You've tried bonuses, spiffs, and commissions. So why isn't your team performing its best?The problem may be your pay plan.Pay Plans That Actually Work reveals why most compensation plans accidentally reward the wrong behaviors, frustrate top performers, and quietly cost owners millions in lost productivity, unnecessary payroll, and employee turnover. Home-service leader Tom Howard introduces six principles rooted in behavioral science that transform compensation i...

From the time humankind first walked the earth, they have strived to do one thing -- to live. And sometimes, the idea of living beyond what the gods and nature deem necessary becomes the focus of their efforts. This collection of stories from authors such as Suann Amero, Tom Howard, and Ziaul Moid Khan to name a few focuses on the themes of reincarnation, resurrection, and living beyond death.Please enjoy -- after all, who doesn't want to live forever.

R for Health Technology Assessment discusses the use of proper statistical software, specifically R, to perform the whole pipeline of analytic modelling in health technology assessment (HTA). It has been designed with the objective of establishing the use of R as the standard tool for HTA amongst academics, industry practitioners and regulators. It covers a lot of ground, starting with the necessary background in HTA, R and statistical inference, followed by various modell...

When beauty, wit and intelligence are center stage, it makes this private investigator’s job even tougher than it already is.When the police refuse to investigate the disappearance of Mallory Carver’s niece, Julie, her family turns to private investigator Tucker Randall and thus set off a dangerous chain of events.Julie disappeared while hiking in the beautiful yet treacherous Cherokee National Forest, and Randall, a former FBI agent with a haunted...

Why was she on the bridge that terrible night?Who was she running away from?Why did she leap to her death in the murky waters below?Tabitha Willard was a beautiful, wealthy young woman with everything to live for, so why did she take her own life?What did powerful US Congressman Gordon “little Billy” Harper have to do with it?And then there’s Lester, “Shady” Tree, a crooked entrepreneur and a man wit...

One dark Friday evening in October, Dillon Harper and Brian McDaniel went out to drink a few beers and smoke a little marijuana. Their bodies were found hours later on the railroad tracks north of town. They’d both been struck by the midnight train.The autopsies revealed copious amounts of alcohol in their system so their deaths were deemed accidental. However, the brothers of the two men believe the investigation was botched and, knowing them as they did, don’t believe they were d...

Murder in Hilden Heights?Was Hattie Baker the victim of a serial killer?On a balmy, late summer morning in Hilden Heights, Hattie Baker is found dead in her pool, and she wasn’t the first. A socialite and successful business owner, Hattie was an excellent swimmer. Even so, her death was ruled an accident. Her boyfriend, Mason Willis, however, doesn’t believe it was an accident. He thinks she was murdered and goes to Harry Starke fo...

Emily Johnston is GONE.She’s been GONE for more than a week.She’s also the daughter of Harry Starke’s one-time boss and nemesis, Chattanooga Police Chief Wesley Johnston. Harry and Chief Johnston haven’t seen eye-to-eye in a long time, but when Johnston needs help, he knows there’s only one man he can turn to.But Johnston’s jurisdiction ends at the city limits, and when Emily’s body is discovered in a remote part of the county, Harry has to deal with the im...

Secret plots to exterminate most of the world’s population to bring peace to the world.Two old enemies must work together to foil the peacemakers.Book 1, The Peacemaker, introduces a worldwide, deep state organization bent on peace at any price. Under any other circumstances, ex-CIA assassin Casey Wu would be trying to kill her former partner, ex-SAS sniper Albert Westwood. Instead, they must work together to foil a plot to start a...

Three more riveting crime stories you’ll not be able to put down.The Lolita ConspiracyA chance encounter. A plea for help. A detective too tired to care. Brandon Beck hanged himself, or did he? Was it suicide or cold blooded murder? On a cold dark night in February, Harry Starke runs into someone he hasn’t seen in almost twenty-five years. The man has a problem. He asks Harry for help. Harry turns him down, and thus becomes the last person to see B...

Mystery woman, Morrigan Doyle, is in prison.Finn Doyle, her son, has ties to the Irish mob in New York. He became acquainted with Harry Starke when Harry was investigating his mother’s billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. But Finn has an agenda of his own and wants to hire Harry to “find a friend,” Matteo Rossi.Rossi, a low-level thug, a soldier in the Irish mob, is missing and Finn is worried, thinking someone has “offed him,” and he wants to know who.Init...

Twenty-one years ago, Harry Starke, on his first case as lead detective made a mistake, a mistake that sent an innocent man to prison for life.Now, haunted by the past, and with new evidence, he must finish what he started and find the real killer.A killer that will do anything to hide the past.