How can executives not realize that positively motivating employees to produce phenomenal bottom-line return is as simple as, well, the four Bs that authors Harry Paul and Ross Reck advocate? (Their pedigrees include, for the former, the coauthorship of the Fish! series and, for the latter, management consulting gigs for some of the world’s best-known companies.) Just in case the amazing statistics and case histories about sparking productivity don’t prod management into action, try handing out this parable of how the fictional Biz Trenz magazine empire got its mojo back. The answer is through a dogged adherence to these principles—be real, be appreciative, be interested, be nice—along with visible senior-executive support. The authors make the readers’ jobs even easier by summarizing nuggets at the end of each chapter, then appending a step-by-step action plan with key behaviors. Not rocket science (though plenty of gurus are quoted), yet they’re responding to a real need for many corporations today.— Barbara Jacobs - [View The Article] - American Library Association Website

The North Gilbert Breeze and their associated blog, NearbyNews.com Blog, are reporting the news that Ross Reck will be speaking to the Chamber of Commerce on January 20th.  Look for full details in their article.

• The North Gilbert Breeze
• The Gilbert Chamber of Commerce

Harry Paul, a resident of the San Diego area, along with Ross Reck, Harry's co-author who lives in the Tempe Arizona area, are listed among the authors in the North Country Times article titled, "Local authors tackle history, sports and more."  Check out the entire article at: The North Country Times.

Douglas Robert Brown cites Ross Reck's "The X-Factor" as a key element in the book"The Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting: Over 2001 Innovative and Simple Ways to Save Your Food Service Operation Thousands by Reducing Expenses." 

The Food Services Managers Guide

The Food Service Managers Guide cites Ross Reck's The X-Factor as one of the many factors that has tips and hints on how your business can save thousands using simply ways to cut costs.

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Listen to Ross Reck's interview with WLEA-AM 1480, June 16, 2009.

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In this compact and accessible business parable, Paul and Reck (coauthors of Revved!) claim that savvy managers can turn any company around by creating a happy, positive workplace and valuing employees. While empowering employees is a straightforward concept, according to the authors, most managers “don’t live it.” Lessons in making this seemingly effortless turnaround are recounted through the story of an ambitious HR director at a distressed magazine publishing company. With the guidance of a successful entrepreneur, she revitalizes productivity and amazes her skeptical, numbers-oriented boss. While elementary in tone and message, a simple wisdom emerges that can be understood and shared by any manager in any industry. In dismal economic times, this small and genial fable provides the hopeful message that it is still the individual human spirit and cooperation that propels innovation and productivity.  [View Article] Publishers Weekly website