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If you haven’t had to deal with a horrible boss, consider yourself lucky. 75 percent of people say their boss is the worst part of their job. But according to leadership expert Kyle M.K., toxic bosses—or “brilliant jerks—are about to go extinct.

“In the last thirty years, most businesses were built by people recognized simultaneously as geniuses and jerks, like Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick,” says Kyle in his new book The Economics of Emotion. “But the world is a different place now. Stories and emotion travel at the speed of social networks, and the brilliant jerk persona is becoming an obsolete leadership model.”

In an engaging and thought-provoking interview, Kyle can discuss:

Fish rot from the head: Why one brilliant jerk creates a toxic workplace culture

Why emotionally intelligent leaders are more successful—and how to become one

Purpose is Power: How organizations can create a motivating and meaningful purpose, and why this goes beyond simply making money

Fear Factor: Why many leaders tend to misunderstand and misuse fear

Successful tactics for establishing a culture of hard-working, loyal people—from the hiring and onboarding processes to maintaining overall happiness

Please let me know if you’re interested in speaking with Kyle and/or receiving a copy of his new book, The Economics of Emotion. Thanks for your time, James. I look forward to hearing from you.

John Milkovic

• Best-selling Author

• Business Expert

• Speaker

Michelle is the Founder and President of Seiler Tucker/Capital Business Solutions. Michelle has sold over 350 businesses to date and currently owns and operates several successful businesses. Michelle Seiler-Tucker holds the following professional designations and certifications: The Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI), Certified Senior Business Analyst (CSBA), Certified Business Broker (CBB), Best-Selling Author, and Panelist for M&A Source.

Michelle Seiler-Tucker is the leading authority on buying, selling, and improving businesses, as well as increasing a business’ revenue streams. Over the past decade Michelle has sold several hundred businesses and franchises. She continues to help buyers from all walks of life buy the American Dream, create financial freedom, be their own boss, and obtain a better quality of life.

What makes Michelle a formidable force in her industry is that she closes nearly 99 percent of all offers she writes and, on average, obtains a 20 to 40 percent higher selling price for her clients! Her remarkable track record proves her dedication and persistence. Michelle makes sure the job gets done the right way and the profitable way. Her numbers are impressive, but it is her ability to create win-win situations for her buyers and sellers that guarantees her continued success. Michelle’s mission is to always deliver more than is expected and to increase the odds of more businesses selling for the seller’s desired sell price. She sees opportunity where many are discouraged or have given up by identifying and correcting the top mistakes business owners make. Michelle will fine tune a business into a “well-oiled machine” with the primary objective to sell it for the ultimate value. Through this process, she empowers her clients to afford the lifestyles they have always dreamed of and most importantly deserve!

In addition, Michelle is the award winning and best-selling author of Sell Your Business for More Than It’s Worth, which details how to enhance the value of a business in order to obtain its optimal selling price. Michelle has received rave reviews from her esteemed colleagues: Bret Michaels (musician, Celebrity Appetence winner), James M. Lafferty (CEO the Coca Cola Company), Dr. John Gray (New York Times Best Selling Author), Raymond Aaron (New York Times Best Selling Author), and Steven Bradbury (Gold Medal Olympian). In her second bestseller, Think a

There are six million open jobs in America right now, with no one qualified to fill them…that number will grow to eleven million unfilled jobs by 2025. These are high paying jobs that don’t require a college degree, highlighting the national skills gap between what today’s employers need and what today’s job seekers have. How can we close this skills gap when schools are laser focused on getting students to college, instead of ready for a job or career?

Mark Perna is CEO of TFS Results and an extremely popular public speaker at corporations around the world on increasing productivity and employee retention. His new book, ANSWERING WHY (Greenleaf Press, September 2018) outlines his wide experience on how to transform the approach job seekers young and old take when preparing for careers. He points to examples that show how America’s branch is creaking, from the college debt epidemic to a misaligned education system, and how in times past the creaking branches and national crises of WWII and Sputnick spurred high-tech innovations that solved issues we couldn’t previously tackle. This national crisis also underlines the overall problem of an awareness gap that today’s students have about the multitude of careers and education paths that don’t necessarily follow the traditional route of a college degree in order to secure a career.

During interviews, author Mark Perna would discuss:

--The growing skills gap and how to close it

--The awareness gap of potential careers in extremely high demand that don’t need a college degree, but do require hard skills

--The Career Tree that was crafted by over 150 professional educators that show students and parents hundreds and thousands of jobs available, all with unique training or education requirements that don’t need an expensive 4-year college degree

--How many young people don’t want the types of jobs their parents or grandparents had, and what to do about that

--Who college and the pursuit of a 4-year degree is right for and how to make that work instead of being an expensive piece of paper

ANSWERING WHY helps unlock the potential of today’s young people and job seekers of all types, while delivering hard-won experience about how anyone can achieve their goals and make a difference in this world.

Speak with Mark Perna for an entertaining and engaging look at how to bridge the awareness and skills gaps and change America’s course from falling behind the rest of the world to once again take the lea

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