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David Meltzer

There are seven interconnected principles that are applicable to our lives in general and just as relevant to more specific pursuits such as business. Each principle is supported by four key elements. The goal is to create an energy that scales itself by generating its own like-kind energy. Ultimately, we want to not only put things out into the universe in a certain way that will come back to us twofold, but also where what we empower creates a similar energy. We can manifest things individually, but if we scale or empower others and create collective energy, we can manifest things on a global scale. The most successful businesses thrive by putting energy out there in a specific way, creating additional salespeople because of the power of what they ve provided. Companies like Apple exceed expectations and have been able to thrive utilizing the scalability of this concept. Connected to Goodness provides the knowledge for life and business to enable you to thrive.

Mindy Hall

Too often executives allow their functional roles to define who they are as leaders. Instead, they should focus on the type of leader they want to be, and let that knowledge guide deliberate choices and actions – to lead with intention. Hall argues that this is the most overlooked skill for those at the top, and often is the differentiator of great leadership and a source of long-term competitive advantage. She offers real world examples and a prescriptive plan for choosing your actions with care and discipline, day by day, moment by moment.

Albert Dunlap

Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb–“to dunlap”–when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose for seven years. In a mere nineteen months, Scott had record earnings, the stock had increased in value by $6.5 billion (over 200 percent), and Dunlap merged Scott with Kimberly-Clark in a stock swap that valued Scott at $9 billion and created the second largest consumer-products company in the United States.

Mean Business combines Dunlap’s colorful personal history–his working-class background, employment, friendship with such people as Sir James Goldsmith and Kerry Packer, his views on why too many executives think of themselves as corporate royalty–and his provocative ideas on management and leadership. His specific, tested program on how to evaluate and choose a management team, get the lowest costs from suppliers, improve the balance sheet, and develop a real strategy make this an invaluable book.

The controversy about corporate performance and how to achieve it is near the boiling point, as executives face the hard fact of business life: What is good or even excellent today won’t be satisfactory tomorrow. Mean Business is absolutely essential for both companies in trouble as well as those at the top of their game.

Joel Trammell

Joel Trammell’s new book, The CEO Tightrope: How to Master the Balancing Act of a Successful CEO, prepares seasoned and aspiring CEOs for this very unique and unpredictable position—a job that most are unprepared for and at which many fail too soon.  This thought-provoking book by a long-time entrepreneur, IT-industry expert, investor and former instructor at the Naval Nuclear Power School delivers a proven approach for solving a CEO’s most difficult challenges.

In his new book, drawn from almost 30 years of study and experience, Trammell identifies over fifty daily struggles that pull CEOs off balance and offers modern techniques and approaches to help them regain balance. The CEO Tightrope also shares stories that help other CEOs assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and provides questions promoting self-analysis. Filling a void in the market for a clear, compelling guide for CEOs, The CEO Tightrope will likely become the go-to valued resource for current CEOs and even business students alike.

Dan Waldschmidt

Everything you think you know about success is wrong! Set Goals. Work Hard. Be Persistent. That’s the typical success advice you can probably repeat in your sleep. The type of advice that doesn’t seem to work for you — or anyone you know, for that matter.
You work your butt off, but at the end of the day, you’re no closer to success than you were yesterday. The ugly truth is that it’s not what you’re doing that is holding you back.
It’s who you are. It’s the baggage between your ears that keeps you from achieving your dreams and goals. That’s why Dan Waldschmidt is changing the conversation about success. It’s why you need to have an EDGY conversation.
EDGY Conversations is a gut-wrenchingly honest, no-holds-barred discussion about what it takes to be success today. It’s based on the stories of 1,000 ordinary people in business, math, politics, sports and science who achieved mind-blowing feats of extraordinary greatness.
EDGY is how ordinary people become extraordinary.

David Sturt

Great work lives inside all of us.

We’ve long been told our ability to succeed depends on our IQ, talent, education level, gender, job title, or when and where we were born. Great Work turns that conventional thinking on its head to reveal that innovation can come from anyone, anywhere.

Especially you.

With insights from the largest-ever study of award-winning work, Great Work reveals five practical skills that will help you ideate, innovate, and deliver work that gets noticed and appreciated.

Great Work is filled with stories of real people in real jobs who did what was asked and then added something extra–a personal touch all their own–to deliver better-than-asked-for results. Their stories will inspire you to write your own page in the book of human progress.