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Atul Apte

The age of transformation is upon us. And for corporate IT departments, supporting and sustaining enterprise architecture requires a fundamentally new approach.

Transformative Enterprise Architecture has the solution. It presents a new methodology that boldly redefines the characteristics and competencies that every large-scale IT team must develop to function successfully. Topics include:

• Establishing a mature enterprise architecture system with an eye toward continuous improvement
• Ensuring the economic sustainability of IT infrastructure
• Staying agile in an era of uncertainty

Written especially for CIOs, CTOs, and other corporate stakeholders, Transformative Enterprise Architecture goes beyond frameworks, tools, processes, and patterns. It can help your organization survive and thrive in these times of rapid change, disruptive innovation, and intense competition.

Chuck Gumbert

General George S. Patton was legendary for his battle planning and strategy as well as his straightforward, no nonsense approach to all aspects of life. The General’s leadership principles are just what is needed to help solve the most pressing problems of today’s business world as it strives to Move Forward or Accelerate Performance. Chuck Gumbert has combined the lessons learned from his research into Patton’s leadership strategies with his own experiences, approach and toolkit that he has used to lead successful business turnarounds.

Rich Horwath

The #1 cause of business failure is bad strategy and only 23% of executives are strong at strategic thinking. While strategies become obsolete, strategic thinking continues to be rated the most valued skill in leaders today by publications including the Wall Street Journal and Chief Executive Magazine. New York Times bestselling author on strategy Rich Horwath provides leaders with a simple three-step framework to become elite strategic leaders and transform strategy and innovation into competitive advantage.

Randall Craig

Develop your reputation, get found, and attract a following

You probably have a web site, blog, a LinkedIn profile and possible more. But is all of this giving you exposure? Are you being called by media? And how are you doing in your search engine rankings? This 143 page book, written for thought leaders and subject matter experts, reviews a number of strategic models, and then provides step-by-step instructions on building your influence and protecting your reputation – without wasting your time.

Meridith Elliot Powell

Own It: Redefining Responsibility provides new and innovative solutions to one of today’s most pressing challenges – employee engagement. Top leaders share their strategies and secrets for how to gain competitive advantage by attracting, developing and retaining top talent; and successful employees shares their ideas for how to get above the white noise and become the employee companies strive to keep.

Mari Anne Vanella

42 Rules of Cold Calling Executives (2nd Edition) is an easy to read book that gives concise, easy to implement methods to get results with cold calls. Many sales professionals find that part of their job difficult and unpleasant, yet the 42 Rules gives them ways to redesign their thinking, approach, practices, and tools to get the best possible results. This book contains some of the fundamental principles Mari Anne Vanella has developed over the course of her career. Her clients and her own company use this approach to execute the top performing programs in the industry for the past 15 years.
Reading this book will deliver the following benefits:

An understanding of the dynamics of a cold call and how you can manage those to get results.
A refined vision of the objectives of cold calling and how to get results that realize long term benefits.
Identification and practical use of methods and resources that achieve unbounded success in the cold calling process.
Practical advice and specific techniques you can start using now that supply how-to solutions to cold calling efforts.

If you are in management and looking to give your team something to help them with cold calling challenges or are an account rep wanting better results, this book is for you.

In it, you will learn and explore:

Easy to implement methods to improve performance
Real life examples of what works
Techniques for immediately making cold calling easier
Ways to deliver consistent results
How to get out of a production slump

Jeffrey A. Barnes

Why did Walt Disney build Disneyland? Because Walt Disney wanted one! Can success really be that simple? It can be when you know what you want and you are willing to do what Walt Disney did to build Disneyland.

Disneyland began as Walt Disney’s dream on a park bench one Saturday afternoon. Today, Disneyland and Walt Disney are symbols of success and an example of entrepreneurial leadership around the world. In Jeff Barnes’ The Wisdom of Walt Disney, discover how Walt Disney took action to transform his dream of Disneyland into the concrete reality we still benefit from sixty years later. Disneyland’s story is one every student of success should know. Like a great Disneyland attraction, The Wisdom of Walt Disney takes its readers on a storytelling ride with many twists, turns, drops, and surprise endings. Reading this book will change the way you see and experience Disneyland. Instead of Disneyland being a place of escape, Disneyland and Walt Disney will become for you a model of success. Learn how Walt Disney and Disneyland can challenge you to live your dream, inspire you to take action, and teach you how to create your own magic so that every day for you is as fun as a day at Disneyland.

Mitchell Rigie & Keith Harmeyer

“If the creators of brainstorming were alive today, they would be astounded at how far the concept has evolved. Rigie and Harmeyer have created the ultimate idea-creating machine. It’s going to be the textbook for the concept for decades to come.”
~ Al Ries, bestselling author of Positioning and Marketing Warfare

In today’s fast-paced, innovation-driven economy, chaos and disruptive change are the new “business as usual.” Organizations, business owners, entrepreneurs, and even individuals have no choice but to reinvent themselves and their product or service offerings on an ongoing basis.

They must innovate–or risk slipping into irrelevance.

Innovation is fueled by a constant stream of new ideas; and group brainstorming is the most widely utilized process for generating that fresh, original thinking. However, brainstorming as typically practiced is a fundamentally flawed process–loosely structured, poorly facilitated, lacking in effective techniques–and it often produces too few, truly innovative ideas.

It’s no wonder. Over 90% of those leading brainstorming sessions, in any industry, have had no formal training in how to do so effectively.

SmartStorming: The Game-Changing Process for Generating Bigger, Better Ideas is one of the most comprehensive how-to manuals and idea generation toolkits ever published on the subject of brainstorming. It can help anyone learn how to consistently plan and lead highly effective brainstorms, and unleash the creative problem-solving genius of any group!

Readers are introduced to a totally new approach to group ideation. Not just another creative-thinking technique, SmartStorming is a powerful brainstorming system, combining the essential structure, leadership skills, tools, and techniques necessary for success.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

In Grit to Great, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tackle a topic that is close to their hearts, one that they feel is the real secret to their own success in their careers–and in the careers of so many people they know and have met. And that is the incredible power of grit, perseverance, perspiration, determination, and sheer stick-to-it-tiveness. We are all dazzled by the notion that there are some people who get ahead, who reach the corner office because they are simply gifted, or well-connected, or both. But research shows that we far overvalue talent and intellectual ability in our culture. The fact is, so many people get ahead–even the gifted ones–because they worked incredibly hard, put in the thousands of hours of practice and extra sweat equity, and made their own luck. And Linda and Robin should know–they are two girls from the Bronx who had no special advantages or privileges and rose up through their own hard work and relentless drive to succeed to the top of their highly competitive profession.

In a book illustrated with a cornucopia of stories and the latest research on success, the authors reveal the strategies that helped them, and countless others, succeed at the highest levels in their careers and professions, and in their personal lives. They talk about the guts–the courage–necessary to take on tough challenges and not give up at the first sign of difficulty. They discuss the essential quality of resiliency. Everyone suffers setbacks in their careers and in life. The key, however, is to pick yourself up and bounce back. Drawing on the latest research in positive psychology, they discuss why optimists do better in school, work, and on the playing field–and how to reset that optimistic set point. They talk about industriousness, the notion that Malcolm Gladwell popularized with the 10,000-hour rule in his book Outliers. Creativity theorist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes it takes a minimum of 10 years for one’s true creative potential to be realized. And the authors explore the concept of tenacity–the quality that allows us to remain focused and avoid distraction in order to get the job done–an increasingly difficult task in today’s fragmented, cluttered, high-tech, connected world.

Written in the same short, concise format as The Power of Nice and leavened with the natural humor that characterizes Linda’s and Robin’s lives–and books–Grit to Great is destined to be the book everyone in business needs.

Ron A. Carucci

It’s been known for decades that failure rates among transitioning executives are too high, leaving exorbitant costs, damaged organizations and careers behind. But little has changed in the way organizations prepare leaders to assume executive positions.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Our ground-breaking ten-year longitudinal study and approach offer a comprehensive look at how successful executives transition to the highest altitudes of their organization, and thrive once there.
Organizations are making strategic bets to drive growth.
Part of the bet includes the executives entrusted with leading the way to success.
Accepting our 50-50 odds as “the best it gets” is no longer an option. Pushing for something better isn’t just possible….it’s necessary.