Steve Williams, arguably the greatest caddie in golf history, teams up with renowned golf journalist Evin Priest to give his definitive account of his 12-year partnership with the legendary Tiger Woods, sharing personal, never-before-told moments of their friendship on and off the course.
When Tiger Woods went on an extraordinary majors run between 1999 and 2008, one man stood at his side: his caddie Steve Williams. Together Steve and Tiger dominated the PGA Tour and won an astonishing 13 major championships, their sights set on breaking Jack Nicklaus's record 18 majors. Before they could overtake Nicklaus, however, their partnership ended abruptly, and a 12-year period without talking began. Years later, the two reconnected.
Steve, with PGA Tour journalist Evin Priest, reflects fondly on his years as Tiger's caddie and their relentless pursuit of greatness. He revisits all their best moments, from Tiger's iconic shot on the 16th hole at the 2005 Masters to the famed Tiger Slam of 2000 and 2001, to his against-the-odds victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open. Steve goes behind the scenes of their on-course success and shows their friendship off the course, like Tiger caddying for Steve on his wedding day and Tiger giving a heartfelt best man speech. Steve also shares fascinating, never-before-seen photos and ephemera.
Together We Roared offers an inside look at what it is like to ride alongside greatness and is a heartfelt ode to the friendship that produced one of the winningest duos in golf history.
The unwritten Code of the Air directs aviators to come to the aid of all who share the sky. But does this obligation end even when man-made wings become eternal ones?
Ever since he could remember, Tom Rawlings has had his sights set on becoming a pilot. Growing up around a small-town airport, he soaks up everything he can about flying from the ragtag community of pilots who become his makeshift family.
But Tom's dreams are almost cut short after a near-fatal midair collision, one that was only avoided by the wise words of a mysterious man, Richard Clarke. He's a gone-but-not-forgotten pilot legend and becomes Tom's mentor.
As Tom moves from awed rookie to commercial airline captain, he soon learns that his dream job comes with real life-or-death stakes, and being a pilot is about much more than just technical skills. As he advances in his career, he finds himself guided by unexplained encounters with mysterious airmen from bygone days known as the Couriers. Even as aviation technology progresses, the timeless wisdom of the Couriers endures.
Drawn into a secret fraternity, Tom questions how far he will go to decipher the mystic signs and join the ranks of the dead who never fully depart.
Based on actual events, The Couriers of Herodotus maneuvers into the balance between age-old wisdom and technology, community and solos, and aviation's past and future. Soar along with Tom and rediscover the magic that first took flight in the pioneering days of aviation. With vivid historical detail and dashes of high-flying fantasy, this is a novel for dreamers of all ages.
Strap yourself in and unlock the magical mysteries of the skies.
The lessons in Notorious are all so valuable and entertaining that I just read right through the book and couldn't put it down. Notorious is totally unique and I highly recommend it.
Jack Canfield
Best-selling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
If you enjoyed Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, you'll love the updated edition of Notorious, a unique compilation of leadership lessons from history's rebels, outlaws, and femme fatales-names you won't typically find in the business section of your local bookstore.
Certified Leadership Consultant Steve Williams combed the history books, researching the techniques, methodologies, and strategies of infamous figures like Al Capone, Steve Jobs, and Catherine the Great. What he discovered led him to rebrand them as some of the most brilliant leaders of all time. Whether you're a seasoned executive or aspire to a leadership position, his findings may surprise you.
In his sixth book, Williams delivers his trademark expertise in the study of operational excellence. Combining research with personal stories, or Lessons in Action, each chapter offers leadership insights from unlikely sources of inspiration. Topics include extreme leadership, shattering the status quo, leading from the front, and talent management. As always, Williams shares practical takeaways for immediate application to your career.
It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis.
This timely book looks at how three major crises - the economy, pandemic and climate - are related to the crisis of work, making it more precarious, intense and unequal.
Providing an original and critical synthesis of recent trends in the field, expert scholars offer a programme for transcending the crisis of work.
Offering a timely contribution to understanding the important issues facing the world, this book presents an important new way of thinking about work in contemporary societies.
The lessons in Notorious are all so valuable and entertaining that I just read right through the book and couldn't put it down. Notorious is totally unique and I highly recommend it.
Jack Canfield
Best-selling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
If you enjoyed Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, you'll love the updated edition of Notorious, a unique compilation of leadership lessons from history's rebels, outlaws, and femme fatales-names you won't typically find in the business section of your local bookstore.
Certified Leadership Consultant Steve Williams combed the history books, researching the techniques, methodologies, and strategies of infamous figures like Al Capone, Steve Jobs, and Catherine the Great. What he discovered led him to rebrand them as some of the most brilliant leaders of all time. Whether you're a seasoned executive or aspire to a leadership position, his findings may surprise you.
In his sixth book, Williams delivers his trademark expertise in the study of operational excellence. Combining research with personal stories, or Lessons in Action, each chapter offers leadership insights from unlikely sources of inspiration. Topics include extreme leadership, shattering the status quo, leading from the front, and talent management. As always, Williams shares practical takeaways for immediate application to your career.
The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence presents an A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence (BI) from a company's data assets or data warehouse.
BI is not just a technology or methodology, it is a powerful new management approach that - when done right - can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver.
The missing element was the business-centric focus explained in this book. It shows how you can achieve the promise of BI by connecting it to your organization's strategic goals, culture, and strengths while correcting your BI weaknesses. It provides a practical, process-oriented guide to achieve the full promise of BI; shows how world-class companies used BI to become leaders in their industries; helps senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can ensure a strong payoff from their BI investments; and identifies the most common mistakes organizations make in implementing BI.
The book also includes a helpful glossary of BI terms; a BI readiness assessment for your organization; and Web links and extensive references for more information.
Business Intelligence Strategy and Big Data Analytics is written for business leaders, managers, and analysts - people who are involved with advancing the use of BI at their companies or who need to better understand what BI is and how it can be used to improve profitability. It is written from a general management perspective, and it draws on observations at 12 companies whose annual revenues range between $500 million and $20 billion. Over the past 15 years, my company has formulated vendor-neutral business-focused BI strategies and program execution plans in collaboration with manufacturers, distributors, retailers, logistics companies, insurers, investment companies, credit unions, and utilities, among others. It is through these experiences that we have validated business-driven BI strategy formulation methods and identified common enterprise BI program execution challenges.
In recent years, terms like big data and big data analytics have been introduced into the business and technical lexicon. Upon close examination, the newer terminology is about the same thing that BI has always been about: analyzing the vast amounts of data that companies generate and/or purchase in the course of business as a means of improving profitability and competitiveness. Accordingly, we will use the terms BI and business intelligence throughout the book, and we will discuss the newer concepts like big data as appropriate. More broadly, the goal of this book is to share methods and observations that will help companies achieve BI success and thereby increase revenues, reduce costs, or both.