I have written based upon years of experience. The understandings that I have gained have been the results of failures as well as successes. If I can help you along on your journey and to help you avoid the mistakes that I have made, I will consider my efforts a success. But, like all authors, there is only the telling available. After the book has been read, it is up to the reader to harvest the benefits. That process extends far into your future and I relish the thought that, at some years from now and based upon your reading here, a light may go on, the clouds part and a success will be...

Learn new Twitter habits and super-charge your Twitter accounts. Each chapter contains loads of practical tip to help you improve. The time and effort that you spend on Twitter can pay off. This book shows you how to make Twitter work for you. I've written this book after years of using Twitter. I've made lots of mistakes along the way and watched other do the same. Sure, there were some successes but, for the most part, I didn't like the results I was seeing for my time and efforts. There came a time when I was ready to give up on the whole thing. I wasn't seeing any significant return from...

I have been mentoring senior executives and corporations for more than two decades. I got into mentoring after a successful career as a recidivist entrepreneur. I founded and built six companies. The experience of building those businesses brought many good times but I have recently been thinking about all those clients I mentored and the successes that they have had. Some of my fondest memories have resulted from those mentoring engagements. Over the years, I have provided executive mentoring, leadership guidance, organizational support, team and life mentoring. Each is different but the...

This first volume is written as a series of 'thinking pieces'. Although there is an overall plan for the book, each chapter is designed to bring an issue into high relief and to help the reader get their mind around both the challenge and the way forward. I expect that you will find some of the chapters somewhat obscure at first but I urge you to persevere. No complex issue is mastered by a simple reading of a chapter or two. It takes thinking - reflection - living with new ideas - before some yield and real growth is possible. The intent of this series is to give you the beginnings of...

More energy and effort is put into trying to figure out how to make business development work than any other management function; including advancing the technology that is at the heart of a company's value proposition. There are plenty of books out that that deal with the technologies and tools of business development. This is not one of them. My focus is on the human interactions that accompany the development or expansion of a business development component of your senior management team. Over the years, I have worked with dozens of CEOs. The vast majority of them have felt more confident...

The Money Chase has been the death of many good companies. There are a range of reasons why this is so. Some companies simply do not deserve funding - they are not an attractive investment opportunity. Others embark on the money chase too early. They haven't established the business base to justify funding. Still others are run by people who seem to like the money chase better than running the business. All of these reasons and more make embarking on the search for venture funding a perilous business which risks your company and all it may become. This volume is divided into two parts. The...

A life's journey is a marvelous thing - bookended by confusion and disorientation - yet between those awesome extremities there are abundant opportunities for clarity and comprehension. The true blessing is that those chances are legion. The most important residuals of having lived are those times when life comes into sharp focus and, within a broader nature, begins to make a bit more sense. Before you are born and after you die you will not be not here - the opportunity to live and experience is not yours. In those decades between however, there are the opportunities to experience life and...

Why does business development never seem to fully live up to its name? Why is it so difficult to get business development working effectively for your company? Why does your BD team look like a series of revolving doors - with one person after another being hired amid great fanfare only to be let go within a year for 'non-performance'? All these consultants are peddling the same tired old solutions to a problem that never seems to go away. Why can't somebody come up with something that works? There has to be a better way The Good News I've never met a CEO who was really happy with the way...