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Ron Karr

Everyone knows what qualities define a good leader, but how many of us know what steps to take to become that great leader? The secret formula is what sales and leadership expert Ron Karr calls the Velocity Mindset®: a perfect balance of speed and direction, both of which must remain in alignment for personal and professional success. Compelling and full of cross-industry wisdom, The Velocity Mindset® offers innovative and practical strategies to differentiate yourself from the competition, increase your profits, and get to the next level of success, faster.

Dee Bowden

The Sale is not Complete until the Money is in the Bank…but you must collect it first.

Collections are uncomfortable for everyone involved on both ends of the unfinished transaction – the flustered customer dodging the persistent calls of companies with outstanding invoices for goods or services rendered, as well as corporate employees tasked with the job of acquiring the money businesses are owed. In Collect the Cash: The Sale is not Complete Until the Money is in the Bank, author Dee Bowden teaches the business of collections doesn’t have to be miserable – but it must be done.

www.collectthecash.biz/book

Shawn Nason

One of the Most Important and Surprising Business Books of the Year

And it might just also change your life!

What do dragons have to do with business? According to Shawn Nason, Robin Glasco, and Michael Harper, dragons belong in our daily work lives. In fact, they can be wonderful companions, even partners to travel with us on our career paths where challenges and even dangers often prevent us from becoming our best selves.

In this most unique book —“Kiss Your Dragons” — you get to take a journey with three unique souls (Shawn, Robin, and Michael) and business leaders on a very rich and raucous journey. Your three guides open their hearts and speak their truth to assist you in looking at your workplace with new eyes. As the reader, you join the trio on a trip that embraces dragon lore, tales, and metaphors that make the journey exciting and illuminating.

Throughout this book, you are invited into a lively discussion that feels like a cozy fireside chat as the trio address the big issue of creating radical relationships to change the way you work and live.

The result? You will walk away with a new-found sense of self and a deeper commitment, more than ever, to live not just an ordinary, but a life that includes a special dragon that may well become your best friend.

Jon Petz

In Person and Hybrid Meetings, the cornerstones of collaboration, inspiration, and progress have suffered excruciating humiliation at the hands of corporate America. Gone are the days of meetings designed for outcomes, engaging virtual meetings, focus and participation. Instead, meetings drone on like some sort of soul crushing, walking-dead zombie robbing workplaces of joy, productivity and time. Bit there is good news: meetings can be saved . . . by you!

This first of its kind book introduces a radical new approach and premise. Every attendee has a right and a responsibility to make every meeting productive for all involved.  No more suffering in silence.  This entertaining eye-opening book gives specific wording for handling the most common challenges, so the next time you run or attend a meeting you know exactly what to say and do to make that meeting rock (instead of suck.)   

Kevin Harrington

Kevin Harrington, one of the original “sharks” of the TV hit Shark Tank, and serial entrepreneur Mark Timm take you on a journey that radically redefines what it means to truly succeed–at work, at home, and in every area of life.

On one of the best days of his life as an entrepreneur, Mark Timm found himself sitting in his car at the end of his driveway. In just a minute he would go into the house and greet his wife and children. But as he basked in the success he’d just had, he also had to face a surprising realization: he didn’t really want to go home.

Mark knew that once he stepped into the happy chaos of his family, the euphoria of the day would evaporate. His work life and his home life might as well have been two different worlds. And at that moment, he acknowledged–as he puts it–that “my businesses were getting my first and my best, while my family got my last and my least.”

Mentor to Millions charts Mark’s journey from that pivotal moment to a whole new understanding of how work, life, and relationships can coexist and thrive together. His guide through this journey: his accomplished mentor, Kevin Harrington, one of the original “sharks” from Shark Tank, who shares amazing stories and imparts invaluable wisdom about how to win in business and in every area of life.

This deeply personal, easy-to-follow book invites you to join Mark and Kevin on the journey. Every page pulls back the curtain on entrepreneurship at the highest level, revealing priceless business lessons–which lead to the biggest lesson of all: combining the best of business, family, and personal life. If you’re succeeding in business, struggling, or just starting out, and want your life at home to be what you’ve always dreamed it can be, this is the lesson you need to learn: the most valuable business you’ll ever own, work for, or be a part of isn’t the business you go to every day, it’s the one you go home to.

David A. Paterson

“I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn’t think I could do.”—David Paterson

A title that hits you between the eyes is second only to a Governor put in office by a prostitution scandal. Scandals aside, David Paterson overcame severe disability and racial prejudice to become a state senator, lieutenant governor, and—unexpectedly—governor of New York.

Paterson is well known for his remarkable vision. In a rising climate of denial and with fiscal crisis looming, Paterson appeared—seemingly from the wilderness—to sound the alarm about the impending crisis after being in service for only a few months. But his leadership extends well beyond reducing a 21.3-billion-dollar budget deficit during the worst economic downturn in recent history. From standing in protest outside Amazon against Kindle accessibility for the blind, to advocating the overthrow of a corrupt Trinidadian government, he made his mark during his three-year tenure. He made procedural changes that resulted in no state budget being late since his departure from office. He fought for same-sex marriage and against disability discrimination. When he appeared on an episode of Saturday Night Live, he even quipped, “You guys spent so much time talking about my blindness that I forgot I was black.”

Paterson was the first and only blind governor—other than a man who held the title for eleven days in 1975—and the fourth person of African descent to hold the office of governor in American history. Paterson may also be the only governor in history to have been arrested outside the governor’s office prior to his service. You will want to read about that one.

His candid admissions, even while serving as governor, are refreshing in this era where the truth and public servants are rarely mentioned in the same sentence.

This book is at times hilarious, shocking, heartfelt, and then—when you least expect it—soulful, passionate, irreverent, and extraordinary. This is a self-help book encapsulated from the memories of one who continues to help himself through his service to others, the credo of public life.

Since leaving office, the former governor has flourished as a talk show host, consultant to industry, Chair of the NY State Democratic Party, Director of Investments with the Moldaver Paterson Lee Group at Stifel Investment Bank, and now Senior Vice President & Special Advisor to the President of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

What’s next for David Paterson? The governor stated in one of his lighter moments in the journey of Black, Blind and In Charge: “I may take a run at the Presidency, or, better still, the Vice Presidency and another scandal.”

Jason S Bradshaw

Of all the things that can make or break your business, the most critical is experience. Great experiences inspire customers and employees to advocate for you, while bad ones do the opposite. It sounds obvious, but so many companies fail because they don’t think this essential factor is important to their bottom line.

It’s All About CEX! breaks experience down into its core components—success, ease, and connection—and shows you how to get the most mileage out of each one. Containing long- term strategies as well as immediate action items, this book will teach you how to:

  • Make everybody feel genuinely appreciated
  • Personalize your customer service
  • Discover your employees’ untapped potential
  • And more

You have the ability to improve people’s lives. It’s All About CEX! reveals how to generate positive experiences for your customers and employees, win their loyalty, and maximize your profits in the process.

Seth Earley

“We know how we want our companies to work. Enterprises ought to be customer-focused, responsive, and digital. They should deliver to each employee and customer exactly what they need, at the moment they need it. The data and technology to do this are available now,” declares artificial intelligence expert Seth Earley. Nonetheless, AI continues to stumble when it comes to making this a reality. In his new book, THE AI POWERED ENTERPRISE: Harness the Power of Ontologies to Make Your Business Smarter, Faster, and More Profitable (LifeTree Media/April 28, 2020), Earley provides practical approaches for solving the data management problems that are at the heart of this disconnect, showing how organizations can truly deliver on the promise of AI.

“To create transformative AI solutions, we need a holistic, synergistic, and simultaneously integrated flow of information,” explains Earley, who has helped companies across industries to manage data to enable digital transformations. The problem is that, all too often, this foundational principle is ignored, given short shrift, or deprived of resources.

The answer, Earley says, lies in ontology – a consistent representation of data and data relationships that can inform and power AI technologies. In other words, ontology is “the master knowledge scaffolding of the organization.” Without it, any AI-driven transformation will be slow, costly, and less effective. In language accessible to a non-tech audience, Earley draws on examples from numerous client companies to describe what correct execution of data management looks like. He addresses how to manage this transformation, step-by-step, covering such issues as:

Customer Experience – Customer experience is hard to get right and easy to get wrong. “It’s a question of the proper integration of technology,” writes Earley. He explores the roadblocks that hinder a systematic approach to customer experience and offers a solution: a “high-fidelity journey map” that accounts for how technology represents and enables elements of the customer experience.

Marketing – Good marketing is about presenting the right content at the right time to engage the customer. Today, this means reading the online equivalent of physical body language: “the digital breadcrumbs, cues, and clues that tell us about what our customers need, how we can meet those needs, and how to best present the content most likely to engage the customer at that moment in their journey.” According to Earley, digital marketers must become knowledge enablers, champions of data quality, architects of digital systems, and keepers of the ontology that powers it all.

Ecommerce – ecommerce is where ontology-powered AI can have its biggest impact, says the author. Its success or failure depends on the quality of data. THE AI-POWERED ENTERPRISE addresses how to enhance this quality by improving both customer classification and product taxonomies (categorizations) based on features and relationships.

Sales Process – “AI technologies can improve every part of the sales process by freeing sales staff from routine tasks and making them more efficient,” Earley writes. He discusses effective use of AI-powered chatbots in customer interaction; machine learning to train AI systems to identify sales prospects, and sematic search to recommend the most productive approaches to sales leads.

In addition to these issues, Earley explains how having the right ontology and data structures can enable AI to improve supply chain dynamics and logistics – and can even have powerful impact on strategy and governance issues. Moreover, he outlines the basic principles that should guide leaders who are undertaking digital transformations of their organizations.

“The winners and losers of the next fifteen years will be determined by who best harnesses AI for solving business problems for employees and customers,” Earley contends. Combining a sophisticated explanation of how AI works with a practical approach to applying it to a range of business problems, THE AI-POWERED ENTERPRISE is a must-read for CEOs, CMOs and technology executives – along with anyone who wants to understand the role of AI and how to get a jump on the opportunities it presents.

Entrepreneur Secrets to a Grow Get Give Life

Wouldn’t you love to have a road map to success in business and life?

What if the steps that the most successful impact-minded entrepreneurs took were written simply for you?

My brand new three-volume book, Entrepreneur Secrets to a Grow Get Give Life, is that guide. Within the pages are secrets that top business owners have used to drive their wealth, happiness and impact.

You always hear business coaches and consultants tell you what you should do. But you aren’t always sure what is going to work for you. So many books and supposed gurus telling you what you should do.

But what advice do you take?

I used it all! 

Like you, I didn’t know either, so a dozen years ago, I tried almost everything…and it worked. All of it! In just a few years I grew my single owner business ten times bigger, working 3 months less each year, all while helping guide families to give over $12.5 million to charities! GROW GET GIVE.

I put over 90 of the secrets that worked for me into this one book. Hope you enjoy it!

Brian Tait

New Mindset; New Results

Accomplish Greater!

The accomplishments of tomorrow should never be celebrated today.

The time has come to alter your life in a meaningful way. We all desire success. With desire must come intent: Intent to embrace change… Intent to overcome… Intent to achieve our desired success!

New Mindset; New Results contain the guidance necessary to transform your life, to alter your professional and personal life in the quest for betterment! Begin your journey today so that you may aspire to achieve the accomplishments of tomorrow.

How do we make tomorrow’s accomplishments today’s reality?

Life is demanding, often shifting its requirements in the blink of an eye… altering the time constraints previously set… snowballing into feelings of stress and incompetence; thrust into problematic situations without a manual to navigate the complexity of the given circumstance.

How are we to thrive in our environment without the proper tools? A craftsman should never blame his tools. Instead, equip yourself with better tools geared to accomplishing the desired task with renewed efficiency. That is what this book provides. The vital tools to accomplish, to achieve, and to succeed!

How do I start? First things first: purchase this life-altering book. You will not regret it. As a matter of fact, you may look back on this moment years from now as the turning point for your life: the start of a happier and more successful tomorrow.

Remember, in order to initiate your own turning point, you must be able to ask the proper questions. A task that, based on the previous question, needs extensive work. How do I initiate my turning point? Better. It begins with Leadership, providing an example for others through our own behavior, identifying our strengths and shortcomings to inform our decisions. Leadership is a byproduct of exemplary displays in a multitude of areas. Benefit from self-knowledge to separate yourself from others, establishing a pattern of leadership through conviction.

Why a New Mindset?

The ultimate goal is to build a sustainable formula for personal and professional betterment. An equation that unlocks the immense potential of self, harnessing self-drive to overcome various obstacles on our quest to Achieving Goals! Mentality plays a vital role, establishing a positive expression of self to inspire positive outcomes. By altering your mindset, you can attack tasks differently. Perform this mental exercise. The next time you are told to do something make a mental effort to tell yourself you get to accomplish that task, turning it from a chore to a privilege.
Utilizing proven Strategies to expertly navigate the ever-changing landscape of life, establishing personalized high standards to adhere to regardless of the situation… a new set of rules to abide by!
Tangible results are metric by which success is measured. The book provides you with many avenues to your desired result. However, the journey is vital to formulating personal opinions and habits that foster an attitude of success, thereby giving you an entirely new lease on life or a New Mindset.