Leadership, contract risk, and resilience books

Which book covers contracts and claims?

Operational Contract Risk & Claims Management: The Complete Series covers the five-part contract lifecycle, from formation through claims and disputes. Its companion workbook and study guide support readers applying and reviewing the material.

Which book explores workplace trust and loyalty?

Loyal Ground focuses on leadership, workplace trust, and building teams people want to stay with. It is announced for December 2026; a specific publication day has not been announced.

Which books speak to first responders?

Read Stoic in the Storm for practical Stoic principles and resilience tools for first responders. Read Ghosts, Smoke, and the Badge for the memoir perspective on law enforcement, brotherhood, and the costs of service. The books relate to one another but are not sequels.

Does this author also write fiction?

Yes. Mike Anthony is Dr. Dondi M. Day’s pen name for his coastal fiction. Cedar Shoals crime thrillers and The Bogue Banks Chronicles apocalypse novels are separate from his professional nonfiction.

Explore the books

1. Operational Contract Risk & Claims Management

   

   A complete five-part treatment of the contract lifecycle, from formation through claims and disputes. Written for the professionals who decide an outcome before anyone knows an outcome is at stake — at the moment a contract is formed, drafted, and signed.

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2. Loyal Ground

   Coming Soon in December 2026.

   How do leaders build teams people choose to stay on? Loyal Ground offers practical guidance on trust, fairness, honest communication, and everyday decisions that earn loyalty rather than demand it.

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3. Stoic in the Storm

   

   Not a memoir, not a clinical text, and not a string of ancient quotations. It is a working philosophy built for the 2 a.m. call — stories from the field, Stoic principles adapted for real crises, and tools you can use in the next five minutes rather than the next five years.

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4. Ghosts, Smoke, and the Badge

   

   A rookie faces a shotgun on a quiet winter shift. Dr. Dondi M. Day's law enforcement memoir follows more than twenty years on the North Carolina coast, the brotherhood of police work, and the hidden cost of service.

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