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This book takes the reader through the six major steps of creating a business plan that really works. The often intimidating process is handled with a sense of humor as expert tips, techniques and strategies help readers understand the tools necessary to create and execute a plan that will maximize business potential.
2) Bed of roses
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Bride quartet (Nora Roberts) volume 2
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Emma Grant's love of romance has helped her turn the wedding planning company she started with her three best friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack, a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than friendship.
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The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design. Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game-- defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the...
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"Thirty-nine-year-old Adrienne is desperate to be a mother. And this time, nothing is going to get in her way. Sure, her husband, Gabe, is ambivalent about fatherhood. But she knows that once he holds their baby, he'll come around. He's just feeling a little threatened, that's all. Because once upon a time, it was Gabe that Adrienne wanted more than anything; she was willing to do anything. . . . But that was half a lifetime ago. She's a different...
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The first authoritative and comprehensive guide to "aging in place"--a burgeoning movement for those who don't want to rely on assisted living or nursing home care--which allows seniors to spend their later years living comfortably, independently, and in their own home or community. For millions of Americans, living in a nursing home or assisted living facility is not how they'd prefer to spend their retirement years. This is why more and more people...
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"The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...
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"A highly readable personal finance book that translates
financial jargon and enables readers to ask the tough
questions to protect their money and their financial well-
being In today's unsettled financial markets, where most
pension plans died out with the twentieth century and
where no one's certain of the future of Social Security,
hardworking people turn to financial advisors to guide
them...
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A simple and effective guide to turning your dreams into reality by taking matters into your own hands, filled with down-to-earth tips and easy exercises. In Write It Down, Make It Happen, Henriette Anne Klauser, PhD, explains how simply writing down your goals in life is the first step toward achieving them. Writing can even help you understand what you want. In this book, you will hear stories about ordinary people who witnessed miracles large and...
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"From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a revelatory look at the power and potential of social context. As psychologists have long understood, social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. Less widely noted is that social influence is a two-way street: Our environments are in large part themselves a product of the choices we make. Society embraces regulations...
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Family Trusts is a step-by-step guide for anyone involved in family trusts: trust creators, trustees, beneficiaries, and advisors. It will help families create and administer a culture that recognizes trusts as a gift of love.
Marrying the practical and emotional aspects of family wealth, this book provides a hands-on primer that focuses on fostering positive relationships, and structuring the trust appropriately for the situation and the people...
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After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations. I 've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It has been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents...
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Create the retirement you desire with proven financial strategies
The New Rules of Retirement throws away the rules of thumb, cliches, and obsolete ideas. It provides a proven, updated approach to retiring successfully in today's world. In this new second edition based on independent, objective research, retirement expert Robert C. Carlson uses proven, profitable techniques to coordinate all the factors that lead to financial security and independence....
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2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and renewal-champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century.
Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress;...
16) So you want to start a side hustle: build a business that empowers you to live your life, your way
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"Create a successful side hustle that pays off in a life changing way with this definitive guide from two expert side hustlers. Have you ever dreamed of a way to earn extra money, cover unexpected expenses, or step away from a corporate job and create a life that's more in line with what you truly value? If so, the idea of the "side hustle" could be more relevant to you than ever. In this hard-hitting guide, a husband-and-wife team who have built...
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"Since its original release, The First 90 Days has become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible of leadership and career transitions. In this updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition, internationally known leadership transition expert Michael D. Watkins gives you the keys to successfully negotiating your next move-whether you're onboarding into a new company, being promoted internally, or embarking on an international assignment. In The...
18) Nothing to lose, everything to gain: how I went from gang member to multimillionaire entrepreneur
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Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset.Blair's middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a bad neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining...
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No matter what industry you're in or what economic conditions you are facing, you can still build a successful business. Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy have joined forces on a book whose ideas are as inspiring and thought-provoking as they are practical. 'Now, Build a Great Business!' reveals seven principles that will change your business for the better. Readers will learn how to: become a great leader; attract and keep great people; develop a great...
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