• A brand new 212º book written for leaders.
• 212° Leadership will show you how that one extra degree of leadership can make the difference not only in your own success…but also in the success of those you lead…and in that of your organization.
• Create an environment where quality and innovation are the norm, rather than the exception
• A must read for every leader!

Mac  Anderson, Author,
“In 212° Leadership, I share 10 of the elements that can help to transform your leadership skills, along with some of my favorite quotes on the elements of leadership. I’ve always been fascinated with the qualities and characteristics of great leaders. History has identified many qualities and characteristics of great leaders, and, of course, no person embodies them all. But the great leaders I’ve known, or read about have one simple thing in common: They have developed their leadership styles around their personalities and their values, and in the end, their actions are consistent with what they truly believe.

212° Leaders have made the leap from good to great. They are able to not only rally the troops to committed, purposeful action, but also to create an environment where quality and innovation are the norm, rather than the exception.
212° Leadership is designed to make you think…to help you grow…and to provide that extra degree of passion to take your leadership skills from effective to extraordinary! ”

212° Leadership
Hardcover Gift Book
107 pages 170 mm square
By Mac Anderson

Included: Your Logo and Message on the front of the presentation box lid.

10 Books – 6 with DVD

• The Essence of Leadership with DVD – Mac Anderson

Learn the importance of humor, good habits, leading with values, hiring great people and more. The keys to successful leadership are presented in an unforgettable way

• The Right To Lead – John Maxwell

Learning Leadership through Character and Courage. What gives a Man or Woman the right to lead? Can it be appointed?

• 212 The Extra Degree with DVD - Sam Parket & mac Anderson

At 211º water is hot. At 212º, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. The one extra degree makes the difference.

• Leading with Passion - John Murphy

Leaders are like magnets. Their magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls and attracts or repels. Which type of magnet are you?

• Walk the Talk with DVD – Eric Harvey and Steve Ventura

Walk the Talk is loaded with nuggets of wisdom for any person, or any organization, to help make sure that your values are consistent with your dreams

• What it Takes to be #1 with DVD/CD - Vince Lombardi

The Lombardi philosophy transcends football! Promote team work, integrity, and mental toughness to produce winning results in your personal and business life….

• What’s the Big Idea – Mac Anderson

Have you ever wondered what was the “spark” that was behind some of the most successful businesses? Use this book for you and your team to think of new and exciting ways to make your company the next “Big Idea.”

• Wisdon of Wolves with DVD – Twyman Towery

Teamwork, loyalty and communication are the norm rather than the exception. Sound like utopia?…

• You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School with DVD – Mac Anderson

A must have guide for every leader – this book will help you hire better people, become a better leader, get more done is less time and ignite your team to perform to their highest potential…

• Good to the Core – John Blumberg

A great resource for trainers and leaders in your organization. Each chapter has a “Core Challenge” for you to work on personally or as a team. Go at your own pace – take on a chapter or two a week or use at your next corporate leadership retreat.

]]> http://www.simpletruths.co.za/leadership-desktop-collection/feed/ 0 http://www.simpletruths.co.za/leading-with-passion/ http://www.simpletruths.co.za/leading-with-passion/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:14:23 +0000 Liz http://www.simpletruths.co.za/?p=1917 Every manager, CEO, school administrator and principal should read this book.

Effective, passionate leadership requires many things. In this book, we break it down to 10 essential steps.

Leaders are like magnets. Their magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls and attracts or repels. Which type of magnet are you?

Light a match in a dark room and watch as the light instantly overcomes the darkness. Observe the power and grace of that single, solitary flame dancing with life. Now light several candles or kindle a fire and experience the added warmth and comfort extending from that first, vulnerable flame through others. This is the heart and soul of leadership— the essence of inspiring others.

John J. Murphy, author of our best-selling book on teamwork, Pulling Together, follows up this best-seller with a leadership book like no other. Learn the 10 essentials to inspiring others and you will find that not only are you performing better has a leader, but your team is sharing your vision and following your lead to ultimate success.

People have debated for many years about the single most important characteristic or “ingredient” for leadership. The same endless debate might take place if we were to ask what the single, most important factor for chocolate cake is. Clearly, there is an argument for chocolate. There is also a good argument for eggs, flour, sugar, water and an assortment of other factors, including oven temperature and time in the oven. In fact, if any essential ingredient is missing or out of balance, the cake is vulnerable. It isn’t everything it could be.

Effective, passionate leadership requires many things. In this book, we cover ten essentials. Combine these key factors and you have a means to inspire and lead with passion.

Hardcover GiftB Book 112 pages, 170 mm x 170 mm

We’ve all seen it, or felt it, at some point in our life; how just one moment of encouragement can change a life forever. It can be the greatest gift you’ll ever give…or receive.

Our goal in this beautiful book is to inspire you to truly understand the power of encouragement by sharing many wonderful stories about how it can make a difference. We feel that there will be many “a-ha” heartfelt moments along the way. Here’s what co-author Mac Anderson said:

“When I look back at the moments when I needed “The Push,” and how it impacted my life, I knew that this is a book we had to publish!”

Even Eagles Need a Push makes a beautiful gift, not only for friends and family, but also your team, so they can understand the awesome power of kindness and encouragement.

Hardcover Gift Book,  128 pages, 170 mm x 170 mm
DVD run time 3 mm 33sec

• “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” – Rudyard Kipling
• What would happen in our business and our personal lives if we worked together towards a common goal like the wolf pack works together for survival?
• Explore the characteristics of this majestic creature in this breathtaking inspiring book.
• A perfect book for your next leadership retreat.

Twyman became interested in wolf packs after a grueling consulting project where the corporation he was working with had a group of executives trying to one-up one another and were generally stabbing each other in the back to get ahead. When he turned on public television that night he was transported to a different world, the milieu of the wolf pack, where teamwork, loyalty and communication were the norm rather than the exception.

Twyman Towery, Ph.D., a professional speaker and consultant who studied the lessons of leadership in nature and has captured them in a new book for Simple Truths called the Wisdom of Wolves. Twyman shares the parallels between the wolf pack and human behavior…in business, the family and how it impacts your personal life.

Hardcover Book  with DVD  170 mm x 170 mm   109 Pages
DVD Run time 3 min 41 sec

Everywhere you look today there are problems. Turn on your TV or computer—pick up a magazine or paper—and what do you see? Problems! Talk to your spouse, co-workers, family members or friends, and within minutes someone will bring up a problem… or two or three. Problems permeate the workplace, too—new products, old products, customer service, health care, retirement plans, sales, marketing, budgets, IT, personnel— the list of problems we confront each day is vast.

Michael McMillan’s newest release “Pink Bat” will turn your thinking upside down and get you and your team seeing problems as opportunities. Maybe you think this idea seems impossible, but you’re about to discover: “Pink Bat Thinking” makes the impossible possible.

Pink Bat…Turning Problems into Solutions is a must-read for everyone who lives in the world of business, or is a part of any organization. In fact, I predict that once you read it, you’ll want everyone in your company to do the same.

Hardcover gift book,  110 pages, 170 mm x 70 mm.

MAC ANDERSON is the founder of Simple Truths, and Successories, Inc., the leader in designing and marketing products for motivation and recognition. These companies, however, are not the first success stories for Mac. He was also the founder and CEO of McCord Travel, the largest travel company in the Midwest, and part owner/VP of sales for Orval Kent Food Company, the country’s largest manufacturer of prepared salads. Mac’s accomplishments in these unrelated industries provide some insight into his passion and leadership skills.

Mac brings the same passion to his speaking and writing. He speaks to many corporate audiences on a variety of topics, including leadership, motivation, and team building. He has authored or co-authored many of the Simple Truths books including: You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School, Customer Love, The Nature of Success, The Power of Attitude, Charging the Human Battery, Motivational Quotes, The Essence of Leadership, To a Child Love is Spelled T-I-M-E, The Dash, Change is Good…You Go First, 212° The Extra Degree and Learning to Dance in the Rain, What’s the Big Idea

Ideas are powerful and one…just one, can change your business and your life.
If you don’t believe me, just pick up the phone and call Steve Jobs, Howard
Shultz or Bill Gates. (Oops…I just remembered, they might be pretty busy.)

Here’s the question and also the inspiration for this book… How do big
ideas happen?
Is there a process or a formula? Or do big ideas just “bubble up” when
minds are curious and open to change? As a lifetime entrepreneur,
the “big idea question” has always fascinated me.

Although every story is different, sometimes just reading how it happened
can “spark” your imagination into action. Sometimes just learning about
how an individual who
was willing to take the risk to follow his or her dream and fight through
adversity to keep it alive, might be just the “push” you need.

However, this collection of “Big Idea Stories” was not only written with the entrepreneur in mind, it was also written to inspire innovation within existing companies. Far too often, companies “roll on” with the status quo, only to
wake up one day to find…competition has passed them by.

Whether your ambition is to start your own company or you want to apply
“Big Idea” thinking to your existing company – I know this book will help
spark many new ideas to make your story the next Big Idea!

Hardcover Book 96 pages 170 mm x 170 mm Authors: Mac Anderson

About the Author

MAC ANDERSON is the founder of Simple Truths, and Successories, Inc., the leader in designing and marketing products for motivation and recognition. These companies, however, are not the first success stories for Mac. He was
also the founder and CEO of McCord Travel, the largest travel company in the Midwest, and part owner/VP of sales for Orval Kent Food Company, the country’s largest manufacturer of prepared salads. Mac’s accomplishments in these unrelated industries provide some insight into his passion and leadership skills.
Mac brings the same passion to his speaking and writing. He speaks to many corporate audiences on a variety of topics, including leadership, motivation,
and team building. He has authored or co-authored 12 books including:

You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School, Customer Love, The Nature of Success, The Power of Attitude, Charging the Human Battery, Motivational Quotes and The Essence of Leadership, and has coauthored To a Child, Love is Spelled
T-I-M-E, The Dash, Change is Good…You Go First and 212° The Extra Degree.

• “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” – Rudyard Kipling
• What would happen in our business and our personal lives if we worked together towards a common goal like the wolf pack works together for survival?
• Explore the characteristics of this majestic creature in this breathtaking inspiring book.
• A perfect book for your next leadership retreat.

Twyman became interested in wolf packs after a grueling consulting project where the corporation he was working with had a group of executives trying to one-up one another and were generally stabbing each other in the back to get ahead. When he turned on public television that night he was transported to a different world, the milieu of the wolf pack, where teamwork, loyalty and communication were the norm rather than the exception.

Twyman Towery, Ph.D., a professional speaker and consultant who studied the lessons of leadership in nature and has captured them in a new book for Simple Truths called the Wisdom of Wolves. Twyman shares the parallels between the wolf pack and human behavior…in business, the family and how it impacts your personal life.

Hardcover Book  170 mm x 170 mm   109 Pages

Keep this book close by to find the right words of encouragement at the right time

1. A Simple Truths instant classic with a masculine design perfect for any organization to give to employees and customers
2. Mac Anderson believes, “The right words can engage the brain and bring an idea to life.” This handsome book is filled with 160 motivational quotes that will inspire you when you need it most.
   Motivational Quotes is a classic revisited. In 1985, Mac Anderson’s love of quotes inspired him to publish a small 80 page gift book titled Motivational Quotes. In just 18 months it sold 800,000 copies in hotel and airport gift shops.
   Mac then realized that people loved quotes as much as he did, and the big idea for Successories was born!
   Twenty three years have passed and we’re proud to present the new, improved, updated version of the original. It still has Mac’s 80 favorite quotes that were introduced in 1985, but he’s added 80 more, that since then, have helped to motivate him in good times and bad.

Hardcover Book 160 pages 170 mm x 170 mm  Author: Mac Anderson

Great Quotes form Great Leaders

Anyone who love quotes and history will appreciate this handsome coffee table book

• A great resource for any classroom – “Great Quotes from Great Leaders,” combines a brief biography of each leader with photographs and powerful quotes.
• A valuable gift book for your friends, family, and customers.

This extraordinary book will be a source of inspiration and knowledge for many years to come. It is a beautiful coffee table edition with 160 pages, 75 wonderful photographs and over 400 great quotations from leaders in all walks of life. Some of the leaders include: Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr.,Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Henry Ford, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, George S. Patton, Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Sam Walton, John Wooden, Ray Kroc, and many more.

DVD run time:4m:16s

Hardcover Book 160 pages 200 mm x 200 mm