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Miracle workers : a novel
\"Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as \"God\") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to resolve wars or end famines, but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about him. When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the lowly Department of Miracles. Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs - uncapping city fire hydrants on hot days, revealing lost keys in snow banks - and they refuse to accept that earth is going under. The angels manage to strike a deal with their boss. He'll call off his Armageddon, if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love. With doomsday fast approaching, and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them - and the rest of us, too.\" -- back cover
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Challenges of business angels: does career matter?
PurposeThe business angels market dramatically changed the modus operandi and nature of business angels’ activity, evolving from lone investors to angel groups managed professionally. This paper aims to analyze the impact of angel perceived career development on angel satisfaction and, consequently, on their intention to continue investing.Design/methodology/approachA model was tested through covariance-based structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS based on data collected from 336 business angels from seven European countries.FindingsThe results highlight that: the perception of personal development is a decisive factor in pursuing the career of business angel; personal development has a higher explanatory power in angel career development than fostering innovation; and the perception of career development has positive impacts on angels’ job satisfaction and reinvestment intention. The paper ends with implications and guidelines for angels, gatekeepers and entrepreneurs, which may increase satisfaction with the angel experience and contribute to enriching business angel work.Research limitations/implicationsCross-sectional self-reported data were used to analyze the results of this study.Originality/valueTo paper extends the body of knowledge of business angels’ perceived career development, with implications for business angels, which may increase satisfaction with angel experience and, therefore, contribute to enhancing business angels’ activity. Thus, this study provides a consistent reference for forthcoming studies regarding the career of business angels and their relationship with entrepreneurs.
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Who Lies Beneath? Revising Paul Holloway's Angelic Interpretation of Philippians 2:6–11
Reading Phil 2:6–11 in the context of the angel-of-the-Lord tradition makes Paul Holloway’s argument for its angelic background more complete, compelling, and decisively Jewish in origin. This tradition’s core interests extend the angelic correlations that are the strength of his argument (divine form, human form, and possession of God’s name) with additional ones (a humble human servant, an implicit incognito human presence, a heightened standing over all) that more fully mirror the condescension cycle of Phil 2:6–11. This angel’s accounts range over the Hebrew Bible to late Second Temple literature, demonstrating its enduring importance for Jewish writers who adopted and adapted this tradition to describe God’s proxy, as well as its availability as a theological resource to describe Jesus’s mission as God’s saving emissary. As a result, Phil 2:6–11 has angelic antecedents that display this christological passage’s thoroughly ethnic interests.
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MUSINGS ON KEITH THOMPSON'S NEW BOOK: THE UFO PARADOX; REFIECTIONS ON COSMIC REQUISITIONS, TRANSPERSONAI ORDEAIS, AND OTHER ENTRANCING MYSTERIES OF EARTHSIDEIIVING
Reviewed by Marina The soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. - Emily Dickinson And that is what I believe the Hero's Journey to be: a chance for people to create a work of art out of the basic materials of their own lives. - [...]as Joseph Campbell (1949) explicated in his seminal work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the summoned ones painstakingly translate their calls into heroic journeys, which potentiate their personal and transpersonal capacities and offers many a boon. More specifically, attentive readers who are familiar with Rhea A. White's (1994, 1999) pioneering transpersonal research on exceptional human experiences-the transcendent, transforming experiences that propel individuals to realize their fullest potentials and to embody their deepest identities-may discern Thompson's status as an experiencer by using a transpersonally inclusive demarcations of this term, which Thompson (2024) highlights in his new book.
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It's a regular life : a fist-bump of a Christmas tale
Skips skipped across the Park and stopped beneath the towering metal gate. He would leave. He would never come back. He decided right then, with a stern yeti look. He would never return to the Park again ... \"I wish I'd never worked at the Park,\" Skip said, and he took a slow, heave skip forward. Little did he know that crazy Christmas magic was in the air, doing crazy Christmas things.
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Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions
Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Building on existing literature on decision making and risk in organizations, intuition, and theories of entrepreneurial financing, we test the effectiveness of angel investors' criteria for making investment decisions. We found that angel investors' decisions have several characteristics that have not been adequately captured in existing theory: angel investors have clear objectives—risking small stakes to find extraordinarily profitable investments, fully expecting to lose their entire investment in most cases—and they rely on a combination of expertise-based intuition and formal analysis in which intuition trumps analysis, contrary to reports in other investment contexts. We also found that their reported emphasis on assessments of the entrepreneur accurately predicts extraordinarily profitable venture success four years later. We develop this theory by examining situations in which uncertainty is so extreme that it qualifies as unknowable, using the term \"gut feel\" to describe their dynamic emotion-cognitions in which they blend analysis and intuition in ways that do not impair intuitive processes and that effectively predict extraordinarily profitable investments.
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