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Hiring Your First Employees and Contractors emphasizes the benefits of starting with contractors and only evolving to hiring employees when absolutely required. The entrepreneur and small firm manager is provided concrete benchmarks and approaches for hiring contractors and employees, with the emphasis always on how to extend the entrepreneur's reach so as to focus on improving core values and core competencies.

Crucial conversations usually come at inconvenient times. This makes it even more important to recognize that these conversations are in fact crucial moments, and to be prepared to respond promptly according to your personal objectives and goals. You should also prioritize your needs, so you can start to deal with the content of these conversations. Finally, you need to learn how to best perform and execute the tasks required.

Conflict Resolution builds on positive approaches to support other people and build bridges to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties. This audio book encourages you to accept conflict as a normal part of everyone’s life so you can move on productively to deal with it, rather than get depressed by the presence of conflict in your life and work.

Knowing the state capitals and states helps you to understand American geography and history. This audiobook lets you test yourself on the states and each capital city. The narrator says the state name and then pauses a few seconds for you to say the capital name; the second track does the reverse, letting you test yourself on the capital cites and which state they are the capital of. Track 3 lists the population of states, from the highest to the lowest. Track 4 lists the land area by state, from the highest to the lowest.

Learn 1,100 core words in the legal world. Here are must-know words for lawyers, law students, and people involved in the judicial system. The 7th title in the Simply Legal series, Legal Words includes all 27 Amendments to the Constitution: the first 10 in the Bill of Rights and the 17 ones thereafter.

Describes the new deflationary age, which puts new pressures on jobs and pay, has long term interest rates of just 1.2 percent, and creates less money to buy goods and services. Points out how to save and protect your money during our troubled time.

This collection provides core information about money, numbers, and business for the listener to understand better the fundamentals of these important things in all of our lives.

With an average of 3,000 new startups in America per day, how do you find and close the right deal? Learn the art of Angel Investing in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction by the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide. (He helped bring American Power Conversion public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 billion.)

Coolidge used his discipline, perseverance, and competence to get things done quietly without offense. Known as Silent Cal, his quotations are memorable and for us to learn from. Reagan thought he was our best president and put his portrait in the Oval Office. Coolidge lived a hard scrabble life but graduated from Amherst Cum Laude as a star debater. He was person to go to school on.

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.

Learn what it takes to finance your business in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

If you are an Entrepreneur, how do you write Executive Summaries & Business Plans to get the money from an Investor? If you are an Investor, how do you read Executive Summaries & Business Plans to know whether or not to invest? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide who helped bring American Power Conversion (APCC-NASDAQ) public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 Billion.

Over 25 percent of Americans work out of a home office and of those who do not, many see it as a future goal. The question is, how do you make it work? What materials are needed and what discipline is required? Learn the answer to these questions in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide and and co-founder of the Umbroller Stroller Company, the first folding baby stroller.

Learn the art of selling in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

Cooperman, like Midas, stays alone in his room, adding zeroes to his bank account as Midas added gold to his pile. Both were unhappy because they never built anything or passed on their financial wisdom, so they were disliked by many and hated by others. In contrast, billionaires Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Sam Walton passed on their wisdom, built things, and helped people prosper in their lives, and were revered by virtually all. There are lessons for all of us in this book.

Make your financial statements work for you. This audiobook includes 11 sections, covering such topics as balance sheets, cash flow, and income statements.

Canoe Trips are classic stories told by an Algonquin Park guide who heard about them through legend or experienced them personally. The names have been changed to protect the involved. The Booktrack edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!

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.

A companion and guide to using Uber and Lyft as a driver, a passenger, and an observer of this phenomenon in modern life....

How do you hire and train sales people, and how do you use them effectively? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide. He helped bring American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 Billion.