Being the owner of a contracting company can feel overwhelming, frustrating, and downright life draining, particularly when you're working more hours than there are in a day. You'd delegate more to others, but you worry they won't follow through, or do the job as well as you would. You want to charge more-heck, you need to charge more-but you're afraid you'll lose your shirt to the competition. You're bleeding money, but don't know precisely how to fix the problem, where to begin. Actually, even if you knew where to begin, where would you find the time to make critical changes? Help is here in the form of a doable, step-by-step guide that will put money in your pocket, and more time and fun in your day. Learn how to: - Keep your finger on the critical pulse points that drive success - Depend on your employees to take ownership - Close more deals while charging more money - Develop an air of confidence that magnetizes potential customers - Manage the project scope and stop the profit bleed of cost overruns If you can't remember the last time you took a vacation or watched your kids' soccer game, or the last time you reviewed your balance sheet with a sense of pride and excitement, this book is for you.

Through in-depth research and detailed historical context, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls report on the injustice of U.S. policies in Afghanistan historically and in the post-9/11 era. Drawing from declassified government documents and on-the-ground interviews with Afghan activists, journalists, lawyers, refugees, and students, Bleeding Afghanistan examines the connections between the U.S. training and arming of Mujahideen commanders and the subversion of Afghan democracy today. Bleeding Afghanistan boldly critiques the exploitation of Afghan women to justify war by both conservatives and liberals, analyzes uncritical media coverage of U.S. policies, and examines the ways in which the U.S. benefits from being in Afghanistan.

Enter the world of vibration trading with a new methodology for making more money, more safely What if you could enter the markets and know, in advance, the exact value of trades needed to sustain a losing streak, by knowing their Martingale limits, to finally ensure a win? With Vibratrading you can. Applying the principles of "Boundedness" in conjunction with powerful stock/ETF diversification techniques, VibratradingTM allows you to accomplish what most traders and investors previously thought impossible, giving you an unfair advantage in any market situation. A new and revolutionary perspective on trading and investing, Vibratrading provides a powerful methodology for extracting profit. Non-directional, it is designed to appeal greatly to the vast number of directional traders consistently struggling to keep from losing their trading accounts. Providing a better, safer way to participate in the markets to make consistent profits, it is the only book you need to gain a crucial competitive edge. Presents a radical new trading strategy, VibratradingTM, that the market cannot move adversely against Demonstrates how a scale trader can enter the market at any level, without being restricted to entry at the "conventional lower end" of the instrument's historical range Teaches traders and investors the important techniques of securitizing and monetizing profits with emphasis on risk free vibrational share accumulation Presenting a truly non-directional methodology, Vibratrading is the book you need to make more money, more safely.

The book that answers the most fundamental question in business: Where Will I Make a Profit Tomorrow? Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of their competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry? Why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone? The Profit Zone provides the answers. It is a brilliant, original, and practical explanation of how and why high profit happens.

Entrepreneurs and Corporate Leaders often find themselves in a FIRE FIGHTING mode because their Next Line Leadership team either lack competence, confidence, commitment and/or ownership.These Entrepreneurs and Corporate Leaders often find themselves under STRESS and end up creating a LIMITING BELIEF about What's Possible to be achieved as a team.Goals set are either safe or are often missed, stakeholders are left unhappy, stress levels are high or the team is complacent and team members are disengaged. In such an environment, Leadership is just a jargon used for describing something ABSTRACT and UNREAL.Entrepreneurs and Corporate Leaders need a PROVEN SYSTEM of ENGAGING with their TEAMS: * To develop COMPETENCE of team members on-the Job * SET & ACHIEVE GOALS that are CHALLENGING, INSPIRING and ENGAGING * Solve the REAL problems at the ROOT CAUSE level rather than the SYMPTOMS level * Manage PERFORMANCE on a Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly basis to stay on TRACK and ACHIEVE BREAKTHROUGH GOALS

I reflect on the many routes I travelled and I see the variety of landscapes my eyes beheld. I think of the many slopes and the stale hills. I walked through valleys and rivers, big and small. I remember the great few mountains I gazed upon and the trees young, old, and tall. I walked different trails and opened my eyes in different places. I had seen grass dancing with the breeze and a clear blue sky. I remember a sunset waving to say goodnight and a moon trying to outshine the stars. I remember lying under the shade of a tree, watching a worm crawling on its stump. I have seen ants going about their business and insects great and small. I strolled between weeds and shrubs and played with their stems. As for my body, it knows how it feels to lie on meadows. I walked on sand and felt the tiny stones between my toes. Some late afternoons I heard birds singing with operatic voices. As a child I played in the rain and heard the thunder above my head. After the rain I saw the promise of God in the skya rainbow. Ive watched the flow if a stream breaking on pebbles, and when I gazed up to the sky I saw clouds moving by. I already heard the wind in its fury and witnessed the ocean in its rage. I have seen a desert storm and hid my face from its rusty desert sand. I have seen flowers bloom and bees buzzing for their nectar. I know how to greet every new day with my prayers and give gratitude to the Creator for the creation. My journey is the recorded history of my time and in my time. I have seen what I have seen and know in my heart that life is a special gift. But I have also seen despair and troubled times. I had many encounters with dark days, but I rose from the pain. I have tasted my tears and seen my own blood. Every day I see my reflection in the mirror, then I remind myself that I am more than what I see. I go through bad times and also through good times. I sometimes fight fear, doubt, and tears, but I stand for the human race because it is my passion. I have seen human tears, emotional pain, and human fears. Therefore, within me there is a warrior that knows how to bleed and survive. Each day I learn to cope with the pressures of life, and I never give up on a grain of hope. I breathe, I laugh, I cry, but I am here and I exist. I was in my yesterday and will be in my tomorrow. At this moment I am now. I am the sentinel of my life and with my voice I announce that I am who I am and I am here with you on the same planet called Earth. Now you know who I am; I am mortal flesh.

James is our most mundane villain. His victim is Bruce, our typical Aussie, who bleeds from the hip pocket because of James' actions. Game of Mates tells a tale of economic theft across major sectors of Australia's economy, showing how James and his group of well-connected Mates siphon off billions from the economy to line their own pockets. In property, mining, transport, banking, superannuation, and many more sectors, James and his Mates cooperate to steal huge chunks of the economic pie for themselves. If you want to know how much this costs the nation, how it is done, and what we can do about it, Game of Mates is the book for you.

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself -- not drugs, gangs, or guns. Because violence is "sticky," clustering among small groups of people and places, it can be predicted and prevented using a series of smart-on-crime strategies that do not require new laws or big budgets. Bringing these strategies together, Abt offers a concrete, cost-effective plan to reduce homicides by over 50 percent in eight years, saving more than 12,000 lives nationally. Violence acts as a linchpin for urban poverty, so curbing such crime can unlock the untapped potential of our cities' most disadvantaged communities and help us to bridge the nation's larger economic and social divides. Urgent yet hopeful, Bleeding Out offers practical solutions to the national emergency of urban violence -- and challenges readers to demand action.

Discover how some of the silver screen’s most iconic action heroes would really fare after being shot, stabbed, and dropped off buildings in this witty look at the real science behind Hollywood injuries. Hollywood action heroes shrug off bullet wounds like mosquito bites and jump through panes of glass as if their skin is made of asbestos. But how long would these gun-toting badasses last in the real world? Ain’t Got Time to Bleed catalogs the injuries endured by some of the best-known characters in the action-movie genre and uses authentic medical research to assess their real-life chances of survival. Featuring full-color illustrations that reveal how these hard-boiled icons would really look after being put through the Hollywood wringer, Ain’t Got Time to Bleed delivers twenty-nine hilariously grisly diagnoses that will change the way you watch action movies forever.

“How to Kill Your Company is a short and wonderful romp of a book. Ken Kirsh provides us with fastest way I’ve ever seen to help every leader become more self-aware, and in turn, build companies that thrive rather than fail.” —Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of the New York Times bestsellers Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule “Ken Kirsh’s book, How to Kill Your Company, is an intellectual shot in the brain. If you buy it, read it, study it, and put it into action, it will prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot and in the wallet.” —Jeffrey Gitomer, author of Little Red Book of Selling “Never have I seen so many good, actionable thoughts in so few pages.” —Peter Ricchiuti, Professor, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University “For small businesses or big, Kirsh delivers 50 punchy and powerful don’t do’s that apply to CEOs, clerks and every employee in between.” —Chris Altizer, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Pfizer Unapologetic and in your face, How to Kill Your Company exposes 50 of the most common and detrimental behaviors that people, including you, unwittingly exhibit on a daily basis—and they’re killing your company.