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This audiobook provides a general approach to leveraging tech to be more effective, profitable, and to have a better life. It provides general principles as well as specific things to do. Best audiobook on the subject and will make you money right away.

George Washington was the Mozart of American politics who succeeded in ways no President since has. He was the head of the military and resigned when the war was over; George III, his opponent, called him "the greatest man of our age" for voluntarily giving up power. Washington set the precedent of serving only two terms that was not broken until FDR, and then a Constitutional Amendment was passed to prevent that temptation in the future. Washington was nominated by John Adams to run the Constitutional Convention and was later elected unanimously by the Electoral College to be president.

Calmness is a core ingredient for happiness and a productive life. This title builds on Busy & Stressed, an earlier title, to provide 98 tips about how to calm yourself for a satisfied and useful life, not to speak of being supportive of your family, friends, and colleagues in your work place. A must have for people interested in wellness for themselves and those in their family.

The story of Deaver Brown & Cross River facing two critical sales presentations to move forward the company created by Deaver Brown & Alex Goodwin. Contains key background information and analysis, plus 16 crucial questions for students to review to make their work more productive and meaningful. This is one of the few pure sales cases offered in business and MBA programs. Versions of this story are contained in Babson, Texas, Stanford, and Harvard case studies.

Crucial conversions in business occur at inconvenient times as a rule. This audiobook helps identify how to recognize these moments, prioritize them, and implement the best solutions for your organization and yourself. This is a more focused version of our Crucial Conversations audiobook which addresses all subject, personal and work. Play this over and listen closely when you think you are having, will have, or might have a crucial conversation in your business or organization. This audiobook will help refine and bolster your skills in this regard.

Here is the story of Deaver Brown and Simply Magazine facing two critical sales presentations to move forward the company. Created by serial entrepreneur Deaver Brown, this audio contains key background information and analysis, plus 16 crucial questions for students to review to make their work more productive and meaningful. This is one of the few pure sales cases offered in business and MBA programs. Versions of this story are contained in Babson, Texas, Stanford, and Harvard case studies.

Purchases Orders emphasizes a missing focus in most business training and objectives: You have to get the order to get your business started and keeping it moving forward whether a small company or Apple. Getting the order is a skill and this audiobook addresses it. Critical for budding entrepreneurs and all sales people.

America was the undisputed world power in 1947, just after the War, and New York was the center, and the center of everything from the arts, business, culture, and just living. The ambitious came here to get their start and it was the age of the New Yorker, at its finest. By 1963, marked by the Kennedy Assassination, that power drifted away with the Dodgers and Giants to California and Fortune 500 companies to Texas and elsewhere. But in this period, New York was the City of Ageless Grace.

95 Habits of Healthy People is the result of extensive research in the habits and lifestyle of healthy people. The first point is they focus on satisfying themselves not other standards of health. A must listen for all interested in long term healthy and productive lifestyles.

Practical health guides with no extremism. Simple to follow rules to follow the habits of the happiest and healthiest people, learn to sleep soundly at night, use a food plan that will eliminate diets forever and keep you healthy for the rest of your life, and use yoga for exercise and thought mellowing, with no politics involved.

The focus here is entirely on the employee who is trying to keep his or her job in the face of downsizing, productivity gains, and outsourcing. It includes Ten Rules to keep your job when others lose theirs. This is a realistic, hard hitting title to help employees protect their incomes and livelihood. An eye opener.

Enthusiast is the sixth book in the Tom Walker mystery series, introducing Sarah Logan as a fellow traveler. This mystery starts with Sarah having to make her own way in her teenage years after her dad dies and her mother leaves for another life. Sarah pulls herself up by her bootstraps to avoid being sent to foster care. She leverages the little bit of property left to do this. Her ninth-grade Englishteacher, Joan Barker, spots her as a promising student and person to dispose ofher blackmailer, one way or another.

Shape of the States starts with the shape of the whole United States, then the 13 colonies, the four acquired states, and the 33 ones Congress created. Each state's borders is discussed within a regional context with states next to them and discussions of common issues and specific disputes. The work demonstrates how Congress effectively worked to make these 33 relatively equal in size. It shows the actions Presidents took to negotiate, acquire, and fight for certain properties to augment the states.

This title emphasizes the 10 rules you should follow to keep your job, make more money, and get promoted. It is focused on the employed and how they can do better to succeed and avoid being laid off or otherwise terminated. A must-read for all employees and single-organization contractors.

The fourth Tom Walker mystery addresses the issues surrounding the grandchild of a grocery baron who wants to upset the anonymity of the firm and family by moving into major liberal cities such as Boston and New York, which will stir up media interest, criticism of their wealth and power, instead of quietly serving the small towns of America between Worcester, MA west to Gary, Indiana, and north to non-Detroit Michigan and south to non-Louisville, Kentucky, without controversy as they have done for over 50 years.

Collections presents the approach that gets the most collection dollars and has the highest percentage ability to keep your late customers and get them out of the bad pay habit. Collections is about selling companies and people to pay you. Have the end in mind: they have the money; your job is to get them to send their money to you. A must listen for all business people involved in finance and collections.

The Truckers Health Guide was suggested by a number of truckers who used the CDL to study for their tests as well as those who read our general health guides. This audiobook is specifically focused on the constraints drivers suffer from: long rides, being away from home, tempted by comfort food and drink, and a lack of easy exercising opportunities. A must read for drivers as well as sales people with many of the same issues.

Presidential Wisdom contains instructive and inspiring quotations from every president, from George Washington through Barack Obama. Most of us know some of the more famous quotations by the most generally revered six: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., and Ronald Reagan. But don’t overlook the others, such as John Adams, James Madison, and James Monroe, who helped draft the Bill of Rights and Constitution.

People: Ten Habits for Influencing Others addresses the habits of successful people - influencers - who use those valuable skills in their personal and professional lives. Listening and relistening to this audiobook pays dividends repeatedly. When confronted with a specific "people problem", relisten to this audiobook to find a way out of your dilemma.

Learn about the history of Fort Ticonderoga, the gateway to North America in the late 18th Century. It was a pivotal place where the French stopped the British from taking over Canada. Then, later, the British stopped the Americans from doing so. Playing a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, Ticonderoga is an important part of American and European history.