#Author Leigh Roman

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CL Roman Clay County Florida Author

Interview Questions What’s your favorite and least favorite part of publishing? My favorite part is plotting the stories and then bringing them to life. There is so much scope and joy in the writing process for me. My least favorite part is marketing, but without it, the books don’t get discovered, so I do my best. How important was professional editing to your book’s development? A professional…

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re: 2023 new releases. hope you're ready for a long message because there were a lot.

hot new releases/things that were relatively popular

He Who Drowned The World, Shelley Parker Chan (Chinese mythological historical, very gay, very stabby a la Baru Cormorant. Book 2 of 2. A particular favorite of mine from this year)

Witch King, Martha Wells (New fantasy book by author of murderbot fame. I didn't actually click with this one but I'd be remiss to leave it off)

House With Good Bones, T Kingfisher (Southern gothic rose horror by the very talented Ursula Vernon)

Translation State, Ann Leckie (high sf alien horror regency romance. Wheeeeee. I had a lot of fun reading this. You can read it as a standalone, but you get deeper context if you've read the ancillary justice series, also highly recommended)

Will of the Many, James Islington (futuristic roman empire aesthetic rigged murder school. Not precisely good but appallingly catchy, I read all six hundred pages in pretty much one sitting. If you liked red rising you'll like this, if you hated red rising you will Not)

OH YEAH THE ACTUAL NEW MURDEBOT NOVEL (System Collapse)

A Power Unbound, Freya Marske (book 3 of 3, magic alt edwardian romances with murder. This is more romance proper but it's about equal with the action plot and Marske is very good. I don't think you've read these so you'd have to start at book 1)

Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (The book that absolutely knocked my socks off, my pick for the best sff release of the year. I forget if I've already told you about this one)

Starling House, Alix Harrow (Southern gothic house drama. Similar feel to Ninth House or The Book of Night)

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty (Divorced lady pirate adventure-drama a la Arabian Nights.)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Charming, heavily fairy tale trope themed, vaguely reminiscent of the Lady Trent books)

more obscure new releases from this year that I thought were cool, but not in the Hot New Reads You Can't Miss Because Everyone's Read Them category

Under Fortunate Stars, Ren Hutchings (sf timey wimey space shenanigans with aliens. Immensely cool premise.)

Small Miracles, Olivia Atwater (fallen angel sent to tempt a too good mortal. Extremely charming)

The King Is Dead, Naomi Libicki (vaguely persian flavored fealty romance, very heavy to the fealty. Original, thorny, and intriguing)

The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei (What if we terribly traumatized everyone going on a generation ship by making them go to viciously competitive boarding school together and then act surprised when a murder mystery occurs. Heads up that it's more interested in the human drama than the SF worldbuilding)

The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (early modern fantasy world anti-imperialism fever dream narrated by a cult survivor. Brilliantly written, spectacularly original, one of the best books I read this year)

Things for 2024, content warning for being (obviously) things I haven't read and thus without quality control

The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden

The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P Djeli Clark

Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan

Goddess of the River, Vaishnavi Patel

The Woods All Black, Lee Mandelo

Exordia, Seth Dickinson

A Sorceress Comes To Call, T Kingfisher

Running Close To The Wind, Alexandra Rowland

Wow tumblr just lets me keep writing words. I didn't think they let me have this many in asks. Oh, and pro tip-- keep an eye out for tordotcom's most anticipated upcoming books for the first six months of 2024. They should be publishing it within the next week or so and I always add masses of books to my tbr from there.

oh holy crap, thanks!! I'll have to check these out!

thoughts on a few of em:

He Who Drowned The World - still have to read She Who Became the Sun lol but hopefully I'll get to em next year!

Witch King - Martha Wells has been recced by like All my sci-fi mutuals now lmao I REALLY gotta get into her!

House With Good Bones - THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY ON MY SHELF!! I just didn't fucking read it this year whoops. Very excited for new Kingfisher

Starling House - I was on the fence about this one since I really didn't like Once and Future Witches, but those comparisons give me hope! I'll add it to the library list!

Some Desperate Glory and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries are 2/3 of the books published in 2023 that I actually managed to read (the 3rd is The Woman in Me lmao), I can't remember if you recc'd Some Desperate Glory, but it was SOOOOOOOO GOOD OMFG

Small Miracles - my aunt has been trying to convince me to read Atwater for quite a while, I'll have to give this one a try!

The Saint of Bright Doors - I have this one on hold!! Saw a post for it a week or so ago and it sounds absolutely delightful!

The Familiar - SO SO EXCITED for this one! I hope Bardugo is maybe...slowly....extricating herself from the Grishaverse and going to write more books not related to it... (not that they're all bad, I loved the Six of Crows duology, I'm just not into it anymore and I reeeealllly like her adult books lol)

Running Close To The Wind - oh yay new Rowland! I still haven't read her last book (the one with the guy on the cover who looked EXACTLY like my boss to the point where it became an Office Meme that [Boss] Is A Gay Romance Cover Model, still meaning to get a UK version of it but haven't yet) but I'll have to look this one up!

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Just learned from another answer that you're involved with the languages in Shadow & Bone, so I'd like to ask you about something that's been eating away at my enjoyment of the show.

I realise that you're probably not involved in this particular linguistic aspect of the show, but maybe it came up while you worked on the languages: the fictional countries and their languages are clearly based on existing European (and neighbouring) regions. Why is everything pronounced like it's English, though? (For example, Genya doesn't get the g sound the name has in Slavic languages.)

Part of it is because the names are the way Leigh pronounces them. She wrote the books, she created the names, she gets to say how they're pronounced. But maybe I should back up. The show Shadow and Bone is based on a book series written by Leigh Bardugo. She created the stories and characters. This is why her pronunciations are important.

Now that is also filtered through the fact that on the show, there isn't anyone to ensure consistency. The same character's name is sometimes pronounced two different ways in the same scene. Either no one noticed, or no one cared. That's life. For what it's worth, we did produce a pronunciation guide at the very beginning, so that, at least, all the names would be pronounced consistently. I've been on a set, though. A single piece of paper can be important for like ten minutes, but then something happens, and pretty soon the whole world has shifted.

For authors and future authors on here, though, a great way to avoid this is to not base your names or languages on existing names or languages. It's a fantasy world. It should be original. Also, the way you spell things in the Roman alphabet should be consistent and obvious. Don't be cute. It doesn't matter how your name looks on the page if it's adapted for the screen. Your name with three x's and an apostrophe is neither cool nor original. You make think it looks cool, but if you actually spell it the way it's pronounced, your readers will end up thinking that looks cool, because it's not the look of the name that's important: it's the character.

For more on naming, I wrote up an essay called "Names Aren't Neutral" which you can read here.

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Hey!!! I wanted to ask what fandoms you're in? I think I know of a few, but I would love to see how many we have in common! I hope you're having a great day/night wherever you are <3

EVA!!!!!!!! HI !

I have so so many fandoms so here's a list of the ones I can think of right now. Not super active in all of them but, I do think about them a lot.

- Star Wars (currently rewatching all of the films and the clones wars in chronological order, Rogue One and Andor are my favourites though)

- DC (Batgirls, Teen Titans 2003, and Young Justice 1998 are my top comics but i’m slowly working my way through most of pre-crisis, also have watched Titans (netflix) and loved it (Brenton Thwaites did an amazing job of Dick Grayson))

- The Maze Runner (i could talk about the books and films for literal hours and never don’t think about them. my roman empire)

- Marvel (mainly mcu but also the ms marvel comics (Kamala is everything to me), also i watched the Hawkeye finale on xmas eve because its THE Christmas show to me)

- both Percy Jackson and Hero’s of Olympus of course (also Magnus Chase)

- Grishaverse (leigh bardugo is life)

- The Raven Cycle (everything about them i'm in love with and the writing is such an inspiration for me)

- Half Bad: the Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (all time favourite tv show, so mad it was cancelled)

- The Manifold Worlds by Foz Meadows (pretty sure the fandom consists of me and the author of the single fic on ao3)

- Outer Banks (it’s summer here so i’m thinking about them a lot, and also you were literally my motivation for finishing s3)

- the Hunger Games (ballad of songbirds and snakes is such a masterpiece and has transported me back to my hunger games self)

- the magnus archives (was really active last year but not so much anymore)

- a good girls guide to murder (I'm so excited for the show)

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hi Leigh!! 10, 16, 32 for the book asks?

10. Favorite classical literature.

if by classical we mean ancient greek/roman literature then the odyssey. if by classical we just mean classics then prrrobably les mis no it doesn’t matter that i Still have not finished it it’s fine <3

16. Favorite trilogy.

literally both of these are such bad answers but probably the infernal devices or all for the game 😭 this ask made me realize i really haven’t read many trilogies in recent years it’s pretty much all been standalones and series and duologies. and most of what few trilogies i have read since like. middle school i haven’t really enjoyed (tatbilb, tgt, tdt, etc were all pretty disappointing). also not sure if i can even count aftg now since sunshine court is listed as aftg #4 but. whatever okay anyway does anyone have trilogy recs

32. Name your favorite author(s).

answered here!

— bookworm asks!

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2 and 4 and 12 please and thank you dear twin of mine

Hello darling twin :)

2. Did you reread anything? What?

I reread Jane Eyre and I think that was my only reread. I’m a frequent rereader so that’s kind of surprising.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Rachel J. Roman in the (fantasy) romance genre and Leigh Bardugo for fantasy

12. Any books that disappointed you?

The Secret History by Donna Tartt was nowhere near as good as I was told it would be. And booktok really hyped up Haunting Adeline so imagine my surprise when I found out it’s a weird QAnon fantasy disguised as a romance.

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Waiting until they find out The Rats was already announced and filmed before S&B season 2 even came out, that those characters have existed since 1995 and that heist plots are generic af. They are not serious people.

Heist plots ARE so generic, which is why I never got the hype for SoC, tbh? I mean, don't get me wrong, I liked it, it was good (I didn't like the sequel nearly as much) but it just... didn't seem THAT original. It was a heist. It actually followed a pretty generic Ocean's 11-type plot (the lead guy found everyone with particular skills, with a center moment on each one) which is also very generic heist. Even Kaz's no-touch policy is actually something you can find fairly often in romance novels, especially historicals. I can think of two off the top of my head, one of which (possibly both) was published by a pretty popular author well before SoC.

Leigh is a good writer (she's grown a lot--I like the early SoB books, but they weren't super well-written, especially compared to her later work) but I've always thought that a big reason why her books took off is that they drew from areas that were not super well-covered in YA fantasy at the time. Most books were based in generally Western-European based medieval inspo, which to be fair... is a lot of fantasy. There was a hint of Roman inspo (The Winner's Curse comes to mind) but Leigh got definitely published before a more recent trend of Asia-inspired YA fantasies (which imo also made the Shu stuff less remarked upon, along with general racism and ignorance among readers). Leigh's books weren't the first do crib from Russia, but they were the biggest, and many followed in suit. Tbh, they were SO specific that sometimes I found them problematic, and I actually really disliked the portrayal of the Shu from day one. Like, young me put the first book down and did an angry review of it on GR because of that, and... she was right.

And then Ketterdam was just a total rip of Dutch Golden Age-era Amsterdam, but tbh I think that many YA readers are not as aware of 17th century Netherlands stuff (which was, ironically, one of My Specialties in college lol) so it seemed even more original~ than S&B.

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Saint of the day August 30

STS. FELIX, PRIEST AND ADAUTTO, MARTYRS ON THE VIA OSTIENSE

Bl. Edward Shelley, 1588 A.D. English martyr of Warminghurst. He sheltered priests and was hung at Tyburn. Edward was beatified in 1929.

Bl. Richard Leigh, 1588 A.D. English martyr. Born in London, circa 1561, he studied at Reims and Rome and was ordained a priest in 1586. Returning to England, he was arrested and banished. He returned and was again arrested for being a priest and, with Blesseds Richard Martin, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward, was executed at Tybum. Richard was beatified in 1929.

St. Richard Martin, 1588 A.D. English martyr. Born in Shropshire, he studied at Oxford and was a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tybum with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward. He was beatified in 1929.

St. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus, Martyrs in Spain, they were hermits who resided in the area around Burgos, in Old Castile, who were put to death by Muslim Moors. Feastday Aug.30

St. Loaran, 5th century. Irish disciple of St. Patrick. He is sometimes listed as the bishop of Downpatrick, Ireland.

St. Rumon. Rumon, also known as Ruan, Ronan, and Ruadan, was probably a brother of Bishop St. Tudwal of Trequier, but nothing else is known of him beyond that he was probably an Irish missionary and many churches in Devon and Cornwall in England were named after him. Some authorities believed he is the same as the St. Ronan (June 1) venerated in Brittany and believed consecrated bishop by St. Patrick, but others believe that he and St. Kea were British monks who founded a monastery at Street Somerset.

ST. PAMMACHIUS, MEMBER OF THE ROMAN SENATE,

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MC Chris Songs

"Fett's Vette": Demand to the government of Israel, that the cleaner job on Taiwan feature "Boba Fett" as son of agent, upon government readiness for military career. Mass bay evacuation, 9/11/01, junior year; release for Talmudic year.

"006": Lancaster's blood, High Scipio, however on Saul's line; refused of official service in British espionage, Cardinal Bernard Law scandal credited as Rabbi; refusal of Jewish orders, blame on Bush family as secret German honours of Kaiser Wilhelm.

"Part One": Loss of father in 9/11 attacks, grandfather sent to prison as Robert F. Kennedy's murderer, and Rabbinical bet on Bill Buckner through CVS, own stock stake, having resulted in death of aunt, Princess Diana.

Fatalities:

David Michael Charlebois: Mother, Alice, murdered through act of Roman Senate, to experiment on "Wild Bill" Hicock; old western myth, the federal marshall, intended to be a fluke accident.

Matthew John Scott Lennox: Child, inside womb of Cassie-Leigh Stock, aborted, by order of town authorities, conversion of friends to Nazi German orders, on orders of Jack Chick (MUSH founder).

Jessica Bailey Strange: Forced adoption, by Andrew Donson, United Health Associates and Gestapo police tactics training program. Placed in ceremonial blue beret and tie, sent to hunt Jake Pancho.

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Dolo Flicks: The Case For Mia Goth And Horror Films To Gain Acknowledgement

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It's at the point where it might be overstated to say that 2022 was a tremendous year for the horror genre. Films like Smile overperformed at the box office, generating over $200 million worldwide, and critically, there were many high-quality entries. One of the pivotal franchises in the genre made its return at the beginning of the year. The fifth film in the Scream franchise was well-received by both fans and critics.

The most significant success story of 2022 belongs to Damien Leone's Terrifier 2. With only a quarter million budget, the brutal slasher grossed over $13 million at the worldwide box office. The film also successfully established Art The Clown as a new major horror icon. And Lauren LaVera's Sienna Shaw was one of the most memorable final girls in the past decade. But, when it comes to the world of horror, Ti West and Mia Goth stood above the rest in 2022.

Surprisingly Director Ti West put out two films in 2022, the first being a 1970s-style slasher, X. The movie explored themes of pornography and how aging impact's one's perception of sexuality and attraction. A few months later, a prequel to X was released called Pearl centering on one character and her downward spiral further into her psychosis. In X, Goth played two characters, the young Maxine Minx and the film's antagonist, the elderly Pearl. Goth does an extraordinary job in dual roles, using her broad skillset to play two characters at vastly differing points in their lives.

However, it's in Pearl where Goth goes to greater heights. Pearl focuses primarily on one character, keeping the film's attention on Goth. There are numerous memorable sequences throughout Pearl, but the ending monologue in the film's finale is just as extraordinary as it is painful. The camera lingers on Goth putting every word and emotion on display. The horror community, in general, has praised Goth's performances in both X and Pearl. However, the question is if she will receive any recognition from film establishments such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

"I believe Pearl has fundamentally changed me as a performer," said Goth in an interview with Variety. "It's given me a whole new sense of self and a whole new level of confidence in terms of what I think I am able to do. It was a lot, but also just incredibly rewarding and such a gift to play. I really feel as though it fundamentally changed me in many ways for the better."

Much like comedy, the horror genre has often been ignored, with actors in those films being overlooked. However, while it seldom takes place, there have been actors who have been recognized for their roles in horror by the Academy.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1960 saw Janet Leigh earn a nomination for best supporting actress as Marion Crane. The character, to much acclaim, was shockingly killed off in the film's first act, which was a surprise to audiences. At the end of the decade in 1968, Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the nefarious devil-worshiping neighbor Minnie Castevet in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.

In the 1970s, two of the horror genre's most influential films were recognized by the Academy. 1973s The Exorcist was the first horror film to be nominated for best picture and received an unprecedented ten nominations in total. Linda Blair, Jason Miller, and Ellen Burstyn all received respective nominations for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Actress. Blair would win a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the possessed Regan MacNeil.

Brian De Palma is often cited as one of the most prominent filmmakers of all time. Directors like Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright regard him as an inspiration. During his streak of non-stop classics in the 1970s and 80s, De Palma put out one of his most substantial entries in 1976s, Carrie. Sissy Spacek was nominated for Best Actress as the lead character, Carrie White. A performance that has not been duplicated in any attempts of a sequel or remake. Piper Laurie was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Carrie's overbearing and psychotic mother, Margaret White.

The 1990s saw the horror genre arguably reach its pinnacle thus far, with films that strayed away from the slasher killer icons of the 1980s focusing more on the psychological and crime thriller. One of horror writer Stephen King's most acclaimed film adaptations came with Rob Reiner's Misery in 1990. In one of the most memorable performances of the decade, Kathy Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as crazed fan Annie Wilkes.

The most noteworthy film, as far as critical acclaim is concerned for horror, came in 1991s, The Silence of the Lambs. At the time, the movie was one of three films, including 1934s It Happened One Night and 1975s One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, that won the five major categories at the Academy Awards. The film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for his role as cannibal serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Jodie Foster won Best Actress for playing FBI Agent Clarice Starling. To this day, The Silence of the Lambs is the only horror film to win the Best Picture category.

The end of the 1990s witnessed the dawn of a new generation of directors. Notably, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense earned six Oscar nominations. Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Ironically, Toni Collette as Cole's mother, Lynn Sear, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Over the last decade, Collette was infamously snubbed for her stellar showing in 2018s Hereditary. In some ways, Collette not receiving any recognition from the Academy in Hereditary is a catalyst that highlights the importance of Mia Goth's performances in X and specifically in Pearl being acknowledged.

History has shown that critics and the elite haven't entirely shunned horror, but recognition has been too infrequent. Most recently, Natalie Portman won an Oscar in 2010 for Best Actress in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. Years later, in 2017, Jordan Peele's Get Out received numerous nominations, including Daniel Kaluuya for Best Actor.

In all likelihood, this is just the beginning for Mia Goth, who has yet to turn 30 years of age. She will go on to star in an abundance of films with roles that are to be looked upon fondly by both fans and critics. Acting is about conveying emotion; horror films demand a ton from the performers. It puts them in situations that can be far-fetched but also perilous.

This isn't to say that actresses such as Cate Blanchett, Margot Robbie, Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Viola Davis, or Danielle Deadwyler don't deserve any nominations or awards coming their way or that Goth's performance eclipsed theirs. But Mia Goth has more than a case of being right next to them. And she should be.

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SOLUTION AT Academic Writers Bay College of Administrative and Financial Sciences Assignment 3 Decision Making & Problem Solving (MGT312) Deadline for students: End of Week 13 (4/12/[email protected] 23:59) (To be posted/released to students on BB anytime in Week 4) Course Name: Student’s Name: Course Code: MGT312 Student’s ID Number: Semester: 1st CRN: Academic Year: 1442/1443 H, First Semester For Instructor’s Use only Instructor’s Name: Dr. Asif Hasan Students’ Grade: Level of Marks: Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY ❖ This assignment is an individual assignment. ❖ Due date for Assignment 1 is by the end of Week 7 (23/10/2021). ❖ The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder. ❖ Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted. ❖ Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented. This also includes filling your information on the cover page. ❖ Students must mention question number clearly in their answer. ❖ Late submitted assignments will NOT be entertained. ❖ Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions. ❖ All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism). Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted. Course Learning Outcomes-Covered • Define different perspectives and concepts of problem solving in diverse contexts and business situations. (C.L.O :2) • Demonstrate decision tools and employ appropriate analytical business models to break down complex issues. (C.L.O :4) • Demonstrate effective leadership skills and teamwork capacity for efficient decision making with the problem owners and other stakeholders as either a team member or a team leader. (C.L.O :5) Assignment Instructions: • Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website • On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases” • From the list find and click on EBSCO database. • In the search bar of EBSCO find the following article: Title: “How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data” Author: Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson Date of Publication: November 07, 2016 Published: Harvard Business Review Assignment Questions: (Marks 05) Read the attached article titled as “How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data” by Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson, published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions: 1. Summarize the article and explain the main issues discussed in the article. (In 500-600 words) (Marks 2) 2. Discuss in relations to what you have learnt in the course about the four steps of intentional thought to help convert data into knowledge and wisdom? Use additional reference to support your argument. (In 200-400 words) (Marks 1.5) Critical Thinking Question 3. If you collect too much information for analyzing a decision, you can suffer from analysis paralysis, where you spend too much time thinking about a decision rather than making one. Recall a major financial decision you made recently, such as of a car or housing purchase or rental. Describe your process for making the decision. How could analysis paralysis have affected this process? (In 200-400 words) (Marks 1.5) STRATEGIC THINKING How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data by Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson NOVEMBER 07, 2016 Maria, an executive in financial services, stared at another calendar invite in Outlook that would surely kill three hours of her day. Whenever a tough problem presented itself, her boss’s knee-jerk response was, “Collect more data!” Maria appreciated her boss’s analytical approach, but as the surveys, reports, and stats began to pile up, it was clear that the team was stuck in analysis paralysis. And despite the many meetings, task forces, brainstorming sessions, and workshops created to solve any given issue, the team tended to offer the same solutions — often ones that were recycled from prior problems.

COPYRIGHT © 2016 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2 As part of our research for our book, Stop Spending, Start Managing, we asked 83 executives how much they estimated that their companies wasted on relentless analytics on a daily basis. They reported a whopping $7,731 per day — $2,822,117 per year! Yet despite all of the data available, people often struggle to convert it into effective solutions to problems. Instead, they fall prey to what Jim March and his coauthors describe as “garbage can” decision making: a process whereby actors, problems, and possible solutions swirl about in a metaphorical garbage can and people end up agreeing on whatever solution rises to the top. The problem isn’t lack of data inside the garbage can; the vast amount of data means managers struggle to prioritize what’s important. In the end, they end up applying arbitrary data toward new problems, reaching a subpar solution. To curb garbage-can decision making, managers and their teams should think more carefully about the information they need to solve a problem and think more strategically about how to apply it to their decision making and actions. We recommend the data DIET approach, which provides four steps of intentional thought to help convert data into knowledge and wisdom. Step 1: Define When teams and individuals think about a problem, they likely jump right into suggesting possible solutions. It’s the basis of many brainstorming sessions. But while the prospect of problem solving sounds positive, people tend to fixate on familiar approaches rather than stepping back to understand the contours of the problem. Start with a problem-finding mindset, where you loosen the definitions around the problem and allow people to see it from different angles, thereby exposing hidden assumptions and revealing new questions before the hunt for data begins. With your team, think of critical questions about the problem in order to fully understand its complexity: How do you understand the problem? What are its causes? What assumptions does your team have? Alternately, write about the problem (without proposing solutions) from different perspectives — the customer, the supplier, and the competitor, for example — to see the situation in new ways. Once you have a better view of the problem, you can move forward with a disciplined data search. Avoid decision-making delays by holding data requests accountable to if-then statements. Ask yourself a simple question: If I collect the data, then how would my decision change? If the data won’t change your decision, you don’t need to track down the additional information. Step 2: Integrate Once you’ve defined the problem and the data you need, you must use that information effectively. In the example above, Maria felt frustrated because as the team collected more and more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, they weren’t investing the same amount of time to see how the pieces fit together. Their subconscious beliefs or assumptions about problems guided their behavior, causing them to follow the same tired routine time and time again: collect data, hold meetings, create strategy moving forward. But this is garbage-can decision making. In order to keep the pieces from coming together in an arbitrary fashion, you need to look at the data differently. COPYRIGHT © 2016 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 3 Integration lets you analyze how your problem and data fit together, which then lets you break down your hidden assumptions. With your team, create a KJ diagram (named after author Kawakita Jiro) to sort facts into causal relationships. Write the facts on notecards and then sort them into piles based on observable relationships — for example, an increase in clients after a successful initiative, a drop in sales caused by a delayed project, or any other data points that may indicate correlated items or causal relationships. In doing this, you can create a visual model of the patterns that emerge and make connections in the data.

Step 3: Explore At this point in the process, you may have some initial ideas or solutions based on your KJ diagrams. Now’s the time to develop them. To facilitate collaborative exploration, one of our favorite exercises (often used in art schools) is what we call the passing game. Assign distinct ideas to each team member and give each individual five minutes to develop it by drawing or writing in silence. Then have them pass their work to a teammate, who continues drafting the idea while they take over a teammate’s creation. Discuss the collaborative output. Teammates recognize how it feels to give up “ownership” of an idea and how it feels to both edit and be edited; they also recognize their implicit assumptions about collaboration. The new perspective forces them to confront directions that they didn’t choose or never would have considered. Indeed, you can add multiple sequential passes (like a telephone game) to demonstrate the idea’s unpredictable evolution as three or four teammates play with the initial ideas. After allowing people this space for exploration, discuss the directions that are most fruitful. Step 4: Test The last dimension requires team members to use their powers of critical thinking to consider feasibility and correct for overreach. Design tests to see if your plan forward will work. Under which types of situations will the solution fail? Select a few critical tests and run them. While people often over-collect data that supports their priors, people under-collect disconfirming data. By running even a single test that fights confirmation biases, you can see what you need to see, even if you don’t want to. The solution to garbage-can decisions isn’t cutting out data entirely. Thinking strategically about your data needs pushes you to do more with less — widening, deepening, integrating, extending, and testing the data you do have to convert it into knowledge and wisdom. In practicing the mental exercises above with your team, you can curb your appetite for data while getting better at digesting the data you have. Tanya Menon ([email protected]) is an associate professor of Management and Human Resources at the Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. She is the coauthor of Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016). COPYRIGHT © 2016 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 4 Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. She is the author of Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration (HBR Press, 2013) and coauthor of Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits (HBR Press, 2016). COPYRIGHT © 2016 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 5 Copyright 2016 Harvard Business Publishing. All Rights Reserved. Additional restrictions may apply including the use of this content as assigned course material. Please consult your institution’s librarian about any restrictions that might apply under the license with your institution. For more information and teaching resources from Harvard Business Publishing including Harvard Business School Cases, eLearning products, and business simulations please visit hbsp.harvard.edu. CLICK HERE TO GET A PROFESSIONAL WRITER TO WORK ON THIS PAPER AND OTHER SIMILAR PAPERS CLICK THE BUTTON TO MAKE YOUR ORDER

[sadlynotaturtle]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS HAVE TO BE FICTIONAL ??

[bitter69uk]

“In the Soviet Union they considered Vivien Leigh as the greatest movie star of them all and Waterloo Bridge (1940) as one of the great films of all time. In America, they gave her the plum role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and two Academy Awards. In England she was mainly the wife of Laurence Olivier, the world’s greatest stage actor – no wonder she made so few films and had such an odd movie career. She made ten films before Gone with the Wind, ambitiously acquiring a reputation, and worked in only eight more after that epic made her world-famous – admittedly she suffered from ill-health and considered herself primarily a stage actress, but it does seem as if a fine screen talent was semi-wasted … Her movie persona was a fascinating one. Despite her incredible Dresden doll beauty, she was one of the cinema’s great not-very-nice ladies; not quite the bitch type, more the unscrupulous, wily, kittenish beauty who uses sexual attraction as a weapon to get her own way. The role of Scarlett was the greatest embodiment of this seemingly unsympathetic but actually mesmerizing personality, but virtually all her roles were this type.” 

Author Ken Wlaschin’s appraisal of brilliant, fragile and intense English stage and film actress Vivien Leigh (5 November 1913 - 8 July 1967), who died on this day 55 years ago aged 53. Leigh was one of the definitive interpreters of Tennessee Williams’ work (my all-time favourite performance of hers is in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961)).

[flodaya]

Any YA book recommendations?:)

always! this is just random collection of some of my timeless favourite ya books 

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke - she is like my all time favourite children’s book author, i basically grew up reading her books. this one is imo her best fantasy series, it’s about a girl and her love for books, i don’t really want to say more bc i don’t want to spoil anything but it’s just so beautiful, and Cornelia Funke has an absolute stunning writing style (i hope the translation is good too)

Cemetery boys by Aiden Thomas - quite possibly my favourite book of 2020, it’s about a trans boy who wants to prove to his family that he is a real brujo by performing a certain ritual 

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo - or her other books, it’s ya contemporary, really beautifully written (her other two books are written as poetry) 

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - everyone talks about the show right now but these books definitely are some of the best ya fantasy books i’ve read when i was a teen, it just has those kind of iconic characters 

Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan - always, this is such a classic but it’s just really one of my favourite series and i still try to reread it at least once a year 

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - i know probably 98% of the ppl on this earth have read this book or at least watched the movies but these just are those kinds of books that deserve to be hyped and read, they are the blueprint and i won’t let anyone reduce them to the love triangle 

Loveless or anything else by Alice Oseman - she just has a way of writing about teenagers in a way that makes you feel seen and understood 

Aristotle and Dante discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz - the most comfort books of all the comfort books, i reread this reguarly and every time it only takes me 1 or 2 days to get through

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - definitely should be conisdered a classic and must read. it’s about the blm movement, written really well, story is just super important 

An Ember in the Ashes by Saba Tahir - it’s like a roman spired fantasy world, it’s rather romance heavy iirc but tbh in this one i didn’t mind at all 

Poison Study by Maria V Synder - this book is so ciminally underrated and it feels like this inspired so so many ya fantasy books that came after it. it’s basically about a girl who is sentenced to death but has the choice to become a food taster instead, risking being poisoned

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson - not entirely sure if this counts as ya but the main character is a teenage girl and i personally thought it’s one of his more accessible books. it has one of my absolute favourite magic systems that basically works by swallowing different metals 

Sythe by Neal Shusterman - set in a world where death has been conquered, so now “Sythe” are responsible for making sure the world doesn’t get over-populated so they are basically playing the grim reaper killing people. the story follows two characters who are apprentices to become Sythe  

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab - she really is one of my all time favourite authors. this book is set in a city that has monsters and lots of violence. it’s about a girl who aspires to be a ruthless monster killer like her father and a boy who wants to be human and good-hearted like his father

[thegirlandthewardrobe]

Here’s a little blurb about me💙

• Age: 27

•Why I Created this Blog: I love reading(obviously), writing book reviews and recommending new books, so I thought creating a book blog would be a great way to do that! I'm also currently working working on my Master's in Library & Information Science!

•Currently Reading: See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Soloman, Jinxed by Yve Vale, Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco,

•Recently Read: A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Hexed by Yve Vale, Grave Mistakes by Ivy Asher, Summer Knights by Ariadne Breyland, Gluttony by Kira Roman

•Reading Next: Ghost by Kat Blackthorne, Harem of Freaks by Crystal Ash, Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

•Favorite Genres: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal, Dark Romance, Sci-Fi, RH or any combination of these

•Favorite Authors: Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Leigh Bardugo, M. Sinclair, Elle Thorpe and many more!

•Favorite Books/Series: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Wicked Gods by Michelle Hercules, Dark Gods by River Ramsey, The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, Saintview Psychos by Elle Thorpe, Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco, those are just a few.

•Favorite Trope: I’m a sucker for a good enemies to lovers story

•Guilty Pleasure: Reverse Harems and Bully Romance novels

•Favorite Book to Movie Adaptations: Catching Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia, Divergent, Everything Everything, Shadow & Bone(ok not a movie, but an amazing tv show adaptation), and The Darkest Minds(I know it wasn’t a huge fan favorite, but I really enjoyed this one!

•Highly Anticipated Reads: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (November 2023), Forged by Malice by Elizabeth Helen (Beasts of the Briar book#3 December 2023)

•Lastly, I’ll post the link to my Goodreads profile as well. I have a couple different book lists I’m working on if you’re in search of something new to read!

Happy Reading!

-❤️

P.S. Here are the links to my book reviews, recommendations, and Goodreads lists for those of you on mobile.

Book Reviews: https://thegirlandthewardrobe.tumblr.com/bookreviews

Book Recommendations: https://thegirlandthewardrobe.tumblr.com/bookrecs

Goodreads Book Lists: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/26457054-ari

[silvestromedia]

Saint of the day August 30

STS. FELIX, PRIEST AND ADAUTTO, MARTYRS ON THE VIA OSTIENSE

Bl. Edward Shelley, 1588 A.D. English martyr of Warminghurst. He sheltered priests and was hung at Tyburn. Edward was beatified in 1929.

Bl. Richard Leigh, 1588 A.D. English martyr. Born in London, circa 1561, he studied at Reims and Rome and was ordained a priest in 1586. Returning to England, he was arrested and banished. He returned and was again arrested for being a priest and, with Blesseds Richard Martin, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward, was executed at Tybum. Richard was beatified in 1929.

St. Richard Martin, 1588 A.D. English martyr. Born in Shropshire, he studied at Oxford and was a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tybum with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward. He was beatified in 1929.

St. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus, Martyrs in Spain, they were hermits who resided in the area around Burgos, in Old Castile, who were put to death by Muslim Moors. Feastday Aug.30

St. Loaran, 5th century. Irish disciple of St. Patrick. He is sometimes listed as the bishop of Downpatrick, Ireland.

St. Rumon. Rumon, also known as Ruan, Ronan, and Ruadan, was probably a brother of Bishop St. Tudwal of Trequier, but nothing else is known of him beyond that he was probably an Irish missionary and many churches in Devon and Cornwall in England were named after him. Some authorities believed he is the same as the St. Ronan (June 1) venerated in Brittany and believed consecrated bishop by St. Patrick, but others believe that he and St. Kea were British monks who founded a monastery at Street Somerset.

ST. PAMMACHIUS, MEMBER OF THE ROMAN SENATE,