Dark Management

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?

She built an empire on other people's fantasies. Her own is the one secret that could bring it all down. Six months ago, Kristin Hale and Tyler North turned a desperate idea into A+ Fantasy Management, the city's most exclusive companionship agency. Now they have a sleek new headquarters, a fiercely loyal team, and a client list powerful enough to make their competitors nervous. Kristin has everything she fought for. Except an answer to what happened on graduation night.

IT Management: Rise and Thrive takes some of the experience I accrued from 30 years in the IT field. The steps it takes to move from being an individual contributor to leading a team are present here. Part two of the book covers a variety of issues that are rarely covered when you take over a team. Everything from how to evaluate a resume to running successful interviews, cooperating with your HR team, and working with the business are covered. This is a primer for moving into the IT Management field.

Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL and bestselling author of 100 Deadly Skills, delivers a gripping Navy SEAL memoir packed with explosive, darkly funny, and real-life spy stories from elite special operations. Clint Emerson is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum...

A monster reborn. A world unprepared. Ruin Reborn unravels the harrowing progression of a monstrous being whose dark legacy spans two thousand years. Once a creature of unrelenting violence, Ruin ravaged a frozen world shrouded in eternal darkness until a fateful bargain with a cunning lich resulted in his death and rebirth in an unfamiliar universe. Trapped in the fragile body of a human slave, Ruin finds himself a cog in a cruel and unjust empire on the brink of wars it cannot win. Amid the squalor of slave pens, on the bloody sands of the arena, and in the camaraderie forged in the ...

"Why are the people around me so difficult?" "Why do I keep getting in situations like this?" Our shadow side, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, contains the emotions and desires we've disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on...

Once you understand the Pass Line, place bets, odds, and basic table rules, the real challenge begins. Which bets deserve more money? When should you press, collect, regress, or get out? How do experienced players control exposure when the table turns against them? Craps Strategy for Advanced Players takes you beyond basic betting and into the decisions that separate casual action from disciplined casino play.

He used to liquidate companies. Now, he’s liquidating heroes. Arthur Penhaligon was the ultimate corporate shark—a middle manager with a heart of stone and a spreadsheet for a soul. But after a lifetime of downsizing others, he finds himself on the receiving end of a "terminal" performance review. Instead of the afterlife, Arthur is headhunted by Dungeon Inc., a multidimensional conglomerate that treats fantasy realms like underperforming branch offices. His new assignment? IronCrag Dungeon. It’s a logistical nightmare. The goblins are quiet-quitting, the skeletons are over-budget, ...

Kyle Thompson's greatest achievement was making a semi-consistent latte. Then a sentient gauntlet bonded to his arm at a LARP convention and declared him the prophesied Dark Lord. Now he's got 45 minutes to assemble a villainous court, conquer a village, and figure out why his magical artifact subsists on ledgers instead of souls. His minions include an anxious demon bureaucrat, an influencer barbarian obsessed with lighting, and a goblin warlock who won't stop saying "brainrot." Turns out Kyle's real superpower isn't charisma or combat — it's middle management. When an ancient wraith ...

Have you ever wondered how to get into another person's mind? Is it possible to control the minds of others like in fantasy movies and comics? Would you like to be able to persuade the minds of others? It is possible that someone has asked this question at some point in their life and has given up on it. The truth is that it does not matter how impossible this is but if it is possible to get into the minds of other people. At any time, people allow us to see the actions they perform, and it is here that we can detect their behavior patterns and thus enter their minds.

NINETEEN INCHES The rain is extraordinary. The decisions are worse. When an extreme storm settles over Calder County, emergency planner Claire Rowan faces a disaster that refuses to behave like a single event. Five watersheds are rising on five different clocks. Roads that still look intact are becoming unsafe. Evacuation routes are disappearing one by one. Communications are degrading. And every decision Claire makes changes the options that will still exist an hour later. At first, the answer seems obvious: get people out. Then the roads begin to close. Now some residents need to evacuate...

The world is full of hidden scripts. Are you reading them, or are they reading you? Every day, we move through an invisible landscape of influence. It exists in the boardroom where a charismatic leader distorts the truth. It exists in the digital algorithms designed to keep us addicted to our screens. It exists in the subtle tactics of a new relationship. Most of us feel it as a vague sense of unease or a gut feeling we cannot name. We know something is wrong, but we lack the tools to fight back. Inside the Mind is a tactical manual for the modern age.

Audit the World. Recode the Legend. Liquidate the Gods. When senior corporate auditor Ethan Cole was "summoned" to a high-fantasy realm, the gods didn't get a chosen hero—they got a man who knows exactly how to find a discrepancy in their divine ledgers. In Aethelgard, power is measured by "Levels," but Ethan knows the truth: the world is just a legacy system riddled with technical debt, unoptimized magic, and systemic corruption. While heroes draw swords, Ethan draws a spreadsheet. One Man vs. An Entire Kingdom's Portfolio Facing a Level 65 God-King and a bankrupt priesthood, Ethan ...

"Forget the lions, the modern world is ruled by the lens" This book charts the evolution of power from fist to sword, from structure to story, and finally, into perception itself. It reveals the hidden architecture behind how we are guided, how our dictionaries are rewritten, and how our choices are curated before we even make them. A fascinating, human look at the invisible forces that shape our collective psyche. Read it to understand how the room you speak in was built—and who holds the key to the door.

WHEN A MAN LEARNS THAT HIS SON IS ALLOWING THE COMPANY HE BUILT TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF A SEXY BUT DEVIOUS WOMAN, HE USES HYPNOSIS TO STOP IT FROM HAPPENING! It’s been three years since Martin Grigoryan retired after building a successful money management firm, and handed the CEO reins to his son, Zane. Martin believed Zane would run things as he had but discovered that he was having a reckless affair with the seductive Dominique DuBois, head of a rival business, who had convinced him that their organizations should merge. Naturally, that is not her goal, as she plans to cut him out ...

In Hell, Death is just a lateral move. Margot Vance optimized her way to the top of every org chart in life. Newly damned and gunning for a promotion, she talks her way into an unpaid internship under Malphas. He's three thousand years bored, infuriatingly gorgeous, and the one demon she absolutely should not want. And in Hell, falling for your supervisor isn’t a scandal. It’s a termination.

All who enter the Warped Lands pay a price. Most never leave at all. Newport burns. While the Empire reels, emissaries of the Desert Sun Theocracy cross into the Warp to bargain with monsters. The Emperor answers with steel, sending his finest swords to kill them. Ruin follows their trail beneath a roiling purple sky, across the wastes where the ground pulses like a living wound and Mage Storms twist flesh with every breath. A Drowned God who remembers the taste of kings waits in the depths, while nightmares older than fear stalk the land above. Rank, power, and riches enough to make a king...

In Dark Zone, a race-to-the-finish thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, the brutal murder of an undercover agent reveals a plot to incite a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine. Former US Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old...

A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty...

Are you ready to delve into the powerful world of manipulation techniques and dark psychology? Whether you seek to protect yourself from the subtle forces of manipulation or learn how to ethically influence others, this book is your ultimate guide to understanding the depths of the human psyche. Learn the basic psychological principles that underlie all forms of manipulation, including cognitive biases, emotional triggers, and social dynamics.