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  American Grift - The Politically...

  Stuart M. Williams

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  Palliative Parasites: A Field Guide to the Top of the Grifting Food Chain 
  For decades, a vast middle layer of professional symptom-managers — NGOs, bureaucrats, consultants, academics, and nonprofit lifers — has turned human misery into one of the most reliable, risk-free grifts in history. They have turned empathy into an asset class and compassion into a line item in a grant proposal. 
  These Palliative Parasites (PPs) don't solve problems. They manage them. Perpetually. They speak fluent Scrabble Babble, trade in virtue signaling, and specialize in the Infinite In-Between - the zone where problems are never allowed to die and never actually get solved. 
  With one hand they demonize the top, with the other they bribe the bottom, and in between they skim their fat 90% cut — trillions of dollars in grants, donations, and taxpayer money that rarely reaches the sidewalk. From California's $24+ billion homelessness black hole to the Mississippi TANF diversion scandal, from the trans-in-women’s-sports circus to the trillion-dollar DEI industrial complex, this book names the players, follows the money with zero mercy, and exposes the brutal Failure Paradox, i.e., the more things fail, the more profitable the failure becomes for the people paid to “fix” it. 
  But this is not just another rant against the system. Stuart M. Williams offers a genuine cure. The Sovereign OS is the world's first human and community-centric socioeconomic operating system that turns Non-Performing Assets into Performing Assets. Sovereign OS has already delivered measurable results in Charleston, SC and Muncie, IN, and it has changed the lives of thousands of people. 
  It is time to flush out the choke points that have been hiding in plain sight for decades. This is where it begins.

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  Know-Hows of Passive Income The:...

  MARC RYAN

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  How to make money investing in real estate, even if you don't know where to start.Real estate still represents one of the most effective investment options in the world. Forbes.com recently stated that real estate is among the "5 Best Investment Strategies in a Volatile Market." People who invest in rental estate are confident in their skills even though real property can be a question mark. Renting out space is a way to create a steady income. Keep reading if you'd like to understand what you could do with rental property. Here's a preview of what you will discover:- How to start earning money from your rental property with an EXACT FORMULA (even if you are a beginner).- How to identify the best location to rent out with specific techniques. - The essential methods to increase your property's value and making it different from the rest of the others in this huge and competitive market.- How to recognize the signs that tell you to give up on your rental property.   - Why it is fundamental to choose between residential or commercial real estate.- The strategies to develop the right mindset in order to achieve rental property success.- Important questions to ask when you're evaluating real estate property that brokers are afraid to hear.- How to find and keep great tenants with the tips of successful property owners.- How to find funds for your rental property investment (even if you don't have any savings or you don't want to pay from your own pocket).And much, much more... With the step-by-step plan in this book, you will be able to kick-start your real estate investment business, create a new steady passive income stream, and achieve financial freedom in less time than you can even imagine.If you want to learn how to earn more money through rental properties, you should start this book today!

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  The Dark Side of Discipline -...

  Craig Ballantyne, Daniel Woodrum

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  Everything You Know About Discipline Is Wrong.  
  Discipline is not cold-plunging, joining the 5 AM Club, exercising twice per day, reading one book every week, or living with a Navy SEAL. True discipline requires you to put a Level 10 effort into your Level 10 problem and say "No!" to everything else.  
  Authors and business coaches Craig Ballantyne and Daniel Woodrum share simple yet powerful strategies for doing what you should do, when you should do it, no matter how you feel about doing it. 
  Inside, you will learn:How to leverage Effortless Discipline Systems and Higher Standards to achieve your big goals and dreamsThe one “North Star” decision required for achieving results faster and getting back on track whenever extreme obstacles get in your wayHow to quickly and easily shift your identity—a key element of high performance—so you can replace bad habits practically overnightA formula for creating your own personal standards of excellence that deliver your dream life without extreme sacrifices or suffering 
  The Dark Side of Discipline shows you how to figure out what matters—and what doesn't—to effortlessly and painlessly achieve your goals. Stop spending hundreds of hours chasing the wrong path to success. Are you ready to apply a Level 10 effort to your Level 10 problems automatically? 
  Start Achieving More—Today!

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  Investing Risk - What You Need...

  Isabelle Naylor Norton

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The moment Sarah Henderson received her quarterly investment statement, she felt the familiar knot of anxiety forming in her stomach. Despite following what seemed like sound financial advice and diversifying her portfolio across various asset classes, her retirement savings had declined by fifteen percent over the past six months. Like millions of investors worldwide, Sarah was discovering that the investing landscape harbors risks that often remain invisible until they strike with devastating force. 
  Investment risk represents far more than the simple possibility of losing money. It encompasses a complex web of interconnected threats that can erode wealth through multiple pathways, often simultaneously. Understanding these risks requires moving beyond the sanitized disclaimers found in investment prospectuses and confronting the harsh realities of how markets actually behave when stress emerges. 
  The fundamental challenge facing every investor lies in the asymmetric nature of risk itself. While gains typically accumulate gradually over extended periods, losses can manifest with shocking speed and severity. A portfolio that requires five years to double in value can lose half its worth in mere months when adverse conditions align. This mathematical reality creates a psychological burden that extends far beyond financial statements, affecting everything from retirement planning to family relationships.

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  The Activist Leader

  Lucy Parker, Jon Miller

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  If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist.  
  If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist. 
  This urgent and essential book shows how to do just that. The Activist Leader argues that the world needs a new kind of business leader, one that thinks differently about their role in today’s challenges. From climate change to inequality, the major crises facing society have become critical issues for business, and the world expects companies to step up. 
  This is a pragmatic book. Jon Miller and Lucy Parker show what it takes to do business in these challenging times, taking a close look at companies such as Apple, Mastercard, Nestle, Maersk, JP Morgan Chase and Walmart. 
  Most people feel powerless when they look at the problems facing the world – but if you’re a leader in a big business, you’re not powerless. Whether you’re a top executive or earlier in your working life, this book shows that thinking like an activist can have a transformative impact – for yourself, for your businesses, and for broader society. 
  In The Activist Leader, Lucy Parker presents a new paradigm for leadership, one that is rooted in activism and social responsibility. This autobiography is a beacon for those who aspire to lead with ethics and creativity in their careers. 
  For fans of Cal Newport (Slow Productivity), Michael Bhaskar (The Oxford Handbook of Publishing), Richard P. Rumelt (Good Strategy/Bad Strategy), Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), and Richard Koch (The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Dealers of Lightning

  Michael A. Hiltzik

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  Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the extraordinary group that aimed to bring about a technological dawn that would change the world'and succeeded. 
  Based on extensive interviews with the scientists, engineers, administrators, and corporate executives who lived the story, Dealers of Lightning takes the listener on a journey from PARC's beginnings in a dusty, abandoned building at the edge of the Stanford University campus to its triumph as a hothouse of ideas that spawned not only the first personal computer, but the windows-style graphical user interface, the laser printer, much of the indispensable technology of the Internet, and a great deal more. 
  It shows how and why Xerox, despite its willingness to grant PARC unlimited funding and the responsibility for developing breakthroughs to keep the corporation on the cutting edge of office technology, remained forever unable to grasp (and, consequently, exploit) the innovations that PARC delivered'and details the increasing frustration of the original PARC scientists, many of whom would go on to build their fortunes upon the very ideas Xerox so rashly discarded. 
  More than just a fascinating historical narrative, Dealers of Lighting brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters. It is an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistory'and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness. 
  Forrest Sawyer reads.

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