Mark C. Thompson - Now, Build a Great Business! 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market

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Now, Build a Great Business!

No one can give you clearer advice about how to run a great company than Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy. Now, Build a Great Business! is the perfect prescription for a much more profitable and personally rewarding business.

Keith Ferrazzi, #1 New York Times bestselling author
of Whos Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone

Now, Build a Great Business! is the perfect balance between how-to and practical wisdom. Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy have crafted an inspirational book that will allow leaders and organizations to achieve their goals.

Tab Nkhereanye, Sony/ATV Music

Mark and Brian give you an insiders look at what happens when you show more genuine caring for your customers and employees. Everybody wins! Youll enjoy this book, but most importantly, use this book!

John Christensen, bestselling coauthor of FISH!

The ideas, strategies, and tactics in this book will catapult you from where you are to where you want to be, faster and easier than ever before.

John Assaraf, New York Times bestselling author of The Answer

Breakthrough is an overused word, though I can think of none more appropriate to describe Brian Tracy and Mark Thompsons new book, Now, Build a Great Business! It should be mandatory reading for everyone in business including billionaires.

Bill Bartmann, self-made billionaire and CEO, Bill Bartmann Enterprises

Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy are two great business coaches Ive long admired whove joined forces to bring you a book with the leadership tools you need to Build a Great Business.

Dr. Steven Stargardter, President, John F. Kennedy University

Mark Thompson and Brian Tracys tremendous research, based on Marks first-hand discussions with many of the most successful business luminaries of our time, give an informed perspective unique in the marketplace. Mark is the Napoleon Hill of the 21st Century and Brian is the Dale Carnegie.

Greg Link, cofounder, CoveyLink; producer of the New York Times bestseller,
The Speed of Trust, with Stephen M.R. Covey

Now, Build a Great Business! is a compelling read and gives you decades of hard-earned business experience presented in a way that is easy to implement. I love this book because it is so practical. The more people who read it, the faster we will get back to prosperity for self and shareholders!

Julie Woods-Moss, business strategist and former President,
British Telecom Strategy and Marketing

I help people and organizations achieve their full potential. In Now, Build a Great Business!, Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy demonstrate that growing extraordinary people is the only way to deliver extraordinary results.

Stephen Miles, Vice Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles

An incredible book for jumpstarting growth, supercharging teams, and taking your business to a whole new level of growth. This years best read on growth and profitability!

Jason Jennings, New York Times bestselling author of Less Is More,
Think BIG-Act Small, and Hit the Ground Running

Imagine having lunch with the greatest leaders of our time and asking them what mattered (and what didnt), so that you could apply it to your lifes work. This is what Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy have been doing for decades. This book gives you a seat at the tablean amazing gift that empowers you to succeed in ways that endure.

David Jeffers, Retail Brand Experience, John Deere

Mark and Brian teach you to build a successful business and life with clarity and care. Reading their words is like plugging into your personal battery charger. You will find the encouragement to become the unique leader you are meant to be.

Alex von Bidder, Managing Partner and co-owner,
The Four Seasons Restaurant

I have long since marveled and respected Brian Tracy and Mark Thompson for all of their business and life wisdom. You will find this book relevant, powerful, clear, and practical. This will surely help many leaders fine-tune their businesses and help create some brand new ones bound for greatness!

Steve Rodgers, President/Owner, Windermere Properties; former CEO,
Prudential California Realty, a division of Berkshire Hathaway

Mark and Brian are thoughtful, experienced leaders whove created a great read without the usual hype from management books. Its just the right perspective to grow your business.

Mike Linton, Forbes.com columnist; former CMO, Best Buy and eBay

Leaders wishing to take their businesses to the next level should soak up the down-to-earth prescription in Mark Thompson and Brian Tracys Now, Build a Great Business! This book captures what it really takes. Do it now!

Minter Dial, Brand Strategist and former member of the LOral Executive
Committee and Worldwide General Manager of Redken 5th Avenue NYC

Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy are among the worlds thought leaders, and this amazing book proves it with its transformational ability to make your business profitable and built to last!

Chet Holmes, bestselling author of The Ultimate Sales Machine; CEO,
BusinessBreakthroughs.com

We are in the Era of the Entrepreneur. NOW is your time to profit, and Now, Build a Great Business! is the instruction manual you have been waiting for on how to do it. Every page is chock-full with practical and actionable strategies you will continually refer to in your ascent to entrepreneurial greatness.

Darren Hardy, Publisher, SUCCESS magazine

Leadership in building a business is about character, competence, and perseverance. These are traits that describe Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy, and thats what you will learn from them when you read this great book.

Karen Chang, business adviser and former President,
Charles Schwab Individual Investor Enterprise

Now, Build a Great Business!

7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market

Mark Thompson
and Brian Tracy

Foreword by Frances Hesselbein,
President and CEO, Leader to Leader Institute

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thompson, Mark.

Now, build a great business! : 7 ways to maximize your profits in any market / Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy ; foreword by Frances Hesselbein.1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-1697-6

ISBN-10: 0-8144-1697-7

1. Leadership. 2. Strategic planning. 3. Marketing. 4. Consumer satisfaction. I. Tracy, Brian. II. Title.

HD57.7.T46734 2011

658dc22

2010030612

2011 Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy.
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