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An advertising hall-of-famer and business legend reveals the secrets of his success Best known for conceiving the idea of outdoor advertising, Karl Eller embodies the spirit of American entrepreneurship at its finest. Integrity Is All You've Got is the chronicle of a singular life in business and all its "chills, thrills, deals, risks, gambles, crash landings, and miraculous recoveries." Readers get: A first behind-the-scenes look at the life of a business legend Powerful lessons that managers and entrepreneurs can apply Eller's guiding principles for racking up successes and recovering from "crash landings" that center on the critical importance of integrity

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Green Mountain Coffee founder Bob Stiller delivers the timeless leadership approach he pioneered in the 1990s to help you increase engagement, retention, and revenueDecades before the business world discovered the power of authentic staff engagement, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters cofounder Bob Stiller was busy creating a company with a mission to build an engaged workforce focused on innovation. In the end, Green Mountain became a place where people realized they could make a difference, where their input mattered, where they were rewarded fairly, and where they can gro. It became a place workers feel good about. A community. A happy place that got better and better. And business results followed. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters went public, moved to selling wholesale exclusively, invested in Keurig, and became one of the few coffee companies to ever reach $1 billion in sales. It became one of the top-performing stocks of the 1990s on the Nasdaq exchange, and from 1995 to 2015, its stock had a 70 percent compounded annual rate of growth. In Better and Better, Stiller explains how he did it, from donating five percent pretax net income to environmental and social causes, with employees collectively deciding how donations would be used; to paying employees to volunteer in their own communities; to providing much-needed loans to small farms. With Better and Better, you'll learn how to use optimism, self-awareness, and kindness to build an inclusive and cherished workplace culture.

A full-color, image-packed guide to developing highly persuasive content that attracts more customers than ever-all based on the latest brain scienceThere's an overlooked but critical scientific fact that every marketing profession needs to know: Many decisions start with attention, and it's your job to grab the attention of every prospective customer as effectively as possible. But in this increasingly fast-paced, busy, and noisy world, how do you capture people's attention, much less persuade them? To answer this question, cognitive neuroscientist Carmen Simon leverages insights gleaned from her use of advanced technologies to study where people look, for how long, what type of attention leads to memories, and what keeps the brain coming back for more, to determine the effectiveness of sales pitches, marketing materials, corporate presentations, training videos, and other business content.In Made You Look, Simon presents her four-part framework for effectively attracting the attention of customers and impacting their buying decision: . Automatic triggers: capture audience attention with the physical properties of an external stimulus. Guided action: guide your audience toward their internal thoughts and prompt them to focus on something rewarding . Introspection: orient their attention internally toward something they consider rewarding . Visual search: direct their attention externally toward what they consider rewardingEach section of Made You Look provides detailed guidelines you can use in your communication materials immediately. Attract attention and, as a result, influence memory and decisions with Made You Look, and lead your company to the top of your industry.