C-Suite Network™

Phil Weinzimer

Based on interviews with more than 150 CIOs, IT/business executives, and academic thought leaders, The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise provides insight, success stories, and a step-by-step methodology to transform your IT organization into a strategic asset that drives customer value, increases revenues, and enhances shareholder wealth.

The book details how strategic CIOs from FedEx, Procter & Gamble, McKesson, and other leading companies transformed their organizations. It illustrates the methods these CIOS used to become strategic partners that collaborate effectively within their organizations to leverage information and technology for a competitive advantage.

The text will help you assess the key competencies and skills required by IT personnel to partner with your business teams to create new and enhanced products and services that create customer value, increase margin, and enhance shareholder wealth.

The book includes powerful methodologies, time-saving templates, proven best practices, and helpful assessments. It also details a four-phase methodology, along with the associated activities and tools, to help your IT organization successfully transform into a strategic IT organization.

Gain insight into the four domain competencies and twelve associated skills required to build effective strategic IT organizations. Build your roadmap to success using the transformation methodology described in the text and you will be on your way to making your organization a strategic IT organization.

Don Crawley

Now in its third edition, The Compassionate Geek by Don Crawley, was written by a tech person for tech people. There are no frills, just customer service best practices and ideas that actually work! Filled with practical customer service tips, best practices, and real-world techniques, The Compassionate Geek is a quick read with equally fast results. Each chapter includes a reflection and discussion section to help you improve your customer service skills. There are lots of personal stories and examples of mistakes made and lessons learned. This new edition adds an entire chapter on overcoming personal and professional obstacles. All of the information is presented in a straightforward style that you can understand and use right away. There’s nothing foo-foo, just down-to-earth tips and technical support best practices learned from years of working with technical staff and demanding customers and end users.

Jeff Davidson

In an era that offers too many choices and too much information, people’s lives aren’t getting simpler. In fact, just the opposite is occurring. Men and women in virtually every industry and profession today face a bewildering array of “stuff” that competes for their time and attention. Not surprisingly, increasing numbers of individuals seek to reassess how they work and live to achieve a simpler, more effective lifestyle without sacrificing what is vital to them. By revealing fundamental truths as well as little-know realities on the path to a less encumbered life, Dial it Down, Live it Up serves as a handy guide to a life and career of greater grace and ease…without sacrificing what matters to you. Be assured, simplicity is within your grasp.

William Hawfield

Game-Changing Advisory Boards offers a proven process for creating and maintaining sustainable value in your business. William Hawfield and John Zaepfel leverage their experience from serving on over 100 boards to provide step-by-step board processes for building exceptional, long-term value in privately- owned companies.

Inside are stories from 21 owners who used advisory boards to help them build the companies they wanted. Some still operate independently. The owners who sold received over $1.8 billion in combined value. Learn how to use the Value WheelTM System as the foundation for driving strategic vision and guiding an advisory board process to achieve your business goals.

Matt Heinz

The speed of innovation and change in B2B marketing has never been greater. And the need for clarity for a blueprint, for a guide to what’s really working and how to apply it specifically to increase sales pipeline growth, velocity and conversion – is what you’ll find in this book. It covers a lot of ground, but quickly. With a comprehensive view of the sales and marketing pipeline, but done in quick bursts with lots of specific, actionable ideas, strategies and tactics you can put to work right away.

Nadine Vogel

“Dive In: Springboard into the Profitability, Productivity, and Potential of the Special Needs Workforce” by Nadine Vogel, enlightens readers regarding the untapped talent pool of people with disabilities, parents of children with special needs, and older workers with age-related impairments. Vogel, the CEO of Springboard Consulting LLC, offers guidance and corporate best practices relative to all issues and initiatives pertaining to the outreach, recruitment, employment, retention of people with disabilities.

Dive In includes informative sidebars offering data and inspiration, examples of innovation, and even guidance on etiquette in potentially awkward situations. The book is informed not only by Vogel’s vast expertise, but by statistics, and interviews that illuminate the best practices of today’s global business leaders. “Dive In provides the information and tools to better understand how to remove the barriers to employing this large, loyal segment of the population,” says Cisco’s John Chambers.

The book has garnered advance praise from business and civic leaders, who call it “required reading”, “a timely reminder” and “a must read for any corporate leader today.” Why such strong directives? Because, as Tig Gilliam, Adecco CEO, says, “This is not simply because it’s the right or nice thing to do. Just as with other members of diverse work forces, people with disabilities bring new approaches to innovation and productivity that drive real business improvement. It is also important to consider the benefits to an organization’s corporate social responsibility efforts that engaging this important segment of the workforce will provide.

This is why Dive In is such an important book for anyone in business. – See more at: http://consultspringboard.com/shop/products/dive-in-book/#sthash.fmqnzWxn.dpuf

Neen James

Folding Time™ by Neen James is about being accountable for our time, engaging our attention and leveraging our energy. In this practical book, you will find easy to digest, implementable strategies you can apply at work and home. Each chapter features an ‘Accelerate’ page with a summary of the main points in the chapter (designed for people who don’t have time to read). Time management is out the window! It’s an old way of thinking. Time is the new currency and Neen shares how you can achieve twice as much in half the time! You will enjoy her Aussie fun attitude and her global perspective. Read it, apply it and share it with your team, this book is guaranteed to help you and your team get more done and create more moments in life that truly matter.

Paul Axtell

America has become a nation “stuck in a meeting.” Between corporate boardrooms, all hands meetings, and conference calls, few of us can claim our time is meeting-free. Even fewer can claim every “mandatory session” was worth it. But Paul Axtell – a consultant with more than 30 years of experience in personal and professional organization – says meetings themselves aren’t the problem. In his new book, he defends the importance of meetings, explains how they’ve gone horribly wrong, and offers eight ways to fix our meeting problems so they stop wasting time, and instead build and boost valuable relationships.

R. Michael Anderson

Stressed? Overwhelmed? Burned Out?

Learn transformational life skills in this exciting new modern business fable by acclaimed expert R. Michael Anderson.

More than just a story, The Experiment: Discover a Revolutionary Way to Manage Stress and Achieve Work-Life Balance is a window into a new way of living. Follow Dennis as he overcomes career burnout, personal issues, and hopelessness with the help of his coach.

Hear what goes on in the coaching sessions, read Dennis’ notes—which double as exercises you can use to transform yourself—and master the absolute easiest way to make changes in your own life.

Not sure about this book? Go ahead. Give it a try. Call it your Experiment…

Stephen Sapato

Become The Go-To Person For Your Own Success by Stephen Sapato teaches small business owners and entrepreneurs how to realize tremendous growth by using 21st Century Professional Business Networking methods. It starts at the basics of how to be a professional and leads you to what you can expect from your results as you grow yourself into the professional networking entrepreneur you desire to be. This book poses the questions that most networking leaves unanswered and then he puts the answers to those questions so you can find the success you have been working toward but until now, unable to achieve.