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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled On The Brink about Rhose, Christ, Scriptures with the genre: Christian Books & Bibles, Theology.
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conversations.value: the author is a speaker, writer, and musician. He wants to radiate Christ however, wherever, and with whomever he can. He has a project called "God in HD" that's a celebration of Scriptures and movies. They are the founders of an orphanage in the Philippines called the Jasmine Rhose Foundation. He and his wife, Rhose, and their two children reside in the Chicagoland area.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled On The Brink about Rhose, Christ, Scriptures with the genre: Christian Books & Bibles, Theology.
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conversations.value: On the Brink (Spooks): Section D believes banker Alexis Meynell is trying to bankrupt the country.\nSir Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) asks the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gillian Calderwood (Selina Cadell) to freeze Meynell\'s assets, but is turned down due to lack of evidence.\nTo get the evidence they need, Ros is sent undercover to the London Stock Exchange, where Meynell is targeting the bank Highland Life.\nAfter starting a rumour about the bank, he starts betting against it.\nWhen the chairman of Highland Life, Francis Debham (Simon Williams), attempts to keep the bank afloat, Meynell doubles his position, bankrupting Highland Life.\nRos uses the opportunity to swipe a memory card from Meynell\'s mobile phone, containing his secure email account that could prove his guilt.\nHowever, they find nothing relevant.\nLucas North (Richard Armitage) relays this to Ros and tells her to get closer to Meynell.\nBen Kaplan (Alex Lanipekun) breaks into Meynell\'s office to learn of deals between Highland Life and Salma, a Russian bank that according to Elizabeta Starkova (Paloma Baeza), has connections with the Russian mafia.\nIt is also revealed Highland Life owes Salma £65 billion.\nIt was this reason that earlier in the episode, Denham committed suicide.\nIn order to get Meynell to trust her to become part of his plan, Ros sleeps with him.\nLater, Calderwood receives a call from Asa Darlek (Stephen Noonan), Meynell\'s associate from Salma, and threatens to either have the £65 billion paid back, or he will go public to inform the country the true extent of its debts.\nRos presents a third option; have Calderwood announce she will back Highland Life, while at the same time she will convince Meynell to bet against it.\nSuch a plan would financially ruin Meynell.\nThe next morning however, Darlek realises she is MI5 and threatens to kill her if Calderwood does not back down.\nRos fights the gun off and Calderwood goes ahead with her statement.\nLater, Lucas releases Elizabeta as an asset.\nMeanwhile, Jo Portman (Miranda Raison) believes Boscard (Gus Gallagher), her captor from the end of series six, is still alive after seeing several hallucinations of him.\nLater, Ros puts her mind at rest when she shows Jo photographic evidence Boscard is indeed dead, and it was Jo who killed him.\nRunning on a tip that Connie James (Gemma Jones) may have leaked the top secret Sugarhorse to the Russians due to her affair with Hugo Prince, one of only five people to know about the operation, Harry has officers search her home.\nHarry later finds a tape left by Prince in a Big Ben souvenir.\nPrince left a message that there is a leak in Sugarhorse, but Connie is not responsible.\nLater, Harry admits to Lucas that in "The Tip-Off" he was lying about not knowing what Sugarhorse and asks him to recall anything during his interrogations.\nLucas eventually recalls the word "Pilgrim" uttered several times.\nHe did a background check and informs Harry that "Pilgrim" is the codename for Bernard Qualtrough, the same man apparently helping Harry find the mole.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: \nHe did a background check and informs Harry that "Pilgrim" is the codename for Bernard Qualtrough, the same man apparently helping Harry find the mole..\nLucas eventually recalls the word "Pilgrim" uttered several times.\nLater, Harry admits to Lucas that in "The Tip-Off" he was lying about not knowing what Sugarhorse and asks him to recall anything during his interrogations.\nPrince left a message that there is a leak in Sugarhorse, but Connie is not responsible.\nHarry later finds a tape left by Prince in a Big Ben souvenir.\nRunning on a tip that Connie James (Gemma Jones) may have leaked the top secret Sugarhorse to the Russians due to her affair with Hugo Prince, one of only five people to know about the operation, Harry has officers search her home.\nLater, Ros puts her mind at rest when she shows Jo photographic evidence Boscard is indeed dead, and it was Jo who killed him.\nMeanwhile, Jo Portman (Miranda Raison) believes Boscard (Gus Gallagher), her captor from the end of series six, is still alive after seeing several hallucinations of him.\nLater, Lucas releases Elizabeta as an asset.\nRos fights the gun off and Calderwood goes ahead with her statement.\nThe next morning however, Darlek realises she is MI5 and threatens to kill her if Calderwood does not back down.\nSuch a plan would financially ruin Meynell.\nRos presents a third option; have Calderwood announce she will back Highland Life, while at the same time she will convince Meynell to bet against it.\nLater, Calderwood receives a call from Asa Darlek (Stephen Noonan), Meynell\'s associate from Salma, and threatens to either have the £65 billion paid back, or he will go public to inform the country the true extent of its debts.\nIn order to get Meynell to trust her to become part of his plan, Ros sleeps with him.\nIt was this reason that earlier in the episode, Denham committed suicide.\nIt is also revealed Highland Life owes Salma £65 billion.\nBen Kaplan (Alex Lanipekun) breaks into Meynell\'s office to learn of deals between Highland Life and Salma, a Russian bank that according to Elizabeta Starkova (Paloma Baeza), has connections with the Russian mafia.\nLucas North (Richard Armitage) relays this to Ros and tells her to get closer to Meynell.\nHowever, they find nothing relevant.\nRos uses the opportunity to swipe a memory card from Meynell\'s mobile phone, containing his secure email account that could prove his guilt.\nWhen the chairman of Highland Life, Francis Debham (Simon Williams), attempts to keep the bank afloat, Meynell doubles his position, bankrupting Highland Life.\nAfter starting a rumour about the bank, he starts betting against it.\nTo get the evidence they need, Ros is sent undercover to the London Stock Exchange, where Meynell is targeting the bank Highland Life.\nSir Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) asks the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gillian Calderwood (Selina Cadell) to freeze Meynell\'s assets, but is turned down due to lack of evidence.On the Brink (Spooks): Section D believes banker Alexis Meynell is trying to bankrupt the country
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: On the Brink
  AJS: Is your cup half-full or half-empty? Anthropologists love to discover, tinker, try, and play with ideas. We know that the more ideas you have, the more likely you will have big ones in the mix. You may just not immediately know which ones they are. I knew that if I believed in possibilities, I would see opportunities. When I was an executive in large companies, trying to adapt to changing times, I was confronted with challenges all around me. I realized early on that facing these challenges placed me on the journey of the cup half-full. The cup was never completely full—and that was the joyful part! I was always searching for the rest of the cup, and I want others to see their cups as half-full, too.
  AJS: Humans have always survived by responding to crises by either fleeing or fighting. But neither the ostrich with its head in the ground nor the octopus throwing its arms in every direction is useful when times are changing as they are today. Well before a company faces a crisis, leaders must develop the skills of continuous transformation and learn how to embrace change; they must listen with a new appreciation for ways their own employees and customers might be seeing things that can open doors to tremendous opportunities. I often start a workshop by asking participants to say two things: "Yes, and..." and "That's a great idea." What these two phrases do is stop the brain from fighting change and open the mind to new possibilities. For corporate leaders to successfully embrace change, they need to become curious, be willing to test ideas, and empower their staff to try the unfamiliar to deliver innovative solutions—even if those solutions don't always work out as planned.
  AJS: I have always thought of myself as a Curious George or an amateur explorer. I went into anthropology because I was captivated by different cultures and how people had so many creative ways to solve similar problems. It wasn't hard to embrace the problem-solving approach of ethnography and observational research. Applying the method and tools to the problems of business came naturally as I began to see how hard it was for people to change. I am always happiest in environments where there is a gap or a vacuum between what is and what is becoming. It is more interesting to create the future than to rely on the so-called certainties of the past.
  AJS: I believe that some people can anticipate change and lead their teams forward while others keep waiting for the world to return to the way it was. The speed of change today has transformed the entire business landscape so that the life cycle of ideas and products has been reduced to moments. The time between when you come up with a big idea and someone else launches a better one has shrunk from years to maybe months.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: On the Brink
  AJS: Is your cup half-full or half-empty? Anthropologists love to discover, tinker, try, and play with ideas. We know that the more ideas you have, the more likely you will have big ones in the mix. You may just not immediately know which ones they are. I knew that if I believed in possibilities, I would see opportunities. When I was an executive in large companies, trying to adapt to changing times, I was confronted with challenges all around me. I realized early on that facing these challenges placed me on the journey of the cup half-full. The cup was never completely full—and that was the joyful part! I was always searching for the rest of the cup, and I want others to see their cups as half-full, too.
  AJS: Humans have always survived by responding to crises by either fleeing or fighting. But neither the ostrich with its head in the ground nor the octopus throwing its arms in every direction is useful when times are changing as they are today. Well before a company faces a crisis, leaders must develop the skills of continuous transformation and learn how to embrace change; they must listen with a new appreciation for ways their own employees and customers might be seeing things that can open doors to tremendous opportunities. I often start a workshop by asking participants to say two things: "Yes, and..." and "That's a great idea." What these two phrases do is stop the brain from fighting change and open the mind to new possibilities. For corporate leaders to successfully embrace change, they need to become curious, be willing to test ideas, and empower their staff to try the unfamiliar to deliver innovative solutions—even if those solutions don't always work out as planned.
  AJS: I have always thought of myself as a Curious George or an amateur explorer. I went into anthropology because I was captivated by different cultures and how people had so many creative ways to solve similar problems. It wasn't hard to embrace the problem-solving approach of ethnography and observational research. Applying the method and tools to the problems of business came naturally as I began to see how hard it was for people to change. I am always happiest in environments where there is a gap or a vacuum between what is and what is becoming. It is more interesting to create the future than to rely on the so-called certainties of the past.
  AJS: I believe that some people can anticipate change and lead their teams forward while others keep waiting for the world to return to the way it was. The speed of change today has transformed the entire business landscape so that the life cycle of ideas and products has been reduced to moments.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: AJS: I believe that some people can anticipate change and lead their teams forward while others keep waiting for the world to return to the way it was. The speed of change today has transformed the entire business landscape so that the life cycle of ideas and products has been reduced to moments. The time between when you come up with a big idea and someone else launches a better one has shrunk from years to maybe months.
  AJS: On September 11, 2001, I was an executive at a medical center in New Jersey. From its rooftop, we watched the World Trade Center towers collapse. Then we spent all night answering the phones in the command center, as people searched for loved ones. It was during that experience that I realized it was time for me to move out on my own and away from a structured corporate environment into the world of an entrepreneur, which is really where I feel most at home. This was both a personal and a professional moment. How lucky I was to find John Rosica, from Rosica Communications, who said, "Andi, you're a corporate anthropologist who helps companies change." It was then that Simon Associates Management Consultants was launched, and I realized my purpose and my personal calling.
  AJS: Three major sources of inspiration stand fresh in my mind as I approach each day and each personal and business challenge. First is my mother, who was a smart, loving, and professional woman. I always marveled at everything she accomplished. She was the youngest of six children whose parents emigrated from Russia to England and finally to New York, where they made a living as a glazer and a seamstress. My parents married right before World War II and my father was sent to the Pacific. My mother spent the war working in her mother-in-law's store in Manhattan. After the war, my mother and father took over running the store and grew it in size and scope. I remember their dinner conversations as part of my training ground. There were endless discussions about how to run the business, manage the help, buy better and smarter, outsmart the competition, and leverage what they had going for them. By the time I was five, I was helping in the store putting clothes on hangers in the basement. Although my father was a very smart man, it was my mother I watched, listened to, and emulated. She was just so very intuitive and intelligent. She made dinner into a time of great learning for me and inspired me to pursue my own passions, experiment with ideas, and debate those ideas without worrying if I were winning or losing on any issue. Although I had been groomed to run the business, I chose a different path. My mother always said to me, "I don't care about what your friends or others are doing; I care only about what you are doing. Think on your own and you will be fine."
  Second is my husband. Andy is one cool guy and always my best friend. As a serial entrepreneur, he has built several businesses very successfully. I will always remember his patience and encouragement, along with those all-night walk-around-the-house sessions, as we tried to figure out how to solve his, and then my own, business problems.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Prior to opening her consulting business in 2002, Dr. Simon held executive management positions in financial services and health-care organizations. She was executive vice president of First National Bank of Highland and senior vice president of Poughkeepsie Savings Banks, and held management and consulting roles at Citibank. She spent seven years as a health-care executive, during which she set up branding and marketing for Montefiore Medical Center, and was vice president of branding, marketing, and culture change for St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center.
  Dr. Simon has a BA from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD from City University of New York. She has been on the faculty of higher education institutions, including Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she was a tenured professor of anthropology and American studies, and Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a visiting professor teaching entrepreneurship to arts and science students.
  She is a trained practitioner in Blue Ocean Strategy and since 2007, has given over 250 CEO workshops and speeches on the topic and consulted with a wide range of clients to help them redesign their strategies and open new markets.
  Dr. Simon is also highly experienced in culture change methodologies, particularly the use of the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), which was developed at the University of Michigan. An Innovation Games® facilitator and trainer, Dr. Simon has conducted Innovation Games with dozens of clients and uses Innovation Games and Serious Play methods when working with clients on culture change and innovation challenges.