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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; » creating hierarchy; » layouts with multiple topics on the same screen or page; » multiple-page layouts; » exit here; » try this; » layout ideas you can swipe: beyond the works-every-time layout; chapter 7: type: what you don't know can hurt you; » font, typeface, font family, glyph; » font categories; » choosing & using fonts; » applying additional font styling; » typesetting lengthy copy; » taking a page from newspaper design…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- The Courageous Leader -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Courage is the Way -- The Three Components of Courage: Diversity, Pain, and Choice -- The Intention of the Author and This Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1 The Business Case for Courage -- The Fear of Discomfort and Pain -- Pain Thresholds -- Common Reactions to Tough Times -- We Feel (We Experience Fear, Discomfort, or Pain) -- We Think (We Process It Intellectually) -- We Feel Again (We Choose an Emotion) -- We Respond (We Choose Reaction or We Choose Action) -- Uncommon Choices -- The Big Temptation -- Honoring the Courageous Leader in You -- Assessing the Risks -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Courage to Get Unstuck -- When Life Kicks You out of the Workplace -- Moving on or Going Deeper -- Going Deeper in Action -- Stuck in a Paradigm -- Pain During the Transition -- Making Sense of Our Pain -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Courage to Take a Stand -- So, What Exactly Are Values? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding a Win -- Making the Right Choice -- Leaders Lead -- E-Connections -- SPA for the Win -- Taming the Beast-Your Emotions -- Experience the Wins -- Look Up, Not Down -- The Sky Is Your Limit -- Locus of Control -- Owning the Outcomes -- Foundation for Leadership, Balance -- Your Turn -- Leadership Quality -- Take Action -- A Rookie Cop -- Wins Follow a Process -- The Power of Leading, Not Following -- Identify Problems First -- Expect the Fear -- Winning in Uncertain Times -- Pivot and Act -- Holistic Approach Is Essential -- Model the Right Behavior -- Your Turn to Fix Things -- Chapter 2 Our Missions Set the Playbook -- The Sum of All Our Missions -- Intimidating Yet Powerful -- The Downside -- A Perfect (Better) World -- Take a Chance -- Regret Isn't an Option -- Learnings and Lessons Mount Up -- Emotions and Control -- Pay Attention to Your Gut -- Instincts Matter -- Crucial Input -- Talking Points -- Failures Are Wins, Too -- Tough Times -- Relationships Make the Difference -- The Role of Emotions -- Debriefing Is Essential -- Lessons from Entrepreneurship -- Building Your Business -- Real Estate Grit -- Consistency Wins -- Attitude and More Relationships -- Knowing When to Stop -- A Word About Success -- Your Toolbox for the Journey -- Part II Your ToolBox -- Chapter 3 Party With the Beast (Your Emotions) -- Friend or Foe? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…What matters and who matters -- A sense of personal time -- Shared deliberation and shared planning -- Three aspects of planning as strengths -- 8 From reflexivities to planning: the 'remarkable trio' of Michael Bratman -- Michael Bratman's account of planning agency: the remarkable trio -- Self-governance, what matters, and planning -- Shared agency: social aspects of planning -- Cross-temporal aspects of planning agency -- Cross-temporal planning - under conditions of compounded adversity -- Preamble -- Introduction -- A plurality of modes of planning, which Bratman acknowledges, and two critiques -- A sense of a foreshortened future -- Alternative, crip, and queer temporalities/non-normative logics of time -- Logic -- Logic as something fluid -- Logic as life structuring in life -- Logic as face - wearing a look - a dense field of significance -- Logic as expressive voice, and making sense of the suppression of voice -- Logic as not synoptic (wide-field), and not an overview, not a master narrative -- 9 Emotions: a background framework is called into question -- Martha Nussbaum on 'upheavals of thought' -- Matthew Ratcliffe: emotional intentionality -- Emotion as rupture in a person's lifeworld -- A background framework is called into question -- The full implications are impossible to 'pin down' -- The two-sidedness of emotional intentionality -- A way of revising the world -- A broader rationality (and revision) takes time -- Transition from out-of-home care -- Multiple emotion ruptures -- Development during emerging adulthood40 -- Transition itself as a rupture -- Particular aspects of experiences before and during transition -- 10 Planning and voice: starting points -- Introduction -- Flags in the mountainside -- Recognition theory: recognition, respect, and disrespect -- Co-design…”