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Numbers make or break you. Ask any bankrupt business or successful startup and they’ll both agree, numbers don’t lie. Unfortunately, most teams focus on too many numbers or the wrong numbers or maybe no numbers at all! Author Lee Benson knows numbers. He grew his business from 3 employees to 500 with 15 consecutive years of 20 percent compounded average annual growth. Friends and families asked for his secret. He told them it came down to Your Most Important Number.

This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. Paced like a thriller, this true account moves between the parallel stories of the searchers and the abductor. Going beyond a mere eyewitness account, the book includes information culled from interviews with more than 150 people involved in the search and investigation, notes from family meetings, and memos from law enforcement officials.

Every parent loves their kids. They want to protect them from pain and give them all the opportunities and comforts they never had growing up. But by removing certain struggles, parents may unknowingly jeopardize their children’s future. What if you could give your kids a superpower to see the world in such a way that everything they encounter can be turned into something valuable for themselves and others. Value Creation Kid is a proven roadmap to give your children the capabilities and confidence to succeed.

Are you setting your kids up for success or failure? How can you be certain? You work hard to be a positive influence and prepare your children for adulthood, but everyone is so busy that there never seems to be enough time. Every day, it feels like you are drifting further from the goal. You know that you need to turn things around, but you don't know where to begin. Value Creation Family provides a powerful playbook to help you: Cultivate your kids’ character, skills, and confidence. Empower them to create meaningful value for themselves, their family, and their community.

In this light-hearted tale intended to leave the listener happy, a friendless physics professor in his mid-30s, still a virgin, relates how he traveled back to December 1941 in his time machine, seeking to become a national hero by destroying the Japanese fleet which bombed Pearl Harbor. Against all odds, he succeeds. Instead of being hailed as a hero, he is arrested and sentenced to death by a US Navy Court Martial for mistakenly attacking the Japanese vessels before they launched their attack.

This audiobook by a veteran intelligence officer describes the world of spying as it really is, replete with incompetence, bureaucracy, duplicity, and sometimes murder. Although presented as fiction, many of the stories and characters are based on real events and people. This audiobook is for anyone who enjoys good spy fiction, as well as those contemplating a career in government or politics.

Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves.

Each week, we will explore the Art of Value Creation in three macro buckets. Material value creation, emotional energy value creation, and spiritual value creation.Lee Benson is a value creation expert with over 30 years of experience in the business world. He is the CEO of Execute to Win, a firm that helps organizations of all sizes to accelerate the value they create. Lee began his value creation journey early, pulling weeds for 25 cents an hour. Since then, he has founded and led seven companies, including Able Aerospace, which he grew from two to 500 employees and 2,000 customers in 60 ...

Opinion and analysis of Oklahoma Sooners football from the viewpoints of a former local media member and an OU fan living outside The Sooner State. Two new episodes per week during football season previewing and recapping each game.