutions (i.e., public, for-profit, and private), changes in enrollment demographics, as well as new economic, market, and operational models stand to completely disrupt this relatively young enterprise. Unrelenting Change provides useful, practical examples for community college leaders as they seek to thoughtfully and strategically align their organization for the new dynamic in higher education. Furthermore, Unrelenting Change offers insights into the change process, including institutional assessment and readiness, consideration of cultural implications, strategic intentions toward innovation, as well as risk, failure, and success. Rather than perceiving change and disruptive innovation as merely happenstance, or luck, the author provides discernment into the topic so as to give community college leaders solid, guidance, if not improved odds, in undertaking this important, competitive edge for the future of their intuitions, and by extension, their students.

What was the appeal of'the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground'to Romantic and Victorian poets? How did a form which had fallen into disuse in the early eighteenth-century become a central and enduring part of nineteenth-century poetry? This study traces the history and development of the sonnet throughout the nineteenth-century, examining the work of Wordsworth, Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, George Meredith and a number of other key canonical and non-canonical writers.

Phelan and Reynolds'book is for anyone who needs to evaluate arguments and interpret evidence. It deals with the most fundamental aspects of academic study: • the ability to reason with ideas and evidence• to formulate arguments effectively• to appreciate the interplay between ideas and evidence in academic and media debateArgument and Evidence presents aspects of informal logic and statistical theory in a comprehensible way, enabling students to acquire skills in critical thinking which will outlast their undergraduate studies. Ideal as a companion for courses on methodology or study skills, Argument and Evidence will also be useful for other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.