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Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.

The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business, and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology that he shares with his listeners. As an MIT alum with an engineering background, Roberge challenged the conventional methods of scaling sales utilizing the metrics-driven, process-oriented lens through which he was trained to see the world.

Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all. In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within - that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative. and fulfilled - launched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion and unhappiness of adult life.

Missionary, theologian, and religious genius, Paul is one of the most powerful human personalities in the history of the Church. E. P. Sanders, an influential Pauline scholar, analyzes the fundamental beliefs and vigorous contradictions in Paul's thought, discovering a philosophy that is less of a monolithic system than the apostle's convictions would seem to suggest.

A wife pretends to hang herself in the basement so she can time how long it will be before her husband comes to rescue her...a woman whose dead aunt was made into a mummy so the family could better grieve her passing and on occasion dine with her at family gatherings...a man wants his nose cut off to escape an annoying smell that haunts him...a teenage boy would only come to therapy if he could bring his pet snake. These and other fascinating and revealing stories are told by some of the most famous therapists in the world.

In his 95 years, Norman Vincent Peale made a profound difference. The son of a minister in Lynchburg, Ohio, he went on to preach the Lord's word at Manhattan's now-famous Marble Collegiate Church, where he served as pastor for 52 years and oversaw the church's growth from 600 members to more than 5,000. He had a popular radio program for more than half a century and appeared regularly on television.

In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South - in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents. How should we interpret the enormous success of prosperity churches across the Global South? Politically, what will be the impact of new Christian movements?

In this concise, engaging book, noted New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson takes listeners on a journey back to the time of the early Roman Empire, when the New Testament was written in ordinary Greek (koine) by the first Christians. The author explains how the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and Revelation evolved into the canon of sacred writings for the Christian religion, and how they reflect a reinterpretation of the symbolic world and societal forces of first-century Greco-Roman and Jewish life.

Jesus told people to sin no more. Rather than tell them the struggle with sin and Satan would be difficult, He said, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Jesus doesn't ask us to do the impossible. Ken Gould rejected distorted teachings about God and was an atheist for 20 years, until God revealed his existence to him. Afterward, he recognized Christianity wasn't something to be taken lightly. His highest priority became to know God and understand his counsel.

Did you know there are two laws of God? Both laws have a priesthood and a high priest. Both laws tell us how to live, how to treat each other, and how to relate to God. But...one law leads to judgment, curse, and death. The other law leads to forgiveness, grace, peace, and eternal life. The Lord has revealed in the Scriptures the law of the priesthood of Melchizedek, of which Jesus is high priest. It is the law by which the Lord is calling all believers to live. It is the oldest and the highest law of God and is in fact the law of heaven.

Don't Manage...Coach! presents a simple and logical theory on how to better lead the workforce of today. Rather than treat your greatest assets as a fixed (and fixable) resource, treat them as valued players on your organizational team. What better way to build a strong, successful team than to do what thousands of sports coaches do every day. The authors provide clear insights on how the listener can change attitudes and behaviors - allowing the team to flourish.

Universal Studios never really wanted to get into the theme park business. They wanted to be the anti-Disney. But when forced to do so, they did it in a big way. Despite the fits and starts of multiple owners, the parks have finally gained the momentum to mount a serious challenge to the Walt Disney Company. How did this happen? Who made it happen? What does this mean for the theme park industry?

When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state of Virginia, in the most trying hours of the Revolution. Joseph Ellis, author of American Sphinx, focuses on other parts of Jefferson's life but wrote that his actions as governor "toughened him on the inside."

Compared to the diagnoses of forty years ago, the choices and information offered by today's doctors leave you to make the final decision that can, and often does, change your life. In Port in the Storm, neurosurgeon Cole Giller MD, guides you through the difficult and confusing maze of medical choices and tradeoffs, helping you weigh your options with confidence and make a decision you can live with.

Fear comes in many forms - the tragic breaking news; the anxiety you experience waiting for the results of medical tests; the dread and panic you feel when you hear about more layoffs at your company. But whatever you fear, God can free you from it. And in this audiobook, you'll learn how to apply His Word and His power to your fears and send them packing. If you have been experiencing prolonged stress, pressure, pain, troubling thoughts, anxiety, negativism or discouragement, and you long for peace and serenity in your life, this audiobook is for you.

At the gathering of a new group of young people in 1973, Larry Barrett felt God tell him to "go home and start keeping a diary, because some day you will write a book about this experience". Larry immediately went home and started that journal. He thought the journal would be full of glorious miracles, mighty accomplishments, and victories. In the first entry, he wrote: "This is the account of how God's Holy Spirit works."

More than a devotional book, Forty Days of Prophetic Miracles will propel you to a prophetic journey that will help you step into the realm of miracles. It will equip even the weakest person for an astounding supernatural experience. The book was born out of three decades of prophetic praying for the body of Christ. The author has seen God work great things through prayer; but at the same time, he has great concern that the ministry of tears through prayer is gone from the church.

Best-selling author Joseph Girzone brings us a new hero for our time: Carlo Brunini. An accomplished young Italian bishop, Carlo chooses to become a homeless beggar so he can understand why Jesus so loved the poor. What happens next will astonish and delight readers everywhere. When Carlo returns to his diocese in Italy he starts to build homes for the homeless.

In the small gnomish village of Little Thoracia, a young bard tries to become the greatest detective in all of Aethrofell. His adventures are chronicled by his good friend Latswin Gilshire. In the first five stories, Sir Locke the Gnome thwarts an extortionist, solves an untimely death, finds a stolen crown, catches a murderer, and saves himself from being wrongfully imprisoned. All of this leads to the most difficult case in which he is the target of unknown forces trying to destroy his peaceful world.