Recommended Audio
Creating a Team of A Players: Finding, Hiring and Leading 'Rock-Star' Employees
This is a 3-hour, no-nonsense program on how to create the business (and the life) that you want by building the A-player team you need. Based on his Amazon best-selling book How to Hire A-Players, Eric Herrenkohl explains how to find, hire, and lead a team of rock-star employees.
"Managing Your Evolution - Purpose and Process"
"Growth Strategist" host Aldonna Ambler interviews Cheryl Beth Kuchler for a
thoughtful discussion about how CEO's can grow their businesses using a
combination of Western and Eastern business practices.
CEO Think Tank "Un-Marketing" event "Leadership from the
Heart"
Track 1 | Track 2
Listen in on a CEO Think Tank "Un-Marketing" event "Leadership from the
Heart" with Alan Burkhard, Founder and former CEO of Placers, a temporary
staffing firm. Alan started Placers in the 1970's, grew it to $90 Million
and sold it in the mid-1990's to pursue other business interests including
implementing his brand of leadership, Outside-In®, in businesses as diverse
as a restaurant to a trash company.
Recommended Video
Creating the Awesome Experience – with Kevin Daum, author of ROAR! How to Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle
Creating Competitive Advantage with Social Media expert Chris Bryant
Recommended Bibliographies
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't, Jim Collins, 2001.
Anything by the Gallup Organization but especially:
First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman, 1999.
Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., 2001.
How to Find Your Mission In Life, Richard Nelson Bolles, 2005.
Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets of Success, One Relationship at a Time, Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz, 2005.
Anything by Patrick Lencioni by especially:
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni, 1998.
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Excutive, Patrick Lencioni, 2000.
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni, 2004.
Purple Cow: Transform your Business by Being Remarkable, Seth Godin, 2003.
The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox.
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time, Susan Scott, 2000.
You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay, 1984, 1987.
Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing, Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D. Ph.D., 1998.
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential, Carolyn Myss
Numerology and the Divine Triangle, Faith Javane, 1979.
The Great Game of Business, Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham, 1994.
Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Gene Siciliano, 2003.
Selling The Invisible, Harry Beckwith, 1997, Warner Books
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, 2002, Back Bay Books
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of your Growing Firm, Verne Harnish, 2002
Recommended Websites
For the latest on Voice Over IP checking out…
www.altevatel.com/blog
For Feng Shui and Energy Consultation:
www.reinventawareness.com
For small business advisory services
www.sba.gov
To get information on target market size
www.census.gov
For some great articles on small business:
www.inc.com
For good management advice:
www.hbr.org
For retreats and to soothe your spirit:
www.fhop.org
www.findthedevine.com
www.geraniumfarm.org
For small business information:
www.247advisor.com
For information on productivity and time management, check out Neen James, a
CEO Think Tank speaker, at www.neenjames.com.
For information on certifiying your woman-owned business, click on the
following link www.wbenc.org.
For practical guidance for budding entrepreneurs, check out the Laurence A.
Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology at Drexel University.
Their website can be found at
www.lebow.drexel.edu/baiadacenter.
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