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If you are a business owner, or you are working with one, then this book is for you. The Succession Solution provides both an explanation of the importance of succession planning, as well as a practical, straight-forward, and proven system that can be used to continue your business to the next generation, whether your successor is a family member(s), an employee, or a third party.

In his top-rated book Buyable, best-selling author, successful entrepreneur with an exit, and sought-after consultant Steve Preda will show you how to turn your business into a valuable asset. You’ll create a buyable business even if you have no plan to sell it. Why? Because your business will work for you with very little effort, supervision, and stress from you.

Dexter Davis & Associates, a fast-growing dermatology practice faces sudden and severe disruptions. Will the CEO, Dexter, his wife Karola, and their leadership team be able to put aside their differences and face down these challenges? Can their savvy business coach, Fletcher Hanson, and the Summit OS business operating system help them? Learn how the crisis will shape the ambitious Dexter, and if his team can pivot to a new business strategy.

In Jesus the Pacifist, Fleischer provides a systematic, biblically based, and comprehensive overview of Jesus’s relationship with violence, one that may forever change how you view his ministry and your calling.

A straight-talk guide for anyone looking to launch and market a new food product. Will Madden lays out everything a would-be entrepreneur needs to consider when taking his or her product to the next level.

We are embarking on an era of challenge and change. The value and impact of effective leadership has never been more evident. Little is clear about what the next decade looks like for your business, except that what worked in the past is no longer enough. For your business to endure and thrive, your Millennial and Gen Z employees must lead your company into the future.

Restore your health by eating essential macronutrients and fasting intermittently. After struggling with obesity for 30 years Dr. Kosky lost 70 pounds in 12 months. His personal journey offers us the key to weight loss. The doctor outlines a 4-week meal plan with 40 recipes and 11 tables of macronutrients to guide you. He explains the science behind the way we eat and reiterates that obesity is not our fault.

Tom Brantley is a complex superhero (or perhaps an anti-hero) who discovers he has the unique power of psychokinesis whenever he's drunk or high. Revered as Burlington City's guardian, Tom loves putting on a show for his devoted fans while saving lives and fighting crime, almost as much as he enjoys partying and indulging in vices. Despite the citizens encouraging his reckless behavior, his family and friends are increasingly concerned about his declining health.

Before you share information, can you separate fact from fiction? Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories is designed to help you authenticate any form of information for possible bias before you use it and/or share it in your network. “A life worth living is a life well led”, as the famous saying goes. We need to take the lead, because inspecting information properly for mental health is one of the biggest challenges of our time.

Leadership on the Level is a guided tour of leading through the well-known “Sermon on the Mount” model. It takes you through an in-depth examination of your internal world’s motivations and how they play out in real life decisions, and the organizations you lead. In Leadership on the Level, Jerry Meek, founder of Desert Star Construction, takes you through an architectural review of the blueprints of the gospel that Jesus taught, and how to apply it to your life today.

How many times have you seen two different people experience the exact same event and have a totally different outcome? One person might become incredibly upset, while the other person not only isn't bothered by the experience but actually thrives in it. Learn from numerous anecdotes, both from author's, Alves life and others, enliven the book. Here are some successful and highly regarded people in diverse fields, including Nelson Mandela, Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan and more. The best way to predict the future is to go out and create it.

I wrote this book to help people develop themselves and lead happier, more peaceful, and more successful lives. I structured the tools in what I felt was the most appropriate manner to find more contentment with life. I hope that you enjoy the book and will share it with family and friends. It is my deepest wish to see everyone succeed and be happier and healthier. I wish you all the best.

This book is about job shops. Inside is a combination of stories and practical tips from my experience. It’s not theory. This is how I lost money, made money, kept my job, or got promoted. These are all the things I dug through the literature trying to find answers to. Job shops can be many different types of businesses. Factories, distributors, and government offices could all be considered job shops.

Meet the superhero Spleen Squeezer, discover the true story of Eden, and travel to the safest city in the world in this third collection of unclassifiable ultra-short pieces by K.M. Halpern. But wait, there's more! For the same price, you get twice the wisdom, twice the wit, twice the heartpounding absurdity. Learn the danger of having ears, the importance of being unlikable, and how to achieve quality as an executioner. But it's a limited time offer. Delay and it could be too late. Since that's true of all things, it must be true of this.

Simple ideas, turned into rich stories.This short, easy-to-use guidebook tells you exactly how to turn a fleeting story idea into a solid premise strong enough to carry an entire novel. Story Idea: A Method to Develop a Book Idea will teach you: How to get more story ideas when your creative well seems to have run dry, how to use mind mapping to decide which story idea is the best one, and how to develop the premise, the starting point for any novel. Get rid of writer's block forever. It's time to reclaim your creativity!

Psychological injuries and trauma suffered during childhood are extremely common. They lead to all sorts of addictive behaviors as well as anxiety, depression, and debilitating and life-threatening physical maladies. In Healing with Psychedelics, Chris writes about how to recognize the often-hidden histories that caused us as children to create a false self and changed how we operate in this world. He then takes us on his personal healing journey, revealing the details of his own experience and describing the process of psychedelic-assisted sacred-medicine therapy.

For 34 months, while wounded and struggling to survive in Korean War prison camps, Felix Ferranto recited the Lord's Prayer daily and dreamed of being free and with his family. Proper "attitude" and having learned enough of the Chinese language and culture during his time with the American Legation Guard in Peiping, China would be critical for his survival.

Behold! A small team of explorers marooned on a distant moon are in danger. The time is the future. The place is Eve. Alpha Team now find themselves on something of an enigmatic world that guards its secrets closely. On what began as a cataloging mission soon becomes a battle for the future of humanity. An ancient relic discovered. An age old feud reignited. Mysterious beings. Formidable predators. Reawakened pathogens.

The mission of the Church has always been to "go and make disciples of all people." But between "going" and "making" the Church has to Connect with people. The way disciples are made has not changed in 2000 years. But how we "go" and how we "connect" with people has changed dramatically in the 21st century.

Plot Fiction Like the Masters is an exercise in listening like a writer - listening with the purpose of figuring out how the plots of a few recognized masterpieces succeed in making one continue. The reason for proposing this as a way of learning plot-making is my own experience as a writer - that the most accomplished novelists are the greatest teachers and that their lessons may be drawn from a close study of their work. The three novels under consideration have all achieved astonishing success. They are all not only recognized masterpieces of their very different genres.