Nick B. Ganaway

EQUIPS STARTUP CONTRACTORS WITH THE TOOLS TO BUILD RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY For construction professionals starting their businesses, success depends on more than just skill and dedication. Mastering the Construction Startup provides an essential master plan for creating the foundational infrastructure every contractor needs to achieve sustainable growth and upon which every strategic decision will be made. Written by industry expert Nick B. Ganaway, this real-world guide details how to strategically align people, systems, and processes with business goals to proactively address risks, reduce errors, and build lasting operational resilience. Grounded in decades of general contracting experience and research, each concise and accessible chapter breaks down the key components of sustainable success, such as identifying elements of a solid legal and financial base, establishing relationships with essential professionals, and creating a culture that attracts and retains the best talent. Throughout the book, Ganaway, often engaging directly with the reader, offers expert insights on everything from the role of the contractor to elements of leadership to advantages of niche contracting. Mastering the Construction Startup empowers contractors to set up their companies for success during the challenging early years and beyond. Here is a small sample of the principles discussed: Why your company’s culture is critical to your success and how to ensure it will be what you wantBilling procedures to follow to ensure that you get paid for your workYour essential need to hire the right lawyer and the right accountant for your business before your Day 1Your personal guarantee, its extreme risk for you, and what to do when it is requiredThe legal and financial consequences of improper business registration and professional licensingHow to choose the form of business structure best suited to your companyAn essential checklist for startups, and forms you can use The risks inherent in the Sole Proprietorship form of businessThe problems with partnerships and how to address them in advance Mastering the Construction Startup: A Business Infrastructure Guide is perfect for trade school and college courses in construction management and entrepreneurship, and a must-have resource for contractors, project managers, and subcontractors at all levels.

A dead prostitute. An involved presidential wannabee He'd never thought of himself as a criminal but when he is blackmailed by someone who knows what happened and his hopes for the White House appear to be evaporating quickly, there is nothing, nothing, he won't do to eliminate that threat-including trading a sensitive U.S. Government database for the secrecy he must have The U.S. President is wary of turning the investigation over to the U.S. intelligence community to investigate itself and calls on former intel operative Cam Warfield to identify the betrayer and assess the damage that has been done.Warfield doesn't like it but never flinched when the President called him in. Cam Warfield was revered within the intel community for his career successes but left a few years earlier to run an intelligence training center as a contractor for the Army. Digging through layers of lies, Warfield discovers that a CIA database containing the names of Russian scientists who still had access to bomb-grade nuclear material left over from the Cold War had been compromised. Bomb-grade uranium was now in the hands of terrorists But as Warfield zeroes in on the likely traitor and plot, his own CIA and FBI set out to kill him Despite the target on his back, can Warfield survive long enough to eliminate the nuclear package that is on its way to Los Angeles at that very moment and annihilate millions of Americans? The only way to stop it is for the U.S. to shoot a Japanese passenger airliner out of the sky. Will the President do it? He has minutes to decide To Free a Spy is a tense standalone thriller. If you like layered characters, breathtaking twists and edge of your seat stakes, then you'll love Nick Ganaway's international intrigue, played out in Russia, Tokyo, Paris and Washington.