Cipher: A Proven Framework to Hire the Best People

  

Cipher:

A Proven Framework to Hire the Best People

Nearly half of new hires fail within 18 months. That’s not a “people problem”—it’s a process problem. Most hiring still runs on gut feel, vague job descriptions, and unstructured interviews—an approach with odds worse than a coin toss. The cost shows up fast: wasted time, lost money, and a team that can’t deliver. For 15 years, Craig della Penna has helped leaders hire with clarity and rigor using his proprietary HireBest® system resulting in better hiring decisions, reduced attrition, and less time wasted in extraneous interviews. The key component of that system is the Cipher®, a simple, powerful framework that defines what success must look like before you meet a single candidate. It distills any role into four essentials: Charge, Outcome, Deliverables, and Efforts so everyone evaluates talent against the same standard. In this practical, step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to build and use Ciphers to help: • Replace hiring based on gut feel with a structured, repeatable hiring system • Reduce bias by anchoring interviews to what truly predicts performance • Compare candidates consistently based on data-rich perspectives • Hire better, onboard faster, and coach performance using one framework If you hire or your business depends on hiring, stop gambling with your most important asset. Learn the clear, teachable framework that improves decision quality and hiring outcomes. It’s time to HireBest.

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The 40+ Supplement Guide: Unlocking Health and Vitality

  

The 40+ Supplement Guide:

Unlocking Health and Vitality

The 40+ Supplement Guide: Unlocking Health and Vitality, a practical, evidence based guide that helps readers over 40 cut through the noise of the supplement industry and build personalized, safe regimens to support energy, sleep, cognition, joints, and long-term health. The book synthesizes nearly 1,000 high-quality public sources into clear, actionable guidance and a reproducible framework for evaluating new supplement claims. The book is structured to be both a reference and a practical handbook: a concise primer on mitochondrial and metabolic health; focused chapters on sleep, cognition, joint health, and cancer prevention; a chapter on widely marketed supplements that lack credible evidence; and a step by step framework readers can use to evaluate new claims. The author, Bernard O’Donnell, is a seasoned investigator with over 40 years’ experience uncovering facts at the highest levels of international organisations. His career has been defined by rigorous fact finding, methodical analysis, and a commitment to uncovering the truth. Frustrated by the flood of supplement books, articles, podcasts, and videos that offered little more than personal opinions or commercially sponsored endorsements, Bernard set out to conduct his own independent research. With no ties to supplement companies and no agenda other than clarity, he approached the subject as he would any complex investigation: by gathering evidence, testing claims against credible sources, and separating fact from speculation. The result is this book - a carefully researched guide to supplements for people over 40. Bernard does not ask readers to accept his personal views. Instead, he presents a body of evidence drawn from almost 1,000 medical studies, academic papers, medical journals, and other high quality papers that readers can examine for themselves. His goal is to provide a transparent, accessible foundation that empowers individuals to make informed decisions about their own health. His investigative background ensures that every recommendation in this book is grounded in verifiable research - not hype, not sponsorship, and not opinion. For readers seeking clarity in a crowded and often confusing marketplace of health advice, Bernard offers what he has always valued most in his professional life: evidence, integrity, and the tools to make decisions with confidence.

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Dirty Millions the Clean Way

If you read this book to the end and live to talk about it later, your life will change forever. 

This book (Dirty Millions the Clean Way/The Book Movie) is also designed to open the readers’ minds, blowing the dust-off untapped brainpower, as we discussed topics that have affected some more deeply than others. At the same time, it will ignite a spark within each of us, inspiring us to make daily changes that will significantly impact all our future endeavors. As you continue to read this unorthodox book with an open mind and your head held high, almost everything will mysteriously change for the better. You will become proud in your thoughts and have a new, optimistic hope for the world's future.

In this book/movie, you will sometimes visit the past, bringing it into the present, as you may still harbor some prejudice in your heart and mind. God has provided everything needed for His most incredible human creation to live a full, whole life of complete creative potential. How can we still dwell together on this “spaceship" we call Earth, knowing of the many people who are still suffering each day from the lack of basic survival needs, which gives dignity to all? As this “spaceship” (Earth) continues to revolve around the warmth of the sun each day, it provides an abundance of the three essential needs, food, air, and water for all of mankind to share and consume, not just the privileged few due to their country location, faith, wealth, inheritance, or birth geography.

Self-prejudice is a 100% curable disease through self-determination, psychiatrists, dignity for all, new laws forcing the wealthy to share the wealth, and prayer! As you continue to read this "unorthodox" book with an open mind, all of humanity will begin to change in your mindset as you read to the end, if possible. For centuries, restrictions have kept a particular group of people poor in mind, body, and spirit, and this will also change soon, through this book. This book will give you the hope you have longed for without changing your core values or personal beliefs.

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Blackfall Horizon

Blackfall Horizon is a military science-fiction novella set in the aftermath of collapse, where faith has been converted into infrastructure and human connection is treated as a controllable resource. Eiden is a Lantern Warden, trained to enter unstable sanctums where ideology, technology, and emotion intersect. His survival depends on resonance—an empathic system that binds paired operatives together, synchronizing thought, movement, and combat. His partner, Aurelia, is a Weaver whose precision and emotional discipline anchor their bond in the field. When an operation inside the vast Sanctum-Port fails, the structure itself turns hostile. Systems fracture, devotion becomes violent, and the resonance Eiden relies on begins to unravel. Cut off from support and forced to navigate the ruins alone, he must confront the cost of control, the weight of loss, and what remains when connection is broken but not erased. Blending tactical science fiction with psychological depth, Blackfall Horizon explores survival beyond catastrophe, grief as a persistent force, and the fragile line between discipline and empathy in a world designed to suppress both. It is the opening entry in a new science-fiction series focused on aftermath, endurance, and the quiet spaces beyond the fall.

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The Fall of Two Houses

Disclaimer: reading may require spiritual cleansing and other purification rituals. What would you sacrifice to keep your kingdom alive? In the Land of Dreams, light means life, tradition is law, and power is bought with blood. As Lord Crushma faces his own slow death, he races to secure his legacy before enemies close in and darkness swallows the Westlands. His solution is a political marriage, but his only heir is unfit to rule, his allies are corrupt, and every choice threatens to damn the realm he's trying to save. His most dangerous option is an ambitious Count, brilliant at starting conflicts and catastrophic at ending them. To refuse her may doom the Westlands. To accept her may ensure its destruction. The alternative is a young girl not nearly old enough to be courted, and Crushma must choose between the lesser of two evils.

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Lessons from the Front: A Rookie War Correspondent in Ukraine and Israel

 

Lessons from the Front:

A Rookie War Correspondent in Ukraine and Israel

Robert Sherman was a 25-year-old kid who thought he knew everything about the world. One day, Russia invaded Ukraine, and the young journalist who had spent his time covering local politics found himself smack dab in the middle of the world's biggest geopolitical crisis -- fleeing air raids and getting accused by local authorities of being a Russian spy. A year later, he found himself in the Middle East running from rockets and diving into Hamas tunnels in Gaza. There's no textbook that teaches you that. In the end Robert's whole view of the world changed and he quickly realized its the simple things in life that matter most: family, home, community, and time. I'm attaching an excerpt of the book here too

 

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99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM.: A Modern Day Self-Help Saga for everyday Courage

 

99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM.:

A Modern Day Self-Help Saga for everyday Courage

From a tin-roof home in Decatur to the inner battlefield of belief, 99 Problems, But Fear Ain’t 1 of Them is a true-life self-help saga about choosing courage over fear. Quinton Girtman blends raw story with practical tools—self-awareness as the mirror, critical thinking as the flashlight—to help you see your patterns, update your choices, and steer your life on purpose. You’ll walk through hard-earned lessons on identity, resilience, and clear thinking; you’ll leave with simple practices you can use today—breath-and-journal drills, trigger mapping, values sprints, and decision frameworks that hold under pressure. This isn’t theory from a podium—it’s a field guide written from the middle of the storm and the climb out. If you’re ready to trade crowd-pleasing for clarity and choose courage over fear, this book hands you the keys to your own driver’s seat.

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99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM

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