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The best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, Ross Bernstein is an award-winning hall of fame peak-performance business speaker who’s keynoted conferences for Fortune 500 companies on five continents for audiences as small as 10 and as large as 10,000. Ross and his books have been featured on thousands of television and radio programs including CNN, FOX News, “CBS This Morning,” MSNBC, Bloomberg and ESPN, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today.

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Recently named a top 20 trailblazer in the meetings industry by Meetings Today magazine, Kristen Brown helps busy professionals transform their goals into productive leadership, sales and personal growth strategies despite the stresses we face every day.

She is a keynote speaker and bestselling author who partners with people-centered organizations around the U.S. to boost market share and the bottom line including General Mills, PCMA, Cargill, Boston Scientific, Cox Automotive, Retail Value Chain Federation, Regis, and more.

Kristen spent 15 years in corporate leadership roles before a personal tragedy prompted her shift to starting her own business. She has shared her expertise extensively in the media including Live with Kelly, Inc. magazine, Forbes, Fox, BBC, Psychology Today, and many more.

She lives in Minneapolis with her daughter and will do just about anything for bacon or an extra hour of sleep. To learn more, visit KristenBrownPresents.com

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The Happy Hour Effect | The Daily RISE

The powerful and inspiring story of a man who, instead of despairing over his own impoverished plight or the systems that make it hard for others to climb out of poverty, created a solution that's breaking cycles of poverty and bringing hope to a new generation.

With the fortitude to survive a poor home life growing up and eventually thrive, Duncan Campbell set out to make his mark in the world--but it wasn't the one he originally intended. After utilizing his entrepreneurial skills to amass a small fortune, Campbell set his sights on a venture he saw as far more worthwhile: helping the most vulnerable and at-risk children escape a fate of poverty.

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Turbo charge your career!

Career Leap Year is a great resource to get you into action in developing many skills we often take for granted or neglect.

It's the perfect book to digest on a daily basis, similar to word of the day calendars but with real benefit. Each chapter is a bite sized piece of advice that you can put into practice immediately.

Imagine having 52 ways to super-charge your professional growth, laid out for you in a concise and easy to use guide. That's what the Career Leap Year is all about.

Maybe you would like to improve your leadership skills. Or your public speaking skills. Perhaps your networking skills. You might work on becoming a better writer. Or a more well-connected networker.

Well, now you can do just that, easily. Because it's all organized for you. There are clear action items for every week of the year, presented in crisp and compelling language.

Plus you get a special free PDF Take Action! guide via the bonus link inside the book.

Buy the book now and get started. Leap ahead.

Put Tom's best advice, drawn from his real-world experience, to work for you. Benefit from his years of working in all types of environments...from the smallest startups to super-large Fortune 500 companies, from privately held to publicly traded, from his own entrepreneurial endeavors to prestigious nonprofits, from the private sector to the largest government agencies.

Discover many real-world lessons about what works. Learn how to apply them to your career.

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The first book ever written on how to build a Sales Culture to achieve higher revenue and improve employee satisfaction throughout your business.

In my book you will learn:

The nature and essence of a sales culture - what it is and why it matters
The steps to create a sales culture
How to create your virtual sales team
Why sales culture starts at the top
Why you or your sales organization never have to "sell alone"

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Mr. Diana has served in various executive roles throughout his career and has over 30 years of leadership experience. Currently at TCS, he is focused on thought leadership and advisory services in the context of business, societal, and economic evolution. He blends a futurist perspective with a pragmatic, actionable approach, leveraging future thinking to steer executive strategy and action. Prior to joining TCS, Mr. Diana was Executive Vice President of enherent Corp., where he led a business analytics growth initiative focused on leveraging advanced forms of analytics to deliver business outcomes. For Aelera Corporation where he served as Chief Product Officer, he managed the development of a market facing social computing and advanced analytics platform.

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The rapid convergence of computing and telecommunications technologies into traditional "unconnected" products, better known as the Internet of Things, coupled with strong societal change has created the emergence of a technological discontinuity that is disrupting all industries as we know them. Information once "trapped" in products is being unleashed, creating a flow of Product in Use Data that is becoming the basis of new services, new business models, and new ecosystems leading to the substitution of traditional product and service companies and the total disruption of industries. During this merging of industrial and digital economics, the internal capabilities that organizations have leveraged for years will become insufficient for future competition. The businesses of those leaders who fail to transform their firms by acquiring the necessary new capabilities will not survive...

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Lisa Prior is on a mission to help people build the careers of their dreams. But unlike most career books, that tell people to quit their jobs and follow a “do what you love and the money will follow” theory, Lisa challenges people to dig deep inside themselves to figure out how they can develop themselves, their careers and their companies, at their current job or business. Lisa’s key framework is the V.I.E.W.: the Vision, Insight, Engagement, and Will that people need to better themselves and their organizations. Drawing on a range of personal stories of people who used their V.I.E.W. to change a dead end path into a career filled with growth and opportunity, Take Charge of Your V.I.E.W. provides a roadmap for leaders who want successful employees, and professionals who want to succeed and be happy doing so. This interactive book helps anyone who’s stuck at work or starting afresh, to take control and make their career a win/win for themselves and their companies. Lisa Prior, of Prior Consulting, has steered organizational change and leadership development for two decades for top notch companies and executives. Her specialty is in helping them create the culture they need to achieve the results they want. Look for her articles in Forbes.com.

Go from the "IT guy" to trusted business partner

If you're in IT, quite a lot is expected of you and your team: be technologically advanced, business-minded, customer-focused, and financially astute, all at once. In the face of unforgiving competition, rampant globalization, and demanding customers, business leaders are discovering that it's absolutely essential to have a strong, active partner keeping a firm hand on the decisions and strategies surrounding information technology. Unleashing the Power of IT provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques, and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforce and culture, presenting the new mindset, skill set, and tool set necessary for IT leaders to thrive in today's challenging environment.

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ROBERT SICILIANO, CEO of www.IDTheftSecurity.com is fiercely committed to informing, educating, and empowering Americans so they can be protected from violence and crime in the physical and virtual worlds. His "tell it like it is" style is sought after by major media outlets, executives in the C-Suite of leading corporations, meeting planners, and community leaders to get the straight talk they need to stay safe in a world in which physical and virtual crime is commonplace.

Siciliano is accessible, real, professional, and ready to weigh in and comment at a moment's notice on breaking news. His goal is simple - to wake up and empower people across Main Street USA so they can avoid becoming victims of crime. His personal security and identity theft expertise are assets to any program or organization that demands straight talk, common sense, and potentially life and property saving results right now.

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Motivate talent to be better leaders, communicators, and innovators.  As a business strategist, international speaker, thought leader, visionary and CEO of IMPACTinsights, an organizational strategy and change management firm, Kathie created the POWERSHIP alignment model and wrote a book of the same name, based on her 25 + years of experience in IT-business alignment, collaboration, innovation and product delivery.  Her second book, The Game Changer Ecosystem: ROI in 90 Days or Less, expands on these topics to further educate readers on ways they can optimize their own organizations and drive sustainable growth and value.  

?Kathie has led numerous interactive seminars, conferences, executive workshops and IT alignment implementations that have helped many organizations significantly improve their business operations by minimizing costs, maximizing employee productivity and enhancing customer satisfaction.  Her extensive experience in the IT, consulting, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain industries allows her to have a unique understanding of strategic growth and company-wide motivation.  She understands what it takes to run a business in today’s world and has helped many organizations including United Airlines, McDonald’s, Kraft Foods, Feeding America, Johnson Controls, Horace Mann and Cabot Microelectronics achieve success.    

She believes that building more effective leaders is the first step in transforming a business.  Breaking down complex ideas into simple, executable steps, and helping everyone in the organization grow and garner the respect they deserve is Kathie's professional passion. Her enthusiasm and extensive skills and knowledge are unparalleled and it's what drives the many organizations she’s committed to helping.

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As a leader, you do your best to manage risk diligently in most business areas. But "talent risk" is often ignored and so insufficient skills and bench strength threaten every organization's ability to be productive, innovative and competitive.

But, talent risk can be managed. You can get clarity to know if you've got the right technical people - scientists, engineers, technicians, analysts and other experts - to execute your strategy.

Steve Trautman has been helping CIOs solve technical team talent problems for more than 20 years. His latest book, "Do You Have WHO It Takes: Managing Talent Risk in a High-Stakes Technical Workforce" offers practical ideas for managing talent risk with clear, measurable and relevant data. It goes far beyond academic theory to include a talent risk methodology, scripts for critical conversations, case studies and useful tools derived from boots-on-the ground experience.

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Carlos's talk challenges conventional approaches to corporate team building, something organizations spend tens of millions of dollars every year with little measurable impact. He discusses the insights he developed while working with Mars and offers a different way for organizations and groups to think about - and do something about - developing more effective teams and teamwork. Specifically, Carlos identified the critical link between two seemingly contradictory theories - what motivates high achieving individuals and what makes groups work effectively. His thinking and approach provide a straight-forward and practical way to unlock higher team performance.

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Lt. Col. (ret.) Waldo Waldman - The Wingman – is a Hall of Fame leadership speaker, executive coach, and author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Never Fly Solo.  He teaches organizations how to build trusting, revenue producing relationships with their employees, partners, and customers while sharing his experiences as a combat decorated F-16 fighter pilot and businessman. 
He is a highly experienced combat veteran with over 2,650 flight hours and sixty-five real world combat missions, having flown both in Iraq enforcing the “No-Fly Zone” and in Yugoslavia during Operation Allied Force in 1999. Some of his military honors include five Air Medals, two Aerial Achievement Medals, four Air Force Commendation Medals, and two Meritorious Service Medals.

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Be the most effective CIO you can be - by learning from the best in the business

Today's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed of technology leader. With ever-changing demands from the business, and in an increasingly technology-centric business environment, CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvements that make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executives need their CIOs to be real partners - speaking the language of the business and donning their strategist caps - not just commodity managers. Those IT leaders who fail to break out of the order-taker, utility manager mold will, simply put, be looking for a new job.

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Brian Watson is Co-Head, CIO Networks at Metis Strategy, a business and technology strategy consulting firm, and a speaker and author on IT leadership issues. Watson is the author of Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best CIOs Tackle Their Toughest Business Challenges (Wiley, March 2014), which was a top-rated title on Amazon and appeared on numerous “must-read” lists for current and aspiring IT leaders. Previously, Watson served as Editor in Chief of CIO Insight and in various other editorial management roles with both CIO Insight and Baseline. Previously he wrote for and contributed to newspapers in the U.S. and Ireland. Watson has spoken and moderated CIO panels at IT leadership events including the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the Society for Information Management (SIM) SIMposium, and the Technology Business Management (TBM) Council annual conference... Read more

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Based on interviews with more than 150 CIOs, IT/business executives, and academic thought leaders, The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise provides insight, success stories, and a step-by-step methodology to transform your IT organization into a strategic asset that drives customer value, increases revenues, and enhances shareholder wealth.
-The book details how strategic CIOs from FedEx, Procter & Gamble, McKesson, and other leading companies transformed their organizations. It illustrates the methods these CIOS used to become strategic partners that collaborate effectively within their organizations to leverage information and technology for a competitive advantage.
-The text will help you assess the key competencies and skills required by IT personnel to partner with your business teams to create new and enhanced products and services that create customer value, increase margin, and enhance shareholder wealth.
-The book includes powerful methodologies, time-saving templates, proven best practices, and helpful assessments. It also details a four-phase methodology, along with the associated activities and tools, to help your IT organization successfully transform into a strategic IT organization.
-Gain insight into the four domain competencies and twelve associated skills required to build effective strategic IT organizations. Build your roadmap to success using the transformation methodology described in the text and you will be on your way to making your organization a strategic IT organization.

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When was the last time you had fun reading a business book?
Here is your chance. The Communication Kit, written by Kit Welchlin, is a one-of-a-kind, fun and informative business book, playfully packed with practical strategies to deal with the issues we all face at work. The Communication Kit covers a variety of topics with literally hundreds of quick tips to help people perform at a higher level.
The Communication Kit is based upon a wildly successful series of silly, yet serious, video blogs depicting several struggling semi-professional characters, played by Kit Welchlin, (oh yes, they are quite the characters) that are quickly mentored by a patient professional mentor, also played by Kit Welchlin.
Chapters cover such topics as change, conflict resolution, customer service, difficult people, gender communication, generational communication, interpersonal communication, leadership, listening, managerial communication, meetings, negotiation, persuasion, team building, and a bonus chapter on stress management.
The Communication Kit is an amusing, yet useful, guidebook written to help people quickly review key strategies and perform in a much more effective and professional manner at work.

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There are numbers and statistics to ponder about the state of women in IT leadership - in leadership in technology in general. Here is the bigger question: Are you content to think about it or are you ready to do something about it? If you are ready, some people who are sitting in those seats of leadership have offered suggestions and guidance. It is mentorship in book form. If you are ready, you can help to change those numbers and statistics. You can help change the world.

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