The Profit Bleed


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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.




Bleeding Afghanistan


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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.




The Profit Zone


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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.




Bleeding the Patient


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In 1994, Common Courage Press published a book that decided the fact that 35 million people went without health insurance...Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Health Care reveals that today the number stands at 44 million -- and growing at 1 million a year. Most Americans would prefer a national health program like Canada's, one that not only costs less than ours does, but insures everyone. Why, in a democracy, isn't this an option? Where is the choice? There is none when a multimillion-dollar industry promotes managed competition, keeping information from the public and spreading lies about the Canadian system.




The Profitable Art and Science of Vibratrading


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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.




Deluge


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“To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma." —Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding. In the Qur’an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment. The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection’s themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction. Deluge investigates the childhood roots of faith and desire alongside their present day enactments. Chatti’s remarkably direct voice makes use of innovative poetic form to gaze unflinchingly at what she was taught to keep hidden. This powerful piece of life-writing depicts Chatti’s journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both. Chatti blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and medical terminology in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.




Lead Or Bleed


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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




How to Kill Your Company


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“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.




Profit First For Minority Business Enterprises


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It's time to level the playing field! You are accustomed to being the first - the first to go to college, the first to start a business. You often enter rooms where no one else looks like you. You're a trailblazer on a mission to create a new legacy for your family. And yet, despite your success, you still work too hard for too little cash. In Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises, Susanne Mariga, CPA, shows you how to implement the proven Profit First cash-management system that has lifted thousands of entrepreneurs out of the struggle and into success. This book is designed to give you the mentorship you need to scale smart into an independent, seven-figure minority business enterprise. In this book, you'll learn: How to apply Profit First to improve cash flow, reduce debt, and grow profit Strategies for revenue generation, target pricing, and margin maximization Expense prioritization techniques Power alignment and team building tools Secrets of - and common illusions about - successful government contracting Tax strategies designed to build generational wealth while maximizing business profitability How to make an impact in your industry when no one else looks like you




Ain't Got Time to Bleed


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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.