“To achieve success as a small business owner, you need to be flexible, pay close attention to your market, and figure out what you do not know about running a business”, writes entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Quintessence Multimedia, Melinda Emerson in her very practical and results oriented book Become Your Own Boss in [...]

“Ideas don’t happen because they are great – or by accident. The misconception that great ideas inevitably lead to success has prevailed for too long”, writes speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Behance, Scott Belsky in his insightful and results oriented book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality. The author demonstrates the [...]

“At the end of the day, no matter how much our buyers have a need and we have the best solution, if they don’t know how to decide to make a new choice, it doesn’t matter what we’ve got”, writes sales visionary and thought leader Sharon Drew Morgen in her sales transformational book Dirty Little [...]

“If it seems as though you’re seeing more customer stories than ever, you are. And not just the age-old customer testimonial, but actual stories of how a product, service, or organization solved a problem”, writes founder and President of Compelling Cases, Inc., Casey Hibbard in her practical and comprehensive guide to creating and utilizing compelling [...]

“In a world turned dark and cold, we are seeing more and more instances of talented people – quite often for reasons beyond their control – seem destined to fail. Yet caving into the dark side is not an option; the costs are simply too high” writes trustee of the Estate of James Campbell, one [...]

“A considerable amount of of business education, and the activities undertaken by managers as they advance their careers, is dramatically removed from implementing, or even understanding, innovation”, writes strategy consultant and Managing Partner of Spark Partners, Adam Hartung, in his visionary and dynamic book Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition. The [...]

“Business lessons abound in movies that aren’t about business”, write co-authors Kevin Coupe and Michael Sansolo in their endlessly entertaining and insightful book The Big Picture: Essential Business Lessons from the Movies. The authors describe how the power of story telling through the movies convey many important business lessons, even from movies that have no [...]

“Dissect the CV of any successful executive, and you’ll see a series of high-stakes transitions into ever-more-challenging roles: from individual contributor all the way to general management. Through hard-won experience, the best and brightest get promoted and learn to lead others”, writes leadership expert and co-founder of Genesis Advisers, Michael Watkins in his essential guide [...]