The Great Successful People

The ‘Great Successful People’ program gives you access to over twelve hours of practical and inspirational advice from 16 very successful business owners, (who have created $billions of wealth between them) they are:

• Allan Leighton - Chairman of Royal Mail Group and author of the book, On Leadership.


• Ben Casnocha - founded Comcate, Inc., an e-government software company, at age 14 and author of the book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley.


• Cameron Johnson - who started his first business at the age of nine and author of the book, You Call The Shots.


• Christine Comaford-Lynch - is the CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She is the author of the book Rules for Renegades.


• Donald Latumahina - is the owner and creator of the hugely popular personal-development blog, Life Optimizer.


• GL Hoffman - CEO and Chairman of JobDig, an employment media company. He is a serial entrepreneur and a new venture investor.


• Jacob Share - Jacob Share is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a company focused on empowering quality bloggers.


• John Kotter - Harvard Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change and he has been rated the #1 “leadership guru” in America.


• Leon Ho - Leon Ho used to be a Manager of Software Engineering at Red Hat. He founded Lifehack.org in 2005, a blog on productivity and personal development.


• Penelope Trunk - the author of the phenomenally successful blog and book Brazen Careerist.


• Phil Gerbyshak - is the author of the highly acclaimed book 10 Ways to Make It Great!


• Peter Nicholas - is one of the UK’s leading acting and confidence coaches.


• Rebecca Thorman - is the Executive Director of a young professional organization whose mission is to attract and retain young talent and leadership.


• Robert Ashton - is an entrepreneur and author of The Entrepreneur’s Book of Checklists.


• Scot Herrick - is the creator of the popular Management and Career blog, cuberules.com.


• Steve Denning - is the author of the acclaimed books, The Secret Language of Leadership and The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling.
  

I’ve not hand chance to listen to all of them so far, but the ones I’ve listened to have been inspiring. If you’d like to hear what they have to say, visit Great Successful People.

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Entrepreneur Journeys by Sramana Mitra

Entrepreneur Journeys is a collection of interviews that Sramana Mitra has conducted with the entrepreneurs. The interviews are grouped together under a common theme and given a brief introduction. Some of the interviews provide an insight into business opportunities that could compete (in part) with Google, which is interesting to read as they certainly need some credible competition.

Sramana Mitra is a Frobes columnist, a technology entrepreneur and a Silicon Valley strategy consultant. She has founded three businesses and runs her own business blog Sramana Mitra on Strategy. This book is labelled Volume.1 so it looks like she intends to be a regular author as well.

Reading Entrepreneur Journeys will give you an insight into the lives of a number of entrepreneurs and their businesses. Not surprisingly given her background most of the entrepreneurs are technology focused and based in the USA which limits the relevance for those of us based elsewhere or which an interest is less technology focused businesses.

It’s an interesting book if, like me, you enjoy reading entrepreneurs stories, however it would have benefited from more analysis rather than being a collection of transcribed interviews.

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