Eye in the Sky

by Alan Parsons, The Alan Parsons Project

Overview

For decades, leaders have relied on hard skills to make smart decisions, while dismissing the importance of emotional intelligence. Soft skills, like self-awareness and curiosity, aren't quantifiable; they can't be measured on a spreadsheet and aren't taught in B-schools or emphasized in institutions. We've been taught that emotional intelligence is a "nice to have" in business, not a requirement. But soft skills can actually accelerate business success, Gary Vaynerchuk argues. For analytical minds, it's challenging to understand how to get better at being self-aware, curious, or empathetic-or even why it's important to try. In this wise and practical book, Gary explores the twelve human ingredients that have led to his success and happiness and provides exercises to help you develop these traits yourself. He also shares what the "half" is-that emotional component of leadership he's weakest in and makes the most effort to improve. Working through the ideas and exercises in the book, he teaches you how to discover your own halves and offers insight on how to strengthen them. Gary's secret to success is using these twelve traits in varying mixtures, depending on the situation. But how do we know when to balance patience with ambition? Humility with conviction? Gary provides real-life examples involving common business scenarios to show how to use them together for optimum results. This iconoclastic book will help you refine your ingredients and improve your leadership capabilities. When implemented in the proper situation, these ingredients can help leaders land promotions, retain core employees, move faster than competitors, win the loyalty of customers, and build successful organizations that last.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/20/2007
Label:	Arista / Legacy
UPC:	0886978847829
Rank:	3957

Tracks

1. Sirius
2. Eye in the Sky
3. Children of the Moon
4. Gemini
5. Silence and I
6. You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
7. Psychobabble
8. Mammagamma
9. Step By Step
10. Old and Wise
11. Sirius
12. Old and Wise [Eric Woolfson Vocal]
13. Any Other Day [Studio Demo]
14. Silence and I [Eric Woolfson Vocal]
15. The Naked Eye
16. Eye Pieces (Classical Naked Eye)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Alan Parsons Project   Primary Artist
Alan Parsons   Primary Artist,Vocals,Fairlight,Keyboards,Linn Drum,Drum Machine,Fairlight CMI,Vocals (Background)
Lenny Zakatek   Vocals (Background),Vocals
Stuart Elliot   Drums,Percussion
Stuart Elliott   Drums,Percussion
Haydn Bendall   Keyboards
The English Chorale and Played Ti   Vocals
English Chorale   Vocals
Bob Howes   Choir/Chorus
Andrew Powell   Band,Piano,Conductor
Ian Bairnson   Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Colin Blunstone   Vocals
Jack Harris   Vocals (Background)
Elmer Gantry   Vocals
Eric Woolfson   Organ,Piano,Vocals,Keyboards,Wurlitzer,Vocals (Background)
David Paton   Bass,Guitar,Vocals
John Wallace   Piccolo Trumpet
Chris Rainbow   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Mel Collins   Soloist,Saxophone

Technical Credits

Lenny Zakatek   Vocal Effect
The Alan Parsons Project   Performer
George Hammer   Orchestra Contractor
Miles Showell   Mastering
Andrew Powell   Brass Arrangement,Choir Arrangement,Orchestral Arrangements
Chris Blair   Mastering,Mastering Consultant,Production Coordination
Tony Richards   Assistant Engineer
Paul Brennan   Composer
Alan Parsons   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Eric Woolfson   Composer,Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

07/29/2019

Arnold’s debut is a lyrical but long-winded portrayal of a woman reckoning with the disappointments of her life. Ash passes her days swimming at a deserted lake with her seven-year-old daughter, Charlie. When she senses Charlie grow distant as she gets older, Ash commits an unforgivable act while trying to reconnect. This sets in motion the crumbling of Ash’s emotional world, revealing memories of an affair with her yoga instructor, a capricious bisexual woman, and a complicated relationship with her father. Ash slips into a depression that confines her to bed, forcing her husband into the arms of a family friend who comes by to care for Charlie. The narrator’s idiosyncratic, troubled personality is expressed through her obsessive interest in sounds and words. During her first date with her husband, she tells him that she collects words, stating that “finding the right word is like finding a pebble on a whole beach of pebbles.” Arnold uses language like a set of dominoes, connecting endings of sentences to beginnings with sounds and phrases to create an artful tumble of prose. However, the novel’s high style comes at the price of momentum, and it becomes opaque to the point of being inaccessible. With very little plot, Arnold’s novel asks questions of profound moral consequence that get lost in the fogginess of its narrator. (July)

Publishers Weekly

Any serious student of Reformed theology needs to sit at the feet of Petrus van Mastricht. The challenge has been that to do so you needed to know Latin or Dutch. Thanks to the herculean efforts of the folks at the Dutch Reformed Translation Society and Reformation Heritage Books, English readers can now learn the art of ‘living for God through Christ.’” —Stephen J. Nichols, president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer of Ligonier Ministries


“With each translation of the formative Reformed theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries comes the possibility of our churches being renewed by forgotten treasures. This is one of those gold mines. So important is van Mastricht that even Descartes felt obliged to respond to his critiques and Jonathan Edwards drew deeply from the well of his Theoretical-Practical Theology. It is a distinct pleasure to recommend this remarkable gem.” —Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California


“The very title of this work, Theoretical-Practical Theology, indicates why, three centuries ago, Petrus van Mastricht’s work appealed to Scottish ministers who studied under him or read his theology. Not least of these was his student James Hog, who would later famously republish The Marrow of Modern Divinity. In making van Mastricht’s classic available in English for a new generation of students, pastors, and scholars, the Dutch Reformed Translation Society and Reformation Heritage Books are giving a great gift to the Christian church as a whole, and to students, pastors, and scholars in particular.” —Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary; and teaching fellow, Ligonier Ministries

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