This booklet gives an overview of the Search Conference, a change strategy which uses open systems principles in strategic planning, thereby creating a well-articulated, achievable future with identifiable goals, a timetable, and action plans for realizing that future. Here, in their own inspiring words, over 100 CEOs, board chairs, and company presidents share their insights in one-page letters focusing on the qualities necessary for effective leadership and career success. The men and women featured in Pathways to Success come from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their companies range from small entrepreneurial firms to large corporations. Organized by topic, these letters provide practical and encouraging insights on: o Hard work o Imagination o Tolerance o Honesty o Self-knowledge o Team-building, and more Each letter is self-contained and to-the-point, capturing the personal experience and positive convictions of these distinguished business leaders. A biographical sketch accompanies each letter, describing the career path of the contributor as well as the major challenges and obstacles that person has overcome to achieve success. The book also contains thought-provoking exercises for individual use or group discussion. Written for young people who aspire to successful business careers and leadership roles, this book will also be valuable for executives and managers, entrepreneurs, academics, consultants, and those who work with young people-counselors, teachers, mentors, and parents.

No one else in Canada produces fiction like Mel. He writes with a passionate muscularity. Sentences build on themselves, often in staggering abundance, creating an overwhelming avalanche of powerful imagery. Mel has an old-fashioned love of language. His use of it is lush. He loves story, and his plots are often bizarre and the plotting always meticulous. Peter Sellers- Editor of the Cold Blood Series

This is the complete collection of Detective-Lieutenant Cathy Carruthers, the six-foot blonde Amazon as serialized in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. Mel Ames is a widely published author of many genres. His stories have appeared in the leading Mystery magazines including: Ellery Queen's Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock & Mike Shayne; Canadian Crime Anthologies, Cold Blood 2,3,4, & 5; Northern Frights 2 & 3; and a myriad of other notable publications over three decades.

" No one else in Canada produces fiction like Mel. He writes with a passionate muscularity. Sentences build on themselves, often in staggering abundance, creating an overwhelming avalanche of powerful imagery. Mel has an old-fashioned love of language. His use of it is lush. He loves story, and his plots are often bizarre and the plotting always meticulous." Peter Sellers- Editor of the Cold Blood Series