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Folk wisdom varies from region to region, and the Ozark Mountain variety was, and still is, peculiar and very special to the residents of this grand range. For the most part, early Ozarkers, though scattered, were bound together by common geography, religion, ethnic background, language, customs, dress, architecture, and even hardship. Wisdom as it related to survival and just getting by was accumulated and freely shared among these isolated residents.

The secret code to growing a successful business is adjusting your strategy every single day. Business leaders, large and small, need to learn a new game with very different rules. They must accept an ever-changing and uncertain landscape, but a landscape that can be constantly leveraged for greater profitability. They must believe that their companies are caterpillars with the potential to become butterflies. The Caterpillar's Edge shows why we must embrace a future of flux. It exposes the addictions that chain us to our past and the truths that influence our behaviors.

Tired of losing money? Ever wish that there was a simple road map that you could follow to learn how to trade profitably? Rubber Band Stocks is a simple but powerful way of trading stocks. This strategy is easy to understand and easy to trade. Warren Buffett is famous for saying, "You need to be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful". This sounds easy in principle, but how exactly do you do it in real life?

Ready to learn how to trade a bear market? Bear markets do not behave anything like bull markets. If you try to buy the dips, you will get crushed. If you try to short a bear market and don't know what you are doing, you will also get crushed. In fact, most of the tricks that work in bull markets don't work in bear markets. During a bear market, there is always a vast transfer of wealth from the amateurs to the professionals.

Since the late 1800s, Robert's Rules of Order has been used in corporate governance and executive boardrooms. Robert's Rules of Order were designed to properly assemble a group of people, of any size. It's a form of organizing assemblies intelligently. Any group, society, or assembly who adopts Robert's rules has the liberty to adopt their own rules - eventually creating their own book of rules.

Finally, a simple, easy-to-understand book that expands on the powerful Infinite Banking Concept developed by the late R. Nelson Nash. Jayson Lowe and Richard Canfield explain the foundation of dividend-paying, participating whole life insurance can be built for lasting wealth creation. The powerful financing capabilities and contractural elements of a custom-designed whole-life contract can provide stable, peaceful, stress-free methods of wealth accumulation and capital accessibility.

Nowadays it is well-known that B2B buyers prefer to be in control of their own buying journeys, remain anonymous for as long as possible, and have a sales rep-free experience. Do B2B sales and marketing teams have a major problem on their hands, or does this shift represent a huge opportunity? The Revenue Zone provides a step-by-step guide and playbook for marketing and sales executives who are looking to turn this shift in B2B buyer behavior into a major competitive advantage and turn prospects into their own high-performance sales team!

Do you want to launch your project management career? This Beginner's Guide will help you master the project management and soft skills the pros use that make them stand out and successfully manage projects. Imagine starting your project management career with an edge over your competition. Whichever methodology you use, Waterfall, Agile, or other - soft skills will give you an advantage.

With a wide-ranging mix of rants on pop culture, politics, and coping with the present, Parker’s personal stories show you how to conquer problems with poise. Using Parker’s toolbox of humor, irony, and common sense, you too can take on any challenge.

This book seeks to uncover the intricacies that are in the brain wiring and tendencies of the OCPD person. It seeks to educate those who are in contact with OCPD people on better ways to interact with them and ways to build an intimate and meaningful bond with them. A relationship between an OCPD person and a non-OCPD person can become extraordinarily difficult without the understanding that is in this guide.

There is clearly an epidemic of narcissism - a contagion of sorts - that is occurring across the globe. Narcissism is generally handed down from one generation to the next. It is said that nearly one in four people has narcissistic tendencies. It is likely that the number of narcissists will only continue to increase. Many people wonder why or how the narcissist seems to have two distinct personalities.

Learn a step-by-step process that helps you manage your hybrid work arrangement effectively, while creating a fair and inclusive environment for your employees. This short book gives you everything you need to know about how to transition to a hybrid work environment in a post-COVID world. You will learn how to gain the benefits of a hybrid workplace model and maximize the advantages of remote and in-office work.

I wrote this book for one reason and one reason only: to wake up everybody who is serious about scaling up their e-commerce business by using SEO. This book contains the introduction to my six-step e-commerce SEO formula that I've developed to help e-commerce businesses become more successful and make more money. This formula is backed up by my 20-plus years of online marketing experience and over 10 years of in-depth concentration on e-commerce SEO.

The US healthcare system desperately needs radical reform to rein in costs, reduce harm, expand access, and become customer centric...Imagine what real change in our healthcare system would mean for you, the economy, and our future. Real change requires disruptive innovation. As citizens, employers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, elected officials, and patients, it is time for us to drive the change. Authors Aaron Fausz and Terry Howell explain how we can disrupt, dismantle, and rebuild.

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most fascinating figures of our history, for a wide variety of reasons. He represents the summation of those leadership and personal qualities that had helped to mold a nation. Lincoln stood for all that was right, honest, and self-evident. As a boy, his heroes were the Founding Fathers, and he studied the history of that young nation that was so devoted to human rights.

Discover 10 proven accelerators to take your membership business from decline to rapid growth while also increasing retention; the step-by-step playbook to move a member from saying, “I signed up for this membership” to saying, “I’m a member..."; what to do when a member wants to cancel, and how to get them thanking you for not allowing them to quit; the one accelerator that will literally double or triple your membership; and proven methods to increase retention and multiply your recurring revenue.

Many people are suffering from OCPD, and it is negatively affecting their marriage, their relationships, their children and their lives. Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder is a condition of negative perfectionism. It is a desire and a need for orderliness, control, strict guidelines, and clear procedures. OCPD generally is handed down through the family and is held to be a family value which provides stability and survival.

Are you unhappy with your directionless life? Discover a road map for navigating your successful, fulfilling future. Struggling to cope with personal tragedy? Worried you'll never live up to your full potential? Best-selling author Roy Huff overcame abuse and abject poverty to become an accomplished teacher and research scientist. His secrets for success have changed countless lives, and now they can help you, too!

Passive income opportunities have exploded and there is money to be made! It is an exciting time to delve into the world of residual income. The Internet has exploded with countless opportunities from self-publishing books to online courses and from e-commerce to robo-investing. It is no longer a matter of where to look, but what to choose from a plethora of options. In Passive Income, I discuss 14 activities that attract unearned or "sleep" income.

Many of us experience anxiety from time to time. Anxiety is a healthy way for our bodies to prepare for and anticipate upcoming events and situations where we need to take action. It prompts us to think, to plan and to initiate growth and change in our lives. Anxiety helps us to know what is right and wrong, and it lets us know when we have taken the wrong path in our life.