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People:10 Ways to Influence Them provides strategies, approaches, and examples about how to influence people effectively. The core foundation is about respecting and understanding them, not you, and learning strategies about how to focus upon their needs and therefore make them receptive to your thoughts because you are trying to get in alignment with theirs. A classic win/win approach that works.

In a world where goods are cheaper, where communication is simpler through advances in technology, what is the best way to limit your overhead and keep your costs down? How do you make your business work for you? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide and and co-founder of the Umbroller Stroller Company, the first folding baby stroller. These are the subjects covered.

Murder Out of Commission is an Emma Lathen/R B Dominic political mystery with Congressman Ben Safford from Ohio, the amateur sleuth.

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

This audiobook provides a general approach to leveraging tech to be more effective, profitable, and 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.

Hiring Do-ers for Success emphasizes the importance of hiring job candidates who can get the work done, not sing around the campfire in your culture. In describing his own hiring practices, Steve Jobs once said, “We hire do-ers to get things done.” This is the NFL way as well: “You don't know how they'll do until they are on your field.” You and your company will benefit from adopting a similar hiring philosophy. Test and calibrate. Have your star employees interview candidates to see if they qualify.

"The District Doctor" is a wonderful Turgenev short story that appealed and influenced American authors, such as Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its writing style, and Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway for its focus on moments. As the Doctor says to a new acquaintance, "Sometimes you know people for a long time and never talk about anything that touches the soul; sometimes you start there on the first conversation."

This is the third of the best Stephen Crane short stories, with "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel" being the other two. The story starts in an interesting way as the older sheriff has gone to another town to marry a not so young and not so beautiful woman who he is obviously devoted to.

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

When George hears his mother is sick, he comes home immediately despite looking uncool to his rowdy friends, and soothes his mother. He shows his deep caring for her which moves her as well. Critics have spoken about George's being a drunk, an alcoholic, and the like. But that is not core to the story because George keeps his job for a long time; when he loses it, much of that is because he has been led into thinking work is not cool, to use the modern term.

This audiobook describes why and how to get stuff done, and what every employer wants. It describes how to align with your bosses and organization to get promotions and more money. It also lists the skills required and the personal issues for people seeking this career path. It provides tips, tactics, and strategies to make this work for you and avoiding pitfalls. A must listen for all workers.

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.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant light touch of Emma Lathen.

The Longer the Thread: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 13th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. An American company has trouble in its Puerto Rican plant when a foreman is murdered and only management could have done it. Thatcher figures it out, rescues the $3 million loan for the Sloan, and helps everyone recover.

This book describes how a best-selling mystery writer seemed to drop off the earth in 1997. It includes her history, her successes, and her awards.

The Billionaire story is one of the best stories of Danny.

Inner Life describes the six rules for a calmer, more prosperous and satisfying life by staying calm during life's challenges. Covering everything from sports (dead ball and moving-object sports), and business and professional life, as well as personal, family, and friend situations, plus romantic relationships, and wilderness and nature events. A must listen for everyone.

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.

The magic fantasy writing of the author of The Railway Children, bringing her fun and insights into the children meeting and appreciating new people and events at home and in travels on their magic carpet with the Phoenix as their guide.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his president through a sticky divorce regarding his sister, with money being the motive for the murder.