Posts Tagged ‘Business’

Marshall Goldsmith

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

Marshall’s newest book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award as the Best Business Book of 2007.

Recently, the London Times named Goldsmith one of the top 50 most influential living management thinkers. The American Management Association named him as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years and Business Week listed him as one of the most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development.

Dr. Goldsmith’s Ph.D. is from UCLA. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School and frequently speaks at leading business schools. His work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field.

Over two hundred of his articles, interviews, columns and videos are available for viewing and sharing online (for no charge) at www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com.  Visitors to this site have come from 188 countries and have viewed over 2.1 million resources.

Goldsmith is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches and is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. In 2000, Forbes listed Marshall as one of top five executive coaches and Human Resources rated Marshall as one of the world’s leading HR consultants. He has also been ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the “Top 10″ executive educators. He has written and co-edited over 15 books on leadership development including “The Many Facets of Leadership” and “Coaching for Leadership.”

Joseph Grenny

Joseph Grenny is Cofounder of VitalSmarts and an acclaimed keynote speaker and business strategy expert. For the past 25 years, he has designed and implemented major corporate change initiatives. He has advised thousands of leaders on every major continent, from the board rooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

Grenny was formerly president of California Computer Corporation and an executive for the Covey Leadership Center.  He coauthored the New York Times bestseller, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Influencer teaches anyone—executives and front-line employees, mothers and fathers, community and political leaders alike—not only that it is possible to influence change, but also that it can be done quickly and produce sustainable results.

Influencer brings together the breakthrough strategies of modern-day influence masters. By drawing from the skills of hundreds of successful change agents and combining them with five decades of the best social science research, Influencer creates a coherent and portable model for changing behaviors—a model that nearly anyone can learn and apply.

His other books are noteworthy as well – Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior.

Joseph cofounded Unitus, a nonprofit organization that helps third-world poor achieve economic self-reliance.

Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton played in the NFL for eighteen seasons and has founded and built twelve highly successful companies. A consultant to numerous Fortune 500 firms, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Drawing on his experience as a top entrepreneur, and displaying the energy and grit that saw him through dozens of professional ups and downs, Football Hall of Famer, Fran Tarkenton presents field-tested guidelines that anyone starting a business will value. Offering inspiration, insight, and practical know-how, he shows you how to:

Build victories and knowledge upon mistakes and failures

Take wise risks without gambling

Create value in personal and professional life by building trusting relationships

Think like “All-Star Outside-the-Box” thinkers, such as his friends Ted Turner and the late Sam Walton

Choose heroes and develop “magnificent obsessions”

Practice leadership and employ teamwork to accomplish all your goals

Fran wrote the book, What Losing Taught Me About Winning: The Ultimate Guide for Success in Small and Home-Based Business, which illustrates key steps to small business success with real-life experiences.  Distinguished by Tarkenton’s finely tuned business acumen, his book gives you all the guidance you need to make the most of your entrepreneurial ventures, whether you’re just starting out or facing new challenges.

Sam Deep

Sam Deep launched his speaking career in 1986 after 15 years of teaching and administration at the University of Pittsburgh. Since then, he has spoken in front of over 100,000 people, his internationally published books have sold over 1,000,000 copies, and his last four audio tapes have been featured on USAir’s EntertainAir.

When Dennis Waitley said that Sam’s books brilliantly cut straight through to the core values and actions that produce results, he was referring to Smart Moves (now in fourteen printings and thirteen languages), What to Say to Get What You Want, Yes You Can!, Smart Moves for People in Charge, Power Tools, Close the Deal, Act On It! and his latest, Lost & Found.

Sam’s ideas about management have been quoted in newspapers and magazines throughout the country as well as on CNN-FN, CNBC, and WGN radio Chicago. On top of his consulting practice, he is an adjunct professor of leadership at the Tepper Scholl of Business of Carnegie Mellon University. For five years he hosted “Following the Leader” a weekly radio program in Pittsburgh that focuses on Jesus of Nazareth as a role model for organizational leadership.

Some of Sam’s clients include Alcoa, American Institute of Banking, Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University, Hallmark Cards, Heinz USA, International Customer Service Association, Mellon Bank, Merck, New York University, OfficeMax, PNC Bank, PPG Industries, Pittsburgh Symphony, Veterans Administration, and Westinghouse, as well as many more.

We are really excited about our next free Webcast of “The League of Extraordinary Minds” coming up on Thursday, December 17th at 8:00pm (your local time).

You see, we have gone to great lengths to bring this panel of top business experts together for your benefit.

A panel you’d be hard-pressed to gather on your own, or witness anywhere else… with the broadest spectrum of talents and perspectives on issues that affect you directly… that you can hear in just one FREE Webcast session.

The expert panel for “The Greatest Overlooked Lever in any Small Business: Leading and Leveraging Your Team to Stunning and Sustaining Growth” session includes:

• Sam Deep… discussing 5 critical areas entrepreneurs must focus on to be better leaders…
• Marshall Goldsmith…sharing how to improve and involve all of the people around you…
• Joseph Grenny… revealing 2 critical “influence strategies” for entrepreneurial success…
• Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer…on why communication skills “disappear” when some people become leaders…
• Fran Tarkenton… explaining what great leadership looks like when it’s implemented properly…
• Brian Tracy… describing how to measure your leadership qualities objectively…

And MUCH more!

Go ahead and make the wise decision to register for our free “League of Extraordinary Minds” Panel Discussions, where you’ll get to experience every word from these “business success” experts…

… And apply their strategies to your specific situation for higher positioning and higher profits!

So if you don’t want to miss out on even one minute of what this high-level group of “business-building power” has to share with you… for free… Click Here To Register Now!

Dan Millman

Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor.

After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan’s teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior’s Way, expressed fully in his books and lectures. His work continues to evolve over time, to meet the needs of a changing world.

Dan’s thirteen books, including “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide.

Much of Dan’s time is devoted to writing and speaking. His keynotes, seminars, and workshops span the generations to influence men and women from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts.

Dan has been asked by many of his readers which of his books is his favorite.  He answers, “That’s like asking a parent which of his children are his favorite-impossible for me to answer, since each “child” is special. However, “The Laws of Spirit” is especially close to my heart for its pithy wisdom. In a sense, this little book provides the solutions to any of life’s dilemmas.”

Dan and his wife Joy live in northern California. They have three grown daughters and two grandsons so far.

Kathy Kolbe

Kathy Kolbe, an entrepreneur, educator and best-selling author, pioneered the identification of a distinct cluster of human behaviors that led to breakthroughs in the understanding and use of innate abilities. As the leading authority on human instincts, Kolbe has amassed over 500,000 case studies to validate her discoveries in the field of instinct and human behavior. Her research – spanning four decades and six continents – represents the foremost body of work within the realm of the conative dimension of the mind.

Kolbe has worked with Fortune 500 companies, business executives, government leaders, universities, and professional sports teams to maximize performance potential by using instinctive talents.

Her first book, “The Conative Connection“, shook the foundations of conventional wisdom regarding the mind by identifying its third and most elusive dimension: the conative. The book recounts Kolbe’s steps in putting together the puzzle of striving instincts and the development of her methodology for building upon individuals’ innate strengths. The Conative Connection became a best seller and its success fueled Kolbe’s commitment to a lifetime of casework to support her breakthrough theories. Pure Instinct, Kolbe’s business book published by Random House, details her experience with high performers in the corporate arena and her techniques for helping them to maximize their potential.

Her most recent book,”Powered by Instinct: 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts“, serves as an individual’s guide to increase personal productivity and well-being by learning to unlock the power of their own authentic, creative self.

Marshall Thurber

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of “Chicken Soup for the Soul“ fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of “Who Moved My Cheese”, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”
Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,World-renowned scholar and futurist

Thousands of individuals worldwide have attended the many successful programs developed by Marshall Thurber including:

• Money & You
• Success Secrets of the 21st Century
• The Future of Business: The Essence of Deming
• The Leadership Development Training Program
• The Positive Deviant Network
• The Burklyn: School for Business Comprehensivists
• Abundanets Training
• The Accounting Game (granted a US Patent)
• How to Think About What’s Worth Thinking About
• The Secrets of Powerful Presentations
• How to Make Change Your Ally

In his private consulting business, Marshall has consulted for high profile clients that include: ITT Industries, Sheraton Hotels, The US Navy, Ernst & Young, Panavision, Neill Corporation, Hewlett Packard, GTE, The Neenan Company, Systems West, Bentley Management Corp., Liberty Helicopters, Columbia Artists Management Inc., Mendocino Forest Products, and Chicken Soup for the Soul Books.

In the late 1970s, Thurber co-founded the Burklyn Business School in Vermont.  It was designed to teach both the global principles of cooperation he learned from Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller and the contextual principles of the human potential movement.  These had been demonstrated in his own businesses.  By utilizing Superlearning Technologies™ (for maximum memory retention), simulations, music, and graphics, Thurber’s teaching is known for being powerfully effective, fun, memorable and leading edge.

This successful individual, along with two partners, started a highly successful real estate firm in California.  Attention became focused on this company and Thurber started sharing his business theories and methods with others.  Today, thousands of people worldwide actively use “Thurber Techniques” in their daily lives.

He also is a partner in The Positive Deviant Network.  This is a network of very success individuals who are committed to positive social change and the abundant living context of Buckminster Fuller.  In addition, Marshall is Chairman of the Board of Empowergy, Inc, a company whose predictable transformational system elevates the rest to perform like your very best.

Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy specializes in results.  When every dollar counts, it’s good to know that you’re going to get a return on your investment. If the result you want is to take your organization to the next level, Tom is the specialist that can help you achieve it.

For 21 years as a corporate consultant, speaker, author, trainer and coach, Tom has successfully taught hundreds of thousands of people how to dramatically increase their level of performance in business and in life. He has presented more than 1,500 seminars, workshops, and training programs to corporations and associations in 21 different countries around the world. Tom’s seminars and books have been translated into 10 different languages.

Tom not only speaks about success in business, he’s lived it. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1983 where he was a member of the nationally ranked football team, Tom became the youngest stockbroker ever hired by a prestigious Wall Street firm. By his second year Tom had become one of the highest producing brokers in the entire firm.

1986, when the leader of one of the country’s largest training organizations, Anthony Robbins, was looking for a leader to coach, energize and train the Robbins Research sales force, he chose Tom McCarthy. He became its first National Sales Trainer and National Sales Manager. As a result of Tom’s leadership, management, and training the company’s sales more than doubled each year he was there. Tom then became one of the first people Anthony Robbins personally selected to lead his prestigious Mastery University seminars.

In 1993 Tom founded Thomas McCarthy & Associates, a thriving training and consulting firm, which works closely with clients ranging from new ventures to Fortune 500 companies.  In addition to coaching and training peak performers in business, Tom has also been hired to work with 4 Olympic Gold Medalists as well as several World Champion athletes and teams.

Tom resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California with his wife Stacy and their two children.

Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson is not your typical businessman. An ex Peace Corps volunteer, he never took a class in business, doesn’t read the business press, and doesn’t like to talk business. He spends his spare time writing poetry, collecting fine art, and practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. His neighbors call him a bohemian. But he’s also an entrepreneur. He started his first business when he was 11 years old, and in the 45 years that have elapsed since then, he has started or co-started dozens of successful businesses – public and private … local and international … retail, wholesale, and direct mail.

His entrepreneurial experience is immense, even compared to other successful entrepreneurs. At one time or another, he has run or consulted for countless multimillion-dollar businesses as diverse as information publishing, fine art sales, baby products, perfumes and cosmetics to name just a few.

Richard Schefren, founder of the business coaching company Strategic Profits, says, “I consult with all of the best-known entrepreneurs in the world, and I’ve never known anyone who has been in more different sorts of successful businesses than has Michael Masterson.”

The primary focus of his business life these days, however, is split between real estate  and consulting for his primary client,  Agora Inc., a $300 million, Baltimore-based publisher of information products with offices in England, France, Spain, Germany, South Africa, and Australia. “It’s an honor to be associated with Bill Bonner (Agora’s founder and CEO) and this company,” Michael says. “And a pleasure to have been part of its growth.”

Notwithstanding clandestine luncheons that erupt into new multimillion-dollar ventures, Michael insists that he has been spending most of his time teaching and writing since he retired, for the second time, when he turned 50.“I have wanted to be a writer since my father complimented me on the first poem I wrote.

His non-fiction books include Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast-Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire, Automatic Wealth for Grads…and Anyone Else Just Starting Out, Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence, Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life, and Confessions of a Self-Made Millionaire.