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The Adaptability Quotient: Rewiring Your Mind for Success in the Next Human Era
The Adaptability Quotient argues that success in the next human era will belong less to those who possess the right answers than to those who can revise their thinking under pressure. Alec Litowitz frames AQ as a learnable discipline built from metacognition, simulation, and experimentation, drawing on finance, entrepreneurship, cognitive science, systems thinking, AI, and lived experience to show how adaptive minds turn uncertainty into motion. The book moves from the eerie Chinese factory investigation that becomes a lesson in hidden value to the Chilean mine rescue, Shackleton’s survival logic, Kodak’s failure to cannibalize itself, and finally to the deeper question of human agency in a machine-shaped world.
I found the book most compelling when Litowitz lets the story carry the architecture of his ideas. The opening China episode has the snap of a thriller. Still, it’s really a portrait of disciplined doubt: the refusal to accept the market’s easy story, the willingness to send someone into the fog, the patience to ask what facts would make the apparent contradiction make sense. That habit of mind gives the book its pulse. I also appreciated the way Litowitz treats failure without sentimentality. The Chilean miners’ rescue, with its parallel Plans A, B, and C, becomes more than an inspirational anecdote. It becomes a moral argument for process, humility, and plurality of response. His best passages have a clean, searching confidence, especially when he writes about false certainty, cognitive drift, and the need to keep “the human in the loop.”
Litowitz wants to braid together Bayes, beginner’s mind, entropy, System 1 and System 2, cybernetics, entrepreneurship, leadership, AI, and culture, and most of the time the braid holds. There are moments when the density of frameworks threatens to crowd the emotional clarity of the argument. But I admired the intellectual generosity of the project. The ideas are serious without being bloodless, and the writing often has a restless, humane urgency. The sections on Kodak and on the Macy Conferences, in particular, lingered with me because they widen the book’s scope from personal performance to collective intelligence. Adaptability here isn’t just a career advantage; it’s a way of staying awake.
The Adaptability Quotient is a thoughtful, vigorous defense of human judgment at a time when judgment is increasingly outsourced, optimized, and dulled by convenience. It’s not merely a business book. It asks for effort, self-suspicion, curiosity, and the courage to kill weak ideas before they harden into identity. Litowitz has written a timely field guide for people who know the old maps are failing but don’t want to surrender the pen. I’d recommend it to entrepreneurs, investors, executives, educators, and reflective professionals who are trying to make better decisions in unstable conditions, especially readers who enjoy books that blend strategy with psychology and a quietly philosophical concern for what keeps us fully human.
Pages: 348 | ISBN : 978-1633311558
The MACH-10 Leader: AI-Native Leadership at Decision Speed
Jason M. Riggs’s The MACH-10 Leader: AI-Native Leadership at Decision Speed is a practical leadership guide for organizations operating in an environment where AI has compressed the time between information, action, and consequence. Riggs argues that many companies aren’t struggling because their people lack intelligence or effort. Their decision-making systems were built for a slower era. Meetings, approval chains, stakeholder alignment, and extended analysis can produce thoughtful decisions, but those decisions lose value when they arrive after the opportunity has shifted. The book’s central insight is captured in one of its sharpest lines: “Timing is part of quality.”
Riggs develops this idea through a series of connected concepts, including decision latency, decision velocity, targeted speed, accountable ownership, trust calibration, and faster learning loops. His “Speed with Soul” approach is especially useful because it keeps the book from becoming a simple demand to move faster. Speed represents action and momentum, while soul represents judgment, context, restraint, and responsibility. Reversible, low-risk decisions should move quickly, while decisions involving safety, law, ethics, customer trust, or lasting consequences need stronger controls. That distinction gives leaders a sensible way to increase pace without treating every situation like an emergency.
The book is at its best when it turns broad leadership concerns into things a team can examine immediately. Chapters end with mindset shifts, practical tools, short exercises, key takeaways, and specific MACH-10 leadership moves. Readers are asked to track a decision from signal to action, identify where ownership became unclear, remove approval steps that add comfort rather than value, and locate the point where additional refinement becomes delay. Riggs keeps returning to a straightforward operating principle: “If everyone owns it, no one does.” That emphasis on naming a human owner gives the framework weight, particularly in the chapters on automation and trust, where AI can easily make responsibility feel abstract.
Riggs writes with the voice of an experienced operator rather than a distant theorist. His examples from product strategy, enterprise software, restaurant technology, pricing, automation, and customer-facing workflows make the argument feel grounded in actual organizational pressure. The prose is direct, conversational, and occasionally funny, which helps a management book built around decision systems stay readable. Several ideas recur across the chapters, especially the dangers of excessive alignment and late decisions. That repetition reinforces the model and makes the terminology memorable, though some readers may feel the core argument has landed well before the final chapters.
The MACH-10 Leader is a focused and highly usable book about leading when work moves faster than traditional management processes can comfortably handle. Its real subject isn’t AI software so much as organizational responsiveness: how signals become decisions, how decisions become action, how feedback changes the next move, and who remains accountable throughout the cycle. Riggs offers leaders a framework for making speed disciplined rather than frantic and for using AI to strengthen human judgment rather than avoid it. The result is a timely operating manual for leaders who need their organizations to learn, decide, and adjust while the opportunity still matters.
Pages: 332 | ASIN : B0H7PZFLRR
What to Chase, What to Cut
In Hidden Profit, you suggest that the key to greater profitability isn’t reducing expenses, but understanding the underlying economics well enough to make precise decisions. What inspired you to develop this framework?
For most of my career, I got called in after somebody had already decided the answer was to cut costs across the board. Earnings were down, the board was unhappy, and the plan was to take ten percent out of costs. As they saw it, my job was to go find the ten percent. So I’d find it. And about a year later the company would be in worse shape than when I got there.
It took me a long time to understand why.
When you cut across the board, you’re cutting evenly into two things that are not even. You take the same ten percent out of the part of the business that’s making money as you take out of the part that’s losing money. And the losing part was always the part burning more of everything — that’s why it was losing money.
So you’ve made the company smaller, and you’ve made it weaker, and you did it with a perfectly accurate set of financial statements.
Here’s the thing that changed how I work. A company will tell you it runs at a thirty percent margin. Everybody manages to thirty. The budget’s built on thirty. The bank’s model says thirty. Then somebody finally looks — and half the business is at fifty, and half is at twelve. There is no thirty percent business. There never was one. Thirty is just the place where two completely different parts of the company met in the middle and cancelled each other out. And every decision anybody made — what to price, what to chase, what to cut — was made on a number that describes nothing that actually exists.
So, you look closer. Find out which customers and which products are actually making the money, and then you can make a real decision — reprice this, walk away from that, put the capacity somewhere better. That’s the book. The profit isn’t hidden because somebody hid it. It’s hidden because it’s been averaged.
Focus should be on those things that are draining the profits out of the company. They are never everything across the board. When you cut across the board, you are cutting symmetrically into two things that are not symmetric: the work that makes money and the work that destroys it. And because the work that destroys money almost always consumes more resource per dollar of revenue — that is precisely why it destroys money.
An across-the-board cut takes proportionally more away from the profitable work than from the unprofitable work. You have made the company smaller and you have made it worse. And you have done it with a completely accurate set of financial statements.
“Precision,” not “austerity.” Once you see it that way, the framework writes itself.
Why do you think so many business leaders focus on growth while overlooking the profit opportunities already within their organizations?
Two reasons. One of them nobody ever says out loud.
The first is that growth is a story you can tell. The number goes up, everybody in the room gets to be part of it, and it’s fun.
Now picture the other thing. Picture standing up in a management meeting and saying, “Good news — I’ve found seven hundred thousand dollars. It’s been sitting in Product Line C, which has been losing money for six years, and every one of us has been in this room the entire time and didn’t look.” That’s not good news. That’s an accusation. And everybody in the room knows it.
Nobody ever got promoted for discovering that the company has been wrong. So the discovery doesn’t get made. Not because people are dishonest — because the organization has no way to reward it and there are many ways to punish it.
The second reason is arithmetic, and this is the one that should worry a chief executive. Growth can be pursued in ignorance. Margin work cannot.
Growth is easier. It is not cheaper. It is easier. You can chase revenue without understanding your own economics. People do it every day, successfully, for years. You cannot improve margin without understanding your economics precisely — which means somebody has to do the unglamorous work of building a real cost model, and then somebody has to defend it against every function whose numbers it makes look bad.
When you grow, ask where the new business is actually coming from. It’s coming from the deals you won on price — because those are the deals that were available to win. So the new revenue comes in at a worse margin than the business you already had. And you needed more capacity to serve it. And the new customers pay you slowly. And it did not come free. You needed capacity, so fixed cost went up — call it a million. You needed working capital, and the new customers pay slowly, so a chunk of cash went out the door and is not coming back.
You can grow your top line twenty percent and barely move your profit at all. I’ve watched it happen more than once, and everybody in the building thought it was a great year.
And here is the part that should worry a CEO: if your incremental business comes in below your average contribution margin — and it almost always does, because you win the marginal deal on price — then growth is dilutive by construction. You are growing into lower profitability and calling it scale.
What are the most common misconceptions executives have about improving EBITDA?
I’d give you three.
The first is that people treat it like it’s cash. It isn’t. It’s an earnings number with a few things stripped out of it, and it will tell you nothing about whether there’s money in the bank.
You can improve it every single quarter and still run out of cash. I’ve sat with a management team that was genuinely bewildered by that — because the number they were watching had gone the right way the whole time.
The second is that you improve it by cutting costs. If you cut the cost without removing the work that consumes it, the work does not disappear. It relocates — into overtime, into expedite, into rework, into the good people staying until eight o’clock, into quality escapes six months later. You did not remove cost. You deferred it and added interest.
Mostly, you don’t. Because most cost is capacity. It’s people, machines, space, and time. If you cut the cost but you don’t remove the work that’s consuming it — the work doesn’t go away. It just moves. It moves into overtime. Into rush shipping. Into rework. Into your best people staying until eight o’clock and then quietly leaving in the spring.
You didn’t remove the cost. You postponed it, and it comes back with interest.
The third one is the one I’d actually want somebody to hear.
Ask any management team this question: “Profit moved by a million dollars last year. How much of that was price? How much was volume? How much was the mix of what you sold? And how much was cost?”
That’s it. Four buckets. That’s all there is.
I have been asking that question for thirty years. I’ve gotten a real answer maybe four times. And the answer, when we finally do the work, is almost always the same. Volume mattered less than they thought. And the mix — what they happened to sell, which nobody was managing at all — was the biggest single thing that moved the number, in either direction.
If you can’t answer that question, you don’t actually know why you made money last year. Which means you have no idea how to do it again.
What advice would you give leaders preparing their companies for acquisition or private equity investment?
One idea, and everything else comes out of it.
The buyer is not buying your profit. The buyer is buying how much they believe your profit.
Take two companies. Same industry. Same five million dollars of earnings. One of them sells for thirty million and the other sells for forty-two.
The difference isn’t the number. The difference is whether the buyer trusts the number, understands where it came from, and can see how to do it again. That’s twelve million dollars. And you don’t buy it with performance. You buy it with clarity.
So — three practical things.
Start two years out. Not six months. Everything that raises the price has a long lead time, and a buyer who has done twenty of these can tell from across the room whether you started last month.
Investigate yourself before they do. Go find your own bad news. Because there is an enormous difference between “we found this, and here’s what we did about it” and “the buyer found this.”
Every surprise in the diligence costs you twice. Once for the thing itself. And then again — much more expensively — for the doubt about what else you haven’t shown them. They don’t adjust the price for the one thing they found. They adjust it for everything they now suspect is still out there.
And the third — don’t dress the company up by starving it. Defer the maintenance, cut the sales team, stretch the vendors, run one hot year. A good buyer strips all of that back out in about a week. So now the price hasn’t moved, and they’ve learned something about you that they can’t un-learn.
You cannot manufacture credibility in a data room. You can only spend the credibility you built in the two years before it.
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In Hidden Profit, veteran CFO and turnaround executive David H. Tolly answers that question with a practitioner’s playbook built over forty years and more than forty engagements. Rather than generic advice, the book lays out seven specific levers — pricing and revenue, cost reduction, working capital, operational efficiency, customer portfolio, business model, and growth without proportional cost — and shows exactly how to find the hidden profit behind each one and capture it in a way that is durable, visible, and repeatable.
Drawing on real engagements — including a company he helped grow from $2M to $26M in EBITDA, and turnarounds that reversed nine-figure losses — Tolly writes the way he works: direct, numbers-first, and honest about the mistakes that cost companies money. Each chapter includes diagnostic tools, worked examples, and a “do this next” action plan, plus a 90-day execution framework and a chapter on preparing earnings to survive the quality-of-earnings scrutiny of a sale.
Because every dollar of recovered EBITDA can be worth six to ten dollars of enterprise value at exit, the stakes are far larger than the income statement. Written for business owners, CEOs, CFOs, private-equity sponsors, and the advisors who serve them, Hidden Profit is a clear, no-nonsense guide to finding money you already have — and keeping it.
Marketing Fastrack
Marketing Fastrack is Aurora Winter’s compact account of how she used a short, strategically positioned book to pivot from grief-coach training into marketing consultancy and generate $250,000 in new business within ninety days. Part memoir, part workshop, and part direct-response case study, it distills her approach into a few recurring principles: become known for solving a specific problem, speak to one clearly imagined client, communicate with emotional honesty, and build a system that turns attention into meaningful commercial relationships. Winter grounds these ideas in the varied businesses she has built, from yacht charters and film production to publishing and coaching, then reveals the email, application forms, and funnel behind the book’s own success. The result is less a conventional marketing manual than a working demonstration of its central claim: a concise book can clarify an expert’s message, establish authority, and open the door to higher-value work.
What held my attention most was Winter’s instinct for metaphor. Her comparison of a career pivot to a hermit crab’s perilous dash between shells gives genuine emotional texture to the otherwise familiar concept of testing a minimum viable product. I also found the garden image of radishes, corn, and trees unusually useful. Quick revenue, medium-term systems, and slow-growing authority become tangible rather than abstract, and I could feel myself mentally sorting projects into those three beds. These images work because they arise from Winter’s own history, particularly her years around boats and her childhood on a farm. Even the title acquires unexpected tenderness when she reveals that Fastrack was the racing yacht cherished by her late husband. In that moment, the book’s language of momentum and navigation stops feeling like branding and begins to feel personal, almost elegiac.
I responded just as strongly to the book’s insistence that effective marketing is an act of attention rather than performance. Winter’s account of transforming a dense, two-hundred-page tax-shelter document into a bright brochure promising “Five Weeks of Sun, Fun and Tax Shelter” captures her argument beautifully: customers weren’t buying calculations; they were buying the permission to imagine themselves sailing. Her advice to write for one person, drawn from the way she shaped her grief diary for an imagined bereaved friend, carries similar emotional intelligence. The prose itself is brisk, conversational, and repetitive, but the repetition often functions like coaching, pressing the reader toward clarity and action. I appreciated, too, that Winter doesn’t hide the machinery of her own selling. The book openly displays its funnel, qualification forms, high-ticket offers, and calls to action. That candor gives the ideas a certain integrity because the strategy is not merely described; it is enacted in front of the reader.
Marketing Fastrack is a lucid, energetic argument for turning accumulated experience into a focused public message. Its most persuasive passages are those in which Winter joins commercial strategy to lived vulnerability, whether she is describing the humiliation of collecting unemployment, the collapse of a rescue boat business, or the diary that helped her survive her husband’s death. Those moments give weight to her conviction that authority grows not only from expertise but from the honest transformation of experience. I’d recommend this book to consultants, coaches, founders, authors, and established professionals who possess real knowledge but haven’t yet shaped it into a clear offer, a distinct position, or a system that can carry their work beyond one-to-one conversations. It’s a brief book, but its central challenge lingers: say plainly what you know, decide whom it can help, and have the courage to set sail.
Pages: 96 | ASIN : B08Y7Y93HJ
Art. Money. Happiness!: How to Build a Fulfilling and Financially Rewarding Career in the Arts
Reto Salimbeni’s Art. Money. Happiness! is a practical career guide for artists who want to understand the business side of creative work without losing sight of why they started creating in the first place. The book’s core message is clear from the early line, “Passion is priceless – but it doesn’t pay the bills.” Salimbeni writes for actors, musicians, filmmakers, authors, and other creatives who are trying to turn talent into a real, sustainable life.
What makes the book useful is how much ground it covers. It moves from mindset and early career planning into film, TV, music, publishing, agents, managers, lawyers, contracts, pitching, media, and financial independence. That could easily become overwhelming, but the structure keeps it manageable. The sections titled Prepare, Deal, Promote, Relate, Gain, and Happiness give the book a steady progression from starting out to building long-term stability.
Salimbeni’s tone is direct, experienced, and encouraging without sounding dreamy. He doesn’t treat art as some fragile thing that business will ruin. Instead, he presents business knowledge as a form of protection. His advice on self-promotion, relationships, safety, negotiation, and money comes across as the kind of backstage guidance many artists wish they’d had earlier. The phrase “Tell the truth well” captures a lot of the book’s approach: be authentic, but learn how to communicate that authenticity in a way people can understand and act on.
The financial section is one of the strongest parts because it takes artists seriously as earners, planners, and future investors. Salimbeni talks about budgeting, fallback funds, negotiation, getting paid, side businesses, and financial independence in plain language. He’s not just telling readers to chase fame. He’s showing them how to build choices, which feels especially relevant for creative people whose income can be unpredictable.
Art. Money. Happiness! is a business-minded handbook for ambitious artists. It’s part pep talk, part industry map, and part financial reality check. The book works best for readers who want practical guidance and don’t mind being reminded that creativity needs structure, relationships, and money habits to survive. It’s conversational, thorough, and grounded in the belief that artists can build meaningful careers without waiting for luck to do all the heavy lifting.
Pages: 408 | ISBN: 3952608300
The Emergent Leader: A Guide to Brand Building, Leadership, and Self-Mastery
Don Gregori’s The Emergent Leader is a practical leadership guide built around brand building, business judgment, innovation, operational focus, career development, and mental readiness. The book is organized into sixty short chapters across six themed sections, which gives it the feel of a field manual rather than a long lecture. Gregori writes for founders, managers, first-time bosses, and ambitious professionals who want to lead with more clarity and less guesswork.
One of the book’s strongest ideas is that leadership starts with purpose. Gregori puts it simply: “The mission is our journey. Purpose is our reason why.” That line captures the book’s larger approach: define what matters, align people around it, then build habits that support it. His chapters on brand and culture are especially useful because he treats a company as something alive, shaped by values, behavior, employees, customers, and trust.
The book also spends a lot of time on the human side of business. Gregori doesn’t frame leadership as charisma or control. He frames it as listening, empathy, transparency, and the discipline to make better decisions repeatedly. “There is no business without people. There is no team without togetherness,” he writes, and that belief runs through the book. He’s at his best when connecting business performance to the everyday choices leaders make in how they communicate, delegate, hire, and respond under pressure.
What makes The Emergent Leader approachable is its structure. Each chapter is brief, direct, and ends with a takeaway and an action step, so readers aren’t left with abstract advice. Gregori pulls from business cases, cultural references, research, and personal observation, but the tone stays grounded. The book talks about risk, creativity, focus, sleep, stress, ambition, and self-mastery in a way that feels designed for real workdays, not idealized conference-room scenarios.
The Emergent Leader is a thoughtful and usable guide for people who want to become steadier, sharper leaders. It’s about building something durable: a brand with purpose, a team with trust, a career with direction, and a mindset that can handle pressure without losing perspective. Gregori’s message is clear and practical: before leaders can guide others well, they’ve got to understand their own habits, limits, blind spots, and responsibilities.
Pages: 316 | ASIN : B0GXC6P1JK
Marketing For Entrepreneurs: The Quick Guide To Spark & Ignite Your Marketing
Marketing for Entrepreneurs: A Quick Guide to Spark & Ignite Your Marketing, by Beverly Cornell, is a compact, heartfelt guide for service-based entrepreneurs, especially women, who feel lost in the noise of modern marketing. Cornell builds the book around the Brand Magic Path: Spark, Ignite, and Blaze, moving from inner clarity to sustainable strategy to long-term trust. Rather than treating marketing as a grind of platforms, funnels, and content quotas, she frames it as a return to voice, values, rhythm, and relationship. Through examples like the shy Michigan yarn shop owner who found her audience through simple Facebook Lives, the interpreter who reframed her work as restoring dignity through communication, and the doggie daycare that learned to post with warmth instead of filler captions, the book keeps circling back to one central idea: good marketing should feel like being more honest, not louder.
I appreciated the book most when it slowed down and trusted its own tenderness. Cornell writes with the conviction of someone who has sat across from overwhelmed entrepreneurs and heard the trembling underneath the strategy talk. Her idea of the “Tornado of Overwhelm” feels especially apt because she understands that many business owners aren’t confused because they lack talent. They’re drowning in advice. The strongest passages are the ones rooted in lived moments: the cold coffee, the blinking cursor, the late-night laptop glow during deployment and motherhood, the cobbler-with-no-shoes admission about building other people’s brands while her own lagged behind. Those details give the book emotional texture. They make the guidance feel earned.
The writing is warm, encouraging, and often genuinely clarifying, though it does sometimes lean hard into repeated language around magic, spark, alignment, and transformation. For some readers, that repetition will feel reassuring and mantra-like. For me, it occasionally softened the sharper edges of the advice. I wanted a little more friction in places, more acknowledgment that clarity can be slow, awkward, and commercially messy. Still, the ideas themselves are sound and humane. I liked that Cornell pushes back against hustle culture without dismissing discipline, and I found her emphasis on choosing one platform, one rhythm, and one audience refreshingly sane. The practical exercises give the book a workbook pulse, while the client stories keep it from becoming a sterile branding checklist.
By the end, I felt the book’s real gift was permission: permission to simplify, to repeat yourself without apology, to follow up with care, and to build a brand that fits your actual life rather than some glossy performance of success. It’s not a dense marketing manual, and readers looking for advanced analytics, paid ad strategy, or technical funnel architecture may find it too gentle. But for the thoughtful coach, consultant, healer, creative, or small business owner who knows their work matters and still freezes when it’s time to explain it, Marketing For Entrepreneurs offers a steady hand and a kind light. I’d recommend it to heart-led entrepreneurs who need less noise, more language, and a marketing approach that feels human enough to keep practicing.
Pages: 111 | ASIN : B0CTGHWYS8
HIDDEN PROFIT How to Find and Capture $500K–$2M+ in Hidden EBITDA Without Gutting Your Business
In Hidden Profit, David H. Tolly argues that many mid-market businesses already contain substantial recoverable value, not in some glamorous new market or sweeping transformation, but in the quieter places leaders often stop seeing: pricing leakage, procurement waste, working capital, customer mix, overhead discipline, and execution cadence. The book moves from EBITDA fundamentals into a practical diagnostic framework, then through seven “hidden profit” levers and a 90-day execution model, grounding its advice in turnaround cases such as Creative Solutions Group, Renaissance Cosmetics, and Savage Arms. What gives the book its force is its repeated insistence that profit is not found by gutting the business, but by making the economics visible enough that leaders can act with precision.
I found the book most compelling when it stripped away the romance of growth and asked harder, more adult questions about the quality of that growth. Tolly’s point that revenue can rise while margin quietly deteriorates feels simple at first, almost obvious, but the examples make it land with real weight. The $50 million manufacturing company that had rising EBITDA but declining margin becomes a small drama of managerial blindness, and the Renaissance Cosmetics case is even sharper: a company chasing shipments so aggressively that it created its own flood of returns. I admired the moral clarity of that lesson. Less revenue at a real margin is better than more revenue at a loss. It’s the kind of sentence that feels plain until you imagine saying it in a boardroom full of people addicted to top-line growth.
The writing is at its best when Tolly sounds like someone who has actually sat in the room when the lender called, and the spreadsheet stopped being theoretical. There’s a bracing directness to the voice, and the book’s recurring phrases, such as “build the bridge” and “assign the owners,” give the material a useful drumbeat. The prose can become procedural, especially in the checklists and worksheet sections. But I didn’t mind that much. The book doesn’t merely describe rigor; it practices it. Its ideas are not especially mystical, but they’re powerful because they honor the unglamorous truth that businesses usually fail in the seams between functions, not in the slogans on strategy decks.
I came away seeing Hidden Profit as a practical, unsentimental, and quietly humane book about restoring agency to leaders under pressure. It understands that numbers are never just numbers when payroll, debt, legacy, and reputation are attached to them. The strongest conclusion I drew is that hidden profit is less a treasure hunt than an act of disciplined attention. I’d recommend this book to CEOs, CFOs, board members, private equity operators, and business owners who suspect their company is working harder than its cash position suggests, especially those preparing for a sale or trying to strengthen EBITDA without damaging the living organism of the business.
Pages: 315 | ASIN : B0GX2QBG9X
