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We hope you'll be as WOW'd by them as we are. en-us Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:49:13 +0200 http://www.xxxrider.com/access/buy.php?b=76359651871&t=2 Energize Growth NOW - The Marketing Guide to a Wealthy Company Synopsis: Here's a familiar scenario for successful entrepreneurs: You start a company and fuel its growth with your own passion and hard work. But after you expand, the company takes on a life of its own. Systems, procedures, politics, and financial pressures compete for your attention. Those demands begin to undermine your passion and your purpose. Your company culture changes, your profits are strained, and your own health and happiness suffer. You either give up, sell out, or drop out. But it doesn't have to be that way. With thoughtful planning and guidance-and with the contrarian wisdom you'll find in this book-you can combine strategic planning with smart marketing to spur intelligent, long-term growth without working 100-hour weeks. Energize Growth NOW is the perfect resource to help you transition your company from a growing start-up to a successful, wealthy business. About the Author: Lisa is the Chief Energy Officer of EnergizeGrowth LLC. Her team's goal is to improve the performance of companies by bringing in premier clients and building their teams accordingly. Lisa is fluent in three languages and an expert in strategic growth and marketing. Product Details Format: Hardcover, 212 pages; Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 22, 2009) ISBN: 978-0470413920; Dimensions: 9. 25 x 6. 5. 15. 00 oz. http://www.xxxrider.com/access/buy.php?b=75548701871&t=2 Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow Synopsis: After fifteen years of rising to the pinnacle of the hospitality industry, Chip Conley's company was suddenly undercapitalized and overexposed in the post-dot. com, post-9/11 economy. For relief and inspiration, Conley, the CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow's iconic Hierarchy of Needs. This book explores how Conley's company, the second largest boutique hotelier in the world, overcame the storm that hit the travel industry by applying Maslow's theory to what Conley identifies as the key Relationship Truths in business with employees, customers and investors. Part memoir, part theory, and part application, the book tells of Joie de Vivre's remarkable transformation while providing real world examples from other companies and showing how readers can bring about similar changes in their work and personal lives. Conley explains how to understand the motivations of employees, customers, bosses, and investors, and use that understanding to foster better relationships and build an enduring and profitable corporate culture. About the Author: Chip Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, California's largest boutique hotel company, consisting of over 40 award-winning hotels, restaurants, and spas. He is the author of The Rebel Rules and Marketing That Matters . Product Details: Format: Hardcover, 288 pages; Publisher: John Wiley Sons; Imprint: Jossey-Bass (September 2007); ISBN: 9780787988616. http://www.xxxrider.com/access/buy.php?b=75546221871&t=2 The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life Synopsis: When a hurricane warning is announced, everyone's concerns and actions become focused on that expectation; the hurricane essentially becomes the future which people are living into. Similarly, when an organization needs to transform or make the leap to a higher level, everyone involved should be living into the vision of the organization's new, improved future. But in the majority of organizations, the future people are living into is based on past performance and experience, and so major transformation is almost impossible. Steve Zaffron is CEO of Vanto Group, which has helped hundreds of companies envision and effectively implement major change and performance improvement. Zaffron and Dave Logan outline this proven system for rallying all of an organization's employees around a new vision, and more importantly, making it stick. Their focus is on making such transformations permanent and repeatable, providing practical examples from Vanto Group's clients such as Apple, Lockheed Martin, Reebok, BHP-Billiton, Johnson Johnson, Morgan Stanley, and many others. About the Authors: Steve Zaffron is the CEO of the Vanto Group, a global consulting firm that designs and implements large-scale initiatives to elevate organizational performance. Zaffron has directed major corporate initiatives with more than three hundred organizations in twenty countries. Dave Logan is on the faculty at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and is a former associate dean. He is also senior partner of CultureSync, a management consulting firm. Logan has written three books, including Tribal Leadership . Product Details: Format: Hardcover, 256 pages; Publisher: John Wiley Sons; Imprint: Jossey-Bass (February 2009); ISBN: 9780470195598.