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There's a wide variety of additional Brainfood menu items available in the form of print books, eBooks, audio books, videos, and articles. These materials are designed to enhance the talents and abilities of business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, and students. corporations, professional organizations, trade associations, publishers, educational institutions, economic development agencies and business incubators to enhance the success potential of their customers, members and employees. These items can be provided via web sites; corporate intranets; e-mail programs; workshops and seminars; CDs & DVDs; and books, newsletters, and newspapers. 

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Audio books 
These books are available in CD, DVD, MP# and MP4 formats.  The feature both audio and video content that can be accessed at home, in the office or in an automobile via a standard CD player, digital listening device, personal digital assistant, digital entertainment platform, or personal computer. Specially edited, compressed, and recorded to capture a user’s undivided attention, this dynamic, digital diet of BrainFood is cooked up by renowned educators, authors and professionals. Search Codes are provided orally throughut each presentation so that additional printed information relating to each recorded topic can be freely downloaded from the BrainFoodToGo.com web portal. 
  • Formulating a Business Plan: This simple “how-to” guide will help a business operator formulate a comprehensive business plan that will both motivate and produce results. Allows you to zero in on priority goals and the most effective ways to achieve them. 
  • The Art of Innovation: Describes how to tap a company’s personal resources and put them to work in new and different ways. Demonstrates techniques for stimulating the creativity to discover hidden value.
  • The “Boss Basher”: Shows a business leader how to get a helpful “upward evaluation” by his or her employees and how such an appraisal can benefit the firm. Copy-ready forms are provided to conduct and score the exercise.
  • Go With the Gold: Specific suggestions for preparing a business for sale at the right time and at the right price.
  • Tune Up Tips: Describes how to put an enterprise back on a profitable track by maximizing its unique competencies and minimizing its most threatening challenges.
  • The Entrepreneurial Self-Test: An exercise that allows a business person to gain a true understanding of their entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses, and of how these personal attributes can impact the fortunes of their firms. 
  • The Art of Leadershiprship - Developing a Followership: Tips for business owners and managers who want to become dynamic forces for change and progress within their organizations. Describes how to nurture a truly motivated followership. 
  • Creating a Strategic Plan: A PathFinding approach to defining the essential nature and purpose of an enterprise and plot the fundamental paths that it will follow in seeking the broad, long-term goals necessary for unique achievement. 
  • To Be or Not To Be? Helps technology-driven innovators determine whether their latest brainchild can be rolled out into a profitable business venture.
  • Should I?  Or, Shouldn't I?   This is the key go/no go question that confronts everyone who enjoys an entrepreneurial spirit. With this audio book, potential venturers -- and their investors, lenders, or employers -- learn how to evaluate the personal strengths and weaknesses of an aspiring entrepreneur.  They find out how to assess their potential for success as an owner of a new business or as an innovative manager in an already established enterprise. Methods for appraising an opportunity are also explored. Listeners learn what is needed, personally and situationally, to launch a successful entrepreneurial career. 

Print books

The Center for Business Ownership Inc. publishes print books, eBooks, monographs, case studies, and self-assessment “Self-Checks” for innovative business leaders and entrepreneurs. 
The Center’s Brass Tacks publications feature crisp, current, condensed content that’s based on the premise “experience is the best teacher.” Their formats stimulate thinking and provide immediately actionable ideas. 
  • LotzaLists for Business Owners 
    This book shows business owners and entrepreneurs how to develop new understandings and insights through list-making. The techniques offered will enable them to self-empower, self-evaluate and, thus, enhance their personal and business abilities. Over 500 lists are included along with suggestions for extracting the most benefit from each list. Tips on creating new, highly-personalized lists are included. The introspection triggered by lists provides unique self-fulfillment. It's an enlightening and entertaining process. By contemplating the, experiences, thoughts, ideas, and attitudes and recollections that are evoked by lists, readers will come away with exclusive new competencies that are unique to them and their circumstances. The rewarding result is new know-how and the inspiration to put it to work. In addition introspective Me Lists, this book describes how venturers can employ other types of powerful and probing lists that will help them enhance their management skills, engage the minds and hearts of team members, and enrich their relationships with significant others. Tips on managing the tyranny of To Do Lists and increasing their productivity are also provided.   Click here to find out more about this book.
  • LotzaLists for Managers
    LotzaLists for Business Managers shows business leaders how to develop new understandings and insights through list-making, a process that enables them to self-evaluate, self-empower and, ultimately, enhance their personal and professional abilities. Hundreds of suggested lists are included, along with recommendations for extracting benefit from each. This book demonstrates how list contemplation can be an enlightening and entertaining process. The experiences, thoughts, ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and recollections that are evoked by lists afford readers new, unique, personal competencies. List-compilation generates powerful know-how…..and the inspiration to put it to work. Probing lists help managers understand themselves, enhance their leadership skills, engage the minds and hearts of team members, and enrich their relationships with peers and significant others. Click here to find out more about this book.
  • BrainFood for Business Owners 
    • This 196 page book consists of a collection of articles that provide valuable, need-to-know "stuff" that can make a critical top and bottom line difference to an ambitious venturer.  These aretilces have been published in some of America's leading newspapers, and have been compiled and formatted in a manner that will conserve your time while providing you with immediately actionable ideas. Click here to find out more about this book.
  • LotzaTips for Creating a Brass Tacks Strategic Plan
    • This publication helps business leaders define the essential nature and purpose of an enterprise and plot the fundamental paths that it will follow in seeking the broad, long-term goals necessary for unique achievement. A proven Strategic Planning Action Template is provided to participants to help them ensure that all the bases are covered as their organization concentrates on the long-term, macro issues that will determine the roles and routes that will afford it unmatched success. This approach helps principals establish priorities and focus their energies on the most appropriate initiatives. Click here to find out more about this book.
  • LotzaTips for Creating  a Brass Tacks Business Plan
    • This how-to publication provides established enterprises with a practical, step-by-step guide to compiling and presenting a comprehensive, understandable Business Plan. The product is a Plan that will motivate, provide critical direction, and produce results. Advice is given on essential plan contents, structure and organization, and about what works and what doesn't. Emphasized are the things that turn plan readers on and spark positive responses. The checklist format of the manual can help a business owner zero in on the most important short-term goals and devise the most effective, economical ways to achieve them. Each manual also provides a “C\Prompt Planning Matrix” to guide and facilitate a comprehensive planning process. This tool prompts planners to consider all relevant conditioning factors, and to relate their ambitious ideas to the realities of their company’s cash flow, the lifeblood of the enterprise. Click here to find out more about this book.
  • LotzaLists for Bank Branch Managers
    • This book shows team leaders in banking how to develop new insights and awareness through list-making, a process that enables them to self-evaluate, self-empower and, ultimately, enhance their personal and professional abilities. The technique facilitated by the book allows managers to tap into valuable, otherwise obscure, insights that are theirs alone. Then, through focused contemplation of each list, they can generate realizations and knowledge that will empower them to fine tune their abilities into distinctive personal competencies. The book provides managers with hundreds of suggested titles for them to complete, and describes ways in which they can create their own, unique lists. It also furnishes lists that branch managers can use collaboratively with spouses, peers, team members, and employees. List-compilation generates powerful know-how…and the inspiration to put it to work. Click here to find out more about this book.
  • LotzaLists for Your Campus to Career Crossover
    • This workbook helps college graduates develop and apply the kind of personal insight that’s essential to a successful transition from the “world of wonder” to the “world of work.” It shows how you can use lists to self-evaluate, self-empower, and enhance your abilities to exploit promising career opportunities in today’s competitive workplace. Hundreds of suggested lists are included in this book with recommendations for extracting benefits from each. You’ll also find advice for creating additional, highly personalized lists, along with ideas for soliciting helpful tips from others “who’ve been there; done that.” The lists offered for completion provide unique, personalized guidance in selecting a career path, successfully navigating it, and dealing with the “gatekeepers” along the way. The Me Lists examined in the book enable you to critically examine yourself and enhance your insights and self-confidence. Crossover Lists prompt you to pre-address specific issues and questions that might be posed by the folks conducting your job interviews or those who will influence your initial career path. Click here to find out more about this book.
     
eBooks
  • LotzaTips for Creating a Brass Tacks Strategic Plan
    • This eBookcan be accessed on any popular eReader. It helps business leaders define the essential nature and purpose of an enterprise and plot the fundamental paths that it will follow in seeking the broad, long-term goals necessary for unique achievement. A proven Strategic Planning Action Template is provided to participants to help them ensure that all the bases are covered as their organization concentrates on the long-term, macro issues that will determine the roles and routes that will afford it unmatched success. This approach helps principals establish priorities and focus their energies on the most appropriate initiatives. Click here to find out more about this book.
    LotzaTips for Managing Your To Do List
    This is a twenty-five page eBook that will help you manage your all-important TO DO list. It will also aid in ensuring that your TO DO lists are practical, productive, and -- most importantly -- DOABLE! 
    PRICE: Free
           

Articles and columns 

 

  • BRASS TACKS TIPS   This is a bi-weekly, 1000 word newspaper column designed to answer the questions of business owners anD entrepreneurs.  Having run in sOme of America's top newspapers for over a dozen years, it provides succinct, to-the-poInt tips, bred of real-world experience.

 

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Click on a green box at the left  to learn more about individual books by category
There's a wide variety of additional Brainfood menu items available in the form of print books, eBooks, audio books, videos, and articles. These materials are designed to enhance the talents and abilities of business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, and students. corporations, professional organizations, trade associations, publishers, educational institutions, economic development agencies and business incubators to enhance the success potential of their customers, members and employees. These items can be provided via web sites; corporate intranets; e-mail programs; workshops and seminars; CDs & DVDs; and books, newsletters, and newspapers.