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The Chic Entrepreneur by Elizabeth W. Gordon (with Leanna Adams) - Book review

The Chic Entrepreneur

Put Your Business in Higher Heels

By: Elizabeth Gordon, Leanna Adams

Published: May 31, 2008
ISBN: 9781934759042
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Robert D. Reed Pub

Any woman can be an entrepreneur. Putting your business in higher heels means making it more successful and making it more attractive to others, write Elizabeth Gordon and Leanna Adams in their powerful women's business guide book to success The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business in Higher Heels. The authors demonstrate that the feminine approach to building and running a business works precisely because the entrepreneurs are women.

Elizabeth Gordon (photo left) and Leanna Adams recognize that entrepreneurship and operating a business is reaching a series of destinations in a longer journey to success. The book provides the road map to help the chic entrepreneur steer her course safely on that often difficult road. The chic entrepreneur understands that business has risk and reward, and he takes both in stride with style and sass.

In each chapter, the authors compare and contrast different business styles, helping the chic entrepreneur stand out from the crowd. Often going against conventional wisdom, the chic entrepreneur does it her own way, by providing her own unique value, while learning from the successes of others. The authors help guide the chic entrepreneur on her personal pathway to business success.

Elizabeth Gordon and Leanna Adams (photo left) share business ideas that leap from every page, with examples of how providing unique value works for the chic entrepreneur, and how chasing after the crowd will only catch her high heels in a sidewalk grate. From setting up her business plan, to attracting the ideal customers and employees, the authors provide the basics for entrepreneurial prosperity. They take the reader through sales and marketing, cash flow, and the development of business systems without missing a beat.

For me, the power of the book was its practical step by step approach to entrepreneurship, combined with real world examples to back up the concepts. Each chapter is well summarized, and has bonus tips sprinkled through each chapter to stimulate more creative thinking and idea development. At the same time, the authors help motivate the chic entrepreneur, to take the steps necessary, to create her own successful business venture. The book combines realism and optimism, in just the right recipe, for entrepreneurial success.

I highly recommend The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business in Higher Heels by Elizabeth Gordon with Leanna Addams, to any women who are serious about starting their own business. The book guides the chic entrepreneur, as she wears higher heels than her competition, and sets herself apart in the market with style and panache.

Read The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business in Higher Heels by Elizabeth Gordon with Leanna Addams, for a guide to being the successful and chic entrepreneur you always dreamed possible. Any woman can be a chic entrepreneur and the sky is the limit to her success and achievement.

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Dayna Steele: Rock To The Top - Success Secrets From Rock Stars - Blog Business Success Radio

Entrepreneur, broadcaster, and author of the best selling and highly motivational book Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars, Dayna Steele shares success secrets from legendary rock stars including Van Halen, Aerosmith, and KISS. She shows how you can use their ideas and techniques to become a business rock star.

Dayna Steele is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.

The show airs live on Thursday, August 7, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Entrepreneur, broadcaster, and author of the best selling and highly motivational book Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars, Dayna Steele shares success secrets from legendary rock stars. You will learn:

* How show business techniques can be applied to business

* The power of networking and getting help where needed

* How to build and protect your brand and its image

* How to organize a business as if it were a rock stage stage show

Dayna Steele (photo left) is an entertaining and inspiring motivational keynote speaker and the author of the best-selling business book Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars. She reigned for years as Houston's “First Lady of Radio”, building a large army of fans known as ‘Steeleworkers’ at rock radio station KLOL-FM.

Her past awards include Local Radio Personality of the Year by Billboard Magazine and Talkers Magazine's 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts. Her radio broadcasts took her from the war zone in Bosnia to the opening of The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas to concerts and interviews with countless bands and rock stars around the world.

Steele also created the highly successful e-commerce venture The Space Store. Her latest venture is Smart Girls Rock, an online community to encourage girls to make smart the new cool.' She also created Operation National Anthem, a series of videos from US soldiers serving in Iraq, to be played at events prior to the singing of the national anthem. For that website, Reader's Digest named Dayna one of the "35 People Who Inspire Us" in the May 2008 issue.

My book review of Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars by Dayna Steele.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.

If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.

To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with entrepreneur, broadcaster, and author of the best selling and highly motivational book Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars, Dayna Steele as she shares success secrets from legendary rock stars including Van Halen, Aerosmith, and KISS. She shows how you can use their ideas and techniques to become a business rock star on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Rock To The Top by Dayna Steele - Book review

Rock To The Top

What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars

By: Dayna Steele

Foreword by: Gene Simmons of KISS

Publishing Date: March 1, 2008
ISBN-10: 1934812064
ISBN-13: 978-1934812068
Format: Paperback 192 pp
Publisher: Brown Books Pub

When you have passion for a business or a project, it can very contagious to those around you, writes Dayna Steele in her highly motivational book Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars. She goes even further and contends that when passion is combined with hard work, and a little help from your friends, you've found your stairway to business heaven.

Dayna Steele's passion is on every page, as she combines her life story as an award winning radio disc jockey, with anecdotes about famous rock stars. While reaching the pinnacle of her radio career, she learned valuable business lessons from rock music legends including Gene Simmons of KISS, Van Halen, Jon Bon Jovi, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and many more rockers and music industry insiders. Their stories provide a powerful backdrop to the multitude of business lessons shared in the book. Dayna Steele recognizes that all business is really show business, and the most successful business people are indeed rock stars in their own right.

Dayna Steele (photo left) saw first hand how powerful personal relationships are in the music industry. Fan bases are built through personal appearances, interviews, tours, give aways, and lots of hard work. For rock bands and for business people, networking, public appearances, and maintaining contacts in the media and in the industry are vital to success.

The innovative techniques used by rock stars, to stay in touch with their fans, can be applied to any business. It's about being the rock star in your industry, and understanding that everything is show business and finding your spot at center stage.

For me, the power of the book is its motivational quality. Dayna Steele is passionate about her career, and that love of life sparkles on every page. Fans of the rock bands, whose stories are included in the book, will enjoy the personal superstar vignettes; each one containing some valuable business lessons.

The book has a crucial practical element demonstrating the use of technology, marketing, and networking to boost a company's success. Dayna Steele also points out the importance of family time, and of thanking those around you for their help in building your success. As an added bonus, I enjoyed how each chapter sub-title was the title of a classic rock song that tied into the chapter's business advice. The songs also help to absorb and remember the business lessons.

I highly recommend Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars by Dayna Steele, to anyone who is passionate about their business and their career success. The advice presented, in an extremely entertaining format, makes the book a delight to read. There's nothing like learning business to the sounds of classic rock songs.

Read Rock To The Top: What I Learned About Success From The World's Greatest Rock Stars by Dayna Steele, and bring out the inner rock star success in your business career. Rock on!

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Peter Block: Community - The Structure Of Belonging - Blog Business Success Radio

Partner in Designed Learning, and author of the landmark book
Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block shares ideas for community building from fragmented societies into cohesive ones where all citizens can achieve their full potential as people. He shares ideas on how to develop the community based leadership to begin that community transformation.

Peter Block is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, August 5, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Partner in Designed Living, and author of the landmark book
Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block shares ideas for community building from fragmented societies into cohesive ones. You will learn:

* Why communities are fragmented and how various sectors work against one another

* How to build a community based on inclusion and belonging

* How to develop local leadership and grassroots based ideas

* The steps toward transforming a society to one based on accountability

Peter Block (photo left) is an author, consultant and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. His work is about empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, and the reconciliation of community.

Peter is the author of several best-selling books. The most widely known are Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used (1st edition 1980, 2nd edition 1999); Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest (1993) and The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work (1987).

Peter is the recipient of the first place 2004 Members’ Choice Award by the Organization Development Network, which recognized Flawless Consulting as the most influential book for OD practitioners over the past 40 years.

Peter's latest book,
Community: The Structure of Belonging, arrived in bookstores May 2008.

The books are about ways to create workplaces and communities that work for all. They offer an alternative to the patriarchal beliefs that dominate our culture. His work is to bring change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than through mandate and force.

He is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed by Peter to build the skills outlined in his books. He received a Masters Degree in Industrial Administration from Yale University in 1963; he performed his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas.

Peter serves on the Boards of Directors of Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, Elementz and InkTank. He is on the Advisory Board for the Festival in the Workplace Institute, Bahamas. He is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University.

As a citizen of Cincinnati, he is currently involved in projects focusing on people on the margin and supports the Urban Opportunities Alliance, a cooperative group of six efforts to value the possibility of youth and families in Cincinnati. With other volunteers, Peter began A Small Group, whose work is to bring into conversation other groups not in relationship with each other, through the powerful tools of civic engagement.

He has received national awards for outstanding contributions in the field of training and development, including the American Society for Training and Development Award for Distinguished Contributions; the Association for Quality and Participation President’s Award; and Training Magazine HRD Hall of Fame.

Peter's office is in Mystic, Connecticut.

My book review of Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.

To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with Partner in Designed Living, and author of the landmark book
Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block as he shares ideas for community building from fragmented societies into cohesive ones where all citizens can achieve their full potential as people. He shares ideas on how to develop the community based leadership to begin that community transformation on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Community: The Structure Of Belonging by Peter Block - Book review

Community

The Structure of Belonging

By: Peter Block

Published: May 1, 2008
ISBN: 9781576754870
Format: Hardcover, 216pp
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub

Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence, writes Peter Block in his landmark book
Community: The Structure of Belonging. Understanding the sense of isolation that grips many members of a fragmenting community, Peter Block offers a positive and practical grassroots based solution for building on a community's existing strengths, for a stronger tomorrow.

Peter Block challenges the existing paradigms surrounding community building, whether it's the size of a local neighbourhood, an entire city, or even on a national or global scale. Instead of looking at community, and seeing the best of all possible worlds, the author's experienced eye recognizes possibilities for a brighter future. At the same time, Peter Block doesn't accept the status quo and the conventional wisdom surrounding leadership and change. Marginalized members of communities should be recognized and welcomed, for the abundant and unrecognized gifts and talents they bring to a community, instead of labeled for their alleged deficiencies.

Peter Block (photo left) presents a practical alternative to the current retribution and entitlement based society. He recognizes that the mainstream belief system is limiting in its approach and in its outlook for the future. In its place, Peter Block offers a community based system that places emphasis on empowering citizens to implement change based on inclusiveness and accountability.

No longer is it enough to leave communities stuck in treating the symptoms of community breakdown. In its place, the author proposes a solution that restores the language of healing, belonging, and relatedness to the conversation. In this paradigm, the individual chooses accountability and personal responsibility for the community instead of having only a sense of entitlement.

For me, the power of the book is its positive and practical message for community building, through personal empowerment. Peter Block shares ideas and techniques for building a community based on inclusiveness, and the understanding that every member of that formerly fragmented society possesses unique gifts and talents.

Instead of concentrating on what a person or the community supposedly lacks, Peter Block recognizes that the supposedly apparent problems, are only symptoms of the deeper issue of the breakdown of the community. The book offers ideas for healing and rebuilding the community into a healthy society by getting the right people together in the right way.

I highly recommend the powerful and empowering
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block, to anyone who is serious about community redevelopment through personal empowerment and accountability. The book is for anyone who is willing to take the leap of faith beyond dependence on politicians and traditional leaders, and build their own community that recognizes the human value and contribution of all of its residents.

Read
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block, and instead of seeing problems and deficiencies, you will recognize potential, and opportunities for transformation to a restorative society of belonging, based on possibilities, generosity, and gifts.

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