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Dr. Nouriel Roubini is known for his now-vindicated predictions of the current financial crisis. He speaks on the global economic outlook and its implications for financial markets and was named to Fortune Magazine's list of "10 new gurus you should know". In his latest book Crisis Economics: A Crash Course In The Future of Finance, Roubini argues that the United States must use the recent crisis as an opportunity to make deep and meaningful reforms to its financial system.

Former Baltimore Raven head coach and current NFL Network analyst Brian Billick's latest book, More than a Game: The Glorious Present and Uncertain Future of the NFL, examines the difficulties of being a head coach, and breaks down the increasing complexity of offensive and defensive schemes in the NFL.

Aimed at professionals in design, construction and operations of shopping centers and retail stores, Jerry Yudelson's new book, Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies, provides an introduction to how sustainability thinking and green building design are changing this huge commercial sector. The book highlights more than 30 green retail developments from North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. There are also interviews with 25 leading industry experts.

In his latest, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You,alternative medicine guru Deepak Chopra, author of more than 50 books, argues that the bond between body and soul has been severed; it's his hope that humankind is about to embark on a restoration project that will give the soul the attention it deserves.

Brian Wesbury is one of the few brave voices that say the gloom and doom forecasts are just too pessimistic. In his new book, It's Not as Bad as You Think: Why Capitalism Trumps Fear and the Economy Will Thrive, he argues that the reality is that entrepreneurs don't give up. History is pretty clear, every time the economy is thought to be done, worn out, finished, it bounces back and heads to new highs.

Dr. John Kenagy's formula for saving healthcare one problem at a time is termed "Adaptive Design," a set of methods, skills and tools designed to get healthcare back to the ideals of patient care by cultivating adaptability into the everyday work of the organization and its people. Dr. Kenagy believes Adaptive Design is the way to better and more profitably meet the needs of patients in an increasingly complex, rapidly changing world.

Respect, a lost value in our world today, is the latest subject of research for Inside Edition anchor and best-selling author Deborah Norville. Citing scientific studies and using stories based on personal interviews, Norville makes a compelling case for the Power of Respect--the simple act of treating people as though they really matter. In The Power of Respect, Norville details the specific dollar savings in business and dramatic improvements in student test scores that are directly attributable to respect. An accomplished author, Deborah Norville, is the author of several other books, including the life-changing Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You.

Directors, CEOs, general counsels, and operating executives will find here the guidance they need to meet the new and rising standards for corporate governance in this demanding business environment. Boards must change their modus operandi to address the new and complex issues that are emerging. What should they be talking about in their meetings and executive sessions? What decisions must they make? How assertive must they be regarding company priorities and operating goals? In Owning Up, business advisor and corporate governance expert Ram Charan answers these and other burning questions on the minds of directors and business leaders. He describes best practices that are emerging in boardrooms he has observed firsthand. And he provides practical recommendations on a range of issues, from compensation to dealing with external constituencies. Wisely attuned to the human side, he confronts the need for some boards to refresh their composition and for others to rebalance their board dynamics.

From columnist and bestselling author Suzy Welch comes a powerful, proven strategy for making difficult decisions and clarifying life choices. We all want to lead a life of our own choosing. But in today’s accelerated world, with its competing priorities, information overload, and confounding options, we can easily find ourselves steered by impulse, stress, or expedience. Are our decisions the right ones? Or are we being governed, time and time again, and against our best intentions, by the demands of the moment? With 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea, Welch proposes a transformative solution to deal with this pressure, as she shares her own life-tested strategy to help us regain control of our choices - and reclaim our lives.

The Innovation Zone demonstrates that most dynamic innovations are not a single stroke of brilliance and great, new products but are a disciplined, easily-learned business process that includes an organizational incubator that supports and sustains the practice of turning ideas into breakthrough innovations. Debunking nearly all other books' approach that innovation is just great products, classic examples such as GM and OnStar(R) and 3M and Post-It-Notes(R) demonstrate how the author's Six Lessons of Innovation can be learned, refined, and developed by leaders and organizations into core competencies for success. Named one of the industry’s most influential information management consultants by Information Week magazine, Tom Koulopoulos is recognized as an authority on the implications of information technology on global organizations, with articles and market insights appearing frequently in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, CNBC, CNN and NPR. His insights provide a beyond-the-edge view of the turbulence created by the collision of technology and business. 

Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) along with Mika Brzezinski, is the host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a show Time magazine calls "revolutionary" and the New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. Morning Joe features interviews with top newsmakers and politicians, in-depth analysis of the day’s biggest stories and is described by the New Yorker as "appallingly entertaining.” Joe and Mika Brzezinski also recently launched a daily syndicated talk radio show called “The Joe Scarborough Show” on ABC Radio Network. Previously, Joe hosted "Scarborough Country" a primetime news show  the San Francisco Chronicle called "must-see TV."  Published in June 2009, his newest book is The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise. 

Who’s Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success – and Won’t Let You Fail is the highly anticipated sequel to Keith Ferrazzi’s NY Times Best Seller Never Eat Alone.  Ferrazzi, the internationally renowned thought leader and consultant, shows us in Who’s Got Your Back that becoming a winner in any field of endeavor requires a trusted team of advisors who can offer guidance and help to hold us accountable to achieving our goals. It is the reason PH.D candidates have advisor teams, top executives have boards, world class athletes have fitness coaches, and presidents have cabinets.  Because today’s economic environment makes it easier for people to lose their sense of direction and more people are looking for solutions, Ferrazzi’s message has become even more urgent.  He will help us seek out and build that support structure that is so vital to our success. Keith Ferrazzi provides market leaders with strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales and enhance personal careers. A frequent contributor to CNN and CNBC and author of numerous articles for leading business publications, including Forbes, Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, Ferrazzi has been named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum and one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders by Crain's Business.

Dan Coughlin's new book, The Management 500: A High-Octane Formula for Business Success, which is packed with practical management lessons from the history of professional auto racing, focuses on how business managers can generate three years of sustainable, profitable growth. The Management 500 is the real-world race that business managers compete in every day to generate these three consecutive years of sustainable, profitable growth. Dan's parallel to auto racing points out how the extraordinary degree of precision that goes into the engineering, design, and care for the cars, in addition to the remarkable attention to details in getting the drivers physically and mentally ready for the races, is the same characteristic in the very best business managers. As a business keynote speaker, management consultant and seminar leader, Dan Coughlin speaks on leadership, innovation, branding and sales. As an executive coach, Dan has provided more than 1,500 coaching sessions for senior-level executives in Fortune 500 companies as well as mid-size organizations.

Dambisa Moyo is one of the most eloquent and informed thinkers about the geopolitics of emerging markets. Ms. Moyo's newly published book is entitled Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa. In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the "need" for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance. Born and raised in Zambia, Southern Africa, Moyo was previously a global economist at Goldman Sachs and appears frequently as a commentator and quoted expert in US and international media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, NPR, Time, the Charlie Rose Show, Newsweek, and Bloomburg.

Statistics show that women influence 85% of all purchasing decisions.  However, most sales training focuses on selling to men—even though men and women have very different expectations about their shopping and purchasing experiences. Connie Podesta, an expert in the psychology of human behavior and sales strategies, will give you a realistic and insightful view into a woman’s mind from the moment the sales relationship begins.  In this new book, Make a Fortune Selling to Women: The Deal Makers and Deal Breakers You Must Know to Close the Deal Every Time!, she shares the top five deal breakers for women and how to avoid them so you can CLOSE THE DEAL every time.  Connie has helped tens of thousands of salespeople attract and keep more customers plus become more successful than they thought possible.  And the really good news?  You’ll also learn new information about how to understand the psychology of selling to men as well! A highly sought-after speaker, Connie delivers fast-paced, entertaining, and informative presentations packed with critical information backed by first-hand experience to help your audience discover new and better ways to bring health, wealth, success and happiness into both their personal and private lives.

Jean Chatzky's newest book, The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times, answers one burning question:  Why is it that some people seem to move relatively easily from paycheck-to-paycheck into comfort or wealth, while others get stuck or - worse - fall back? Jean shows you how to develop your intuition so you can recognize when to take a risk, helps you increase your resilience in this bad economy, and tells you why it’s important to pinpoint your passion and make it your career. Based on a study with Merrill Lynch and Harris Interactive of more than 5,000 people, Jean identifies the way people categorized themselves financially, from wealthy to spiraling into debt, and then dug deep to uncover the factors that made The Difference. Whether you want to be in the top three percent or the top 30 percent, The Difference shows you that you can do it. Award-winning journalist Jean Chatzky is the financial editor for NBC’s Today Show, a contributing editor for More Magazine, a columnist for The New York Daily News, and a contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show.  She also hosts a daily show on the Oprah & Friends channel, exclusively on XM Radio.

North America´s foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, healthcare and workforce implications of the age wave, Dr. Ken Dychtwald's newest book is With Purpose: Going From Success to Significance in Work and Life (March 2009). With Purpose challenges readers with a paradigm shifting view of what matters most in the second half of life, redefining the way America views success, employment, retirement, and living a significant life. Success can be looked at in different ways from different points in your life. As a child, it was pleasing your parents; in high school, it may have been about academic achievement and popularity; as a working adult, success is often represented by earning a good salary and the respect of others. But what about in the years after your initial goals have been pursued? What constitutes success then? For more and more people, it's about making things better and about improving the world-large or small-in a lasting way. It's about changing the community, the nation, the political landscape, and the environment. With Purpose focuses on why readers should commit to having a lasting impact on the world and how they can do it. Ken Dychtwald addresses finances, locations, and realities of life, and includes inspiring stories of people who have made a difference while providing the resources to enable the reader to do the same. Dr. Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of fifteen books on aging-related issues.

One of the world's leading economists, Martin Feldstein addresses The Root of the Economic Woes and the Need to Address the Fundamental Cause. Some economists saw it coming. The bubble in the housing prices, high loan to value ratio for millions of homeowners and the manner in which mortgages were securitized was not a formula for long-term economic success. The result was household wealth degradation and destruction of capital financial institutions that hold mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. While the country hopes that recent financial rescue plans will bring back the confidence needed to revive the financial system, has the root of the problem been addressed and where do we go from here? In this revealing presentation customized for your organization from one of the world's leading economists, Martin Feldstein, who has been called one of the ten best economists in the world, shares his insights into the current, and complex, economic dynamics. He explains the results we can expect from recent congressional and federal government initiatives and what initiatives will get the economy back on track.

"An Insider's Look at President Obama's First 100 Days & The Economy in the Era of Obama" Without a doubt, President-elect Obama faces a litany of serious problems that will demand his immediate attention. With his trademark wit and Washington knowledge, Jim Angle, Chief Washington Correspondent for Fox News, offers a lively and nonpartisan presentation that goes beyond the rhetoric and analyzes what the new administration will do to solve the country's pressing issues including tax reform, domestic security, energy policy, healthcare, education and the war in Iraq....And most importantly, The Economy! Will the new Obama Administration & economic team be able to jump start the sagging US & global economy? A veteran Washington journalist, Jim Angle's respected career includes positions as Senior White House Correspondent for Fox News, Senior Financial Correspondent for ABC News, & political correspondent for CNN. A typical audience reaction after a Jim Angle speech: "The best speaker we've ever had!"