June 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.
May 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.
April 2009 Issue
An Impossible Dream
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Johan Bruyneel is the winningest team leader in cycling history. In 1998, this former professional cyclist from Belgium looked a struggling rider and cancer survivor straight in the eye and said, “Look, if we’re going to ride the Tour, we might as well win.” Johan became the mastermind behind the success of the world’s most celebrated cycling champion, Lance Armstrong, and together they seized a record seven straight Tour de France victories.
March 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.
February 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?”
January 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.
June 2008 Issue
Bringing Consciousness to Work
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Stacey Lawson is a powerful businesswoman and an ardent spiritual seeker. She is cofounder of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at U.C. Berkeley, where she teaches entrepreneurship to young people with an emphasis on conscious business practices and social responsibility. Her vision is to create conscious and enlightened organizations where people are encouraged to fully engage, recognizing work as a part of their awakening process and a path to self-realization.
May 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."
April 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.
March 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.
February 2008 Issue
The New Financial Frontier
by John David Mann
Terry Savage is one of our nation's highest-visibility experts on personal finance. She serves as television commentator on investment and financial markets for CNN, CNBC, PBS and NBC, and nationally syndicated personal finance columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. Starting out as a stockbroker, Terry became a founding member (also the first woman trader) on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. We asked her about the biggest financial challenges home-based business owners are facing in the twenty-first century.
January 2008 Issue
The Wisdom of Teens
by John David Mann
Tami Walsh created TeenWisdom .com based on a promise she made that some day she would devote herself to making life better for other teen girls. Today, when she's not busy coaching teen girls one-on-one in southern California, Tami travels around the country talking with teens and parents about the toughest issues facing this generation, providing gentle, sage advice on how, as she puts it, to build bridges of communication instead of burning them down.
June 2007 Issue
Finding Value on the Fringes
by John David Mann
Marshall Thurber is a highly successful lawyer, real estate developer, businessman, educator, inventor and public speaker, who worked closely with the visionary/inventor Buckminster Fuller. Marshall has in turn influenced an entire generation of thinkers and institutions, from Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Spencer Johnson to Hewlett Packard, GTE and the U.S. Navy. Marshall has become the go-to expert on what he calls "network science" and how today's organizations work in our post-Internet world.
May 2007 Issue
The Importance of Being Extraordinary
by John David Mann
In 1999, a New York-based marketer and entrepreneur by the name of Seth Godin wrote a book entitled Permission Marketing. Soon he was being hailed as one of the most brilliant marketers alive. Permission Marketing was also very influential in network marketing circles, and Networking Times featured Seth in 2002. Five years later, we decided it was high time we had him back to talk with us about networking and the new media. Seth believes the new media play to the very best strengths of network marketing.
April 2007 Issue
The World's Most Democratic Workplaces
by John David Mann
Traci Fenton is the founder of WorldBlu, an organization that publishes the annual WorldBlu List of the Most Democratic Workplaces. She started with a simple idea-"What would democracy look like as applied to business?"-and has carved from it a global movement. Her purpose in life is to help people reach their full potential, and she believes that democracy is fundamentally about creating an environment in which people can be free to excel and express their full selves.
March 2007 Issue
The Power of Trust
by John David Mann
Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, underlies everything we do, have and achieve. In his best-selling book The Speed of Trust, he shows that trust is a measurable skill that can be effectively taught and learned. Trust is not a purely “soft” social virtue but a hard-edged economic driver that can make or break careers and companies. Like his father Stephen R. Covey (7 Habits), Covey the younger is a keen observer of the network marketing community, where, he believes, trust is on the rise.
February 2007 Issue
The Woman behind The Secret
by John David Mann
Rhonda Byrne, producer of The Secret, has become the epicenter of a global media / personal development phenomenon. It all started when her daughter handed her a little book called The Science of Getting Rich. Her story and the film that grew out of it have become one of the most popular “enlightainment” DVDs of all time [with spin-offs including a book, a soundtrack CD and a sequel to the movie on the way].
January 2007 Issue
Givers Gain
by John David Mann
Dr. Ivan Misner, founder of BNI, is called "the father of modern networking" by Ecademy and "the networking guru" by Entrepreneur magazine. His latest book, Truth or Delusion?, recently hit #1 on the Amazon bestseller list and landed on the New York Times bestseller list as well. Today BNI meetings see a significant presence of network marketers. Ivan describes how network marketers can thrive in the broader world of networking.
June 2006 Issue
Champion on the Hill
by John David Mann
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch is known to networkers as the driving force behind DSHEA, without which nobody today would be able to afford dietary supplements. Utah’s Senator Hatch is a strong advocate of the nutrition industry and the networking profession. He is currently working on the Adverse Event Reporting bill which will further protect the industry by showing that the majority of supplements are safe and help millions of people improve the quality of their lives.
May 2006 Issue
The Greatest Act of Faith
by John David Mann
Frank Maguire has a resume that reads like a guided tour of twentieth- century greatness: from running ABC to working at the Kennedy White House, helping Fred Smith create FedEx and Harlan Sanders run Kentucky Fried Chicken, Frank has been there, done that and seen it all. Now heÂ’s talking about network marketing, which he describes as "potentially the greatest economic opportunity that has ever existed" and the hope of America's economic future.
