Nov/Dec 2009 Issue
A Revolution in Fairness
by John David Mann
Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized speaker, author and social visionary who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends that are transforming our world. A Wharton MBA, Duane participates in high-level think tanks consulting to the government and largest corporations. We talked with Duane about his latest book The Living Universe and the role business has to play in the developments he sees ahead.
Nov/Dec 2009 Issue
Giving: The Secret of the
Genuinely Rich
by John David Mann
Mark Victor Hansen is cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul publishing phenomenon, and author of dozens of other popular books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The One Minute Millionaire. Over the past three years, Mark tracked down the wealthiest child entrepreneurs in North America and presented their stories in his latest book, The Richest Kids in America. The biggest surprise he had was that all these super successful kids love to give.
Sep/Oct 2009 Issue
Life Is Like a Box of Tofu
by John David Mann
Money, or lack of it, does not decide who you are. You decide what money is.
Sep/Oct 2009 Issue
Decoding the Secret Language of Money
by John David Mann
Dr. David Krueger worked for two decades as a psychoanalyst, served as CEO for two healthcare organizations, and has been an executive mentor coach whose clients include multinational CEO’s and other prominent achievers. With a background in both medicine and business, he integrates the insights of psychology, neuroscience, quantum physics and strategic coaching to help entrepreneurs and executives understand their money stories and write new ones.
Sep/Oct 2009 Issue
Escaping the Three Big Money Traps
by John David Mann
What is a banker, award-winning salesperson and corporate trainer with an MBA from Columbia (and a client list that includes Microsoft, Visa and Bank of America) doing as an ordained minister who creates things like an inspirational program for women called “Your Beautiful Spirit”? If you’re Karen Russo, you’re just being yourself—and proving that “wealthy and Godly” is not a contradiction in terms.
Jul/Aug 2009 Issue
To Break or to Bend
by John David Mann
Adversity engraves itself onto your being and alters forever who you are.
Jul/Aug 2009 Issue
The Promise of the Business
by John David Mann
Ramin Mesgarlou was a very successful businessman by age nineteen and also a supremely accomplished athlete. At the age of twenty he joined a network marketing business and became the youngest person ever to reach the second-highest rank of that company’s pay plan. Subsequently, he became a master distributor for three other networking companies, wrote compensation plans and two practical guides to the business and founded a network marketing company in 2005. Features
Jul/Aug 2009 Issue
Finding Balance within the Roller Coaster
by John David Mann
John Castagnini’s Thank God I… book series, seminars and online community are dedicated to the proposition that all events are perfect, even if they don’t always feel perfect at the time, and that adversity can be a doorway to inspired living. A prolific author, poet, musician, teacher and entrepreneur, John frequently speaks to audiences of network marketers about rejection and how to balance their emotions.
May/Jun 2009 Issue
Gold and Twopence
by John David Mann
There is a bit of gold in them thar hills—but it doesn’t have to take much to make you rich.
May/Jun 2009 Issue
The Golden Age of Network Marketing
by John David Mann
Randy Gage is one of the most well-known names in the networking business. From his early training and generic prospecting materials to his books and online “Randy’s Rants” newsletter, Gage has been a peripatetic presence in our profession for the past two decades. On January first, Randy launched into the online atmosphere a publication entitled The MLM Revolution: A Manifesto. A few months later we asked Randy what his manifesto has to say, what kind of impact it’s having, and what he sees for the future of the profession.
May/Jun 2009 Issue
“Network Marketing Is ... ”
by John David Mann
Last fall, while the economy took a hit, network marketing corporations posted some of the highest sales figures in their history. As millions of people saw their savings evaporate and stock portfolios disintegrate, network marketers worldwide were quietly taking stock of their businesses, asking, “Are we okay?” For this issue, we assembled a panel of American thought leaders to give us their thoughts on the state of the profession. The consensus: our current economic woes may well bring about a historic upsurge in the popularity of network marketing.
Mar/Apr 2009 Issue
What Creates Leadership?
by John David Mann
Donna Johnson, Carolyn Wightman, Marilyn Stewart and her daughter Sarah Stewart all share three things in common: they are all women; they are all widely respected networking leaders; and they are all passionate about leadership. As we listened to their stories, we got a strong sense that each of them, from an early age, had an idea of who they were and where they were going in the world. Did they start out that way, or did this quality develop over time and circumstance, with the patient nurturing and guidance of a mentor? The answer was: both!
Mar/Apr 2009 Issue
Leadership at 26,400 Feet
by John David Mann
Chris Warner is a world-class climber and also a successful entrepreneur. His Earth Treks chain of climbing centers serves over 100,000 customers annually. Don Schmincke is a scientist and renegade management specialist whose provocative teachings bring together such diverse disciplines as anthropology, organizational dynamics and genetic evolution. Chris and Don met on an expedition and hit it off immediately, around the question, “What does mountain-climbing reveal about genuine leadership?”
Jan/Feb 2009 Issue
Love and Residual
by John David Mann
Network marketing is royalties for the rest of us.
Jan/Feb 2009 Issue
Master the Spares
by John David Mann
A perennial favorite speaker and trainer among networking audiences, Bob Burg is author of the classic Endless Referrals and the underground bestseller Winning Without Intimidation. His latest book, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) became a Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Bob built his career and lives his life based on the premise that as long as you provide value and touch a whole lot of lives, you have no choice but to grow very, very wealthy.
Jan/Feb 2009 Issue
Patience, Passion and Personal Branding
by John David Mann
Gary Vaynerchuk transformed himself from manager of his dad’s New Jersey liquor store into a TV personality, cultural phenomenon and the world’s best known “social media sommelier.” His daily wine-tasting shows on WineLibraryTV.com draw audiences of 80,000 and up. An evangelist for what he calls “social business,” Gary believes we’ve slipped into an age where authenticity pays, personal passion equals power, and where, when you build brand equity, anything can happen.
Nov/Dec 2008 Issue
Being in Love
by John David Mann
When you go prospecting, look for someone who falls in love with your opportunity.
Nov/Dec 2008 Issue
Filling Empty Bowls
by John David Mann
Thirty years ago, Larry Jones and his wife began operating a volunteer charity effort from their kitchen table. Today, Feed The Children has grown to become one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations. Feed The Children has provided food and other essentials to children and families affected by hunger, poverty and natural disasters in 118 countries. The organization takes large donations of product from a network marketing company and distributes it to needy people.
Nov/Dec 2008 Issue
The True Nature of Business
by John David Mann
Leonard Laskow, M.D., has a distinguished career in medicine. A Stanford-trained physician, he is a Life Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. Laskow also became one of the leading researchers and teachers in the healing power of love. He talks about the true nature of business as an expression of unconditional love.
Sep/Oct 2008 Issue
Shhhhh ...
by John David Mann
Empty space is one of the greatest lessons the passing years unscroll
Sep/Oct 2008 Issue
The Dean of Middlescence
by John David Mann
When it comes to the social impact of aging and the demographics of the baby boom, there is no name more authoritative than Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. A psychologist, gerontologist and entrepreneur, Ken is the best-selling author of Age Wave and more than a dozen other titles. Ken coined the term "middlescence" and describes this new period of life as a time of continued vitality with an appetite for new beginnings and personal reinvention.
Sep/Oct 2008 Issue
Embracing the New Midlife
by John David Mann
Marianne Williamson is one of the world's most widely acclaimed chroniclers of the human spirit. In her latest book, The Age of Miracles, she explores different ways to rethink the new period of life we call midlife. "Sometimes what we appear to have lost is simply something it was time to leave behind," she says. She encourages us to take a stand against the ego's interpretation of age. "It's not that we don't accept the limits of age; it's that we embrace the limitlessness of God."
Jul/Aug 2008 Issue
Our Favorite Whats
by John David Mann
Notice those experiences that make it all worthwhile.
Jul/Aug 2008 Issue
Success and Significance
by John David Mann
Father Sirico is a Catholic priest who quotes Thomas Aquinas and Genesis, but also cites Solzhenitsyn and Peter Drucker. Concerned that the insufficient grasp of economic principles left students of religion poorly equipped to address real-life social issues, Father Sirico cofounded the Acton Institute, whose mission is “to promote a free, virtuous and humane society by demonstrating the compatibility of faith, liberty and free economic activity.”
Jul/Aug 2008 Issue
Humanity at a Crossroads
by John David Mann
Gregg Braden is widely known as a pioneer in bridging the worlds of science and spirituality. He has always had the belief that when we study chemistry and physics, we’re learning about the nuts and bolts of how God works in the world. Gregg has spent the past twenty years exploring connections between the cutting edge of quantum science and the core of ancient spiritual traditions. He spoke with us about how today’s world is at a crossroads in perspective, and how network marketing reflects that shift.
May/Jun 2008 Issue
The Networker Doth Protest Too Much
by John David Mann
Belief is one thing; simple knowing is quite another.
May/Jun 2008 Issue
Networking Humanity's Next Chapter
by John David Mann
For the past forty years, Barbara Marx Hubbard has been a pioneer and driving force in the movement to create a positive future for humanity. She is widely recognized as the philosophical heir to Buckminster Fuller, who once described her as the best informed human now alive regarding futurism. Barbara is passionate about creating a synergistic democracya way of being in the world where we realize that every choice each one of us makes matters and affects where we are all going.
May/Jun 2008 Issue
Translucent Networking
by John David Mann
Arjuna Ardagh is founder of the Living Essence Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. "A tangible shift is taking place in our world," says Arjuna. "Increasing numbers of people are waking up to a deeper dimension of themselves and reality. This realization holds the possibility for creating a magnificent life of service and inspiration." Arjuna explores what that magnificent life might look like in the context of a networking business.
Mar/Apr 2008 Issue
Putting Money Together
by John David Mann
Use the power that makes constellations to build your fortune.
Mar/Apr 2008 Issue
Keeping It Simple
by John David Mann
Wayne Burgan is the founder of CashFlow Manager, Australia's leading small business bookkeeping solution. As an accountant specializing in small business needs, he learned over the years that most of his clients didn't really understand where their money was coming from or where it was going. To help them, he decided to create systems that anyone could easily understand and use.
