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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.

We all know a visionary leader when we see one. They're bold and prophetic and at the same time pragmatic. They don't just promote change - they drive it, while inspiring and mobilizing others to do the same. Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos possess a host of innate qualities that make them extraordinary, but what truly sets them apart is their ability to turn vision into action. Here, Innosight's Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back", that enables any manager to become a practical visionary.

Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value - or risk becoming irrelevant. If you listen to nothing else on business model innovation, listen to these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you reach new customers and stay ahead of your competitors by reinventing your business model.

Johnson provides an eminently practical framework for understanding how a business model actually works. Identifying its four fundamental building blocks, he lays out a structured and repeatable process for reinventing an existing business model or creating a new one and then incubating and scaling it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. In a new chapter on digital transformation, he shows how serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully.

Join Mark Benton — VP of HR with experience at companies like PepsiCo and now McKesson — and Patti Johnson, former CEO, Board member, bestselling author, and strategic coach and advisor — for smart, funny, and real conversations about the things we’re all tired of — and, most importantly, what to do about them.They first worked together at Accenture and now bring their humor, honesty, and experience to topics that hit home — like being addicted to busyness, expecting too much of yourself (and everyone else), and finding your voice.It’s not their first rodeo — which is exactly...

Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready. In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming your business in the face of imminent disruption. Dual Transformation shows you how your company can come out of a market shift stronger and more profitable, because the threat of disruption is also the greatest opportunity a leadership team will ever face.

The father of the intelligent design movement, Phillip E. Johnson, thinks the new atheists are right! How? They’ve put serious discussion about God back on the public agenda. Despite their conclusions, folks like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett are asking the right questions. They’re making belief in any religion an issue again, especially in the university context where, for decades, questions about faith and reason have been taken off the table for serious discussion. Open debate is exactly what we need on the topics of God, evolution, and creation.

Mark Johnson's irregular podcast about small wargames.

Mark Johnson's occasional & opinionated podcast about family strategy boardgames

Live from Suite Shots in Fargo, ND join Lucas Johnson, Mark Johnson, Chuck Johnson, and Nick Johnson each week as they talk all things golf, Fargo-Moorhead all the way to the PGA Tour, as well as plenty of stories to entertain for hours. Each episode will feature a preview for the upcoming PGA Tour tournament through the lens of DraftKings fantasy golf, as well as an occasional guest sure to entertain!

Investing is pretty straightforward: the more time you spend on the right side of the market, the more likely you are to be successful. Join Mark Scheffler, Senior VP Wealth Manager at Johnson Financial Group for fresh market commentary, current investment trends and recent market turns. Investing involves risk. Past performance isn’t a guarantee of future returns. Nothing in our commentary constitutes investment advice tailored to any specific person. Information has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed.

A podcast about teams: building them, being in them, running them and how we work together. Sean, a sports coach, and Mark, a performance teacher, and guests look for what their teams have in common and what makes them different.

Lively conversation, news, and interesting stories from the world of computer crime and the law enforcement officers and private sector examiners who performed the actual work. Computers and cell phones are used in all kinds of crime these days. Your hosts, Mark, and several rotating co-hosts, have over 50 years of law enforcement experience between them working these cases and they look forward to sharing some of the great work being done by dedicated forensic examiners, world-wide.

Cambia i tuoi pensieri per cambiare le tue azioni e raggiungere il successo che meriti La tua mente ti rende l'individuo che sei, tutto deriva dal tuo atteggiamento mentale e dal modo in cui pensi e gestisci i tuoi pensieri. Ed è proprio la mente che fa la differenza tra l'uomo "medio Joe" e i "cosiddetti" geni e gli uomini di successo di tutti i tempi. Se vuoi avere una vita grande, di abbondanza e felicità autentica, allora devi pensare in grande. Questo audiobook contiene strategie e consigli per sbloccare il tuo pieno potenziale.

Conosci e sviluppa la mentalità dei grandi guerrieri per conquistare una vita felice. Autodisciplina, determinazione ed equilibrio sono qualità che ti rendono forte come un guerriero e ti aiutano a ottenere ciò che vuoi. Una mentalità da guerriero ti permette di avere uno stile di vita, comportamenti, parole e azioni orientati alla crescita, al miglioramento e alla tua realizzazione. Qui conoscerai i princìpi della mente da guerriero che ti permettono di prendere in mano la tua vita e di guidarla verso la direzione in cui veramente vuoi andare.

La saggezza dei grandi maestri guerrieri orientali per conquistare una vita felice. Questo audiolibro racchiude dieci strategie desunte dai testi e dagli insegnamenti dei più grandi maestri guerrieri orientali. Qui trovi dieci leggi mentali che ti permettono di prendere in mano la tua vita e di guidarla verso la direzione in cui veramente vuoi andare.

Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple, and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the listener to a more powerful position as an agent of change.

Poems about things in life that can make you think, laugh or cry or something entirely different!

A podcast about music and singing, and why so many people love to listen to music, with the addition of singing or without it.

With searing honesty, Wasted documents Mark's descent into the very depths of addiction and criminality. Homeless and hooked on heroin and crack, no one, least of all Mark, believed he would survive. And yet he somehow found the strength to pull through, and now runs his own thriving tree-surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts.