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Written by a general contractor of 25 years, Construction Business Management offers the lessons learned from both good and not-so-good decisions Read what it takes to build all aspects of a business that’s profitable, enjoyable, and enduring:

a.. Contract Terms & Conditions (to include and to avoid) b.. Fair Allocation of Risk Between Contractor and Owner c.. How to Make Sure You’re Paid What You're Owed d.. Critical Dos and Don'ts of Mechanics Liens e.. How to Select, Hire, and Keep Golden Employees f.. How to Choose Accountants, Lawyers & Insurance Agents g.. How to Target, Check out, Land, & Retain Profitable Customers h.. Effective Marketing Even the Smallest Contractor Can Afford i.. The Required Success Characteristics of a Contractor j.. Avoiding the 57% Four-Year Contractor Failure Rate k.. Opportunities & Requirements of Retail Construction l.. The Importance of the “Human Factor” And much more that will pay off now and throughout your career.
Written for contractors, key employees, subcontractors, students, and facility executives. Check out the Table of Contents for more detail. .
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Offshoring and outsourcing have generated substantial savings and often controversial news coverage for many companies But these technologies aren't even close to being the real story. Two of business' leading strategy thinkers argue that the only sustainable advantage will come not from using technology to cut costs - but to get better faster than rivals. The authors identity two key forces - dynamic specialisation and productive friction that will dramatically reshape the competitive landscape and show what firms must do to understand, build and exploit these forces before their competitors do..
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This book, a comparative study of specialized production in prehistoric societies, examines both adaptionist and political approaches to specialization and exchange using a worldwide perspective. What forms of specialization and exchange promote social stratification, political integration and institutional specialization? Can increases in specialization always be linked to improved subsistence strategies or are they more closely related to the efforts of political elites to strengthen coalitions and establish institutions of control? Are valuables as important as subsistence goods in the developmental process? These and other questions are examined in the contexts of ten prehistoric societies, ranging from the incipient complexity of Mississippian chiefdoms through to the more complex systems of West Africa, Hawaii and Bronze Age Europe, to the agrarian states of Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Peru and Yamato Japan. Each society is the subject of a separate study by a scholar whose own research has provided new insights into the interplay of specialization, exchange and social complexity in the region studied..
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The intimate associations between plants and the insects that eat them have helped define and shape both groups for millions of years. This pioneering volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. Chapters focus on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization--individuals, populations, species, and clades. Written by prominent evolutionary biologists, entomologists, and ecologists, the chapters are organized into three sections: Evolution of Populations and Species; Co- and Macroevolutionary Radiation; and Evolutionary Aspects of Pests, Invasive Species, and the Environment. The volume is unified by the idea that understanding the ecological framework of the interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants is fundamental to understanding their evolution..
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"Occasionally revolutionary ideas disrupt the physical sciences. Such is the case with Power Factor Training " -- Flex magazine "After using the Power Factor Training system, I can't believe I ever used anything else. All the training I used in the past is now obsolete." -- Chris Duffy, Nationals Heavyweight Champion "Power Factor Training has picked up where Arthur Jones, Ellington Darden, and Mike Mentzer left off--and carried high-intensity training to its furthest possible level. I recommend it to all of my students who are interested in building maximum muscle mass--drug free!" --Dr. David Staplin, University of Minnesota In Power Factor Training: A Scientific Approach to Building Lean Muscle, bodybuilding and fitness pioneers Peter Sisco and John Little introduced a revolutionary new bodybuilding system that showed you how to develop your muscles to their fullest potential in the shortest time possible. Based on effective, scientifically proven principles of exercise, startling new research on recovery ability, and the importance of high intensity for stimulating muscle growth, the Power Factor Training system revealed how building a massively muscular body need not take years to accomplish. The response to Power Factor Training was overwhelming, so much so that readers demanded fuller Power Factor Training programs to isolate exercises for specific body parts. Power Factor Specialization: Abs & Legs provides exact, meaningful measurements for all shoulder exercises and back exercises and compares the intensity, or Power Factor, of each exercise. Complete with charts, graphs, and photos, this book enables you, at a glance, to see what exercises are truly the best (and which ones are the worst!) for stimulating maximum muscle growth in your shoulders and back. For example, for your back workout, why perform bent-arm dumbbell pullovers when they provide only 34 percent of the intensity of close-grip underhand chin-ups? offers a completely authoritative method for determining the muscle-stimulating benefits of every ab and leg workout you perform--with no more guesswork. It is now possible for you to determine exact exercises, weights, sets, and reps that you personally need to stimulate maximum muscle growth. You'll see immediate results from your first workout. Peter Sisco, editor of Ironman magazine's Ultimate Bodybuilding series, is the innovator of the Power Factor measurement of muscular intensity. John Little's articles have been published in every major bodybuilding and fitness magazine. The creator of the Static Contraction Training method, he is the editor of the Bruce Lee Library Series. Sisco and Little are the coauthors of Static Contraction Training and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout, as well as Power Factor Specialization: Chest & Arms and Power Factor Specialization: Shoulders & Back. Bodybuilders and strength athletes in more than fifty-eight countries have used their techniques..
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This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic teaching and research in the 19th century into the dominant mode of medical practice by the middle of the 20th. Taking account of the parallels and differences in national developments, the book shows the international links among the nations' medical systems as well as the independent influences of local political and social conditions in the move toward specialization. An epilogue takes the story up to the twenty-first century, where problems of specialization merge into the larger crisis of health care which affects most western nations today..
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Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Outline; Chapter One: Spanish Colonial New Mexico; Land Tenure; Shifting Pottery Production; Chapter Two: The New Mexican Evidence; Ethnohistory Oral History; The New Mexican Evidence; Sites with Archaeological Evidence Only; Micaceous Wares; Chapter Three: Abiquiu: An Archaeological; Case Study; Archaeological Evidence; Hispanic Bowl Standardisation; Raw Materials and Culture; Chapter Four: The Arnold Model; Chapter Five: Hispanic Craft Specialisation:; A Model; Application of the Arnold Model; Population Pressure and Ceramics: A World; View; Conclusions; Archaeological Implications; Afterword; Epilogue; Footnotes; Pottery Shapes; Hispanic Settlements; Glossary of Spanish Terms; Sources; Index..
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