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Imagine this: you're meeting your fifth client of the day. Each conversation feels like a repeat of the last—nods, polite smiles, but no commitment. The harder you push, the more distant the sale seems. You know your product is top-notch, but something isn’t clicking. The Sales Parables is your solution. Packed with timeless stories and sales wisdom, this book offers a new way to approach every challenge in sales. Whether you're closing deals in the boardroom or negotiating partnerships, each story reveals a powerful sales technique proven to work. These aren't just theories—each ...

In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share remarkable tales of life-altering moments. From a macabre discovery in the Idaho mountains that closed the book on a mystery spanning more than 50 years to an Ice Age archaeological find in remote Alaska, these stories take listeners on an immersive journey and provide intimate glimpses into a way of life that is slipping away.

(It's a quick read - Packed with useful information - There's no BS filler content to increase the number of pages) This book is packed with useful information you can implement immediately. For the first time in history we live in two worlds simultaneously. One has always been here and has existed as long as the human race, whereas the other is new and doesn't play by the same rules. The first world has tiers of people all divided by wealth, religion, race, class, weight, history and standing in the community. In the first world, you are judged because of where you are born, because of ...

Wahida Clark Presents Innovative Publishing is proud to present The Men of Street Lit: Omnibus Volume 1! This hot collection brings you two authors who have mastered sexy, street storytelling. Mike Sanders’ Thirsty series delves into the life of Justice and her escape from the streets toward a life of luxury. Justice is forced to dodge hurdles and change her path as she chases her future while running from her violent past.

Value stream mapping - an essential but underused methodology - is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than a tool to eliminate operational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow. Business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done - in any environment - and how to design improved work systems.

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Value stream mapping - an essential but underused methodology - is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than a tool to eliminate operational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow. Business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done - in any environment - and how to design improved work systems.

Fifty years after the moon landings, the commercialization of space travel is finally here, but do we still know how to dream? Final Frontier recalls the heady thrill of the Apollo era and glimpses wonders yet to come. Inside, find a dozen uplifting stories of humor, tragedy, sacrifice and good old fashioned cussedness by today's award-winning authors - plus a healthy dose of optimism. All that, plus a forward by a NASA astronaut and a piece by Spider Robinson, inspired by Robert Heinlein. The Final Frontier is open for business!

Darkest Before The Dawn is the latest adventure in the Sgt. Winston Windflower mystery series, the popular Maritime tales about a Mountie who finds himself with a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland. Ghosts, mysterious deaths, and a new, perplexing character confront Windflower, Tizzard and the other police officers in Grand Bank as they unearth secrets that have been lying hidden in the sleepy hamlet for decades.

A man's body is found on the Cape in a small fishing community on the East Coast. At first, everyone thinks it's a heart attack or stroke. But then it is discovered that he was poisoned. Who would do this and why? Finding that out falls to Sergeant Winston Windflower of the RCMP along with his trusted sidekick, Eddie Tizzard. Along the way, they discover that there are many more secrets hidden in this small community and powerful people who want to keep it that way.

A weekend visit to picturesque Newfoundland by a large crew of outlaw bikers leaves behind another mess for Sgt. Windflower to clean up. This time, he’s facing violence, murder, mystery, and intrigue. This adventure has Windflower questioning everything he thought he knew. There are troubles on the home front, cutbacks in the policing budget, old friends leaving, and new ones not quite here yet. Windflower is seeking to find answers in territory that is both dangerous and unfamiliar.

In this new biography of General Donn Starry, armor officer Mike Guardia examines the life and work of this pioneering, crusading officer using extracts from interviews with veterans and family and from Starry's personal papers.

A Twist of Fortune is the fourth book in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series, and it continues the adventures of Sgt. Windflower, as he tries to solve crime and experience the joy and the sadness of life in a small maritime community. Follow along as he feels the sometimes bitter taste of an east coast winter and the unique culinary delights of this part of the world.

Sgt. Windflower is back, and as usual, he’s loving life on the East Coast. He may be a long way from his home in Northern Alberta, but he has been adopted by the locals as almost one of their own. He has a good life, good work with the RCMP, and a good woman that he has grown closer to in his years on the southeast coast of Newfoundland.

The Body on the T is the second book in the Windflower mystery series and it follows up on the highly acclaimed premiere, The Walker on the Cape. The story begins when a body washes up on a beach near Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There is no identification on the body and few clues to identify who the person was or where they came from. The case becomes the responsibility of Sgt. Winston Windflower of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his trusted side-kick, Corporal Eddie Tizzard. But this is just the beginning.

The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent. The criminal and sexual exploitation of children, FGM, radicalization, and online safety are sadly all now part of the remit, as are self-harm and mental health issues. And these safeguarding challenges are found not only in urban communities but also in leafy suburbs and rural idylls throughout.

[Contains explicit content] Hop on the "L" and take a fast-moving, nostalgic tour through Chicago on this episode of Sounds Like America. You'll be guided along the way by some of the Third Coast's funniest comedians - with stops for deep dish, blues, improv, and much more. The comedy in this episode was recorded at live venues all around the country.

Sgt. Windflower is back on the case in Grand Bank. This time there’s a missing girl, trouble at the factory, and signs of danger everywhere. But there’s always good food, good friends, and good company to make life worthwhile. All the usual characters and a few new suspects are back to help Windflower unravel the web of deceit and deception that threatens the small community.

I WROTE THIS FOR ME NOT YOU: This was never intended to be a book. It was created for my personal use, to make my storytelling process more efficient and structured. As someone who writes a lot of sales stories—and stories in general—I needed a system to structure them properly. One of my books, The Sales Parables, is filled with stories of people in sales, and through writing it, I realised the importance of structuring a story so that it pulls the reader in emotionally. I needed to build a connection with the reader, make them feel the pain of the challenge, and then see the hero ...

(It's a quick read - Packed with useful information - There's no BS filler content to increase the number of pages) This book is packed with useful information you can implement immediately.Entrepreneurs are like superheroes pushing the world forward, creating more jobs, all whilst improving people's lives one invention at a time. If all entrepreneurs understood their full potential, then they could all make millions whilst improving the world and giving themselves and their families extraordinary lives. Unfortunately, entrepreneurism is a misunderstood skill, and that is why entrepreneurs ...