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Stop the Stupid with PROACTIVE Problem Solving

In his latest book, PROACTIVE Problem Solving, Doug shares a bold and practical system to help organizations “Stop the Stupid” by eliminating inefficient work processes that drain time, energy, and resources. Drawing on decades of leadership experience and real-world success, Hall outlines a step-by-step method to identify root problems, engage teams at every level, and implement solutions that stick. With actionable tools and strategies, this book empowers organizations to reduce costly mistakes, boost employee engagement, and create lasting growth by transforming everyday frustrations into opportunities for innovation.

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JUMP START Your Business Brain

JUMP START Your Business Brain details data-proven methods that will make your sales, marketing and business development measurably more effective.

 

What makes this book unique:
The methods detailed here are backed by hard data and grounded in the statistical analysis of the success and failure of more than 4,000 new products and services, and more than 6,000 innovation teams.

 

The research quantifies the impact of a back-to-basics, customer-focused approach to sales, marketing and business development. It also uncovers ways to measurably increase effectiveness in today’s super competitive, time-compressed and overstressed marketplace.

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JUMP START Your Marketing Brain

Learn how to sell more with less effort.

Meaningful Marketing is a powerful new approach to sales and marketing that will multiply the impact of every dollar you invest and every hour you spend working. 

 

Meaningful Marketing is about honesty.  It’s about respecting your customers’ intelligence.  It’s about focusing your energies on how you and your offering make a genuine difference in your customers’ lives.

 

After reading Meaningful Marketing, you will know how to more effectively and efficiently market and sell:  Your brand, your services, our products and even yourself!

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DRIVING EUREKA!

Transform the art of innovation into a reliable system!  System Driven Innovation enables you and everyone on your team to use innovation to work smarter, faster, and more creatively.  It transforms innovation from a random act to a reliable science.

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JUMP START Your Brain Version 2.0

This is your guide to a counter-corporate culture approach to creativity, urging you to break rules with childlike abandonment – and have fun doing it.

 

What makes this book unique:  The methods Doug uses are tried and tested ways to make your brain 500% more creative!  Get your cranium flowing with new feats of imagination.

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North Pole Adventure

North Pole Tenderfoot

Join Doug Hall on an adventure to the top of the earth – the North Pole.  Leading the expedition is Paul Schurke of Ely, Minnesota, a genuine adventure hero.

 

As a brilliant businessman, Hall helps the world’s leading companies with big ideas and bold innovations, but on this trip he is a rookie, a raw beginner.  In Admiral Peary’s words, he is a “tenderfoot.”
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Peary had long been Hall’s hero, and following in the great explorer’s footsteps was a dream the tenderfoot wanted to fulfill.  In fulfilling that dream, he also hoped to raise awareness for his Great Aspirations! charity, which focuses on teaching parents how to inspire their children.

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The Maverick Mindset

This is the highest order of courage. With courage you can reach beyond yourself. It takes courage to turn a dream into a reality. It takes courage just to have a dream in the first place. But where can you find courage? How can you use courage to draw true satisfaction from your life? For each of us, the journey to find courage is different, but within the pages of The Maverick Mindset you will find the wisdom and inspiration necessary to discover the courage to follow your own heart and lead a fulfilled life.

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JUMP START Your Brain

Doug shares the wit and wisdom of the Eureka! Mansion experience — It will make you laugh — give you the courage to try — rekindle your spirt of adventure.

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Making The Courage Connection

Through the inspiring stories of ordinary people who freed themselves from fear, Doug Hall explains how to break free from fear one step at a time, prune away doubts, and live life on your own terms.

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