Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Jim Manton: The Secret Of Transitions - Blog Business Success Radio
Former COO of MicroAge, a Fortune 500 company, and now President of Manton Advisory Services Inc. Jim Manton, author of the thought provoking book The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success, shares secrets for embracing change with courage and passion, and how to build a purpose-driven career.
Jim Manton is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Thursday, July 17, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
President of Manton Advisory Services Inc. Jim Manton, author of the thought provoking book The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success, shares secrets for embracing change. You will learn:
* What holds you back from achieving success in your life
* How to find the real purpose of your life and your true calling
* How to gain the courage to take the steps toward changing your life
* How to overcome the obstacles that prevent making that transition
Jim Manton (photo left) has served not only as a president in a Fortune 500 company, but also as the CEO of several fast-growing entrepreneurial firms. Experiencing the thrill of break-through results, the strain of exponential growth and the disappointment of shortfalls, he has been there and done it. Today, he is a transition coach who helps people from all walks of life achieve higher levels of success, not only in their businesses and careers, but also in personal growth, relationships and life balance.
Jim Manton blogs at Transition Now
My book review of The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success by Jim Manton
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with the President of Manton Advisory Services Inc. Jim Manton, author of the award winning book The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success, as he shares secrets for embracing change with courage and passion, and how to build a purpose-driven career on Blog Business Success Radio.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
The Secret of Transitions by Jim Manton - Book review
The Secret of Transitions
How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success
By: Jim Manton
Published: Mar 31, 2008
ISBN: 9781931741910
Format: Paperback, 126pp
Publisher: Robert D. Reed
Waking up and seeing clearly is the beginning of transition, writes Jim Manton in his thought provoking book The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success. In this deeply personal work, the author shares his personal and often painful journey of transition. He shows how his experiences can assist others in taking that all important first step into the unknown, that forms the basis of the transition.
Jim Manton approaches the crisis faced by the average person as one of lost purpose. Instead of answering the true calling of one's life, however, the natural tendency is to remain in the present. Even an unpleasant comfort zone is preferable for most people to that of the unknown. For the author, the true moment of life's transition is stepping into that void and becoming, for the moment, nothing at all. That fear of nothingness prevents most people from achieving true happiness in their lives. The book is about taking that leap of faith, without fear, into that void.
Jim Manton (photo left) serves as the reader's unflinching guide, to making the transition in life, toward reaching one's true potential in all aspects of life. Far beyond writing a financial success book, the author takes his readers on a true hero's journey. The course of action is one of the warrior, with the discarding of the fear of death and failure, to the acceptance of living life to its fullest. Combining the teaching of maintaining a positive attitude with a good old fashioned reality check, Jim Manton doesn't coddle his readers. Instead, he demands that they become the best parts of themselves writ large.
For me, the power of the book was its deeply personal story telling style. Jim Manton has lived the crises he describes and faced the void with courage. He arrived on the other side of the chasm of nothingness whole as a person who found his true calling. His teachings are those borne of personal experience and the facing down of his own demons real and imagined. The book combines practical lessons and coaching with the understanding of the imperative of dreaming of the ideal life. That personal hero's journey forms the backbone of the work, with the lessons filling in the spaces between the ribs.
I highly recommend The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success by Jim Manton, to anyone with the courage to face the journey between the partial life that exists today, toward the true calling beyond the emptiness. The author challenges the readers to empower themselves, to step into the lives that represent their true natures, without fear.
Read The Secret of Transitions: How to Move Effortlessly to Higher Levels of Success by Jim Manton and break away from your comfort zone and achieve the greatness that lies within everyone.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Dr. Joe Capista: What Can A Dentist Teach You About Business, Life, & Success - Blog Business Success Radio
Dentist Dr. Joe Capista, author of the inspiring book What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?: Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS!, shares the business secrets of the systems and thought processes that made him one of the most successful dental practice owners in America.
Dr. Joe Capista is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Thursday, July 10, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Dentist Dr. Joe Capista shares the business secrets of the systems and thought processes that made him one of the most successful dental practice owners in America. You will learn:
* How to achieve success with a balanced work and home life
* What the Success Triangle means to your personal success
* Why goals are important and How mentors can help you achieve them
* How to put systems in place to ensure your success
For over three decades, Dr. Joe Capista (photo left) has dedicated himself to the study of the power and impact of the mind and spirit in creating your reality. Putting into practice these teachings, Dr. Capista has built a multi-million dollar dental practice located in Broomall, Pennsylvania. Williamsburg Dental is recognized as one of the most successful dental practices in the entire United States.
Dr. Capista’s success philosophy is simple; combine your deepest passion, develop solid business principles while striving for balance in all areas of your life.
Dr. Capista travels throughout the United States sharing his messages with audiences who are eager to learn proven success principles.
Dr. Capista resides in Broomall with his wife of over 34 years, Anne. He is an avid runner and world traveler. Whether consulting with a patient, speaking on the platform, consulting with a business client or participating in one of his favorite pastimes, Joe Capista is recognized for his intense passion, love of life and ability to influence others in an incredibly positive and memorable way.
My book review of What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?: Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS! by Dr. Joe Capista.
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with dentist Dr. Joe Capista, author of the inspiring book What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?: Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS!, as he shares the business secrets of the systems and thought processes that made him one of the most successful dental practice owners in America on Blog Business Success Radio.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success? by Dr. Joe Capista - Book review
What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?
Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS!
By Dr. Joe Capista
Publishing Date: 2008
ISBN 978-0-9658159-5-6
Format: Paperback 202 pages
Publisher: Maxwell Publishing
Dreams and desires can sometimes be more powerful than skills and intelligence, writes Dr. Joe Capista in his inspiring book What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?: Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS!. The author demonstrates how success means a balanced business and personal life, and how personal relationships with others, are crucial to what he calls total success.
Dr. Joe Capista is a successful dentist by any standards, but he began his practice from modest background. With the understanding that his practice was a people business, and not the dental profession, the author turned giving to others and sharing their concerns into success. Along the way, he received valuable and advice and support of mentors and others who helped him on his way. He repaid that gift by helping others in turn. Sharing the gifts of wisdom and understanding with others has led Dr. Capista to an even more successful life.
Dr. Joe Capista (photo left) is a man with a vision. His powerful and life changing advice of achieving your dreams can be applied to any business or profession. That insight is the lesson he shares as a dentist. His visionary approach to life and business personifies how goal setting is vital to overall success. The goals must remain aligned firmly to your core values, but the techniques applied to their achievement can and must evolve over time.
The achievement of goals requires discipline and commitment as well as constant striving for excellence, writes the author. As a result, he suggests very practical and useful systems for marketing your business, as well as yourself. The techniques are processes that can applied to any sales or marketing situation, so they are helpful for any business or professional organization. The systems take the guesswork out the sales and marketing function, and keep the business operations running smoothly.
For me, the power of the book was the combining of success and goal oriented principles with practical systems for their implementation. The author writes in plain language, and explains his concepts in easily understood terms. The message is part of his emphasis on clarity, and in helping others to understand his ideas. The hands on approach to goal achievement, through learning from others, and for always seeking to improve and become the best, is a central message of the book. The result is a powerful, and useful format to a balanced and successful life.
I highly recommend What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?: Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS! by Dr. Joe Capista, to anyone seeking an easy to understand book on achieving success in business and in life. The straight talking style presents the techniques that empower you to put your dreams into action, in a step by step manner.
Read What Can a Dentist Teach You About Business, Life and Success?: Discover Secrets to Achieving TOTAL SUCCESS! by Dr. Joe Capista, and start your personal journey to a successful and balanced life, regardless of your business or profession.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Darren Rowse: ProBlogger Secrets To A Six Figure Income - Blog Business Success Radio
Professional blogger Darren Rowse, of the highly successful A-List ProBlogger blog, and co-author of the practical and blogger life changing book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income, shares the insider secrets he used to blog his way to a six figure income. He explains the techniques and concepts of how you can blog your way to a great income as a professional blogger too.
Darren Rowse is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Thursday, July 3, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Darren Rowse, of the successful ProBlogger blog, and co-author of the practical and blogger life changing book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income, shares the insider secrets he used to blog his way to a six figure income. You will learn:
* How to start a niche blog the right way to create income
* How to build the blog through design and well written posts
* How to generate more visitors to your blog than you thought possible
* How to turn that blog visitor traffic into income for you
Darren Rowse (photo left) is a full time Blogger making a good living from this new and dynamic medium from blogs like Digital Photography School.
Back in 2002, Darren stumbled upon an article about ‘Blogging’. He didn’t know it at the time but that moment changed his life.
Within 24 hours of reading the article, Darren had started his own Blog - a personal blog where je explored issues of Pop Culture, Spirituality and Blogging ever since. Darren learned so much from the experience of that blog that he's since started many other blogs.
As Darren's many blogs have grown in popularity and have begun to generate income Blogging has grown from a hobby (some would say an obsession), to a part time job through to a fully fledged business in recent times. He has slowly built his blogging into a income source that has enabled him to dedicate more and more time to the medium to the point where he is currently a full time blogger - a ProBlogger.
In 2005, Darren Rowse embarked with three others on the biggest blogging project he has ever done - b5media - a blog network that has hundreds of blogs written by hundreds of bloggers from around the world on a wide variety of channels/verticals.
Darren Rowse is the VP of Blogger training at b5media.
My book review of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with professional blogger Darren Rowse, of the successful A-List ProBlogger blog, and co-author of the practical and blogger life changing book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income, as he shares the insider secrets he used to blog his way to a six figure income. He explains the techniques and concepts of how you can blog your way to a great income as a professional blogger too on Blog Business Success Radio.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
ProBlogger by Darren Rowse & Chris Garrett - Book review
ProBlogger
Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income
By: Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett
Published: May 31, 2008
ISBN: 9780470246672
Format: Paperback, 230pp
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
There is a growing number of bloggers earning a full-time living from blogging, and you can be one of them, write Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett in their practical and blogger life changing book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income. Full time blogging doesn't come overnight, however, and requires hard work, discipline, and the desire to keep following your dream. The authors provide the tools necessary to make blogging your full-time income and business career, and turning those dreams into reality.
Authors Darren Rowse (photo left) and Chris Garrett (photo below left) are full-time bloggers who earn their living from blogs. Their experience with both the ups and the downs of professional blogging are shared in their book. Readers who dream of creating a blogging business empire would be well advised to follow their advice. One of the most important factors the writers stress is the need for patience and long range planning, as high income from blogs takes time to develop and hard work on the part of the blogger. The book provides the tools and techniques that can turn a blog from a hobby into a successful online business.
Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett start with the basics of blogging so the novice gets started on the right track from the very beginning. Most long time bloggers, and the authors are no exceptions, made countless mistakes with their blogs, their writing, and their attempts at revenue generation. The blogging concepts presented in the book will prevent those novice errors from derailing new bloggers. The reader is shown how to blog the right way, with proven methods that have worked for countless successful bloggers all over the internet.
From selecting a blog niche, to hosting and domain name, to blog design and layout, to traffic building and search engine optimization, the authors share proven techniques with the reader. The reader is shown step by step how to find blog post topics and ideas, how to write posts that will attract readership, and how to use the social media networks to leverage additional blog traffic.Advanced blogging theory, with real life successful examples, include buying and selling blogs and the benefits and drawbacks of joining blog networks.
For me, the power of the book is its practical approach to creating, developing, and maintaining a successful income generating blog. Building a six figure income from blogging is the aim of the book, and the authors provide the information to achieve that goal. The authors not only demonstrate how to apply a blogging technique, employing numerous illustrative graphics and screen shots, but they explain why that concept is crucial to the goal.
Each step in the process of professional blogging is as important as the next, and the authors emphasize the importance of each one to the blog's overall success. In fact, the advice offered is helpful for any bloggers, regardless of their current level of experience.
I highly recommend ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett, to anyone seeking to develop an income from blogging, whether they are novice bloggers or established members of the blogging community. The advice and experience shared in the book will help anyone become a better and more financially successful blogger.
Read ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett, and be well on the path toward a six figure, full-time income from blogging. This is one of those wonderful opportunities, to turn the blog you love to write, into a rewarding and ejoyable professional blogging career.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Globality by Harold Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, Arindam Bhattacharya - Book review
Globality
Competing With Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
By: Harold L. Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, Arindam Bhattacharya
Published: Jun 11, 2008
ISBN: 9780446178297
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
Publisher: Business Plus
Globality is a new and different global reality that is part of a new era dawning, write Harold L. Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya, of the Boston Consulting Group, in their thought provoking book Globality: Competing With Everyone from Everywhere for Everything. The competition for resources, markets, and capital is global in scope. Formerly unknown companies from emerging markets are challenging existing corporations from developed countries for everything. In a growing number of instances, the upstarts are winning.
Authors Harold L. Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya point out that there have been many waves of challenges to the incumbents in the past, but this one is on a higher scale. The authors compare the arrival of competitor companies, from developing nations, to a tsunami; and like a tsunami, the waves arrive one after another with relentless force. The new companies, from India and China in particular, are very different from corporations based in the United States, Japan, or even South Korea. Those differences are crucial to the success of the upstart companies.
India and China are huge countries who possess massive populations that can provide almost unlimited cheap labour, but their competitive advantage goes far beyond that simple explanation. The countries themselves are also huge markets for products and services, and perhaps more importantly, competitors for and suppliers of resources around the world.
At the same time, internet and communications technology and international laws supporting trade have placed the challenger companies on equal footing with the rest of the world. Combined with the hunger of the emerging market populations for education and achievement, the developing world is competing very well in the global marketplace. In many global industries, the challengers are becoming the dominant players. The developing countries are in a hurry to catch up to the developed nations, and that economic gap is closing rapidly.
For me, the power of the book is its clear view of the global market as it exists today. The authors demonstrate the new paradigm of international competition from everyone, from everywhere, for everything. That is not simply a catchphrase for the authors either, but the reality facing companies in the developed world. As competitors rise from the emerging countries, that tsunami of competition will rise higher, and move more rapidly.
This book is a wake up call for any companies who feel complacent about their status in the global marketplace. The authors understand well that emerging countries enjoy competitive advantages far beyond the usual rhetoric about cheap workers. Abundant natural resources, a readiness to apply ultra-modern technology, a willingness to learn new ideas and achieve success, along with proximity to markets are also part of their competitive power. It's not just about low wages anymore.
I highly recommend Globality: Competing With Everyone from Everywhere for Everything by Harold L. Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya, of the Boston Consulting Group, to anyone seeking to stay ahead of the curve in the highly competitive global business community. No longer can a company sit back while new and growing corporations from India, China, Russia, Brazil, and other countries challenge successfully for their markets and resources.
Read Globality: Competing With Everyone from Everywhere for Everything by Harold L. Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya, and see how the emerging global economy of this century is taking shape right before our eyes. By understanding the implications of globality, a company can compete successfully with everyone, from everywhere, for everything, while growing and prospering as a global business.
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