Mark Johnson

Named a Top 10 Business Strategy Book of 2018 by Inc. magazine In his pioneering book Seizing the White Space, Mark W. Johnson argued that business model innovation is the most proven path to transformational growth. Since then, Uber, Airbnb, and other startups have disrupted whole industries; incumbents such as Blockbuster, Sears, Toys "R" Us, and BlackBerry have fallen by the wayside; and digital transformation has become one of the business world's...

In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn't be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world-and any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of the mind must take into account the ways that cognition, meaning, language, action, and values are grounded in and shaped by that embodiment. This book...

What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the United Way to become the oldest rookie in the Mobile, Alabama, police department, he didn't just have to adjust to a new career-he had to adjust to an entirely new life of danger, violence, and stark moral choices. "Apprehensions and Convictions" is Johnson's explosive memoir of...

Mark Johnson tells a timeless tale of the struggle to find truth in belief, faith in fact, and friendship in times of fear. It is a new survival story, one that takes place post-climate apocalypse where our main character, Elon, thirty-seven, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear just another voice, is determined to discover what is next for a world sunken and on fire. When Elon discovers a hidden retreat deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, he...

A Minister's Son is a moving nonfiction account of a young man's struggle with his strict religious upbringing. It recounts his touching relationship with his evangelical father, a minister; his steamy experiences with young women in his father's church; his escapades as a competitive public speaker, and his eventual lapse into addiction. The book will be of interest to anyone who has had a troubled relationship with God, organized religion and/or...

Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an...

Explore the power of Google Cloud products and services to modernize your apps and IT infrastructure. The sheer power of Google services never ceases to amaze. And if you’re looking to modernize your IT infrastructure, it’s hard to find more effective solutions. In this course, instructor Mark Johnson shows you how to use Google Cloud services to update your infrastructure and optimize app development to stay relevant and boost your organization’s...

Learn the fundamentals of cloud storage on the Google Cloud platform, including storage features, data migration, and more. Google Cloud remains in the top three cloud platforms, and storage remains a high priority for individuals and businesses. In this course, instructor Mark Johnson covers the fundamentals of storage on the Google Cloud platform (GCP). Mark begins with an overview of object storage on GCP. He dives into both relational and non-relational...

A crucial tool for anyone trying to make sense of the complicated world of investing and secure long-term financial success is "Strategic Wealth Building: Unveiling Effective Investment Approaches." In order to assist readers in comprehending the complexities of the financial markets, this book offers a thorough overview of important investing methods by fusing fundamental knowledge with cutting-edge insights. The book explores a wide range of subjects,...