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Jeff Lyon

    Jeff Lyon crafts adventurous tales laced with humor, drawn from personal escapades. His narratives are grounded in actual events and populated with extraordinary characters encountered in fascinating locales. Names are altered to protect the far from innocent, and facts adjusted only when necessary to circumvent the tedium of memoir. Lyon's writing captures the spirit of adventure and the unique essence of the places he has experienced, transforming them into vibrant stories.

    The Exceptional Middle Manager: How to Think Smarter, Build High-Performance Teams, and Advance Your Career in Today's Workplace
    Altered Fates
    Bliss
    • 2023

      Middle management is hard. If you’re a middle manager, you already know that, and you may be searching for all the help you can get to become more effective and successful in that role... in other words, to become an exceptional middle manager.Are you striving to develop your management skills, build high-performance teams, optimize strategies, set smart goals, and ace presentations to senior executives? Do you want to improve at managing teams, vendors, suppliers, programs, and projects? Are you hoping to advance your own career? If so, this book is for you.By focusing each chapter on a specific business challenge, Jeff Lyon gives you the confidence to know exactly what to do and when to do it. This book offers practical, actionable advice rather than clever theories, models, and checklists that don’t apply to your day-to-day reality.As your mentor and corporate trail guide, Jeff will teach

      The Exceptional Middle Manager: How to Think Smarter, Build High-Performance Teams, and Advance Your Career in Today's Workplace
    • 2005

      Bliss

      • 252 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Learning to be a health inspector and trying to master small-town politics while the town experiences a tremendous growth spurt provides the hilarious anecdotes for Ross Ryan's travails in mythic Bliss, Texas.

      Bliss
    • 1996

      Altered Fates

      The Genetic Re-Engineering of Human Life

      • 636 pages
      • 23 hours of reading
      4.3(24)Add rating

      The narrative delves into the intense competition among top scientists in the field of gene therapy, highlighting their ambitions and rivalries at prestigious institutions like the National Institutes of Health. It explores the groundbreaking human experiments in gene transfer, offering a glimpse into the ethical dilemmas faced by families of the pioneering children involved in these trials. Through detailed accounts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors illuminate the complex interplay of scientific innovation and personal sacrifice in a race that could reshape medical history.

      Altered Fates