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 Jim Collins
Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies -- how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies. Having invested over a decade of research into the topic, Jim has co-authored three books, including the classic Built to Last, a fixture on the Business Week bestseller list for more than five years, generating over 70 printings and translations into 16 languages. His work has been featured in Fortune, The Economist, Business Week, USA Today, Industry Week, Inc., Harvard Business Review and Fast Company.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he now conducts multi-year research projects and works with executives from the private, public, and social sectors.
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 Steve Farber
Steve Farber is president of Extreme Leadership, Inc., an organization devoted to changing the world through the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community and is the co-founding director of the Center for Social Profit Leadership. His best-selling book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership received Fast Company magazine's Reader's Choice Award and was named one of the Ten Best Business Books of 2004 by the on-line resource, The CEO Refresher. His new book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World will be released in April 2006.
Steve has taken his message of Extreme Leadership to a wide variety of private and public organizations in virtually every arena, from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, entertainment, retail, and even the US government. Hotly sought after by the media for his verve and original viewpoints, Farber has appeared on many radio and TV shows around the country and speaks nearly 100 times a year at corporate and association functions around the world.
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 Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders is an irrepressible advocate for good values in the business world. His first book, Love is the Killer App, showed how people who share generously can achieve professional success. It became both a New York Times and international bestseller. His second book, The Likeability Factor (Crown, April 2005), explores four aspects of likeability that you can measure and improve—friendliness, relevance, empathy, and realness. The book serves as the basis for both PBS and 20/20 television specials, showing how you can achieve your life's dreams by increasing your likeability factor.
Tim Sanders has become one of the most sought-after speakers in America today, because of his poignant message and his eloquent delivery. He delivers high-energy speeches and compelling seminars to high-level executive conferences, professional associations, and graduate schools.
Tim has also received an enthusiastic endorsement from Tom Peters, the renowned business motivational speaker. He developed and honed his speaking skills as a competitive debater, where he was national debate and public speaking champion in five categories over his career. He frequently appears as a guest on radio and television programs across the country.
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 Marcus Buckingham
During his 17 years with The Gallup Organization Marcus Buckingham helped lead their research into the world's best managers, leaders and workplaces. Marcus Buckingham has taken his broad experience in management practices and employee retention and put it into two best selling books: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Best Managers Do Differently (Simon and Schuster) and Now, Discover Your Strengths (The Free Press).
His most recent book, The One Thing You Need to Know, is a powerful concept based on leading and managing your organization.
Buckingham's presentations take the key points of these books, combined with plenty of great examples from a wide variety of organizations, to show audiences how they can learn from the world's best managers and leaders.
A wonderful resource for both Human Resources and Management issues, he challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover. Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987, with a master's degree in Social and Political Science.
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 Dr. Jim Harris
From Fortune magazines "Best Places to Work" to winners of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Quality award to fast-growth Inc. 500 firms, Dr. Jim Harris speaks and consults with a virtual Who's Who of the world's best run companies. A former executive with a Fortune 500 firm, Dr. Jim's operations experience includes leading a custom home building company, branch management with a unionized transportation group, and multiple management positions.
Dr. Jim is more than a successful businessman. He is an award-winning author of eight business books including a Fortune magazine "Best Business Book" and an American Management Association "Spring Selection." His books have been internationally published in four languages including Arabic and Mandarin Chinese.
A sought after keynote speaker, Dr. Jim shares his practical insights into how to achieve great results with audiences and leadership teams around the world. In addition, Dr. Jim earned his Ph.D. in Communication which sets him apart from thousands of other speakers in how to powerfully connect with every audience in any situation.
Dr. Jim delivers his wisdom, insights, and real-world perspective with professionalism and integrity. He is passionately committed to helping you achieve great results in business and in life.
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 Dr. David DeLong
Dr. Dave DeLong is the "go-to guy" if you want to understand how the aging workforce is going to effect the performance of your organization. More importantly, Dave shows executives what they need to be doing today to minimize the impacts of changing workforce demographics. His presentations also help aging baby boomers understand how to take advantage of the changing job marketplace.
The author of the widely praised book Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce (Oxford University Press), Dave's entertaining talks help managers recognize their own vulnerabilities to the loss of critical employees. He also provides a framework of solutions and action steps that energize individuals and organizations to address these challenges before it's too late.
As president of David DeLong & Associates, Inc., Dave heads a consulting firm that specializes in knowledge retention and strategic workforce development solutions. He is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab, and he conducts ongoing research on aging workforce and knowledge transfer issues. He has given keynote presentations throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and South America, and is a widely published writer whose work has appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines.
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Good to Great
by Jim Collins
This book has the single best title for a business book that's ever been created. After all, everyone believes they're good (even if they aren't) and who wouldn't want to be great? The title alone is worth the price of admission. Like Jason's books this text is completely research based. While most business authors come up with a title and then go in search of confirming evidence Collins reports the findings of his exhaustive research. When people ask Jason to compare his books to those of Jim Collins he answers by saying that great research down parallel tracks will often end up in many of the same places and with similar conclusions. |
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The Radical Edge
by Steve Farber
In his bestselling book, The Radical Leap, Steve Farber taught readers the LEAP principle—Cultivate Love, Generate Energy, Inspire Audacity, and Provide Proof.
In his new book, The Radical Edge, Farber shows readers how to fully and passionately engage in the world and change it for the better, whether it's the world of business, family, or community.
Inspiring, daring, and unforgettable, The Radical Edge is a reading experience that will challenge you to stoke the fires of business, amplify personal joy and meaning, and change the world for the better—all at the same time.
"The best book you'll read this year. Captivating from the first page and jam packed with invaluable lessons. This is a must read. The Radical Edge is terrific!"
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Likeability Factor
by Tim Sanders
Jason and Tim Sanders had their first opportunity to work together when jointly keynoting a YPO Conference in St. Louis. Within minutes of sitting down to breakfast they smiled, looked at one another and simultaneously said, "You get it!" Tim Sanders work focuses on the importance of people. We heartily endorse his both his speeches and books. |
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SUCCESS: Built to Last
by Mark Thompson
Success Built to Last explores what you have in common with enduringly successful people and how to create a life that matters for the long term.
This is the sequel to Built to Last, which sold over 1 million copies and is one of the top three bestsellers in business history. Based on unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings – billionaires, CEOs, entrepreneurs, presidents and other leaders -- and validated by research at Stanford and Wharton Business Schools and a World Success Survey, you will find simple principles that you can apply in your business and life.
Learn why it's so hard to do what matters and how enduringly successful people harvest both victories and failures to find the courage to follow their passions. |
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Case Studies in Performance Management: A Guide from the Experts
by Tony C. Adkins
This important new book looks at 15 companies across diverse industries including manufacturing, service, public sector, consumer packaged goods, airline, and energy / utility fields that have successfully applied ABC/PM. Changing the companies' names to respect client confidentiality, the book's frontline perspective offers a before-and-after look at the challenge overcome by each organization throughout its adoption of ABC/PM. Each study is preceded and concluded with insightful commentary from an industry and consulting expert, including Gary Cokins, Ashok Vadgama, Alan Stratton, and John Miller. |
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Six Disciplines for Excellence
by Gary Harpst
Jason's authentic belief in guiding principles aligns directly with Gary Harpst's "Six Disciplines for Excellence," which distills best practices of many proven business improvement methods -- with a focus on implementation -- so the best small businesses can actually achieve lasting excellence. |
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It's Not What You Say… It's What You Do
by Laurence Haughton
Laurence Haughton worked side-by-side with Jason for more than twenty years transforming companies and helping businesses around the world achieve their full economic potential. Haughton was Jennings co-author on, It's Not The Big That Eat The Small –It's The Fast That Eat The Slow from Harper Collins, a book acknowledged as the ultimate work on speed. |
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Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
by Keith Ferrazzi.
Jason and Keith first met while working out in a gym at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina while attending a Renaissance Weekend. Jason provided advice to Keith on publishers and agents and is very proud of Keith's debut work. It's the ultimate book on networking. |
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