A go-to guide for entrepreneurs to succeed by taking a clear stand and aligning their business with their values. What do I need to do? It's almost always the wrong question that an entrepreneur or a business leader asks when creativity seems to have been lost. When you're stuck and the journals and books you've been reading and going to the masterminds and conventions and seminars you've been attending haven't led to any breakthroughs. When your notepads full of "proven best practices" should have brought you to the next level but haven't. In this paradigm-shifting work, serial entrepreneur Patrick Gentempo explains why the primary question you need to ask as a business leader is "Who should we be?" While it makes sense and may sound pretty easy, it's actually one of the hardest questions an entrepreneur can ask no matter the scale of business they are running. In Your Stand Is Your Brand, you'll learn about: "Maximum Tension," the greatest barrier to entrepreneurial growth The 5-P Expansion Sequence, a tried-and-true model tracking the steps from Philosophy to Prosperity Digging into the soul of your business so it can find its transformative process for serious breakthroughs How to face the fire and embrace creative destruction. And much more This is not your typical business success book, it is a source of inspiration that will keep you reading and winning in transformative ways that aren't available to you right now. So, let's begin the process to revolutionize your business and your life.

The book centres on the spiritual and social dynamics of a priest whose uncle is the Don of the most powerful Mafia family in America. Father Don Carlos Albanese discovers the truism of the saying, 'blood is thicker than water', as he becomes an integral part of the Family. His hope is to assist in transforming the Family into a legitimate organisation, as it originally was in Sicily, wherein the Mafia sustained the Sicilians against foreign invaders and assisted the poor in time of need. In America, however, Don Albanese's quest proves to be challenging.

A high tech satellite maps the deep jungles of Guatemala and reveals underground ruins of an ancient Mayan race, previously unknown.During the expedition, archaeologist Don Clarke comes across a startling revelation: a prophecy stating that due to man's disregarding of natural resources will destroy the earth.Spirit of Mother Nature realizes this and sends someone to help -- her daughter.Set out to find this Daughter of Mother Nature, Don finds much more.Meanwhile, Damia Tivona, being at the wrong place at the right time, overhears a conversation revealing diabolical government plans. The plot, she learns, is to use a specially designed satellite, to alter weather patterns and destroy selected nations' food crops as a power ploy.The potential result is World War Three and an irreversible change of natural elements.Damia seeks the help of a former CIA agent, John Ballister. John finds Damia's story hard to believe at first, but after seeing her special psychic powers he decides to help her. Damia also learns she has a special gift of telepathic communication via Radio Transmissions.Don melodramatically finds Damia and tells her that after careful research he has come to believe she is the Daughter of Mother Nature.Asked why he felt the need to find her, he tells her about the warning in the prophecy that if she's killed, the earth will die with her. He says he is there to help protect her.As Damia learns how to use her powers, she Don and John decide to try to find and destroy the weather satellite.But, that won't be easy. Government officials suspect Damia is aware of their plans, and they attempt to destroy her, along with anyone who tries to help her.The consequence is adventure.

From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the New York Times bestsellers The Wedding Girl and Sleeping Arrangements, this perceptive comedy 40 Love skewers the shallow rich, displaying a wicked backhand along the way. Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Madeleine Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples' children amuse themselves with pony rides and rehearsals for a play, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Wickham's nonstop action reveals at every turn that matters may not be as they seem, and in the end one thing is crystal clear: the weekend is about anything but tennis.