great business speakers

A LEADER’S GREATEST CHALLENGE Fortune magazine’s GEOFF COLVIN wrote two great pieces this month on every leader’s biggest challenge: leading ahead of change. It’s also a popular speech theme for GEOFF, an outstanding change management speaker, who has addressed business audiences all over the world on such topics. An example: this video of Geoff talking about the need to innovate the business model and meet the challenge of changing market conditions. Disruptive change management is a core competency for every leader these days.

A WEBSITE STRATEGY THAT GOT RESULTS I don’t know about you, but I would be over-the-moon thrilled if 2.3 million people had visited D’Amelio Network’s website and watched 7 MILLION MINUTES of video last year. That’s exactly what local Austin home builder Matt Risinger had happen in 2015 – and he is thrilled! Wouldn’t you love to know how he did it so you can do it, too?

IT’S YOUR SHIP – A REMARKABLE 14-YEAR RUN The book has been out since 2002. You would think it would have fallen off bestseller charts – others by more notable authors certainly have. But not It’s Your Ship! 800-CEO-Read again charted the book in the top 10 for the year – in 2015 it’s the #3 bestselling business book. Remarkable! In all over 1 million copies have been sold.

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BOB WOODWARD: PERHAPS THE GREATEST REPORTER EVER Former CIA director and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wished he’d recruited Bob Woodward into the CIA, “His ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn’t be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique.” Therein lays the genius of BOB WOODWARD – a journalistic icon who gained international attention when he and Carl Bernstein broke the deeply disturbing news of the Watergate scandal. The book they wrote – All the Presidents Men – won a Pulitzer Prize.

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