May 2010 Issue
Learning from a Lion
by John David Mann
There is probably no name in all of network marketing more storied than that of Mark Yarnell. After building a gigantic organization in the mid-eighties, the minister-turned-networker became one of the best known and most passionate advocates for the business. His bestselling book Your First Year in Network Marketing, published in thirteen languages, is considered a veritable bible of the profession. Mark's charitable work earned him the Nevada Philanthropist of the Year Award from the Washington Times.
February 2010 Issue
The Emotional Golden Ratio
by John David Mann
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina. She has studied the effects of positive emotions for over twenty years, and what she discovered and teaches has made her a luminary in the world of psychology. Yet, Dr. Fredrickson wants the news about positivity to spread beyond the scientific community, so she wrote Positivity to share her insights and lab-tested advice with the widest possible audience.
January 2010 Issue
The Best Service in the World
by John David Mann
Tony Hsieh joined Zappos in 1999, just three months after the company started. Within a few years, they developed a company culture focused on ensuring that every customer interaction results in customer delight. Building a huge word-of-mouth reputation among their legion of devoted customers, Zappos grew from an idea to over $1 billion in annual gross sales. Today Tony runs a billion-dollar empire that has the culture and feel of a mom-and-pop store, where good things are happening and business is always fun.
June 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.
May 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.
April 2009 Issue
Transforming Our Emotions
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Dr. Judith Orloff passionately believes that we have the power to transform negative emotions into positive energy, regardless of the circumstances we face. At a time when an epidemic of fear is sweeping the planet, it is no surprise her recent book Emotional Freedom became an overnight New York Times bestseller. Dr. Orloff shows readers how emotional freedom can turn around our businesses and our global economy.
March 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.
February 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!
January 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.
June 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.
May 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.
April 2008 Issue
Intuition in Business
by Josephine Gross, Ph.D.
Laura Alden Kamm is an intuitive healer and teacher who is able to perceive the energetic structure of any object, person or thought, thus gaining perspective on its past, present and future. Born in a family of entrepreneurs, Laura believes that our intuitive voice can be a tremendous gift to transform our businesses and our lives. She teaches intuitive entrepreneurship, sharing simple techniques that enhance leadership effectiveness, personal growth and team empowerment.
March 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.
February 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.
January 2008 Issue
The Incalculable Value of Discipline
by John David Mann
Rory Vaden is an accomplished professional speaker, author, standup comedian and cofounder of a $2 million company called Success Starts Now! that delivers sales training events across the country. He graduated from the University of Denver magna cum laude and has an MBA. He has worked as a door-to-door salesman, a star athlete, a model, has appeared in commercials and stars in a new documentary, Speaker. And one more thing: he just turned twenty-five.
June 2007 Issue
An Ambassador of True Wealth
by John David Mann
DC Cordova is the CEO of Excellerated Business Schools(R), which has offered their Business School for Entrepreneurs and the legendary program Money & You(R) for nearly thirty years. The Excellerated programs boast such graduates as Robert Kiyosaki, Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's), Anthony Robbins, T. Harv Eker, Loral Langmeier and many illustrious others. She is a passionate advocate for humanity and travels around the globe spreading the principles of prosperity, educational transformation and social responsibility. Her life purpose is to uplift humanity's consciousness through business.
May 2007 Issue
Life on an Internet Intimate Island
by John David Mann
Marcy Koltun-Crilley and webmaster Bob O’Connor are partners in one of the most successful online communities to date. Called “Powerful Intentions,” it is a community of people from all walks of life who believe in the Law of Attraction. Members of the community can create a forum around a center of interest, and because it’s a big community—over 100,000 people and growing—that’s rated fairly high on Google, others can easily find their site. Marcy and Bob say the intended result at Powerful Intentions is to be the luckiest place in the world.
April 2007 Issue
Keeping It Practical
by John David Mann
As a child, Brad Sugars sold off his Christmas presents and rented out his toys to his friends and siblings. Today, he runs one of the fastest-growing franchises on the planet, with more than a thousand offices in twenty-four countries. He is author of a dozen briskly selling books, including Instant Cashflow, The Business Coach and Billionaire in Training. And he is a strong believer in—and frequent coach and speaker for—the network marketing model. He believes inspirational leadership is key to building a winning team.
March 2007 Issue
Counting Starfish: Organizations Built on Trust
by John David Mann
In The Starfish and the Spider, authors Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom define two essential types of organizations: centralized structures, with their clear hierarchies and chains of command, and decentralized or “open” systems, which operate based on a completely different and in many cases opposite set of rules. Their discovery of what they call “the new physics of human organization” may prove to be one of the defining paradigms of the twenty-first century economy.
February 2007 Issue
Discovering God’s Modus Operandi
by John David Mann
Today, most people know Bob Proctor as the prosperity guru in The Secret, but they know little more about this fascinating gentleman with the white hair and where he came from. For the past forty years, he has helped people realize lives of success and personal fulfillment. Author of the best-seller You Were Born Rich, Bob is the direct heir to the Andrew Carnegie – Napoleon Hill – Earl Nightingale tradition.
