“We’re excited to share our hard-won perspectives and everything we’ve learned in our journey about how to navigate adversity no matter where you are in life,” Amber said. “It will help you find joy in the journey, no matter what roadblocks may come your way, and gain valuable insights with every episode.”   

The podcast will be available across platforms, including iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora and Soundcloud. 

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Blog / The 360 Blog for C-Suite
Salesforce

As the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) software, Salesforce helps businesses track customer interactions and sales data. So it’s no surprise that the brand is also a thought leader in the business world, publishing key insights on their popular site, The 360 Blog. Posts aimed at the C-Suite cover timely subjects like leading through change, the future of work and incorporating data into your business strategy to drive performance. You can also sign up for Salesforce’s free newsletter to have targeted content sent straight to your inbox.

Book / Collaboration Is the New Competition
by Priscilla McKinney

Since complex business issues can be solved faster and more efficiently as a team, collaboration is displacing competition as an avenue to success. In her groundbreaking book, Collaboration Is the New Competition, author Priscilla McKinney explains how to create the ideal environment for strategic collaboration; establish rules of engagement; decrease frustration; and amplify wins.

AI Tool / Qloo

When launching your brand into new countries, it can be challenging to understand your new market. Qloo is a “privacy-first cultural AI” that decodes global consumer taste—which provides businesses with predictions to help customize products and marketing assets to each culture’s wants and needs. The platform has a deep understanding of over 575 million cultural trends and preferences, including brands, media, travel and more. Detailed compound queries on demographics, psychographics and buying patterns to improve international expansion and customer experiences.

BOOK / The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today
by Lewis Howes

Mindset is everything—but that’s easy to forget as a new entrepreneur struggling with impostor syndrome. Using science-based strategies, personal stories and a step-by-step approach, best-selling author Lewis Howes helps readers make a mental paradigm shift in his book, The Greatness Mindset. Through defining a mission to enhance purpose; identifying root causes of fear; ending self-sabotaging thoughts; and manifesting greatness, Howes can help your field design the life of their dreams.

Website / Psychology Junkie
Susan Storm

While personality tests like Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or Enneagram are helpful in self-discovery, applying the results of these personality tests in the office can give your organization an edge. The Psychology Junkie website provides free tests to help you discover your results—but more importantly—the site hosts a treasure trove of meaningful content to help you understand the meaning and application of your results. The Psychology Junkie offers fascinating articles to help you hire, train, lead, communicate with and understand your team in new and effective ways.

Podcast / Selling Made Simple and Salesman Podcast
Salesman.com

Looking for personal development on the go? Most episodes of Selling Made Simple have an average runtime of 4-15 minutes, making it the perfect learning tool for even the busiest entrepreneur. Host Will Baron teaches how to find buyers and win business using modern, effective, ethical strategies. Popular episodes discuss crafting the perfect elevator pitch; reducing anxiety; understanding your prospects; and closing the sale.

From the January/February 2024 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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One recent episode took this to the next level—and we wanted to make sure DSN’s readers had a chance to engage with this incredibly valuable information. Wayne was joined by a trio of industry experts: Paul Adams, Owner of Adams Resource Group; Bridgehead Collective Founder and CEO Heather Chastain; and Brett Duncan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strategic Choice Partners.

Ever wonder what expert consultants think about the channel? These highlights unwrap that mystery, giving you and your teams priceless insights from the outside. Wayne and his guests took a deep dive into the secrets of direct selling success: key shifts in messaging; the challenges that legacy companies must navigate; identifying the channels most valuable differentiators; the magic of simplification; and the significance of the recent Neora win. They also looked inside the channel’s crystal ball to predict what the future might hold.

With decades of experience working in various roles with direct selling companies, and as leading consultants, their expertise provides an invaluable resource for all industry executives.

Key Shifts in Messaging

The consults agree: what the channel offers is something Young Millennials and Gen Z want. But it’s often packaged in a way that doesn’t resonate with them. Some of the key factors that this demographic is looking for include being able to monetize their influence on social, being a part of a community or movement and creating multiple streams of income. Sound familiar? What they don’t want is to build and manage a team. What’s inside the box remains enticing and relevant. It’s how the box is wrapped that has lost its charm. Promises of big money read as a scam—they are looking for multiple income streams and lower expectations for supplemental income.

Legacy Company Challenges

There exists within legacy companies a generational pull to not acknowledge or change to reflect the key shifts noted above. Direct selling must adapt to these changes or become irrelevant. It’s important to acknowledge that well-established field leaders found success doing things traditionally. It’s not realistic to expect them to embrace wholesale change without support and empathy. The work to facilitate this transition needs to come from the home office. It should be corporate’s role to steward this change by supporting established field leaders while still soliciting new ones. It’s also important for these established companies to own the often misguided and misleading messaging of the past and set more realistic expectations going forward.

Direct Selling’s Value Props

There is true alignment on what direct selling’s differentiators are. So what are the things that direct selling needs to lean into? Culture and community in the form of personal development, connection, mentorship and guidance. The channel has also taken huge strides in offering real products and services that people want. And sharing products with friends, family and followers is increasing in importance in purchasing decisions. Direct selling is the ultimate example of people selling to people in an authentic, organic way—free of gimmicks, scripts and pretension and full of genuine excitement and enthusiasm.

Keep It Simple

Customer experience continues to become more and more important as direct selling competes directly with DTC brands. The experience of onboarding also becomes more and more vital as aspiring entrepreneurs have multiple options on where to put their efforts. Direct selling tends to build unnecessary complexities into processes. The experts are united in their belief that those complexities come at a cost. There can be no extra steps, funnels or hoops to jump through. How to pay; how to join; how to get paid all must be streamlined and simplified.

What the Neora Ruling Really Means

The most important thing about the Neora ruling, according to the experts, was that it proves the model can be validated. The caveat to that is that if you aren’t doing the right things, this isn’t a victory for you. The Neora ruling will not lift regulatory scrutiny, but it will provide a blueprint for what companies need to achieve. Executives must familiarize themselves with the ruling and ask themselves the hard questions about whether their companies would hold up to the same scrutiny.

Future Forward

The group all agreed that more acquisitions and consolidations are on the horizon. They were also united in their opinion that FTC scrutiny will not be going away, and companies must make sure their values and practices align with the measuring stick provided in the Neora ruling. A final future insight was the need for companies to embrace the current culture and climate of change, including a laser focus on customer acquisition; offering real products with real value; and bringing new and younger people into the industry.

Listen to This!

We’ve just scratched the surface of the insights and insider tips shared in this episode. It’s an hour and a half you and your team simply can’t afford to miss. Listen to the episode in its entirety and to subscribe to Direct Approach and the full lineup of DSN podcasts.

From the December 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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Here’s OUR monthly top picks for you (and your field) for reading, listening to and utilizing in order to stay engaged, informed and one step ahead.

BOOK / Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
By Nir Eyal
What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? International best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices. Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.

PODCAST / HBR IdeaCast
By Harvard Business Review

A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management. Harvard Business Review covers important leadership topics in HBR IdeaCast. Financial, professional and psychological content mixes with CEO interviews for an intriguing blend. With featured topics such as the business origins of emotional intelligence and the looming impact of AI, this podcast keeps an eye on the future of business.

BLOG / The Counterintuitive CEO
By FORRESTER

The Counterintuitive CEO provides ideas, observations and analyses that help drive the success of other CEOs. Recent posts feature information on GenAI, revenue operations, open banking and low-code applications. Forrester helps business and technology leaders use customer obsession to accelerate growth. That means empowering you to put the customer at the center of everything you do: your leadership, strategy and operations.

VIDEO / TEDx Talk: “How to Multiply Your Time”
By Rory Vaden

Everything you know about time management is wrong. In this challenging and counter-intuitive video, self-discipline strategist and New York Times bestselling author, Rory Vaden, shows you why you can’t solve today’s time management challenges with yesterday’s time management strategies. More importantly he explains why procrastinating on purpose is the key to being able to multiply your time.

AUDIO BOOK / Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
By James Clear

New York Times bestselling author and expert James Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. In Atomic Habits, he draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Your team will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft.

APP / Descript

Nothing grabs potential customers more than a stylish, sleek and compelling video. Sometimes the ideas for exciting, innovative content come much easier than the ability to produce a professional looking video that captures the look and feel you are going for. That’s where Descript comes in. Descript is a simple, powerful and fun way to edit videos. It’s a great tool that will have your field writing, recording, transcribing, editing, collaborating and sharing videos and podcasts in no time!

From the November 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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WEBSITE / First Round Review
First Round knows a thing or two about turning startups into successful corporations and founders into skillful CEOs. First Round has gleaned a wealth of knowledge and shared it via First Round Review, a website committed to letting experts speak directly to the reader about their biggest business insights. Each article highlights strategies and tactics you can use to improve your company and career on topics such as self-awareness, scaling and product-market fit.

BOOK / Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results

By Rob Biesenbach

Everyone loves a good story. And while “storytelling” is a popular marketing buzzword, it also happens to be a powerful tool that can help you persuade, teach and inspire. In Unleash the Power of Storytelling, author Rob Biesenbach lays out a five-step roadmap for crafting your stories, plus six ways to ensure their relevance. It’s a “how-to” guide that will teach you scientific reasons why stories work, story structure, the role of emotion, delivery tips and much more.

COURSE / Full Focus Goal Setting Course

By Gary Chapman & Paul White

Now is the perfect time to get a jump on your goals for 2024. The Full Focus Goal Setting Course is a science-based, self-paced program designed to be completed in less than a week. With five lessons comprised of several short videos, you can do the course as you have time or in one sitting. Using the latest research in goal achievement, this system helps you define a clear path and follow exact steps to arrive at your destination—as Full Focus states it’s “like Google Maps for your goals.”

VIDEO / TEDx Talk: “You are Contagious”

By Vanessa Van Edwards

In this entertaining and informative TEDx Talk, interpersonal intelligence expert Vanessa Van Edwards explains how we as humans are contagious. From body language and tone of voice to emotions and energy, we rub off on others—whether we realize it or not. This means we have the power to influence how we’re perceived and how others feel when they’re around us. Van Edwards uses scientific studies to illustrate why this is so and how we can make a memorable, positive impact on those around us.

PODCAST / Every Day is Saturday Podcast

By Sam Crowley

“Daddy, is tomorrow Saturday?” When Sam Crowley’s young daughter asked this question, he realized she really meant, “Daddy, will you have time for me tomorrow?” Crowley quit the corporate grind to spend more time with family and pursue his passions. As an executive turned coach, speaker and author, Crowley’s biggest project has been his prolific podcast, Every Day is Saturday, which inspires listeners to have the best day ever. Since launching in 2006, it has achieved over 20 million downloads!

INFLUENCER / Victor Antonio

Rated as one of America’s Best Sales Speakers in 2023, Victor Antonio is also an author and founder of Sales Velocity Academy. He puts his experience as an international trainer to work by pumping out an impressive stream of content—most notably via his YouTube channel, which hosts educational podcasts, trainings and live streams…over 1,600, to be exact! Topics are timely and practical, such as how to close virtual meetings and how to handle being ghosted.

From the October 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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APP / In Your Face: Meeting Reminder
By Martin Hoeller

Inspired by a co-worker who consistently ran late to meetings, app developer Martin Hoeller created In Your Face: Meeting Reminder as a way to ensure that calendar notifications would not be easily missed. The app links to your calendar and pushes a full-screen reminder to your computer before your meeting—making it impossible to miss. It also detects video conference links in your calendar, providing easy access to virtual meetings. Custom alerts for critical tasks can also be added.

WEBINAR / Business Accelerator Training

By Michael Hyatt

After finding balance in his chaotic life as CEO of a $250 million publishing company, Michael Hyatt realized the innovative system he created could positively impact the lives of other leaders. So, Hyatt launched Full Focus, a corporate training and strategic planning company that helps the C-Suite “achieve extraordinary results without compromising their most important values.” Full Focus offers a wealth of insightful content for free; including 5 Building Blocks to a Company that Runs Itself and 5 Keys to Run Your Business Without Your Business Running You.

BOOK / The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

By Gary Chapman & Paul White

Based on the New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, this book is a bestseller in its own right—having sold over 450,000 copies! The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace helps you identify how your staff feels most recognized at work. Authors Gary Chapman and Paul White outline how to improve morale with your team, create a more positive environment and increase employee engagement—simply by speaking your employees’ appreciation languages.

PODCAST / The $100 MBA Show

By Omar Zenhom

Named one of the top business podcasts in the world by Forbes, Fast Company and Time, Inc., The $100 MBA Show offers short, actionable business lessons to aspiring entrepreneurs. Creator and host Omar Zenhom believes that anyone can start and run a business with the right information—and this podcast delivers! Not only does Zenhom publish a new business lesson five days a week, but he has curated his most popular episodes into collections.

YouTube Channel / Motivation Ark

With over 1.2 million subscribers and nearly a billion total views, Motivation Ark is a prolific YouTube channel that serves up inspiration and education from high achievers. Videos mash up original voiceover content from coaches and creators like Oprah, Jordan Peterson and Steve Harvey and display the words in subtitles over beautiful video imagery. The result? A moving motivational montage that pushes you to win. This vault of personal development gold provides a great way for your field to start their day.

AUDIO BOOK / Virtual Selling: How to Build Relationships, Differentiate and Win Sales Remotely

By Mike Schultz, Dave Shaby and Andy Springer

Thanks to the pandemic, business that was once face-to-face has largely become screen-to-screen. In order to succeed in the industry, distributors must now adapt to the world of remote sales. Virtual Selling offers practical advice and techniques to build rapport online, run effective virtual meetings, deliver powerful virtual presentations, boost productivity and much more. This audiobook will take your field step-by-step through mastering the medium and help them reach their sales goals without relying on in-person meetings.

From the September 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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BOOK / Happiness is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
By Dennis Prager

Has someone’s sour attitude ever ruined your day? Equal parts personal development and moral philosophy, Happiness is a Serious Problem examines how our personal happiness (or lack thereof) influences everyone around us. Based on this premise, best-selling author, lecturer, nationally syndicated talk show host and columnist Dennis Prager thoughtfully proves that happiness isn’t just a sought-after state of being—it’s a moral obligation. This book will increase your self-awareness regarding the outlook you project to your team, resulting in a happier organization.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL / Leveling Up with Eric Siu

Leveling Up with Eric Siu is a channel that will help you level up your business skills and master the game of life. The channel covers various business topics, including digital and NFT marketing and features exclusive interviews with today’s leading entrepreneurs, including Codie Sanchez, Alex Hormozi, Leila Hormozi, Neil Patel and more. The mission? Provide insightful content designed to help you grow one percent better every day.

App / Deepstash

The best leaders have a growth mindset—but most leaders have limited time for personal growth. Enter Deepstash: a refreshing app loaded with bite-sized insights and thought-provoking ideas that can fit into even the busiest schedules. With access to summaries of over 200,000+ books, podcasts, articles and more on every topic under the sun, you can learn anything, get inspired, build habits and generally become smarter in just a few minutes a day!

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM / TUVU

Effective social media marketing is increasingly challenging for small business owners with minimal to no advertising budget. That’s because 42 percent of the content in your newsfeed is paid! So, unless you run Facebook ads, your posts are not even guaranteed to be seen. Enter TUVU, a new social media platform that serves up a totally ad-free experience, among other perks. For the direct seller, this means posts are guaranteed to be seen by your network.

Audio Book / Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance

By Jonathan Fields

When we dare to create, fear and anxiety can follow closely behind. How can we overcome those emotions and succeed? Author, lawyer, speaker and serial entrepreneur Jonathan Fields knows how… He signed a lease for a yoga studio in the heart of New York City—the day before 9/11. This experience helped him develop an innovative approach for transforming doubt and fear into catalysts for innovation and achievement. Fields draws on his vast personal experience, scientific research and actionable techniques to chart a path forward.

PODCAST / Social Media Marketing Podcast

Hosted by Michael Stelzner

Founder of the Social Media Examiner, the “world’s largest social media marketing resource,” Michael Stelzner helps millions of businesses discover how to leverage digital marketing to connect with customers, drive traffic, generate awareness and increase sales. Stelzner also hosts the Social Media Marketing Podcast, which has been published weekly since 2012. Through interviewing experts and relating his personal experiences, Stelzner offers new strategies and practical tips to help improve the listener’s marketing knowledge.

From the June 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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BOOK / Irresistible: The Seven Secrets of the World’s Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Organizations
By Josh Bersin
Can companies be irresistible? By implementing seven simple yet profound management principles—such as “Growth, Not Promotion” and “Coach, Not Boss,”—renowned industry analyst and author Josh Bersin believes that yours can be. With the organization model and paradigm-shifting concepts proposed in Irresistible, Bersin helps leaders understand how to scale their businesses with agility, purpose and clarity. The result? An irresistible business that unleashes the power of the human spirit, fires on all cylinders and creates loyal employees and happy customers along the way.

BLOG / Seth’s Blog
By Seth Godin
Author, serial entrepreneur and marketing guru Seth Godin has written over 20 best-selling books. As if that weren’t prolific enough, he has also been publishing a daily post on his blog without fail… for more than a decade! Godin leverages his vast experience in a wide range of industries to share his thoughts on personal development, business, marketing, sales, philosophy and more. His observations and educational insights can spark truly creative team discussions.

WEBSITE / 16Personalities.com
Sometimes it’s hard to understand ourselves, much less others. In the workplace, this kind of emotional intelligence can mean the difference between a toxic culture and a healthy one. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, 16Personalities offers a free personality test that explains how you perceive the world and make decisions. The questionnaire only takes about 10 minutes and details your strengths, weaknesses, motivators and more.

PODCAST / The School of Greatness Podcast
By Lewis Howes
A former pro-football player turned entrepreneur, business coach and author, Lewis Howes’ bio reads more like a fictional novel. Details magazine named him one of five “Internet Gurus That Can Make You Rich.” His top 100 iTunes-ranked podcast, The School of Greatness, has over half a million subscribers. The podcast features leaders like Dave Ramsey and Brené Brown who discuss topics such as business, mindset, inspiration and relationships. Growth-minded entrepreneurs are the intended audience of this podcast—making it a winner for your field.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL / Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
As co-founder of billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition, Tom Bilyeu knows a thing or two about success—how to get it and how to keep it. To help teach others how to develop skills that unlock their potential, Bilyeu launched Impact Theory, a weekly interview show that explores the mindsets of the world’s highest achievers. His YouTube channel hosts this content, which includes a wealth of videos that cover all manner of personal development, from business to health—it even includes Matthew McConaughey discussing how to master the art of living!

AUDIO BOOK / Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
By Gino Wickman
In Traction, author Gino Wickman explains that every great business is comprised of six key components: vision, data, process, people, issues and traction—aka the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). This system simplifies the process of running a business, as owners are typically overwhelmed with hundreds of concerns, creating a lack of focus and discouragement. With more than 80,000 companies having discovered the efficacy of the EOS, your field can also apply Traction to their businesses, eliminating frustrations and increasing sales.

From the June 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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AUDIO BOOK / The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention: New Edition to Solve the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, Burnout and More
By Mark Murphy and Andrea Burgio-Murphy, Ph.D.
Did you know that nearly half of employees are currently looking for another job? In a post-pandemic world with over ten million openings nationwide, it’s become much more difficult to find (and retain!) good people. Despite this challenge, New York Times bestselling author Mark Murphy has studied over a million leaders and identified seven common mistakes that destroy an organization’s efforts in employee retention. Consider sharing this book with your leadership and HR teams to form an airtight retention plan.

TECH DEVICE / Cubii Total Body+
The Cubii Total Body+ is a compact elliptical machine that fits under your desk, allowing you to burn calories while taking conference calls. With an LCD display, 12 resistance levels and a Bluetooth fitness tracker that syncs to the Cubii app, you can customize your workout and see your progress measured in calories, strides, distance and/or time. In between meetings, try the built-in resistance bands for an upper body, rowing-style workout. Best of all, the Cubii weighs less than 20 pounds for easy transport—which means no more excuses!

PRODUCT / The Unstuck Box for Teams
Utilized by thousands of top-performing corporate teams (including Google and Amazon!), The Unstuck Box for Teams is a collection of thought-provoking conversation starters, questions and ideas to get your team talking and collaborating on a deeper level. The box contains six individual card decks that cover different topics, such as workday wisdom, interviews, motivation, one-to-ones, team building and more. A QR code is included with the boxed set, which allows your team to download the decks digitally for easy reference.

BOOK / The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
By Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
As organizational and management consultants, authors Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan have worked with hundreds of corporations across the globe. The two biggest issues they see leaders struggling with are lack of buy-in and absence of ownership among their employees. In their book, The Three Laws of Performance, the authors outline a system for rallying employees around a common vision and making it stick. Help your field engage their teams and boost performance with this practical guide.

VIDEO / The Science of Persuasion
By Robert Cialdini, Ph.D.
In this entertaining and informative 12-minute video, noted social psychologist and author Dr. Robert Cialdini narrates this overview on the concept of influence—the main subject of his bestselling books. In his decades of research regarding how we are persuaded, Dr. Cialdini identifies six universal shortcuts that guide human behavior: reciprocity, scarcity, authority, consistency, liking and consensus. It’s easy to see why they are crucial to direct selling and how they could be leveraged by your field to optimize success.

PODCAST / Unbeatable with Jeff Struecker
As a decorated soldier and an inductee to the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame, Jeff Struecker knows a thing or two about overcoming challenges and breaking through to success. That’s why he launched the Unbeatable podcast: to encourage people to keep going instead of giving up. Through interviews with inspiring individuals who overcame the odds in business, sports, music, military service and more, Struecker’s message is clear: “When life becomes unmerciful, be unbeatable!”

From the May 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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AUDIO BOOK / The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
By Patrick Lencioni
In his first non-fiction book, New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni presents his case for the biggest competitive advantage he believes a business can have: organizational health. Through consistency and the unification of management, operations and culture, Lencioni suggests that a company can avoid mediocrity and become a healthy business—abandoning politics, fostering achievement and outperforming the competition. The Advantage will encourage leaders to reevaluate their metrics of success in business.

TECH DEVICE / KODAK Luma 150 Ultra Mini Pocket Projector
If an impromptu meeting or presentation has ever left you scrambling to queue up your deck or print a leave-behind, the KODAK Luma 150 Ultra Mini Pocket Projector has you covered. With this incredible device, you can cast your screen onto the nearest wall, turning any surface into a 150” projection screen for up to 2.5 hours! Not only can you share presentations with this portable projector, but the built-in speaker also enables you to watch HD video, play games and share photographs.

MAGAZINE / CEO Today

CEO Today seeks to inspire, motivate and inform the C-Suite with the latest corporate developments, news and tech innovations. While a print subscription is paid, the magazine’s digital subscription is free and sent straight to your inbox each month, along with a newsletter and exclusive content. The magazine is distributed to over 150,000 of the world’s most prominent executives, but the content housed on CEO Today’s website is equally rich with news, interviews and features about the world’s most successful companies and leaders.

PODCAST / Sell or Die
By Jeffrey and Jennifer Gitomer

In this candid podcast, best-selling author and self-proclaimed “King of Sales” Jeffrey Gitomer and fellow sales expert Jennifer Gitomer discuss the art and science of selling. The couple interviews leaders in business, sales, marketing and personal development to break down topics such as “The Three Sales Mindsets” and “How to Leverage Tech and Build a Seven-Figure Sales Organization.”

BOOK / Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential
By Matt Higgins

In this brand-new book by Matt Higgins—a Harvard Business School executive fellow, guest shark on Shark Tank and renowned angel investor—the ancient strategy of boat burning is examined in relation to success. Historically, boat burning motivated invading troops to win by destroying their option of retreat, forcing an all-or-nothing approach to war in which victory was won through sheer desperation. Higgins argues that removing our own “Plan Bs” is the best way to achieve our dreams.

WEBSITE / FutureLearn

FutureLearn is a cleverly designed, intuitive education platform, and class topics are as diverse as they are plentiful and inform the user of exactly what they can expect from the course. They are free; users only pay for completion certificates (if desired) or credits to use toward degrees. Your field can dig deep into any topic from business and entrepreneurship to digital marketing and social media—without digging into their pocketbooks. 

From the April 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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