Most Popular Books by David Finkel

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Soldiers comes “a panoramic view of postwar life. . . . A book that every American should read” (Jake Tapper, Los Angeles Times). No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous “surge”. Now, in Thank You for Your Service, Finkel tells the true story of those men as they return home and struggle to reintegrate—both into their family lives and into American society at large. Finkel is with these veterans in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover. He creates an indelible portrait of what life after war is like for these soldiers, their families and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done. Thank You for Your Service offers nuanced and complete explorations two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for? A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down, " The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.

A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbors in this immersive account by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thank You for Your Service and The Good Soldiers. “Finkel’s account is poetic, profound, and irresistibly page-turning.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. An Iraq war veteran, raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly surprised by the behavior and beliefs of others, and engulfed by the fear, anger, and confusion that is sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold on to his values and his hope for America’s future. David Finkel, known for his unique, in-depth reporting, spent fourteen years deep inside Brent Cummings’s world to create this intimate and vivid portrait of a man’s life, his work, family, community, his thoughts, and his quest for connection, as America becomes ever more divided. Cummings was one of the unforgettable figures in Finkel’s The Good Soldiers, a book about which The New York Times stated, “Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now, and say: This is what happened. This is what it felt like.” An American Dreamer illuminates, with the deepest empathy, the feelings and lives of many people in America today, and it is a brilliant chronicle of one person’s everyday experiences of frustration, confusion, and hope.

Building a successful company and career doesn't mean sacrificing your family, health, or life. You check email the moment you lift your head off the pillow in the morning. You bring work with you on vacation, sneak glances at your smart phone during family dinners, and take business calls and texts at your kid's sports games. It's as if you've been forced to make a choice between your company or your life, sacrificing time for yourself and family for the sake of career success. But it doesn't have to be that way. The most successful business leaders have learned to bust through the direct one-to-one relationship between hours worked and value created by refocusing their company, department, or team's best talent and attention on their highest value activities—generating hundreds, even thousands, of hours of value in the process. In The Freedom Formula, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and successful entrepreneur David Finkel will help you operationalize working smarter. No fluff, no theory, Finkel shares the detailed blueprint to create maximum value for your company without working nights, weekends, or while on "vacation." You'll learn: Why working longer and harder doesn't pay off (and what actually does) Why the 80-20 principle doesn't go far enough (and how to take it to its most productive extreme) How to escape the Time and Effort Economy How to structure your day and week so that you reclaim five or more hours each week in usable blocks of your best time How to leverage the five Freedom Accelerators to get your life back faster And much more! Whether you're a business owner, top executive, key manager—or aspire to be one—The Freedom Formula offers a radical new approach to structuring your time and priorities (and your team's) in order to reclaim hours of your day—and the freedom to live your life, not just your job.

Your concrete road map to rapidly grow your business and get your life back! Have you ever wanted to grow your business but held back because of fear that it would take over your life? As an owner, it’s all too common to feel you have to choose between your personal life and the success of your business. But the surprising truth is that the only way to truly scale and grow your company is to reduce its reliance on you. This means that, done right, scaling ensures that you can grow your business without sacrificing your life. Jeff Hoffman, a serial entrepreneur and former CEO in the Priceline (Priceline Yardsale) family of companies, and David Finkel, CEO of Maui Mastermind, a business coaching company with thousands of clients worldwide, offer a concrete road map for rapidly growing your business while also gaining more personal freedom. You’ll not only learn the best strategies to generate growth, but you’ll also get proven insider tips to sustain that growth through sound systems, empowered teams, and intelligent internal controls. Hoffman and Finkel will also show you how to overcome predictable obstacles in any pillar of your business—including sales, operations, and finance—with insight for building better lead-generation systems, managing cash flow, and retaining talent. You’ll learn how to: • Escape the Self-Employment Trap and build a business, not a job. • Systematize your business to reduce costs and increase capacity. • Ensure your company survives the “Hit by a Bus” test. • Uncover your company’s top leverage points (and execution strategies to implement what you discover). • Fund your growth with the seven cash flow commandments. • And much more. Scale offers a game plan to work less and get your business to produce more. Written by two worldclass entrepreneurs who have started, scaled, and successfully exited from multiple businesses, which collectively have generated tens of billions of dollars in sales, it gives you their bottom-line best ideas to effectively grow your company. If you have ever felt stuck in your business, not knowing the best way forward, this book is your mustread guide.

What if you could consistently bring in $5,000 to $50,000 in real estate cash flow every month? Would you change the way you live your life? Every year, thousands of Americans do just that, using real estate to achieve the wealth and independence they've always dreamed of. In The Real Estate Fast Track, author David Finkel offers step-by-step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less! You'll master all five of the core skills of the world's wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel's students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You'll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in. Plus, there's more: Six forms of leverage you can tap into Five fun, easy systems to find deal after deal A simple, three-step system for safely evaluating any real estate deal Twenty-one advanced deal-structuring strategies to close even the toughest deal Fourteen advanced negotiating techniques to make up to an extra $25,000 per deal Ten contract pitfalls that trip up most investors Using true stories from real people to illustrate the basics of successful investing, this practical, step-by-step guide presents the kind of proven, reality-based advice you need to live the life of your dreams—with all the money and free time you want! "Naysayers look out! The Real Estate Fast Track discloses step-by-step strategies that practically guarantee immediate cash flow, no matter what the real estate market does. This stuff works." —Diane Kennedy, bestselling coauthor of The Insider's Guide to Making Money in Real Estate and author of Loopholes of the Rich "This book is just like David: clear, organized, and intelligent with an easygoing style. The valuable information within is actually a blueprint or how-to manual on producing your own passive cash flowing real estate investment business! WOW, what an achievement!" —Bill Tan, President of the San Diego Creative Investors Association and BTi Investments, Inc. David Finkel is one of the nation's leading real estate experts. He is the coauthor of several books, including the Wiley titles Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit and How to Retire Fast Investing in Commercial Real Estate, as well as the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit. Over the past decade, Finkel's clients have bought and sold over $1 billion of real estate.

FREE $1,595 Quick-Start Real Estate Success Program! See page 217 for details. Buy Real Estate Without Cash or Credit! Imagine having two multi-millionaires take you by the hand and personally mentor you to get started making big money investing in real estate. That's exactly the step-by-step coaching you'll get in Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit, as Peter Conti and David Finkel, two of the nation's leading real estate experts, walk you through the fastest and easiest ways for you to launch your investing business. You'll learn the same secrets, strategies, and organized action plans that their past mentorship students have used over the last decade to make millions. Best of all, you'll learn exactly how to do it without cash or credit! This book will show you the fastest way to succeed investing in real estate--step-by-step, action-by-action, strategy-by-strategy. You'll learn: * The 5 fastest ways to close your first deal in 30 days or less! * 21 scripts to negotiate profitable win-win deals * The 6 best sources to fund your "nothing down" deals * 7 ways to maximize your cash when investing "This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to live the American dream but thinks they can't invest in real estate for lack of cash or credit. Conti and Finkel make it simple to understand and easy to achieve." --Attorney William Bronchick, coauthor of the bestselling book Flipping Properties "David and Peter have done it again! They've taken their proven millionaire-making real estate program and broken it down into easy-to-use steps that anyone can use. This book will tell you how you don't need cash or credit to succeed in real estate investing." --Diane Kennedy, CPA/Tax Strategist, coauthor of The Insider's Guide to Real Estate Investing Loopholes

The key to making money in real estate is findingmotivated sellers. Financial trouble is often the singlebiggest motivator. From finding properties inforeclosure, to negotiating with sellers in financialdistress, to reselling the properties to realize healthyprofits, Making Big Money Investing in Foreclosureswithout Cash or Credit is a comprehensive money-makingguide. Best-selling authors Peter Conti and David Finkelpull all the steps together into a seven-step actionplan, so that investors can apply what they have learnedand start making money.

Gennaio 2007: in Iraq vengono inviati molti giovani soldati pieni di ottimismo. Il loro compito è pattugliare una delle zone più pericolose di Baghdad. Per quindici mesi il reporter David Finkel ha vissuto con loro, seguendoli passo passo praticamente in ogni sanguinosa tappa della loro avventura.

David Finkel, Premio Pulitzer y autor de Los buenos soldados, sigue ahondando en la historia de unos hombres a quienes conoció en plena guerra de Irak. Unos hombres que regresaron a su país destrozados por las experiencias vividas, incapaces de reemprender una existencia normal. Estos supervivientes forman parte del gran drama de los veteranos de las guerras del siglo XXI: cada 80 minutos se suicida uno de ellos, de modo que el número de los suicidas supera ya al de los caídos en combate en Irak y Afganistán. Finkel se aproxima a ellos en un relato directo y descarnado, que tiene la virtud de conmovernos y sacudirnos, al denunciar algo que se nos oculta sistemáticamente: que usamos a los soldados para la guerra, permitimos que se destruyan en ella, y los abandonamos después. Elizabeth Samet escribió que «si Los buenos soldados era una especie de Ilíada posheroica de la guerra de Irak, Gracias por sus servicios es algo así como su Odisea».

If you've ever dreamed of growing your practice, but were afraid the time and lifestyle costs to your family would be too high, then this book will transform how you approach running your medical practice.Here, concentrated in one book, is your map to grow your practice and get your life back. This formula has helped thousands of physicians grow their medical practices in a way that increases their personal time and freedom.You'll learn:- The real reasons why physician owners work so hard (and how you can have more personal time while still earning more).- A simple four-step formula to sustainably grow your medical practice.- How to develop your practice systems, team, and culture to give you a stable base upon which to grow.- How to apply the six practice accelerators to reach your goals faster.- How to work less and still earn more by applying proven business best practices to enhance your medical practice.- 12 cash-flow secrets to increase your practice's profitability.- And much more.This book is filled with practical, concrete insights and examples to grow your practice so that you earn more, enjoy more, and serve more. Best of all, you'll learn to do it in a way that allows you to work less.

Este es un gran libro sobre la guerra y sobre los soldados. Sobre un grupo de soldados, de una edad media de 19 años, que fueron enviados en 2007 a Bagdad para cambiar el curso de un conflicto que se estaba perdiendo. David Finkel, ganador del Premio Pulitzer, se propuso ahondar en la realidad de esta sucia guerra compartiendo durante ocho meses la vida de los hombres del Batallón 2-16 y dando voz a estos “buenos soldados” para que contaran lo sucedido a través de sus experiencias, sus pesadillas y sus decepciones. Como ha dicho Doug Stanton: “Podréis abrir este libro dentro de unos años y decir: Esto es lo que realmente ocurrió”. Finkel no ha querido escribir un reportaje ni un alegato contra la guerra, sino mostrarnos el coste humano de una experiencia que acabó destrozando incluso a los supervivientes, conscientes de la inutildiad del empeño y de su fracaso.

Build a Business, Not a Job! 2nd Edition paperback. How to Build Your Business to Sell, Scale, or Own Passively Too many business owners get trapped inside the very businesses they work so hard to build. If they don t show up each day, or something happens to them, their businesses die. In this step-by-step business guide, you ll get the concrete road map you need to build a business you can sell, scale, or own passively. You ll Learn: How to escape the Self-Employment TrapTM. The 4 building blocks of all scalable businesses. 15 cash management secrets to guard your business s cash flow. 12 power techniques to rapidly increase your sales. 35 business controls you ll need to successfully scale your company --

Un paysage désolé de détritus fumants et d'égouts à ciel ouvert, des carcasses de buffles dans lesquelles sont parfois dissimulées des bombes, des ruines d'immeubles que contrôlent les militants d'un mollah radical... C'est au coeur de cet enfer pestilentiel et surchauffé, à l'est de Bagdad, que les hommes du lieutenant-colonel Kauzlarich essayent de créer une zone sécurisée. Pendant un an, d'avril 2007 à avril 2008, David Finkel a vécu parmi eux. Il nous fait ici partager leur vie et pose un regard fraternel mais sans concession sur la réalité des hommes - au plus près de leurs émotions, de leurs peurs, de leurs cauchemars -, un regard aussi sur les politiques qui les ont conduits là. Ecrit sans pathos, c'est le récit clinique de la routine de l'horreur dans laquelle sont plongés des jeunes soldats entrés dans une machine infernale.