Dave Logan Books

When you take your four-wheel-drive (4WD) truck or SUV off-road, there is a whole new world to see and experience. The off-road community is huge and welcoming, and there are lifestyle shows to attend and trail-driving events to experience. With seat time and practice, your technical skills will improve. However, do you really want to head into the forest blindfolded? Driving off-road requires much more attention, skills, discipline, and preparation than merely driving around obstacles. Being fully armed with information regarding the most updated techniques is critical for today’s motorized off-road driving enthusiast. The Ultimate Off-Road Driver's Guide covers topics about what to bring along for a trail ride and how to interact with other trail users. This book covers the various 4WD systems and how they work, how to drive on various terrain (mud, sand, snow, and rocks), and what to do when encountering each of those elements. An entire chapter is devoted to getting unstuck. Covered also are ways to communicate when you lose cellular phone coverage as well as navigation options so that you don’t end up lost and on the local news channel. This book is mandatory preparation for your off-road toolbox!

When Goose’s parents are killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve, his life changes utterly. Living with his increasingly senile Nan, his dog Mutt is the only thing keeping him sane. His only other friend is Frank, a former friend of his father. Frank’s own life is falling apart and he has recruited Goose to help him carry out petty theft around the city. A year to the day since the accident that changed his life, Goose meets Anthony, a strange man who has forgotten who he is, but seems to know more about others than they know about themselves. When Mutt goes missing, Goose has no choice but to rely on Anthony to help find him. In an adventure that draws in Frank, who’s lost his family, an old lady who’s lost a precious bangle, an elderly doctor who’s lost his wife and mother who’s lost her daughter, Goose follows Anthony across Manchester. But at the centre of the mystery is Anthony himself: who is he, how does he know so much and can he help Goose and the others find what they’re searching for? A delight to read from start to finish, David Logan takes the reader on a terrific journey through love, loss and the quest for home.

In a world where humans have disappeared, sharkmen are the ultimate predators. Junk’s sister has been stolen. Snatched from her bed in the dead of night, Ambeline doesn’t stand a chance. No one believes Junk saw a monster take his sister. No one believes he’s not to blame. So begins Junk’s quest to find Ambeline’s kidnapper. His journey will take him to a future world where animal species have evolved, and where the cult of the League of Sharks – the cult that stole Junk’s sister – is etched into folklore…

Ever since there have been people, there have been tribes. Within corporations, separate tribes can range from a few to hundreds. Dave Logan, PhD, and John King explore how these tribes develop, assess them, and lead them to enhance productivity and growth. Humans are genetically programmed to form tribes of 20-150 people, a fact supported by Malcolm Gladwell and others. Each company consists of interconnected tribes, defined as groups where everyone knows each other or at least knows of one another. Logan and King guide corporate leaders in assessing their company’s tribal culture and elevating it to achieve remarkable success. Through an extensive eight-year study involving approximately 24,000 individuals across over two dozen corporations, they found a critical theme: a company’s success hinges on its tribes, their strength is shaped by tribal culture, and a thriving corporate environment stems from effective tribal leadership. The authors demonstrate how leaders can leverage their tribes to maximize productivity and profit. Their research, supported by interviews with notable figures like NASCAR CEO Brian France and "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, reveals that over three-quarters of the organizations studied possess only adequate tribal cultures at best.

The night before they are to bury Edwards grandmother, he is visited by a stranger in a time machine. The stranger asks Edward to be his friend, and Edward agrees. But Edward has a twin sister, Sophia, who is about to bring a heap of tragedy upon herself through an all-too-literal misunderstanding of a promise she made to their father. Sophia gets to stay at home while Edward finds himself shipped off to boarding school. While there Edward encounters the kind and the not-so-kind and befriends the strangest child, Alf - a boy whose very existence seems to hint at the universes of unlimited possiblities ... and who might one day help Edward liberate Sophia.

When something at work isn't going smoothly, managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first. Do they start with cost reduction? What about morale? Or should they go for process improvements first? They pick the problem to work on and, depending on whether their plan makes sense, one of two things happens.