"Small business owners need to reconnect to what inspired them to start their business. Stunted Growth will help you to step back and refocus on the important issues. Without technical jargon, this is a clearly written guide that any business owner can relate to and determine how to get to where they want to be. More than creating a more profitable business, it's about what you can learn to become a successful business owner and to improve virtually everything you do." Marshall Goldsmith, 2 million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There "Stunted Growth reconnects you to the dream you had of owning and running your own business but also takes you forward, into the future, where your business is achieving its full potential. Ray and Clara have clearly walked this path and provide practical tips to help you accomplish more than you imagined." Marcia Wieder, CEO/Founder, Dream University "A truly invaluable gold mine of crucial information and highly effective strategies to aid in the growth of small business, Stunted Growth offers the key to unlocking your business' unlimited potential. With their remarkable level of combined experience in virtually every facet of the business world, Ray and Clara Noble have written what I consider to be one of the most important business books of the year; if every business owner read and applied the strategies in these pages, the economy would be rocketing upward." Ivan Misner, Ph.D., NY Times Bestselling Author and Founder of BNI(r) "What a brilliant idea A list of the top 100 reasons a business may not be growing and what to do about it. In my experience businesses that are not growing suffer from a number of problems and don't know where to start. Read this book is where you start Every issue has top tips and approaches for bringing about change in that area. It's tempting to read the ones you think apply to you, but my advice read the whole book cover to cover. You'll find additional areas you need to work on and what you need to avoid or develop for the future." Mark Rhodes, Speaker, Mentor and Author of Think Your Way to Success and How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone "Ray and Clara have done their homework, and present solid information that business owners can use to improve their dream business. There are very important yet basic fundamentals here that are often overlooked because the entrepreneur is buried in his perceived busy-ness." Bob Nicoll, Chief Paradigm Shifter and author of Remember the Ice Stunted Growth is about overcoming obstacles that stop a business achieving its potential and is for you if: - you built your company with a dream and sometimes it feels more like a nightmare - you feel overwhelmed or lost because of the rate of change around you - you want to run your business instead of constantly reacting to events - you believe in your product/service and in its ability to positively impact the world You will avoid the mistakes that most business owners make so that you can: - Reconnect with your vision and goals for the business - Improve the systems so that you save time and money - Use your strengths in leading an effective team - Enjoy your work and have time for family and fun Stunted Growth has been written to help stimulate thought about various aspects of doing business and consequently pinpoint areas for improvement so that in depth study can then be made. If used productively, it will provide many topics for brainstorming with your team if you have one. It will also bring you an increased awareness of the way your business is operating at this point in time and will help you to find solutions that you can start implementing right now to improve your results. We challenge you to read the book, apply the ideas and guarantee you will see results The extent of the results will be proportionate to your actions and your commitment to see them throug

This is a powerful story of Mary, a single teenage mother, living on a housing estate plagued with predatory abuse and prostitution, and Annie, an innocent girl whose ghostly presence links the central characters over two generations, bringing the events that led to her death, the loss of innocence and the unfolding story to a dramatic, thrilling conclusion.

If you are running your own business and are wondering why things are not getting better, then "Business Growth Levers" may just be the book to read. Reconnect with your vision and goals for the business. Improve the systems so that you save time and money. Use your strengths in leading an effective team. Enjoy your work and have time for family and fun. Each chapter is about 2 pages long, and covers a huge range of topics from "Difficulty Coping with Stress" and "Being a better Leadership" to "Confusion between Profit and Cash Flow" and "Reducing Waste and Inefficiency." In other words, the title can best be described as an encyclopedia of business advice, which can be read in a couple of days, and which may just provide that new idea or spark that will set the wheel in motion for future business success. Each topic is clearly discussed and contains a large number of hints, tips, quotations, and examples. In other words, the authors speak with authority and know this topic well. Clara Noble is an Amazon Best Selling Author, having written part of Ready Aim Excel with Marshall Goldsmith, Ken Blanchard and Cathy Greenberg amongst other great Business Coaches. Marshall Goldsmith, 2 million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There wrote "Small business owners need to reconnect to what inspired them to start their business. Business Growth Levers will help you to step back and refocus on the important issues. Without technical jargon, this is a clearly written guide that any business owner can relate to and determine how to get to where they want to be. More than creating a more profitable business, it's about what you can learn to become a successful business owner and to improve virtually everything you do." Scroll up and hit the 'Buy Now' button

When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions. Faith and Fertility is a comprehensive collection of essays by academics and faith leaders from around the world. The reader is introduced to the cultural and religious understanding of fertility as it is practised among diverse international faith traditions. Each chapter is written in an accessible and clear style, outlining each faith's history and its core beliefs and values, showing the influence these have on its moral and ethical perspective on the issues surrounding fertility. This book will be a welcome resource for anyone seeking information on the plethora of attitudes towards fertility that are at work in today's global and multi-cultural world.