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Jo Hausman

How do you weather the challenges of owning your own business while navigating personal tragedy and raising a child? Step into the pages of the story of Jo Hausman’s perseverance. Follow the struggle from the beginning on how grief, loss, laughter and joy opened the doors to discover strengths, talents and the fulfillment of dreams. Her struggles and triumphs may lead you to find the materials to create your own path to becoming an entrepreneur. Just remember, you are stronger than you give yourself credit for.

Dan Negroni

Today, there are more than 83 million millennials in the United States, representing 36 percent of our workforce. By 2025, they will be 75 percent of your employees…and your customers. Our ability to attract, train, manage, and retain this next generation of leaders is critical to the future success of our businesses.

Chasing Relevance empowers businesses and their leaders by bridging youth and experience to create powerful, connected workplaces. Learn how to create your own relevance to truly understand, engage and maximize your millennial employees and customers.

Angela Preston

In May 2014, I decided to quit the job that had run through my veins for so long and I loved so much. Up until a few months before, I still woke up every day thankful I had landed the role I wanted more than anything. I had worked my way up from grassroots level and knew the ins and outs of the job. This was necessary if I was to be successful. I felt I had to be effective not just for myself, but also for the divisional manager, who had believed in me and given me my chance. My work ethic had been instilled in me from a little girl, coming from a family of six girls, four of which were older than me. They along with our parents had shown me what you can achieve from working hard, but my hunger to succeed started at an early age. From as far back as I can remember, I didn’t take losing very well, so more often than not, I studied and practiced every game we played, giving me that edge all the time, ensuring I won most of the time, and this still continues today.

Jill Griffin

Corporate board seats are scarce and competition is fierce. That’s because board service bundles together a host of rewarding experiences: the opportunity to be an “insider” and view, first-hand, how another company works at its highest levels, and the privilege to work and learn from the brightest, most successful and articulate professionals who will ever likely cross your path.

On the pages of Earn Your Seat on a Corporate Board, Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” author, Jill Griffin, brings two mission-critical skill sets: deep branding, marketing and customer loyalty expertise and over a decade of experience as an Independent Director for beloved restaurant brands, Luby’s/Fuddruckers. (NYSE: LUB). Bottom line, she brings practitioner know-how and insider advice—both essential in finding and winning your perfect board seat. Jill writes through the eyes of seasoned directors and packs each chapter with real-world case studies, detailed examples, and powerful how-to’s.

Don’t sit passively waiting for a corporate board to find you. Take action on your ambition. This book is your perfect guide.

Carey D. Lohrenz

Wall Street Journal Bestseller, and #1 Amazon Bestseller in Leadership
An F-14 fighter pilot’s top lessons for leading fearlessly–and bringing a team to peak performance
As an aviation pioneer, Carey D. Lohrenz learned what fearless leadership means in some of the most demanding and extreme environments imaginable: the cockpit of an F-14 and the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Here, her teams had to perform at their peak–or lives were on the line. Faltering leadership was simply unacceptable. Through these experiences, Lohrenz identified a fundamental truth: high-performing teams require fearless leaders.

Since leaving the Navy, she’s translated that lesson into a new field, helping top business leaders, from Fortune 500 executives to middle managers, supercharge performance in today’s competitive business environments. In Fearless Leadership, Lohrenz walks you through the three fundamentals of real fearlessness–courage, tenacity, and integrity–and then reveals fearless leadership in action, offering advice on how to set a bold vision, bring the team together (as wingmen, not Top Gun mavericks), execute effectively, and stay resilient through hard times.

Whether you’re stepping into your first leadership role or looking to get out of a longstanding rut, Fearless Leadership will act like your afterburner–rocketing you to ever-higher levels of performance.

Jones Loflin

Juggling Elephants is a wonderfully lighthearted guide for everyone who feels like they’re about to be squashed by all they have to do. It will help you better focus your time and energy, so you’ll be able to enjoy more of the things that are important to you. Above all, it will teach you how to run your circus instead of letting the circus run you.

Rick Gillis

As a kid, you were likely taught that modesty is the best policy. Better to let others discover your greatness on their own. The problem is your work does not speak for itself. You do. When done properly, self-promotion is not bragging. It is informing.

For the individual PROMOTE! takes you through the very simple, but until now, virtually non-existent process of sourcing and quantifying previous achievements.

Companies, per Rick’s plan in the final chapter, learn how to take this same information on a monthly (not annual performance review) basis and apply it to potentially reduce turnover and enhance the bottom line. Think for a minute…how many dynamic employees have slipped through ‘your hands’ because you were not aware of their value until after the fact?

Janna Hoiberg

Are you a member of a family in business together or, do you know someone in a family business? Then you know the challenges associated with running a successful family business and maintaining good family relationships. This book will provide practical advice and ideas for both running the business and keeping your family relationships close and strong.
Family businesses are wonderful. They provide a great environment for family and extended family to work together. Except when the relationships don’t work! Then the impact to the family, the business and the employees can be catastrophic. The book features way to minimize (notice it doesn’t say eliminate) family conflict, business stress and potential business failure.
• Learn more about: Joys, challenges, opportunities and threats in a family business
• How to improve communication within the family and the business
• Upsides and downsides of the family business
• Ways to create boundaries between work and home
• Relationships between family members to each other and other employees
• How to pass the torch from one generation to another.

Scott Jordan

Imagine Bill Gates and Giorgio Armani started a business, then hired PT Barnum to promote it, and Larry David to tell the story. The result is this book. Since starting SCOTTeVEST in 2000 – my clothing business built around tech-enabled pockets – I’ve been featured in thousands of major press pieces, made millions of dollars and had the most memorable appearance of the entire ABC Shark Tank show. I started out as an unhappy lawyer, and I reinvented myself by pursuing my passions and mastering the art of passionate, personal promotion. This isn’t a how to business book, but entrepreneurs will learn a lot from my successes and failures about how to get the attention every business needs to stand above the competition. This isn’t fiction, but some of the stories might make you wonder if they are true. I assure you… they are. We’re going to turn the world of media upside down, shake it and see what falls out of its pockets. You will learn lots of ways to promote yourself and your business, if you have the fire. Welcome to my unauthorized autobiography.

Sydney N. Fulkerson

The Coffee Run: And Other Internship Need-to-Knows is the what-to-do and how-to-do-it guide on internships for students. Based on real and honest internship experience, it is chronological advice, preparation, and lessons for undergraduates interested in any industry. Cleverly told and boldly motivating, this one hundred page pre-internship course book will be a staple of high school and college curriculum.