The Entrepreneurs Library with Wade Danielson: Recent Episodes
Wade Danielson interviews Best Selling Authors on the Latest Books for Entrepreneurs Inspired by Leaders Like Malcolm Gladwell, Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, Tim Ferriss, and Gary Vaynerchuk.
The Entrepreneurs Library is a podcast for the Entrepreneur, Small Business Owner, or Wantrepreneur who is inspired by the works of successful entrepreneurs such as Malcolm Gladwell, Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, Tim Ferriss, and Gary Vaynerchuk. The purpose of The EL podcast is to bring the authors of the latest business development books and their readers together ultimately helping these business lovers, like you, build their personal library. Each episode takes you deep into the latest business books and brings you closer to their best selling authors who share their inspiration, failures, successes, quotes, favorite books, and much more. Welcome to The Entrepreneurs Library, where It Is All About The Book.
In this episode, co founder of PAX Financial Group, Darryl Lyons talks about his book, Small Business Big Pressure. This book is about the challenges that entrepreneurs and small business owners encounter. Lyons shares his insights about four main components: creating a mission/ vision, effectively managing money, hiring (Virtual Assistant, Staff Support), creating an business identity. This is an imperative resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
In this episode, returning guess, Carol Sanford shares her book, The Responsible Business. This book offer a new strategic approach to how businesses function at every level. This allow organizations to re-imagine: innovation, production, development, business management, and strategic planning. This book is a great resource for entrepreneurs and business leaders who want a new approach to future business.
In this episode, executive director at Post Growth Institute, Donnie MacLurcan shares his book, How On Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050. This book is about understanding the Profit and Not For Profit (NFP) establishments. Maclurcan talks about how NFP enterprises/business out preform profiting business. Maclurcan explains how the NFP model enables growth for human need, reduce consumption, and reduce taxation. This is a great book for entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to understand Not For Profit business models.
In this episode, executive coach and author, Rick Kolster shares his book, Roll Up Your Sleeves & Get to Work. This book is about inspiring leaders to getting things done. If you want to build a business and acquire the lifestyle you want, Coach Rick with show you how. This is an excellent book your entrepreneurs who want to take action and get to work.
In this episode, entrepreneur and author, Jia Jiang shares his book, Rejection Proof. This book is about helping people conquer the fear rejection and create a new perspective in any circumstance. Jiang tells us about his findings on his "100 days of rejection" experiment. Jiang discovers more about himself and tons more about, persuasion, business, communication, and negotiation. This book is and excellent resource for those who want to overcome the fear of rejection and pursue life eagerly.
Inside episode, returning guest, Fergus O’Connell share his book, Leadership Lessons From The Race To The South Pole. This book is a case study of the 1911 race between Robert Scott and Ronald Amundsen, to be the first to the South Pole. O’Connell show us an interesting look at management and in-depth understanding new methods of successful planning and exquisite leadership. This is an excellent book for entrepreneurs who want to look explore leadership.
In this episode, best-selling author and founder of The Alternative Board®, Allen Fishman shares his book, Strategic Business Leadership. This book is about strategic planning from the personal vision using strategic business planning (SBL) coaching. Fisherman uses the SBL coaching the help companies achieve greater success and profits. This book is a solid resource for entrepreneurs who want to take their business to the next level.
In this episode, co-author Kathleen Eisenhardt shares her book, Simple Rules: How To Thrive In A Complex World. This book is about simple rules that challenge the way we think about complexity. Kathleen help us o learn several new rules and update old mindsets. This is a great resource for those who want to bypass information overload and move from complexity to simplicity.
In this episode, Dorie Clark shares her book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Break Through Idea and Build A Following Around It. This book is about identifying the ideas that make you unique and promote them as an expert. Learn that steps and guideline from the “thought leaders” of today, like Seth Godin, Robert Cialdini, and Gary Vaynerchuk. Learn to find your idea, built a tribe around your idea, than monetize that idea. This is a great resource for those you want to set themselves apart and build a following.
In this episode, serial entrepreneur, Steve Blank shares his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win. Blank’s book is about the four proven steps: customer development, customer discovery, customer validation, and customer creation. This is a great book for business owners and entrepreneurs who are to learn the step-by-step guide to building your product and shipping it!
In this episode, performance coach, Jairek Robbins shares his book, Live It! Achieve Success by Living With Purpose. This book is about learning to become the happiest, healthiest and most fulfilled version of yourself. Jairek provides you with tools, challenges, and personal reflections to begin to change your behaviors immediately. This is a great book for entrepreneurs who want to my huge personal improvements.
In this episode, entrepreneur, consultant, and professor, Dr. Peter Vogel shares his book, Generation Jobless: Turning the Youth Unemployment Crisis Into Opportunity. This book explores the youth unemployment crisis and answers the question when, where, and how the unemployment crisis began. This is an informative resource for youth, entrepreneurs, business leader, and those who have aspirations to explore entrepreneurship.
In this episode, CEO of Decker Communications, Ben Decker shares his book, Communicate to Influence: How To Inspire Your Audience to Action. This book is about business leaders learning to communicate to influence with the Decker Method. Decker gives step-by-step actions to not just inundated your audience or team with information, but learn to truly influence others to take action. This is a great book for the entrepreneurs who want to communicate and inspire into action.
In this episode, inspirational speaker and cross industry expert, Ramon Vullings shares his book, Not Invented Here. This book is about taking notice of what other sectors are practicing, to jump start your innovation efforts. Vulliings gives us three steps to next practice thinking: Concept, Combine, Create. Which are, Understanding the art of questioning, learning the right tactics, and survival of the most fitting. This is s great book for entrepreneurs and business owner who want to jump start innovation.
In this episode, Founder of Best Mom Products, Rachel Olsen shares her book, Shark Tank Mompreneurs Take A Bite Out Of Publicity. This book is about the what entrepreneurs could expect from media when your product gets the spotlight. Olsen, specifically outlines the success of five mom entrepreneurs, learn to they pitched and presented themselves to the media to gain leverage on the product. This is an excellent book for entrepreneurs who are looking to pitch and present their product, as well as learning how to be featured on the hit reality show Shark Tank.
In this episode, entrepreneur and author, Erlend Bakke shares his book, Never Work Again: Work Less, Earn More and Live Your Freedom. This book is about starting your own, no money down, online business. Bakke tells us about his journey as an entrepreneur, owning an online business. Learn how Bakke: automates and outsources his business, create positive habits, work less and make more money, determine your truth purpose, and gain freedom to do what you love. This is a great book for wantrepreneurs and those who want to learn in-depth about entrepreneurship.
In this episode, Business coach and author, Jason Treu shares his book, Social Wealth. This book is a how-to guide to build an extraordinary social network. Treu teaches how to invest in relationships and creating social wealth by: networking, mastering relationships, going to conferences, following up with people, dressing appropriately, and practicing these social tips. This is a great resource for entrepreneurs who want to build solid social network.
In this episode, strategist and author, Frank Bria shares his book, Scale: How To Grow Your Business By Working Less. This book is a guide to growing your company as it continues to develop. Bria gives 4 keys to scale: Concept, Business Model, Market Accessibility, and Processes. Bria provides the step by step and stage by stage to each key to scaling. This is an excellent resource for business owners and entrepreneurs who wish to scale their business.
In this episode, CEO of JustPark, Alex Stephany, shares his book, The Business of Sharing: Making It In The New Sharing Economy. This book is about people being able to be provide with people with goods and services, other then companies. The Business Of Sharing an excellent resource guide for those who want to understand the huge inner workings of a new kind of economy, the sharing economy. This is a great book for entrepreneurs of all levels who want to profit from a sharing economy.
In this episode, Paul McGee shares his book, S.U.M.O (Shut Up, Move On): The Straight-Talk Guide To Succeeding In Life. This book is about personal development by reaching your full potential and responding to difficult situations with a positive attitude. Learn about McGee’s six principles that will change your life: Change Your T-Shirt, Develop Fruity Thinking, Hippo Time is Ok, Remember The Beach Ball, Learn Latin - Carpe Diem (seize the day), and Ditch Doris Day. This is a great book for entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to learn about taking responsibility and moving on.
In this episode, co-founder of Ultimo Brands and author, Michelle Mone shares her book, My Flight To The Top. This book shares Mone’s challenges as a business savvy child up to a successful business women. This book contains the inspirational stories that will raise determination and ambition of those who are searching for the uplifting entrepreneurial spirit.
In this episode, Peter Baines shares his book, Doing Good, By Doing Good. This book is about, how companies implement their corporate social responsibility (CSR) or related programs. Baines explains the current partner programs and charity investments and how they could be improved upon. We learn that corporate philanthropy is not enough. Learn about the levels of engagement and impact, understand the landscape, gain insight of the CSR planning and steps. This a great book for entrepreneurs who are look to implement CSR.
In this episode, returning guess, speaker, and coach, Han Finzel shares his book, The Power of Passion In Leadership. This book is about leadership and leading with your heart. Secondly, is doing what you like, and like what you’re doing. Finzel warns us about several things that rob the passion from leadership. Learn about the two options of passion recovery and internally get your groove back. This is a great book for entrepreneurs in a leadership position, and those who need a boost in leadership passion.
In this episode, author and financial coach, Melin Isa shares her book Planning Your Leap: 7 Steps To Starting A Profitable Business Before Quitting Your Day Job. Isa ask us to discover the reasons we want to become entrepreneur, learn your niche and skill sets, decide on the type of business, execute and market your business. This is a great book for “wantrepreneurs” who wish to learn the steps to start on their entrepreneurial journey.
In this episode, international speaker and consultant, Marlene Chism talks about her book, No-Drama Leadership: How Enlighten Leaders Transform Culture in the Workplace. This book about introducing ways to develop enlighten leaders. We learn about how enlighten leaders practice these qualities such as: alignment,accountability, clarity, awareness, engagement, and co-creating. This is an excellent resource of entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to align today’s leadership.
In this episode, thought leader, David Livermore shares his book, Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success. Livermore talks about a four capabilities: Cultural Intelligences (CQ) Drive, CQ Knowledge, CQ Strategy piece, and CQ Action or adaptation. This models teaches about interest in cultures, analyzing and adjusting, understanding cultures and behaviors. This is a great book for entrepreneurs who are looking to market a product across a wide variety of cultures.
In this episode John Warrillow takes a deep dive into his book, The Automatic Customer, where he discusses how to create a subscription business in any industry.
In his book Warrillow provides 9 unique business models based on a simple step-by-step guide for building an online subscription based business that are designed to fit nearly any kind of industry. The goal of the book is to teach you the fundamentals of recurring revenue, how to attract automatic customers, ways to market subscription products, and the statistics you need to measure results.
This books is perfect for entrepreneurs who are technology savvy and want to own a business that allows them to work from home while building a large, sustainable income.
About John Warrillow:
“I am the founder of something called The Value Builder System where we help business owners improve the value of their company. I found that business after I wrote the book Built To Sell a couple years ago.
Most of the inspiration came from me screwing up writing Built To Sell. In Built to Sell I talked about the importance of making the business thrive without you personally doing all the work. The one thing that I didn’t spend enough time on was recurring revenue and it turns out that recurring revenue has the biggest impact on whether or not someone wants to buy your business. With The Automatic Customer I wanted to kind of write that wrong and really dedicate an entire book to how a business creates passive income and recurring revenue streams that are not necessarily reliant on the owner themselves.” – John Warrillow
For a detailed summary of The Automatic Customer according to John Warrillow CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The Membership Economy by Robbie Kellman Baxter
High Paying Clients by Trevor Crane
Unselling by Scott Stratten
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In this episode well-known sales expert Jack Daly joins us for a second time to reveal more insights behind his career and book, Hyper Sales Growth. Jack brings 20 plus years of field proven experience from a starting base with the CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. Jack has participated at the senior executive level on six de novo businesses, two of which he has subsequently sold to the Wall Street firms of Solomon Brothers and First Boston. As the head of sales, Jack has led sales forces numbering in the thousands, operating out of hundreds of offices nationwide. The goal of this interview is to provide you with more insights into the lessons Jack teaches from his book, speeches, and experience.
About Jack Daly:
“I am a serial entrepreneur, started selling at the age of seven, built my first company when I was 12 years old, and by 13 I had five employees and kept 70% of the money. This is when I realized I wanted to be an entrepreneur when I grew up. I went to school and got formally educated in understanding how the numbers worked because one of the failings that entrepreneurs make is they are good at bringing business in and developing business but they are not as good with the number side. I then went on a journey that included taking a blank sheet of paper, six different times and sketching out a business and built six companies into national firms. About 20 years ago I was tired of doing what I was doing and was financially capable of early retirement. After retirement I got into a speaking business and fell in love with helping sales people, sales managers, business owners, and entrepreneurs scale their business and their income.” – Jack Daly
For a more detailed look into Hyper Sales Growth according to Jack Daly CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail
High Profit Selling by Mark Hunter
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
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In this episode personal finance expert, Todd Tresidder takes a deep dive into his book, How Much Money Do I Need To Retire?, where he shows you how to start your retirement savings.
In his book Tresidder argues that the conventional approach to retirement planning is flawed and reveals a much more stable formula for calculating the amount you need to save for retirement. The goal of the book is to teach you ways to spend less while improving your life, how to reduce the amount you need to retire, 3 models for estimating your retirement needs, and how to not run out of money.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are within 5 – 7 years of retiring and need help figuring out exactly what it will take to ensure they are financially safe for retirement.
About Todd Tresidder:
“I have a background in hedge fund investing. I came out of college and I had a crazy idea that I could make money from investing statistically or mathematically without actually knowing the investments themselves. My two icon investors were my professor and father and they both told me it wouldn’t work but despite their opinion I was sure it would and I was right. I was one of the early pioneers of the hedge fund business and so I was able to “retire” at age 35. After retirement I decided to take the knowledge that I had and share it with others. This led me to build a company called Financial Mentor which is an advanced education website that is geared around wealth building. This website is focused on people who are past the basics and ready for the next step.
The inspiration was my coaching clients. Since I was coaching people on how to build wealth the number one question was how much money do I need and so I wrote the book on this subject because nobody else had done a proper job at it.” – Todd Tresidder
For a detailed summary of How Much Money Do I Need to Retire according to Todd Tresidder CLICK HERE
Related Books:
You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think by Wes Moss
The 5 Years Before You Retire by Emily Guy Birken
Get What’s Yours by Larry Kotlikoff
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In this episode, business expert and Olympian, Jeremy Bloom gives an in-depth preview of his book, Fueled By Failure, where he coaches you on turning failure into success.
In his book Bloom provides actionable advice on overcoming failure through the personal lessons he has learned from well-respected coaches, athletes, and business leaders that have brought him to the top. The goal of the book is to help you push yourself through hard times, learn how to rebound after being defeated, create an amazing business culture, and uncover motivation you never knew existed.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who have a desire to change the world, but lack the coaching and motivation of fighting through the difficulties of overcoming life’s challenges.
About Jeremy Bloom:
“I grew up in Loveland Colorado most of my life. I first saw the Olympics on TV when I was 10 years old and was struck by how incredible they were. I had been a skier since I was three years old and after seeing the Olympics is when I realized I could do something with that talent. I was also a football player and I told my parents at age 10 that I wanted to ski in the Olympics and I wanted to play in the NFL. They both looked at me and told me that I could do that if I really put my mind to it and attack my dreams. Through a lot of good luck and fortune I was able to live out both of those dreams. I competed in two Olympics for the United States in freestyle skiing and then went on to get drafted in the fifth round by the Philadelphia Eagles which I spent two seasons there. I was with the Pittsburgh Steelers before launching into my nonprofit and now running a venture back startup.
My inspiration for writing this book came from my own personal experiences and also the observation of others. I grew up with some incredibly talented athletes and now I’m exposed to some wonderfully talented entrepreneurs and it’s been my observation in life that the inevitable setbacks that everybody encounters along their journey handles those moments a little bit differently. Along our journey we develop an ego and one of the things that an ego can do to be destructive to our dreams is over personalize the setbacks in our lives. I wanted to dive into this topic, talk to some of the most successful people, and share my journey in hopes of helping someone else accomplish their dreams.” – Jeremy Bloom
For a detailed summary of Fueled By Failure according to Jeremy Bloom CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Performing Under Pressure by Hendrie Weisinger
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin
Instant Motivation by Chantal Burns
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In this episode Josh Turner takes a deep dive into his book, Connect, where he shares some unique LinkedIn strategies to generate leads, build relationships, and increase sales.
In his book Turner provides a step-by-step guide that outlines simple LinkedIn activities that are designed to advance your business when it comes to building influence, finding partnerships, and business growth. The goal of the book is to show you the most effective ways to use LinkedIn, how to use LinkedIn for marketing purposes, and how to build a profile that attracts paying clients.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run or plan to run a business that involves building a network of relationships and need help developing a social networking strategy on LinkedIn.
About Josh Turner:
“I started using LinkedIn for business development way back in 2006 and at the time I was a CFO of a construction and manufacturing company in St. Louis. Unfortunately that company was hit hard by the down turn in the economy and it was forced to shut its door’s which was when I decided to go work for myself. I first started working as a freelance CFO and one of the ways I was able to grow the business was leveraging LinkedIn, not only the network I had built for myself prior but doing more things proactively. Fast forward to 2011 I had a couple of clients that I was helping in finance ask me about the different strategies I was using with LinkedIn. After trying to explain these strategies we realized it would just be easier if I did the work for them and that was when I built Linked Selling. Now we have a team of 14 with clients all over the world in all sorts of industries and we’ve had a lot of fun along the way.
This book is the playbook that my company has used to triple our revenue every year for the last three years and the book that we’ve used to generate millions of additional revenue for our private clients. I figured there were a lot of other businesses out there that would want to get their hands on this. The inspiration was that when I first started working for myself in 2010 I was frustrated and getting very little out of networking because most of the people weren’t my prospects. This book and the systems that I walk you through are the systems that I designed in response to that. I figured out how to use LinkedIn to keep my name in front of thousands of targeted prospects and then leverage a relationship building a process that works the reader through a set of messages that culminates in a request for a meeting or phone call. It’s taken us a few years to perfect the system but now we are there and I am super excited to get this message out to those who it will make a big difference for.” – Josh Turner
For a detailed summary of Connect according to Josh Turner CLICK HERE
Related Books:
A World Gone Social by Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt
Escape The Expected by Tom Trush
Unselling by Scott Stratten
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In this episode online business expert Robbie Baxter gives an in-depth look inside her book, The Membership Economy, where she discusses how subscription-based businesses succeed.
In her book Baxter provides an online business roadmap that is packed with step-by-step digital strategies, useful resources, and case studies of super successful dot-com companies. The goal of the book is to show you how to get the most revenue from your online product, create an engaged community of customers, place your revenue on autopilot, and create sustainable loyalty programs.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who already or plan to sell an online, subscription-based product or service and are not sure where to begin when it comes to building revenue.
About Robbie Baxter:
“I have been a strategy consultant for the last 25 years and for the last 15 years I’ve been an independent consultant. I have always been interested in how the psychology of the customer ties in with business models and currently run a successful consulting firm called Peninsula Strategies.
The inspiration behind writing this book was from a consulting project that I did about 12 years ago. I was asked to do a project at Netflix and I fell in love with their business model because of the recurring revenue and the quantity of data they were collecting about their customers. From that point on I really only wanted to work with companies that were thinking about those kind of issues and I felt like I needed to document my experience.” – Robbie Baxter
For a detailed summary of The Membership Economy according to Robbie Baxter CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Escape The Expected by Tom Trush
Unselling by Scott Stratten
High Paying Clients by Trevor Crane
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In this episode Scott Statten takes a deep dive into his book, Unselling, where he reveals the secrets of what really influences purchasers’ decisions.
In his book Stratten provides the keys to unlocking the mysteries of successful customer service and debunks a lot of nonsense that other marketers and marketing books talk about. The goal of the book is to teach you the most effective form of selling, how to create loyal, recurring customers, how to overcome customer service failures, and where to focus your marketing efforts.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have an understanding of sales and marketing, but are looking for a better, longer lasting solution to keep customers buying from you.
About Scott Stratten:
“I am the un everything, unmarketing, unselling, co-host of the unpodcast, and unsatisfied with the way things are being done in business.
I realized after being an old-school sales and training manager back in the day, that sales were focused on the transaction. You put all your eggs in the sales basket and once you had the transaction we handed it off to some other department and that’s where we kind of dropped the basket and all the eggs broke. The point I am trying to make is that everybody is in sales because the way to lead to future sales is to make sure that we make the customer ecstatic to be part of our organization and that starts at the transaction all the way through to the delivery.” – Scott Stratten
For a detailed summary of Unselling according to Scott Stratten CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Escape The Expected by Tom Trush
High Paying Clients by Trevor Crane
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sleaze-Free Selling by Julia Kline
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In this episode Michael Santos takes a deep dive into his book, Earning Freedom, where he shares his incredible journey from a 25 year prison inmate to super successful business man.
In his book Santos discusses the day he was arrested to the day he left prison and highlights the lessons he learned along the way that allowed him to build his bank account to $100,000 behind bars. The goal of the book is to help you build yourself upon the influences Michael Santos embarked upon, find your inner motivation to start increasing your value, and learn how to use your resources effectively.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who have a desire to become very successful in a niche but lack the motivation or inspiration to start making moves towards a goal.
About Michael Santos:
“I made some really bad decisions as a young man when I was 22 years old. I saw the movie Scar Face and thought that that would be a fun way to live. I moved to Miami began trafficking and using cocaine and for the next eighteen months I was living that very fast and reckless life. I was arrested on August 11, 1987 when I was 23 years old and I proceeded to spend the next 9,500 days in federal prison which is a total of 26 years and one day. While I was incarcerated I spend every day working to reconcile with society, to build a support network, and to come back as a law-abiding contributing citizen. I have now been back in society for about 18 months and currently working really hard to inspire other people in showing them that we are all on a journey and we should look at the challenges that come our way and figure out strategies to overcome them.
The story is about going through a 45 year prison sentence but the inspiration is that we all as human beings face struggle and challenges. The context of my story may be about prison and overcoming it but the reality is that I’ve met many people in society who live in a much bigger prison than I ever did. I felt that if I could just share the strategies that empowered me through the time I served in prison people would be able to see those same strategies to could help them in their personal struggles. All of these strategies are none that I’ve created, they are strategies that I’ve learn from leaders and masterminds and I wanted to share those lessons with other people through the context of my own journey.” – Michael Santos
For a detailed summary of Earning Freedom according to Michael Santos CLICK HERE
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In this episode investment expert J. Massey takes a deep dive into his book, Cash Flow Diary, where he discusses 10 steps to creating wealth in any economy.
In his book Massey provides a roadmap of successful investment strategies in real-estate while taking readers along his personal journey into becoming a super successful real estate investor. The goal of the book is to teach you the ups and downs of real-estate investing, how to negotiate with real-estate brokers, how to solve typical real-estate challenges, and how to build wealth with retirement plans.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are interested in real-estate investing to build passive income and are looking for lessons from someone who succeeded from the ground up.
About J Massey:
“After facing some difficult situations in both my life and my wife’s I decided I needed to do something about it and wanted to provide more for my family. It was during that time that I decided to become a real estate investor and that was when self-employment failed for me. Today, through the service I offer, I am able to spend a majority of my time with my family which was my goal all along.
I was inspired to write it because I kept getting the same questions over and over again. I didn’t know how to keep answering them differently plus the book can be in more places than I can. Cash Flow Diary exists simply because I wanted to document this process for my kids.” – J Massey
For a detailed summary of Cash Flow Diary according to J Massey CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jonathan Milligan takes a deep dive into his book, The 15 Success Traits of Pro Bloggers, where he shares a roadmap to becoming a full-time blogger.
In his book Milligan provides a simple blueprint with actionable summaries of the 4 significant habits that aspiring bloggers should add to their daily routine if they want to become online professionals. The goal of the book is to teach you what it takes to achieve maximum results with your blog, how to get your blog noticed by more people, and what types of content generate the most traffic.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that own or plan on owing an online based business and what to know the ins and outs of establishing a popular yet profitable blog.
About Jon Milligan:
“I started my career as a high school teacher and both of my parents were educators and so I thought that might be where I was going to land. After about three years of coaching and teaching, I loved the kids but I found that it wasn’t the right environment for me. I had a real entrepreneurial side to me and so I joined up with a startup company that was an executive search firm. I did that for about eight years and from there I got into blogging. Over the course of a couple years I ended up getting to a place where it could replace my job and now today it’s what I do. I am a fulltime blogger and I have two blogs that I manage.
I always had multiple e-mails asking questions of how I became a fulltime blogger and so I began thinking through how exactly I could teach this to others. After running it by friends and family I boiled it down to what I considered 15 success traits.” – Jon Milligan
For a detailed summary of The 15 Success Traits of Pro Bloggers according to Jon Milligan CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging by Stephanie O’Dea
The Art of Social Media by Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick
The Website Investor by Jeffrey Hunt
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In this episode John Sviokla gives an in-depth summary of his and Mitch Cohens’ book, The Self-Made Billionaire Effect, where they discuss how extreme producers create massive value.
In their book Sviokla and Cohen provide extensive research drawn from interviews with some of the most successful billionaires in order to debunk the perceptions people have of high producing entrepreneurs. The goal of the book is to teach you habits designed to improve your business value, how to start thinking like a billionaire, and how to be highly valuable to your employees.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that set very high expectations when it comes to business goals and are looking for solid ways to provide massive value when it comes to building a business.
About John Sviokla:
“I am a partner in the PwC consulting division and I hit up our Thought Leadership. I have been there for about four years and about a dozen years before that I was a consultant at a company called Diamond. And for a dozen years before that I was a professor at Harvard Business School in the area of technology strategy in innovation.
The inspiration was I was talking to my co-author Mitch Cohen and PwC is really about helping our clients create value and I told Mitch that we should study the people who created the most value on the planet. We took the self-made billionaires and made a book of all the things people could learn from their success.” – John Sviokla
For a detailed summary of The Self-Made Billionaire Effect according to John Sviokla CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The New Rich by David Moore
Three Feet From Gold by Greg Reid
Strategy Rules by David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano
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In this episode Rodd Wagner shares an in-depth preview of his book, Widgets, where he discusses 12 rules for managing employees as if they’re real people.
In his book Wagner provides important and actionable insights into the behavioral drivers of employee engagement – what motivates them, how they think, how they learn, how they act. The goal of the book is to teach you how to use reciprocity as a key motivator in employee performance, adapt new employees to the work environment, and become the best manager you can be.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to run an organization with a determination to engage, motivate, and positively affect employees as well as people in general.
About Rodd Wagner:
“I began my career as a newspaper reporter covering police and the courts and so I developed a very direct business writing style. I was frustrated by the way I saw my newspaper at the time being managed and so I went to business school and got a MBA. From there I migrated to a couple research jobs on the business side of media companies and eventually joined Gallup where I was a principle for twelve years. I’ve been a practice leader at BI World Wide for the past three years during which my colleagues and I have been doing the research that lead to the book, Widgets.” – Rodd Wagner
For a detailed summary of Widgets according to Rodd Wagner CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Make It Matter by Scott Mautz
Managing Whole People by Mark Herbert
The Hidden Leader by Scott Edinger
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In this episode Lior Zoref takes a deep dive into his book, Mindsharing, where he shows you how to master the art of crowdsourcing everything.
In his book Zoref offers several practical tools for unleashing powerful creativity that you can get from a large crowd as well as success stories of several people who succeeded by using crowdsourcing. The goal of the book is to help you use social media to learn things faster, build stronger relationships with people online, and understand the intricacies of the digital age today.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are unfamiliar with social media and want to know more about interacting with their friends, followers and influencers.
About Lior Zoref:
“I am 44 years old, married with three kids. I was obsessed with technology early in age and became a computer scientist and studied computer programming. From there I worked for Microsoft for 14 years. Right before turning 40 I hit my midlife crisis and I decided to retire from Microsoft and started on my journey to get my PhD. In the last few years I have been consulting to brands and startups that are using crowdsourcing as a strategic tool to innovate.
The inspiration is a story I heard a few years ago about Debra who lives in New York and at that time her four year old son Leo had fever. So Debra went to the doctor and told her it’s probably strep but after leaving the doctor she had a bad feeling about it so she took a picture of her sons face and posted it on Facebook. She began to get a lot of messages that said her son might have a very rare illness that could kill him. Immediately she took her son to the hospital to check to see if he had that illness. After checking they concluded that it was in fact the disease, started treatment immediately and were able to save his life. After hearing this story I did my research and wrote the book about the power of big crowds.” – Lior Zoref
For a detailed summary of Mindsharing according to Lior Zoref CLICK HERE
Related Books:
A World Gone Social by Ted Coine and Mark Babbit
The Art of Social Media by Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick
Digital Bacon by Alex Rodriguez
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In this episode Noah Fleming takes a deep dive into his book, Evergreen, where he reveals a way to create longer lasting relationships with customers.
In his book Fleming provides a practical roadmap packed with strategies, stories, and tips on improving your business by cultivating deeper, more profitable relationships with your customers. The goal of the book is to teach you 3 significant rules that create loyal customers, how to build effective loyalty programs, and how to incorporate social media into any loyalty plan.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run a business based on building relationships with customers and need a simple guide for creating the best customer loyalty system.
About Noah Fleming:
“I am a Canadian who lives in Ontario Canada. I am also a father of two girls and married ten years now. In the business side of my personal life I am a strategic marketing consultant. I work with small to midsize companies but also with entrepreneurs personally mentoring and coaching them.
I saw in my clients an addiction to the new customer mentality that we need to focus all of our efforts into driving people through the doors. I knew there had to be a better way to do it which inspired me to do my research and write about my findings.” – Noah Fleming
For a detailed summary of Evergreen according to Noah Fleming CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Customer Experience 3.0 by John Goodman
High Paying Clients by Trevor Crane
Nice Guys Finish First by Doug Sandler
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In this episode Hans Finzel takes a deep dive into his book, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, where he shares the common mistakes leaders need to overcome.
In his book Finzel provides newly updated stories and strategies from very successful leaders who have once made continuous mistakes when it comes to effectively leading others. The goal of the book is to teach you what effective leadership looks like, how to overcome typical bad habits that come with being a leader, and how to take your leadership skills to the next level.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are emerging leaders and wish to prevent or improve upon common bad habits that many leaders continue to struggle with.
About Hans Finzel:
“I was born and raised in Huntsville Alabama. My father was a rocket scientist and a part of NASA. I have spent my career mostly in the nonprofit world and became more and more interested in leadership after 20 years as a CEO of one of the nonprofits. I eventually left to start my own work fulltime helping leaders and managers do a better job. My passion is to really help leaders take their leadership to the next level. Today I do a lot of podcasting on leadership and I keep turning out books because I love to write about leadership. Lastly, I am a father of four kids and married to a wonderful wife.
The inspiration came after working under a bad leader. I worked for a guy that just totally frustrated me and stood in the way of my visions and dreams for what I wanted to do. He crushed my spirit to the point where I lost respect and finally left. When I became a leader I wanted to study how to be a good leader, not a bad leader and how to empower people instead of frustrating people.” – Hans Finzel
For a detailed summary of The Top 10 Mistakes Leaders Make according to Hans Finzel CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Make It Matter by Scott Mautz
Everybody Paddles by Charles Archer
The Culture Engine by Chris Edmonds
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In this episode bestselling author Stephen Key reveals his insights on his book, Sell Your Ideas With or Without a Patent, where he shares his secrets to making profits of product ideas.
In his book Key reveals many stories, tactics, and tips on how to effectively protect an invention idea in order to earn royalties from it in the future. The goal of the book is to teach you how to fill out a patent application for the USPTO, save large amounts of money on the legal expenses that come with patenting, find an excellent patent attorney, and win over a licensing contract.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have innovative mindsets and want to know the inside secrets of making money off new inventions with or without patents.
About Stephen Key:
“I have been bringing my simple ideas to market and collecting royalties for each and every one that is sold. I am here to show you how to save money and protect those ideas when you bring them to market.
A few years ago I was in federal court suing a small toy company Legos which took three years and through that whole process I realized that we never really own anything, even if we have patents. We have this fear that we have to have patents to go forward with our ideas and that’s just not true. This book was written from a business perspective about how to take our ideas, bring them to market, and use the tools from the USPTO to our advantage.” – Stephen Key
For a detailed summary of Sell Your Ideas With or Without a Patent according to Stephen Key CLICK HERE
Related Books:
One Simple Idea by Stephen Key
The Dream Cafe by Geoff Crook
The Maker Movement Manifesto by Mark Hatch
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In this episode David Yoffie takes a deep dive into his book, Strategy Rules, where he unveils 5 timeless lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs.
In their book Yoffie and his co-author, Michael Cusumano, share the successes, failures, commonalities, and differences of world famous leaders like Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs. The goal of the book is to teach you 5 new strategic rules for doing business, the best practices that come with high-tech entrepreneurship, and how to take your leadership to the next level.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own or plan on owning a high-tech company and want to learn strategy techniques from the best leaders in the business.
About David Yoffie:
“I have been a professor at Harvard for 34 years and my co-author, Michael Cusumano, has been a professor at MIT for about 30 years. I have been involved in trying to understand the world of strategy and specifically the world of strategy and technology since the mid 1980’s. I had the fortunate experience of joining the Intel board of directors in 1989 which gave me an opportunity to meet Andy Grove and then Andy introduced me to Billy Gates and Steve Jobs. Today I continue to work broadly in this field and it has been the core of my research for most of my career.
I wanted to try to understand how an entrepreneur could develop into a leader of a great company and also think about what would lead to great performance. Ultimately when you think about companies that have done extraordinary well, the leaders who have done it better than anybody else have been Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs. And all three of them we know their history from beginning to end and know they have done a really great job. This was an opportunity to dive deep into three extraordinary individuals.” – David Yoffie
For a detailed summary of Strategy Rules according to David Yoffie CLICK HERE
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Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail
Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
Winning the Long Game by Steve Krupp
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In this episode Matt Britton gives an in-depth preview of his book, YouthNation, where he shows what it takes to stay connected, agile, authentic, and relevant in today’s marketplace.
In his book Britton provides an effective marketing plan with practical advice and strategies for keeping your business brand relevant to the new economy of youth-driven cultures. The goal of the book is to teach you how to use psychographics to target younger markets, craft a brand story that will attract new target markets, build highly engaging online communities, and stay ahead of the competition.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run a business that deserves the attention of millennials, but are having difficulty marketing, hiring, and communicating with the younger generation.
About Matt Britton:
“I am the founder and CEO of MRY which is an advertising agency focusing on digital and social technology to really help brands break through and be remarkable with their consumer.
I work with a lot of major corporate marketers and what I found over and over again with big brands is that there seems to be a major disconnect behind their knowledge of the marketplace as they exist today and really what’s going on in terms of the disruption and change that’s already being driven by youth. For me the book is really meant to be a roadmap for marketers and business decision makers to understand how to navigate the complex changes that are brought about by these youths driving the economy to ensure they are not left in the dust.” – Matt Britton
For a detailed summary of YouthNation according to Matt Britton CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The New Entrepreneuz by Ronen Gafni and Simch Gluck
What’s Next by Michael Price
A World Gone Social by Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt
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In this episode Trevor Crane takes a deep dive into his book, High Paying Clients, where he reveals a no-fluff, non-BS approach for selling to high-end clients.
In his book Crane provides a step-by-step guide derived from his personal experience training and consulting entrepreneurs to reinvent the way they do business in order to make more money. The goal of the book is to show you exactly how to find highly profitable clients, sell high-end products to high-paying people, make more money off less deals, and easily close a high-end sale.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are selling a high-end product or service, are tired of handling cheap, unappreciative customers, and need to guide for finding loyal clients.
About Trevor Crane:
“For the last 12 years I’ve been a fulltime business coach and consultant. I work with small business owners, medium size business owners and my expertise is helping them find that extra money laying around in their business without spending more money. So I help them improve their systems and processes and drive bottom line revenue. All the tools and teachings came from my own experiences in owning a business is water sports and tourism, marketing and advertising, and also one in environmental protection. I’ve had a lot of failures and successes and put the best of what I’ve learned into High Paying Clients.
I decided to write this book because it was really the best of what I do for my clients. As I looked at what I wanted to promote I figured I wanted to give my best stuff away first. This is what helps people convert the sale.” – Trevor Crane
For a detailed summary of High Paying Clients according to Trevor Crane CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The Trusted Advisor by Rob Galford
Never Chase Clients Again by Michael Moshiri
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sleaze-Free Selling by Julia Kline
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In this episode Geoff Crook reveals all his insights on his book, The Dream Cafe, where he provides a guide for harnessing creativity and developing a brand designed to disrupt any market.
In his book Crook and co-author Duncan Bruce developed a fresh, innovative approach that is used by major businesses and is designed to product radical innovation that leads to unpredictable outcomes. The goal of the book is to show you how to transform any big business idea into a market disruptor, develop a competitive advantage by taking risks, and effectively implement massive innovation.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who possess a very creative mindset and need a practical guide for turning fresh ideas into highly profitable business ventures that will redefine any market.
About Geoff Crook:
“I am passionate about creativity and absolutely committed to the idea that disruption allows you to create better futures. I worked at Central Saint Martin’s college as a director of imagination and application and created a master’s program called Applied Imagination which broke just about every rule in education. I’ve done a lot of freelancing in the branding/marketing area and that’s where I got to meet Duncan who I then collaborated with on creating The Dream Cafe.
Frustration was the primary inspiration. It was frustration that the majority of businesses was confronting the context of market unpredictability by investing in trained insight rather than innovation and was simply failing to notice the difference.” – Geoff Crook
For a detailed summary of The Dream Cafe according to Geoff Crook CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The Innovator’s Method by Nathan Furr
The Business Idea Factory by Andrii Sedniev
Disruption by Design by Paul Paetz
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In this episode Ray Higdon takes a deep dive into his book, Vibrational Money Immersion, where shares a network marketing guide to better help you make a living from home.
In his book Higdon provides a roadmap filled with practical advice, assignments, and principles that are designed to show you how to become the best network marketer in the field of multi-level marketing. The goal of this book is the help you train your brain to craft your own success, master the art of networking, enhance your sales skills, and overcome multiple obstacles that get in the way.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to be able to work from home and are interested in multi-level marketing, but want a better understanding of the principles.
About Ray Higdon:
“I was in corporate America and I didn’t feel like I was living my highest and best purpose and also spending more time with picture of my kids than the real thing. I would go to work when they were asleep and come home to them already in bed and that just wasn’t the life that I wanted to work toward. And so I went out on my own and started a real estate business that didn’t work out and in 2009 I found myself dead broke. It was then when I reinvented myself and have since built a multimillion a year coaching and training business. I also have a very successful blog and social media presence and because of all this my lifestyle is a lot different.
A lot of entrepreneurs attribute some of their successes from the content that’s contained within Think and Grow Rich. What I did was I took the public domain version of Think and Grow Rich and I kind of translated it not just to today’s world but also for the actual network marketer. I’ve been in network marketing for over five years and there are a lot of people that appreciate that translation of how this actually and directly applies to their profession.” – Ray Higdon
For a detailed summary of Vibrational Money Immersion according to Ray Higdon CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
6 Months to 6 Figures by Peter Voogd
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In this episode Robert Kelsey gives an in-depth look inside his book, The Outside Edge, where he discusses how outsiders can succeed in a world made by insiders.
In his book Kelsey provides a practical guide that explains the ins and outs of getting your voice heard when it comes to being an original thinker and helps remediate the insecurities of unappreciated creativity. The goal of the book is to help you accept yourself for who you are, motivate yourself to harness your creativity, and acquire the skills needed to get your ideas heard.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who possess a unique ability to create new ideas and need help overcoming the feelings of awkwardness when it comes to finding work.
About Robert Kelsey:
“I am British and lived most of my life in London. I am someone that has always considered myself an outsider and didn’t fit my environment and ended up becoming an entrepreneur. What I’ve realized since then is that most entrepreneurs feel the same way I did and that’s often the reason they became an entrepreneur.
I realized that I had a mental disconnect from other people and it turned me into someone that felt like an outsider and I felt like it was important to write about. The real catalyst for me was reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book, David and Goliath, where he spent 200 or more pages saying that outsiders and misfits had an enormous advantage. I couldn’t believe what I was reading because I always felt outsiders were disabled from their mental blockages and sometimes they don’t even see it. What Gladwell was describing to me were not outsiders that had an advantage, they were eccentric insiders and they were using their advantages that they had inbuilt in them in order to succeed. My book at first looks like its accepting Gladwell’s premise but it’s not, it’s absolutely rejecting it. Ultimately I make the point that outsiders do have some attributes that they can employ to their advantages but they’ve got to learn to employ them.” – Robert Kelsey
For a detailed summary of The Outside Edge according to Robert Kelsey CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The Seven Sins of Innovation by Dave Richards
The Innovative Entrepreneur by Daniel Spluber
The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth by Chris Brogan
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In the episode Scott Mautz takes a deep dive into his book, Make It Matter, where he shows you how managers can motivate by creating meaning and personal significance.
In his book Mautz shares years of research, case studies, and techniques in an all-in-one how to guide for energizing, motivating, and encouraging employees to put in the most effort. The goal of the book is to help you add meaning to any organizational mission, find the internal significance of every employee, eliminate negativity from the workplace, and create unique opportunities of personal growth.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run an organization of 5 or more employees and are looking for the best ways to create a work environment that mimic the best places to work.
About Scott Mautz:
“I am an author as of March 4th, when Make It Matter hit the streets. I am also a keynotes speaker and have a fulltime job as a director at Procter & Gamble where I run the company’s largest business. And over my 20 plus years at Procter & Gamble I have run a number of different businesses all multimillion dollars in size.
I have been studying the field of motivation for almost a decade and about seven years ago I discovered a stunning statistic that has been proven over and over again. Which is that almost 70% of us may actually be coated as disengaged at work and even if you’ve heard that statistic before, what’s stunning is that is doesn’t get any better. Year after year the data will show you it keeps declining so whatever we are doing to motivate clearly cannot be working. That has been haunting me for the last half dozen years and I really started working hard at trying to find a way to crack this code. I came across this concept that it’s not pay, it’s not perks, and it’s not promotion, it’s really meaning where you can bring significance into your work and make it matter more. That’s what kept me going and was the inspiration behind this book.” – Scott Mautz
For a detailed summary of Make It Matter according to Scott Mautz CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Everybody Paddles by Charles Archer
The Hidden Leader by Scott Edinger
The Best Place to Work by Ron Friedman
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In this episode Jeff Hunt gives an in-depth summary of his book, The Website Investor, where he shares a guide to buying an online website business for passive income.
In his book Hunt provides a roadmap for finding highly profitable online businesses for sale and shows you how to get the most value out of them without having to start from scratch. The goal of the book is to help you estimate the value of a website, negotiate price with website sellers, differentiate between low and high effort web businesses, and hire the right virtual assistants to help grow your web business.
This book is perfect for serial entrepreneurs who are interested in owning profitable online businesses that have already developed a customer base without having to start fresh.
About Jeff Hunt:
“I’ve worked for many years in middle management at IBM where we had achieved most of our career goals. We felt like we just wanted to give back some of the blessing we had received so my family and I sold everything we had and moved overseas to a western Asian country where we served for about seven years. Once the kids grew up we knew it was time to come home. When I got home I didn’t feel like I could return to the corporate world very easily with the seven year gap on my resume so with little cash I decided to start buying websites and since bought about 300 income generating websites. Along with the website investing I am also an advisor for an online business acquisition for a company called Cloud Income Properties.
I meet a lot of people who would be better off buying in rather than starting a business from scratch. I go to conferences and people are really attracted to the online business space because of the flexibility that it offers. What most people don’t realize is the online business failure rate is even higher than offline just because people don’t invest themselves into it as much. And so the inspiration for my book is introducing all these people who are interested in a business to this idea of buying a website. The other inspiration is to help myself because the more people who are aware of this possibility, the more websites come out of the wood work that are for sale that I can buy and add to my portfolio.” – Jeff Hunt
For a detailed summary of The Website Investor according to Jeff Hunt CLICK HERE
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In this episode Sujan Patel takes a deep dive into his book, 100 Days of Growth, where he shares over 100 online marketing strategies that are used by top performing companies.
In his book Patel provides actionable techniques his company has used to help other businesses grow and teaches you step-by-step how to implement these growth strategies into your own business. The goal of the book is to help you improve your search engine optimization efforts, increase your lead generation results, eliminate ineffective digital marketing tactics, and much more.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own an online business and are looking for an all-in-one guide for effective digital marketing tactics that will take their results from good to excellent.
About Sujan Patel:
“I’ve been doing digital marketing for 12 years now and worked with hundreds of clients helping them grow their traffic and revenue. Over the years I’ve worked on a lot of different ideas that have failed and a handful of things that have worked. My concept for the book is to put together my learnings and successes in a repeatable fashion.
I wanted to make something where people can follow along. Every tip and tactic is something you can do and ideally if you did one thing a day for the next 100 days you’re going to see some exponential growth. My inspiration was to take all my learnings of how to grow a business and make it useful, tactical, and actionable.” – Sujan Patel
For a detailed summary of 100 Days of Growth according to Sujan Patel CLICK HERE
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The Predictable Profits Playbook by Charles Gaudet
Do It! Marketing by David Newman
Digital Bacon by Alex Rodriguez
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In this episode, award-winning journalist, Ben Parr shares his book, Captivology. Parr shares the latest scientific research on attention, and how the masses respond and are captivate products, ideas, and projects. Captivology helps us understand why attention matters and how we could influence and enthrall people toward our business. This is an excellent book for entrepreneurs who want to take control and gain attention.
In this episode Charles Archer takes a deep dive into his book, Everybody Paddles, where he reveals an effective leader’s blueprint for creating a unified team.
In his book Archer provides a leadership roadmap with problem-solving tools that are designed to remedy the consequences and issues that come with dysfunctional organizations. The goal of the book is to help you develop an organization based on camaraderie, increase engagement between employees, and improve your facilitation skills as a manager.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run a business with 5 or more employees where team work is essential to the business and need a strategic framework that produces highly effective teams.
About Charles Archer:
“I’m an attorney by license, I have a masters, I’m a writer, and an advocate for people with developmental disabilities. Twenty years ago I started a nonprofit to help people with disabilities live a productive, fantastic, and fulfilling life. Over the last 20 years we’ve been able to touch people throughout New York City and New Jersey.
Everybody Paddles came out of my ability working in business and all of the things I’ve seen as an attorney and entrepreneur. The one thing that inspired me was that there were people who didn’t want to add value at work. There were people who came to work and because of whatever number of reasons the culture became hostile and wasn’t motivating. I really was inspired to create something unique based on teamwork and team building that really got people understanding that every day at work you must add value.” – Charles Archer
For a detailed summary of Everybody Paddles according to Charles Archer CLICK HERE
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The Hidden Leader by Scott Edinger
The Culture Engine by S. Chris Edmonds
The Discomfort Zone by Marcia Reynolds
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In this episode Honoree Corder takes a deep dive into her book, Business Dating where she discusses how to apply relationship rules to business and master the art of business networking.
In her book Corder provides a roadmap where she personally coaches you on the best, practical ways to build business to business relationships using her special 12 x 12 matrix. The goal of the book is to help you not only become a master at networking but also overcome the fear of meeting people, know when networking opportunities are greatest, and fully leverage the relationships you build.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who frequent networking events and have a hard time creating professional relationships that yield a solid return on investment.
About Honoree Corder:
“I am an executive coach, speaker, and author. I work with professionals to help them double their income and triple their time off.
It’s not what the inspiration was; it’s more who the inspiration was. My clients were the inspiration. It’s a networking book and my take on how you can develop relationships in business using correlations between person dating and business dating.” – Honoree Corder
For a detailed summary of Business Dating according to Honoree Corder CLICK HERE
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Top Dog: Influence and Impress Everyone You Meet by Andy Bounds and Richard Ruttle
What More Can I Say? by Dianna Booher
How The World Sees You by Sally Hogshead
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In this episode Doug Sandler gives a full preview of his book, Nice Guys Finish First, where he discusses how a great experience can make someone a customer for life.
In his book Sandler shares a very original consultative approach to putting the “human” back into client relationships in order to build trust that results in exceptional customer service. The goal of the book is to show you how to advise customers on making good decisions, build a longer lasting relationship with them, and develop a stronger sense of personal character.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having a hard time keeping customers and need a practical way to overcome the challenge of taking their business from good to extraordinary.
About Doug Sandler:
“I spent 48 years running an entertainment business as a DJ. About two years ago I turned a switch and decided that I could teach people to do what I have done which is build a business.
A few years ago I made a call to a credit card company and I was asked to enter my sixteen digit number followed by the pound sign. As I went through this phone call I kept thinking that there has got to be a better way than this. I figured that there had to be a way that I could teach what I’ve done over the last 30 years to those that are just getting started now so that they can avoid the mistakes that I made.” – Doug Sandler
For a detailed summary of Nice Guys Finish First according to Doug Sandler CLICK HERE
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Customer Experience 3.0 by John A Goodman
The Trusted Advisor by Robert Galford
Advisor Selling by Mark Hunter
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In this special episode of The Entrepreneurs Library serial entrepreneur and CEO of VoterSnap, Patrick Stevens, guest interviews Wade Danielson on his entrepreneurial journey and this show.
Since the launch of The Entrepreneurs Library, Wade has been asked so many questions that relates to his entrepreneurial life and the driving force behind his idea for this unique resource. The goal of this episode is to give you a more personal look into the life of Wade, the failures and successes along his journey, what led him to creating a book centric resource for entrepreneurs, and how his first company got listed #786 on Inc’s Fortune 5000.
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Interview Questions:
Will you give those that don’t know you a bird’s eye view of yourself? (6:30)
If Mark Cuban or Donald Trump were to introduce you, what would they say? (11:50)
What was one of the first main defining moments in your life and reasons that made you make a decision to become an entrepreneur? (13:45)
What was your mindset in taking the leap from working for a company fulltime to actually starting a company where you have all the responsibilities to think about? (18:30)
You’re coming up on your five year anniversary at GNS and knowing that around 90% of businesses don’t even make it to the five year mark, let alone be as successful as it is. So what from your perspective are the reasons why Guardian Network Solutions has been so successful and made it this far? (24:50)
Being a podcaster and in this specific niche within personal development, what’s the primary content that you’re seeing most successful entrepreneurs are consuming right now? And how do you see that changing over the next five years? (27:42)
When did you realize self-education was the way to real and lasting success for you? (31:30)
How did you come across podcasting? (37:00)
What sparked the idea of The Entrepreneurs Library? (38:06)
What separates other book review sites from The EL podcast? (43:00)
What’s the “Why” behind The Entrepreneurs Library? (45:23)
What’s next for The Entrepreneurs Library? (48:30)
If you could write the perfect book for entrepreneurs, what would you title it? (51:00)
What is the one thing that you’ve implemented personally in your life that was an absolute game changer that you believe would add a lot of value to others? (51:36)
Do you have a morning routine? (56:15)
What is one habit you wish you had? (1:00:07)
If you could go back and redo anything in your entrepreneurial life, what would you change? (1:02:20)
What is the best advice you’ve ever taken from a book? (1:03:25)
If you were stranded on an island with only one book what would it be? (1:04:50)
For a detailed summary of The Untold Story of Wade Danielson according to Wade himself CLICK HERE
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In this episode Tom Trush takes a deep dive into his book, Escape the Expected, where he shares the secret psychology of selling to today’s skeptical consumers.
In his book Trush provides a step-by-step guide that teaches you marketing secrets you may have never heard of like what prospects don’t trust you, what pollutes the marketing world, and how to establish yourself as an authority in so much cluttered advertising. The goal of the book is to help you spend less time working, leverage your marketing better, and adapt to the constant changes in marketing.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are spending more than half their time marketing a business or have no idea where to start when it comes to marketing.
About Tom Trush:
“I am a direct-response copywriter and I think sometimes you give that career name out there and people don’t necessarily understand what it is. The way I like to explain it is that I write marketing materials designed to generate response. One of the big things that I love about my job is figuring out why a marketing piece is poor or isn’t generating the response that people want.
Usually the way that I write is I stumble on marketing topics that interest me and then I’ll weave them into a theme. I wanted to give people some ideas for establishing trust in the marketing materials that you send out to attract leads and generate sales.” – Tom Trush
For a detailed summary of Escape The Expected according to Tom Trush CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Do It! Marketing by David Newman
Pocket Man by Scott Jordan
Moving Targets by Gabriel Aluisy
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In this episode Elizabeth Thornton takes a deep dive into her book, The Objective Leader, where she shows you how to leverage the power of seeing things as they are.
In her book Thornton reveals years of research on the concept of objectivity and how it will open your world to new cultures, new markets, and new opportunities. The goal of the book is to help you improve your management skills, make decisions faster than normal, avoid bad decision making, and eliminate the fear of failure when it comes to life and business.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who typically overreact to negative situations, judge people too quickly, and let their insecurities get the best of them.
About Elizabeth Thornton:
“I have been with Babson College as the professor of entrepreneurship since 2006.
I lost a million dollars in an international fruit juice business and it taught me so much. Getting back on my feet I realized it wasn’t the business decision I was making along the way, it was how I framed my world and my inability to see things as they were. As a result of that I started studying psychology, neuroscience, and entrepreneurship and just trying to put it all together. I started learning about objectivity and developed a course around it that I wanted to share with others.” – Elizabeth Thornton
For a detailed summary of The Objective Leader according to Elizabeth Thornton CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jamie Smart reveals all his insights on The Little Book of Clarity where he provides you with a quick guide to focus and declutter your mind.
In his book Smart expands on his original book Clarity and provides you with new, powerful ways to improve your productivity, eliminate stress, and master the art of innate thinking. The goal of the book is to help you create more relationships, meet personal goals, pinpoint negative goals, and train your brain to start prioritizing your day-to-day life more clearly.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are constantly bombarded with an extensive to-do list and need an effective manual that will clear their head in order to get things done efficiently.
About Jamie Smart:
“I’m an entrepreneur and my fascination is with how people think, how people motivate themselves, and how people get results. Very specifically what I’ve find is how the mind works is a huge area of fascination and I’ve been exploring that for years.
When I found myself having all the trappings of success but none of the feelings of success I went back to the drawing board and found that there was a fundamental misunderstanding behind how I thought life worked. As I cleared up that misunderstanding for myself and started clearing it up for my clients not only did I become more productive, more clear minded, more comfortable in my own skin, I also became more successful. It turns out we are designed for reality and do really well in it but we don’t do so well when we are caught up in our muddle thinking.” – Jamie Smart
For a detailed summary of The Little Book of Clarity according to Jamie Smart CLICK HERE
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In this episode Gary Klein reveals all his insights on his book, Seeing What Others Don’t, where he reveals when, why, and how insights are formed and what blocks them.
In his book Klein shares stories involving his years of cognitive learning research that uncover the origins of creativity and how many successful innovators were able to create their marvelous ideas. The goal of the book is to help you train your brain to be more creative, effectively solve more problems, avoid disruptive idea blockers, and think faster than the average person.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who work in a stressful, fast-paced environment and want to learn how to improve their cognitive thinking skill in order to make fast, intelligent decisions.
About Gary Klein:
“I was trained in experimental psychology and over the years I got interested in seeing how people actually work outside of laboratories and specifically how people make life and death decisions under extreme time pressure. So we’ve studied firefighters, nurses, physicians and so forth to see what they actually do.
I would make presentations on my work on decision making to audiences and there was a slide that I would use that had an up arrow and a down arrow. The down arrow was ways to improve performance by reduction and the up arrow was about what to increase in order to improve performance. What you wanted to increase was insights and so I would tell groups that and they resonated to it. They kept asking me questions about the up arrow that I didn’t have answers to. Finally I decided I need to do some research and study the up arrow which is what led me to writing this book.” – Gary Klein
For a detailed summary of Seeing What Others Don’t according to Gary Klein CLICK HERE
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In this episode David Grant takes a deep dive into his book, The Social Profit Handbook, where he shares a guide to setting goals, assessing outcomes, and achieving success for mission-driven organizations.
In his book Grant provides proven, actionable strategies that help low-profit and non-profit organizations take charge of their operations in order to improve their future. The goal of the book is to teach you how to create assessment rubrics, develop a solid social business plan, properly measure your success, and effectively set attainable goals.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are in the business of creating social change and want to know what it takes to create an efficiently run mission-based organization.
About David Grant:
“I have had a career split between two fields, the first half was in education and I was an English teacher. Then I had the opportunity to start and found a school in Vermont called The Mountain School which was the first of the whole series of semester plans which now exist around the country. From there I became president of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in New Jersey.
When I came in to the foundation world I leaning towards the question who needs to learn what here. I ended up working very closely with the executive directors and the board chairs of the nonprofit organizations that the Dodge Foundation funded. What started with a couple afternoon sessions became a full blown course in leadership. The real incentive to write the book was that after these workshops, time and again, people told me that I had to write a book.” – David Grant
For a detailed summary of The Social Profit Handbook according to David Grant CLICK HERE
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In this episode Bo Burlingham takes a deep dive into his book, Finish Big, where he discusses how great entrepreneurs exit their companies on top.
In his book Burlingham dissects dozens of interviews he made with entrepreneurs that have left their companies and pieces together actionable information that all business owners must know about creating a solid exit plan. The goal of the book is to help you find the right time to exit a business, overcome the stress of leaving a company, and leave your company in better shape.
This book is perfect for seasoned entrepreneurs who are close to meeting all their business goals and are ready to start planning an exceptional exit from their organization.
About Bo Burlingham:
“I am an editor at-large at Inc. magazine and been on staff for 32 years. I co-authored a couple books and I’ve also written Small Giants.
It began with my sometime co-author Norm Brodsky. I had been writing a column with him in Inc. magazine for almost 20 years now. Back in 2006 Norm decided to sell his company and he and I decided to write about it on a month by month basis. From those writings we got a tremendous amount of reader response and I realized that there was a huge appetite out there for understanding the experience of selling a company.” – Bo Burlingham
For a detailed summary of Finish Big according to Bo Burlingham CLICK HERE
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In this episode Andy Bounds reveals all his insights on his and Richard Ruttle’s book, Top Dog, where they share techniques to impress and influence everyone you meet.
In their book Bounds and Ruttle provide expert advice and examples on becoming a more effective and sought-after communicator when it comes to any conversation from dating to sales. The goal of the book is to teach you proven communication strategies that will heighten your ability to spark conversations, make you the center of attention, and help you take charge of a conversation.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who frequently attend networking events, make sales calls, or live the dating life and need simple ways to enhance their charisma when talking to others.
About Andy Bounds:
“I am one of the two authors of Top dog, the other one is Richard Ruttle. I have my own consultancy practice and what I do is I help large organizations sell more. I’ve worked in 30 countries and Top Dog is my third book. I hope that readers will be able to read Top Dog and understand exactly what they need to do to progress their business.
The inspiration was to help people in conversations when they think the other person is more important than them. The inspiration is to get rid of all that frustration out there that so many entrepreneurs feel when having a conversation with important people and it not going as well as they want and this book will make sure that it does.” – Andy Bounds
For a detailed summary of Top Dog according to Andy Bounds CLICK HERE
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In this episode Chris Reimer takes a deep dive into his book, Happywork, where he shares a business parable about the journey to better teamwork, profit, and purpose.
In his book Reimer embraces the everyday unhappiness at work and provides real advice on how to transform any workplace into a motivationally positive environment. The goal of the book is to help you overcome workplace negativity, bring the best out of your employees, streamline your business processes, prioritize your employee tasks, and eliminate human emotions from the workplace.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to improve their management skills and ensure that their business workplace runs efficiently and effectively in the absence of negative attitudes.
About Chris Reimer:
“I am based in St. Louis Missouri and I am a Marketing Communication Strategist. Previous to that I spent a little over 15 years as a CPA and CFO of organizations around St. Louis.
This books inspiration came from my own work experiences. I’ve never had a job that was absolutely horrible but I’ve had some pretty colorful job experiences. The other inspiration would be my mother and what she went through working a 30 plus year career for the US government.” – Chris Reimer
For a detailed summary of Happywork according to Chris Reimer CLICK HERE
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In this episode Joan Sotkin takes a deep dive into her book, Build Your Money Muscles, where she shares 9 simple exercises for improving your relationship with money.
In her book Sotkin provides a common sense, step-by-step guide that will create an achievable pathway to financial security and prosperity through personal growth rather than quick fixes. The goal of the book is to help you build a secure financial base, understand why you are struggling with money, manage money more healthfully, and climb out of any financial slump.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a hard time managing personal finances and want a natural approach to becoming financially happy with their money.
About Joan Sotkin:
“I started out in life on the lower end, I had two very successful brothers and I could barely make it. I was sick emotionally, financially, and it’s been a journey. I love to share what I’ve learned along the way and I’ve been on the internet since 1995 doing just that.
I really like sharing what I learned and I saw that a lot of financial books were either heavy on the mindset piece or they were very hardcore how to count your money and handle cash flow books. I wanted something that combined both because that’s what I saw had to be done.” – Joan Sotkin
For a detailed summary of Build Your Money Muscles according to Joan Sotkin CLICK HERE
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In this episode Mike Paton takes a deep dive into his book, Get A Grip, where he discusses how to get everything you want from your entrepreneurial business.
In his book Paton shares the entrepreneurial story of two startup founders that uncovers the real-life hardships and accomplishments that come with starting an entrepreneurial business. The goal of the book is to help you understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how to resolve typical issues that come with running a startup, and how to create a more effective team.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are in a business partnership or own a business that is team oriented and need an action plan to improve their organizational operations.
About Mike Paton:
“I am a lifelong entrepreneur, grew up in an entrepreneurial household and today I spend all day, every day, surrounded by entrepreneurs and their leadership teams helping them implement a system for running a small business called EOS (The Entrepreneurial Operating System).
My co-author and I both individually believed that this book needed to be written. We both work in the trenches with entrepreneurial leadership teams all the time, we both are avid learners, and both fallen in love with a forum for a book and we believe that telling the EOS story using the entrepreneurial approach would be a compelling read for most of the people we surround ourselves with.” – Mike Paton
For a detailed summary of Get A Grip according to Mike Paton CLICK HERE
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In this episode Graham Allcott takes a deep dive into his book, How to be a Productivity Ninja, where he shows you how to worry less, achieve more, and love what you do.
In his book Allcott combines all of his teachings from his public productivity workshops from all around the world into a simple, effective guide to working faster and smarter. The goal of the book is to teach you how to overcome procrastination, how to use email more efficiently, new ways to increase your personal time, and how to de-clutter an information overload.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own more than one business or run a time intensive business and need help balancing their overloaded schedule in order to work more efficiently.
About Graham Allcott:
“I run a company called Think Productive and am an author. For the last few years I’ve been involved in productivity training and coaching with some of the biggest companies in the UK and increasingly around the world. At the moment my life is traveling the world and being the evangelist for Productivity Ninja.
The inspiration for me was my own journey with productivity. I used to be a chief executive of a charity here in the UK and I went freelance. And when I went freelance I realized that I no longer had a team of people around me and knew I had a problem and needed to develop my own skills. I started reading lots of different books, blogs, and experimenting with different systems to develop my own take on the topic of productivity. I am a big believer that the things you struggle to learn yourself are the things you should teach to other people so I started doing just that.” – Graham Allcott
For a detailed summary of How To Be A Productivity Ninja according to Graham Allcott CLICK HERE
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In this episode Amy Morin reveals all her insights on 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do where she helps you train your brain for success and happiness.
In her book Morin combines interesting stories with simple solutions that will take your outlook on life to the next level when it comes to health, wealth, and relationships. The goal of the book is to teach you how to overcome the bad habits that suppress success, how to strengthen your mental capacity, how to cope with the setbacks of life, and how to avoid negative behaviors.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are tired of feeling sorry for their selves, being jealous of other people’s success, and holding personal grudges from failure.
About Amy Morin:
“I am a license clinical social worker and psychotherapist. I am also a college psychology instructor and a few years ago I started writing articles for the web and now I write for places like Forbes and Psychology Today.
It had started out as an article and then morphed into a book from there. The reason I had written the article was because of some personal issues that were going on in my life. As a therapist I inherently was interested in psychology and mental strength in general but back in 2003 my journey became personal. I had just bought my first house, I was married and things were looking good when my mother passed away suddenly from a brain aneurism and I had to figure out how to publicly help people still deal with their problems when I am very privately grieving. And if you fast forward to three more years my 26 year old husband died suddenly of a heart attack and again had to figure out how to go to work to help people with the same problems that I was facing. I knew then that I had to sort out the things and tools I needed to do to become the very best that I can so that I can balance these two things in my life.
If you fast forward a few more years things were looking up and I decided to get remarried but shortly after that my father-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and unlike the sudden death of my mother and husband this time I knew what was coming. That is when I sat down and wrote this list of 13 things mentally strong people don’t do to basically remind myself of the things that could hold me back in life if I allowed them to.” – Amy Morin
For a detailed summary of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do according to Amy Morin CLICK HERE
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In this episode Katy Tynan takes a deep dive into her book, Free Agent, where she reveals what it takes to be successful in the business of independent contacting and freelance work.
In her book Tynan provides actionable steps, case studies, and tools you will need to help you transition from a full-time employee to your own independent freelance practice. The goal of the book is to teach you how to become an in-demand resource, understand the business of freelancing, how to get your independent business off the ground, and how to avoid the common pitfalls of freelancing.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who have a special set of skills and are interested in leaving their full-time job in order to start monetizing their skillsets independently.
About Katy Tynan:
“I’m an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. I started my career in tech and helping people understand how technology could work for them. But really what I found was that I love people, I love working with people, and I love helping people solve problems and figure things out. So that’s how I got started working independently as I just love going around and meeting people and finding ways that we can work together and solve problems.
The inspiration for me to pursue the path of becoming an independent professional came about six years ago and then what I found is it’s tough to do. We don’t teach people in school how to pursue this career path and so I felt like there needed to be more resources, more conversation, and more opportunity for people to understand what this path looks like.” – Katy Tynan
For a detailed summary of Free Agent according to Katy Tynan CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jeff Steinmann reveals all his insights on his book, How To Quit Working, where shares a simple plan to leave your job for a life a freedom.
In his book Steinmann provides flexible strategies, examples, and step-by-step instructions on what it takes to create your own business with the smallest amount of repercussions as possible. The goal of the book is to teach you innovative strategies for becoming an entrepreneur, how to overcome typical marketing barriers, how to develop a business idea while working, and how to find your ideal market.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are currently working for someone else and are ready to take their entrepreneurial journey to the next level.
About Jeff Steinmann:
“I am kind of like everyone else in that I went to high school and college and I thought there was no better option but to get a job. So I fell into a career in technology and did that for about 15 years and tried many times to escape the gravity of the corporate world and was unsuccessful many of those times. April 15, 2012 I was finally successful and I have been doing business in marketing consulting, real estate investing, and also building this great platform around how to help people quit their jobs and start a business.
The inspiration was to share the difference in terms of mindset, approach, and all those different kinds of things when wanting to quit your job and start your own business.” – Jeff Steinmann
For a detailed summary of How to Quit Working according to Jeff Steinmann CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jock Busuttil takes a deep dive into his book, The Practitioner’s Guide to Product Management, where he provides a roadmap for mastering product management and avoiding product failure.
In his book Busuttil shares real-life stories and experiences of other companies who are successful at product management and know what it takes to meet customers’ needs. The goal of the book is to help you improve product management skills, understand what a product manager does, know the difference between good and bad products, and increase the success rate of a product.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are new to the product management and looking for a step-by-step guide to creating, promoting, and selling a product that customers will love.
About Jock Busuttil:
“I have been a product manager for over a decade and working in software for a few years longer. I have worked for a variety of different companies over the years ranging from small startups to huge multinational corporates and learned a great deal along the way. More recently I decided to branch out on my own and now running my own product management consultancy called Product People.
This was the book I wanted most myself when I was starting out in product management. Most of the books that were available told you about how to go about doing it but it didn’t tell you what it was really like. This book was a way for me to tell my story to others from someone who has actually been through the process personally.” – Jock Busuttil
For a detailed summary of The Practitioners Guide to Product Management according to Jock Busuttil CLICK HERE
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In this episode Marley Majcher takes a deep dive into her book, But Are You Making Any Money?, where she reveals a fun yet effective way to start making money in any industry.
In her book Majcher provides a profit generating roadmap that stems from her many years as an entrepreneur as well as a financially unstable individual. The goal of the book is to help you create a financially stable income all while learning effective tips and tricks for growing a business, doubling the profit on your sales, and doing things more efficiently.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having a hard time turning over a suitable profit in their small business and need a systematic way to easily double their income.
About Marley Majcher:
“This book basically came out of the need to solve my own problems as a business owner. My core business is event planning and I currently run a company called The Party Goddess. We handle social and corporate events as well as weddings and travel all over. I wrote this book because my business life looked very glamorous but I was not making any money. I now run an online consulting company where I help small business owners.
The inspiration came out of frustration and the fact that I felt like I had a dirty little secret which was this glamorous business on the outside and in reality it was sort of a mess under the hood. I started researching for answers and ended up coming up with my own system that I wanted to share with others that were in the same trouble as I was.” – Marley Majcher
For a detailed summary of But Are You Making Any Money? according to Marley Majcher CLICK HERE
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In this episode Shannon Susko takes a deep dive into her book, The Metronome Effect, where she reveals many effective ways to turbo charge the growth of any business.
In her book Susko provides a customized step-by-step action plan based on the best practices and tools that helped scale some of the most successful businesses today as well as ones she helped grow herself. The goal of the book is to teach you how to operate a company, how to scale a company dramatically, how to hold employees accountable, and how to organize a business into a smooth process.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a solid understanding of the best business practices and are in need of an easy, systematic way to tie them all into one cohesive framework.
About Shannon Susko:
“I’ve been building high growth technology companies for the past 20 years and within that time I have very much found a great framework that I think others can learn from. Since the time of leaving my last organization I have been working with entrepreneurs and helping them scale up their own organizations.
The inspiration was to support other entrepreneurs in their journey in growing their company. While developing my first company I was looking for a silver bullet for myself to overcome that growth and sadly enough I came across many great tools but not one great framework that could pull it all together. This book allows an entrepreneur to understand that there is a framework available that you can bring in all the different tools that we learn along the way. I wanted to show entrepreneurs that there is a way that you can put this into play practically and grow your business at the same time.” – Shannon Susko
For a detailed summary of The Metronome Effect according to Shannon Susko CLICK HERE
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In this episode Scott Edinger takes a deep dive into his and Laurie Sain’s book, The Hidden Leader, where they reveal a unique way to develop greatness within a company.
In their book Edinger and Sain provide a systematic blueprint of a new style of leadership called Reverser Mentoring where senior leaders are mentored by their employees. The goal of the book is to show you how to recognize true leaders within your company, effectively utilize highly talented employees, and build valuable, long-lasting relationships with any employee.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who lead their organizations with a creative mindset and are looking for a way to effectively make the most of under-utilized employees.
About Scott Edinger:
“Companies like AT&T, Lenovo, and Los Angeles Times hire me to work with their senior leaders. I start with senior leaders because as the senior leaders go so goes the organization. I work with them on creating growth strategies and how to create differentiation in their business as well as how to lead effectively.
A few years ago I was talking with a former colleague of mine and he was telling me about a project he was working on called Reverse Mentoring. The notion here was that instead of senior partners mentoring, the associates would mentor the senior partners. And those senior partners learned a great deal not only about technology but also about client services and some new ways to approach that. I thought that was such an interesting idea and then the next day I read an article about reverse innovation. I ended up thinking about it all when the hidden leader concept was born and then I found my publisher.” – Scott Edinger
For a detailed summary of The Hidden Leader according to Scott Edinger CLICK HERE
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In this episode Ken Blanchard takes an in-depth look into his and Morton Shaevitz book, Refire! Don’t Retire, where they share a story of what it takes to make our elder years more meaningful.
In their book Blanchard and Shaevitz reveal years of research and experience through an exciting, humorous, and practical story of how an elder couple was able to get the best out of their lives. The goal of the book is to teach you unique ways to better your relationship, improve your thinking, rejuvenate your health, become more passionate, and seize new opportunities worth living for.
This book is perfect for seasoned entrepreneurs who are approaching retirement and are looking for a way to keep up their energy levels in order to make their life more enjoyable.
About Ken Blanchard:
“I was a college professor who came out to San Diego for a one year sabbatical leave when I ran into the group called The Young Presidents Organization after doing sessions for them they adopted me in and encouraged me to start my own company now known as The Ken Blanchard Companies. We are in the leadership development business and our hope and dream is that someday everyone everywhere will be influenced by somebody who is making a difference in the world.
When I turned 65 I was on the fall with Zig Ziglar who invited my wife and I to the 59th anniversary of his 21st birthday. When I asked him if he was going to retire his response was ‘I’m refiring, not retiring’ and I thought wow what a great concept.” – Ken Blanchard
For a detailed summary of Refire! Don’t Retire according to Ken Blanchard CLICK HERE
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In this episode Hendrie Weisinger takes a deep dive into his and J.P. Pawliw-Fry’s book, Performing Under Pressure, where they provide solutions to the consequences of pressure management.
In their book Drs. Weisinger and Pawliw-Fry provide 22 success strategies that comprise of the latest research on neuroscience and from the experiences of over 12,000 employees at Fortune 500 companies. The goal of the book is to help you reduce pressure in your personal life and overcome diminishing performance in your professional life.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who consistently working on new projects are not used to working under pressure when it comes to work, school, or even sports.
About Hendrie Weisinger:
“I am currently living in the state of Connecticut. I am a psychologist by trade and spent much of my career working with organizations, Fortune 500 Companies, etc. around the subject of emotional intelligence, giving and taking criticism, and managing anger. I’ve taught in many business schools such as UCLA, NYU, and MIT. In the last decade I have been doing a lot of work on the subject managing pressure.
The inspiration was a collection of experiences that got me into the direction of looking at how people perform under pressure situations and why some people are able to do it effectively and some people aren’t.” – Hendrie Weisinger
For a detailed summary of Performing Under Pressure according to Hendrie Weisinger CLICK HERE
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In this episode Marc Lichtenfeld takes a deep dive into his book Get Rich with Dividends, where he shares his investing strategy for achieving double-digit returns.
In his book Lichtenfeld provides a systematic approach to finding stocks with high returns, structuring your investments for better financial security, and setting up your investments with little maintenance. The goal of the book is to help you achieve double-digit returns annually, become worry-free about your investments, and increase your returns even when the market is low.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are interested in dividend investing, but are searching for low risk investments that require very little maintenance.
About Marc Lichtenfeld:
“I am the Chief Income Strategist at The Oxford Club and the Editor of The Oxford Income Letter. I am a former Wall Street Analyst, left the dark side and came over to work with subscribers and individual investors rather than Wall Street.
There were a few; one of them was the great reception in 2008-2009 and seeing people get hurt so badly in the markets. They were getting out at the wrong time and not getting back in at the right time. I wanted to help investors find a way that they could sleep at night even during difficult market periods and continue to make money. I also wanted to create a system where not only could they invest well but also find a way to ensure that their lifestyle that they worked so hard for does not deteriorate due to inflation.” – Marc Lichtenfeld
For a detailed summary of Get Rich With Dividends according to Marc Lichtenfeld CLICK HERE
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In this episode bestselling author Ron Lieber takes a deep dive into his book, The Opposite of Spoiled, where he reveals a parenting strategy that helps children become smart about money.
In his book Lieber delivers a practical guide packed with examples, strategies, and stories that help parents teach their kids the basics of generating money and why it’s important for their future. The goal of the book is to help parents talk openly about money with children in order to ensure that their children grow up to be modest, generous, and financially smart in the future.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have or are planning on having children and want a simple guide to start teaching them about financial responsibility in their earlier years of life.
About Ron Lieber:
“I am the Your Money columnist for The New York Times where I have been working since 2008 and I also contribute to our parenting blog which is called Mother Load.
The main inspiration was my own daughter; The Opposite of Spoiled is really a generational manifesto of a promise to our kids and to one another that we will do better at explaining all this money stuff to them.” – Ron Lieber
For a detailed summary of The Opposite of Spoiled according to Ron Lieber CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jason Kelly shares all the insights on his book, The 3% Signal, where he reveals a revolutionary investing strategy that will change your life.
In his book Kelly takes the stress out of investing by providing a simple formula that can be added to any type of financial account in order to help novice investors level the playing field. The goal of the book is to help you ensure a secure retirement plan, react intelligently to price changes, learn how to buy low and sell high, and understand the basic language that is utilized in the investing industry.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are interested in increasing their personal wealth and are looking for a simple beginners guide into the world of financial investments.
About Jason Kelly:
“I started out writing for IBM at the Silicon Valley laboratory in San Jose California right out of college. I learned there to write about complex topics and I had a great editor there who really focused on surprising readers. Four years after working there I finally had enough income after writing books on my own about the stock market to leave IBM and become a fulltime freelance writer. So for the past two decades I have been writing about the stock market. I moved to Japan 13 years ago after being here on a book tour and falling in love with the place.
The inspiration was noticing friends and family that had been struggling with the stock market for years. Over the years for writing for people and helping them with their investments I came to realize that almost everything in the stock market is geared against the individual investor. This is hard for professional investors to get right much less the part-time investor. I wanted to give people a system that does work that doesn’t require any input from the media, beats the market in almost all pros over time, and is simple enough that anybody can do it. It’s the product of two decades of research and is the best practice I’ve been able to come up with.” – Jason Kelly
For a detailed summary of The 3% Signal according to Jason Kelly CLICK HERE
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The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
Get What’s Yours by Larry Kotlikoff
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In this episode Julia Kline takes a deep dive into her book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sleaze-Free Selling, where she shares a proven sales formula to grow a business without being pushy or rude.
In her book Kline provides her formula in 3 practical steps that are centered around a sales approach designed to develop an effective, less obnoxious way of approaching customers for money. The goal of the book is to help you get fired up about selling, improve your prospecting skills, engage more effectively with customers, and how to close more deals.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that think of sales as the most distasteful part of doing business and need a less intrusive way of turning prospects into buyers.
About Julia Kline:
“I was born and raised in Chicago where I am still currently living. I have a cat and am a lakefront kind of person.
I was at a workshop about how to publish a book on Kindle and the guy teaching the workshop said that all you need is an hour of content and then you can transcribe that and turn it into a Kindle book. I had just got done selling a 10 week seminar course that I had sold for $1,000 and I was getting ready to do 10 weeks of training on marketing and productivity and I thought I could just transcribe it all. But as I got started I realized that two of the classes formed the basis of my whole philosophy toward sales so I went with just the two.” – Julia Kline
For a detailed summary of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sleaze-Free Selling according to Julia Kline CLICK HERE
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In this episode Charles Gaudet II shares all his insights on his book, The Predictable Profits Playbook, where he reveals a marketing approach that defies the principles followed by most entrepreneurs running businesses today.
In his book Gaudet provides well-researched marketing tactics utilized by larger well-known organizations that are very effective for any small business that wants to see significant growth. The goal of the book is to teach you how to win the competitive advantage in any market, improve your sales ratio dramatically, building a raving fan base, and generate higher recurring profits.
This book is for entrepreneurs who are well established in business and are tired of witnessing their organization generate small business profits when it could be generating large business profits.
About Charles Gaudet:
“I’ve been an entrepreneur since the age of four, created my first multimillion dollar business at the age of 24. Entrepreneurship has more or less been in my blood all my life. Today I own a company where I help small business owners create predictable and ever increasing profits inside their business.
A lot of entrepreneurs are told that the secret to success is to work hard and I took that very literally where I would sit my alarm for 3:30am and I would work every waking hour of every day, seven days a week. It got to a point where the stress was causing severe chest pain and I found myself in the emergency room. The doctor told me that the issue was stress and it was literally trying to kill me which at that point I realized something had to change. I traveled all over the world studying and trying to figure out what were some of the common denominators where some succeed and others failed. Collectively we connected the dots and made a book from that information.” – Charles Gaudet
For a detailed summary of The Predictable Profits Playbook according to Charles Gaudet CLICK HERE
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In this episode Philip Beyer takes a deep dive into his book, System Busters where he shares a tactical guide for eliminating typical business problems and making a business run better.
In his book Beyer provides a handful of case studies and success stories of business systems that are shared in a common sense fashion so you can implement the same effective strategies. The goal of the book is to teach you how to effectively systematize any business, how to overcome business struggles, and how to improve your strengths as a business owner.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are fairly new to business, but are struggling when it comes to growing the business, meeting deadlines, finding time for personal life, and eliminating interruptions.
About Philip Beyer:
“I was born and raised in Louisiana and I moved to Nashville Tennessee in 1981. I’ve been self-employed since the age of 24. I am the owner and president of two Nashville base businesses, a commercial printing company called Beyer Printing, and a software company called System 100. I’m the father of three grown sons who work with me in our companies, the husband of a beautiful wife who is my editor and chief of our blogs, website content and this book.
I started Beyer printing in 1988 and after five years of steady growth I found myself in chaos working long, bogged down in daily operations, and no time for personal life. I found myself making good money but not having the free time with it. A friend gave me a book to read on business and systems. From there I was able to change our systems, free up a lot of my time, and eventually help other business do the same. That journey led me to writing System Busters.” – Philip Beyer
For a detailed summary of System Busters according to Philip Beyer CLICK HERE
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In this episode Rob-Jan De Jong reveals all his insights on his book, Anticipate, where he discusses the 2 skills that are key to mastering the art of leading others.
In his book De Jong provides a guide with practical techniques and inspirational stories that are designed to show you how to expand your visionary capacity when it comes to leadership. The goal of the book is to help you see things more clearly, rejuvenate your imagination, and manage from a birds-eye view in order to develop a strategic advantage on your competitors.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are managing the operations of a business and need help realigning their management strategy to predict the future of an organization.
About Rob-Jan De Jong:
“I am the father of twin 10 year old boys to whom I am also their soccer coach so I do a lot of work with leadership and put it to practice with 10 year olds. Professionally I work a lot with leadership teams and trying to get them to engage with their strategic agenda. The second thing I do is teach about this subject and I am involved in various executive education programs.
My inspiration comes from about seven or eight years ago while I was doing a lot of work in the field of leadership and at some point I asked the audience what’s the one word you find in the definition of leadership. Immediately they fired back the word vision. From there I asked all these leaders what their vision was and nobody could raise their hand and tell me because they didn’t have one. I didn’t understand how it could be that something we all know is important to have as a leader but yet we don’t have one. That fascinated me and was what inspired me to look into this subject and I wanted to share my discoveries of what I found over the eight years.” – Rob-Jan de Jong
For a detailed summary of Anticipate according to Rob-Jan De Jong CLICK HERE
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In this episode Chantal Burns takes a deep dive into her book, Instant Motivation, where she reveals the surprising truth behind what really drives top performance.
In her book Burns shares the inspirational stories and game-changing research that will change how you think when it comes developing a motivational mindset. The goal of the book is to teach you experimental ways that are guaranteed to improve your personal will power, live a happier life, and develop a strong mindset that will improve your performance significantly.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs or seasoned entrepreneurs who are having a hard time getting motivated and a need a practical way to immediately improve their performance.
About Chantal Burns:
“I have been working in the area of high performance and culture change/organizational change for the last 15 or so years. Before that I worked in a corporate environment for 15 years in a commercial role in sales marketing. And then in 1999 I set up my own consultancy and have been working with businesses, leaders, and organizations helping them to improve performance at work.
Having worked with organizations and leaders for quite a number of years I have always been very curious about what creates the high performance culture. I have always been interested in what kept people from improving so I dived in and did my research and wanted to share it with others.” – Chantal Burns
For a detailed summary of Instant Motivation according to Chantal Burns CLICK HERE
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In this episode Chellie Campbell takes a deep dive into her book, From Worry to Wealthy, where she provides a woman’s guide to financial success without the stress.
In her book Campbell gives you practical advice that lays out a simplistic roadmap for utilizing the right financial tools that will improve your financial security significantly. The goal of the book is to help you build your confidence when it comes to money, create a steady cash flow, learn relative lessons about business, and avoid the unnecessary consequences of bad personal finance.
This book is perfect for women entrepreneurs who have a working knowledge about business, but are having a hard time maintaining and developing a steady path to financial freedom.
About Chellie Campbell:
“I have been teaching financial stress reduction workshops for the past 25 years. I used to own a bookkeeping service and I saw that a lot of my clients couldn’t really read the reports that I give them. Most people don’t have a really good financial education so I started consulting with my clients and three of them in the same week said I should teach this. So I started and never looked back.
I have written two other books for the general public, The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire. What happened then is I took a long break and working with people but there has been a lot since the 2008 crash of the economy and a lot of discussion of income and equality still comes up. I wanted to talk about woman having it all and still be nice and having a good time.” – Chellie Campbell
For a detailed summary of From Worry to Wealthy according to Chellie Campbell CLICK HERE
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In this episode Stephanie O’Dea shares all her insights on her book, Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging, where she discusses an alternative job for stay-at-home moms.
In her book O’Dea shares her personal story of how she turned to blogging as a way to make significant amounts of income while working at home in her pajamas and taking care of her 3 children. The goal of the book is to help you uncover things that interest you, teach you how to turn your interests into a money-making blog, and show you other ways to earn money from home.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have an interest in creating an online business that is unique to their own personal interests, hobbies, and skillsets.
About Stephanie O’Dea:
“I am a mom of three girls, a 13, 10 and 5 year old. And I am lucky enough that I work fulltime at home while I am able to take care of my children. I am a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, a slow cooking expert, and your typical normal everyday mommy blogger next door.
I personally needed to make money from home and so I wanted to dive into finding a legitimate way to do that. This book is written for others moms who might be in the same situations. I had this fire in my belly that I had to find a way to make money from home.” – Stephanie O’Dea
For a detailed summary of Real Moms Making Real Money Blogging according to Stephanie O’Dea CLICK HERE
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In this episode Paul Paetz takes a deep dive into his book, Disruption by Design where he shows you how to create products that disrupt and then dominate markets.
In his book Paetz provides a handbook of lessons that describe the differences in innovation techniques as well as examples from successful innovators that have disrupted markets and ones that should have but failed. The goal of this book is to teach you how disruption happens, where to look for disruptive opportunities, what it takes to be disruptive, and how to market disruptive products.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs who have ideas big enough to change the way we live, but need help developing and launching their product into a specific market.
About Paul Paetz:
“I have been in the technology business over 30 years now and the first 2/3rd of that I was at a number of different startups and companies. I went out on my own after that and started a marketing services company and then joined a friend who was building a company providing services in disruptive innovation. From there I started Innovative Disruption which is a company that I run today providing services to disrupters and companies facing disruption.
There are a ton of books out today on disruption and most of what you see in the media is incorrect. The majority of startups aren’t in a position to afford my services and I think anybody can afford the $30 that the book cost.” – Paul Paetz
For a detailed summary of Disruption by Design according to Paul Paetz CLICK HERE
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In this episode Ken Moraif reveals all his insights on Buy, Hold, and Sell where he shares his investment strategy that could save you from the next market crash.
In his book Moraif gives you very practical advice on the most effective investment strategies, the myths that surround stock investing, the benefits of diversified portfolios, and selling to protect your principle. The goal of the book is to help investors keep all their financial investments, know when to cash out, and prepare themselves for the consequences of a market crash.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are seasoned business owners that are looking for an alternative financial system that will maximize their retirement funds.
About Ken Moraif:
“I am a certified Financial Planner; I’ve been practicing with clients for 27 years now. I run a firm that is one of the top 50 fastest growing financial advisor firms in the nation. And the last three years in a row I’ve been named one of the top 100 Financial Advisors in the nation by Barron’s Magazine.
The philosophy of buy and hold is one that has been around for a long time. My mom was an investor and we lived off of her investments and when I was a young boy I saw my mom win some and lose some depending on the market. So I never really believed in the philosophy of buy and hold and when I went into this business that’s what they teach you. And so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how not to have my clients go through that experience and the strategy and philosophy that we developed is what this book is about.” – Ken Moraif
For a detailed summary of Buy, Hold, and Sell according to Ken Moraif CLICK HERE
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In this episode Carson Tate takes a deep dive into her book, Work Simply, where she provides a system to help make work less complicated and more organized.
In her book Tate gives you a step-by-step productivity system that is separated into four custom styles that are uniquely fit for different types of learners and doers. The goal of the book is to help you identify your own unique productivity style, maximize your effectiveness, lead great meetings, communicate properly, and tell how your desk defines your work style.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that maintain a very busy schedule, work over 40 hours a week, and need help organizing tasks into an effective system.
About Carson Tate:
“I am the owner and founder of a company called Working Simply and that’s my personal mission as well as my company’s mission to help individuals, teams, and organizations streamline and simplify their workflow.
I am very privileged to have the opportunity to work with really high achieving entrepreneurs and business owners and as I was working with them I was finding that they were struggling in trying to adopt and adapt some of the time management, productivity, best practices in the marketplace. So they were feeling frustrated and overwhelmed because the latest and greatest app or blog post that they read wasn’t working for them. I realized that it wasn’t the lack of drive but rather the tools that they were using weren’t aligned to the way they think. So I wanted to write a book that helped people identify the way they think and then align their thinking styles to the way they actually work so that they can be more productive and more discerning.” – Carson Tate
For a detailed summary of Work Simply according to Carson Tate CLICK HERE
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In this episode James Kouzes reveals all his insights on Credibility where he discusses how successful leaders gain credibility, lose their credibility and why people demand credibility.
In his book Kouzes and co-author Barry Posner provide you years of research, case studies, and data that uncover 6 disciplines that build true, long-lasting credibility that leadership experts are good at gaining. The goal of the book is to help you understand the basics of building credibility and why it is important for the growth of your personal and professional success.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are involved in every aspect in managing a business yet need help reinforcing their leadership abilities and building trust with others.
About James Kouzes:
“I am co-author of The Leadership Challenge with Barry Posner which was our first book. I am also Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership at The Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.
Barry and I wrote our first paper together at Santa Clara University where we met on shared values make a difference and that was in the early 80’s. And as part of that research we asked the question what do you look for and admire in a leader. And we found then, and when we did research on our second publication together, we asked that same question again and found a similar response. And that response was that essentially credibility is the foundation of leadership and so we decided that our second book together would be about that topic.” – James Kouzes
For a detailed summary of Credibility according to James Kouzes CLICK HERE
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In this episode David Mitchell reveals all his insights on Building Your Booming Business where he discusses 5 foundations every organization must have to succeed.
In his book Mitchell delivers step-by-step business strategies and advice that will not only take your business to the top, but will help you systemize your business, build an effective team, provide high quality customer experiences, and drive more sales. The goal of the book is alleviate the consequences that come with unmotivated employees, escalating business issues, and an overworked schedule.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own a business that is experiencing stagnant sales, a lack of employee motivation, and an inability to scale.
About David Mitchell:
“I am a business coach, consultant, and professional key note speaker. I take an entrepreneurial and business view to business leaders, owners, and entrepreneurs to help them build their business.
As I was working with business owners, entrepreneurs, and leaders I found that I was saying the same thing over and over again. So I took the same concepts and principles that I taught to my clients and combined it all in one book.” – David Mitchell
For a detailed summary of Building Your Booming Business according to David Mitchell CLICK HERE
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In this episode Melinda Emerson reveals all her insights on Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, where she shares her monthly guide for building small businesses.
In her book Emerson provides you with step-by-step instructions, effective business strategies, simple techniques that will help build your business within a 12 month period. The goal of the book is to teach you fresh, new ways to create any startup through an effective marketing plan, a small business budget that works, financing sources that are worth your time, and a long-lasting business maintenance plan.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are new to the business world and need a guide to help get their first business funded, launched, and maintained within a small amount of time.
About Melinda Emerson:
“My name is Melinda but my nickname is Small Biz Lady and I am very excited to talk to you about my brand new book which is the update of my very first book. Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months is a month by month guide to a business that works. I wrote it because I wanted people to benefit from all the hard learned lessons I had learned in my years in business. I’ve been in business now 16 years so I have been through the fire, wind, and rain and I am still here!
In 2005 my former husband and I became pregnant with my son and I went from being the worlds worst workaholic you ever met in your life to being put on bed rest for six months. And in that time of six months I started thinking about all the expensive lessons I have had the opportunity to learn. I started taking notes and writing down stuff that I wish somebody had given me better advice about. I got to a point where I realized that I needed to pull all this together in a document that would help other people. I wrote the book that I wished someone had written back when I first started my business in 1999.” – Melinda Emerson
For a detailed summary of Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months according to Melinda Emerson CLICK HERE
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In this episode Tim Leberecht takes a deep dive into his book, The Business Romantic, where he argues that we underestimate the importance of romance and that it can be found through business.
In his book Leberecht takes an intriguing yet challenging look into the emotional side of business through the compelling stories of very successful innovators of our times. The goal of the book is to give you a different look on how you pursue your dreams while helping you develop a meaningful life, create something greater than the status quo, and rejuvenate your worklife.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are experiencing boredom in their work lives and are seeking an uplifting yet provocative approach to creating a radically unique life.
About Tim Leberecht:
“I have been working in marketing for almost 20 years now, mainly in professional services. I worked for Frog Design for seven years which is a leading product design and innovation strategy firm. Most recently I’ve been working for an architectural design firm called NBBJ. I am a passionate marketer and that’s also the reason why I wrote this book based on my experiences in that field.
I’m a business person, like I said I’ve been in business for 20 years, and at some point I’ve realized that I’m also an unapologetic romantic. I believe we need more romance in our life and I believe we can find it and create it in and do all that through business. The romance I am talking about is notion experiences where your heart beats faster and you have adrenaline rushes, and moments in which we fall in love with everything. I believe it’s very important that we romanticize business and be enchanted because I believe we are facing a great disenchantment. So my book is making a case for more romance in business within the framework of business and then proposes these specific rules of enchantment that everyone can use to make their life at work more meaningful.” – Tim Leberecht
For a detailed summary of The Business Romantic according to Tim Leberecht CLICK HERE
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In this episode Tiffany Aliche, also known as “The Budgetnista,” takes a deep dive into the Live Richer Challenge where she reveals her proven system that will pave a path to financial freedom.
In her book Aliche provides a step-by-step personal finance system that walks you through daily financial tasks over a span of five weeks and is guaranteed to help you handle your finances better. The goal of the book is to show you how to budget your money properly, create a solid savings, make smart investments, get out of debt, and build your credit rating.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are struggling with their personal finances and need help pulling themselves out of debt and onto a healthier path to financial freedom.
About Tiffany Aliche:
“My name is Tiffany but I am much better known as The Budgetnista and I am a financial educator. I like to say that I am America’s favorite financial educator; at least I’m striving to be. I started The Budgetnista brand about four or five years ago and it has grown into this amazing movement, especially as it relates to women and empowering them to master their money.
The inspiration behind Live Richer Challenge was really the challenge itself. So outside of the book the Live Richer Challenge is a financial challenge that I started to help 10,000 women master their money in 36 days. About this time last year so many women were reaching out to me via social media and my inbox asking for financial help. I wanted to figure out a way that I could help the maximum amount of women in the most efficient way possible. I designed an online financial challenge that just started January 5th and as a result of the challenge I said I should make a corresponding book. We have over 10,000 women in 49 of the 50 states participating in this challenge and the book is a companion piece to that challenge.” – Tiffany Aliche
For a detailed summary of Live Richer Challenge according to Tiffany Aliche CLICK HERE
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In this episode Ann Hawkins reveals all her insight on her book, New Business Next Steps, where she helps make sure any newborn startup becomes a successful business.
In her book Hawkins, and co-author Ed Goodman, give you an all-in-one guide that contains very easy-to-follow strategies, exercises, action plans, and templates to improve your business. The goal of the book is to teach you effective strategies that will improve your marketing efforts, increase your sales, keep your finances in check, implement the right technology, and create quality service.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who have recently created a small startup company and are looking for new, effective ways to grow their business from A to Z.
About Ann Hawkins:
“I am a business coach and a mentor, I work with the government backed growth accelerator service in the UK. And I have been working with small businesses for about 25 years and blogging for 10 years.
90% of businesses don’t make it to their 5th birthday which I think is a tragedy. When you think of all the hopes and dreams that end up in the dust it’s just so sad. And it’s really unnecessary because with just a little bit of help most businesses can make it. So this was kind of the inspiration behind the book. A lot of books are aimed at startups and they go down the route of nail it, scale it, and sale it but I know that most of the people that I work with start a business because they want to work at something that they love for the rest of their lives. So this book is aimed at people who want to create a business that’s going to give them and their families a great lifestyle and not just a great lifestyle but profit too. It’s about hopes and dreams and helping those people make those come true.” – Ann Hawkins
For a detailed summary of New Business: Next Steps according to Ann Hawkins CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jez Humble takes a deep dive into his book, Lean Enterprise where he uncovers how high performing organizations are able to innovate at scale.
In his book Humble sifts through case studies, principles, and patterns of very successful well-known companies providing you with an action guide to help you rethink how to run your business. The goal of the book is to teach you what it takes to implement the methodologies he presents, manage large-scale projects, create a non-traditional management style, and accelerate innovation.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run a well-established organization that is having trouble adapting to changing market conditions and need a fast, innovative approach to scaling up.
About Jez Humble:
“I am a Vice President at Chef, a lecturer at UC Berkeley, and before Lean Enterprise I wrote Continuous Delivery. My background is in software engineering and I’ve worked in multiple industries, in multiple companies, helping organizations get better at delivering high quality valuable software products.
Lean Enterprise is about how you create organizations that are able to work in short development cycles, build products rapidly, and get feedback. And that requires us to change the way we think about portfolio management, financial management, culture, and pretty much everything else. All these things need to be a bit different in order to compete in this world where we have these very short product cycles.” – Jez Humble
For a detailed summary of Lean Enterprise according to Jez Humble CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jay Papasan reveals all his insights on his and Gary Keller’s national bestseller, The One Thing where they reveal the surprisingly simple truth behind achieving extraordinary results.
In their book Papasan and Keller provide you with a simple yet effective approach to improving the results in every area of your life including your work, personal health, relationships, and inner spirit. The goal of the book is to help you be more productive, become healthy and fit, increase your paycheck, boost business sales, build a career, and nurture stronger relationships with others.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are tired of living mediocre lives and need an actionable system that will help them achieve results they never thought possible.
About Jay Papasan:
“I live in Austin, Texas. My wife runs a highly successful real estate team here called The Papasan Property Group and we have two kids, Gus and Veronica. In the big picture I grew up in Memphis Tennessee, spent about 20 years in publishing before settling with my family here in Austin to be a writer.
My Co-author is Gary Keller and he founded Keller Williams Realty which is now the largest Real Estate franchise company in the world. In the course of working on an education piece for the company I was writing with him on some real estate books and he wrote an essay called The Power of One and I had a ah-ha moment. From that I realized that this is Gary’s one thing. So as soon as I read that eight page essay we dug in and spent about five years researching and trying to identity exactly his techniques and how they lined up with other successful entrepreneurs.” – Jay Papasan
For a detailed summary of The One Thing according to Jay Papasan CLICK HERE
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In this episode bestselling author Peter Bregman reveals all his insights on Four Seconds where he reveals a strategy to eliminate counter-productive habits from your daily routine.
In his book Bregman gives you simple and practical solutions that can be used every day, take very little time to accomplish, and will help you produce results you never thought you would see. The goal of the book is to help you overcome habits that attract stress, leverage listening to change someone’s mind, disengage from problematic situations, and take responsibility for your team’s failure.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are working on multiple projects and are having a hard time organizing their routine in order to see more effective and productive results.
About Peter Bregman:
“I am the CEO of Bregman Partners; it’s a company that strengthens leadership in people and in organizations. We do leadership programs, coaching, and I work as an advisor to CEO’s. I do a lot of writing and thinking about human behavior and the things we do that get in our own way that either help us or prevent us from being successful.
The inspiration was my own consistent failure. I find that there are habits that I am in and when I look around I find that I am not alone. These habits are things that we do intuitively and are counterproductive. When I saw the impact of uncovering my own blind spots I wanted to share it with others and decided to write a book about it.” – Peter Bregman
For a detailed summary of Four Seconds according to Peter Bregman CLICK HERE
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In this episode Tim Stevens takes a deep dive into his book, Fairness is Overrated, where he shares over 50 leadership principles that will revolutionize any workplace.
In his book Stevens provides you with a manual of tools, practical lessons, real truths, and relevant case studies that discuss the effective pillars of leadership that very successful leaders display. The goal of the book is to teach you how to increase your integrity, surround yourself with successful people, effectively manage a crisis, and develop a culture of true leadership at your organization.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are building a public figure persona or manage a team of people at an organization and want to take their leadership to a stronger, empowering level.
About Tim Stevens:
“I spent my first nine years of my adult life working for a nonprofit organization and was able to stretch my leadership skills there. From there I went into a very small startup local church that had just began going and was meeting in rented space. I was able to jump on the team with five others and see it grow over the next 20 years. Most recently I have joined an organization called the Vanderbloemen Search Group and we get to come along side churches and nonprofit organizations and help them find staff.
One of the inspirations behind writing this book was my own leadership growth. Being able to pass along some principles that had served me well over the years that someone along the way passed to me. Secondly I wanted to help people address startups and adventures while maintaining their personal values and integrity. That is a tough thing to do and I don’t see a lot of people writing on that particular subject.” – Tim Stevens
For a detailed summary of Fairness Is Overrated according to Tim Stevens CLICK HERE
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In this episode Geoffrey Moore shares all his insights on his bestselling book, Crossing the Chasm, where he discusses his revised and updated expertise on marketing and selling disruptive products to mainstream customers.
In his book Moore provides dozens of successful high-tech marketing examples, his in-depth research on technology adoption models for high-tech consumers, and many new marketing strategies that are specifically built for bring high-tech products to larger markets. The goal of the book is to help you master the Technology Adoption Life cycle and accelerate your marketing efforts.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are selling high-tech products that are new the market and need help broaden their marketing efforts to cover all segments of the Technology Adoption Life Cycle.
About Geoffrey Moore:
“I have an academic background originally; I was going to be a professor of English. But back in the 70’s I moved out to California, joined a high-tech firm, and been involved in tech marketing and high tech strategy since 1978. In the late 80’s I worked with a company called Regis McKenna and it gave me a chance to write this book which originally came out in 1990-1991.It’s about marketing and selling products to mainstream customers.
It was that high-tech firms would have experience of having early success with a handful of customers who were very enthusiastic about their disruptive innovation and that would make them think that they were ready to pour on the gas. And it just felt like the marketing kept on collapsing underneath them every time and this happened often enough that we knew we needed to find a solution and tell others about it.” – Geoffrey Moore
For a detailed summary of Crossing The Chasm according to Geoffrey Moore CLICK HERE
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In this episode Michael Moshiri reveals all the insights on his book, Never Chase Clients Again, where he shares the fastest, easiest, and most effective system for getting qualified consulting clients.
In his book Moshiri provides his personal step-by-step principles for getting new clients along with the most effective lead generation tactics of the world’s largest and most successful consulting firms. The goal of the book is to help you attract highly qualified leads with little effort, teach you the business development strategies that are ineffective, and how to build effective relationships with your clients.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are in the business of consulting, have a small, limited budget and need help laying the foundation for an effective marketing plan that will bring quality leads.
About Michael Moshiri:
“For the past 23 years I have spent my days working in the industry of consulting and I’ve worked with big firms such as Deloitte, EY, and PwC. I have built and raised from nothing, a national consulting practice and also worked with some midsize firms.
I have spent the majority of my career in the world of consulting and one of the things that is the most critical function for any consulting is finding highly qualified clients. In the time that I have spent in the world of consulting I recognize that there are two types of people. The first type people are the types that jump on lead generation strategies that are the most popular or the hottest at the moment. And then there are those who use tried and true methods that help them find highly qualified clients.” – Michael Moshiri
For a detailed summary of Never Chase Clients Again according to Michael Moshiri CLICK HERE
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In this episode Michelle Seiler-Tucker takes a deep dive into her book, Sell Your Business for More Than it’s Worth, where she shows you how to get a twenty to forty percent higher selling price for a business.
In her book Seiler-Tucker provides valuable advice on the commercial real estate industry, reveals the issues that add value to your business, and many more inside tricks that selling advisors use to maximize the value of a business. The goal of the book is to help you increase your market share, make your business more profitable, develop a solid exit plan, and take advantage of a dying industry.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who plan on selling their business in the future, want to discover if their industry in thriving or dying, or simply want to increase the value of their business.
About Michelle Seiler-Tucker:
“I have always wanted to write even since I was a little girl and I was not your typical little girl. At the age of 10 most girls are playing with dolls but I was walking around with a notebook and pen asking everyone a hundred questions and write short stories based upon what they would say. I have sold hundreds of franchises and businesses for years and many of my clients inspired me to write this book because the sale of a business is very confidential.
Eight out of ten businesses do not sell because the business owners have not planned their exit strategy and the best time to sell is when the business is doing well. The main purpose of the book was to help entrepreneurs plan their exit strategy and know their end game.” – Michelle Seiler-Tucker
For a detailed summary of Sell Your Business for More Than It’s Worth according to Michelle Seiler-Tucker CLICK HERE
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In this episode Mark Sephton reveals all his insights on his book, Inside Job where he shares earth-shattering methods and mindset shifts that will turn failing businesses around.
In his book Sephton provides an inside look into his personal struggles with entrepreneurship along many other success stories that have resulted in the ability to turn dreams into reality. The goal of the book is to help you strengthen your mindset, build your character, harvest your thoughts, and stimulate your personal growth in order to turn your struggles into actionable advantages to achieve your dreams.
This book is for entrepreneurs who are struggling with their inner abilities to overcome entrepreneurial failure and need help in developing a stronger mindset that will get them through their struggles.
About Mark Sephton:
I am involved in a number of things but they’ve all got the same common denominator and that is that I have a passion to positively influence all that I meet and come in to contact with. My main business is that I mentor entrepreneurs and I mentor them over a number of different ways. I build a GPS system which is based on eight key fundamentals of what I believe makes up a person’s basic DNA. What that does is it reveals blind spots. I also host a show as well where I interview entrepreneurs and I just recently launched my first book titled Inside Job.
I think everybody has got a story to tell and it was clear from working with different entrepreneurs in different fields of expertise. Some of my ideas and mentoring techniques started to pay off and I thought it was time to help reveal some of these tactics and mind shifts.
For a detailed summary of Inside Job according to Mark Sephton CLICK HERE
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In this episode, bestselling author and success leader, Greg Reid takes a deep dive into his book Thoughts Are Things where he and his co-author, Bob Proctor, reveal the true mindsets that determine where a person will be successful.
In their book Reid and Proctor interview professionals to dissect the psychological science of thought and how successful people think differently from others who are unable to reach their potential. The goal of the book is to teach you how to manipulate your thoughts, what kinds of thoughts will make you wealthy, and how thinking is significant to achieve a meaningful life.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who admire the works of Napoleon Hill and are ready to change everything about their lives in order to control their actions when it comes to wealth and success.
About Greg Reid:
“I live in San Diego, California with you wife and my two year old son. I get to write books, make movies, travel the world, and meet some of the most influential people of our time and then tell their stories.
To start with I did Thoughts Are Things with a legendary author named Bob Proctor and this book is the very first one in the Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich series. The whole concept is if you ever read Think and Grow Rich, the first three words are Thoughts Are Things. Bob and I decided to take those three words and expand on them and from there we created this gem that people are loving national wide.” – Greg Reid
For a detailed summary of Thoughts Are Things according to Greg Reid CLICK HERE
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In this episode Emily Guy Birken takes a deep dive into her book, The 5 Years Before You Retire, where she reveals a comprehensive guide to planning your retirement early.
In her book Birken gives you a complete overview of retirement planning with simple strategies that explain how you can maximize your last years before retiring through conservative financial decisions. The goal of the book is to help you save money for your future, get the most value from your 401K, and maximize your current savings that is realistic for years to come.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a very basic understanding of what it takes to retire and need a simple yet comprehensive guide that will educate on the early steps of retirement.
About Emily Guy Birken:
“I am a Personal Finance writer; I write on the internet, on many different sites. I’m also an author and currently on my second book on retirement called Your Retirement Path.
I was frustrated by the fact that retirement planning books all seemed to focus on younger workers, those who are in their 30’s and 40’s. And then there are some books on stretching your budget for those who are already retired but there didn’t seem to be any guides available for that crunch time in those five years before you retire. I wanted to fill that gap for those who are looking at retirement in the very near future.” – Emily Guy Birken
For a detailed summary of The 5 Years Before You Retire according to Emily Guy Birken CLICK HERE
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In this episode Erica Dhawan takes a deep dive into her book, Get Big Things Done, where she unlocks the 21st century secret to getting things done through the power of connectional intelligence.
In her book Dhawan teaches you what is connectional intelligence, how to develop it, and reveals the secrets of how many well-known leaders have used it to achieve their own professional goals. The goal of the book is to help you creatively gain more supporters, drive more innovation, develop solid strategies, and solve problems on a large scale so you can achieve better performance.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a growing network of connections and needs a guide for making the most use of their network by building actionable connections.
About Erica Dhawan:
“I am the co-author of Get Big Things Done and I serve as a strategist for Fortune 500 companies, organizations, and small business owners, on accelerating the connectedness of their teams with their customers, their clients, and other stakeholders.
The inspiration starts with my personal story; I am a first generation daughter of two Indian immigrants here in the US and as you can imagine my goal since childhood was to check all the boxes of success. In the 2008 recession I witness firsthand confusion and burnout of my generation and I saw how many dreams and passions were being squashed every day. After the financial collapse I completely switched gears to find more meaning in both my work and to better understand how the next generation and leaders that wanted to stay in Corporate America could leverage our passion and purpose and all of the resources available to us. And what I found through that research was that many of the struggles were similar and the struggle was around how to work intentionally to get big things done. This is what led to me co-authoring research with a renowned business strategist named Saj-nicole Joni.” – Erica Dhawan
For a detailed summary of Get Big Things Done according to Erica Dhawan CLICK HERE
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In this episode Ed Normand shares all the insights on, business partner and wife, Sally Hogshead’s book How The World Sees You where he discusses the science of personal fascination.
In her book Hogshead provides you with a step-by-step guide that shows you how to describe yourself in a few short words, build your own tagline, and uncover the true description of your unique personality. The goal of the book is to help you differentiate yourself from others, communicate more effectively with peers, know what makes you more valuable, and become more aware of who you are.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are becoming more active at networking events, building an online profile, or are beefing up their personal resume yet need help describing themselves to others.
About Ed Normand:
“I am the co-creator with my wife, Sally Hogshead, of the Fascination Advantage System.
Sally has a great knowledge about the ways in which brands really captivate listeners and from that our followers wanted to know how people captivate. So we developed an assessment that identifies in people the brand messages that you use and we identified through this how the world sees you. The assessment identifies how the world sees you and the book brings you to how the world can see you at your best.” – Ed Normand
For a detailed summary of How The World Sees You according to Ed Normand CLICK HERE
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In this episode Larry Kotlikoff takes a deep dive into his book, Get What’s Yours where he reveals his secrets for maximizing your social security payments.
In his book Kotlikoff gives his expert advice on navigating the intricacies of social security, the benefit scenarios of retirement, the bad decisions that raise business taxes, and financial consequences of other investments. The goal of this book is to help you understand the rules and consequences that come with getting the most out of your social security, retirement, and investments.
This book is perfect for seasoned entrepreneurs who are beginning to plan for retirement or aspiring entrepreneurs who have little to no knowledge of their economic benefits from the government and your business.
About Larry Kotlikoff:
“I am a Professor of Economics at Boston University; I’ve been an Economist for a long time. I grew up in New Jersey, went to Penn College and got interested in Economics and then went to grad school at Harvard.
Well we have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day and the social security system is about as complicated as one can imagine. I felt the need to help others get the best deal possible.” – Larry Kotlikoff
For a detailed summary of Get What’s Yours according to Larry Kotlikoff CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jerry Mills shares all his insights on his book, The Exit Strategy Handbook, where he reveals the best way business owners can prepare themselves for selling a business.
In his book Mills walks you through a step-by-step preparation process and a host of extensive check lists that can be used as a guide for holding your financial advisor accountable when it comes to exiting your business. The goal of the book is to help you get the most value for your business and work the system when it comes to a competitive buyers market.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs and small business owners who have little to no experience in exit strategy planning and want to be prepared when the time comes to sell.
About Jerry Mills:
“I went to Arizona State University, spent a good deal of my career with Arthur Anderson & Co., and started to be CFO in 1987. I’m also proud to be the father of four children and almost six grandchildren.
All through my career I have been on the side of helping business owners sell their companies and through quite a few transactions. In one particular I saw the frustration business owners go through; it’s very stressful and a difficult process. I also went on Amazon and ordered and read the top 25 books on this subject and found that nobody was covering it.” – Jerry Mills
For a detailed summary of The Exit Strategy Handbook according to Jerry Mills CLICK HERE
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In this episode J.D. Meier takes a deep dive into his book, Getting Results the Agile Way, where he shares a simple, effective guide for achieving long-term and short-term personal goals.
In his book Meier provides a very flexible, step-by-step time management system that offers you enough planning to get you going, but simple enough to change it up as need be. The goal of the book is to help you prepare your life from daily to yearly, find your true motivation, improve upon your productivity, and feed your energy with daily habits to move you forward every day.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who sacrifice their personal life for their work life, constantly live with to-do lists, and are looking for a way to make their daily lives less stressful yet more meaningful.
About J.D. Meier:
“I work at Microsoft and been here several years but what I’m really focused on is helping businesses change. I’m in the business of business change but I also help people thrive in work and life.
The big thing was that I saw too many people living in pain and not doing the things that made them come alive. I saw people that simply didn’t flourish when I knew that they could and I want people to be all that they’re capable of. I really wanted people to be able to think, feel, and do their best.” – J.D. Meier
For a detailed summary of Getting Results The Agile Way according to J.D. Meier CLICK HERE
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In this episode Kurt Won reveals all the insights on his book, The Startup Survival System, where he shares how a startup can thrive in the first 2 years of business.
In his book Won gives you a simple systematic approach to prioritizing your business, narrowing your focus, and increasing your results to ultimately keep your business from failing too early. The goal of the book is to help you prepare for the consequences of entrepreneurship, build a foundation for your startup, improve operations, drive more sales, and maximize profitability.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are ready to launch a new startup company and need an easy, actionable guide to help them get started.
About Kurt Won:
“I was born and raised in South African and have been living over in the UK for the past 15 years. I am a multi award winning consultant for startups and small business owners. I am a speaker and now I’m an author. I’ve worked with over 1,000 entrepreneurs and business owners across 15 different countries to help increase sales and drive results in their business in a much quicker time.
My mission is to be able to help empower and support as many startups and existing small business owners as possible. Over the past five years I have worked with over 1,000 entrepreneurs and small business owners and I found that there are really so many people I can help with the amount of time that I have. I knew that writing this book would be a great way to help serve more people and make a bigger impact and help more startups survive and thrive in their first years of business.” – Kurt Won
For a detailed summary of The Startup Survival System according to Kurt Won CLICK HERE
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In this episode Miki Agrawal takes a deep dive into her book, Do Cool Sh*t, where she reveals her insights on starting a successful company and living happily ever after.
In her book Agrawal teaches you fresh yet effective tactics for starting a new company from brainstorming to raising money to getting quality press coverage without having any connections. The goal of the book is to provide you with a quirky yet honest look into the life of a serial entrepreneur and give you the confidence to quit your job, start your own business, and live a happy life.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are currently working for someone else and are ready to make a move into the world of self-employment.
About Miki Agrawal:
“I started off working in Investment Banking when I graduated from Cornell University. 9/11 happened just a few days after I moved to New York, I was supposed to be at the World Trade Center that day but it was the first time in my life that I slept through my alarm clock. That was sort of my wake up call. I played professional soccer for a couple of years; I worked in the film business and worked my way up in production. I had my first stomach ache when I decided to start my first business which was a gluten free farm-to-table pizza concept in New York City. My newest project is called THINX which is a women’s empowerment apparel company that provides a sustainable underwear solution for women to wear doing their time of the month.
When you are in college entrepreneurship is really not something that you study and there wasn’t an entrepreneurship course. And so I began to read books by entrepreneurs and walked away so inspired but with so many questions. I wanted to find a book that I could read and one that gave me the step by step system to go from step zero to step one in business and life.” – Miki Agrawal
For a detailed summary of Do Cool Sh*t according to Miki Agrawal CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jacob Engel reveals all the insights on his book, The Prosperous Leader, where he provides a comprehensive look into how smart people can achieve success independently.
In his book Engel gives you 24 simple, actionable steps to realistically analyze your personal strengths and weaknesses so you can create your own path to economic success. The goal of the book is to help you maximize your strengths while developing the actual skills you need to strengthen your own leadership and management abilities.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are having trouble cultivating their own unique abilities and need help maximizing their strengths to become effective leaders and smart managers.
About Jacob Engel:
“I was born in Brooklyn New York and still live in New York. My father came to this country with no family, money or language and was lucky enough to find a job in a little spice shop. My dad eventually moved to Brooklyn to open up his own spice shop in 1955. I joined the business in 1975 and we were doing about 10 million dollars in sales which was very significant at the time. My dad passed away in 1995 when the business was doing over a hundred million and eventually the business grew close to two hundred million. I realized that I was in the people business and that intrigued me. Entrepreneurs have great advantages but it also comes with disadvantages and I figured out how to build on our strengths and how to mitigate our weaknesses. And that’s how I got into understanding everything about starting a business, running a business, and building a business.
I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d be a writer or a speaker. I was really motivated and inspired by my mentor who is probably one of the greatest people that studied and understands entrepreneurs. He told me to write a book and share my experiences and tips. So I spent about two years writing and rewriting.” – Jacob Engel
For a detailed summary of The Prosperous Leader according to Jacob Engel CLICK HERE
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In this episode Guy Kawasaki reveals all his insights on his and Peg Fitzpatrick’s book, The Art of Social Media, where he shares over 100 practical tips and tricks on the most popular social media platforms.
In their book Kawasaki and Fitzpatrick give you an actionable marketing strategy that guides you through steps to build your foundation, amass your digital assets, optimize your profile, attract more followers, and effectively integrate social media and blogging. The goal of the book is to help you improve your online presence and dramatically increase your social media traffic.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are trying to improve their social media marketing efforts to increase brand awareness, build credibility online, and network with other experts.
About Guy Kawasaki:
“I am currently the Chief Evangelist of an online graphics tool company called Canva. Prior to this I advised the CEO of Motorola for a year, I was also the Evangelist and Chief Evangelist of Apple. I’ve started several companies and I’m a writer and a speaker, I’ve written 13 books.
My main inspiration was royalty. Basically I wanted to enable people to use social media as a fantastic marketing tool.” – Guy Kawasaki
For a detailed summary of The Art of Social Media according to Guy Kawasaki CLICK HERE
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In this episode Dianna Booher takes a deep dive into her book, What More Can I Say, where she discusses why communication fails and what you can do about it.
In her book Booher gives you examples of messages that succeed along with a practical nine-point checklist that addresses the common reasons that your communication is causing you to fail your goals. The goal of her book is to help you build solid relationships, increase your credibility, get your point across clearly, and become a more influential communicator.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are trying to become credible public figures and need practical advice that helps them overcome the typical failures of communication.
About Dianna Booher:
“I have been working with executives and people that want to improve their communication for about three decades. I have been coaching people, teaching business writing, technical writing, presentation skills, and just working with organizations who want to improve their productivity by increasing their effectiveness.
For months we have been in to the situation where both sides politically are engaged in what I call an uncivil discourse. In business everything that happens, happens as a result of communication so when I sat down to unravel miscommunication in a business or organization I wanted to know why it was that people can’t change others minds. I started researching why some people can’t persuade effectively and that’s the reason why I wrote the book.” – Dianna Booher
For a detailed summary of What More Can I Say according to Dianna Booher CLICK HERE
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In this episode Brigid Schulte shares her insights on her book, Overwhelmed, where she reveals the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration.
In her book Schulte shares the story of what she found while traveling across Europe to understand how countries accommodate working parents while investigating companies that are trying to invent a new kind of workplace. The goal of the book is to provide you with practical advice on how to make better use of each day and open your eyes to why we live and work the way we do.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are determined to exhaust themselves for work but find themselves becoming overwhelmed with stress and busyness.
About Brigid Schulte:
“I have been a longtime reporter for The Washington Post and been a journalist for most of my adult life. I have covered a wide variety of things throughout my career. I am married and the mom of two kids who are now 13 and 16. I live in Alexandria Virginia and grew up in Portland Oregon.
Overwhelmed was a completely accidental book. Through my career I have always wanted to write a book. There are lots of journalists out there and that’s sort of a big dream that they all have but you just get so busy and you don’t really have time to think about it. I was part of this group in The Washington Post where we were looking at a readership numbers and we were noticing a big gap between male and female readers. We found that more men were reading the newspaper and before women were and the reason why that is important is that women over 50 have always been the most loyal newspaper readers. So we put together what we call The Women’s Reader Committee and we wanted to understand why women are not reading the paper and how do we bring them back? This committee was made up of me and all other women. The first thing we did was roll our eyes because we as women know that we don’t have time in the mornings to read the newspaper. And it became this sort of confessional about just how crazy our lives were. F
rom there I did a time study and to my surprise found that we have all this leisure time we aren’t aware of which led me to writing this book.” - Brigid Schulte
For a detailed summary of Overwhelmed according to Brigid Schulte CLICK HERE
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The Upside of Your Dark Side by Todd Kashdan
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In this episode New York Times bestselling author Rory Vaden reveals all his insights on his book, Procrastinate on Purpose, where he provides a guide for mastering time-management and productivity.
In his book Vaden shows you how the greatest leaders in the world have figured out how to literally multiply their time giving you tools and techniques that will empower you to master your productivity. The goal of the book is to teach you how to manufacture more time into your day, become more effective at work with less stress, and how utilize procrastination to your advantage.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are managing multiple projects or businesses at once and need an effective time management strategy that adds more time to their day.
About Rory Vaden:
“I am the Co-Founder of Southwestern Consulting and a New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs.
In Take the Stairs we talked about three different times of procrastination and we talk about classic procrastination. Classic procrastination is about consciously delaying the things we know we should be doing. There is another type of procrastination called Creative Avoidance which is a little bit different than classic procrastination because it’s unconscious. Also, in the book Take the Stairs we mentioned this new type of procrastination that we started noticing not in the lazy people but in the movers and shakers and we call it Priority Dilution. This new procrastination affects the entrepreneurs, the go-getters and yet it’s the same result. At the end of the day our most significant priorities are left unchecked, not because we are lazy but because as our star rises we unconsciously or consciously allow our attention to shift to less important but perhaps more urgent tasks. We decided that topic was such a hot button that we needed to dedicate a few years’ worth of research to solving the priority delus
ion problem.” – Rory Vaden
For a detailed summary of Procrastinate on Purpose according to Rory Vaden CLICK HERE
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In this episode bestselling author Jon Gordon reveals all his insights on his book, The Energy Bus, where he shares 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy.
In his book Gordon reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment. The goal of the book is to help you overcome negativity, build trust with others, improve your enthusiasm, and stop holding grudges in order to bring out the best in yourself.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a hard time accepting the everyday challenges that come with life and are searching for a way to eliminate negativity from their lives.
About Jon Gordon:
“I am a writer and speaker, I consider myself a writer first. I love writing fables that inspire and encourage people. I am a husband and a father to two teenagers.
I was walking, praying, and struggling in my own life and the idea just came to me. The idea of a bus driver who inspires their passengers to change their life and to become a better leader at work just came to me. And I wrote the book in about 3 and ½ weeks of pure inspiration.” – Jon Gordon
For a detailed summary of The Energy Bus according to Jon Gordon CLICK HERE
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The Upside of Your Dark Side by Todd Kashdan
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Memoirs of Normalcy by Joleene Moody
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In this episode Neil Fiore takes a deep dive into his book, The Now Habit, where he reveals all his insights on one of the most effective programs to combat procrastination.
In his book Fiore offers a comprehensive plan and actionable strategies to help you lower your stress and increase your time to enjoy guilt-free play. The goal of the book is to help any busy person start tasks sooner and accomplish them more quickly, without the anxiety brought on by the negative habits of procrastination and perfectionism.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are struggling to get things done in a timely manner and are looking for an effective strategy to become more efficient when it comes to large projects.
About Neil Fiore:
“I was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey and that’s relevant because coming from a working class family without a lot of money I started working fairly young. By the time I was in high school I was working 15 hours a week at a local supermarket and in college up to 20 hours. I had to learn how to be a lot more efficient than my fellow students and I learned to start writing right when I was assigned an assignment and flesh it out on the bus going to work and finish on the bus coming home. So without realizing it I started to develop those skills very early.
The Now Habit was written while I was on a new job at the University of California. I was working 40 to 45 hours a week, enjoying California, and putting in 15 to 20 hours a week to work on my dissertation so I was extremely focused while busy. I was attempting to work with doctorial students and graduate students and noticed that they were procrastinating. So I realized that I had something valuable that I had taken for granted and wanted to help other people by sharing it in this book.” – Neil Fiore
For a detailed summary of The Now Habit according to Neil Fiore CLICK HERE
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In this episode Bernhard Schroeder reveals his insights on his book, Fail Fast or Win Big, where he reveals how the right kind of risk and embracing fast failure can really pay off.
In his book Schroeder teaches you how to create a quick prototype of your product or service, develop a business model, test it repeatedly with customers, and continue to refine your business model. The goal of the book is to help you determine quickly whether your business idea is worth pursuing, needs new direction, or should be abandoned altogether.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are starting a brand new business and need help figuring out the best way to create a business model, test a product or service, and pinpoint any failure.
About Bernhard Schroeder:
“I am a director of Lavin Entrepreneurship Center at San Diego State University. I also teach in the entrepreneurship program and I was a career marketing guy who happened to build a billion dollar company with three other people and launch some amazing companies like Amazon and Yahoo.
After I built my marketing career and a billion dollar company I decided that none of that was motivating anymore and I wanted to somehow figure out a way to help other people have an amazing life. I decided to go back to a college campus and teach and as I was teaching I was asked to Speak at a Ted event. The topic at that event was Why Failing Fast is Great. The next day I got an e-mail from a publisher in New York who said he’d heard about the talk from a friend of his who attended and he wanted to see the power point because he thought it was a book. Before you know it he gave me feedback that this is the kind of thing that can help a lot of people and so I wrote the book.” – Bernhard Schroeder
For a detailed summary of Fail Fast or Win Big according to Bernhard Schroeder CLICK HERE
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In this episode John R Bell takes a deep dive into his book, Do Less Better, where he explains why sacrifice in the right places cuts through complexity and clears the way to competitive advantage.
In his book Bell provides a tool-kit of road-tested strategies for keeping companies lean, creating cultures of innovation, and knowing when to expand and yet, remain streamlined. The goal of the book is to teach you how to “think smaller,” when everyone around you is firmly entrenched in the “do more” strategy in order to become more agile, adaptable, and resilient than your competitors.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are struggling to outweigh the competitors in their market and need a new yet effective approach to reinvent their current strategy.
About John Bell:
“I am a retired CEO of a consumer packaged goods company that was sold to Kraft back in the 90’s. After the sell to Kraft I decided to become a management consultant and I did that until I retired about two years ago. By the time I hung up my hat I’d helped a couple dozen companies including Campbell Soup, Starbucks, and Interbrew. I love to write and still like to play games such as golf and tennis.
Earlier in my career I was faced with the challenge of turning around a near bankrupt company. This company had too many products, too many brands, and too many categories. So by closing or selling the majority of the brands we trimmed that company down to a shadow of its former self. We decided that we were going to be an expert in one category and at the time that happened to be coffee. By focusing on coffee and nothing else we were able to swim out of the raging river of red ink and we called that means to the end the do less better strategy. I describe that as the opposite of doing more with less or even doing more with more and that whole idea stayed with me for the rest of my career. So when I became a consultant I saw a similar pattern of unnecessary complexity in both troubled and successful businesses and I think today business complexity has reached pandemic proportions and there has never been a greater need for simplicity and focus.” - John Bell
For a detailed summary of Do Less Better according to John Bell CLICK HERE
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In this episode world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, shares all her insights on her book, Mindset, where she explains why it’s not just our abilities and talents that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.
In her book Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The goal of the book is to teach you how to reach your own personal and professional goes while developing a love of learning and resilience that is the bases of great accomplishment in every area in order to achieve ultimate success.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are trying to figure what it is that makes them tick and would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.
About Carol Dweck:
“I am a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and I have been studying why people succeed and fail for over 40 years.
I have been doing research for many years on why some people are go getter’s and jump in whereas others, just as talented or able, shy away from difficulty and end up not fulfilling their potential. After researching this for many years I came to the discovery of the mindsets as the cause of these differences. My students told me I had to write this book after benefiting from this knowledge and wanted others to know about it.” – Carol Dweck
For a detailed summary of Mindset according to Carol Dweck CLICK HERE
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In this episode David Newman takes a deep dive into his book, Do It Marketing, where he shares 77 instant, actionable tactics to boost sales, maximize profits, and beat the competition.
In his book Newman gives you concrete strategies, tactics, templates, and tools to regain the clarity, confidence, and control your need to succeed when it comes to marketing your business. The goal of the book is to teach you how to get noticed using the power of 3PR, position yourself as a go-to expert in your field, do social media right, generate a steady stream of referrals, and leverage enthusiastic advocates.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have an understanding of their business and the marketing they need yet fail to see an increase in new prospects, customers, and revenue from their efforts.
About David Newman:
“I run a company called Do It Marketing and coincidentally that is also the title of my book. I work with consultants, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and independent professionals who want to do a better job with their marketing and grow their business. I live outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania with my beautiful bride of 30 years and two kids. Our son Charlie is 19, our daughter Becca is 22 and life is an ongoing adventure.
It really was founded in my coaching, consulting, and speaking business. So many small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent professionals are stuck. This is causing so much headache and frustration that a book like this needed to be written.” – David Newman
For a detailed summary of Do It! Marketing according to David Newman CLICK HERE
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In this episode MJ DeMarco reveals all his insights on his book, The Millionaire Fastlane, where he cracks the code to becoming wealthy and living the rich life.
In his book DeMarco provides you with an expressway to extraordinary wealth that will get you to financial freedom faster than any other guide out there. The goal of his book is to teach you why most entrepreneurs fail, the leading cause of being poor, why typical jobs will never make you rich, how the rich really get rich, and why the guru myth of “do what you love” will most likely keep you poor, not rich.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are ready to leave the job market to pursue self-employment in order to gain financial freedom, be their own boss, and ultimately become very rich.
About MJ DeMarco:
“I started an internet company way back in the late 90’s. I founded it with about 900 bucks, no internet training, no computer science degree and I was able to sell it a couple years later during the internet boom. The company that bought the company folded and I was able to get it back at a fire sale price. I helped the company for another 6 to 7 years until I sold it again in 2007. During this time that I owned the company I was able to cash flow it six figures monthly profit and sold it to a multimillion dollar valuation. After selling the business in 2007 I went on a little semi-retirement hiatus and one of my goals was to write a book about all the trials and tribulations of entrepreneurship which was The Millionaire Fastlane.
I was leading a fantastic life of abundant wealth and when I reflected upon that it was all due to entrepreneurship and The Millionaire Fastlane is how to bring about that type of scenario.” – MJ DeMarco
For a detailed summary of The Millionaire Fastlane according to MJ DeMarco CLICK HERE
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In this episode Robert Galford takes a deep dive into his book, The Trusted Advisor, where he, David Maister, and Charles Green give you the ultimate tool for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors.
In their book, Galford and team share a practical, five crucial steps you need for developing, managing and improving client confidence. The goal of the book is to teach you the fundamentals of professional service management and customer relations helping you become one of the most trusted advisors in business while improving your ability to influence clients.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs seeking business partnerships or professionals in the consulting field who are both hoping to improve their interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
About Robert Galford:
“I am one of the co-authors of The Trusted Advisor along with The Trusted Leader and Your Leadership Legacy. I spend my time writing, teaching, consulting, and advising on topics of trust and trust related elements for people who are running businesses at senior levels.
Our inspiration was very much the fact that we saw a lot of people who were very good at what they did in their jobs, companies, and professions. But we wanted to know what differentiated the ones who were truly successful. What made the difference for someone who was not just a lawyer but a great lawyer? We found that it wasn’t about their competence in their task or their role; it was about their ability to build trust with their clients and their customers.” – Robert Galford
For a detailed summary of The Trusted Advisor according to Robert Galford CLICK HERE
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In this episode Joe Schmieder shares his book, Innovation in the Family Business where he takes a thoughtful look at innovation in the family business industry.
In his book Schmieder shares a variety of insights and best practices applicable to family businesses more generally. The goal of the book is to help you dissect the relevant data and provide a working framework with which you can innovate your own family business and stay relevant to your specific market niche.
This book is perfect for family business leaders or any executive leading a family owned business who is in search looking to reinvent or implement the best practices for family businesses.
About Joe Schmieder:
“I am a family business advisor; I have been working with family businesses for over 35 years. I ran two family businesses as an executive for 25 years and I have been consulting with family businesses for the last 10 years.
I was very interested in helping family businesses continue their firms for more than one, two or three generations. So I worked on the book to help family members and executives who are interested in innovating in the family business. And I also try to inspire those enterprising family members to focus more energy and resources on innovation and change throughout their family business instead of just relying on the status quo. I have this passion to make sure we can keep family businesses strong because they do generate the majority of the income and the jobs throughout our economy.” – Joe Schmieder
For a detailed summary of Innovation in the Family Business according to Joe Schmieder CLICK HERE
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In this episode Michaela Csik takes a deep dive into her book, The Business Model Navigator, where she shares 55 business models that make up 90% of the most successful businesses in the world.
In her book, Csik and her co-authors provide the blueprints you need to revolutionize your business and implement powerful change. The goal of the book is become a toolkit for you to adapt and innovate your business model and to understand what other business models are, who invented them, who uses them now, and how to apply them to your business.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are creating a brand new business or are simply looking to reinvent their current business model in order to deliver the results they need.
About Michaela Csik:
“I am working as an Innovation Manager at Holcim Technology, one of the world’s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates and there I am mainly responsible for new business models. Before that I worked at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and during that time I had the chance to work with Oliver Gassmann and Karolin Frankenberger on The Business Model Navigator book.
We see a lot of companies that are ahead of the competition. So business model has become in the last 10 to 15 years a major driver of success. It’s not enough to be just good in product innovation anymore but in a way the business model is becoming more and more important. The paradox is that most companies don’t have the right tools to be anywhere different when it comes to their business model so there is a huge gap between importance of business model innovation and the tools that are available to be innovated in this particular area.” – Michaela Csik
For a detailed summary of The Business Model Navigator according to Michaela Csik CLICK HERE
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In this episode Steven Daar shares his book, Profit Hacking, where he gives online entrepreneurs a 3 step formula for marketing and growing a business.
In his book Daar shows you exactly how to hack and scale each of the 3 steps showing you the leverage points hidden in your business and the fastest way to double your monthly profits. The goal of the book is to teach you how to significantly increase traffic, grow your business on a massive level, maximize every marketing activity you do, and stop wasting your time on ineffective business strategies.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who currently own an online business that is struggling to see a consistent increase in digital traffic, conversion rates, and profit.
About Steven Daar:
“I was basically born and bred entrepreneur and I started my first business really soon after college. I had the passion, drive, and good ideas but I didn’t know that much about marketing and sales. It came clear soon after that if I was going to make this original business successful I would have to learn how to reach the people that I wanted to talk to and speak to them effectively. I got really deep into learning how to do those things specifically on the internet and eventually that lead to me writing Profit Hacking.
The inspiration behind writing this book was it was the book that I wished I had five and a half years ago when I started my first business. If I had this book it would have saved me a lot of time, frustration, and lost money. A big part of the mission and purpose of the book is to inspire more entrepreneurs to not only learn how to drive more traffic, convert it and monetize it so that they are more profitable, but also how to leverage that into more good done for the world.” – Steven Daar
For a detailed summary of Profit Hacking according to Steven Daar CLICK HERE
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In this episode, John A. Goodman shares his book, Customer Experience 3.0. This book is about enhancing customer service by being one step ahead of their needs, and implementing technological resources. We discover fresh ideas that win over customers, increase value for the customer, being accessible for customer inquiries, arming the front line by listening passionately, and taming technology to work for you. This is a game changing book that will impact your customer experience in the future.
In this episode Joleene Moody shares her book, Memoirs of Normalcy where she takes you on a personal reinvention from sedentary to extraordinary.
In her book Moody shows you how the everyday choices we make and challenges we face affect us all and how you can overcome them with a fresh perspective. The goal of the book is to help you find your true calling while learning to love yourself exactly as you are in order to live your life to the fullest.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are struggling to figure what it is that makes them happy and are ready to make significant changes to their life in order to define themselves.
About Joleene Moody:
“I’m a passion shift coach, an author, and a speaker. Basically what I do is I guide people to the place that they really need to be, and want to be, and desire to be. I’m also a business coach and I help people take their desires and find a stage so that they can share their message. I’m a voice for other people that have lost their own and live the life that they were meant to live.
I worked as a television reporter and anchor for 10 years and I didn’t love it. I was one of those people that merely existed in life. I wrote this book for other people that are afraid to leave the security of their life to explore what they really want to do.” – Joleene Moody
For a detailed summary of Memoirs of Normalcy according to Joleene Moody CLICK HERE
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In this episode Steven Krupp takes a deep dive into his book, Winning The Long Game, where he profiles the strategic leadership tactics of very successful and well-known business leaders.
In his book, Steven takes a creates vivid insights into the leadership discipline by contrasting successful leaders such as Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, and Pope Francis with others who are either mediocre or outright failures. The goal of the book is to teach you how to develop the discipline of strategic leadership in a world of growing uncertainty.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurial managers seeking to become more strategic in order to create sustainable value and inspirational fuel to keep their business running.
About Steven Krupp:
“I am currently the CEO of Decision Strategies International. I have professionally been a psychologist and did a lot of work throughout my career helping organizations become more effective. I have a wife, three kids, and a number of animals.
There are a couple of sources of inspiration. About five years ago I was doing a lot of work with boards on CEO and top executive succession and the issue that came up over and over again was that leaders are going to need to be more strategic. However, having heard that over and over again, what I also learned was that very few people had much of a definition of what it meant to be more strategic. They didn’t have a clear guideline of what that is, how to define it, how to access it, and how to develop it. So the lack of definition and clarity around building this capability combined with the great need were the two sources of inspiration for writing this book.” – Steven Krupp
For a detailed summary of Winning The Long Game according to Steven Krupp CLICK HERE
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In this episode Verne Harnish takes a deep dive into his book, Scaling Up where he shares practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business.
In his book, Harnish focuses on 4 major decision areas that every company must get right and provides you with a series of one-page tools such as the One-Page Strategic Plan and Rockefeller Habits Checklist. The goal of the book is to help you create a company where the team is engaged, the customers are doing your marketing, and everyone is making money.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs and other business leaders who are looking for a strategic reference guide to help navigate the difficulties that come with scaling a business.
About Verne Harnish:
“I founded a group called The Entrepreneurs Organization which is worldwide today, about 11,000 members. I started an executive program that we hosted at MIT and I ran it for 15 years and am still teaching it. From there I launched a company called Gazelles in 97. I am enjoying life with my wife and four children in Barcelona, Spain.
It was after 12 years of having my book, Mastering The Rockefeller Habits, out there. With about 40,000 companies using our one page strategic plan, we learned a few tricks so this was a chance to bring it all together in a book.” – Verne Harnish
For a detailed summary of Scaling Up according to Verne Harnish CLICK HERE
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In this episode Gerry Murphy shares his book, The Accidental Entrepreneur, where he tells the fascinating story on how he became an entrepreneur and how, with a small team, he turned a relatively small investment into a multi-million Euro business.
In his book Murphy gives you a step-by-step manual for launching a startup and building your own successful business even if you have no capital or commercial experience. The goal of the book is to help you grow a new business with very limited resources through real-life case studies, invaluable checklists, and a wealth of inspirational advice.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to create a small investment business on the side or for established entrepreneurs looking for some insights on selling their startup to larger firms.
About Gerry Murphy:
“I grew up on a farm in Ireland and I was born in 1954 so I am 60 this year. I got a job immediately after high school and I started working in a commercial bank called Bank of Ireland. I spent 17 year at Bank of Ireland then I left the bank and went to a savings called First National. In 1997 I took a big plunge and went out on my own as a social entrepreneur and by accident I became an accidental commercial entrepreneur.
There were three reasons why I wrote the book. The first reason was that I wanted to encourage others not to risk staying in an unfulfilling job and to consider creating their own employment. Secondly I really like books and I felt that I had learned a lot over the years and so I wanted to distill my own ideas and present them to others. I also wanted to tell the story of how I renewed my hometown in Ireland.” – Gerry Murphy
For a detailed summary of The Accidental Entrepreneur according to Gerry Murphy CLICK HERE
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In this episode Dick Axelrod shares his book, Let’s Stop Meeting Like This, where he outlines a flexible and adaptable system used to run truly productive meetings no matter the organization.
In his book Axelrod shows you how to design every aspect of a meeting from the way you greet people to how you wrap up the meeting at the end. The goal of the book is to help you create meetings that create concrete plans, accomplish all tasks, build deeper connections, and move projects forward.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs or small business owners who run an organization and are struggling to achieve productive results from company meetings.
About Dick Axelrod:
“I teach crisis leadership at the University of Chicago and my wife and I have a consulting firm where we specifically focus on high participation organizational change. I’m also an author and written several books on organizational change.
One of the inspirations behind this book was our son who happened to be a professional ski instructor in Breckenridge Colorado. One day he called to say that he had been using our meeting canoe technique as a framework for his ski lessons and he was now the most requested instructor on the mountain. Between my son and other client’s success with using this framework I decided I should write a book about it for others to learn from and use.” – Dick Axelrod
For a detailed summary of Let’s Stop Meeting Like This according to Dick Axelrod CLICK HERE
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In this episode Linda Rottenberg takes a deep dive into her book, Crazy Is A Compliment, where she highlights the proven techniques to achieve your dreams.
In her book, Rottenberg combines inspiring stories, original research, and practical advice to create roadmap for starting a new venture. The goal of the book is to teach you how to think bold, execute smart, and be adaptive to the market through the most iconic entrepreneurs that she has advised from all over the country.
This book is perfect for CEOs, small business owners, or aspiring entrepreneurs who have a dream, but don’t know how to turn their dream into a marketable business plan.
About Linda Rottenberg:
“I grew up in Newton Massachusetts and I would say I grew up in a pretty traditional household. My parents met as high school sweethearts in Rhode Island and my dad went on to be a lifelong lawyer, my mom raised three kids. I went to Harvard and Yale for law school. I arrived at law school and pretty quickly realized that I had no interest in practicing law. That search for something different and that I would find something more fulfilling set me on this journey that I’m on now. Close to 18 years ago I cofounded an organization called Endeavor that supports high growth or what we call high impact entrepreneurs around the world. We are not based in New York City but operate in 22 countries. We’ve screened over 40 thousand entrepreneurs and selected 1,000 entrepreneurs from over 650 companies and helped them grow their businesses and today they are generating over 7 billion dollars a year. It’s been my lifelong passion to work with entrepreneurs and to help them get unstuck whenever they get stuck.
I mentioned that I work with over 1,000 entrepreneurs in 22 countries and so part of the inspiration was just the idea that I’ve seen the same patterns and pitfalls of entrepreneurs. Not necessarily at the startup phase but at the scale up phase and what I call the go big phase. Part of the inspiration was trying to see if I could sit down and capture all the lessons. I didn’t just want to write for people who were involved in high growth companies because I started realizing that everybody needs to think and act like an entrepreneur today. I wrote this idea because I feel like we all have dreams but we all hold ourselves back. Beyond anything else Crazy is a Compliment is sort of this manifesto for how we can give ourselves permission to go forward with our own crazy dream.” – Linda Rottenberg
For a detailed summary of Crazy Is A Compliment according to Linda Rottenberg CLICK HERE
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In this episode personal growth expert, Larry Winget, shares his book Grow A Pair where he teaches you how to stop being a victim and take back your life, business, and sanity.
In his book Winget shares a commonsense approach to becoming successful which crucial advice on achieving your goals, finding your career path, and managing your personal finances. The goal of the book is to help you become more assertive, take more responsibility, stop making excuses, and start getting more results.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who struggle with obtaining actionable results due to a lack of self-confidence, a feeling of laziness, and a fear of failure.
About Larry Winget:
“I am known as the pit bull of personal development, that’s one of my registered trademarks. I don’t much believe in motivational speaking. I believe you can get much better results by irritating and that’s what I do. I have done my own television series on A&E. I’m a regular on several business television and national news shows. I have written six New York Times and Wall Street best sellers and I’ve spoken to over 400 of the Fortune 500 companies.
I’ve written all my books based on what I see going on in society and what I’ve realized is that we’ve become this nation of victims. We’ve become entitled, blame everyone else for why our life sucks, and what we need to do is grow a pair, take responsibility, and move on from there.” – Larry Winget
For a detailed summary of Grow A Pair according to Larry Winget CLICK HERE
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In this episode Mikkel Svane takes a deep dive into his book, Startupland, where he tells the inspirational story behind creating his tech startup, Zendesk.
In the book Svane shares how he and his friends bravely left secure jobs to start something on their own, how he almost went broke several times, how they picked up themselves and their families to travel across the world. The goal of the book is to debunk the myths about startups and inspire and empower you to follow your own dream to create your own success story.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are new to entrepreneurship and are thinking about starting their own online venture, but worried about failure.
About Mikkel Svane:
“I am originally from Copenhagen Denmark and I moved to San Francisco five years ago. We moved my company Zendesk out of Copenhagen for two years before moving here and it’s been a fantastic journey building and growing this company together with my two cofounders. I’m also married, I have a bunch of kids, and we are happily situated here in San Francisco.
In my role I met a bunch of entrepreneurs and it’s always been hard for me to give advice but I found that they found some kind of inspiration in how we did things. I think that having something that tells the original founding story of the company is something that gives everybody a little bit of inside and confidence in our company.” – Mikkel Svane
For a detailed summary of Startupland according to Mikkel Svane CLICK HERE
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In this episode David Burkus shares his book, The Myths of Creativity where he reveals the truth about how companies and people generate great ideas.
In his book, Burkus highlights the mistaken ideas that hold you back and shows you how anyone can embrace a practical approach to finding the best new ideas, processes, and programs. The goal of the book is to teach you what causes you to be creative, what makes someone more creative than others, and how you can develop a consistent flash of creativity.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who struggle with being creative or makes excuses for not coming up with ideas and needs help overcoming the obstacles of brainstorming new ideas.
About David Burkus:
“I am the husband to one wife and father to two kids but I’m also the father of a third kid, The Myths of Creativity. When I’m not in airport lounges on my way to talk about the book I am in the classroom where I teach at Oral Roberts University.
I did not set out to write a book about creativity and innovation. I have a Master’s degree in Organizational psychology and a Graduate degree in strategy and leadership, and my background is in leadership. I wanted to know what the leaders of those creative companies do differently than leaders of non-creative companies. The inspiration for the book was me wanting to explore where the differences and perception were around the role of creativity in organizations. I also wanted to know what the psychology research said and where those discrepancies really made a difference.” – David Burkus
For a detailed summary of The Myths of Creativity according to David Burkus CLICK HERE
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In this episode Chris Kerns takes a deep dive into his book, Trendology where he shares the latest technologies that will amplify your marketing efforts tremendously.
In his book, Kerns gives you an action plan for developing real-time marketing to engage your audience on topics that are trending in the media by using his data-driven approach. The goal of the book is to teach you how to measure the performance of your social strategy, leverage new trends on a daily basis, build a data-driven team and avoid the marketing strategies that don’t work.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a marketing plan in place or are developing one that includes the use of social media and other digital marketing platforms.
About Chris Kerns:
“I am the director of analytics and research at Spredfast in Austin, Texas. We are one of the biggest social marketing platforms out there. We work with large enterprise clients to do everything around social media that they are looking to do. Everything from one on one conversations all the way through finding content that’s out there and amplifying current conversations about a brand. My job every day is around the data behind social media.
Trendology is all about real time marketing but more importantly it’s about how brands are looking at trends and leveraging them on social media. There was a lot of conversation about it which was interesting because I work in social media. But based on my background and what I do the interesting thing to me was that there was no data about it. No one was really look at the performance or asked if it actually worked. That is when I started pulling data and that was the inspiration behind the book. The book looks at the 100 biggest brands in the world and how they work in social media and then jumps into their use of real time and trending topics.” – Chris Kerns
For a detailed summary of Trendology according to Chris Kerns CLICK HERE
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In this episode Elaine Leong takes a deep dive into her and Kaiwen Leongs’ book, Venture Capital where she teaches you how to raise funds for your business startup.
In her book, Leong shows you how to avoid the mistakes most businesses make and shares some secret tips and tricks to taking your business to the top when it comes to funding. The goal of the book is to bring you into the mind of successful venture capitalists to shape your experience in growing your business.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs trying to raise venture capital funds and need real-life financing advice from experienced venture capitalists and angel investors.
About Elaine Leong:
“I graduated from Princeton last year. I have some experience in investments, division, and now also in some multinational banks. I have written a lot and also co-authored six different books so far.
Kaiwen and I’s first book was Singapore’s Lost Son and that was a biography about his life, how he made it from a drop-out to a millionaire Princeton PhD holder. Kaiwen was a social entrepreneur and created social enterprises to help the underprivileged but also make it sustainable. Before he chose which underprivileged group to help he did some extensive research and found out that the people who need the most help may not be the people who first come to mind. People who do need help and are not receiving it were actually ex-convicts. And what he found was that these people were making a lot before through illegal means and they were also used to being in a position of authority. He decided to train these people and teach them how to be entrepreneurs and help channel their energy to be productive. When the success stories from this project hit the newspapers people started approaching him and expressed interest which is how the book started.” – Elaine Leong
For a detailed summary of Venture Capital according to Elaine Leong CLICK HERE
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In this episode Peter Voogd shares his book, 6 Months To 6 Figures, where he reveals the exact strategies he’s used to go from dead broke to over 6 figures in 6 months in multiple industries.
In his book, Voogd gives you real world, tactical strategies to maximize your income, get large projects done in less time, and create the perfect lifestyle for you. The goal of the book is to help you enjoy higher levels of fulfillment, more passion, increased energy, and constant achievement.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are tired of an inconsistent income, have low productivity, and don’t have enough time to get things done, but are serious about becoming successful.
About Peter Voogd:
“I am a serial entrepreneur and I have been running businesses since I was 15 when I started an eBay business. I wasn’t always the best student or involved in school but I really had a niche in entrepreneurship and business. I got into direct sales when I was 20-21 and I did that for a while when I worked my way up to being a district manager where I was running a sales team. I actually had some pretty big failures along the way and learned a lot of my successes from my failures. I was able to go from dead broke and stressed to earning my first six figure income and do it over and over going.
It really came from experience and me training close to 5,000 young professionals and seeing where our society was heading and being in school not learning anything that really helped me in the real world. I began to realize that this was needed at the highest level. I realized that I had to take it upon myself to create a blueprint that an entrepreneur or a young person can read and have 100% clarity on how to be successful in this challenging economy.” – Peter Voogd
For a detailed summary of 6 Months to 6 Figures according to Peter Voogd CLICK HERE
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In this episode Dave Richards takes a deep dive into his book, The Seven Sins of Innovation, where he discusses 7 causes of success or failure for innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors.
In his book Richards shares examples and case studies from some of the most well-known organizations and demonstrates how individual and group psychology must be engaged effectively to create entrepreneurial cultures capable of powerful innovation. The goal of his book is to provide you with a guide to applying the model, finding the right external resources, and involving people effectively.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs, business leaders, or managers attempting to start, reinvent, or grow an organization of any kind.
About Dave Richards:
“I live in the UK but I’m an American and Canadian. I’ve got five great kids, two relatively little ones and we live on the South Coast of England. I work all over the world, I enjoy public speaking, plus I work with a variety of organizations ranging from startups to multinationals essentially helping people create more success.
Essentially it represents a lifetime of learning and an effort to understand why the vast majority of innovation efforts fail.” – Dave Richards
For a detailed summary of The Seven Sins of Innovation according to Dave Richards CLICK HERE
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In this episode Pete Wilkinson shares his book, Unstoppable where he shares his expertise on becoming super determined, motivated, and focused.
In his book Wilkinson provides a roadmap to eliminate procrastination, seeing plans all the way through, and doing more than you ever thought possible. The goal of the book is to help you focus your attention on key goals, improve the relationships in your business and personal life, learn how to be an effective leader, and build an action plan around your main strengths.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to be driven, determined, and unstoppable, yet lack the proper motivation techniques to make a move in the right direction.
About Pete Wilkinson:
“I am primarily in the space of focus and consistency – taking action. Everything I do whether it’s with clients, speaking or workshops, is around the focus and consistency and using my skills. So it’s all around the space of how to be focused and consistent to get the results that you should really be getting.
I was sharing the system that the book identifies with my clients but really only making a small impact in the number of people I was reaching. I was getting a little frustrated that people were making some really good gains with the system but it wasn’t being shared enough. The idea of writing the book was to give them a system that could be shared to a large number of people and have an impact with someone that they have never met before.” – Pete Wilkinson
For a detailed summary of Unstoppable according to Pete Wilkinson CLICK HERE
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In this episode Ilkka Lavas takes a deep dive into his book, Unstoppable Entrepreneurship where he shares his experience on what makes an entrepreneur unstoppable.
In his book, Lavas reveals over 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur and addresses the successes, failures, and tactics that took him from a 17 year old web designer to a 35 year old serial entrepreneur. The goal of the book is to teach you new ways to be successful, overcome hurdles, take your business to the top in the digital age we live in today.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are in the early stages of startup development and are learning from the success stories of experienced entrepreneurs.
About Ilkka Lavas:
“I am 35 years old and a serial entrepreneur. I am involved with 10 companies and I have around 100 people working in my companies. I started my first startup when I was 17 years old so half of my life I have spent as an entrepreneur.
I have been teaching entrepreneurs here in Finland for the last 10 years. I wrote my first book seven years ago about positive things about entrepreneurship. Since then I have been growing my businesses based on that book and because of that I now have many successful companies. I wanted to write down the principles and management tips that I have learned in my life as an entrepreneur. I have been teaching myself about being unstoppable and this book will help others do the same.” – Ilkka Lavas
For a detailed summary of Unstoppable Entrepreneurship according to Ilkka Lavas CLICK HERE
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In this episode MJ Gottlieb shares his book, How To Ruin A Business Without Really Trying, where he shares what every entrepreneur should not do when running a business.
In his book Gottlieb gives you 55 of the most painful and destruction mistakes and failures many entrepreneurs make when running a business today. The goal of his book is to help you learn from other entrepreneurs’ mistakes while taking the ego out of the equation allowing you to enjoy the freedom of your own experience.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are thinking about starting a business and need a stepping stone to help promote faster growth in the beginning.
About MJ Gottlieb:
“I have been typically in the offline business for about 20 years having owned and operated five fashion brands since 1991. The last one I owned was up until 2007. I recently wrote a book about all the mistakes I made in hopes that aspiring entrepreneurs can actually learn from those mistakes.
I had just lost my second business and I was writing down all the mistakes that I had made just to get it out of my system. A friend of mine said it was great that I was doing it but asked if I had any idea the value that this information can have for those people that are looking to start a business. He said to call it What Not To Do When Starting A Business and then years later I made it into a book.” – MJ Gottlieb
For a detailed summary of How to Ruin a Business Without Really Trying according to MJ Gottlieb CLICK HERE
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In this episode Melissa Gonzalez takes a deep dive into her book, The Pop Up Paradigm, where she reveals how businesses can build real connections with their customers.
In her book, Gonzalez describes how businesses can use temporary products to generate customer loyalty, understand new markets, and test innovative concepts. The goal of the book is to teach you the most important ways you can benefit from a pop-up, the best type of marketing for your business, how to stay ahead of the retail market, and what to consider when launching a pop-up.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own an online business and are considering a move into physical retail or own an established retail business yet struggle to get a product out.
About Melissa Gonzalez:
“I am the founder of The Lion’esque Group, we are pop up architects. Before that I worked on Wall Street on a trading desk. I am a proud mom to an adorable Jack Russell Terrier and I love experiencing new things.
We have been specializing in this since 2009 and really seen a shift as to how brands are utilizing pop up retail and seeing it fit in their budgets as they are coming around to the new year. As we have been a part of that evolution we wanted an opportunity to share with brands top reasons why people are doing it, share case studies, and inspire ideas for brands to utilize it.” – Melissa Gonzalez
For a detailed summary of The Pop Up Paradigm according to Melissa Gonzalez CLICK HERE
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In this episode Kieran Flanagan and Don Gregory take a deep dive into their book, Selfish Scared and Stupid, where they demystify the behaviors behind the failure and success of business ideas.
In their book, Flanagan and Gregory will help you design your business effectively with strategies to understand why the public fails to engage with your brand and why your product is falling short. The goal of the book is to teach you product survival tactics, how to offer customer strategic reward programs, how to turn fear into action, and how to make products hard to resist.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are struggling to get their product or service engaged with the public and need a proven system to increase their customer reach and sales.
About Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory:
“We have a long history in advertising and spent a long part of our lives getting a better understanding of what drives human behavior. Most of our careers have been in entrepreneurial startups and our interests are in what drives human behavior. We have a business called The Impossible Institute which is a research, innovation, and think tank where we look at the gap in what people say they do and what they actually do. In that gap we find interesting stuff about how to motivate, how to get results, and how to help entrepreneurs.
We saw so much inspiration around what was driving human behavior and so much of it was based on ideas. What we wanted to do was step back and take a look at what was really driving human beings and generating results.” – Kieran and Dan
For a detailed summary of Selfish Scared and Stupid according to Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory CLICK HERE
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In this episode Scott Jordan shares his book, Pocket Man, where he shares what it took him to be featured in thousands of major press articles, made millions of dollars, and made an appearance on ABC’s Shark Tank.
In his book, Jordan reveals the successes and failures he learned when it comes to reinventing yourself by pursuing your passions and mastering the art of personal promotion. The goal of the book is teach you how to get the attention of the public in order to stand above your competition.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having trouble promoting themselves to the media and need an example of what it takes to get your name or product out the public effectively.
About Scott Jordan:
“I just turned 50 years old and I live in Sun Valley, Idaho. I have my wife and three poodles and I am a passionate personal promoter for my product, the SCOTTeVEST, which is a full line of clothing designed to hold your electronic devices.” – Scott Jordan
For a detailed summary of Pocket Man according to Scott Jordan CLICK HERE
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In this episode Sander Biehn takes a deep dive into his book, The 30 Year Paycheck, where he discusses what makes corporate America so demeaning and why employees put up with it.
In his book Biehn where he tells the story of the narrator who strives to avoid the 30 year paycheck, but faces a personal toll while trying to remain employed, raise a family, and save for retirement. The goal of the book is to teach you lessons that help employees, mid-level managers, and executives find a path needed to grow personally.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who are trapped in a full-time job and need a guide to help them work around the pressures that come with working in corporate America.
About Sander Biehn:
“I have worked for about 20 plus years for a very large telecommunications firm in sales. I have always been in sales since I got out of college to almost up to the present. About a year and a half ago I left the company and decided to start my own business in social selling for business to business sellers.
I was doing a bunch of traveling as a sales person and I was hearing a lot of the same types of people complaining about things about their work. I was hearing these same kinds of complaints everywhere I went and I started realizing that I had some answers to these complaints which led to the book. The other thing that inspired me is that I wanted to write a different kind of business book. I wanted to make my book an overall good read and I felt that that was missing in the world.” – Sander Biehn
For a detailed summary of The 30 Year Paycheck according to Sander Biehn CLICK HERE
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In this episode Chris Edmonds shares his book, The Culture Engine, where he reveals a system for driving results, inspiring your employees, and transforming your workplace.
In his book Edmonds teaches you practical step-by-step lessons on how to define your company culture, delineate the behaviors that promote high performance, and create an employee policy that guides behavior towards an inspiring workplace. The goal of the book is to help you create the best workplace possible while molding your employees into productive rockstars.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run an organization with 2 or more employees and are on a mission to help them become high performing leaders.
About Chris Edmonds:
“I am a speaker, blogger, podcaster and writer. I am also what I call an executive consultant. So I do executive coaching usually to help leaders align their corporate cultures so that they can lead better. I have also been affiliated with the Ken Blanchard Companies now for almost 20 years as a Senior Consultant.
It’s the core driver of my passions and my work with clients over the past 20 years. I’ve done a lot of work around facilitating skill building and consulting to leadership teams and the core opportunities are often that the culture that the business operates in doesn’t support these new skills. When I started 15 years ago very proactively in doing consulting around creating a more intentional culture I found that it was way more gratifying. So my primary inspiration was behind putting these proven practices and steps in to book form.” – Chris Edmonds
For a detailed summary of The Culture Engine according to Chris Edmonds CLICK HERE
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In this episode Daniel Spulber takes a deep dive into his book, The Innovative Entrepreneur, where he shares the economic framework that addresses the motivation, advantages, pressures, consequences, and contributions of the innovative entrepreneur.
In his book, Spulber unveils an economic theory for innovative entrepreneurship that asks why people with new technologies start their own companies. The goal of the book is identify the costs that other companies incur to readjust their focus, and reveal the problems that arise in the market for new technologies.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a passion for creating new ideas and want to know the economic effects of creating their own company based on their ideas.
About Daniel Spulber:
“I am a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University here in Evanston Illinois. I have been teaching entrepreneurship and all kinds of topics for a long time so this is a topic near and dear to my heart.
Entrepreneurs are so important because they provide the creativity, the drive and the initiative that drives our economy forward. I wanted to make sure that entrepreneurs themselves had a better understand of the major contributions that they are making to our society. I also wanted public policy makers and experts in the field to have a better understanding of what entrepreneurship is and what it means to our country.” – Daniel Spulber
For a detailed summary of The Innovative Entrepreneur according to Daniel Spulber CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: innovation, society, change the world, being creative, new ideas, business innovation, entrepreneurship, inventions, lifestyle business, product development, new technology
In this episode Jesse Mecham shares his book, PACE, where he shares a unique and simple method to balance your cash flow and keep more of you money.
In his book, Jesse shows you the way to watch your checking account balance grow, confidently make a new hire, and give yourself a consistently growing paycheck. The goal of the book is to teach you how to squeeze the maximum value out of every dollar that flows through your business and pinpoint where your current finance system is broken.
This book is for entrepreneurs who have a hard time understanding accounting and need a simple yet effective monetary system for managing the cash flow of their business.
About Jesse Mecham:
“I am an entrepreneur; I founded a company called You Need A Budget.com. I have five kids; I live in the beautiful state of Utah and living the dream.
I am in the realm where I teach individuals and families how to manage their money and we do a pretty good job of it. We have taught hundreds of thousands of people how to turn their finances around. As a small business owner I realized that my finances were stressing me out and about seven years in to being a small business owner I realized that I could apply the same methods that I have been teaching families. I since applied those same methods to my business and it’s proven over the last several years to be one of the best things I’ve done for my business. I decided I wanted to get the word out and alleviate some of that stress to other business owners.” – Jesse Mecham
For a detailed summary of PACE according to Jesse Mecham CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: personal finance, managing wealth, checking account, balance sheet, business budget, startup finance, small budget, investing, manage money, bank account, family finance
In this episode Richard Hall takes a deep dive into his book, How to Solve Problems and Make Brilliant Decisions, where he shares practical skills and techniques to think better, faster, and more productively.
In his book, Hall teaches you how to shape, train, and inspire your thinking to deliver more effective results. The goal of the book is to help you improve your thinking skills, become more confident in making decisions, and become more effective at problem solving.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need to improve their decision making skills in order to achieve success at a faster rate than currently able.
About Richard Hall:
“I have been around in business for a long time. My background is in marketing, advertising and consulting and I’ve worked with a lot of major companies. I have had a fantastic time and am very enthusiastic about the prospects of the changing world.
I have written a number of books before on presenting career development marketing and they are all very specific in their topics. I began increasingly concerned and aware of the fact that we’ve stopped thinking in the way that we used to and there are a number of reasons for that. And this seemed to be an issue worth looking at. The second thing is that it became increasingly clear to me that we don’t know very much about the mind at all. It seemed to me that if you are going to succeed in business today you need to be thinking about thinking at the top of all things that you do.” – Richard Hall
For a detailed summary of How To Solve Problems and Make Brilliant Decisions according to Richard Hall CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: fast thinking, critical thinking, increase productivity, thought process, more focus, Adderall, management, quick decisions, problem solver, logistics, logical thinking
In this episode Sue Ershler takes a deep dive into her book, Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales, where she examines what it takes to achieve sales success based on the techniques used to climb the highest mountains in the world.
In her book, Ershler shares her grueling journey climbing up the seven summits of Mount Everest and draws on her experiences to inspire sales professionals to achieve the highest performance. The goal of the book is to help you clearly define goals, build the right team, commit to a vision, manage your time effectively, and track your progress properly.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who possess a high amount of determination and are looking for a uniquely, inspirational guide to achieving the highest achievement in sales.
About Sue Ershler:
“I was a business corporate executive for over two decades and also a mountain climber for over two decades. I am an author, public speaker and most recently an entrepreneur.
While I was advancing my career and climbing the corporate ladder we were climbing the seven summits, the highest mountain on each one of the seven continents. It is amazing the skill sets that are parallel between climbing the sales ladder and also climbing the seven summits. The reason I wrote the book was because I wanted to help others. We achieved these objectives and now I like to help others reach success in their business and their personal life.” – Sue Ershler
For a detailed summary of Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales according to Sue Ershler CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: salesman, inside sales, sales management, increase profits, more margin, closing deals, sales numbers, best salesman, saleswomen, mountain climbing, to the top, six figures
In this episode Ron Friedman shares his book, The Best Place to Work, where he offers game-changing advice for working smarter and turning any organization into an extraordinary workplace.
In his book, Friedman explains how to effectively diffuse a workplace argument, elevate your thinking, and reach smarter decisions. The goal of the book is to provide you with scientifically-proven techniques to help you promote smarter thinking, greater innovation, and stronger performance.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs or business executives who are looking to turn an average, low performing work atmosphere into an effective and extraordinary environment.
About Ron Friedman:
“I am a social psychologist and I specialize in human motivation. I have taught at the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, Hobart and William Smith, and I write for the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Forbes. I’ve also founded a company called ignite80 that helps smart leaders build extraordinary work places and the way we do that is via speaking, workshops and occasionally consulting. If you are wondering about the name of that company it’s because 80% of employees worldwide have been found to be disengaged at work so we look to correct that.
One of the things I talk about in the book is that the book really happened by accident. I spent years in academics studying human motivation and teaching human psychology courses and my goal was to become a fulltime professor. Eventually I achieved that goal and I got a fulltime teaching job and when I got there I found myself itching for a new challenge. If you got in to academics for the reasons I did, it was to learn new things and as a professor you are covering the same material again and again.
I wanted that new challenge so I decided to go off into the corporate world where I was hired to work as a pollster. When I got to the corporate world I noticed a lot of the things that I took for granted as a professor. But when I got to the corporate world I witnessed a real disconnect from everything from the way that companies hire and the ways that managers motivate to the design and layout of the modern office. I got to meet a lot of these business owners and a lot of entrepreneurs who are really interested in building great workplaces but just don’t have the tools for doing that.” – Ron Friedman
For a detailed summary of The Best Place to Work according to Ron Friedman CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: workplace, corporate culture, human resources, work environment, company morale, empowering employees, leadership, management
In this episode Chris Guillebeau takes a deep dive into his book, The Happiness of Pursuit where he reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest.
In his book, Guillebeau shares his journey around the world where he found ordinary people doing extraordinary things and reveals their secret motivations. The goal of the book is to challenge you to take control of your life and help you find what it is that makes your life count.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who not only want to make money doing things that they love, but want to make an ever-lasting difference throughout their lives.
About Chris Guillebeau:
“I am a writer, traveler and entrepreneur. I have spent over 10 years on a personal quest to visit every country in the world. I also wrote a few other books which are The $100 Startup and The Art of Non-Conformity.
This was probably my most personal book yet. It took me a little bit longer to write than the other two. I came to this 10 and ½ year journey and as you might imagine that was such an incredible experience for me personally. And so when it came time to write about it I didn’t want to just write a travel memoir but I wanted to look at something deeper. The model that we used for the $100 Startup was essentially a case study model of looking at all kinds of people who have started a business without going in to debt and without going to business school. I really liked that model because we pulled out all these different examples and showed how people had done it very specifically. I use this same model for The Happiness of Pursuit and I look at all kinds of people who have taken a quest and try to understand why they did it and learn about their obstacles along the way. The goal was not just to provide a bunch of stories the goal was to present this agenda to the reader. Ultimately the focus of the book is on the reader and why a venture can be a good value for our lives.” – Chris Guillebeau
For a detailed summary of The Happiness of Pursuit according to Chris Guillebeau CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: happy, joy, excitement, dreams, American dream, pursuit of happiness, living life, life is good, discover yourself, career advice, travel the world, life hacks, extraordinary things
In this episode Mark Hatch shares his book, The Maker Movement Manifesto, where he describes remarkable technologies accessible today and shares stories of how ordinary people have created extraordinary products from those tools.
In his book, Hatch explains and shows you how to create, innovate, and make a profit with nothing more than your own creativity, hard work, and a desire to make some change. The goal of this book is to help entrepreneurs take part in a new age of manufacturing tools which were once impossible to afford.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are very creative and innovative, but need an all-in-one resource for manufacturing new product ideas on a minimal budget.
About Mark Hatch:
“I am a former Green Beret, quite a while ago, but it feeds a little bit into the book. I was trained on how to participate and/or run a revolution. From there I did a startup and went back to school. I worked for about eight years at Avery Dennison manufacturing company and a year at Kinkos. All of this was before I began at TechShop as the CEO and Co-Founder.
I saw early on after I joined that there were small companies that were launching hardware startups for the lowest cost I had seen in my career. The average member there saved 98% of their developmental cost which fundamentally changes the access to be able to create hardware startups. A friend of mine, Chris Anderson, wrote an article called The New Industrial Revolution which inspired me. Chris took one angle at it and I wanted to write a book that would be open more to makers as well as a fairly easy read for policy analyst and startup junkies.” – Mark Hatch
For a detailed summary of The Maker Movement Manifesto according to Mark Hatch CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: invention, patents, licensing, trademarks, new idea, prototype, manufacturing, autocad, creating products, 3d printing, hardware company, product development
In this episode Mike Clayton takes a deep dive into his book, Powerhouse, where he presents proven ways to boost overall effectiveness and start making an impact immediately.
In his book, Clayton shows you how to raise your personal effectiveness to dynamic levels, make solid decisions, stand up for your decisions, and gain tremendous support from others. The goal of the book is to help you be able to meet any challenge you cross while boosting your performance and making the right choices.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are not performing at the highest levels or are not brightening the outlook of everyone around and need a roadmap to craft a solution.
About Mike Clayton:
“I am a business author and speaker. My background is as a consultant with Deloitte consulting when I was delivering projects and program management services for my clients. For the last 12 years or so I’ve spent my time delivering seminars and training all around the UK and some of Europe as well. And over the last six years I have developed a writing career and Powerhouse is my 13th printed book.
Some of the ideas have been buzzing around since a much earlier book called Smart to Wise. These are the more practical aspects of wisdom that I wanted to get across of how to get things done. The sources of these ideas come from my experience as a project manager, my fascination with personal psychology, and my interest in positive organization scholarship.” – Mike Clayton
For a detailed summary of Powerhouse according to Mike Clayton CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: personal development, self help, smart to wise, public figure, celebrity, a-list, networking skills, build relationships, art of charm, performance enhancement
In this episode Tiffani Lennon shares her book, Recognizing Women’s Leadership where she reveals the best practices and strategies for employing excellent people.
In her book, Lennon analyzes research from organizations with the smallest pay gap and the largest percentage of female leaders to help increase your company’s performance. The goal of the book is to help you ensure excellence, present findings on thousands of positions in hundreds of companies, and unveil the best employment practices from the most successful companies.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that own a business where female leadership exists and want to ensure their employment practices are producing optimal results.
About Tiffani Lennon:
“I am an attorney and researcher for Colorado Women’s College of the University of Denver. And I am in the chair of Law and Society program at the University of Denver as well.
In April of 2012 Marie C. Wilson who was the founder of the White House Project approached us with the need for another study where women are sitting in positional leadership roles. She asked if I was willing to do that and I said yes.” – Tiffani Lennon
For a detailed summary of Recognizing Women’s Leadership according to Tiffani Lennon CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: womens rights, jobs for women, workplace, human resources, hiring women, female leadership, being a leader, Oprah Winfrey, michelle Obama, arianna huffington, ellen degeneres
In this episode Jack Daly gives a deep dive of his book, Hyper Sales Growth where he shares his street-proven secrets to achieving rapid sales growth and profitability.
In his book, Daly walks you through his step-by-step process showing you how to build a winning culture in your business, effectively manage salespeople, and maximize the speed of sales growth. The goal of this book is to create the best sales organizations in the industry with unprecedented growth and a lot of very happy customers.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need help taking a sales organization to the next level by helping employees sell more effectively and profitably.
About Jack Daly:
“I am a serial entrepreneur. I started selling at the age of seven, owned my market and charged twice the price of everyone I competed with. At age 12 I built my first company, age 13 I had five employees and that’s when it came to me that I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up which was be an entrepreneur. I built six companies in to national firms, sold two to wall street and all were fast growing and highly profitable. For the last 20 years I have been teaching companies and people in sales how to grow their business higher.
For years I have been asked when I was going to write a book and I just never got around to it due to time. I finally decided to sit down and write it with the great help of my publisher.” – Jack Daly
For a detailed summary of Hyper Sales Growth according to Jack Daly CLICK HERE
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Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
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Category Tags: increased sales, more money, close deals, profit margin, sales numbers, best salesman, sales management, how to sell, business growth, inside sales, sales enablement, outside sales
In this episode Wes Moss share his book, You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think, where he gives a five step process for getting on the fast track to a great retirement.
In his book, Moss uncovers his findings of an intensive study on retirement revealing that it does not take financial genius, millions of dollars, or high end investment skills to have a solid retirement. The goal of the book is to show you how to determine what you need retirement money for, figure out how much you need to save, and develop an income stream from multiple sources.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are successfully running a business and are looking for a quick, painless transition from work to retirement.
About Wes Moss:
“I have been in financial media and the investment business for about seventeen years now. I have been a part of WSB Radio in Atlanta for the better part of six years and really have had a lot of fun in the last year after writing You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think.
I have always wondered if money could really buy happiness. As entrepreneurs I think we have all had this fear of running out of money. About four years ago I heard Dave Ramsey talk about a study at Princeton about money and happiness. I wanted to take this study a lot further and answer the questions about the financial levels and habits of happy people.” – Wes Moss
For a detailed summary of You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think according to Wes Moss CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: retirement, 401k, smart passive income, pension, work absence, paid time off, vacation, work leave, being fired, laid off, severance package
In this episode Steven Feiner gives a deep dive into his book, The Art of Resignation, where he shares his detailed strategies and talking points for quitting a job.
In his book, Feiner takes you through the full cycle of the resignation process in a practical, down-to-earth way with suggestions, examples, templates, and scripts. The goal of this book is to help you learn when to quit, understand the logistics and timing of quitting, prepare yourself for resignation day, and get inside the mind of your boss.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to quit their current job and need the proper guidance on resigning without burning any bridges in the process.
About Steven Feiner:
“I am originally from New York and started working in consulting in Chicago. I decided to move and work for Google in San Francisco. I have lived in now six different cities and have been to just about 40 different countries.
Coming out of college my first job was for IBM and my parents were very proud of me and everyone knew the name IBM. Everything was great except I was really interesting in doing strategic consulting. So two month in to my first job coming out of school I decided to quit in favor of a better job offer. Having this conversation with my loved ones didn’t seem to be going over too well. I realized there was so much stress involved in this resignation and I didn’t want to ruin my career prospects by doing what I thought was the right decision. After I quit IBM I moved on to a firm called LEK Consulting and I eventually got recruited away to a startup. As I was leaving consulting I realized I really enjoyed my time there and I wanted the option to be able to come back to my consulting firm should the startup fail. The normal way you get out of consulting is from being completely burned out and I realized there needed to be a better answer to this problem. I researched and figured out how best to do the perfect resi
gnation. One that takes the stress out of it and one that really allows you to cherish the relationships you have and keep the bridges in tacked.” – Steven Feiner
For a detailed summary of The Art of Resignation according to Steven Feiner CLICK HERE
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The 30 Year Paycheck by Sander Biehn
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Category Tags: quitting, getting fired, two weeks notice, retirement, leaving a company, worst job, new job, job interview, demotion, how to quit, quit a job, unemployment, hiring, human resources
In this episode Fergus O’Connell takes a deep dive into his book, Stuff I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working, where he provides the tips and tools you need to work faster.
In his book, O’Connell teaches you how to avoid the common mistakes of other aspiring business goers and skip a few rungs on the corporate ladder. The goal of the book is to help you be more effective, more accountable, more visible, and less afraid.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want learn from the mistakes of other successful people and need a fast-track guide to getting more done in less time.
About Fergus O’Connell:
“I graduated with a degree in mathematical physics and then I went in to software development and worked in that for about 10 or 12 years. In 1992 I started my own project management consulting and training company and that’s one of the things I’ve been doing ever since as well as writing books in the area of project management and time management. I have this alternative life as a novelist as well.
I was thinking one day about how I’d like to be 19 again and to have all the knowledge and wisdom I have now. I was thinking of it in terms of life generally but then I thought a book which thought from the perspective purely of business might be a good thing to do.” – Fergus O’Connell
For a detailed summary of Stuff I Wish I’d Known When I Started Working according to Fergus O’Connell CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: the office, work habits, work sucks, employee training, business mistakes, accountability, new job, job search, career advice, corporate culture
In this episode Chris Ducker takes a deep dive into his book, Virtual Freedom, where he provides the ultimate resource necessary for building a business with the help of virtual employees.
In his book, Ducker gives you a step-by-step guide to figure out the jobs you should outsource along with hiring, training, motivating, and managing virtual assistants. The goal of the book is to show you how to buy more time, become more productive, and build your business through virtual assistants.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that have outgrown their daily tasks, are thinking about hiring other people, and are operating with a small, limited budget.
About Chris Ducker:
“I am originally from London in the UK. I am a sales and marketing guys and was in the publishing business for a long time over there. I came over to the Philippines to deep dive into the outsourcing world in 2000. In 2004 I set up my first business and sold that in 2008. After that I dipped back into the 9 to 5 for almost two years and then in 2008 I decided to go ahead and start that entrepreneurial journey again which I’ve been on ever since. We now have almost 300 employees and are a multi seven figure business annually. I have a blog, a podcast and speak as well.
I have been involved in the outsourcing business for a long time and particularly since the 4 hour work week came out I have become more active online. It had become very evident to me that there were a lot of people in the same space claiming to be gurus that really had no idea what they were talking about. There were so many false truths being pushed out on the internet that it was actually starting to cause me problems in my business. I wanted to write those wrongs that were everywhere online and provide a resource and an essential guide to finding, hiring, managing and working with virtual staff to build your business.” – Chris Ducker
For a detailed summary of Virtual Freedom according to Chris Ducker CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: virtual assistants, outsourcing, elance, odesk, fiverr, delegating, new employees, training employees, coaching, hiring, human resources, managing people, virtual staff, project management
In this episode Erik Fisher shares his book, Hit The Mark, where he gives you practical and motivational advice on handling focus, approaching your goals, and maximizing your success.
In his book, Fisher outlines tips to help you improve your focus, strategies to help you get the most out of your time, energy boosters to make you feel better, and techniques to make you not feel like a robot. The goal of this book is to improve your focus, boost your energy, and crush time management.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having trouble getting the most out of a day’s work because of fatigue, low motivation, and continuous distractions.
About Erik Fisher:
“People may know me from the internet as a person who writes, podcasts and is community manager over at Social Media Examiner. I podcast at beyondthetodolist.com and the most recent book I co-authored was Hit the Mark.
The idea was that we want you to improve your focus, boast your energy and make the most of your time. We knew we needed to go to a place where we talk about those things that help you continue to move forward and have forward momentum on those goals.” – Erik Fisher
For a detailed summary of Hit the Mark according to Erik Fisher CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: motivation, fatigue, work day, work hard play hard, social media examiner, beyond the to do list, move forward, goal setting, energy boost, time management
In this episode Chris Roebuck takes a deep dive into his book, Lead To Succeed, where he gives you a guide for leading people and organizations at the speed of sound.
In his book, Roebuck delivers a roadmap for 12st century leadership with real life examples and practical advice for being successful. The goal of the book is to help you and your teams significantly improve performance quickly, simply, and effectively.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need help creating a new leading edge system that improves work performance individually or as a whole team with no cost and little time.
About Chris Roebuck:
“I started off training as a Chartered Accountant in the UK and decided that wasn’t the most exciting thing in life. I spent five years in the British Army as an officer then came out and set up my own business as an entrepreneur. From there I did an MBA and got involved with larger organizations such as London Underground, UBS and KPMG. Since finishing that role I’ve worked as an advisor for organizations as diverse as the UK National Health Service, investment banks and I speak around the world.
Over the 30 years or so that I’ve been experiencing organizations one of the things I’ve noticed is that there is a lot of people out who aren’t really able to live up to the potential to do their best work. They aren’t necessarily inspired to go to work but just doing it because they have to. It’s only a fortunate few who are inspired by what they do.” – Chris Roebuck
For a detailed summary of Lead To Succeed according to Chris Roebuck CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: leadership skills, leading people, management, improve performance, better workplace, effective leadership, managing teams, like a boss, leaders open doors, bold leadership
In this episode Austin Netzley shares his book, Make Money Live Wealthy, where he shows you how to invest, be an entrepreneur, and build massive wealth.
In his book, Netzley reveals the wealth secrets of 75 successful entrepreneurs that outline a path to true wealth in 10 simple steps. The goal of this book is to teach you how to step up your game in money, how to reprogram your mind, the common traits of the wealthy, and the key mistakes that are holding you back.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a passion for money, investing, and business in order to live a rich life filled with happiness, joy, and inner peace.
About Austin Netzley:
I grew up in the Midwest and had visions of becoming a CEO for a large company. I got my engineering degree and went down that path, worked in corporate America and started to read books. I learned what was possible and learned that there were other options than that which lead me to invest. Over the next couple of years I created my own algorithm and automated it and started to scale that up while working in an oil company. At the end of last year retired and now I travel around and share my passion of money and the mindset and investing with other people to help get them to where they want to go.
The big inspiration was that books changed my life. As soon as I started to read a lot I knew that someday I wanted to write a book. Since I was traveling around the world and had my own podcast I figured it was a perfect opportunity to do so and I am so excited that I did.
For a detailed summary of Make Money Live Wealthy according to Austin Netzley CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: make money, live life, be happy, get rich quick, how to invest, personal finance, become wealthy, true wealth, tony robbins, money, successful entrepreneurs, build massive wealth
In this episode Alan Fox gives a deep dive of his book, People Tools for Business, where he shares 50 strategies for building success, creating wealth, and finding happiness.
In his book, Fox provides easy and practical tools, organized into 50 chapters, that each address a specific issue and gives a strategy you can use to overcome it. The goal of the book is to help you gain success in areas such as developing self-confidence, improving management skills, and how to respond to being fired.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need a handy book of business shortcuts that are time-tested and help solve everyday business related problems.
About Alan Fox:
“I am 74 years old and I’ve had a long and very successful business career. At first I was a CPA with a national CPA firm, then an attorney with my own law practice for a number of years and finally I formed a commercial real estate company at ACF Property Management Inc.
I think that you can do what you want to do and have fun while doing it. People Tools For Business is about doing things a little differently in business and enjoying yourself at the same time.” – Alan Fox
For a detailed summary of People Tools for Business according to Alan Fox CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: improve management, solve business problems, business shortcuts, build self-confidence, creating wealth, building success, business growth, being fired, gain success
In this episode Laura Busche shares her book, Lean Branding, where she gives you over 100 do-it-yourself branding tactics that teach you how to create brands effectively.
In her book, Busche helps you build your own brand with inspiring case studies and step-by-step instructions for measuring and building logo designs to demo pitches. The goal of the book is to provide you with a brand personality and story that will convert with your audience.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are thinking about creating a company or want to rebrand an existing one, but need step-by-step guidance for building the perfect brand.
About Laura Busche:
“I am originally a business major with a master in design managements and I am doing doctoral studies in psychology. I have been working with startups from every field imaginable for the last five years. For the last two years I have been working specifically with Tech startups in a methodology called Lean Branding. We have been working to make it easier for startups to develop their brands and to thrive doing so.
The inspiration was definitely entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs in all stages and walks of life are the reason that I do what I do. For the last five years I have been mentoring startup founders in order to help them build a brand that can really communicate what their product and service can do for costumers.” – Laura Busche
For a detailed summary of Lean Branding according to Laura Busche CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: the lean series, the lean startup, brand management, design a logo, create a business, startup marketing, value proposition, marketing tactics, build a brand, tell a story, brand name
In this episode Salim Ismail gives a deep dive of his book, Exponential Organizations where he shows you how any company, from a startup to a multi-national, can become exponential.
In his book, Ismail unveils years of research learning how organizations can accelerate growth through the use of technology. The goal of the book is to provide you with the knowledge to leverage assets such as big data, communities, algorithms, and new technology to achieve performance ten times better than your competition.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need a guide for harnessing and strategizing the growth of a company that feeds off of modern technology in the 21st century and beyond.
About Salim Ismail:
“I am the founding executive director and currently global ambassador for Singularity University. Our mission statement at Singularity University is to create a new generation of leadership that can leverage accelerating technologies to solve major global problems. I have been doing this for about six years and was the head of innovation at Yahoo and Tech Entrepreneurship before that.
As we launched Singularity six years ago we noticed at the same time that a very different model has become of how we build organizations. We’ve learned how to scale technology really well but scaling the organization and building that is painfully incrementally and linear. In the last five years or so we are seeing a new breed of organizational structure that can scale in the same seamless way that we scale technology. I noticed that as a weak signal five years ago, started tracking it, and over the last three years we have found over 60 organizations that are scaling at an average 10 times better, faster and cheaper compared to their peers. We started documenting those 60 organizations and tracking them and decided to write a book on the model.” – Salim Ismail
For a detailed summary of Exponential Organizations according to Salim Ismail CLICK HERE
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The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization by Nathan Furr
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Category Tags: exo, new technologies, corporate strategy, major company growth, wallstreet, enterprise business, systems and planning, paypal, amazon, Walmart, apple, the small big, executive board
In this episode Pamela Slim shares her book, Body of Work, where she gives you the tools to tie your story together in order to have a meaningful career.
In her book, Slim teaches you how to find the right connections for your accomplishments, sell your story, and continually reinvent and re-launch your personal brand. The goal of this book is to guide you through today’s complex career landscape to better understand the importance of the work you do.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are struggling to understand their true passion while working multiple jobs and need a way to find fulfillment, joy, and inner peace.
About Pamela Slim:
“I am a speaker, writer, business coach and a very happy mom. I have spent time in just about every work mode that you can possible imagine. I spent time as an employee, a nonprofit professional, volunteer executive director, a consultant and independent business coach. I find great joy and interest in figuring out how people express themselves through their work.
My inspiration came from the work that I was doing specifically for about nine years which was working with people who were in corporate jobs that wanted to leave and start a business. Operating in the startup phase for nine years I began to see specific gaps and things that were missing from the way of framework for understanding the new world of work.” – Pamela Slim
For a detailed summary of Body of Work according to Pamela Slim CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: sell yourself, self promotion, career advice, write a cover letter, resume, freelance work, find your passion, wearing multiple hats, too many jobs, overworked, self employed, inner peace
In this episode Marcia Reynolds gives a deep dive into her book, The Discomfort Zone, where she shows leaders how to think through problems, see situations more strategically, and transcend their limits.
In her book, Reynolds give you exercises and case studies to help you use discomfort in your conversations to create lasting changes and a better workforce. The goal of the book show you how to short-circuit your mind’s defense and habitual thought patterns.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having trouble coaching others to stretch their limits and meet their personal goals while not making them suffer consequences.
About Marcia Reynolds:
“I have been teaching leadership for over 30 years. It’s always fascinating because the more we learn about human behavior the more there is to consider in being a leader. My family was always a family of entrepreneurs so I went out to start my own business about 17 years ago.
I think the most misunderstood area of leadership is the whole topic of listening. Leaders know that they have to listen but they confuse it with just being patient while someone is talking until it’s their turn to talk. I really feel that there is a stronger purpose for listening than most leaders realize. In order to change people’s minds they have to listen for specific things. It’s not just how to listen but the purpose and I really wanted to put this down on paper to help all leaders understand what it takes to change people’s behavior.” – Marcia Reynolds
For a detailed summary of The Discomfort Zone according to Marcia Reynolds CLICK HERE
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Managing Whole People by Mark Herbert
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Category Tags: uncomfortable conversations, firing people, addressing problems, confrontation, bad employees, empowering employees, poor performance, comfort zone, better workplace, how to coach
In this episode Jeff Sutherland shares his book, Scrum, where he brings you a thought-provoking book about the management process that is changing the way we live.
In his book, Sutherland lays out his widely used project management system called Scrum which is a simple framework for solving the most intricate work problems effectively. The goal of the book is to simplify your work life, increase your focus, and get more done in less time than before.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are struggling with managing small teams, increasing performance, and making forward progress with large projects.
About Jeff Sutherland:
“I am a CEO of a company called Scrum Inc. I had a career as a fighter pilot which is part of what led to the book we are going to talk about. I spent 11 years in the air force and what I learned flying over North Vietnam is imbedded in my book. When I got back I completed an advance degree in medical school and was a professor of radiology, biometrics and preventative medicine. I was then hired away from the medical school in to a large banking company and when I looked at what they were doing in software I implemented what I learned from medical school and the military and that resulted in the creation of Scrum.
Several years ago I wrote a book called Software in 30 days and in there we focused mainly on IT and software development. There is still a debate on what works and doesn’t work and I wanted to amplify on that. I also wanted to talk about how Scrum is moving outside of software development and tell all the great stories that I couldn’t get into my software book.” – Jeff Sutherland
For a detailed summary of SCRUM according to Jeff Sutherland CLICK HERE
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Getting Things Done by David Allen
Smartcuts by Shane Snow
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Category Tags: getting things done, organization, productivity, project management, solving problems, large projects, modeling, work faster, managing teams, work efficiency, twice the work, half the time
In this episode Chris Van Gorder gives a deep dive of his book, The Front-Line Leader where he shares his story, from cop to CEO, and the leadership philosophy that drives all of his decisions.
In his book Chris Van Gorder outlines tactics you can use to take responsibility, inspire others, and achieve breakout results for your organization. The goal of the book is to help you chart a path to better leadership and a more engaged, higher-performing organization.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are looking for actionable tips on increasing employee engagement and performance while creating a culture of high accountability.
About Chris Van Gorder:
“I am the CEO for Scripps Health 2.6 billion dollar integrated healthcare delivery system in San Diego California. I started here 15 years ago of the Chief Operating Officer and found myself bolted in to the position of Chief Executive six months after I arrived when the company was kind of going under in many ways. I’ve been in healthcare for more than 30 year all in California. I started my career as a police officer in LA County when I was injured in the line of duty and was in and out of hospitals for the next year. The city retired me and the hospital that took care of me ultimately hired me as a department director. I eventually went back to graduate school and ended up in healthcare administration. I also volunteer back in law enforcement today and am the Reserved Assistant Sherriff with the San Diego County Sherriff’s Department responsible for the law enforcement and search and rescue reserves.
Our organization has been rated as a top 100 employer by Fortune Magazine for the last seven years. In March of 2013 the Fortune Magazine ran a story on me that was spotted by a literary agent who contacted me and encouraged me to write this book. I thought about it and felt like I didn’t have the time to do so but he convinced me otherwise and with the support of the organization I decided to write a book.” – Chris Van Gorder
For a detailed summary of The Front-Line Leader according to Chris Van Gorder CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: leadership, management, more engagement, increase performance, great employees, best place to work, work environment, company culture, great leadership skills, being a leader
In this episode Jasper Ribbers shares his book, Get Paid For Your Pad where he shares his proven solution for increasing profits from selling on Airbnb.
In his book Ribbers shows you how to prepare your home cost-effectively, set up a highly searchable Airbnb listing, communicate with guest in a professional way, and catapult your search rank within Airbnb search. The goal of his book is to make you an Airbnb rockstar when it comes to renting out your house.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who own a residence and are looking for a way to generate smart passive income on the side by renting their home.
About Jasper Ribbers:
“I used to be a trader in the financial sector working in the Netherlands and also in Chicago. About four years ago I decided to leave my career and travel the world. And eventually I started several online businesses and that’s what I’m doing now.
I started renting out my house in Amsterdam about two and half years ago and it completely enabled me to travel and financially support myself. At the same time I was able to live in my house when I was back in Amsterdam and also meet a bunch of great people from all around the world. I noticed a lot of people didn’t know about Airbnb and the ones that do know about it weren’t getting the best results that they could.” – Jasper Ribbers
For a detailed summary of Get Paid For Your Pad according to Jasper Ribbers CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: Airbnb, renting houses, residential real estate, online renting, leasing houses, rent a house, sell a house, list property, selling on Airbnb, get rich quick, online selling, house online
In this episode Alex Rodriguez takes a deep dive into his book, Digital Bacon, where he shares his proven tactics and methodologies to promoting a business effectively online.
In his book Rodriguez provides you with a step-by-step campaign for increasing your online traffic, improving your social awareness, and measuring your results. The goal of his book is to make your online presence more engaging and attractive to your audience.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having difficulties promoting their business online and need an all-in-one, easy-to-follow digital marketing strategy.
About Alex Rodriguez:
“I develop high-end digital marketing campaigns for companies that are looking to transform their brands and attract more business. My focus is launch campaigns and I’ve built some launch campaigns for some of the world’s most renowned brands such as Disney, SeaWorld and the list goes on and on. I was born in New York City, grew up in the Dominican Republic and started my career there in the advertising industry. Now I lead my own agency called Yummy Marketing.
We are in a very interesting era which is deemed by many as the digital era. Most everybody has access to tools to become their own advertiser, publisher and media manager but in earlier times you had to do all of that through an agency. With that immediacy of access to these channels comes a very big challenge. Not everybody is used to knowing how to promote their businesses online in a very effective manner. I recognized there was a void for speaking about very trident and proven tactics and methodologies and I decided to write a book to address that point.” – Alex Rodriguez
For a detailed summary of Digital Bacon according to Alex Rodriguez CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: digital marketing, internet marketing, online business, marketing help, digital marketing, media marketing, digital marketing strategy, promote a business online, internet promotion
In this episode Todd Kashdan takes a deep dive into his book, The Upside of Your Dark Side where he reveals over 15 years of research on the science of happiness, love, creativity, and relationships.
In his book Kashdan provides the simple tools that will help you get through the negative emotions and launch you to the highest peak in your life. The goal of the book show you how you can truly maximize your potential in any situation.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need help turning simple negative emotions such as anger, guilt, and self-doubt into powerful actions that improve your effectiveness.
About Todd Kashdan:
“I am a professor psychology at George Mason University, a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being and an author of four different books. The four books are Curious?, Designing Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Positive Psychology, and The Upside of Your Dark Side.
My Co-author and I have been studying the science of happiness, love, creativity and relationships for about 15 years. Both of us have read numbers of books that our colleagues have written about how to integrate this in the workplace and we have always been dissatisfied with it. We wrote this book to rectify what you need to do to flourish and function optimally in a world where we are overwhelmed. This is 15-20 years of science pulled together in one book.” – Todd Kashdan
For a detailed summary of The Upside of Your Dark Side according to Todd Kashdan CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: strengths, weaknesses, negative emotions, positive thoughts, better person, happy life, how to be positive, being yourself, happy, self help, self doubt
In this episode Stephen Key shares his book One Simple Idea where he shows you how to come up with ideas and license them to companies.
In his book, Key provides you with a step-by-step guide into bringing your ideas to market while helping you understand the ins and outs of licensing ideas. The goal of the book is teach you how to keep your ideas safe, be your own boss, see your product go to market, and make big money without quitting your job.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who already love what they are doing, but have multiple ideas that could benefit other companies and provide themselves with smart passive income.
About Stephen Key:
“I am just a regular guy that wants to be creative. In college I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I ended up taking an art class and realized I wanted to be creative and sell my creativity. For the last 30 years I have been coming up with little ideas and show them to companies and if they like them they license those ideas from me.
I have been bringing my own ideas to market through licensing and I have been educating students for the last 12 years on this same process. So when McGraw Hill had contacted me to write a book I agreed because a lot of people just don’t understand what licensing is.” – Stephen Key
For a detailed summary of One Simple Idea according to Stephen Key CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: invent things, inventor, Leonardo davinci, licensing products, 3d printing, create new ideas, business ideas, make money on the side, smart passive income, marketing ideas, selling ideas
In this episode Bill Treasurer takes a deep dive into his book, Leaders Open Doors where he gives you very simple ideas for becoming a valuable and successful leader.
In his book, Treasurer helps you create opportunities for the growth and development of the people that you lead. The goal of the book is to show you how to inspire people as a leader and help people reach their goals by inspiring a willingness to take initiative.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are not natural born leaders, but need a radically simple leadership approach to motivating people, lifting profits, and encouraging performance.
About Bill Treasurer:
“I am a dad of three kids who are 11 year old twins and an 8 year old as well. I am also a business owner/entrepreneur and started Giant Leap Consulting 12 years ago after spending six years at Accenture where I was a manager. Before that I was with a company called Executive Adventure which was an experiential team building company and I used to take executives to the outdoors doing rope courses and such. Before all of that I was the captain of the US high diving team and I used to dive from 100ft platforms into small pools for a living. I have a bit of a colorful background but my specialty is leadership and courage building.
I have been a practitioner of leadership development for over 20 years and have designed, developed and delivered many leadership development programs comprehensive in nature for emerging and experienced leaders. I felt like I knew a thing or two about leadership. I’ve written four books now, I have an off the shelf facilitator training program. I did my thesis on leadership in graduate school and literally traveled around the world teaching leadership development. One day I got some new counsel that really schooled me in the idea of leadership and it came from my five year old son, Ian. Ian got me back to what matters most about leaders and that is to open doors of opportunity for the people and the organizations that you serve in a leadership role.” – Bill Treasurer
For a detailed summary of Leaders Open Doors according to Bill Treasurer CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: leadership, best boss, good people, great management, leadership development, qualities of a leader, an amazing leader, I am a leader, modern day leaders, public figure
In this episode Heidi and Scott Shimberg take you on a deep dive into their book Couple CEO where they teach you how to create balance between growing your business while enjoying a family and living a healthy lifestyle.
In their book, the Shimbergs take you on a journey exploring the difficulties and intimacies of living a life as an entrepreneurial couple. The goal of the book is to provide you with the secrets to living a couple lifestyle complete with business full of profit and a relationship full of passion.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are interested in growing a business with their significant other or that simply want to create a valuable life together.
About Heidi and Scott Shimberg:
“Scott and I have been working together for just shy of two decades. In the process of working together we’ve build, sold and developed roughly about a quarter of a billion dollars of real estate in the Tampa Bay area. We have found that balance of how to be successful but also enjoy a pleasant lifestyle.
Our inspiration is to inspire other entrepreneurial couples to share their business passion while living their life together. We really feel that having that personal fulfillment is important and since we figured out how to do that we wanted to put that in a book and share it with others.” – Heidi and Scott Shimberg
For a detailed summary of Couple CEO according to Heidi and Scott Shimberg CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: business couples, family business, relationships, working together, husband and wife, couple therapy, growing a business, teamwork, partners in crime, marriage counseling, partnership
In this episode, Nir Eyal shares his book Hooked where he teaches you why very few products see success and what makes consumers engage with certain products out of habit.
In his book, Eyal gives you a four-step process for figuring out exactly what you should build into your product to make it better than the rest. The goal of Hooked is to have your products bring consumers back continuously without depending on costly advertising and messaging.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having troubles creating or getting a product to stick and need actionable steps for building such products that people love.
About Nir Eyal:
“I’ve started two tech companies and after my last company was acquired I dove into the more academic side of consumer psychology and habit formation which is what I’ve been working on for the past three years.
I was at my last company and was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why my customers weren’t doing the behaviors that I designed for them to do. I wanted to dive deeper into consumer psychology, into the things that people are not able to necessarily articulate and yet predictably drive their behavior. So I couldn’t find that book out there that told me what resources and tools I could use to figure out what I should build into my product.” – Nir Eyal
For a detailed summary of Hooked according to Nir Eyal CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: product marketing, product management, consumer habits, buying products, made to stick, iphone, building products, why people buy, ryan hoover, forming products
In this episode Frank Cespedes takes a deep dive into his book Aligning Strategy and Sales where he brings business strategy and sales together in order to make your business scale.
In his book Cespedes teaches you how to bring together your strategy with the behaviors you’re going to need in selling in order to execute that strategy. The goal of the book is to offer a road map to articulate strategy in ways that people in the field can understand and that will fuel the behaviors required for profitable growth.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs or CEOs who are looking to scale a new startup or create new sustainable growth of an already established business.
About Frank Cespedes:
“I am currently a professor at Harvard Business School. I was a professor at Harvard for 11 years before leaving to run a business for 12 years, sold the business and returned to Harvard about five years ago.
My academic research always focused on go-to market elements including channels and sales management but when I left Harvard and ran a business for 12 years I had to meet payroll and sales. After getting lucky in business and returning to Harvard I taught strategy for a few years. The fact is that despite decades of attention to so called strategic planning there really is remarkably little research about how to link strategy with the nitty-gritty of field execution.” – Frank Cespedes
For a detailed summary of Aligning Strategy and Sales according to Frank Cespedes CLICK HERE
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In this episode Gabriel Aluisy shares his book, Moving Targets where he helps you understand why people buy and teaches you how to get more personal with customer buying decisions.
In his book, Aluisy offers you some really simple action steps that anyone can implement in their business and start getting immediate results. The goal is to show you how to shift the brand culture to gain more customers and followers.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs and marketing professionals who are having trouble understanding and generating quality customers and leads.
About Gabriel Aluisy:
“I design and develop marketing campaigns for country clubs, yacht clubs and luxury lifestyle brands. I have a company called Shake Creative in Tampa Florida which is a trusted local partner of some of the nation’s largest country club networks. We service their Tampa Bay clubs and others around the country with award winning design and our target marketing strategies.
It was inspired by some of the great brand experiences I’ve had and even some of the local brands here in Tamp that I’ve come across. The flip side of that is it’s inspired by the horrible brand experiences that I’ve had. I’m also really inspired by the shift that’s taking place in the last few years with a very on demand society. We have created this very impersonal world so I wanted to do my part to show entrepreneurs how to shift the brand culture to gain more customers and followers.” – Gabriel Aluisy
For a detailed summary of Moving Targets according to Gabriel Aluisy CLICK HERE
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In this episode Michael Price takes a deep dive into his book, What’s Next, where he gives you a guide for surviving and thriving in the real world.
In his book, Price teaches you how to decide if college is right for you, how to escape Corporate America and pursue your passion, and how to use the Internet for continuing education, networking, building a business, and turning your passion into profit.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs between the ages of 15 and 33 who are seeking an all-inclusive guide to finding the right education and entrance into the world today.
About Michael Price:
“I am an entrepreneur, an author and a millennial. I also founded I Can Be Society.
After explaining my unhappiness with my job at the time to my dad he suggested I write a book. I knew I had the ability to write a book and as I looked back on my life from the ages 15 to 28 I wanted to show how education and career fit together.” – Michael Price
For a detailed summary of What’s Next according to Michael Price CLICK HERE
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In this episode R Michael Anderson takes you on a deep dive into his book, The Experiment where he teaches you how to create an ideal work-life balance, turn bad habits into good habits, build relationships, and get more done in less time.
In his book, Anderson tells a modern-day business fable about Dennis, a business owner who is separated from his spouse, out of shape, burned out, and just living a dreary life. As you read the notes Dennis take in his sessions with Robert, use them as exercises to effectively transform your own life.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are experiencing the downfalls of success and are seeking a different approach to finding joy in their work life.
About R Michael Anderson:
“I’ve always been good at achieving but I found myself not happy. I hit my low point in life and knew I needed to change something. I ended up earning my masters in spiritual psychology and now I teach competitive driven people how to become happier.
The Experiment is a story that I relate to in my own personal life. I teach entrepreneurs skills I’ve learned and also help them go through some of the tough changes I’ve gone through.” – R Michael Anderson
For a detailed summary of The Experiment according to R Michael Anderson CLICK HERE
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In this episode Mark Herbert shares his book, Managing Whole People where he gives you 30 years of mistakes, experimentation, and learnings from the personal journey of an HR director and a senior consultant.
In his book, Herbert provides you with a guide to the true leadership of managing people based on his 5 basic elements of respect, responsibility, information, rewards, and loyalty.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs and business owners who assume a role in managing employees and are having trouble building the proper relationships to increase productivity.
About Mark Herbert:
“My original corporate training was in the human resources area. I have since evolved from that into some C- level responsibilities and operations. And for the last 15 years I have operated as a management consultant working with organizations around their relationships ranging from fortune 100’s to small entrepreneurial businesses.
The big inspiration for me was coming up through a time where the whole idea of human resources management and leadership was not held at high esteem. A number of different conflicting philosophies out there were to communicate to people that when we were managing people, we managed them one at a time and we managed the entirety of who they are.” – Mark Herbert
For a detailed summary of Managing Whole People according to Mark Herbert CLICK HERE
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In this episode Jay Forte takes a deep dive into his book, The Greatness Zone where he helps you know what you are good at, what you love and what is going on in your world.
In his book, Forte introduces this life-changing thinking in his compelling and heartwarming story of two kids in college. By following the stories of Mary and Mike, you will get to see the greatness formula in action which will guide you through the process of knowing yourself and finding your best fit in life.
This book is perfect for an entrepreneur who is bored with life, often listens to what others have to say, and does not know how to change things.
About Jay Forte:
“I am a certified life and workplace CEO coach, an author and a speaker. Prior to that I was a CPA and CFO for years and then realized that most of my career I was in the wrong place. I’m a big idea person that just needed an environment to keep inventing. Now I work around the workplace and around helping people discover what the big ideas in life are for them.
The Greatness Zone happened as a direct effect of the first book that I had written called Fire up your employees and smoke your competition. It came out of my time as an education director just at the time the economy was shifting out of an industrial agent to an intellectual age. It came out as a process book to say regardless of your age you should know what you are good at, what you love and what is going on in your world. So that you can know you, know your world and put the two together.” – Jay Forte
For a detailed summary of The Greatness Zone according to Jay Forte CLICK HERE
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In this episode bestselling author Chris Brogan takes you on a deep dive into his book, The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth, where he gives you the formula for entrepreneurship from the ground up.
In his book, Brogan gives you the systems, processes and the foundational work that you need to turn your interests into a business venture. The goal of the book is to help you start your own revolutionary business, including what most people are missing from the basics of business, how to turn passions into businesses, and how to build out the digital channel.
This book is perfect for people who have the potential and drive to be an aspiring entrepreneur, but wouldn’t normally pick up a business book.
About Chris Brogan:
“I run a company called Owner Media Group; a professional development company where I help people try to figure out how to own the game that they must want to win. I’ve run marketing consulting companies, worked with a lot of the biggest brands out there. Most recently I have been helping anyone from any size business try to figure out solid principles of ownership that will help in you personally, in your business and into the future.
The inspiration for the book comes from my kids. I wanted to write something that will help them along their way as they grow up.” – Chris Brogan
For a detailed summary of The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth according to Chris Brogan CLICK HERE
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In this episode, Mark Hunter shares his and Matthew Hudson’s book, Advisor Selling, where he reveals the secrets for becoming a trusted advisor to potential sales clients.
In their book, Hunter and Hudson give you the individual phases to becoming better at sales by understanding who the prospects are, how to qualify them, and how to engage them. The goal of the book is to provide you with a guide to have higher margins, increase referrals, and get higher customer satisfaction.
This book is perfect for B2B entrepreneurs who utilize an outdated sales approach and have a hard time understanding a customer’s point of entry.
About Mark Hunter:
“I help companies and sales people find a way to avoid the discount which is how to sell at full price without discounting. So I help you find better customers that close at full price.
The co-author and I have been longtime friends and about eight years ago we worked together on a project with a fortune 200 company. One of the things that were involved was going out and working with every single sales person in the company. About a year ago we realized that we have collectively done over 1,000 ride-alongs with sales people and knew we needed to capture that into a book.” – Mark Hunter”
For a detailed summary of Advisor Selling according to Mark Hunter CLICK HERE
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In this episode, Mark Hunter takes you on a deep dive into his book, High Profit Selling where he helps you change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value.
In his book, Hunter gives you the guide for moving towards a profit-centered sales approach that will strengthen your customer relationships and increase your bottom line.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are not confident in their current sales approach to prospects and need a better method for increasing profits more comfortably.
About Mark Hunter:
“I help companies and sales people find a way to avoid the discount which is how to sell at full price without discounting. So I help you find better customers that close at full price. The inspiration behind the book was all about how to avoid the discount.” – Mark Hunter
For a detailed summary of High Profit Selling according to Mark Hunter CLICK HERE
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In this episode, Hal Elrod shares his book, The Miracle Morning where he believes how you start the day sets the context for the rest of your day which sets the context for the rest of your life.
In his book, Elrod teaches you his ultimate morning routine that helped double his income within two months. The goal of the book is to provide you with a real life experience of success and the steps on how to wake up each day with more energy, motivation, and focus to take your life to the next level.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to change their lives, but have trouble waking up early in the morning and feel as if they are losing energy and motivation throughout the day.
About Hal Elrod:
“I was a radio DJ until I got into sales where I was one of the youngest sales rep ever inducted into the companies’ hall of fame. I broke a bunch of sales records and thought that I was going to do that forever. I was in a horrific car accident, died for six minutes, broke 11 bones and told I would never walk again. I bounced back from that and went on to write a couple of bestselling books, became a coach and a motivational speaker.
It was never intended to be a book, it was written out of responsibility to share my experiences with other people. I did research and created what seemed to be the ultimate morning ritual and within two months of doing it I more than doubled my income.” – Hal Elrod
For a detailed summary of The Miracle Morning according to Hal Elrod CLICK HERE
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In this episode, Honoree Corder takes a deep dive into her book, Vision To Reality where she helps you answer the question what do you really want and why haven’t you already got it.
In her book, Corder points you in the right direction to achieving success by talking about her coaching philosophy and program. She will teach you how to increase efficiency and effectiveness, overcome challenges, increase productivity, and live with passion and purpose.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who wants the steps used by successful entrepreneurs to transform their daily actions into the life of their dreams.
About Honoree Corder:
“I am a business coach, executive coach, corporate trainer, motivational speaker and 13 time author. I currently live in Austin, TX. I have worked with entrepreneurs, business owners and senior level professionals for about 15 years and helped them achieve their biggest vision and solve their biggest problems. My background is in the corporate world and in network marketing and so I have had to distinct successful separate careers that have both informed and influenced how I work with people today.
I wanted a reference book for myself and for others that isn’t just the tip of the spear but is the sharp point that would give the formula for turning what is in our minds eye into our actual real life reality.” – Honoree Corder
For a detailed summary of Vision to Reality according to Honoree Corder CLICK HERE
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In this episode, Geoff Hudson-Searle shares his book Freedom After The Sharks where he helps you make dreams become reality and shows you how to be the master of that journey.
In his book Hudson-Searle takes you on his life’s journey after working in 160 countries to helping fortune 100 companies and starting his career into entrepreneurship. His goal is to show the truths, trials, and tribulations he went through when going into business and launching a company.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who learn what it takes to succeed in life by following the experiences of other entrepreneurs who have struggled and made it to the top.
About Geoff Hudson-Searle:
“My difficult upbringing gave me the drive to succeed in my business career. I’ve worked in 160 different countries worldwide delivering very large programs and initiatives for most of the large corporate 100 before launching into my business and entrepreneurial career.
The first inspiration is that you never really understand exactly how strong you are as an entrepreneur until you need the strength. I wanted to be able to convey to my readers to never give up and if you have the determination you can absolutely achieve the dream. I also wouldn’t have been able to write this book if it wasn’t for my late grandmother and grandfather because they were a deeply moving part of the inspiration and drive behind the book.” - Geoff Hudson-Searle
For a detailed summary of Freedom After the Sharks according to Geoff Hudson-Searle CLICK HERE
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Vision to Reality by Honoree Corder
All in Startup by Diana Kander
How To Succeed in 12 Months by Serena Star Leonard
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In this episode, John Baldoni takes us on a deep dive into his book MOXIE, where he reveals the secrets to bold and gutsy leadership.
In his book, Baldoni shares the competence, credibility, and confidence that leaders, like Dolly Parton, Sergio Marchionne, Ben Hogan, and Nelson Mandela, use to succeed.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who understands leadership, but needs some help preparing to lead not only his or her self but also lead a team more effectively.
About John Baldoni:
“I am an executive coach and author. My brand new book Moxie is number 13 on my list. I am chair of leadership development at N2growth. My passion is instilling leadership in others and providing them pathways to success.
It came out of the financial crash of 2008 when we saw a lot of senior executives throw up their hands and say they’ve never seen things so bad before. These executives did not demonstrate any sense of resilience, perseverance or moxie. I wanted to talk about how leader’s gutsy gumption will help them and their teams succeed.” – John Baldoni
For a detailed summary of MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership according to John Baldoni CLICK HERE
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Leaders Open Doors by Bill Treasurer
Managing Whole People by Mark Herbert
The Prosperous Leader by Jacob Engel
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In this episode Nathan Furr gives a detailed summary of his book, The Innovator’s Method. This book provides the ideal process of an innovator’s phase: the insight, problem, solution, and business model. We acquire information by observing the glitches around us and present a solution. Digging deep will find us an explanation and creating a business model to market the proper need. Whether you are an entrepreneur launching a start-up or re-establishing a present one, this book is an excellent resource.
About Nathan Furr:
“I earned my Ph.D. at Stanford University in the Stanford technology ventures program. I’ve worked in management consulting, I’ve been an entrepreneur, worked in venture capital and across those experiences I wanted to spend some time sharing some of the insights that I discovered along the way.
When I was at Stanford I used to hear disparaging comments about business schools and management and I wondered why I was hearing such negative things. As I started to dig into history I discovered something surprising and that was that management schools did not exist until the late industrial revolution. Business schools where founded to manage problems of relative certainty and what we left unanswered were how to manage uncertainty.” – Nathan Furr
For a detailed summary of The Innovator’s Method according to Nathan Furr CLICK HERE
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Inside The Box by Drew Boyd
The Seven Sins of Innovation by Dave Richards
The Myths of Creativity by David Burkus
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In this episode Blake Masters shares his book, Zero To One, where he and Peter Thiel reveal the strategy, secrets, and truth to find success that goes above and beyond.
In his book, Masters provides you with the insights of how Peter Thiel became so successful with his ventures such as PayPal. One of the core themes in the book is the distinction between competition and a business monopoly. Both Thiel and Masters believe that success is found in the absolute differentiation of one business to another and they pave the way for you follow the same suite.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have an original idea and are seeking absolute command of a niche where competition does not exist.
About Blake Masters:
“I live out in San Francisco with my wife and 4 month year old baby. I am the co-founded of a legal research technology startup called Judicata. Prior to that I was at law school at Stanford and worked as an early sales person at Box.
The book is based on a class that Peter Thiel taught at Stanford in 2012 call CS 183 Startup. Peter’s goal in teaching the class was to tell his students everything he knew about business. I took really good class notes and put them online and then they ended up getting read by hundreds of thousands of people and became basic required reading in Silicon Valley.” – Blake Masters
For a detailed summary of Zero To One according to Blake Masters CLICK HERE
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All In Startup by Diana Kander
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The Art of War for Small Business by Becky Sheetz-Runkle
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Category Tags: Peter Thiel, PayPal, growing a business, competitive advantage, monopoly, creating a startup, mastering business, Harvard business
In this episode Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt share their book, A World Gone Social, where they give you the tools and advice on using social media to relate and survive in business today.
In their book, Coine and Babbitt walk you through the fundamentals and steps in on how to create change, build teams, make relationships online, and utilize social media marketing.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are having trouble utilizing social media and are unable to disrupt an industry they desire to be successful in.
About Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt:
Mark Babbitt – I am the CEO and founder of a talent community online called YouTern where we help college students, recent graduates and young careerist ascend into the workforce as gracefully as possible. I am also the president of Switch and Shift which is a leading leadership site.
Ted Coine – I am the co-founder and chairman of Switch and Shift.
“We didn’t realize we were writing A World Gone Social at first. It’s a five year project maybe a year or more in before we realized this was a book. I was speaking with business leaders and every time the word change came up terror got in their eyes. Change used to be something that happened occasionally and now people don’t know what to do about it. As we interviewed leaders we realize that they weren’t ready for a world gone social and we then realized how much this was impacting our careers and businesses.” – Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt
For a detailed summary of A World Gone Social according to Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt CLICK HERE
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Digital Bacon by Alex Rodriguez
Pocket Man by Scott Jordan
Moving Targets by Gabriel Aluisy
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Category Tags: social media marketing, SMM, marketing, smarketing, SEO, SEM, disrupt an industry, switch and shift, how to create change, crossing the chasm, online marketing, digital marketing
In this episode Alan Barrell takes a deep dive into his book, Show Me The Money, where he takes you on a real-life journey of creating a new business.
In his book, Barrell walks you through situations based on practitioners who got the basic right, know where the money is, have prepared for fundraising, know how to manage intellectual property, and understand the value their company brings.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur that plans on utilizing investors to fund a startup and have difficulty managing the external factors involved in doing business.
About Alan Barrell:
“I live in the wonderful city of Cambridge where I would say we have the closes thing to Silicon Valley. I work part-time at the University of Cambridge as the Entrepreneur in Residence. I’ve done a lot of work with larger companies. I’m a scientist, turned businessman, turned investor.
The main inspiration was a huge interest in new business creation. It’s the new businesses and startups that are driving the economy of the world. I am passionate about new company startups as a means of growing economies and societies.” – Alan Barrell
For a detailed summary of Show Me The Money according to Alan Barrell CLICK HERE
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Walk Away Wealthy by Mark Tepper
From Idea to Exit by Jeffrey Weber
PACE by Jesse Mecham
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Category Tags: Cambridge, jerry mcguire, new business, need money, start a business, start up, jim collins, built to last, investors, silicon valley, find cash, fundraising, campaigning
In this episode Shane Snow shares his book, Smartcuts, where he shows you how hackers, innovators, and icons accelerate success.
In his book, Snow teaches you how you can do more than you are doing and do it faster than you think by thinking about things smarter. He also explains how you can find the business secrets to shorten your path to success in real life and divides the book into three main sections of how this happens based on hundreds of interviews with incredible people.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who has the motivation to be super successful but wants to accomplish ideas at a faster pace.
About Shane Snow:
“I grew up in Idaho and live in New York City now. I first studied computer science and became a web entrepreneur and then I moved over to journalism. I moved to New York to be a journalist with a dream of writing for Wired Magazine and writing about Tech got me to start my own tech startup.
I was fascinated by people and businesses that seemed to beat expectations. As an entrepreneur myself I was curious how they did it and was looking for the patterns.” – Shane Snow
For a detailed summary of Smartcuts according to Shane Snow CLICK HERE
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People Tools for Business by Alan Fox
Work Smarter by Nick Loper
Getting Things Done by David Allen
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Category Tags: tech startup, success in real life, amplify work, setting goals, business secrets, work smarter, hackers, innovators, inventors, accelerate success, work faster, new apps, latest apps
Webber takes us through the entrepreneurial journey with his book, From Idea to Exit. There are four stages of the entrepreneurs' journey: idea, startup, runnning, and exit stage. Webber covers detailed analysis for each stage from the initial ideas, the pit falls, demand generation, fulfillment, taking action to move-on, and an exceptional planned exit strategy. This book is an excellent resource for all stages of entrepreneurship.
In this episode Pejman Ghadimi, also known as PJ, shares his book, Third Circle Theory where he reveals the birth of entrepreneurship.
In his book, Ghadimi provides you with a reflection of yourself through the different stages you will go through in life in order to become an entrepreneur. After reading his book you will walk away understanding how much more of life you have control of than you actually think.
This book is perfect for the wantrepreneur who is searching for a way into entrepreneurship by overcoming fear and ultimately taking control of life.
About Pejman Ghadimi:
“I am the founder of The Secret Entourage. My background was spending about six years as an Executive Vice President for Fortune 500 and from there I went on to start two seven figure businesses, one in consulting and the other in the luxury lifestyle arena. And later found that money was no longer the focus in my life and therefore founded Secret Entourage to help younger individuals who don’t have access to great leadership, mentorship or education find the real life knowledge for free.
My mom was the inspiration that led me to becoming very self-aware and the books ideology is about helping others become very self-aware. The inspiration was ultimately seeing her life of sacrifice and really giving birth to all the learning that I have had the opportunity to learn throughout the years into this book.” – Pejman Ghadimi
For a detailed summary of Third Circle Theory according to Pejman Ghadimi CLICK HERE
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Make Money Live Wealthy by Austin Netzley
The Millionaire Master Plan by Roger Hamilton
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Category Tags: be an entrepreneur, life awareness, overcome fear, start with why, simon sinek, leading people, self control, life hacks, happiness, build relationships, entrepreneurship
In this episode Micah Yost takes a deep dive into his book, Rhythm, where he addresses the problem when entrepreneurs know they need to be creative, but essentially lack the ability.
In his book, Yost provides you with a field guide for solving this problem with a purpose to boost your creative confidence with a solid and approachable guideline to become consistently effective at innovation.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who lack the ability to generate ideas or have ideas they have yet seen to succeed.
About Micah Yost:
“I live right in the middle of the country in Omaha Nebraska and work with an awesome group of creative people at a company called Elevate where we do digital brand and design. My undergrad is in the arts and my graduate degree is in business. I’ve spent the past decade working right at that intersection of creativity, innovation and business.
I was on an airplane a couple months back flying into Tennessee to speak at a conference called Everywhere Else. I was planning on talking about something else but I have a rhythm of my own of going back and scrubbing my notes. I came upon a question of what would it look like to really make creativity and innovation consistently executable and out of that came an equation that I write about in the book and it turned into the talk that I gave during the conference. It spurred a lot of questions and conversation at the conference so I felt like I wanted to take it further and try to address that issue.” – Micah Yost
For a detailed summary of Rhythm according to Micah Yost CLICK HERE
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The Innovator’s Method by Nathan Furr
The Road to Reinvention by Josh Linkner
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Category Tags: become creative, innovate, invent, reinvent, new ideas, create things, brainstorming, personal influence, make great things happen, build innovation, cool stuff
In this episode Steve Scott shares his book, Habit Stacking, where you will discover 97 quick habits that can instantly change your life.
In his book, Scott teaches you to discover how to manage a simple routine that you can repeat on a daily basis along with a few tools that will keep you motivated and consistent.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs like you who want to make giant leaps forward in business, strengthen personal relationships, stay on top of finances, get organized, and improve health and fitness.
About Steve Scott:
“I have been self-employed for the last 10 years in a variety of internet businesses specifically the last two years I have been into Kindle publishing. I got into habit development because I wanted to improve my own life and now I write books that come from my personal experience and things I have talked about with other people.
To be honest it came from a position of frustration. I wanted to figure out a way to put the little habits into a single routine and for a year I did this every single day first thing in the morning. One day I was trying to come up with a name for a book and I figured that this might be something that others find valuable.” – Steve Scott
For a detailed summary of Habit Stacking according to Steve Scott CLICK HERE
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Smartcuts by Shane Snow
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Category Tags: habits, change your life, moving forward, motivation, small habits, productivity, health, wellness, fitness, stress relief
In his book, Michalowicz shows you the correct formula for success as opposed to the original from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles of GAAP. He proposes a new formula about selling as much as you can, extract your profit from your business first and then pay your expenses with the remainder. His approach changes the entire paradigm.
This book is perfect for all entrepreneurs who have based their businesses profitability on the formula of sales minus expenses equals profit. By taking the advice from this book, there will be less money for expenses, your behavior will change and you will find ways to get the same things done with less money.
About Mike Michalowicz:
“I am an author targeted toward small business books and how to grow them to be successful and competitive in market. I challenge all the beliefs that are out there about growing a business and study other businesses to find the current formula for success.
After selling my second company I thought I knew the formula to success and became full of myself. I decided to become an angel investor, took my own money and started 10 companies and threw money at these businesses believing that the only thing that mattered was my involvement. This ended up being a train wreck and caused me to lose basically every penny I put in it. The day I lost my last penny became a defining moment for me and the realization that what I thought was the formula to success was in fact wrong. I thought that profit was an event and I became to realize that profit is not an event, it’s a habit.” – Mike Michalowicz
For a detailed summary of Profit First according to Mike Michalowicz CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: how to profit, increase profits, accounting tips, expenses, sales, cost of goods, formula to success, rod beckstrom, GAAP, formula for business, finance, quickbooks, Thomson reuters, balance sheet
In this episode Mike Michalowicz takes a deep dive into his bestselling book, The Pumpkin Plan, where he helps you implement a unique strategy for growing your business.
In his book, Michalowicz utilizes the techniques that farmers use to grow colossal pumpkins. His theory is that pumpkin farming provides some similarities in growing a successful business and he provides you all of the steps to do so.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs and business owners who are struggling to grow their business and have too many tasks on their plate. Michalowicz gives you the steps to focus on that one thing you do well and becoming a master at it so you can experience colossal growth.
About Mike Michalowicz:
I am an author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, The Pumpkin Plan and Profit First. I write books to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. I challenge all the beliefs that are around because I believe most of our beliefs are hurting our businesses and propose new ways to do it.
I started studying colossal pumpkin farmers and I realized that they basically follow the same process as ordinary pumpkin farmers do but change a few elements. Just by changing 5% or 10% of the growing process the pumpkin responds with explosive growth. I figured that if you can do this natural, why not do it with businesses and I put it to the test.
For a detailed summary of The Pumpkin Plan according to Mike Michalowicz CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: growing business, pumpkin farming, colossal pumpkins, hurting business, hiring employees, firing employees, Robert cialdini, scaling up, big business
In this episode Mike Michalowicz shares his book, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, where he gives you the business tools to get ready for building a business and the kick in the behind to get started.
In his book, Michalowicz provides his perception on what entrepreneurship is and how you can navigate starting and building a business when you have no resources. The difference between this book and others like it is Michalowicz connects entrepreneurship to the bathroom experience when we find a way to survive on a very small amount of toilet paper.
This book is perfect for the aspiring entrepreneur who needs the tools to startup when they don't have money and for the established entrepreneur in need of realigning their business.
About Mike Michalowicz:
“I am an author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, The Pumpkin Plan and Profit First. Prior to becoming an author I was a fulltime entrepreneur growing a couple companies and today the forefront of my activities is writing books and talking about them.
I wanted to challenge all the academic reads that were out there. I believe there are a lot of great content books but most of the books I was reading about business you have to bore your way through it. And so I decided to write my perception of what entrepreneurship is and how you can navigate starting and building a business when you have no resources.” – Mike Michalowicz
For a detailed summary of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur according to Mike Michalowicz CLICK HERE
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Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, building a business, growing a business, bathroom, business survival, startup advice, no money, bootstrapping
In this episode Charlie Houpert takes a dive into his book, Charisma on Command, where he shares his personal story on how he went from extreme introvert to an extrovert all on his own.
In his book, Houpert gives you an in depth action guide to improving your social skills through conversing, presenting, and conveying positive feelings.
This book is perfect for all types of entrepreneurs who are introverts trapped in a comfort bubble when it comes to socializing with others or extroverts who need to polish their social listening skills and charm.
About Charlie Houpert:
“I grew up on the east coast, lived in a bunch of different places but right now I am living in Vegas. I run a company called Charisma on Command with my best friends and co-founder. The whole point of this company is to teach people to be more charismatic and to do it on command.
I grew up incredibly shy, voted the shyest kid in my high school class of over 500 people and lived that way through college. At some point I got fed up with it, went abroad and dedicated myself to reinventing who I was. I dove into books, put myself in uncomfortable situations, took a bunch of improv classes and now people come up to me surprised how outgoing and comfortable I am. This has transformed my life more profoundly than anything else I’ve done and something I really enjoy sharing with other people.” – Charlie Houpert
For a detailed summary of Charisma on Command according to Charlie Houpert CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: social skills, body language, how to present yourself, first impressions, how to network, build relationships, the wedding ringer, eye contact, talking to women, pickup lines, self esteem, tim ferriss, uncomfortable situations, meet people
In this episode Natalie Sisson takes a deep dive into her book, The Suitcase Entrepreneur, where she reveals the ups and downs of traveling while running a business.
In her book Sisson takes you through 3 different acts where you will learn about freedom and adventure, how to build an online business you can run from anywhere, and how to live out of a suitcase.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who wants to choose their own adventure in order to do whatever they want in life including traveling the world.
About Natalie Sisson:
“I have been traveling and living out of my suitcase for four full years now. I have no home and am the suitcase entrepreneur. I love to create a ton of freedom and adventure in my life and those of others. I’ve build a brand and a business based around doing that and helping people build profitable businesses they can run from anywhere.
I have been doing this for such a long time now and I felt I finally had a book in me to write about. I wanted to share my journey and how people have been doing this for themselves, building crazy awesome lifestyles but also very successful businesses, in a book format. I’ve always wanted to write a book and I finally felt I had enough knowledge and expertise to share. I am very much action focused and that’s what I wanted my book to be, the most practical guide for creating a business you love from anywhere.” – Natalie Sisson
For a detailed summary of The Suitcase Entrepreneur according to Natalie Sisson CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: traveling, online business, homeless business, remote desktop, working from home, vacation destinations, entrepreneurship, eventual millionaire, lifestyle entrepreneur, extraordinary things, the rich life, living the dream
In this episode Brad Stone shares his national bestselling book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon, he unveils the inspiration and the real business lessons learned from creating such a large company. Stone takes you on a journey through the life of Jeff Bezos as he built Amazon from the ground up and is meant to be a story that all entrepreneurs and business owners can relate to. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who wants to learn the ins-and-outs, the trials-and-errors, and the ups-and-downs of growing a business from average to amazing.
About Brad Stone:
“I am a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. It came out last October, won the Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business book of the year award and just came out in paperback.
I’ve covered Silicon Valley for about 15 years now for the New York Times, Newsweek Magazine and BusinessWeek and in those times I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues write great books about the other technology companies that are changing our lives. And for whatever reason no one had done a really great job on writing a book about Amazon and I thought it was time to take an in-depth look on its history and all the obstacles’ it’s had to navigate.” – Brad Stone
For a detailed summary of The Everything Store according to Brad Stone CLICK HERE
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Startup Mixology by Frank Gruber
Exponential Organizations By Salim Ismail
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Category Tags: Jeff Bezos, amazon success, real business lessons, silicon valley, ecommerce store, culture of amazon, startup success, build a startup, inside a business, amazon prime, buy online, online selling
In this episode Lloyd Shefsky takes you on a deep dive into his book, Invent Reinvent Thrive, where he unveils some keys to success for any startup, entrepreneur, or family business. In his book, Shefsky takes you on a journey of reinvention to explain the difference between generations, how to build confidence, how to reinvent yourself, how to deal with naysayers, how to reinvent a business, and the lessons learned from very successful entrepreneurs and family business owners. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who is struggling to find success and is at a loss for moving forward.
About Lloyd Shefsky:
“I am a Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management. I wrote Entrepreneurs Are Made Not Born which became a best-seller and now in eight languages. I have been teaching entrepreneurship for about 18 years both at the Kellogg School, China, Japan and other places. I consult with entrepreneurs; consult with family business people and the founder/co-director of the Center for Family Enterprises.
For quite some time I’ve been bothered by what makes some people successful both entrepreneurs and family business people and none of the typical factors were working. For a while I thought it would be confidence that I would be looking at but after a few interviews it became clear that what distinguished the successful and non-successful was the concept that they had to continually reinvent themselves. So when I was seeing all this it became clear that there was a great similarity in this reinvention concept.” – Lloyd Shefsky
For a detailed summary of Invent Reinvent Thrive according to Lloyd Shefsky CLICK HERE
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The Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz
The Road To Reinvention by Josh Linkner
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Category Tags: reinvention, keys to success, scaling a business, success stories, business change, downsizing, startup advise, innovate
In this episode Alexandra Watkins shares her book, Hello My Name is Awesome, where she teaches you how to create brand names that stick.
In her book, Watkins delivers the real insights into naming a business and clever ways to create a slogan so entrepreneurs can learn the proper techniques for branding business.
This book is perfect for the entrepreneur or small business owner who does not have the budget to hire the services of a branding agency, but has the will power to learn how to do it themselves.
About Alexandra Watkins:
“I am a self-taught person who didn’t go to college. When I was in eighth grade I knew I wanted to be in advertising and I was able to talk my way into an internship with an ad agency. I eventually landed at Ogilvy and Mather. I talked my way into becoming a namer at Lander while on a Match.com date. I am an interesting person and traveled to more than 45 countries including Libya, Zimbabwe and Cuba.
I did not want to write a book, my parents are authors and I know that writing a book is a lot of work for not always a lot of money. I got an e-mail from a publishing company asking if I had ever thought about writing a book. I didn’t jump on it right away. I struggled with if I wanted to take all that time writing a book. I deliberated about three weeks over it until I finally decided to do it and I am so glad I did! About 90% of people who contact my company can’t afford us and I thought the book would be something that they could get and help them on their own.” – Alexandra Watkins
For a detailed summary of Hello, My Name Is Awesome according to Alexandra Watkins CLICK HERE
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Digital Bacon by Alex Rodriguez
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Category Tags: branding, personal branding, advertising tips, marketing ads, advertisements, naming a business, facebook ads, google adwords, branding business, create a logo, logo design, business stationary
In this episode Brandon Epstein shares his book, Limitless Energy, where he provides 10 simple daily habits to naturally boost energy. Epstein is a firm believer that when you provide enough energy it allows you to take all the other tools you have at your disposal and use them with much more effectiveness.
In his book Epstein walks you through 10 daily habits to create sustainable and limitless energy such as breathing properly, hydration, meditation, nutrition, and much more.
This book is perfect for the very busy and resourceful entrepreneur who needs an extra boost of energy in order to perform with greater effectiveness.
About Brandon Epstein:
“I have a company called Entrepreneur Fitness where we take all the inspiration and tools possible, through it up on EntrepreneurFitness.com where we provide resources for entrepreneurs to help them take their game to the next level.
I was a professional fitness model that turned into an Entrepreneur with an app company and I realized while getting into entrepreneurship that the #1 important resource to me was energy. I did not see any resources out there specifically targeting entrepreneurs promising limitless energy.” – Brandon Epstein
For a detailed summary of Limitless Energy according to Brandon Epstein CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: personal health, sustained energy, increased focus, better health, healthy nutrition, gluten free, daily habits, boost energy, oxygenation, entrepreneur fitness
In this episode Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck take a deep dive into their book, The New Entrepreneurz. In their book, Gafni and Gluck talk about entrepreneurship as a mindset and you can have a mindset of an entrepreneur even if you won’t have a business. A lot of books on entrepreneurship are from authors who are at the end of their journey and this book starts in the middle. As you read each chapter you will find yourself participating in a fun, bite-size lesson you can apply to your life or business. This book is perfect for the wantrepreneur or first-time entrepreneur who has yet to fully grasp the concept and evolution of entrepreneurship today.
About Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck:
“My name is Ronen Gafni, I am 42 years old, have two kids and live in Israel. I developed a game called FreshBiz, it’s the game for development of independent real thinking. It’s been a journey for the past 10 years. Simcha and I have been touring the globe playing the game with over 20 thousand people from 20 different countries bringing the message of a new mindset towards business and entrepreneurship.
My name is Simcha Gluck. I’m the Chief Fun Officer of Fresh Biz, I co-author the book with Ronen and I’ve been a serial entrepreneur since I was 20 years old and am currently 35. I am originally from New York but now live in Israel with my wife.
While traveling and training entrepreneurs all over the world in different communities we started to see that entire face of what entrepreneurship has typically been over the past 10, 50 or 100 years has completely changed. It was important to us to write a book that features a new way of looking at things and living in the new shared economy that we are in. That is the inspiration for The New Entrepreneurz, the new people who literally are changing the way they play life one game at a time.” – Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck
For a detailed summary of The New Entrepreneurz according to Ronen and Simcha CLICK HERE
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The New Rich by David Moore
The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth by Chris Brogan
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, young entrepreneurs, evolution of business, freshbiz, smart business, business game, life hacking, business hacking, change the game
In this episode Kevin Short shares his book, Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price. In his book, Short unveils over 5 years of research in selling businesses combined with over 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions. Unlike other books that teach you how to sell your business, this book takes you one step further to prepare business owners like you in getting more than twice what your business is worth. Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price is the perfect book for business owners looking to sell their organization that are making between 10 and 100 million dollars in revenue.
About Kevin Short:
“I am the Managing Partner and CEO of Clayton Capital Partners. I have been in investment banking, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, for 25 years. I’m married and a father of four girls who keep me busy all of the time.
I’ve done hundreds of deals in my M&A career and about 10 years ago I began to see this phenomenon of taking a company to market, expecting to get a 5 multiple of earnings and someone bids a 10 multiple. This made me wonder why one computer would be able to rationalize paying twice as much than the average multiple. About five years ago I started researching this information and started writing this book.” – Kevin Short
For a detailed summary of Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price according to Kevin Short CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Walk Away Wealthy by Mark Tepper
The Final Act of Ownership by Jerry Baltus
Show Me The Money by Alan Barrell
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Category Tags: exit plan, selling a business, business for sale, mergers, acquisitions, investment banking, commercial real estate
In this episode Nadya Zhexembayeva takes a deep dive into her book, Overfished Ocean Strategy. This book is not your typical guide on how to be innovative, but instead is a survival plan for your business during times of recession. The goal for Zhexembayeva is to provide you and other small business owners with a look into the future of the global economy along with successful stories of businesses that are driving innovation and strategic realignment in order to survive.
About Nadya Zhexembayeva:
“I am a business owner in the consulting world and teach at business schools around the world to primarily executives. I have been working in executive education since 2006 nonstop.
I wanted to find a new way of innovated business models and strategies for companies and started researching ways to do that. I was trying to understand what makes companies enter this new domain and what makes the path successful for those who succeed in this approach. This was kind of accidental research and a few publishers asked me if I’d consider writing a book about this particular topic.” – Nadya Zhexembayeva
For a detailed summary of Overfished Ocean Strategy according to Nadya Zhexembayeva CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Aligning Strategy and Sales by Frank Cespedes
Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail
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Category Tags: innovation, resources, recession, future of business, strategic realignment, business strategy, supply and demand
In this episode Barry Moltz shares his book, How To Get Unstuck, where he helps entrepreneurs identify the top pain points they are stuck on. His book takes you through the major areas where entrepreneurs tend to get stuck such as marketing, sales, management leadership, social media, and customer service.
About Barry Moltz:
“I work with small businesses to get people unstuck and had three businesses the last 20 years. The first business went out of business, the second business I was kicked out by my two partners and the third business I was lucky enough to sell in July of 1999 and paid back the bank the 1.3 million I owed them.
There are a lot of books out there that focus on one specific area where they help start entrepreneurs get their company off the ground. What happens is a lot of people start a business and after two or three years the business isn’t where they thought it would be and that’s typically because they are stuck in one of five areas. I identify the top 25 things that are going through their minds where they are stuck and show them how to get unstuck.” – Barry Moltz
For a detailed summary of How To Get Unstuck according to Barry Moltz CLICK HERE
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The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz
Body of Work by Pamela Slim
People Tools for Business by Alan Fox
Smartcuts by Shane Snow
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Category Tags: business shortcuts, overcome failure, stuck in a rut, life hacks, growing a business, dangerous risks, fear of falling, multitasking, sales and marketing
In this episode Charlie Gilkey takes a dive into his book, The Small Business Lifecycle. Unlike other business books that focus solely on marketing and sales, The Small Business Lifecycle discusses how to grow your business through different lifecycles. This book is unique in that it offers entrepreneurs and small business owner real challenges, opportunities, and inconvenient truths about running a small business.
About Charlie Gilkey:
“I founded and run a website called Productive Flourishing which is about helping creative people take their ideas and make something good happen in the world. It’s not so much for the dreamer; it’s for the inspired doer. Before starting Productive Flourishing I was simultaneously completing my PhD in Philosophy which I am still working on and I was an Army Joint Force Military Logistics coordinator.
I’m a business coach and worked with a range of people who would come to me trying to do things that they were either told to do or read about that were inappropriate for their business. I found that it was just too early for that particular business lifecycle for them to be focused on that particular thing. This book came from speeches where I would try to help entrepreneurs and small business owners really figure out where they were so they could take the appropriate next steps. And it eventually folded into a book where I added more to it. So the inspiration was largely based on observation and the amount of pain that people were in just because they were doing the wrong things at the wrong time.” – Charlie Gilkey
For a detailed summary of The Small Business Lifecycle according to Charlie Gilkey CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
The Risk Driven Business Model by Serguei Netessine
Startup Mixology by Frank Gruber
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Category Tags: small business owners, entrepreneurship, business growth, sales cycle, starting a business, books for small business, running a business, grow your business
In this episode Michael J Maher takes a deep dive into his book, The Seven Levels of Communication, which is the perfect guide for entrepreneurs who need help becoming an effective communicator and building strong relationships. The purpose of this sales book is to help you quit marketing to strangers and start communicating with friends. As a best-seller for over 4 years, 7L teaches you that giving generously and allowing time to build relationships is the key to establishing a successful business.
About Michael Maher:
“For many years I made the American dream come true for buyers of homes and helped them create the ultimate client experience. I have a real estate company in Kansas City and coach, train and oversee over 1,500 real estate personalities. In 2004 I was introduced to the world as North Americas most preferred real estate professional and once that happened I started speaking about how to generate referrals. Ten years later and my last audience had over 50 different professions, entrepreneurs and small business owners. The Seven Levels of Communication has been #1 on Amazon for almost four years. And we are re-launching the second edition on September 2nd.
I was introduced as North Americans most preferred Real Estate professional by Howard Brinton and he made me a Star Power Star which in real estate at the time was an ultimate achievement. When he did that my phone rang off the hook, e-mails blew up and everybody was asking me questions of how I got to that point. I decided I need to write a book with the answer instead of giving them a tidbit of information.” - Michael Maher
For a detailed summary of The Seven Levels of Communication according to Michael Maher CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Charisma On Command by Charlie Houpert
Hello My Name Is Awesome by Alexandra Watkins
EDGY Conversations by Dan Waldschmidt
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Category Tags: relationship marketing, how to get referrals, new marketing tactics, real estate marketing, real estate agent, how to sell, The Greatest Salesman, build relationships
In this episode George Berkowski shares his book for entrepreneurs interested in the mobile app development business. This book is the original guide for showing you how to create an app and what you need to know about the app industry. If you are interested in creating iPhone apps or Android apps and want to get into the mobile business this is a must read for you.
About George Berkowski:
“I’ve been involved in startups, technology and all that kind of stuff ever since graduating Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have been working in a variety of different startups, both successful and non from the very beginning. Most recently I was a part of the early team at the International Taxi app called Hailo. Started a few startups before that and then wanted to focus on a new venture which is what lead to this book.
There really isn’t anything out there in terms of books about mobile centric businesses. Given that apps have only been around for very few years, there has been very little in the way of explaining the background behind building a sustainable mobile business. Since it wasn’t really there and I was neck deep in the whole thing I decided to actually put it all together.” – George Berkowski
For a detailed summary of How To Build A Billion Dollar App according to George Berkowski CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Startup Mixology by Frank Gruber
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Category Tags: mobile apps, iphone app, android app, mobile marketing, social media marketing, app development, app design, Apple developers, mobile business, BYOD, steve jobs, jeff Bezos, sergei brin
In this episode Ken Horn shares his book, Everyday Entrepreneurs which was created out of the frustration of not finding all of the answers needed to start a business. This book is perfect for the wantrepreneur who is looking for a reference guide to validate their decision to start a new business. What makes Everyday Entrepreneurs different from other books is that it is based on the experiences of other people who have decided to make the leap in creating a startup.
About Ken Horn:
“I am new to the book publishing business but been in the startup community for a good number of years. I’ve worked for different leading agencies for enterprise and business startup. More recently I have started my own nationwide field base program helping people startup on their own and providing them with the right level of advice that they typically need.
This book was born out of frustration. We needed more answers to the questions that everyday entrepreneurs have and I wasn’t finding them. That’s when I decided to write Everyday Entrepreneur, to encourage others out there that needed an extra push.” – Ken Horn
For a detailed summary of Everyday Entrepreneurs according to Ken Horn CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The New Entrepreneurz by Simcha Gluck and Ronen Gafni
The Entrepreneur Mind by Kevin Johnson
The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth by Chris Brogan
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, wantrepreneur, self employed, lifestyle entrepreneur, suitcase entrepreneur, eventual millionaire, types of entrepreneurs, starting a business, business startups, startup, successful business, create a business plan, type of business
In this episode, Ken Horn shares his new book Everyday Entrepreneurs. Horn uncovers the ambiguities of starting your own business, collects the common trials entrepreneurs commonly encounter. This book is great for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to demystify starting up a business.
In this episode Justin Mares shares his book Traction which is a guide for entrepreneurs and business owners who need help getting customers. The purpose of this book is to place business founders ahead of the competition no matter what kind of business they are running. If you are starting a business and do not have a ton of budget, this book is for you.
About Justin Mares:
“I co-founded two companies, one was acquired and the other a bust. Most recently I was director of revenues at a company called Exceptional Cloud Services who got acquired by Rackspace about a year and a half ago now. I recently left Rackspace and now I’m launching Traction Book which is a startup guide to getting customers and that will be coming out August 26, 2014.
My co-author Gabriel Weinberg and I both noticed that today the challenge is not so much in building a product but that companies are struggling to get traction. The inspiration in writing the book was to provide startups with the framework and tools to focus on and get traction so that they can build successful companies.” – Justin Mares
For a detailed summary of Traction according to Justin Mares CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
Moving Targets by Gabriel Aluisy
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Category Tags: lead generation, customer development, attract customers, how to prospect, Offline Ads, Search Engine Optimization, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Engineering as Marketing, Targeting Blogs, Business Development, Sales, Affiliate Programs, Existing Platforms, Trade Shows, Offline Events, Speaking Engagements
In this episode Don Green, director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, shares his exclusive insights into Think and Grow Rich, the original landmark bestseller for all business people. This book is a must have and is perfect for entrepreneurs, business executives, and owners who are searching for the secrets on how to become rich. Green unveils the inspiration behind Napoleon Hill's motives and gives you a complete deep dive into the main concepts for real business success.
About Don Green:
“I come from banking and finance background of 38 years and I was a bank president for 28. While I was president of the bank I contacted Napoleon Hill Foundation when they invited me to come up and have dinner with them. It was then that I was invited to be a board member of the foundation. Around the year of 2000 the previous executive director asked me to take over and it’s worked out just wonderful ever since.” – Don Green
About Napoleon Hill:
Napoleon was in law school at Georgetown University when he had the big idea of writing to cover expenses for him and his brother. It was then that he got a job with Bob Taylor magazine and Napoleon covered multiple newsworthy stories. He was challenge by Andrew Carnegie to go interview successful men and women to find out why some people were successful. This is what he spent the best portion of his life doing and didn’t just write about them but answered the questions that everyone wanted answers to.
For a detailed summary of Think and Grow Rich according to Don Green CLICK HERE
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Three Feet From Gold by Gred Reid
Make Money Live Wealthy by Austin Netzley
The Millionaire Master Plan by Roger Hamilton
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Category Tags: Napoleon Hill, bestseller, greg reid, real business success, best business book, how to become rich, success habits, business inspiration, Dave Ramsey, live wealthy
In this episode David Moore take a deep dive into his book The New Rich which features real interviews with entrepreneurs such as Mike Michalowicz, John Lee Dumas, Corbett Barr, and Dane Maxwell. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who is looking for some great tips, advice, and mechanics that come with finding your passion and turning into profitable income.
About David Moore:
“I am an online business coach, lifestyle entrepreneur and run a blog online called The New Rich where we interview other successful entrepreneurs.
I have years of experience of being in jobs that you just don’t really enjoy and aren’t fulfilling. I’ve always had a burning desire to go off and start my own business but it took me awhile to overcome the barriers, mindset and challenges that it entails. I finally made the leap of self-employment and realized that there must be other people out there that are trapped in jobs that they don’t enjoy.” – David Moore
For a detailed summary of The New Rich according to David Moore CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Live Your Dreams, Ignite Your Passions and Run Your Business From Anywhere in The World by Jesse Krieger
Three Feet from Gold by Greg Reid
Make Money Live Wealthy by Austin Netzley
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, making money, becoming rich, billionaire, wantrepreneur, solopreneur, new job, new career, John Lee Dumas, Mike Michalowicz, Dane Maxwell
In this episode Serguei Netessine shares his book The Risk-Driven Business Model with four questions that will define your company. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur or small business owner who is seeking advice and innovation on creating a new business model. The goal Netessine sets with The Risk-Driven Business Model is create a road-map for rather than simply describing business models that already exist.
About Serguei Netessine:
“I was born in Russia where I did most of my studies and moved to the United States to earn my PHD in Business. My first job was at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where I worked for about ten years. Now I work with companies and startups on multiple continents.
While reading multiple books I noticed they focused on the wrong side of innovation so I decided to write a book unlike any others.” – Serguei Netessine
For a detailed summary of The Risk-Driven Business Model according to Serguei Netessine CLICK HERE
Relates Books:
The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization by Nathan Furr
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
The Small Business Life Cycle by Charlie Gilkey
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Category Tags: business plan, business strategy, startup development, managing risk, taking risks, TerraPass, way to innovate, greatest innovations, steve jobs
In this episode Nick Loper shares his book Work Smarter which provides entrepreneurs with over 350 online resources to increase productivity. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur in need of the best project management tools to help achieve goals faster and truly work smarter. The best part about the book is that these recommended tools come from over 500 successful people that use them today.
About Nick Loper:
“I am the chief side hustler at sidehustlenation.com where I get to experiment with a bunch of different part-time business opportunities trying to make money outside of your traditional 9-5 job and I help other people do the same. I have been running that for a little over a year, it’s been an absolute blast and so if you’re interested in trying to develop some job-free income streams of your own, come on over and join me.
The inspiration for me is the joy of discovery, that new tool that’s going to help you save even just five minutes a day.” – Nick Loper
For a detailed summary of Work Smarter according to Nick Loper CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott
The Suitcase Entrepreneur by Natalie Sisson
Smartcuts by Shane Snow
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Category Tags: productivity, project management, software apps, business tools, save time, work faster, online resources, online editing software, Side Hustle Nation, Side Hustle Podcast, latest apps, best apps
In this episode Dan Waldschmidt discusses his book, EDGY Conversations which is a book that shows you how ordinary people achieve outrageous success. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who find success to be skeptic and need a strong sense of will power to boost their abilities to succeed. Waldschmidt truly sets the tone for why people try to be successful but don't.
About Dan Waldschmidt:
“I have been an entrepreneur from the time I was 12 when I started my first lawn mowing business. Some of the first lessons I learned mowing lawns, a couple hundred a week sometimes, not only paid my way through college but really formed the opinions that helped me make millions and millions of dollars by the time I was 25.
The reason I wrote the book was because I couldn’t find something like it out there already. I read so many books growing up and I never felt like I was getting the real deal. I always felt like it was too generic. I wanted to know how ordinary people achieve outrageous success. So that is what drove us to sit down, spend years’ worth of work and carve out this book that now is a bestseller.” – Dan Waldschmidt
For a detailed summary of EDGY Conversations according to Dan Waldschmidt CLICK HERE
Related Books:
A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger
The Seven Levels of Communication by Michael Maher
Advisor Selling by Mark Hunter
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Category Tags: change your life, outrageous success, extraordinary, extreme behavior, consumer behavior, socializing, failure, being disciplined
In this episode Roger J Hamilton shares his book The Millionaire Master Plan in order to help entrepreneurs evaluate their personalized path to financial success. This book is perfect for the business person searching for key insights and real tips on how to advance to the next level in becoming rich. Hamilton lays out his plan in nine color-coded and easy-to-read steps that range from near poverty to high-end wealth.
About Roger Hamilton:
“I am an entrepreneur based in Bali Indonesia where I have an entrepreneur resort that we run. I also have a number of profiling tools that was set up for entrepreneurs including Wealth Dynamics which has become the #1 in the world.
One of the biggest things that I have learned in entrepreneurship is there has been no clear map that suites everyone and I wanted to make sure that was exposed.” – Roger Hamilton
For a detailed summary of The Millionaire Master Plan according to Roger Hamilton CLICK HERE
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The Financially Savvy Entrepreneur by Emily Chase Smith
Show Me The Money by Alan Barrell
Make Money Live Wealthy by Austin Netzley
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Category Tags: business finance, personal wealth, make money, financial mistakes, dave ramsey, become rich, bank account, millionaire, billionaire
In this episode Andrea Waltz gives you a sneak peek into Go For No. In her book, Waltz teaches you that by just focusing on yes you leave a lot of opportunity on the table because we assume different things about what people are going to say, buy or order. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who learn new sales tactics through real-life or fictional and entertaining stories.
About Andrea Waltz:
“I am the co-owner of Courage Crafters, Inc. and co-author of the bestselling book Go for No!. Richard and I author the book together and also are husband and wife. We live in Orlando with our crazy cat named Courage and we have been entrepreneurs for a little over 15 years. We love every bit of it, have learned a lot along the way and are excited for our future endeavors.
It was centered around a story that actually happened to Richard, kind of the signature Go for No story. And when we would do an eighth hour training or workshop, it was the singular topic that people loved, they love the idea, the philosophy, the concept or what it means to go for no. Since that was the most popular piece in an eight hour program, we decided we wanted to write the book and really take the topic, blow it up and examine it from all different areas.” – Andrea Waltz
For a detailed summary of Go For No according to Andrea Waltz CLICK HERE
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Traction: A Startup Guide To Getting Customers by Justin Mares
The Seven Levels of Communication by Michael Maher
Pitching and Closing by Alex Taub
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Category Tags: sales tactics, better salesman, close deals, hyper sales growth, jack daly, tony robbins, sales hunter, how to sell
In this episode Warren Berger shares his book A More Beautiful Question which features the principle of asking the right questions. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur interested in the fundamentals of innovation and business through the relationship between asking great questions and coming up with great business ideas.
About Warren Berger:
“I am a longtime journalist and author, I used to write for New York Times and Wired Magazine. I currently write for Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. Along the way I’ve written several books and the last couple of books has had to do with innovation and design thinking. The most recent book I moved from design thinking into questioning and A More Beautiful Question is focused on that aspect of innovation.
The inspiration was that I was studying a lot of entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders and one of the things I noticed was questioning. I found that a lot of great innovators and business thinkers start with great questions; they are asking the questions that no one else is asking. I wanted to see what it was about questioning, why is it so powerful and why are some people better at it than others.” – Warren Berger
For a detailed summary of A More Beautiful Question according to Warren Berger CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Go For No! by Andrea Waltz
Its Not The How or The What But The Who by Claudio Fernandez Araoz
EDGY Conversations by Dan Waldschmidt
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Category Tags: business ideas, innovative thinking, art of innovation, smart questions, audience engagement, social networking, how to communicate
In this episode, Zhena Muzyka shares Life By The Cup, a book she wrote to help other entrepreneurs, as well as other people, find their dream, claim it and go after it. Each chapter is short enough to read in the time it takes you to have your morning cup of tea or coffee and teaches you how to hone, clarify and discern your calling and how to really believe in it.
About Zhena Muzyka:
“I am a social entrepreneur, I believe that business can heel and change the world. I built a business starting out with $6, no resource training and a baby who needed an operation. I took my gypsy heritage and background in herbal medicine and created gypsy tea parties which grew into a brand seen as Gypsy Tea. Over the course of 13 years I built the business focused primarily on covering healthcare for my son and becoming an advocate for the tea workers who needed healthcare in the tea fields. The products have been in over 20,000 stores and now I am focused on distilling everything I’ve learned and putting it in to content for other entrepreneurs to learn from and grow their business.
I felt strongly that I needed to write this book to help other entrepreneurs, as well as other people, find their dream, claim it and go after it.” – Zhena Muzyka
For a detailed summary of Life By The Cup according to Zhena Muzyka CLICK HERE
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Charisma on Command by Charlie Houpert
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
The Greatness Zone by Jay Forte
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Category Tags: building a brand, happiness, fulfilled life, dreams to reality, business challenges, product marketing, retail shop, types of tea, gypsy
In this episode Kevin D Johnson shares his book The Entrepreneur Mind. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who needs tips on business strategy, finance, marketing, and sales. The Entrepreneur Mind is written in the format compared to a blog and can be read in an easy, non-technical way by using creative stories that entertain and teach at the same time.
About Kevin Johnson:
“I am the CEO of Johnson Media Inc. a marketing and communication firm that has been around for about 14 years now. We serve primarily organizations and fortune 500 companies in the financial services space. We are based in Atlanta and a rather small team with big clients.
In March of 2012 I started a business blog that discussed various ways that successful entrepreneurs think and the blog became pretty popular to readers all around the world. Before long I was really encouraged by some of my readers to write this book because it quickly, because of the response before, became a bestseller. I wanted to provide a comprehensive body of work and advice for the many people that I mentor and ultimately publishing the book and extending the entrepreneur mind brand in other areas seemed like a great way to teach entrepreneurial concepts.” – Kevin Johnson
For a detailed summary of The Entrepreneur Mind according to Kevin Johnson CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Everyday Entrepreneurs by Ken Horn
The New Entrepreneurz by Simcha Gluck
What’s Next by Michael Price
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, successful entrepreneurs, startup advice, marketing tips, business strategy, sales, finance
In this episode Diana Kander discusses her book All In Startup which is a perfect fit for entrepreneurs seeking a fantastic business story focused on the lessons learned from running a startup. All In Startup follows a fictional storyline of a business consultant who is on the verge of shutting down his company and gambles his debt at a casino.
About Diana Kander:
“I teach entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri and I serve as a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship and education.
I worked with a lot of entrepreneurs through my position at the Kauffman foundation and I found them all getting stuck at very similar points and felt like I was reliving the movie Groundhog Day. I would have the same conversations over and over again so it was born out of a frustration of me trying to save myself some time. I wanted to create a pamphlet or video to have people watch before we started meeting so that they could avoid all the common pitfalls that most people were facing.” – Diana Kander
For a detailed summary of All In Startup according to Diana Kander CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Startup Mixology by Frank Gruber
Business in Blue Jeans by Susan Baroncini-Moe
The Entrepreneur Mind by Kevin Johnson
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Category Tags: business lessons, startup advice, small business story, business mistakes, failure, business consulting
In his book, Its Not the How or the What but the Who, Fernandez-Araoz makes the reader aware that we are not yet equipped with the knowledge to make positive people decisions in professional environments. Simply put, it is the who that matters in the team you build around you.
About Claudio Fernandez-Araoz:
“I am a global expert on hiring promotion decisions as well as leadership assessment and development. I’m a frequent speaker at business gatherings in the Americas, Europe and Asia. I’ve been working for almost three decades as an executive search consultant for the firm Egon Zehnder and a regular guest lecturer at Harvard Business School.
For almost three decades I’ve been working as an executive search consultant and seven years ago I published another book called Great People Decisions. Great People Decisions was basically about hiring and as a result of the success of that book I’ve circled the world up to ten times a year and became convinced that all over the world the key for organization and success is to surround ourselves with the best. I decided to write a book about how to succeed by surrounding ourselves with the best and helping them thrive.” – Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
For a detailed summary of Its Not the How or the What but the Who according to Claudio Fernandez-Araoz CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Traction – A Startup Guide To Getting Customers by Justin Mares
Moving Targets by Gabriel Aluisy
Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez
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Category Tags: making friends, building relationships, networking events, communication skills, cocktail party, work a room, customer development
In this episode Jerry Baltus provides his expert opinion on exit planning when it comes to selling your business. The difference with Final Act of Ownership is that Baltus focuses on small businesses and talks directly to business owners only. This book is less technical and is written to make it easier for a lay person to follow. Most business owners who read the book may not realize all the ends and outs of what it takes to sell the business and people only get one shot at this for the most part.
About Jerry Baltus:
“I am located in Plymouth, Wisconsin. I have been a business coach for nearly eight years and have built my business around helping business owners be more successful in their business in a variety of ways. I am an avid reader and bicyclist too.
I really didn’t start out to write a book, I just wanted to write a white paper to support some of the work that I do in regards to exit planning with business owners. It grew as I realized that familiarity with all the aspects of selling a business just was not there. As I started to write I realized I had a lot to say on the subject and it grew in to a book.” – Jerry Baltus
For a detailed summary of Final Act of Ownership according to Jerry Baltus CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Walk Away Wealthy by Mark Tepper
Sell Your Business For An Outrageous Price by Kevin Short
From Idea To Exit by Jeff Weber
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Category Tags: sell a business, buy a business, exit planning, sell small business, business merger, acquisition, business for sales, commercial real estate, angel investors, venture capital
In this episode Mark Tepper with Strategic Wealth Partners shares his book Walk Away Wealthy. This book is the perfect fit for entrepreneurs or business owners looking for an exit strategy for their business plan. This is a book that is specific to building wealth for entrepreneurs and will focus on both the liquid and the illiquid investments. As an entrepreneur this is really the only book you need to read on wealth management.
About Mark Tepper:
“I own a wealth management firm called Strategic Wealth Partners based out of Cleveland Ohio. Our focus is on working with entrepreneurs and taking care of their wealth management needs.
I am married and have three kids who are seven, almost five and almost three.
The majority of my clients are entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs tend to have very unique wealth management situations. Entrepreneurs need to focus on building and growing both their liquid investments but also their illiquid wealth, growing that is just as important, if not more. What we found is on average about 80% of entrepreneurs net worth is tied up in his or her illiquid business. And additionally most entrepreneurs are only going to sale that business one time and that is going to be the most significant financial event of their life. We really wanted to put together a book that looked at both sides of the wealth management equation.” – Mark Tepper
For a detailed summary of Walk Away Wealthy according to Mark Tepper CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Final Act of Ownership by Jerry Baltus
From Idea To Exit by Jeff Weber
Sell Your Business For An Outrageous Price by Kevin Short
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Category Tags: sell a business, exit planning, franchising, mergers and acquisitions, buy a business, business partnership, value, more money, venture funding, business capital
In this episode, best-selling author, David Allen provides a deep dive into his book Getting Things Done. In his book Allen gives you a step-by-step guide to create a model and methodology to approaching and addressing the world we live in today. Through his 5 stages you will learn how to set an idea or project under control ensuring that your productivity is not costing you dearly. This book is a must have for all entrepreneurs who are in need of some guidance for crafting a well-organized work ethic.
About David Allen:
“I wrote a book called Getting Things Done after 20-25 years of doing the work that the book is about in my own consulting practice and in the corporate training/coaching world. I have a small company still doing coaching and training around the world and that’s my professional of who I am and what I am doing.
It took me 25 years to figure out what I figured out. I found things that really worked and I also wanted to create a model that worked for everybody so that it didn’t matter either what level you were at or what kind of industry you were in. Overtime I discovered that it didn’t seem like anybody came up with the same model I did and the model turned out to be bulletproof.” – David Allen
For a detailed summary of Getting Things Done according to David Allen CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Habit Stacking by SJ Scott
Work Smarter by Nick Loper
Smartcuts by Shane Snow
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Category Tags: more productive, productivity tool, work ethic, organization skills, project management
In this episode Ben Arment shares his insights on turning your dreams into reality with his book Dream Year. Over the course of 11 chapters, Arment gives you a practical guide for defining your dream, creating a business model, and a financial plan so entrepreneurs like you can market, grow, and sustain your new idea as a business. This is not a book about pursuing a hobby, this book is about helping you turn your passion into something that can be monetized.
About Ben Arment:
“I am the founder of an organization called Dream Year and we coach people in pursuing their passions and helping them turn them in to businesses.
Years ago I was blogging and actively logging my experiences, starting businesses and launching projects and I began getting a lot of e-mails from people asking how I did it. I found myself answering all of their questions in the exact same way and realized after a year of this that there was a need for someone to lay out what it looks like to bring a business to life. I began coaching people for about 4 or 5 years and all of my writing, e-mails and research yielded this beautiful book. It’s the combination of nearly five year of work and I am excited for people to read it.” – Ben Arment
For a detailed summary of Dream Year according to Ben Arment CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow
Own Your Future by Paul Brown
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Category Tags: business model, American dream, passion into profit, hobbies, monetization, starting a business, launching a product, career advice, entrepreneurship
In this episode Greg Reid shares with us the inspiring story of how he was given the rare opportunity to carry on the legacy of Think and Grow Rich by Andrew Carnegie. In Reid’s book, Three Feet From Gold, he elaborates on the first chapter from Think and Grow Rich providing you with a deep dive into what modern day thought leaders do when coping with struggle and ultimately coming out on top. Three Feet From Gold is the perfect fit for a thought leader, business owner, or entrepreneur who love focusing on the end game of success, but struggle to realize and overcome the challenges that lead to victory.
About Greg Reid:
“I’m an author, speaker and filmmaker in San Diego, California. I have been married for about five years and have a two year old kid which is the pride and joy of my life.
In 1908 Napoleon Hill was given a letter of recommendation from the richest guy in the world, Andrew Carnegie, to go meet his friends to create the first ever formula for success, which is known as Think and Grow Rich. One hundred years later in 2008 the president, CEO and family of Napoleon Hill foundation wrote a very similar letter and they gifted it to me. Napoleons family gave me an opportunity to help carry on and modernize the teachings of the 20th bestselling book in history. The whole concept was could I go out and write a book based on the first chapter of Think and Grow Rich about not giving up when you’re just three feet away from gold.” – Greg Reid
For a detailed summary of Three Feet From Gold according to Greg Reid CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Freedom After The Sharks by Geoff Hudson-Searle
The New Rich by David Moore
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Category Tags: formula for success, entrepreneurship, bestselling book, become wealthy, winning, inspiration, get rich quick, money, personal wealth
In this episode, New York Times bestselling author, Josh Linker shares how critical reinvention is for the health and stability of small businesses. In his book, The Road to Reinvention, Linkner takes you on a practical journey that breaks down an organization in six parts and gives you a systematic way to reinvent each of them. The Road to Reinvention is the perfect fit for entrepreneurs or small business owners who have businesses that are struggling to keep up and are on the verge of failure. Not only does Linkner discuss the reinvention of business, he also provides some keen guidance in reinventing yourself and your career in times of struggle.
About Josh Linkner:
“I am a four-time entrepreneur who has started, build and sold four technology companies over the last 20 years. I currently run Detroit Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage and tech companies. I am the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Disciplined Dreaming – A Proven System to drive Breakthrough Creativity and most recently, The Road to Reinvention.
I saw so many great brands fall and realized that they didn’t need to. They were once great organization that failed to reinvent. It’s one of the most common pitfalls and one of the easiest ones to fix. It’s about how to go about a proactive reinvention process on an ongoing base to make sure that your brand or you retain relevancy.” – Josh Linkner
For a detailed summary of The Road to Reinvention according to Josh Linkner CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Invent Reinvent Thrive by Lloyd Shefsky
Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal
One Simple Idea by Stephen Key
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Category Tags: business failure, rebranding, business struggles, product launch, agent of change, invention, personal promotion, reinvent yourself
In this episode Serena Star Leonard shares with us her inspiration for writing a book that helps people make their dreams come true. Her book, How to Succeed in 12 Months, gives you a very practical, step-by-step guide to doing things that may seem impossible such as finding more time and money for projects and support. Serena’s book is the perfect fit for wantrepreneurs and entrepreneurs alike that need help with motivation and inspiration for bringing ideas and dreams to life step by step.
About Serena Star Leonard:
“I am a business coach by trade, blogger and writer. I’ve been traveling for 28 months with my husband working on the road filming documentaries about people who make a difference in their communities all over the world.
I work closely with people on making their big dreams come true and I wanted to write a book that would help people succeed in that. In the last few years I’ve been living a life where I go for every one of my big goals rather than putting them out in the future. I believe these are things I could share with other people and help them reach their own big goals too.” – Serena Star Leonard
For a detailed summary of How To Succeed in 12 Months according to Serena Star Leonard CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Dream Year by Ben Arment
Life by the Cup by Zhena Muzyka
What’s Next by Michael Price
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Category Tags: productivity, increased focus, mental stability, powerhouse, getting things done, make a difference, reach goals, setting goals
In this episode Alexander Taub provides his insights and expertise on business development and partnerships when it comes to startups. In his book, Pitching and Closing, Taub gives you an all-inclusive guide to the best practices of creating a startup in a nontechnical format breaking down the categories of business development, partnerships, sales tactics, preparation, and execution. This book is the perfect match for the entrepreneur interested in startups who does not have the technical capabilities.
About Alex Taub:
“I am the co-author of Pitching and Closing with my good friend Ellen Dasilva. I am also the co-founder of a company called Social Rank which is a simple tool to help brands find out more information about the people that follow them across social networks. For the past two years I ran business development and partnerships for a startup called Dwolla. Two years before that I ran business development for a business called Aviary. I also have a blog called Alex’s Tech Thoughts that I write four posts a week and contribute to Forbes entrepreneur section every two weeks.
I have been writing for four years and one day I got a LinkedIn message from an editor at McGraw Hill asking me if I ever considered writing a book because she really liked my stuff. I hadn’t thought about it before but I said that’s a pretty good idea but I knew I couldn’t pull it off on my own. That’s when I brought in my friend Ellen to co-author the book with me. The inspiration was an editor liked my stuff and I felt like there wasn’t much out there on the topic of business development in partnerships.” – Alex Taub
For a detailed summary of Pitching and Closing according to Alex Taub CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Go For No! by Andrea Waltz
High Profit Selling by Mark Hunter
Hyper Sales Growth by Jack Daly
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Category Tags: sales skills, sales professional, business growth, lead generation, cold calling, warm leads, prospecting, closing deals, selling products, inside sales, outside sales, business coaching
In this episode Andrii Sedniev shares his insights and inspiration for writing his book, The Business Idea Factory. Sedniev believes that coming up with ideas is essential for business and provides you with all the techniques and stages of creating them. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who struggles with the creativity and innovation of coming up with business ideas.
About Andrii Sedniev:
“I started my career as a Networking Engineer and have my MBA degree from The University of Michigan Law School of Business. I am now an entrepreneur and author of five self-development books and I reside in Tennessee.
I am convinced that coming up with ideas is absolutely essential for business. When trying to come up with business ideas about entrepreneurship, the problem I faced was this topic wasn’t very well covered. I wanted to create some source for the person who wants to become the best he or she can in the area of creating business ideas. I did extensive research and came up with a system with all the techniques and stages of creating business ideas.” – Andrii Sedniev
For a detailed summary of The Business Idea Factory according to Andrii Sedniev CLICK HERE
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The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs by Kevin D. Johnson
From Idea To Exit by Jeffrey Weber
The Innovator’s Method by Nathan Furr
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Category Tags: business essentials, innovative ideas, creativity, new business ideas, personal development, trademarks
In this episode Emily Chase Smith provides small business owners with a step-by-step guide to staying financial healthy. In her book, The Financially Savvy Entrepreneur, Chase Smith shows you how to save your financial system from crumbling by teaching you to understand how an entrepreneur's financial decisions are different from others and to establish a business that can stand on its own financially. This book is perfect for the entrepreneur who is searching for a clear process for avoiding the financial consequences that derail so many small businesses.
About Emily Chase Smith:
“I come from an entrepreneurial family; my great grandparents were self-made citrus farmers in Santa Barbara California, my dad has been a self-employed architect for many years and I’m an attorney by education and trade. I morphed that through the experiences I’ve had over the years into being a financial educator for small business.
I had a heavy influence in my legal practice in the area of bankruptcy and I worked primarily with small business owners filing personal bankruptcies. With that I had the chance to be up close and personal in peoples personal and business financial lives. I did this for many years and after a while I started to see some of the same patterns occurring over and over again which was really hard to watch. Working with smart entrepreneurs I realized that if they just had some simple symptoms in place, a lot of them wouldn’t be sitting in my office needing me to file a bankruptcy.” – Emily Chase Smith
For a detailed summary of The Financially Savvy Entrepreneur according to Emily Chase Smith CLICK HERE
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PACE by Jesse Mecham
The Suitcase Entrepreneur by Natalie Sisson
The Millionaire Master Plan by Roger Hamilton
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Category Tags: personal finance, wealth management, make money, business growth, self help, entrepreneurship, get out of debt, the eventual millionaire
In this episode Carol Sanford shares her insights on a special breed of entrepreneurs. In her book, The Responsible Entrepreneur, Sanford gives you the framework to make a difference in the way your business affects the world and maps the journey through 4 archetypes: Realizing Entrepreneurs, Reconnection Entrepreneurs, Reciprocity Entrepreneurs, and Regenerative Entrepreneurs. The Responsible Entrepreneur is the perfect book for entrepreneurs looking to pursue world-changing results or significantly impact investors.
About Carol Sanford:
“I have written several book, the most recent is The Responsible Business and the new one we are talking about today is The Responsible Entrepreneur. I used to be a professional improvisational performer and standup comic.
There are two intersections in my own personal life experience. One is the clients, colleagues and students in universities where I teach that I have seen doing things that I knew at the level of entrepreneurship was possible for everyone to do but it always showed up in magazines in a very funny way. The other thing that was an intersection was I was raised closely by my maternal grandfather who is a descendant of the tribe of Mohawk survivors and he passed along the stories to me of how they rebuilt the nation based on four archetypes that he was exposed to. I saw how I could really explain what was going on with my clients and these amazing leaders in a way that entrepreneurs could take on much bigger change and pull more together than they knew was possible.”
For a detailed summary of The Responsible Entrepreneur according to Carol Sanford CLICK HERE
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The Innovative Entrepreneur by Daniel Spulber
Lifestyle Entrepreneur by Jesse Krieger
Everyday Entrepreneurs by Ken Torn
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, business archetype, change the world, make a difference, about Oprah
In this episode Tech Cocktail's own Frank Gruber takes you inside his book Startup Mixology. His book is the perfect all-in-one strategy for serial entrepreneurs who plan on creating multiple businesses over time.
About Frank Gruber:
“I am the CEO and cofounder of Tech Cocktail. Tech Cocktail is a news and events organization that is focused on startups, technology and entrepreneurship. I try to help better connect both online and off as well as connecting brands with that audience. We try to make the startup journey more memorable and fun.
It took me ten years to figure out how to jump off the entrepreneurial diving board and I wanted to jump start this for other people. It tells a little about my story but also tells the stories of companies like Uber, Zappos and WordPress and uses their stories to illustrate the ingredients that go in to starting and running a business.” – Frank Gruber
For a detailed summary of Startup Mixology according to Frank Gruber CLICK HERE
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All In Startup by Diana Kander
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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Category Tags: running a business, tech startups, Uber, Zappos, WordPress, online business, Tech Cocktail
In this episode, Becky Sheetz-Runkle gives you a deep dive into her book The Art of War for Small Business. In her book, Sheetz-Runkle brings to life her belief that if small businesses took Sun Tzu’s strategies and applied it, they would be able to build themselves into mighty organizations. This book is for entrepreneurs who need a very practical and easy to read guide to applying the Sun Tzu style of business.
About Becky Sheetz-Runkle:
“I am a Speaker, Author, Martial Artist and Marketing Consultant.
My inspiration for writing the book was asking myself how Sun Tzu would adapt the principles from the Art of War to wage war and to wage peace for his small business and build it into an empire. I believe that if small businesses took Sun Tzu’s strategies and applied it, they would be able to build themselves into mighty organizations.” – Becky Sheetz-Runkle
For a detailed summary of The Art of War for Small Business according to Becky Sheetz-Runkle CLICK HERE
Related Books:
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
The Small Business Lifecycle by Charlie Gilkey
Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail
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Category Tags: small business management, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, business consulting, business development
In this episode, best-selling author and epic storyteller, Jon Gordon paints the perfect picture in how to properly create a start up from the ground up. Jon's book The Carpenter highlights many success stories and business strategies for the entrepreneur looking to outlast others alike. Jon presents a strong main idea that you shouldn't focus on building your business, you should focus on using your business to love, serve and care and with that mentality your business will grow exponentially.
About Jon Gordon:
“I am a writer and a speaker who has written a number of books notably The Energy Bus. Most importantly I’m a husband and a dad to two children who are now 16 and 14. I also work with a lot of professional sports teams, college teams, companies, school districts and I am really passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams.
It all started with a Carpenter that came to my house for some work. It was during the recession and I asked him how business was with the expectation that it probably wasn’t doing so well. It was his response that took me by surprise. He had been busier than ever. Average Carpenters weren’t doing well, but the great ones, the ones who stood out in the market place, they were thriving! He cared about his work and cared about his clients and I realized that the greatest success strategies of all are to love, serve and care. Those who care more, do more. So the idea of caring more and the idea of how to stand out more in your work was the inspiration behind writing this book.” – Jon Gordon
For a detailed summary of The Carpenter according to Jon Gordon CLICK HERE
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All In Startup by Diana Kander
The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau
The Experiment by R. Michael Anderson
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Category Tags: business stories, success strategies, the energy bus, recession, great customer service
Business in Blue Jeans is designed to be as close to the experience of working with Susan Baroncini-Moe one on one. When you read the book it is very much like the way she works with her clients. She starts with letting you know that you aren’t alone, giving you examples of things you need to know. The other thing is this book is based on fundamentals and we all need those fundamentals because if your business isn’t growing its most liking you need to find out what fundamentals you’re missing. It is written for people who are starting a business and people who are in growth.
About Susan Baroncini-Moe:
“I am the CEO of a company called Business in Blue Jeans. We are a digital marketing and consulting firm. We do full scale marketing all the way down from teaching/training you, to doing it for you. I also do a lot of business coaching and work with a large variety of all kinds of clients for the past 16 years or so.
I have always wanted to write a book but wasn’t sure what that would be. After working with a lot of people, I found myself saying the same things, and realized a book was a good resource for those that couldn’t afford to hire a coach. I thought I should really put this in book format so people can get a taste of my philosophy of doing business and how I do it differently.” – Susan Baroncini-Moe
For a detailed summary of Business in Blue Jeans according to Susan Baroncini-Moe CLICK HERE
Related books:
The Carpenter by Jon Gordon
Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez
All In Startup by Diana Kander
Startup Mixology by Frank Gruber
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Category Tags: small business marketing, startup advice, business coaching, digital marketing, starting a business
The message Paul portrays is the book's title Own Your Future. You’re the one who has to control your fate. If you do in fact Own Your Future you will have more control over what happens to you. Paul B Brown gives you real-life insights from stories about successful entrepreneurs and answers the questions that you have when facing uncertainty.
About Paul Brown:
“My career started as a newspaper reporter with Forbes, Financial World and Business Week. While working there I started writing book nights and weekends when it eventually shifted to a fulltime job about 20 years ago.
It was a combination of what do you do in the face of the unknown and what I personally experienced, after losing my job suddenly, that got me to sit down and write Own Your Future.” – Paul Brown
For a detailed summary of Own Your Future according to Paul Brown CLICK HERE
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Zero To One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Body Of Work by Pamela Slim
Vision To Reality by Honoree Corder
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, career advice, business startup, new business idea, job search
Lean Customer Development shows you why you need customer development and its set to arm you with the facts you need to overcome the initial resistance that you might get from your organization. Cindy Alvarez teaches you that customers don’t always know what they want but they can’t hide what they need. Her book provides you with the real questions you need to be asking customers in order to figure out their problems and needs.
About Cindy Alvarez:
“I have been working at startups for the past 15 years and a couple years ago the startup I was at was acquired by Microsoft so now I also have some experience working within an extremely large company. In working with those companies of all sizes I saw that people were struggling to talk to their customers so figured I should write a book about it. I have written the book Lean Customer Development to give companies of all sizes a practical guide to get people talking to customers and challenging their ideas.
Companies know that they should be forming hypothesis and validating them, but what I have seen is that companies are trying to do that validation with a really outdated tool box. Companies used to use analysis reports, focus groups and those used to work in a world where software was released on 3 , 5 and 10 year cycles but they are just too slow for people to use today. We have companies who want to talk to their customers, who want to challenge their ideas but they aren’t really sure how. I wanted to make sure that they had a guide so that they can read the book and feel comfortable enough doing this.” – Cindy Alvarez
For a detailed summary of Lean Customer Development according to Cindy Alvarez CLICK HERE
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Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg
Selfish Scared and Stupid by Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory
Moving Targets by Gabriel Aluisy
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Category Tags: business development, consumer behavior, marketing tips, attract customers, lead generation
Inside The Box is the only book that details the method called systematic inventive thinking. Most of the books you deal with today on this topic are more about the why or how you execute innovation. Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg wrote the book with the intent to give people a way to understand creativity, the method, and the cognitive tools of how you use your brain in a different way to produce novel ideas you weren’t likely to produce without the method.
About Drew Boyd:
“I am a professor at the University of Cincinnati but I’m really a corporate guy. I’ve been in large organizations for over 30 years and 17 of those years were at the global healthcare company, Johnson and Johnson which is where I learned this method that the book is about.
It is really inspired from two perspectives; one is my time at Johnson & Johnson. We were very desperate to find an innovation method to create new medical products and we spent millions of dollars looking for a method. Just by chance I happen to find out about this method called systematic inventive thinking and we realized immediately that it was special, that it worked very well and I continued to practice it over the last 12 years. A few years later I met my co-author Dr. Jacob Goldenberg, it is his research that this method is based on. He and I became friends, started teaching and working together when he asked if I wanted to write a book together. Without even thinking about it I said yes.” – Drew Boyd
For a detailed summary of Inside The Box according to Drew Boyd CLICK HERE
Related books:
The Innovator’s Method by Nathan Furr
From Idea To Exit by Jeffrey Weber
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz
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Category Tags: innovation, creative ideas, lean startup, inventing products, reinvention
As a business owner you know you need marketing but you do not know where to start. Al Lautenslager and Jay Conrad Levinson give you that starting point in Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days. It is really common sense types of things but not necessarily common practice. Wade interviews Al in this episode to discuss that path, one step in front of the other, that road map, for the marketing that you need to do for business.
About Al Lautenslager:
“I am an author, speaker and marketing consultant. I travel the world talking about various marketing strategies for those that are interested in growing a business to do so with low and no cost marketing tactics. I’ve been a business owner for fifteen years; I owned a printing and mailing business in the city of Chicago and spent time in corporate America before that. Parallel to my business ownership I started doing a lot of marketing consulting with small businesses. I sold that business in 2009 and focus today on consulting. I am an author of six marketing books and am really passionate about fulfilling my mission of helping businesses grow with low and no cost marketing.
I am a former business owner and coming out of the corporate world with a marketing background I had to enter the trenches and start marketing from my boot straps on day one. I did that based on my corporate marketing experience and based on my education, very successfully. I started helping other businesses do that because they saw my success and wanted to know what I was doing and how I could help them. I was asked to speak to their chamber of commerce, their franchise or their organizations and come to find out I really enjoyed that. People were walking away with immediately actionable tactics that they could use the same day they heard about it. I asked someone I knew in the speaking business how to leverage this speaking thing that I have just been asked to do. How do you make money doing that? He said I have to position myself in such a way that you are the absolute go to person and that means writing a book. I decided to get an endorsement from Jay Conrad Levinson, the father of Guerrilla marketing. That is when we came up with the idea of Guerrilla Marketing in 30 days. I asked Jay if he would co-author it with me and he agreed to.” – Al Lautenslager
For a detailed summary of Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days according to Al Lautenslager CLICK HERE
Related books:
A World Gone Social by Ted Coine and Mark Babbitt
Digital Bacon by Alex Rodriguez
Business in Blue Jeans by Susan Baroncini-Moe
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Category Tags: marketing plan, low cost marketing, business development, Jay Levinson, business strategy
A lot of books deal with steps to innovation and they argue whether seven steps are better than twelve. Cause A Disturbance delivers a very practical way of understanding your business a little better, to understand your customer and to understand how to keep engaging with new, better and improved ideas. If you are an innovative entrepreneur, this book interview is for you.
About Ken Tencer:
“I started, built and sold a manufacturing firm 20 years ago and moved on to services where I help other entrepreneurs understand a little bit about the opportunities they have in front of them. I know what it’s like to get something going from scratch and all the fun and games along the way.
The inspiration comes from lot of people I’ve spoken to. I’ve been very fortunate since our first book came out in 2010 to speak to and to do workshops with thousands of people around the world. One thing that stuck out was they all seemed to have this mystical idea of innovation that it was monumental; that you had to be a large company and I just didn’t see it that way. I really wanted to let people know that it’s just not that hard.” - Ken Tencer
For a detailed summary of Cause A Disturbance according to Ken Tencer CLICK HERE
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Category Tags: innovation, defining business, new ideas, business planning, be more creative
In this episode Wade meets with Jesse Krieger, author of Lifestyle Entrepreneur. If you are an entrepreneur that that believes in the motto "passion before profit” or are at a battle between the style of entrepreneur that describes you then Lifestyle Entrepreneur is for you.
About Jesse Krieger:
“My inspiration is the result of not knowing how to answer the question, what do you do, because it changed frequently. It started as a shorter piece but as I was writing and got additional inspiration, I decided to expand it out and do a full book that’s a mix of how tos and success stories as well as some featured lifestyle entrepreneurs that also embody this ethos; to be able to travel freely and frequently, to live a life of passion and purpose.” - Jesse Krieger
For a detailed summary of Lifestyle Entrepreneur according to Jesse Krieger CLICK HERE
Related Books:
The Suitcase Entrepreneur by Natalie Sisson
The New Rich by David Moore
The Business Idea Factory by Andrii Sedniev
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Category Tags: entrepreneurship, success stories, online business, passion before profit, business startup
The Entrepreneurs Library was established to create quality book reviews on the books that every Entrepreneur should own and read. As a serial entrepreneur myself, I am always looking for that next nugget, that next tweak I can make to take myself and my business to the next level. This podcast is for those that see the true power of reading and subtle addiction to applying new content.
It’s through reading that I have been able to start a company and take it from 0 to a multimillion dollar company in just a few short years. Mentorship is not always easy to find but there are so many great books out there to help build your business. Our businesses end up being a test lab where we are able to read and then apply new attitudes and techniques. Many of you are just like me and there is almost a Christmas morning type feeling when you open that brand new book for the first time. You are not sure what you are going to get but you hope and wish it will be something revolutionary. We are looking to give you a hint of what’s in the book before you even purchase or read it.
My goal is to take a deep dive with the author and focus on the book at hand. Our slogan is It’s All About The Book for a reason. Most interviews focus 90% on the author and 10% on the book. We are changing that up! If you are like me, when you are looking for your next great book, you ask around, google “great business books” or you hit up Amazon. Besides looking at their reviews it is difficult to know what the book is all about. I used to read everything I could get my hands on but now I try to focus on specific areas where I need to grow, I don’t like starting books that aren’t relevant to what I am seeking. We are going to make these interviews thorough so by the end of listening you will know if the book we discussed is the next big book that is going to catapult your business.
We will focus on a few key areas that Entrepreneurs focus on. Books on selling, marketing, relationships, innovation, building/scaling your business, hiring/firing, attitude , productivity just to name a few. We will create a resource for entrepreneurs to listen to before they buy their next audio book or paper bound. Busyness can be an entrepreneurs enemy but productivity is the name of the game! We are here to help!