PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro - Brian Carroll, a B2B expert and author of LEAD GENERATION FOR THE COMPLEX SALE, will speak at MarketingSherpa’s 5th Annual Business-to-Business Demand Generation Summit to be held October 26–28 in San Francisco. Carroll will present his “‘Playbook’ for Growing More Leads” during the three-day summit.

According to Carroll, the biggest challenge organizations face is bringing focus to their lead generation process. “I’m excited to have the opportunity to share my real-world experience with B-to-B marketers who are trying to optimize their lead gen programs,” said Carroll. “My ‘playbook’ addresses the proverbial black hole between your company’s sales and marketing efforts and

San Leandro India West - San Leandro,CA,USA - The unexpected question posed by renowned corporate strategist Prof. C.K. Prahalad drew chuckles from the 150 entrepreneurs, business-owners, and IT professionals attending his talk Sept. 18, organized by the Southern California chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs at the Sheraton Cerritos hotel.

Prahalad teaches corporate strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. A prominent consultant, he has received many honors and has co-authored several books including the 2004 best-seller, “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profit.” Last year, he was named the world’s most influential management thinker by The Times of London’s annual survey

MarketWatch - USA - Entrepreneurial success takes inspiration, hard work and quite a bit of luck -- just ask Jeff Taylor, the visionary founder and former CEO of Monster.com and Eons.com. Taylor will be a keynote speaker at URAC's 9th Annual Quality Summit Oct. 14-16 at the La Costa Resort and Spa in San Diego.

That winning success combination can be applied to transform any organization into a vibrant hub of energy and productivity. Taylor's presentation, "You Are the CEO of Your Own Life," will be an interactive glimpse into the practices that can bring life and energy into daily business practice.

New York Daily News, NY - Bill Rancic has gone in a relatively short time from a virtual nobody to a fixture on TV.

"In this country, you can do just about anything you want to do," Rancic told the Daily News.

His latest TV effort, "We Mean Business," launches Saturday on A&E at 10 a.m.

Rancic was a successful Internet entrepreneur when he was cast for the first season of Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" in 2004. He was invited back the following season as a guest judge. Then he landed a job co-hosting "iVillage Live" on NBC.

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA - Mark Victor Hansen, best-selling author and one of today's most well-known authorities in the area of human potential, today announced the first Young Entrepreneurial Challenge for teens through his recently launched Mark Victor Hansen Foundation. The 2008 competition will run from August 15, 2008 to December 15, 2008. A formal awards ceremony presenting the winners will be held during the annual Soul Motion Ball-Rockin' The Universe gala event at the Irvine Marriott Hotel, located in Southern California on January 31, 2009.

The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation was established to create a lasting and impactful difference by providing literacy to end poverty,

Autochannel (press release) - Andy Grove, former Intel chairman and CEO, provides a keynote address on the critical importance; and business opportunity and viability; of moving transportation from oil to electricity.

Andrew S. Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1960 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Upon graduation, he joined the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor and became Assistant Director of Research and Development in 1967.

In July 1968, Dr. Grove participated in the founding of Intel Corporation. In

Market Wire (press release) - USA - --  New book authored by noted management experts C.K. Prahalad and M.S.
Krishnan explores Ramco's "co-creation" approach to delivering operational
change-on-demand enterprise technology solutions
--  Ramco-sponsored roadshow and roundtable events kick off today in Chicago with       address by co-authors Prahalad and Krishnan

Ramco Systems, Inc., the U.S. enterprise technology arm of the global technology company Ramco Group, today announced that it is the technology sponsor of the InformationWeek New Age of Innovation Executive Roundtable Roadshow. The roadshow tour of five U.S. cities starts today in Chicago. The roadshow is built around the findings of the recently released business strategy book entitled "The New Age

MSNBC - USA - As he fights foreclosure on his home in the prestigious Santa Monica Mountains, TV icon Ed McMahon said the same thing all too many Americans are saying these days: “I didn't see it coming.”

Since 1991, Ed McMahon’s six-bedroom Mediterranean mansion in Beverly Hills has been a proud, everyday reminder of his accomplishments and affluence, forged over a long career that made him a familiar face for many decades.

But now television’s most famous second banana is wondering if it will all slip away.

Washington Post - Three decades after starting the most influential American technology company, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said yesterday that he plans to step down from day-to-day work at the software giant to focus his energy full time on the $29 billion foundation he started with his wife 12 years ago.

Although the transition will not take place until July 2008, the move signals a new era for the software company that has been closely associated with Gates's geeky persona and provides an opportunity, according to many in the public health community, for Gates to become one of the most important philanthropists in

Stephen M. Ross School of Business - Ann Arbor, MI, USA - To succeed in "new age of innovation," firms must partner with individual consumers to co-create customized experiences, say researchers.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Who will shape the consumer experience of the future? The actual consumer, argue Ross professors C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan in The New Age of Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2008). Their new book, subtitled Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks, asserts that the most successful companies no longer invent products and services on their own, but rather "co-create" them in partnership with customers.

"The sources of value are rapidly shifting from products to personalized experiences," Prahalad says in a recent interview with InformationWeek.

E-Commerce Times - USA - Despite the press attention lavished on companies such as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google, modern business is not all about Web 2.0, cutting-edge consumer tech. The latest voices reminding us of this -- and that innovation is a topic with a broad scope -- are those of authors and University of Michigan professors C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan.

The pair's book, The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks (McGraw Hill Books, which, like BusinessWeek, is a unit of The McGraw Hill Companies), revolves around two ideas, laid

StreetInsider.com (subscription) - Birmingham, MI, USA - In its 5th year, the Mind Body & Beyond Expo will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center on September 13-14, 2008. The name highlights the event's focus on the trio of the mind, the body and all things beyond that are in synch with the common goals of clean and natural conscious living. Building on the momentum and public demand for natural and healthy living alternatives, including green products and services, Mind Body & Beyond Expo will offer consumers the opportunity to become more educated about the latest specialty focused products, services, and health and wellness trends available within

Multichannel News - New York, NY, USA - Jim Cramer is celebrating the third anniversary of his series on CNBC today.

Many of the manic money maven’s best fans will be in the studio audience for Mad Money w/Jim Cramer, when it premieres today at 6 p.m. (ET).

he show, which also is expected to include star-studded salutes and revisit some of the show’s top and most profitable moments, will encore at 11 p.m. on CNBC.

Cramer will also be taking his show to Happy Valley, as part of his “Mad Money Back to School” tour. The show will broadcast live before students from Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business

Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville, TN, USA - "Apprentice" TV show winner Dr. Randal Pinkett charted his rise from selling CDs in a garage to becoming chairman of his own consulting firm in a speech Saturday to University of Tennessee students, alumni and faculty members.

Pinkett, who triumphed in season four of Donald Trump's NBC show about success in business, also said it is up to the black students of today to change prejudices toward blacks in the workplace.

"Your generation is letting the world know that (blacks) are more than New York or Flavor Flav," Pinkett said. "It's not a coincidence that Yahoo, Google and Facebook were created by

RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA - "My name is John, and I am your friend."

That was John C. Maxwell's cordial welcome and light-hearted expression Thursday morning, and it filled the auditorium at CrossRoads Fellowship with laughter and smiles for the third annual Sewell Leadership Event.

The 60-year-old leadership guru repeated the phrase several times throughout the all-day seminar to a sold-out audience of 1,400 -- at times after a hard-hitting or challenging concept that pointed at the heart of every individual and the way they view others.

Promising life-changing principles for successful leadership and relationships, Maxwell delivered his influential message with skill and ease through four speaking sessions

The Daily Beacon - Knoxville, TN, USA - UT will welcome a winner of the hit reality show “The Apprentice” to speak as the Charlie Lemmons Keynote Speaker during the third annual Black Issues Conference on Feb. 9. Randal Pinkett, the season 4 winner, will discuss “Money, Power, and Respect: The Keys to Economic Empowerment.”

Tierney Bates, assistant director of Minority Student Affairs, said planning the conference came together easily.

“My generation grew up listening to the song ‘Money, Power and Respect’ as an anthem. First comes the money, then the power, and finally respect,” Bates said. “The goal of the conference is to teach students, not just how to

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Ken Fisher, noted columnist in Forbes Magazine, in his recent column entitled "I Still Hate Funds" praised a new author's book with one lucid statement: "The first 35 pages of Don F. Wilkinson's 'Stop Wasting Your Wealth in Mutual Funds ...' are worth the book's $20 purchase price. Read them!"

Fisher, best selling financial author and Forbes portfolio strategy columnist for 23 years, gave thumbs up on a book by one of his author contemporaries that reveals why mutual funds are wrong for building wealth for many investors.

Fisher is renown as a top-ranked stock market forecaster, a New York Times best

Colgate University News & Events - Hamilton, NY, USA - Actor, lawyer, author, game-show host, and former White House speechwriter Ben Stein advised students crammed into Memorial Chapel Tuesday night on how they could “ruin” their lives.

Stein has published 16 books, including How to Ruin your Financial Life and How to Ruin your Love Life. Students erupted in laughter as he provided advice dripping with sarcasm:

-- Don’t learn any useful skills. Just play video games or listen to rap music.
-- Don’t learn any self-discipline. Just be a big baby all your life. Don’t study or deny yourself anything.
-- Convince yourself that you are the center of the universe. Truth is,

Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis, IN, USA - Richard Notebaert, the chief executive officer credited with turning around the once-troubled Qwest Communications, will be the first speaker of the Boardroom Insights lecture series hosted by the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

The annual fall series of six lectures will take place from Aug. 31 to Nov. 9 on selected Fridays at 10:40 a.m. in Mendoza’s Jordan Auditorium. Boardroom Insights features corporate leaders and senior executives sharing their perspectives on a broad range of critical issues in today’s business world.

The Boardroom Insights schedule is as follows:

Aug. 31: Richard C. Notebaert, former chairman and chief executive

New York Post - New York, NY, USA - BARBARA Corcoran has been in the real-estate business for decades, and now she's sharing the sEcrets of apartment-marketing code language. According to a friend of the legendary residential super-broker, "cozy" equals too small. "Charming" means too old and "original condition" implies appliances that are 50 years old. If your house or apartment "needs TLC," then it's a dump. If it's "conven iently located," expect it to be noisy, Corcoran advises. "An 'efficient kitchen' means it's too small to fit two adults, and a 'beachfront steal' translates to no hurricane insurance available at any price." Beware a property described as "unique"

Lovetripper.com - Austin, TX, USA - In the weeks leading up to their scheduled September walk down the aisle, E! News co-host Giuliana DePandi and her fiance, reality TV personality Bill Rancic, took time to unwind at the St. Regis Resort Monarch Beach, a 400 guestroom retreat in Dana Point, California featuring an Italian-inspired facade that inspires romance. According to People magazine, the Tinseltown twosome booked a Swedish couples massage during their stay, which was administered by the healing hands of Spa Gaucin's technicians.

The mid-August mini-vacation for the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. followed an April outing which was chronicled in the summer 2007 edition of InStyle

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB: MDVX) Internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video, today announced that Career Coach, speaker and author of the first books on Career Contentment, Jeff Garton has joined the VoiceAmerica Network, online internet talk radio network, as host of his new show, "Career Contentment Radio." The program debuted August 16 and can be heard every Thursday at 12:00PM/PST, 3:00 PM/EST (http://www.voice.voiceamerica.com).

Jeff Garton is a career coach and author whose career has been devoted to the discovery of practical solutions to combat prolonged unemployment and job dissatisfaction. His efforts have produced the first book and learning

Branding Strategy Insider - Tampa, FL, USA - The term 'Positioning' was coined in 1969 by Al Ries and Jack Trout in the paper "Positioning is a game people play in today’s me-too market place" in the publication Industrial Marketing. It was then expanded into their ground-breaking first book, "Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind".

Positioning is something (perception) that happens in the minds of the target market. It is the aggregate perception the market has of a particular company, product or service in relation to their perceptions of the competitors in the same category. It will happen whether or not a company's management is proactive, reactive or passive

The Southern - Carbondale, IL, USA - On his way to becoming a multi-millionaire stock broker Chris Gardner slept in public bathrooms, $10-a-night motels and subway stations because, for a year, he and his son were homeless.

Gardner, whose life has become the subject of a best-selling book and a movie, both entitled "The Pursuit of Happyness," spent Thursday in Carbondale offering up his life's story as a source of motivation at several speaking engagements.

Throughout the day Gardner spoke in front of local business people, government officials, students and more who came to hear him speak.

The addresses were arranged by The Southern Illinoisan and the Paul Simon Public

Web Services Journal - Montvale, NJ, USA - An unhappy, unproductive workforce is the subject best-selling author and CEO of The Table Group, Patrick Lencioni, tackles in his seventh business book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (Jossey-Bass, August 2007, $24.95, Cloth).

"No one is immune to job misery -- it touches every profession imaginable from restaurant service worker, to middle manager, to NBA superstar," says Lencioni. Countless sources support this statement including a recent USA Today poll, which found that "people unhappy with their jobs is at an all time high." Lencioni, known for his ability to net-out complicated theories into actionable models, offers a practical solution

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - According to Bob Prosen, "the mission of The Prosen Center is to help business leaders rapidly increase performance, productivity and profits." Not one to embellish ideas or thoughts, Prosen is the author of the best-selling, multi award winning business book, Kiss Theory Good Bye, published in 2006.

Prosen recently recorded an interview with Peter Clayton, host of the popular online career radio show, Total Picture Radio. The former Fortune 100 executive discussed with Clayton "proven tools and techniques" he has developed for becoming a high-performance leader. With more than 25 years of global business experience, the Dallas, Texas-based leadership expert likes

NARREIA - Las Vegas, NV, USA - There is a lot of talk about how the sub-prime mortgage industry is wreaking havoc on the global economy. I'll have to admit that I'm not econo-geeky enough to understand how the T-Bonds are connected to the LIBOR-bone, and the LIBOR-bone is connected to the Yeild Curve-bone, or any of the other tangled, intricate web of how the lending industry is interrelated. But I do get that when 20% of the buyers are no longer able to obtain loans, it's a serious impact on the supply and demand equation.

But my view is quite myopic, focusing on how the mortgage lending