The Bald Truth: Secrets of Success from the Locker Room to the Boardroom by David Falk

The Bald Truth: Secrets of Success from the Locker Room to the Boardroom by David Falk

About the Book:-

Hardcover, 371 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, Feb 2010
ISBN-13: 9781416584391
ISBN: 1416584390



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Table of Contents:-

Foreword Michael Jordan
Introduction 
I'd Rather Have a Good Enemy than a Neutral Friend, and Other Lessons from Chairman John
It's a Long Horse Race 
Blunt Is Beautiful-Stay True to You
See the Whole Court 
A Man's Got to Know His Limitations 
Goodwill Hunting 
The Customer Isn't Always Right 
Know When to Hold 'Em, Know When to Fold 'Em 
The Godfather Theory: I'd Like to Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse 
Get Out Ahead of the Curve 
Afterword 
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Synopsis
Superagent David Falk — the man who called the shots for some of the greatest heroes in the history of basketball — reveals the innovative business secrets that catapulted him to the top of his game.
David Falk is the most successful agent in the game of basketball. He has represented more NBA first-round draft selections, lottery picks, Rookies-of-the-Year, and All-Stars than anyone else in the business. He changed the NBA's entire salary structure with a unique approach to negotiations that garnered some of the biggest contracts in league history, including Alonzo Mourning's $100-plus million contract with the Miami Heat — the first ever in professional sports. His groundbreaking Nike deal for Michael Jordan, the most successful endorsement relationship in history, revolutionized basketball by creating the game's first commercial superstar.
Basketball Digest called Falk one of the sport's most influential people, second only to NBA commissioner David Stern. In The Bald Truth, Falk, respected throughout the industry as an innovator, candidly unveils the business secrets that have fueled his extraordinary success. For the first time, he shares the fascinating insider details of how he negotiated lucrative contracts, learned from his mistakes, and branded and marketed not only the greatest basketball stars in history but also other elite athletes and coaches.
Falk is blunt, he's fair, and he looks at the long run rather than the short-term gains. To make a great deal, he believes, both sides have to win. He adheres to steadfast principles, some of which he learned from the celebrated champion athletes and revered coachinglegends — like Georgetown's John Thompson and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski — who have been long-standing clients and lifelongfriends.
Since Falk began representing athletes more than thirty-five years ago, basketball has grown from a fledgling team sport to a multibilliondollar business with celebrity players, powerful endorsement deals, salary caps, and ever-evolving free agency rules. He has made millions of dollars for himself and his clients, but today he remains in the business for one reason: love of the game — on and off the court.


About the Author


David Falk has long been recognized as one of the sports industry's leading figures and most talented innovators. He began his career representing professional athletes with ProServ in 1974, rising to Vice Chairman of the company. In 1992, he formed Falk Associates Management Enterprises (FAME) to provide specialized and personal representation service to the company's elite clientele of NBA superstars. 
During his career, Falk has represented more NBA first-round draft selections, lottery picks, Rookies-of-the-Year, and All-Stars than anyone else in the athlete management business. In 1985, he negotiated Michael Jordan's ground-breaking deal with Nike—the most successful endorsement relationship in history—and in the process coined the nickname ?Air Jordan.? Falk negotiated the highest contracts in NBA league history for Patrick Ewing in 1985 and Danny Ferry in 1990. He also negotiated professional sports' first $100 million contract in 1996 for Alonzo Mourning as part of an unprecedented free agency period in which FAME changed the entire salary structure of the NBA, negotiating over $400 million in contracts for its free agent clients in a six-day period.  

In 1998, Falk sold FAME to SFX Entertainment, serving on SFX's Board of Directors and in the Office of the Chairman. As Chairman of SFX Sports Group, Falk oversaw the acquisition of a dozen sports agencies that enabled SFX to represent approximately 20 percent of MLB and NBA players. Falk stepped down as Chairman in 2001 to pursue other interests. In January 2007, Falk re-launched FAME and currently serves as its Founder and CEO.
He and his wife, the former RhondaFrank, live in Rockville, Maryland, and have two daughters, Daina, and Jocelyn.

Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone. - Paperback (Oct. 12, 2010) by Mitch Joel

• Paperback: 304 pagesPublisher: Business Plus; Reprint edition (October 12, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0446548227ISBN-13: 978-0446548229

From Publishers Weekly

A digital marketing maven who parlayed a podcast into a thriving career, Joel extends the notion of human interconnectedness by six degrees to the virtual world. With abundant Internet social networking sites and mobile texting, we are all intrinsically connected, he argues in this accessible primer to capitalizing on connections to increase brand awareness. New breeds of entrepreneurs are being created daily, he asserts, using free publishing tools available on the Internet to create brands and develop audiences on a scale that rivals the biggest firms in the world. Joel cites such success stories as Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library, who transformed his parents' New Jersey liquor store from a $4 million business to a $45 million one in five years by connecting to Facebook and Twitter and creating a video podcast to lure customers. More than a mere collection of inspirational case studies, the book offers practical advice, from choosing a catchy blog name to tips on Web presentation. Joel has created an eminently readable guide to harnessing the various tools available across the virtual landscape. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Product Description

Is it important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have the sixth largest population in the world.


The truth is, we no longer live in a world of six degrees of separation. In fact, we're now down to only six pixels of separation, which changes everything we know about doing business.


This is the first book to integrate digital marketing, social media, personal branding, and entrepreneurship in a clear, entertaining, and instructive manner that everyone can understand and apply.




Through the use of timely case studies and fascinating stories, SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION offers a complete set of the latest tactics, insights, and tools that will empower you to reach a global audience and consumer base-and, best yet, you can do this pretty much for free. Digital marketing expert Mitch Joel unravels this fascinating world of new media-but does so with a brand-new perspective that is driven by compelling results. The smarter entrepreneurs and top executives are leveraging these digital channels to get their voice "out there"-connecting with others, becoming better community citizens, and, ultimately, making strategic business moves that are increasing revenue, awareness, and overall success in the marketplace-without the support of traditional mass media.


Everyone is connected. Isn't it time for you and your company to connect to everyone? SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION will show you how.

About the Author

Mitch Joel is President of Twist Image , an award-winning Digital Marketing and Communications agency. In 2008, Mitch was named Canada's Most Influential Male in Social Media, one of the top 100 online marketers in the world, and was awarded the highly-prestigious Canada's Top 40 Under 40.

It Takes A CEO: It's Time to Lead with Integrity by Leo Hindrey

It Takes A CEO: It's Time to Lead with Integrity by Leo Hindrey

 

Table of Contents

Introduction : what takes a CEO?

1 The problem, and how we got there

2 The few : the proud : the brave

4 Putting democracy on the block

5 CEO compensation : what's wrong, what's right

6 A tale of three boards

7 Outsourcing and offshoring

8 Wal-Mart nation?

9 Putting the health back in health care

10 The CEO checklist

Synopsis  

Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong in the corner office. 

How did these once prestigious companies fall off the ethical cliff? How is it that reputations were destroyed, shareholders lost value, employees (in many cases) lost everything, and, in a few cases, entire companies disappeared? Everyone is pointing fingers, and the new widespread mistrust of public companies may turn out to be more damaging to America's economic future than the billions actually lost in the scandals. Now, one of America's most prominent corporate leaders illuminates the need for more integrity and less greed among executives. In a scathing examination of why leaders have lost their way, Leo Hindery speaks out on the role of the CEO. 

Does the corporate culture have to be driven by greed? Or can you do good and still make good in the big business world? Leo Hindery, the former CEO and President of companies such as AT&T Broadband, TCI, and the YES Network -- and currently Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners -- forcefully advocates approaching a business career as life's meaningful work, and not merely as a way to accumulate personal wealth. Both fiery and optimistic, Hindery calls upon his fellow executives to conduct themselves with the kind of integrity that used to be commonplace, but now seems all too rare. 

Holding his moral yardstick up to some of the worst transgressions in recent memory, Hindery tackles the toughest issues of the day head-on: 

• Why should the ratio of average CEO pay to average employee pay today be 304:1 -- and in some cases, as high as 2,300:1? 

• What does it mean when 80 percent of all viewed media content is owned by just 5 companies? 

• If offshoring is good for the global economy, what needs to be done to make it fair? 

• What should the role of the board of directors be, and whose job is it to take care of employees? 

With passion, insight, and humor, Hindery reinvigorates the code of business conduct. It Takes a CEO is a corporate handbook for our times -- not for how to get ahead, but for how to lead with integrity, grace, and heart.

About the Author

Leo Hindery, Jr., is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a major private equity firm. Prior to starting InterMedia Partners, Hindery was CEO of the YES Network, the nation's premier regional sports network, which he helped form in the summer of 2001 as the television home of the New York Yankees and the New Jersey Nets. Previously he has been Chariman and CEO of GlobalCenter Inc., President and CEO of AT&T Broadband, and President and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI). Hindery is the author of The Biggest Game of All. He lives in New York City.

Born to Dream: Stop Wanting. Stop Wishing. Start Dreaming by Rollan A. Roberts II

Born to Dream: Stop Wanting. Stop Wishing. Start Dreaming by Rollan A. Roberts II

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Table of Content
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Point A to Point B
Chapter 2: It's Just the  Beginning
Chapter 3: Lifestyle Architecture
Chapter 4: Make Up  Your  Mind
Chapter 5: Do This - Get That
Chapter 6: Once Upon a Time
Chapter 7 Vaporized Dreams
Chapter 8: Out of Breath before the Finish Line
Chapter 9: Your Defining Moment
Chapter 10: Life Support
Chapter 11: Making Your Dreams Come True
Chapter 12: Keeping the Dream Alive
Chapter 13: The Reality of Reality
Chapter 14: Cost Doesn't Matter
Chapter 15: FantasyLand
Chapter 16: That's Nothing
Chapter 17: Winging It
Chapter 18: When the End Isn't the End
Chapter 19: When the Dream Dries Up
Chapter 20: Power of Personal Affirmation


--Start--
Chapter 1: Point A to Point B
* Decide right now that you will not settle for good, knowing you were destined for greatness.
* You will pursue; you will engage; you will confront; you will move on; you will keep going; you will not quit; you will not stop; you will not give up until you have achieved the dream that lies within you.
* What you won't do for money, fame, and fortune, you will do for a dream that consumes you.
* Most people are too busy chasing money instead of their dreams!

Chapter 2: It's Just the Beginning
* Dreams aren't merely a wish list, just as everything you want is not your dream.
* A dream is not what you want to have but who you want to be.
* Our responsibility is to keep improving upon the success that we have had or that has been set by others.
* All the money and wealth this world has to offer can't console the person within whom greatness lies but has not yet blossomed.
* Dreams should be in sight and out of reach.

Chapter 3: Lifestyle Architecture
1. What are you really passionate about in life?
2. What bothers you?
3. What would you do or be if time and money were no object?
4. What is your purpose in life?
5. What are your natural abilities?
6. What are you complimented on most often?
7. What would you do if you knew you only had one week to live?
8. When do you feel the most successful and alive?
9. What  circumstances in life are unique to you, and how can you use those to your benefit?
10. What do you want your legacy to be?
* Mike Murdock has said, "What bothers you most is an indication of the problem you were created to solve."
* You will realize that your dream is not a thing but is actually the fulfilment and full embodiment of your purpose.
* There is something unique about you that is not common in mankind.
* Live for today and plan for tomorrow.

Chapter 4: Make Up  Your  Mind
* Dreams are the full embodiment of the fulfilment of the purpose for which you were created.
* It doesn't matter if you were planned or unplanned, wanted or unwanted; you were created with a destiny in mind.
* Being successful doesn't mean every deal I do is profitable, every business I buy or build is a great success story, or every stock I buy doubles in value overnight.
* The problem with pity parties is that you're the only one that shows up and no one brings present!

Chapter 5: Do This - Get That
1. Define Your Dream
2. Write it down
3. Create a plan with specific objective and timelines
4. Be accountable to someone.
5. Take action daily
6. Develop yourself
7. Keep your dream alive
- 10 specific things to keep your dream alive:-
i. Invest time with likeminded people.
ii. Keep it in front of you.
iii. Take care of yourself.
iv. Write it down.
v. Read an inspirational book.
vi. Attend a seminar relating to your purpose and dream.
vii. Associate rewards to your goals to make your dream tangible.
viii. Take action.
ix. Be accountable to a successful mentor who is where you want to be.
x. Create and speak aloud a personal success affirmation daily.
Reflections
* If you don't write it down, it's a pipe dream, not a dream.
* Commit to your dream and give it everything you have.
* Don't die with your dreams still in you.
* Fear and faith are the same thing: believing something will happen that you can't see.
* Tie your goals to tangible rewards to keep your dream alive!
* Dream building attaches tangible rewards to personal accomplishment.
* Customers don't pay for effort; they pay for execution.
* Don't take a vacation from your dreams

Chapter 6: Once Upon a Time
* Just because the vast majority of people do not live their dream doesn't mean that dreams don't come true. It's that thy don't understand how to make their dreams come true.
* Slaves see the rope as a noose, but prisoners see the rope as a way of escape.
* Everything you see or want is someone's reality.
* If you are aligned and in tune with your life's purpose, then your dreams and desires will be visions of what you are to become, do, an achieve.

Chapter 7 Vaporized Dreams
* When you dream, it is with intent and takes great amounts of effort and work to control your mind and thoughts.
* I'm not interested in what you hope will happen; I'm interested in what you believe will happen and willing to make happen.
* Part of becoming a winner is getting to this place over and over and over again and somehow rebounding from it.
* Don't deprive yourself of living life to the fullest and living the lifestyle you were meant to live by dreaming little dreams.

Chapter 8: Out of Breath before the Finish Line
* Not reaching your dreams should not be an option.
* You've got to stay in the game to keep swinging.
* Your dreams fail to take light because you keep stopping halfway down the runway.
* Your dreams will demand every ounce of energy and wherewithall you can possibly muster.

Chapter 9: Your Defining Moment
The author stated 27 Reasons people quit pursuing their dreams:-  **Note: Only 9 is mentioned as the other 18 reasons are not in this chapter.1.They don't want to be disappointed
2. It doesn't seem possible
3. They don't want to get hurt
4. Negative self-talk
5. Unexpected circumstances
6. Doubt
7. It's easier-path of least resistance
8. The dream isn't big enough
9. Undefined dream
* Doubt doesn't barge in; it creeps in
* If you believe in your dream enough, then it desn't matter how many failures you experience; it's not over until you in.
* If your dream seems impossible right now, refocus your mind and attention on smaller, specific action steps in the direction of your ultimate dream.
* Chasing your dreams will be painful at times because there is a price to pay.

Chapter 10: Life Support
- continuation-
10. The dream isn't tied to life's purpose
a. Would you do the same thing and as much of what you do today if you were not paid to do it?
b. Will your dreams come true if you accomplish your purpose?
c. Did you determine your purpose prior to defining your dream?
d. Does the realization of your dream help people outside of yourself?
e. Do your dreams support and enhance your purpose in life?
f. Are you known for your dreams or your purpose?
g. Are you as passionate about your purpose as you are your dream?
11. Focused on things
12. Don't want to pay the price
13. Too busy
14. It's countercultural to dream
15. Poor self-image
16. Broken focus
17. Get bored with the dream
18. Rejection
19. Comparing to other people
20. Past Successes
21. Impatience
22. Past failures
23. Don't think it's important or think it doesn't make a difference
24. Don't have a plan
25. Time consuming
26. Don't want to commit or be accountable for it
27. Not enough self-discipline
* Fully rely on God to make you and build you into the person he needs you to be fulfill his purpose and will in your life.
* Every worthy accomplishment and success one achieves appears impossible somewhere on the journey.
* When you accept your dreams as your mission and destiny, there is a peace and calmness that will carry you through during difficult times without always questioning if you are doing the right thing.
* Your purpose should be well known, but your dreams should not.
* What you know in the light, don't question in dark. If it was the right decision in the good times, stick with it during the hard times.
* If you get battered and don't get bitter, you'll get better!
* Center your dream around your purpose and not on a material object.
* Thinking like a winner doesn't mean that you always win.
* Much of success is waiting. Be patient without being lazy!
* To do anything successful in life, it requires a high level of personal discipline.

Chapter 11: Making Your Dreams Come True
* Dreams come true by developing as a person, working diligently and consistently, maintaining the right spirit, heart, and mind by controlling your thoughts, giving everything to it that you have been given, and in time.
*  Belief and persistence have helped many a dreamer live their dreams.
* You have to believe in your cause, and you have to believe that your success is not rooted in yourself, but is the culmination of other people in your life and the Almighty workig in you to accomplish His will.
* There are people who cannot read the words on this page that have every opportunity for great success  because they believe in their dream, don't know the meaning of the word no, and have the persistence, determination, and will never to quit.

Chapter 12: Keeping the Dream Alive
* With each level of success you achieve on your plan, you should attach a tangible symbol of the accomplishment of that dream. Belief and persistence have helped many a dreamer live their dreams.
* You need to find something that you can get excited about that will encourage you to make the next phone call, send the next e-mail, go to the next success conference, read the next book, listen to the next audio, close the next deal and become fear and rejection proof!
* Continue to define, clarify, and explore tangible symbols that you can attach to your goals.

Chapter 13: The Reality of Reality
* What is in the heart and mind of mankind will soon be reflected on the outside.
* Since thought is the only real and tangible thing from which anything is created and dreams are simply a string of real and tangible, positive thoughts, your dreams can come true if that is what you keep before your mind's eye.
* The more you see, touch, feel, and experience your dream, the more your mind will dwell on it and lead you to the resources necessary to accomplish it.
* Where you are is who you are

Chapter 14: Cost Doesn't Matter
* There comes a point in all of our lives where we look back and say, "I'm glad I did it" or "I wish I had."
* I will do today what other me won't so I can do tomorrow what other men can't.
* I will live like no other so I can live like not other!
* Your success is not measured by what you accumulate on earth, but by how you fulfilled the purpose for which you were created.
* Your dreams haven given to you because you are the only one who can make them come true.
* Dreams are not about what you have or don't have, it's about who you become as you move toward  dream that is bigger than yourself.

Chapter 15: FantasyLand
* Dreams without action are nothing more than mystical fairy tales.
* Does your body tell you what to do or do you tell your body what you're going to do?
* The answer to your dreams is the rock-solid work ethic, dogged determination, and unwavering faith and belief that you are pursuing a much greater cause than just a tangible object.

Chapter 16: That's Nothing
5 Attributes of a dreamer:-
1. Dreamers are passionate about what they do.
2. Dreamers have a sense of urgency with a spirit of expectancy.
3. Dreamers don't quit when tough times come
4. Dreamers believe they have what it takes to achieve their dreams.
5. Dreamers control their thoughts
* Taking what's most important to your family and making it the most important thing to you is what makes dreams come true.
* There are many successful people who simply don't realize how great they can become if they'd only learn to say, "That's nothing!"
* It is your responsibility - no, it is your duty- to look the circumstances that are getting you discouraged and keeping you down in the eye and say, "That's nothing!"
* Dreamers believe that success lies within themselves and not in the circumstances of life.

Chapter 17: Winging It
* Most people think the opposite of security is risk. Truth is, the opposite of security is opportunity
* Choose to buy your freedom by working hard as an entrepreneur instead of through forty or fifty years as an employee.
* The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life is on you; the easier you are on yourself, the harder life is on you.
* You need a dream that's tied to your purpose and not just a reward.
*Don't Just wing your life; maximize your capacity and live your life on purpose!

Chapter 18: When the End Isn't the End
* The excitement and power of dream is in the pursuit of the dream, not just in te attainment of the dream.
* Retirement isn't an age; it's being free to do what you want to do with your life!
* Risk is only risk if you have something to lose.

Chapter 19: When the Dream Dries Up
* The goals you set to accomplish your dreams should be in sight and out of reach.
* Each day is either a building day, battling day, or banner day. Most days are building days.
* Don't play it safe just to win.
* Delight in the process and the work of becoming great.
* The obsession is not so much in winning the gold medals in life, but it is in mastering the discipline, skills and techniques that you have chosen to pursue.
* Failure is not in losing; it is in not trying!

Chapter 20: Power of Personal Affirmation
* The Dreamer's Creed
"I am fearfully and wonderfully as a creative being in the image of God and have been euipped with the power, belief, and strength to succeed in living a happy, healthy, wealthy lifestyle full of life, vitality and energy.  I am hardworking, discerning, diligent, prudent, focused, challenged, motivated, and patient and am a good steward of my time, money and energy. I am blessed and highly favoured winner that attracts unlimited riches, wealth, and prosperity into my life so that I may give freely to others and worthy causes. I will honour God with my success, for God's wisdom is the key to my sucess. This is my day. Today is the day God will give me a financial breakthrough. Today's miracle will change my life forever and set me on a course to riches and wealth. I will not give up, let up, or shut up until I'm taken up.  My dream is a direct fulfilment of my purpose, and I cannot and will not shirk or relinquish my God-given duty to pursue my God-given dream every day with every ounce of energy I have.
* My Story (the Author's background)

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