Business Bookshelf

Episode 154 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Sean Dowdell - co-author of "Brand Renegades: Our Fearless Path from Startup to Global Brand". 

Sean is known as the Tattooed Millionaire, which is also the title of his first book (2017). In addition to his role as founder and CEO of Club Tattoo, he is a drummer with Grey Daze. He’s a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences and has been featured in Entrepreneur, GQ, Billboard, and on CNBC, A&E and more. Thora Dowdell, the co-author, was formerly in marketing and sales before becoming a business partner with Sean, initially in the music recording industry and later in Club Tattoo.

Sean is the co-author of “Brand Renegades: Our Fearless Path from Startup to Global Brand”.  Brand Renegades shows readers how to develop a non-traditional success formula to disrupt and innovate their industry.  Readers will learn how to:

The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3eR0FB9.

You can find the website of Club Tattoo at https://clubtattoo.com.

Contact the host of the podcast Lance Peppler @ [email protected].

Episode 153 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - David Buckmaster - Author of "Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses".

David is an expert on pay. He has led corporate compensation teams at companies like Nike, Starbucks, and Yum! Brands, and worked with business leaders on pay projects all over the world.

David is the author of the book “Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses”.  The book takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.  The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3kpTmE7.

You can find his website at www.davidbuckmasterbooks.com.

The host of the podcast is Lance Peppler.  Email him at [email protected].

Episode 152 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Patrick Burke - Author of "The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes: And How To Avoid Them".  

Patrick is the managing partner of Burke & Schindler, CPAs, a firm he founded in 1984. Burke is a respected expert in business acquisitions and sales, deal structuring, value building, and succession planning.

Currently, he is Chairman of the board of directors of a closely held $70 million medical consulting company and board member (including chairman of the audit and compensation committees) of a closely held $500 million real estate services business and holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Patrick is the author of “The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes: And How To Avoid Them”.  Although experience is the best teacher, it's also the most costly. Learning business lessons the hard way, through your own mistakes, often results in significant downturns or even failure. Business success doesn't require a fabulous new product or service (doesn't hurt, though) but does require avoiding the big mistakes. I made most of these big mistakes myself and barely lived to tell about it. So please do as I say and not as I did.  The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3AIcPWh.

You can find the website for Burke & Schindler at www.burkecpa.com host is LAnce P.e

The host is Lance Peppler - email him at [email protected].

Episode 151 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Helen Yu - Author of "Ascend Your Start-Up:  Conquer the 5 Disconnects to Accelerate Growth". 

Helen is passionate about the voice of the customer to deliver game-changing digital transformations. As a customer success executive, $100M plus P&L owner, board member and advisor, she drives profitable growth for global players in the tech, eCommerce, telecom, manufacturing, insurance, FinTech and healthcare markets.

Helen is the author of the book “Ascend Your Start-Up: Conquer the 5 Disconnects to Accelerate Growth”.  The book is an industry-defining panacea for start-ups who have stalled out on their journey to the top of the mountain.  You will learn Industry-specific, highly experienced advice for tech start-ups, fundamental wisdom on the 5 disconnects that prevent a start-up from ascending, turning an idea into a product and moving it to the market, taking a marketed product to scale and inspirational guidance for tech start-ups facing the emotions and challenges of growing.  The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3ydOF3W.

You can find the website for Tigon Advisory Corp website is www.tigonadvisory.com.

You can contact the host Lance Peppler by emailing [email protected].

Episode 150 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Pamela Hackett - Author of "Manage to Engage: How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results" 

Pamela Hackett is on a quest to help companies and their teams build businesses that are both fit and healthy - productive and engaged. Leaders can make their numbers and have people who love coming to work. It starts with them. How they manage to engage.

Manage to Engage: How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results is a compendium of ideas and resources that will fill the engagement gap, allowing us to focus on what matters-- our people--to create true advantage.

Pamela has loved working for Proudfoot for 35 years. She started as a front-line consultant in the international operations consulting firm and is now CEO.

Pamela is the author of the book “Manage to Engage: How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results”.  The book provides leaders with a practical, business-proven approach for building stronger organizational ecosystems that achieve exceptional results and long-term prosperity. Packed with innovative tools and exercises that can be immediately applied in any management setting, in-person or virtually, this invaluable guide shows you how to create a movement of energized and enabled people who are truly engaged in their work.   The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/2U0iyGe.

You can find the website for the book here - www.pamelahackett.com and the Proudfoot website is www.proudfoot.com.

You can contact the host Lance Peppler by emailing [email protected].

Episode 149 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Mark Herschberg - Author of "The Career Toolkit"  The podcast can be found here.

Mark is a seasoned executive and cybersecurity expert who can bridge the divide between business and technology. He has started, grown, and fixed startup companies spanning 10 different verticals as well as helped two Fortune 500 companies with their internal startup initiatives.  He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT's "career success accelerator," where he teaches annually

Mark is the author of the book “The Career Toolkit”.  Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning—all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills?  The Career Toolkit will help you master these vital skills and yield outsized returns for your career and your income. Every chapter is packed with dozens of actionable principles, exercises, and practices that will accelerate your success. It’s a multivitamin for your career!   The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3iSkXNA.

You can find the website for the book can be found here - www.thecareertoolkitbook.com.

You can contact the the host Lance Peppler at [email protected].

Episode 148 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Steve Shallenberger - Co-author of "Do What Matters Most: Lead with a Vision, Manage with a Plan, and Prioritize Your Time".  

Steve is the Founder and Chairman of Becoming Your Best Global Leadership, a company based on his breakthrough book, Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders. Becoming Your Best produces transformational leadership, which in turn builds cultures of excellence, which produce high performance individuals and organizations that are at the top of what they do.

Steve is the co-author of “Do What Matters Most: Lead with a Vision, Manage with a Plan, and Prioritize Your Time”.  Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the three powerful habits that will help you minimize distractions, maximize accomplishments, and find time to do what matters most.

Drawing on their forty years of leadership research, this book offers three powerful habits that that will help people and teams do what matters most. These three high performance habits are developing a written personal vision, identifying and setting Roles and Goals, and consistently doing Pre-week Planning. People who live these three habits can increase productivity by at least 30 to 50 percent, while reducing stress. For organizations, this means higher profits, happier employees, and increased innovation. For individuals, it means better physical and mental health, stronger relationships, and a greater sense of peace and balance.   The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3vcKweM

You can find website for Becoming you Best here - www.becomingyourbest.com.

You can email the host Lance Peppler at [email protected] or visit www.businessbookshelfpodcast.com.

Episode 147 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Jon Levy - Author of "You're Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence".  

Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, networking, and adventure. He does research in collaboration with C-Lab, affiliated with Kellogg School of Management. Levy specializes in applying the latest scientific research on human behavior, ranging from neuroscience and psychology to economics and biology, to transform the ways companies approach marketing, sales, consumer engagement, product design, and influencer program development.

Jon is the author of the book “You're Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence”. Regardless of what you want to accomplish, from growing your business, creating a great company culture, championing a social cause, or affecting your habits, you can’t do it alone. The people around you define your success (whatever that means for you) and they have the potential to change the course of your life.

That’s what You’re Invited is about: The most universal strategy for success is creating meaningful connections with those who can impact you, your life, and the things you care about. But how do you make those connections and build trust quickly? What do you do if you’re introverted or hate networking?

In You’re Invited, Jon guides readers through the art and science of creating deep and meaningful connections with anyone, regardless of their stature or celebrity, and demonstrates how we develop influence, gain trust, and build community so that we can impact our communities and achieve what’s important to us.   The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/3iiNawr.

You can find Jon's website here - www.jonlevytlb.com.  An excellent article to read that Jon wrote titled "The hybrid workplace probably won’t last" can be found here - www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/09/opinion/hybrid-workplace-probably-wont-last.

The email address of Lance Peppler, the host, is [email protected] and the website is www.businessbookshelfpodcast.com.

Episode 146 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Donald F. White - Author of "Always End with the Beginning in Mind".

Donald F. White is the founder of Treasure Coast Financial in Stuart, FL and succeeded as CEO in 2020. His company grew 21% after exiting. He is the author of two audio series entitled "Legacy Planning" and "Building a Great Business". For over 20 years, Don’s daily radio broadcast, God’s Money, was heard on WAY-FM in South Florida and on the Internet worldwide.

Donald is the author of “Always End with the Beginning in Mind: How Firms Remain Great AFTER the Founder Exits”. People love to talk about Succession Planning, but few ever accomplish the task. The numbers are staggering. The US Department of Labor Statistics tell us after one year in business, 20% of new businesses in America fail, but after 20 years only about 20% of those same businesses will have survived. Of those who survive, less than 20% will continue to a second generation! Most businesses have a cessation plan (a plan that leads to a business ceasing to exist), while very few have succession plans (a plan that leads to a business not only continuing, but thriving after the founder exits).

In "Always End with the Beginning in Mind", Donald takes you on a journey that resulted in a successful business continuation, and will give a founder of a business the steps necessary for a succession plan to actually succeed. A well-thought out and properly executed Succession Plan is a classic win-win. It is a win for the company, namely the clients and staff who are able to enjoy continuity after the founder's exit. It is a win for the successor, who is able to build on the success of the founder. Finally, it is a win for the founder, who is able to exit on their own volition and see what they have built continue to prosper for years to come.  The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/2R3B7YW.

You can find Donald's website here - www.donaldfwhite.com.

Episode 145 of the Dr Nirit Weiss-Blatt - Author of "The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication".

Nirit is a former Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her specialty is in the tech news field.

Nirit is the author of the book “The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication”.  This book provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of tech journalism. The emerging tech-backlash is a story of pendulum swings: We are currently in tech-dystopianism after a long period spent in tech-utopianism. Tech companies were used to "cheerleading" coverage of product launches. This long tech-press honeymoon ended, and was replaced by a new era of mounting criticism focused on tech's negative impact on society. When and why did tech coverage shift? How did tech companies respond to the rise of tech criticism?  The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/34jJ7YH.

You can read Dr Nirit Weiss-Blatt's blog here - www.weiss-blatt.blogspot.com.