Download and listen-on-the-go to the 10th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 9 are under “Resources” below).

This week Scott and I pair two complementary books that, taken together, touch on different aspects of our theme for this episode: how to win in the digital age.

You’ll gain insights about:

* The birth and dramatic growth of AOL, and predictions about the Internet of Everything: The Third Wave by Steve Case

* How to increase your ability to take risks, fall, and persevere: Rising Strong by social scientist and TED Global speaker Brené Brown

* Immediately useful ideas from these two books to chart and persist on your own growth journey

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About Us

Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.

Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions in companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.

Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.

D. Scott Harper, Ph.D., is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.

Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

Resources for This Episode

* Read about Rising Strong by Brené Brown

* Read about

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 9th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 8 are under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with Ken Lizotte, Chief Imaginative Officer of Emerson Consulting Group, about the winning edge that comes to CEOs who strategically share their stories.  Emerson Consulting Group helps clients elevate themselves as thought leaders and separate themselves from the competitive pack.

Ken is the author of seven books, including The Speaker’s Edge: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Locating and Landing Lots of Speaking Gigs, and The Experts Edge. He has been interviewed by a variety of media, including:  The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Financial Times, and Investors’ Business Daily  (see more below)

You’ll gain insights on:

* What every CEO needs to know about emerging trends for executive speakers

* Selecting the venues that are most suited to achieving your objectives

* Three immediately useful ideas for shaping and getting speaking engagements to provide the most value for your audience, for you, and for your company

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About Ken Lizotte

Ken Lizotte is Chief Imaginative Officer of Emerson Consulting Group Incorporated. and his team focus on helping clients elevate themselves as thought leaders and separate themselves from the competitive pack.

A thoughtleader in his own right, Ken is the author of seven books, including The Speaker’s Edge: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Locating and Landing Lots of Speaking Gigs, and The Exerts Edge. He has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Financial Times, Investors’ Business Daily, National Public Radio, CBS-TV, Writer’s Digest Magazine, The Boston Globe, to name just a few. He has published hundreds of articles including blogs and columns for the American Management Association and Boston Magazine. He’s also a co-founder of the National Writers Union. Read more about Ken Lizotte

Resources for This Episode

* Read about Ken’s book, The Speaker’s Edge: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Locating and Landing Lots of Speaking Gigs

* Read about Ken’s book, The Ex...

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 8th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 7 are under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with Karen Tiber Leland about shaping your CEO brand for greatest impact. Karen is Founder & President of Sterling Marketing Group, a branding and marketing strategy and implementation firm. Clients include AT&T, American Express, Marriott Hotels, Apple Computer, LinkedIn, Twitter and others.

Karen is the best-selling author of ten business books. Her most recent book is The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design, Build and Accelerate Your Brand. She writes a monthly marketing and branding column for Entrepreneur.com.  She is also a frequent guest of the media, and has been interviewed on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC and more.  (Read more below)

You’ll gain insights on:

* Myths and misconceptions about CEO branding

* A strategy to actively design your CEO brand

* Immediately useful ideas to get the most from your CEO brand

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About Karen Tiber Leland

Karen Tiber Leland is President of Sterling Marketing Group, a branding and marketing strategy and implementation firm. Her company focuses on helping CEO’s, executives and entrepreneurs develop stronger personal, business and team brands. Clients include AT&T, American Express, Marriott Hotels, Apple Computer, LinkedIn, Twitter and others.

Karen is the best-selling author of ten business books and writes a monthly marketing and branding column for Entrepreneur.com. Her most recent book is The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design, Build and Accelerate Your Brand.

Karen speaks for a wide variety of groups including the Young Presidents’ Organization, American Management Association, and Direct Marketing Association. Karen is a frequent guest of the media and has been interviewed for her career and workplace advice on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC and Oprah. Read More about Karen Tiber Leland

Resources for This Episode

* Read about Karen’s latest book — The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design Build and Accelerate Your Brand,

* Read Karen’s blog

* Brandfog Survey: The Global, Social CEO

* Listen to previous episodes of our special summer series on “Being the Disrupter and Not the Disrupted”:

* Pam Harper & Scott Harper:

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 7th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 6 under Resources below).

This week we’re discussing two pairs of complementary books (four books in total) that touch on different aspects of our theme for this episode: what it takes to inspire resilience and bounce back from adversity.

In this episode, you’ll find out about: 

* The importance of your purpose as a guiding force: Start with Why and Do the Kind Thing

* Communicating in a way that connects with others and inspires action: Steal The Show and Daring Greatly

* Immediately useful ideas for applying concepts from all four of these books

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Pamela S. Harper is the Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., a strategic growth advisory firm based in Glen Rock, NJ. For more than 20 years, Pam has applied her gift for finding the hidden opportunities in every situation to helping clients in entrepreneurial, mid-market, and Fortune 500 companies across 30 industries create hundreds of millions of dollars of value in both top and bottom line growth.

Prior to founding BAI, Pam skyrocketed into the ranks of management by taking a progressive series of newly created organizational development positions is companies ranging from mid-market to Fortune 500 across multiple industries, all undergoing dramatic change and growth.

Pam has been quoted in, featured in, or written articles for prominent business media including Business Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Chiefexecutive.net, CEO.com and other major media. Her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock, has been used as a text in universities around the world.

D. Scott Harper, Ph.D.,  is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. Throughout his career Scott has devoted himself to understanding why things work the way they do, and how to apply those insights to create new value. Scott helps clients sift through complexity and take full advantage of opportunities by discovering the hidden side of everything.

Before joining BAI in 2010, Scott held a succession of increasingly accountable innovation positions in the consumer healthcare industry. Since then, he has been published and quoted in prominent business media outlets including Chief Executive Magazine, CEO.com, CEO World Magazine, and the IndUS Business Journal.

Resources for This Episode

* Read about Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek

* Read about Do the KIND Thing: Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately,

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 6th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 5 are under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with best-selling author Whitney Johnson, the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. 

Whitney and her work have been covered in The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, the Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and other media. (see Whitney’s bio below).

Find out:

* What it means to embrace the power of your constraints

* How constraints improve decision making

* Three immediately useful ideas for turning constraints of all kinds to your advantage

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About Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption, and is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. She co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst for eight consecutive years, including at Merrill Lynch. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and is also the author of the book Dare, Dream Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (2012).

Whitney has been widely recognized for her contributions, including being named a Future Thinker Finalist by management Thinkers50 in 2013, and was one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. Whitney is also the co-founder of the Forty Over 40 list, recognizing women who are reinventing, disrupting, and making an impact. Find out more about Whitney Johnson.

Resources for This Episode

* Listen to our conversation with Whitney in Episode 41: Disrupt Yourself: A Powerful Idea For Succeeding in Unexpected Ways

* Find out more about Disrupt Yourself  — order on Amazon.com

* Read Whitney Jonson’s articles in Harvard Business Review

* Listen to previous episodes of our special summer series on “Being the Disrupter and Not the Disrupted”:

* Pam Harper & Scott Harper:

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 5th of 14 special episodes

What does it take to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? This series of special episodes provides clues. Scott and I are featuring our discussions about best-selling business books as well as our conversations with world-class business authors. (Links for Episodes 1 through 4 under Resources below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with Ron Friedman, Ph.D. about creating an extraordinary workplace.

Ron is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. He’s also the author of the best-selling book  The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace. Ron is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Forbes, and CNN (see bio below).

You’ll gain insights on:

* Three essential needs that people of every age require from their workplace in order to collaborate, solve complex problems, make bold decisions, and take new actions

* What video gaming can teach us about becoming an extraordinary workplace

* Three immediately actionable ideas for creating the best place to work

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About Ron Friedman

Ron Friedman is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. He has served on the faculty of the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and has consulted for some of the world’s most successful organizations.

Popular accounts of his research have appeared on NPR and in major newspapers, including The New York Times, Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, Washington Post, The Guardian, as well as magazines such as Men’s Health, Entrepreneur, and Success.

Ron is also the author of a highly-acclaimed new book called The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace. He is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Forbes, and CNN. Read More about Ron Friedman

Resources for This Episode

* Read about The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

* Listen to previous episodes of our special summer series on “Being the Disrupter and Not the Disrupted”:

* Pam Harper & Scott Harper: Pam & Scott’s Book Pairing for Thinking Differently (Episode B-1)

* Guest Terence Mauri: Winning in the Age of Disruption: Secrets of the Leader’s Mindset (Episode B-2)

* Guest Judith E.