Andrew Bird: 12 books

Have you ever been part of a great team? Chances are that at some point you were part of a sports team, a social group, a work group, or a volunteer committee where the group performed incredibly well and, even under difficult circumstances or significant challenges, still prevailed. Take a...

A strategic plan becomes your team’s roadmap for the next one to three years. It clearly articulates what is important to your organization and why. Without a strategic plan, teams, departments, and organizations can float rudderless with no clear direction. Conversely, an organization with a well-communicated...

At some point every manager has to deal with an employee performance management issue. managing employee performance comes with its own set of challenges and anxieties. More than most other leadership/management issues, employee performance management can be one of those issues that keep you up at...

Meetings are an integral part of leadership and management and may be the most important vehicle for collaboration, discussion, decision-making, and action. A well-run meeting is efficient, productive, and energizing for its participants. On the other hand, a poorly run meeting can be frustrating,...

This eBook has been designed to provide you with information on the basic principles of balancing time and workload. In this practical, easy to read eBook you’ll be presented with evidence-informed and experience tested strategies for getting the most out of your day without burning the candle at...

The 2013 Queenstown Winter Festival as experienced by Andrew Bird.… Includes checklist for festival. Destinations visited: Queenstown, Glenorchy, Milford Sound, Arthurs Pass, Christchurch [Non-fiction] Length: 4-5 A4 pages; size 12 Times New Roman [Short read]

In 1940, the defense of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill’s ‘few’. Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were other pilots, observers and air gunners – just as courageous – flying the Bristol Blenheim MKIV-F....

Another Aussie adventure: this time a Baltic Cruise. This is a concept eBook that blends fiction and non-fiction. Artwork by the author also included. This adventure was originally published by the author only one day after disembarkation. This publication includes additional pictures and postscript commentary by the author. Length: 17 A4 pages; 16 EPUB pages (5664 words)

Another Aussie adventure: this time a visit to Canberra and official duties at the Perisher Peak Music Festival. What is cool about this eBook is the linked audio. There is 17 media interviews linked from this eBook. Discover an awesome mix of Aussie musicians today!! Links also included to help you plan a visit to next year’s festival [Non-fiction] (7 A4 pages, 11 EPUB pages)

Every day for nine months from September 1944, young British Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead in northern Scotland to target German U-boats, merchant men and freighters in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships...

Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing...

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...