Books
Co-Authored Book
Explosive Business Growth Strategies: GANE Ontario
Business growth doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with a vision, the development of a great plan, getting the team (both internal and external) on board, and then executing the plan, allowing for flexibility to bend as needed, when circumstances and momentum shift.
Explosive Business Growth Strategies: GANE Ontario is a compilation of 12 amazing entrepreneurs who share valuable insights across a breadth of topics, to help business professionals, business owners, and other entrepreneurs cut through the stagnation they might find themselves in. The goal of the book is simple yet profound, to help those seeking business growth, to achieve it quickly.
The book authors have a wide variety of professional experience that is shared to help any new or seasoned business professional break out of their slow or slumping sales growth. Topics covered in the book include marketing, sales, branding, communication, finances, health, goal setting, legacy, mindset, and more.
Another interesting difference between this book and most, is the authors have been selected to speak on stage at a live event, in Ontario, CA on Friday, November 3rd for GANE Ontario. Those in attendance will get a chance to meet all the speakers live throughout the day and even get their copy of the book autographed.
GANE stands for Growth Accelerator Networking Event and aspires to educate and inspire the audience of the live event and those who read the book, so they can experience more explosive business growth faster than if they were simply left to their own devices without the insight shared from the stage and the pages in the book.
GANE Ontario was created and hosted by Ira Bowman and Joel Phillips. Stay tuned for more GANE events around the USA in 2024 and beyond as there are many more stories to share, to the benefit of all who take the time to read the future editions.
Brad's Suggested Reading List
Atomic Habits
Favorite Quotes:
- You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems."
- "Atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results."
- "Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become."
- "Identity is the north star of habit change."
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Favorite Quotes:
- “The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.”
- “A hallmark of true expertise and insight is making a complex subject understandable. A hallmark of mediocrity and bad strategy is unnecessary complexity—a flurry of fluff masking an absence of substance.
- “The first step of making strategy real is figuring out the big ‘aha’ to gain sustainable competitive advantage—in other words, a significant, meaningful insight about how to win.”
Good to Great
Favorite Quotes:
- “A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.”
- Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”
Secrets of Question Based Selling
Favorite Quotes:
- What can I do for you?” Most people love to buy, but very few want to be told, and even fewer want to be “sold.” To overcome mismatching:
- Ask more questions and make fewer statements
- Credibility reduces the prospect’s need to resist
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Favorite Quotes:
- “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” = Ira, I had this on the back of my business card for 10 years.
- And I run my life by his habits set!
- “Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
- “Habit 1: Be Proactive
Rocket Fuel
Favorite Quotes:
- “Don’t mistake activity for productivity. Creativity is productivity—it just doesn’t feel like it at first.”
- “An Integrator is a person who has the Unique Ability® to harmoniously integrate the major functions of the business, run the organization, and manage the day-to-day issues that arise. The Integrator is the glue that holds the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of the company together.”
- The visionary sees the future, and the integrator makes it happen. Companies need both.
The Genius Habit
Favorite Quotes:
- A remarkable new guide to finding your Zone of Genius, spending more time being fulfilled and engaged at work, and jump-starting the career of your dreams
The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Favorite Quotes:
- “If you ignore the urgent, it can kill you today. It’s also true, however, that if you ignore the important, it can kill you tomorrow”
- “The team can direct enormous energy to the wildly important goal without getting blocked by the shifting whirlwind of change all around them.”
The 10X Rule
Favorite Quotes:
- Would you send your children to a Victim Class? “Do kids benefit when they see their moms and dads losing or quitting?”