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Download and listen-on-the-go to the 13th 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 12 are under “Resources” below).

Download and listen on-the-go as Scott and I pair two books that, taken together, reflect our theme for this week:  How mindset (and not talent) enables us to overcome challenges and respond to emerging opportunities.

You’ll gain insights on:

* Originals – How Non-conformists Move the World  by Adam Grant –  What it takes to become a successful “trailblazer”

* Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth – How grit can be learned regardless of IQ or circumstances

* Four immediately useful ideas we’ve developed to apply these concepts to yourself and your teams

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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 Originals:

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 12th 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 11 are under “Resources” below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with returning guest Jim Blasingame, “The Small Business Advocate”, about how small and large businesses can more effectively collaborate to create maximum customer value.

Jim is the author of the best-selling book The Age of the Customer®—Prepare for the Moment of Relevance.  He is also the creator and award-winning host of the nationally syndicated weekday radio program, The Small Business Advocate Show® with Jim Blasingame. [Read more about Jim below]

You’ll gain insights about:

* Emerging trends in strategic partnering between smaller companies and larger companies

* How smaller companies can create a higher level of strategic relationship with larger partners

* Three actionable tips for increasing the effectiveness of large-company / small-company partnering

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About Jim Blasingame

Jim Blasingame, one of the world’s foremost experts on small business and entrepreneurship, is the creator and award-winning host of The Small Business Advocate® Show, the world’s only weekday radio talk show dedicated to small business, nationally syndicated since 1997. As of October 2015, his third book, The Age of the Customer® (2014) has sold over 60,000 copies.

Google ranks Jim as the #1 small business expert in the world. As a high-energy keynote speaker, Jim talks to small business audiences about how to compete in the 21st-century global marketplace, and he talks with large companies about how to speak small business as a second language. Read more about Jim Blasingame.

Resources for this Episode:

* Download the report of our study, “Building POWERFUL Strategic Alliances: How Companies of All Sizes Can Increase Their ROI“

* Download “5 Questions To Ask When You Need to Move Even Faster”

* Learn about Jim Blasingame’s book and special offers at The Age of the Customer®

* Learn More about The Small Business Advocate® Show, with Jim Blasingame

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

Download and listen-on-the-go to the 11th 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 10 are under “Resources” below).

This week we’re featuring our conversation with Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and author of the best-selling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better (see bio below).

Smarter Faster Better draws on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics –  as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters.

You’ll gain insights on:

* The underlying principle connecting what it takes to maintain focus, make smarter decisions and increase innovation

* Stories that show how the most productive people view their world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways

* Three immediately actionable tips for being more productive in life and business

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About Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and author of best-selling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he has been a frequent contributor or guest on The Colbert Report, NPR’s This American Life, Frontline, and other programs. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Alter) Read More about Charles Duhigg

Resources for This Episode

* Read about Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

* Read about The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

* 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)

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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,