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Dream Big: I Dare You! Better Yet . . . I Double Dare You!!
by Roger PalmieriAlign your actions to meet your goals and find success and self-fulfillment—from the sought-after speaker, coach, and Mind-Set Performance expert. By combining compelling prose, thought-provoking quotes, and real-life stories with grounding exercises, Dream Big: I Dare You! Better Yet . . . I Double Dare You!! informs, entertains, and persuades its readers to take their dreams seriously. Designed as an inspiring and practical guide book, the exercises turn insights into actionable steps that enhance results. Since 1978, Roger has fine-tuned and applied his Dream Big philosophy throughout his broad speaking, training, and coaching platform. His strong, highly experienced, common sense voice has encouraged thousands of people to live life fully, to achieve success, and to contribute significantly to others. Dream Big: I Dare You! Better Yet . . . I Double Dare You!! hands the frustrated dreamer a toolbox to take them from wishing and hoping to finally having their big dream become real.
Dream Chasing (Disney Editions Deluxe)
by Bob WeisDisney experiences enthrall millions of guests around the world. How does it all become a reality? Find out in this action-packed narrative journey!Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the top secret, high-tech corridors of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company. Our author recounts working on and overseeing projects that took him from Anaheim, California, to the swampy wetlands of Central Florida, and even on to Paris; Washington, D.C.; Russia; Tokyo; Shanghai; and the massive shipyards of Papenburg, Germany. As a former Imagineering president, Bob Weis was part of the second generation of Imagineers. His page-turner of a story follows the path of someone who never lost his passion for chasing big innovative dreams in spite of having to navigate over bumpy roads tied to a slew of issues and concerns—grounded in design, technology, politics, and culture (to name a few) just to bring an array of Disney experiences to reality. Bob&’s drive was fueled by a belief in something Walt Disney once said: &“It&’s kind of fun to do the impossible. &”Dreams," as Weis writes, &“come from a place of infinite possibilities, from a part of us that doesn&’t recognize limits." Dreams are exciting, frustrating, and sometimes illusive, as hard to hold on to as pixie dust, like glitter falling through your fingers.&”Sometimes they are meant to happen, and they do; sometimes they are meant to happen, and they don&’t. But every dream is an adventure, driven by the vision and passion of teams that believe any dream worth doing, is worth chasing."
Dream First, Details Later: How to Quit Overthinking & Make It Happen!
by Ellen Bennett"Ellen Bennett is the platonic form of a go-getter who inspires go-getter after go-getter to become a better go-getter."—Zooey Deschanel, actor and musician You&’ll never know where to start…until you start. This gutsy guidebook will help anyone who's procrastinating on a goal, career change, or business idea stop the obsessive worrying and leap into action.As a 24-year-old line cook, Ellen Marie Bennett couldn't stand the kitchen staff&’s poorly designed, cheaply made aprons. So when her head chef announced he was ordering a new batch, she blurted out, &“Chef, I have an apron company&”—even though she had no company, no business plan—just a glimmer of a design idea and a business license. Through hustle and a willingness to leap into the unknown, time and time again, she built that first order into a multi-million-dollar company called Hedley & Bennett, making aprons and kitchen gear worn by many of the world&’s best chefs and home cooks everywhere. Dream First, Details Later shares Ellen's journey and her forged-in-the-fire personal playbook for starting before you stop yourself. If you've ever imagined doing something and immediately thought, "that's impossible," or "I wouldn't even know where to start," or "I'm not qualified to do that," in these pages, you'll learn how to shove aside your inner worrier and launch into action. This honest and bold illustrated book will be like having Ellen—your personal hype woman—there with you, all the while yelling, "Don't stop! You got this!" She'll share hard-won advice on: • Squashing doubts and reservations about venturing outside your comfort zone. (These doubts masquerade as rational, but they&’re more likely coming from a place of fear.) • Saying screw it to the perfect plan and using creative problem-solving—and heart and guts—to conquer the shit storms as they come. • Eventually transitioning from the "flying by the seat of your pants" stage to the "well-oiled machine" stage. You don't need to have all the answers to make your dream a reality. You just need to start before you're ready.
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
by Richard V. ReevesAmerica is becoming a class-based society. It's now conventional wisdom to focus on the excesses of the top 1%. But the more important, and widening, gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else. As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighbourhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle.
Dream Jobs If You Like Dinosaurs (Dream Jobs for Future You)
by Amie Jane LeavittWouldn't it be cool to have a job working with or around the things you love? Fascinated by dinosaurs? Perhaps a career in paleontology is something you would dig! Readers will discover the possibilites of careers working with dinosaurs.
Dream Jobs If You Like Food (Dream Jobs for Future You)
by Amie Jane LeavittWouldn't it be cool to have a job working with or around the things you love? Do you like decorating cupcakes? Maybe a career as a cake decorator would be a sweet gig! Readers will discover the possibilites of careers working with food.
Dream Jobs If You Like Kids (Dream Jobs for Future You)
by Amie Jane LeavittWouldn't it be cool to have a job working with or around the things you love? Do you enjoy helping people? Maybe a career in pediatrics is something you would care for! Readers will discover the possibilites of careers working with kids.
Dream Jobs If You Like Robots (Dream Jobs for Future You)
by Amie Jane LeavittWouldn't it be cool to have a job working with or around the things you love? Do you have an interest in artificial intelligence? Maybe working with bots would compute for you! Readers will discover the possibilites of careers working with robots.
Dream Jobs If You Like Toys (Dream Jobs for Future You)
by Amie Jane LeavittWouldn't it be cool to have a job working with or around the things you love? Are you passionate about toys? Perhaps designing new toys is an idea you could play around with! Readers will discover the possibilites of careers working with toys.
Dream Jobs If You Like Videos (Dream Jobs for Future You)
by Amie Jane LeavittWouldn't it be cool to have a job working with or around the things you love? Do you wish you could get paid to watch movies? Maybe a job as a movie reviewer is the right direction! Readers will discover the possibilites of careers working with videos.
Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart
by Shane SnowAward-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through.The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together.You'll learn: * How ragtag teams--from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates--beat the odds throughout history. * Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships. * What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving. * Pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together. * The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded.Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about people, progress, and collaboration.
Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart
by Shane Snow'An adventure into the very human science of making breakthroughs together.' - Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of HabitThe best groups are more than the sum of their parts - but why does teamwork so often fail to fulfill this promise? Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow takes us on an extraordinary tour of the hidden science of team dynamics, revealing the counterintuitive reasons that some groups break out while far too many break down.Examining history-making groups like the Wu Tang Clan and the Russian national hockey side alongside teams whose failures have had lasting impact, Snow reveals the answers, and what the rest of us can learn from the rare teams that do the impossible together. In this stimulating, pacey adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, sports and business, Snow explores the secrets of the best teams the world has to offer. You'll discover: - How ragtag teams - from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates - beat the odds throughout history- Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships- What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving- The true stories of pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together- The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded.Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about progress and collaboration.
Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart
by Shane Snow'An adventure into the very human science of making breakthroughs together.' - Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of HabitThe best groups are more than the sum of their parts - but why does teamwork so often fail to fulfill this promise? Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow takes us on an extraordinary tour of the hidden science of team dynamics, revealing the counterintuitive reasons that some groups break out while far too many break down.Examining history-making groups like the Wu Tang Clan and the Russian national hockey side alongside teams whose failures have had lasting impact, Snow reveals the answers, and what the rest of us can learn from the rare teams that do the impossible together. In this stimulating, pacey adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, sports and business, Snow explores the secrets of the best teams the world has to offer. You'll discover: - How ragtag teams - from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates - beat the odds throughout history- Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships- What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving- The true stories of pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together- The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded.Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about progress and collaboration.
Dream Weaver: Finding Strength & Purpose in Life's Twists and Turns
by Jenny Jing Zhu"...a testament to the remarkable strength it takes to pursue one&’s aspirations against all odds, and a powerful reminder for anyone who has faith in oneself and dares to dream big.&” — Camille Burns, CEO Women Presidents Organization "...a blueprint for anyone with big dreams and the determination to make them happen.&” — Drew Scott, Founder Scott Brothers Global/Property Brothers&“You have been conducting fraudulent activities. I am the rightful majority owner, not you.&” Unannounced, my business partner walked into my office and recited a list of reasons why I was being fired. &“You will be deported. Please pack your things and leave or I&’ll call the police to remove you.&” &“What are you talking about?! What…&” I couldn&’t breathe. He gave me no time to digest what was happening. Within moments, two police officers were standing on either side of him. They must have been waiting for his call. &“I&’m sorry, ma&’am, but you have to leave the premises.&” ... Jenny Jing Zhu is a first-generation Chinese immigrant and proud Asian American. At an early age it became clear she was cut from a different cloth, defying her parents&’ wishes and cultural expectations. From finding her first job at age six in the small rural village of Caolou to learning about the realities of entrepreneurship, life, and love in Bejing as an older teen, Jenny relied on her instincts to follow her dreams. After building a string of small businesses, she landed in San Francisco as a newly married twenty-six-year-old to embark on the most challenge-filled yet rewarding adventure of her life. Jenny&’s inspiring and often humorous story offers women, immigrants, and new entrepreneurs an unvarnished look at the resilience and intuition she developed while weaving her dreams. She shows readers what it means to do the same by uncovering the strands of their own experiences and weaving them into a unique and beautiful tapestry.
Dream Wedding Photography
by Lorna YablseyCapture the big day in all its gorgeous glory with guidance from one of the UK&’s most sought-after wedding photographers. Dream Wedding Photography is a complete guide to producing stunning photographs of the perfect wedding and walking you through the entire process—from obtaining a commission and meeting the couple to tweaking the finished product and securing the order. Packed with exciting and original images, it will inspire you to create your own professional wedding portfolio. Find out about the approaches and techniques used by top wedding photographer Lorna Yabsley Understand practical shooting plans and get essential technical advice from a professional Discover how to enhance your work with post-production and presentation
Dream Year: Make the Leap from a Job You Hate to a Life You Love
by Ben Arment"Some people are content to help fulfill the dreams of their employers. But my guess is you're not one of them. You were born with a dream of your own. And this year, you're doing something about it." Somewhere along your road to adulthood, you pushed your dreams to the side. You had to pay bills. You feared taking a risk on yourself. And so you settled into an unfulfilling, perhaps even unpleasant career. If it's any comfort, you're far from alone; 66 percent of Americans hate their jobs. But what if someone could guide you, step-by-step, as you identify, plan, and launch your dream career--in just one year. That's what Ben Arment does in his transformative coaching class, which has helped hundreds of people reinvent their lives to enjoy greater enthusiasm and fulfillment while also making a living. Now he's sharing his best insights, advice, and inspiring true stories in Dream Year. You'll find out how people just like you are discovering (or rediscovering) what they were truly born to do, then following a proven process to make it real. And you'll meet men and women such as . . . Chuck Templeton, who created an online reservation system, OpenTable, that now serves more than thirty thousand restaurants worldwide. Katie Strandlund, who launched her own event-planning business and developed a full and deeply gratifying client list. Fabien Riggall, who combined his love for film and theater into a unique experience called Secret Cinema, which has reached 120,000 people. Hilary Barnett, who started a social media company that now employs several team members and creates content for national brands. There's no dream too big to be beyond the power of the Dream Year process. But before you conclude that this all sounds terrifyingly risky, consider Arment's wise words: "Worst-case scenarios rarely happen. And even when they do, they're not as bad as we think. In fact, what most of us call a worst-case scenario is often just a reduction in our standard of living. If it becomes as bad as you'd feared, you can always get another job. You can recover your life savings. You can get your dignity back. But you can never recover what you never tried at all."
Dream: Impact through Real Estate
by Michael Chu John MaskoThe Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system for impact investing, along with two new investment vehicles to connect investors with environmentally and socially beneficial projects. A first mover in impact investing among Canadian real estate firms, Dream wrestled with the question of how to use the language and concepts of impact investing to solve Toronto and Canada's housing affordability crisis. How could Dream work with federal, provincial, and local governments to make housing more affordable? How could it scale impact across the real estate industry to increase affordability? How could Dream also integrate other aspects of impact, like environmental sustainability, into its approach without losing focus on affordability? Students will consider the case of a single large Dream development in Toronto as they evaluate these questions.
DreamMakers: Innovating for the Greater Good
by Michele HuntDreamMakers: Innovating for the Greater Good profiles stories of businesses, cross-sector initiatives and movements and whole communities that are collaborating to create a flourishing world. They all share attitudes and beliefs that transcend: who they are, where they live, or their individual circumstances. The book provides a new definition of success, shares the stories of a number of businesses and communities and examines how the people that lead these successful organizations have made a significant difference. Stories come from people based in very different types of industries and sectors, such as Waka Waka, a company that is helping to address 'energy poverty' for millions of families across the globe, Menlo Innovations, a socially innovative technology company which embeds 'Joy' as a business proposition, and the hugely successful cross-sector global movement, B Corporation.These people share how they are innovating for the greater good and making their personal hopes and dreams come true. They share their results and what they have learned. Their compelling stories are instructive as well as inspirational. They share the defining moments in their lives that shaped the insights, perspectives and the decisions that lead them on their journey. They go into detail about the actions they are taking to help transform their organizations, communities to enable them to innovate for the greater good. They show us that by taking personal responsibility to change our lives, businesses and our communities, we contribute to changing our world.
DreamWorks SKG Inc.: To Distribute or Not to Distribute?
by David J. Collis Mary Furey Juan AlcacerCase
Dreamcatcher: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Dream to Success
by Jennifer JanschFive years ago, Jennifer Jansch had a dream: to start her own environmentally-friendly business-but there was a slight problem. She didn’t have a concrete idea of where to begin. Dreamcatcher is her success story of her sustainable fashion startup, Bag-all, which she launched on a shoestring budget out of her living room in two short years. Today, Bag-all retails its customized, reusable bags throughout the United States, as well as in twenty-five countries around the world.Lavishly designed and deeply personal, Dreamcatcher is a hybrid how-to business guide and inspirational book that provides an invaluable roadmap for any lay person with a passion who may not have business training-it presumes only that you begin with a dream (even if you have no idea what it looks like), and takes on the journey from there. Through the story of Bag-all, learn the tips and tricks behind: Discovering the right idea for your business Starting on a shoestring budget Creating products without prior knowledge Marketing and selling your brand Having the courage to do business your way, and more.This intimate and step-by-step account of the challenges and joys of launching one’s own business encourages readers to chart their own course, trust their own instinct, realize their dream, and discover their life purpose.
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability: Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
by S. Irudaya Rajan V. J. Varghese M. S. JayakumarIn the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors. It brings together the results of research in the major emigration hubs of India with the aid of quantitative and qualitative tools, drawing from all the major stakeholders —intending emigrants, recruiting agents, return emigrants, emigrant households, Protector of Emigrants, foreign employers, foreign recruiting agents, Indian missions and emigrant workers at the destination countries. The book unravels the underlying discriminatory rationality of the existing system of emigration governance, its logical and structural incoherencies and the consequent inefficacy in protecting the most vulnerable sections of workers leaving India for overseas employment, resulting in unaffordable levels of transaction and social costs. By outlining the institutional failure, the volume outlines the fundamental principles of a new institution which would facilitate orderly, safe and secure emigration, economically sustainable beneficial expatriate life and social protection after the emigrants return. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, law, economics, demography, anthropology, history, gender studies, cultural studies, Diaspora studies, migration studies and international relations, apart from policy-makers and administrators of transnational migration and NGOs working in the field of migration.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott RosenbergOur civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it's so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers--led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor--designing a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook. Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they wrestle not only with the abstraction of code, but with the unpredictability of human behavior-- especially their own.
Dreaming in Public
by Daniel Lang Levitsky Amy LangSince September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say? Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the movement aimed at influencing its development and addressing those not yet in the streets and plazas. Produced by participant journalists, political analysts, writers, polemicists, photographers, organizers, and activists, these documents capture the vibrant, contentious, illuminating, and inventive exchange of Occupy. Work from contributors such as Naomi Klein and Harsha Walia complement public declarations from the movement, images, and graphics. Some pieces explore the rites and rituals of the movement, others its aims and overall structure. Yet others take up the role differences of race and gender play in a movement that claims to represent the 99%, and the complicated business of maintaining urban encampments. Many consider the challenge participatory democracy poses to conventional ideas of what politics is or should be. The materials in this collection attest not only to the extraordinary political energy that has already come out of Occupy, but to the implications of the movement for the future. Amy Schrager Lang is professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University and author of a number of books. Daniel Lang/Levitsky is an artist, theater producer, writer, and founding member of the Direct Action Network and Jews Against the Occupation.
Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
by Vera S. CandianiNot long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of technicians, thousands of indigenous workers, and millions of pesos were marshaled to realize a complex system of canals, tunnels, dams, floodgates, and reservoirs. Vera S. Candiani's Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narrative that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, biota, humans, and the relationship among them, to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Connecting multiple historiographical traditions—history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history—Candiani proposes that colonization was a class, not an ethnic or nation-based phenomenon, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined.
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
by William Cronon Marsha WeisigerThis fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Diné) pastoralism recounts how a dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s, an ambitious attempt by the federal government to eliminate overgrazing on an arid landscape, resulted in a disastrous loss of livelihood for Navajos without significant improvement of the grazing lands.