Eric Abrahamson is the co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, How cluttered closets, jumbled offices, and on-the-fly planning make the world a better place. Eric is a professor of management at Columbia Business School, and is the author of Change Without Pain: How Managers can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout. His groundbreaking work challenging conventional management wisdom has been published in the Harvard Business Review, and he speaks frequently to executive audiences around the world. He shared with our Subscribers some of the case studies and examples from his book and research experience, to help show the benefits of moderately messy systems, and help get our audience start using their resources more effectively.

For more information on Eric Abrahamson, visit www.ericabrahamson.com.

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Sydney Biddle Barrows is the author of Uncensored Sales Strategies: A Radical New Approach to Selling Your Customers What They Really Want - No Matter What Business You’re In, who is known today for her innovative, unorthodox approach to sales, is perhaps best known for her reign as the Mayflower Madam when she founded and operated New York City’s most elite, premium-priced escort service. Her autobiography and bestselling book, Mayflower Madam, was recognized as one of the best business books of its year by Fortune magazine, and was made into a movie. Today, Sydney is a successful sales consultant advising top companies and entrepreneurs within multiple industries.

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Norm Brodsky is the co-author, with Bo Burlingham, of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up. By the time he started writing the Street Smart column in Inc. Magazine with Bo in 1995, he had already launched seven successful businesses, including Perfect Carrier a three-time Inc.500 honoree. His Inc. column has lead to a ton of speaking invitations including him being a frequent guest on MSNBC and other television networks. It has also lead to numerous awards including a gold Azbee award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2008, as well as being the inspiration for The Knack.

For more information on Norm Brodsky and The Knack visit www.theknack.info.

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Bo Burlingham is the author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, co-author of Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up as well, as an editor-at-large for Inc. Magazine. He has freelanced for various publications including Esquire, Harper’s, Boston Magazine, and Mother Jones. He’s written two books with Jack Stack, the pioneer of open-book management, one of which sold more than 300,000 (The Great Game of Business). With Tom Peters, he was a founder of PAC World, a “weird international networking group” that has allowed Bo to meet a lot of “zany — and brilliant — people from around the globe.”

For more information on Bo, visit www.smallgiantsbook.com.

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Sam Calagione, author of Brewing Up a Business, is the founder and President of Dogfish Head. Sam got the brewing bug back in the early 1990s while working at a bar in NYC that featured microbrewed beer. Sam is the brainchild behind all the wacky things that happen at Dogfish Head. He’s often on the road promoting Dogfish Head through beer, song, dance and words!

Visit Dogfish Head Brewery at: www.dogfish.com.

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Dalton Conley, the author of Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety, is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of the Social Sciences and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University. He also holds appointments at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, as an Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). In 2005, he became the first sociologist to win the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award. Previous books have included Being Black, Living in the Red; Honky; The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances; and The Pecking Order.

His work has also appeared in Salon.com, Feed Magazine and other media outlets. He has written several op-ed pieces for the New York Times and is frequently interviewed for articles on race, family, and socioeconomic status.

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Harv Eker is the best selling author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth, a book that went to #1 on the New York Times’, USA Today’s, and Wall Street Journal’s bestseller lists the first month of publication. He is the founder and president of Peak Potentials Training, the fastest growing personal development company in North America. He has developed several highly-acclaimed courses such as The Millionaire Mind Intensive, Life Directions, Wizard Training and Train the Trainer. He is also the producer and trainer of the world-famous Enlightened Warrior Training.

For more information on Harv Eker, visit www.harveker.com.

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Tim Feriss is the author of the best-seller The 4-Hour Workweek. Since his book’s debut he’s been invited to speak at some of the most innovative companies and universities in the world, including Google, Paypall, Princeton University where he’s a guest lecturer since 2003 presenting entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change, the Wharton School of Business, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He’s also been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, NBC, and Maxim. Some of his other lesser known accomplishments include been a cage fighter in Japan; the first American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango; a national Chinese kickboxing champion; hurling competitor in Ireland; actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong; and been the advisor to more than 30 world record holders in professional and Olympic sports.

For more information on Tim Ferriss, visit www.fourhourworkweek.com.

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Michael Gerber has been leading a Small Business Revolution he called “The E-Myth Revolution”, and over the past two decades, he has indelibly touched hundreds of thousands of small business owners throughout the world with his brilliantly insightful, original E-Myth message. Some of the highly-acclaimed business books in the series have included The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Business Don’t Work and What to Do About It, which has sold over a million copies, and has one of the top business best sellers ever; E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company; and his latest, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies, where the reader is invited into the Dreaming Room, where his entrepreneurial dreams come alive and become reality — our audience got a sneak peak at the book as it was not even released at the time of the interview. Michael Gerber helps the reader shape his dream into a viable, economically successful company.

For more information on Michal Gerber and the E-myth, visit www.e-myth.com

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Mahesh Grossman is the author of Write a Book Without Lifting a Finger. Mahesh, a graduate of Columbia University, has been called a “ghostwriting guru” by the Salt Lake Tribune and “America’s leading expert on ghostwriting” by Jim Christoferson of KWKC-AM. He has appeared on over 100 radio and television stations where audiences enjoy his tales of ghostwriting as it relates to American history. Among other things Mahesh shared his insights and educated our Subscribers on the benefits of getting published, of using a ghostwriter to do so, and how our audience can go about selecting one.

For more information on Mahesh Grossman, visit www.authorsteam.com/grossman.shtml.

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Oren Harari is the author of Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy. Dr. Harari was selected by the London Financial Times and Prentice Hall as one of “the world’s greatest management thinkers” and was featured with 39 other prominent individuals in the book Business Minds. For the last 2 years, as a leading author, lecturer, and consultant, he has presented provocative new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change, and transformational leadership. He has contributed to many publications, including Harvard Business Review, Business Strategy Review, California Management Review, and Industrial Relations, as well as a number of nonacademic publications.

For more information on Oren Harari, visit www.harari.com.

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Verne Harnish is the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of your Fast-Growth Firm. He has appeared on several national television and radio programs including Smart Money, CBS News, and Nation’s Business Today. He’s also a contributing editor for Fortune Small Business (FSB) magazine and has appeared in stories in over one hundred magazines and newspapers including Forbes, Inc., and The Wall Street Journal. Verne chaired the renowned “Birthing of Giants” entrepreneurship leadership program at MIT for 15 years and the MIT/WEO “Advanced Business Program.” He’s presently founder and CEO of Gazelles, Inc., which serves as an outsourced corporate university for mid-size firms and hosts a faculty of well-known business experts including Jim Collins, Geoff Smart, Jack Stack, Neil Rackham, Seth Godin, and Pat Lencioni and sponsors best practices trips to GE, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, and Dell.

For more information on Verne Harnish, visit www.gazelles.com

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Joseph Jaffe, author of Flip the Funnel, provides daily and weekly commentary on all things new marketing on his popular blog “Jaffe Juice”. His impassioned, straight-shooting perspectives have found their way to every major media outlet, including the likes of CBS Evening News, ABC World News, Bloomberg, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Fortune, Newsweek, Business Week, Ad Age, Adweek.

To read Joseph’s blog and join the conversation go to: www.jaffejuice.com.

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Dan Kennedy is the author of thirteenth business books including his most recent one No B.S. Ruthless Management of People & Profits. His books have received favorable attention in Success, Entrepreneur, and Selling Magazines, numerous trade publications, and even USA TODAY. He has been called the “Professor of Harsh Reality” because he’s provocative, irreverent, sarcastic, and tells it like it is in a humorous, but chillingly serious fashion that cuts to the core of the issues in a way no other business guru does. His business adventures have included ownership of an advertising agency, a manufacturing company, a publishing business, a newsletter business, a consulting business and a direct marketing business. As a consultant to consultants, Dan works closely with more than 50 marketing advisors to different niche industries, with combined impact well over a million small business owners and self-employed professionals. In the last few years, he has worked hands-on with clients in 68 different businesses, industries and sales fields. His clients include everything from start-up entrepreneurs and small companies to several 100-million and 200-million dollar companies, even two billion-dollar companies, one in the U.S. and one in England. Many of these clients have been with Dan continuously for 5, 7, even 10 years.

For more information on Dan Kennedy, visit www.dankennedy.com.

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Paul Lemberg is the author of Be Unreasonable: The Unconventional Way to Extraordinary Business Results. Paul has appeared on Good Morning America, and on CNN, as well as dozen of radio programs. He is the CEO of Axcelus: Advanced Business Acceleration for Entrepreneurs. Axcelus helps fast-growing entrepreneurial companies scientifically engineer the greatest business value possible, in the shortest amount of time. Paul’s clients include hundreds of companies and individuals both large and small. Some of the more recognizable ones are Cisco Systems, Adobe Systems, American Skandia Life, Mass Mutual, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Lexis/Nexis, OpenText, Deutsche Bank, National Westminster and ABN/AMRO. He has also worked with Jay Abraham and Tony Robbins.

For more information on Paul Lemberg, visit www.paullemberg.com.

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David Mattson is the CEO and a partner at Sandler Systems, Inc., an international training and consulting organization headquartered in the United States. Since 1986, he has been a trainer and business consultant for management, sales, interpersonal communication, corporate team building and strategic planning throughout the United States and Europe. Clients often describe his creative enthusiasm, problem solving and curriculum design as particular strengths that he uses to increase their companies’ productivity and efficiency.

For more information on David Mattson, visit www.sandlerrules.com.

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Bill Marquard is the author of Wal-Smart: What it Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World. Bill has worked with and advised over 100 companies in 25 industries, including Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, Walt Disney World, Meijer, Citibank, CompUSA, Denny’s Tyson Foods, the Brick Industry Association and the US Department of Homeland Security. His strategy expertise has been featured on CNN, and he has lectured at DePaul University, Northwestern University Law School, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

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Keith McFarland is the author of The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers. At the age of twenty-six he was named associate dean at Pepperdine University School of Business and Management, one of the nation’s leading business schools, making him one of the youngest business school deans in the nation. He went on serve as CEO of two technology companies, among them two-time Inc. 500 winner Collectech Systems. In 2000 he founded McFarland Strategy Partners, a strategic advisory company where he has advised industry leaders such as Microsoft, Motorola, Morgan Stanley, EGL and Prudential, as well as growth companies, including Vans, House of Blues and dozens of others. Keith writes a regular online column for Business Week.

For more information on Keith McFarland, visit www.breakthroughcompany.com

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Dr. Joseph Michelli is the author of the best seller The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary, and his latest book The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience - Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company — our Subscribers got a sneak peak at that book as it was not even released at the time of the interview. Dr. Michelli is an internationally sought-after speaker, organizational psychologist, and business consultant who has been described as “catching what is right in the world and playfully sparking people and businesses to grow toward the extraordinary.” He has been featured on television programs such as The Glenn Beck Show and CNBC’s “On the Money” and has conducted hundreds of radio and print interviews.

For more information on Dr. Michelli, visit www.josephmichelli.com.

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David Morey is the co-author of The Underdog Advantage: Using the Power of Insurgent Strategy to Put Your Business on Top. His experience in global political campaigns, with Mexico’s former president Vicente Fox, the Philippines’ Corazon Aquino, Korea’s Kim Dae-jung, Boris Yeltsin and the Dalai Lama, and business, formulating and driving successful marketing strategies at such companies as Microsoft, Coca Cola, Verizon, Proctor and Gamble, Nike, Visa, and McDonalds, has made him one of the leading strategic communications consultants in the U.S.

Currently he is an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, specializing in media and politics.

For more information on David, visit www.dmghq.com.

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Known as “The Celebrity Lawyer” for his role in promoting, marketing and creating Celebrity Experts across such diversified fields as entertainment, health and fitness, law, medicine, personal development, finance, and real estate, Nick represents many top Celebrity Experts and serves as the Producer of America’s PremierExperts™ television show. He also produces The Next Big Thing™ radio show, designed to recognize the top Celebrity Experts and bring their solutions to consumers and media outlets alike.

Nick is the co-author of the best-selling book, Celebrity Branding You™ and serves as editor and publisher of Celebrity Press™, a publishing company that produces and releases books by top Celebrity Experts. Nick and his longtime business and law partner, JW Dicks, Esq., use their proprietary Celebrity Branding® process to help entrepreneurs, professionals, CEOs, authors and professional speakers realize their dreams of becoming Celebrity Experts, create multiple revenue streams through IDEA Marketing™, and ultimately grow their organizations based on their teachings and systems. To read more about Nick Nanton, Esq., click here.

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Stacy Perman is a staff writer at BusinessWeek, covering small business and entrepreneurship. Previously she was a writer and correspondent with Time reporting from New York, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo. Most recently the author of the New York Times bestseller In-N-Out Burger: A Behind The Counter Look At The Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules (HarperCollins April 2009), her work has appeared in such publications as Business 2.0, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., Los Angeles Times, and Los Angeles magazine. Perman holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and a master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Dr. Clotaire Rapaille is the author of The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do where he reveals what makes Americans American and what make us different from the world around us. He used his ability to break the “culture code” to help Chrysler build the PT Cruiser — the most successful American car launch in recent memory. He used it to help Nestle introduce coffee to the tea culture of Japan.

For more information on Dr. Clotaire Rapaille and his research, visit www.archetypediscoveriesworldwide.com.

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Andrew Razeghi is the author of The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones. Andrew is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, advisor, and educator on growth strategy, creativity, and innovation. Through his consultancy he has worked with executives from many Fortune 500 companies, and works with organizations that wish to develop creative ideas in order to promote growth. He teaches as an adjunct associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management, and has taught at the University of Economics in Prague. He is also a Thought Leader with Knowledge Dialogue and vice chairman of the Wright Centers of Innovation Review Panel at the National Academy of Sciences.

For more information on Andrew Razeghi, visit www.andrewrazeghi.com.

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Tony Rubleski, author of Mind Capture: How You Can Stand Out In The Age of Advertising Deficit Disorder, is currently the president of Mind Capture Group based in Spring Lake, MI. This, his second book in the Mind Capture book series, has reached #1 on Amazon.com in three different categories and has received amazing reviews from many of the top sales, marketing and publicity experts on the planet. He’s a graduate of Western Michigan University (1994) with a degree in marketing. His company, Mind Capture Group, focuses on direct marketing consulting, copywriting, advanced public relations and sales and marketing training for business groups and sales teams.

Tony’s work has been featured in various Radio, TV, Magazines, web based and newspaper outlets ranging from Bottom Line Magazine, The Detroit Free Press, the FOX TV network, Entrepreneur Magazine Radio, PR Web.com, the Inside Success Show to various interviews with some of the highest paid direct marketing and sales minds in the world including Jack Canfield, John Assaraf, Dan Kennedy and Larry Winget.

For more information on Tony Rubleski and the Mind Capture group, visit www.mindcapturegroup.com.

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Dr. Scott Shane is the author of The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By and Fool’s Gold: The Truth Behind Angel Investing in America. Dr. Shane is a Malachi Mixon III professor of entrepreneurial studies at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author or editor of 10 other books and more than 60 scholarly articles on entrepreneurship and innovation management.

For more information on Dr. Scott Shane, visit weatherhead.case.edu/research/faculty/profile.cfm?id=14051.

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Rich Sloan is one of the country’s top small business experts and co-author of StartupNation: America’s Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal the Secrets to Building a Blockbuster Business. Rich has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and Fox News Channel and in numerous publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur.com, Inc., and Fortune Small Business. Rich shared with us some of his best experiences in inventing The Battery Buddy® which was licensed and brought to market by a Fortune 500 company, and some of the insights he and his brother use to guide and advise thousands of fellow entrepreneurs in their nationally syndicated radio talk show, their Web site, and in their weekly online newsletter.

For more information on Rich Sloan and the StartupNation, visit www.startupnation.com.

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Richelle Shaw is the author of How to Build a Million Dollar Business in Las Vegas Without the Casinos, as well as a radio show with the same title. She is frequently quoted and featured in several publications, including Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. Magazine, USA Today and many online content sites. Richelle is the only female, African American public utility owner in the nation. She owns Communication Experts, Inc. which provides local and long distance telecommunications service to small to medium size businesses. She also owns FreshStart Telephone which provides local service to residential customers in the Las Vegas area.

For more information on Richelle Shaw, visit www.richelleshaw.com

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Bill Taylor is the co-author of Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win. He is a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company Magazine, an adjunct professor at Babson College and the co-author of three other books on strategy, leadership and innovation. He has published numerous essays and CEO interviews in The Harvard Business Review, where he served as associate director for more than three years, and his monthly column, “Under New Management” ran in the Sunday Business section of The New York Times.

For more information on Bill Taylor, visit www.mavericksatwork.com

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Jeff Thredgold is the author of econAmerica: Why the American Economy is Alive and Well. He’s the President of Thredgold Economic Associates, an economic consultant and professional speaking firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He’s the only economist in the world to have earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned designation in professional speaking. He served 23 years with $92 billion dollar banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as Senior Vice President and chief economist. Jeff has appeared on CNBC, CNN, and has been quoted frequently in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, and Business Week.

For more information on Jeff Thredgold, visit www.thredgold.com.

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Ari Weinzweig is to co-founder and CEO of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses. Zingerman’s Deli is an Ann Arbor institution - the source of great food and great experiences for over 500,000 visitors every year. Ari is involved in many educational activities. He has served as a board member and president of The American Cheese Society and as a board member of the Retail Division of the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade. He is a frequent guest speaker in business classes at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, as well as at various food and business conferences in this country and abroad including the American Institute of Wine and Food, Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust, the Gathering of Games, and the NASFT Fancy Food Show..

To find out more about Ari and Zingerman’s visit www.zingermanscommunity.com.

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Brian Wesbury, author of It’s Not as Bad as you Think, writes frequently for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and is the Economics Editor of The American Spectator. He is a frequent guest on Fox, Bloomberg, CNBC, and BNN Canada TV. The Wall Street Journal ranked him the nation’s #1 U.S. economic forecaster in 2001 and USA Today as one of the nation’s top 10 forecasters in 2004.

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