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This audiobook is about the stuff you learn when you've worked for a boss you'd swear jumped out of a Dilbert cartoon; worked in a business whose performance careened up and down like a runaway clown car; when you've faced legal or ethical problems that needed the wisdom of Solomon to sort out while they roiled your guts at night; when you've sat on the stand across from some third-rate Perry Mason, or tried to be one yourself.

Starting a business is one great task, but growing it is another thing. Why do you think many new businesses close up in the first two years? The answer is: They failed to grow the business. Someone once said that having a business without advertisement is like smiling at someone in the dark.

Great communication means much more than just getting your point across; it means connecting. In this book, author Fareed Raja talks about helpful techniques for building those important connections that make it easier to come to work every day.

Life can be crazy sometimes. It can send you running all over the place. It is messy, fuzzy, and oftentimes chaotic. There will be moments when all you would want is for things to stop even for a little while. You long for things to be quiet. You long to be still. You long to be at peace. You long to take a break from it all. Someone who, like you, also wanted the same things in life wrote this book. He wanted to find peace, happiness and stillness.

While in prison, Ron Trentweiler, a petty thief, is befriended by an itinerant preacher and gets "religion." Upon his release, he founds a small, storefront Pentecostal-style church in his native, rural Alabama. Enter Winona Stepp, a visitor at one of his services who seems to know all about "Brother Ron," as he has taken to calling himself, yet insists upon keeping her own past to herself. Things go smoothly for the pair, that is until Winona suggests using venomous snakes in their "act" and all hell breaks loose.

Full Circle is a devastating introspective into Native American culture and ceremony, spirituality, humanity, and society at large. Told from the perspective of Jackson, a white/Native American mixed blood, Full Circle questions the status quo of American society while revealing the causes and effects of colonialism and manifest destiny.