Business Leaders of America
Jay Lillie
October 06, 2010
Entrepreneurial leaders do not have a mindset that adapts to
failure. Things go wrong, of course, but entrepreneurs don´t
call them "failures" they call them "glitches, mistakes,
bungles, setbacks", but not failing.
When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision
he ever had to make, he answered that he didn´t know what a hard
decision was. An entrepreneur will approach decision-making with
the idea that there´s a strong likelihood that he/she will be
wrong. This doesn´t dissuade them to the contrary they just
do the best they can and worry about handling obstacles as they
arise.
Here are a few top entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Mojocastle Press
Established and run by a team of intelligent, visionary, and well-versed women, Mojocastle Press intends to take over the erotic literary world one story at a time. With selections ranging from the numerous genres of the talented Carys Weldon, the gothic-horror of newcomer K.A. M´Lady, the historical BDSM of Terri Pray and exciting novels by established New York authors Morgan Hawke and Devin Quinn, Mojocastle Press leads where other independents follow. They cross social, historical and religious boundaries, taking the reader on a personal journey that will leave them breathless, captivated and consumed. Mojocastle Press is owned by Carrie King (CEO) and Stephanie Kelsey (COO and Editor-in-Chief). Both have extensive experience in business. They also share a positive outlook, and will do whatever is needed to succeed. Or as Carrie likes to say, "Burn the longboats, failure isn't an option."
Jawoco
Jawoco, a start-up search engine by a 21-year-old genius tech-preneur, promises to ´Shake´ worldwide web up as it grows in the search engine arena and grabs users´ attention due to its interactive features, which are starting to compete with Google and Bing. Jawoco (http://www.jawoco.com ) is a rapidly growing phenomenon on the web due to its ability to provide user-friendly interactive capabilities and keyword relevancy that users desire for in a search engine.
Brookfield Homes
Brookfield Homes has reduced the tax rate to 1.17 percent at Mahogany at Old Creek Ranch in San Marcos, saving new homeowners thousands of dollars.The 1.17 percent rate is based on a Mahogany sales price of $596,900. The tax rate will increase or decrease based upon the actual sales price of the home.
Bojangles´
Founded in 1977 in Charlotte, N.C., Bojangles' Restaurants Inc. serves only the highest quality and most flavorful food to its loyal customers, with all its proprietary menu items made from scratch. A special blend of seasonings gives the food its unique flavor, including Bojangles´ world famous chicken, fresh made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits and unique sides like Dirty Rice™, Cajun Pintos™ and Seasoned Fries. First franchised in 1978, Bojangles' boasts close to 500 locations in 11 states, primarily in the Southeast. The Company was named one of the top 10 growth concepts in 2009 by both GE Capital and QSR magazine. For more information, visit www.bojangles.com.
Emerson
Emerson, based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2009 were $20.9 billion. For more information, visit www.Emerson.com.
TERRO
TERRO® is the industry leader in ant control and has been a trusted brand for more than 90 years. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, the company offers proven ant control products, including liquid ant baits, aerosol sprays, perimeter granules and ant dust. TERRO products are widely distributed at all leading hardware, home center, mass merchant, food and drug, farm and fleet and independent garden center retailers nationwide. For more information about TERRO products, call 1-800-837-7644, or visit http://terro.com
Rocking Horse Ranch
Halloween attractions have been a signature piece for the Rocking Horse Ranch. With over 30-years´ consecutive Halloween attractions, Rocking Horse knows how to scare. "We have professionals from all over helping put this together," said owner Steve Turk. "This is one of our favorite times, so we put our whole hearts into it!"
Positive Partners
Positive Partners differs from most service dog training programs in several respects. In addition to custom-training service dogs for individuals with special needs that are not accommodated by most of the larger assistance dog training programs, Positive Partners uses "clicker" training, perhaps best known for its use in training whales and dolphins. Assistance dogs also go directly from the "puppy raiser" to the handler, eliminating the difficult and expensive kennel phase of most service dog training programs. Positive Partners´ costs for training a service dog are as much as $10,000 below those of many other organizations.
Suzanne Wesley
Suzanne Wesley is a commercial writer and graphic artist from Indiana who specializes in assisting businesses or individuals with creating marketing materials that make an impact from her home office. She is primarily a print designer, with over 14 years in graphics, writing and marketing related experience. She is also an unpublished author polishing drafts of her first Christian fiction manuscripts. Suzanne joined the ACFW in 2009 to improve her overall writing, and learn further about the Christian fiction industry. She also completed a two-year Christian Writer´s Guild Apprenticeship in 2009.
Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC)
Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) provides leadership in economic development, markets Edmonton as a must-see destination, manages the Shaw Conference Centre and Edmonton Research Park, and acts as a stakeholder in TEC Edmonton, a joint venture with the University of Alberta. For more information, visit www.edmonton.com Learn more about Edmonton through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca
Inman News
Inman News is the leading source of independent real estate news, information, advice, research, technology, opinion and commentary for industry professionals and consumers alike. Inman's unbiased and hard-hitting stories are known throughout the real estate industry. Agents and brokers globally trust Inman News as their first source of accurate, innovative and timely daily real estate news.
Bodybuilding.com
Bodybuilding.com, the Internet´s most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, announced the 6th Annual 2010 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards winners live at Joe Weider´s Olympia in Las Vegas, Nevada September 24, 2010. The Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards are the industry standard for recognition of the best products and brands in the fitness and supplement industry.
RoseDog Books
Worpple, a new book by Lynn Russell, has been released by RoseDog Books.Author Lynn Russell developed Worpple at the urging of Amblin Entertainment. Mr. Don Wood, then director of animation, suggested that Lynn write a story to go with the warm and lovable creatures she had created. "I had no idea how to write a story," she tells us, Thus began almost twenty years to learn the craft of writing. Since then Ms. Russell has written, Time and Again and Again, an adventurous adult fiction, and is working on, Miraculous You, a book on the near death experience and a number of short stories.
Quicken Loans
Quicken Loans is proud to announce that its Thanks a Million Giveaway and Thanks a Million Sweepstakes are going strong and offer a great opportunity for consumers to win great prizes! In celebration of closing one million mortgages, Quicken Loans has pledged to pay-off the mortgage of one lucky client through their Thanks a Million Giveaway. And as an added, but fun, bonus, they´re hosting the Thanks a Million Sweepstakes – a no-obligation game that allows users to win prizes like gift cards to major retailers, Fatheads, Xeko toys, free credit monitoring service and more.
Havertys
Havertys, established in 1885, is a full-service home furnishings retailer with 116 showrooms in 17 states in the Southern and Midwestern regions providing its customers with a wide selection of quality merchandise in middle to upper-middle price ranges. Additional information is available on the company's website at http://www.havertys.com.
KellyOCG
KellyOCG is a global leader in innovative talent management solutions in the areas of Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Human Resources Consulting, Career Transition and Organizational Effectiveness Consulting, Executive Search and Contingent Workforce Outsourcing (CWO), which includes Independent Contractor Solutions. Visit www.kellyocg.com.
HunterExam.com
HunterExam.com's internet-based hunting safety course has been available in a number of states for over a year now, and has redefined the standards in online hunter education. The program has pushed the boundaries of e-learning, and more hunter education instructors now agree that the online hunter education program is an extremely effective way to teach students.
Auctori ™
Auctori, a Unidev solution, is a high capacity, high performance multi-lingual Web Content Management System (WCMS) built for search engine optimization. This turnkey solution gives the user the power to add, edit, and delete pages, content and navigation elements on the user´s website instantly. In addition, users have the ability to manage user profiles and settings all within the content management system. For more information on Auctori ™ or for a free demonstration, please visit www.auctori.com, or call (888) 629-4672.About Auctori:law™ Auctori:law™, a Unidev® solution, is a high capacity, high performance Web Content Management System (WCMS) built for search engine optimization and designed for the legal industry. Auctori:law ™ gives the legal professional an easy to use tool for managing their web presence. For more information on Auctori:law™ or for a free demonstration, please visit www.auctorilaw.com, or call (888) 629-4672.
Unidev®
Unified Development, Inc. (Unidev) is a diversified IT company, focused on the application of technology to business. Founded in 1990, Unidev has a long history of successfully meeting the customers´ needs with proven, reliable and cost-effective solutions. Unidev provides productivity applications, custom software development and technology consulting services to both business and government. For more information on Unidev, please visit www.unidev.com, or call (800) 301-9589.
Locum Leaders
Locum Leaders is a leading locum tenens recruiting firm specializing in hospitalist jobs, psychiatry jobs, surgery jobs and anesthesiologist and CRNA jobs. The Alpharetta, GA-based company recruits and places qualified physicians and CRNAs in jobs at healthcare facilities nationwide. Locum Leaders is a member of the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations (NALTO). For more information and to find locum tenens jobs, visit the company's website at http://www.locumleaders.com, email info@locumleaders.com or call 877-562-8656 (877-LocumJobs).
Xulon Press
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world´s largest Christian publisher, with more than 8,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Way through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The Way is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.
iPhone Unlocking Ltd
Phone Unlocking Ltd have just released the latest iphone unlock method for the latest ios 4.1 and previous 4.0.2, which is great news for all iPhone enthusiasts. The software is available to download today at iPhone Unlocking. iPhone Unlocking Ltd have been providing iPhone unlock solutions since the release of the iPhone 2G (June 2007). They have received over a total of 1 million downloads since the initial launch. This is unmatched within the industry.
PASSPORT/Zephyr Development Corporation
PASSPORT offers advanced terminal emulation and file transfer for Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7. Both desktop and browser-based versions of PASSPORT are available and feature robust APIs for screen-based legacy integration, as well as VBScript to develop productivity-enhancing macros. Secure TN3270E, TN5250E, VT, SCO ANSI, Wyse and FTP clients are included in the PASSPORT PC TO HOST and PASSPORT WEB TO HOST terminal emulation suites using SSL and SSH security.
Jovani
The Jovani fashion house was created by a unique vision to give women a readily accessible line of designer eveningwear. Inspired by the high-fashion scene in Europe, Jovani offers a premier collection of couture designs that are chic and contemporary. The extensive collection features elegant dresses for Prom, Bridal, Evening, Pageant and Homecoming. The name has transformed into an internationally recognized brand that can be seen on the likes of A-list celebrities, and is featured inside the pages of high fashion magazines. No matter what the occasion calls for, Jovani is the ultimate destination for all your formal needs.
Electrolux
Electrolux is a global leader in household appliances and appliances for professional use, selling more than 40 million products to customers in more than 150 markets every year. The company focuses on innovations that are thoughtfully designed, based on extensive consumer insight, to meet the real needs of consumers and professionals. Electrolux products include refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and cookers sold under esteemed brands such as Electrolux, AEG-Electrolux, Eureka and Frigidaire. In 2009, Electrolux had sales of approximately 14 billion USD and 51,000 employees. For more information go to www.electrolux.com/press and www.electrolux.com/news.
failure. Things go wrong, of course, but entrepreneurs don´t
call them "failures" they call them "glitches, mistakes,
bungles, setbacks", but not failing.
When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision
he ever had to make, he answered that he didn´t know what a hard
decision was. An entrepreneur will approach decision-making with
the idea that there´s a strong likelihood that he/she will be
wrong. This doesn´t dissuade them to the contrary they just
do the best they can and worry about handling obstacles as they
arise.
Here are a few top entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Mojocastle Press
Established and run by a team of intelligent, visionary, and well-versed women, Mojocastle Press intends to take over the erotic literary world one story at a time. With selections ranging from the numerous genres of the talented Carys Weldon, the gothic-horror of newcomer K.A. M´Lady, the historical BDSM of Terri Pray and exciting novels by established New York authors Morgan Hawke and Devin Quinn, Mojocastle Press leads where other independents follow. They cross social, historical and religious boundaries, taking the reader on a personal journey that will leave them breathless, captivated and consumed. Mojocastle Press is owned by Carrie King (CEO) and Stephanie Kelsey (COO and Editor-in-Chief). Both have extensive experience in business. They also share a positive outlook, and will do whatever is needed to succeed. Or as Carrie likes to say, "Burn the longboats, failure isn't an option."
Jawoco
Jawoco, a start-up search engine by a 21-year-old genius tech-preneur, promises to ´Shake´ worldwide web up as it grows in the search engine arena and grabs users´ attention due to its interactive features, which are starting to compete with Google and Bing. Jawoco (http://www.jawoco.com ) is a rapidly growing phenomenon on the web due to its ability to provide user-friendly interactive capabilities and keyword relevancy that users desire for in a search engine.
Brookfield Homes
Brookfield Homes has reduced the tax rate to 1.17 percent at Mahogany at Old Creek Ranch in San Marcos, saving new homeowners thousands of dollars.The 1.17 percent rate is based on a Mahogany sales price of $596,900. The tax rate will increase or decrease based upon the actual sales price of the home.
Bojangles´
Founded in 1977 in Charlotte, N.C., Bojangles' Restaurants Inc. serves only the highest quality and most flavorful food to its loyal customers, with all its proprietary menu items made from scratch. A special blend of seasonings gives the food its unique flavor, including Bojangles´ world famous chicken, fresh made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits and unique sides like Dirty Rice™, Cajun Pintos™ and Seasoned Fries. First franchised in 1978, Bojangles' boasts close to 500 locations in 11 states, primarily in the Southeast. The Company was named one of the top 10 growth concepts in 2009 by both GE Capital and QSR magazine. For more information, visit www.bojangles.com.
Emerson
Emerson, based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2009 were $20.9 billion. For more information, visit www.Emerson.com.
TERRO
TERRO® is the industry leader in ant control and has been a trusted brand for more than 90 years. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, the company offers proven ant control products, including liquid ant baits, aerosol sprays, perimeter granules and ant dust. TERRO products are widely distributed at all leading hardware, home center, mass merchant, food and drug, farm and fleet and independent garden center retailers nationwide. For more information about TERRO products, call 1-800-837-7644, or visit http://terro.com
Rocking Horse Ranch
Halloween attractions have been a signature piece for the Rocking Horse Ranch. With over 30-years´ consecutive Halloween attractions, Rocking Horse knows how to scare. "We have professionals from all over helping put this together," said owner Steve Turk. "This is one of our favorite times, so we put our whole hearts into it!"
Positive Partners
Positive Partners differs from most service dog training programs in several respects. In addition to custom-training service dogs for individuals with special needs that are not accommodated by most of the larger assistance dog training programs, Positive Partners uses "clicker" training, perhaps best known for its use in training whales and dolphins. Assistance dogs also go directly from the "puppy raiser" to the handler, eliminating the difficult and expensive kennel phase of most service dog training programs. Positive Partners´ costs for training a service dog are as much as $10,000 below those of many other organizations.
Suzanne Wesley
Suzanne Wesley is a commercial writer and graphic artist from Indiana who specializes in assisting businesses or individuals with creating marketing materials that make an impact from her home office. She is primarily a print designer, with over 14 years in graphics, writing and marketing related experience. She is also an unpublished author polishing drafts of her first Christian fiction manuscripts. Suzanne joined the ACFW in 2009 to improve her overall writing, and learn further about the Christian fiction industry. She also completed a two-year Christian Writer´s Guild Apprenticeship in 2009.
Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC)
Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) provides leadership in economic development, markets Edmonton as a must-see destination, manages the Shaw Conference Centre and Edmonton Research Park, and acts as a stakeholder in TEC Edmonton, a joint venture with the University of Alberta. For more information, visit www.edmonton.com Learn more about Edmonton through the stories of people who've experienced it at www.edmontonstories.ca
Inman News
Inman News is the leading source of independent real estate news, information, advice, research, technology, opinion and commentary for industry professionals and consumers alike. Inman's unbiased and hard-hitting stories are known throughout the real estate industry. Agents and brokers globally trust Inman News as their first source of accurate, innovative and timely daily real estate news.
Bodybuilding.com
Bodybuilding.com, the Internet´s most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, announced the 6th Annual 2010 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards winners live at Joe Weider´s Olympia in Las Vegas, Nevada September 24, 2010. The Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards are the industry standard for recognition of the best products and brands in the fitness and supplement industry.
RoseDog Books
Worpple, a new book by Lynn Russell, has been released by RoseDog Books.Author Lynn Russell developed Worpple at the urging of Amblin Entertainment. Mr. Don Wood, then director of animation, suggested that Lynn write a story to go with the warm and lovable creatures she had created. "I had no idea how to write a story," she tells us, Thus began almost twenty years to learn the craft of writing. Since then Ms. Russell has written, Time and Again and Again, an adventurous adult fiction, and is working on, Miraculous You, a book on the near death experience and a number of short stories.
Quicken Loans
Quicken Loans is proud to announce that its Thanks a Million Giveaway and Thanks a Million Sweepstakes are going strong and offer a great opportunity for consumers to win great prizes! In celebration of closing one million mortgages, Quicken Loans has pledged to pay-off the mortgage of one lucky client through their Thanks a Million Giveaway. And as an added, but fun, bonus, they´re hosting the Thanks a Million Sweepstakes – a no-obligation game that allows users to win prizes like gift cards to major retailers, Fatheads, Xeko toys, free credit monitoring service and more.
Havertys
Havertys, established in 1885, is a full-service home furnishings retailer with 116 showrooms in 17 states in the Southern and Midwestern regions providing its customers with a wide selection of quality merchandise in middle to upper-middle price ranges. Additional information is available on the company's website at http://www.havertys.com.
KellyOCG
KellyOCG is a global leader in innovative talent management solutions in the areas of Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Human Resources Consulting, Career Transition and Organizational Effectiveness Consulting, Executive Search and Contingent Workforce Outsourcing (CWO), which includes Independent Contractor Solutions. Visit www.kellyocg.com.
HunterExam.com
HunterExam.com's internet-based hunting safety course has been available in a number of states for over a year now, and has redefined the standards in online hunter education. The program has pushed the boundaries of e-learning, and more hunter education instructors now agree that the online hunter education program is an extremely effective way to teach students.
Auctori ™
Auctori, a Unidev solution, is a high capacity, high performance multi-lingual Web Content Management System (WCMS) built for search engine optimization. This turnkey solution gives the user the power to add, edit, and delete pages, content and navigation elements on the user´s website instantly. In addition, users have the ability to manage user profiles and settings all within the content management system. For more information on Auctori ™ or for a free demonstration, please visit www.auctori.com, or call (888) 629-4672.About Auctori:law™ Auctori:law™, a Unidev® solution, is a high capacity, high performance Web Content Management System (WCMS) built for search engine optimization and designed for the legal industry. Auctori:law ™ gives the legal professional an easy to use tool for managing their web presence. For more information on Auctori:law™ or for a free demonstration, please visit www.auctorilaw.com, or call (888) 629-4672.
Unidev®
Unified Development, Inc. (Unidev) is a diversified IT company, focused on the application of technology to business. Founded in 1990, Unidev has a long history of successfully meeting the customers´ needs with proven, reliable and cost-effective solutions. Unidev provides productivity applications, custom software development and technology consulting services to both business and government. For more information on Unidev, please visit www.unidev.com, or call (800) 301-9589.
Locum Leaders
Locum Leaders is a leading locum tenens recruiting firm specializing in hospitalist jobs, psychiatry jobs, surgery jobs and anesthesiologist and CRNA jobs. The Alpharetta, GA-based company recruits and places qualified physicians and CRNAs in jobs at healthcare facilities nationwide. Locum Leaders is a member of the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations (NALTO). For more information and to find locum tenens jobs, visit the company's website at http://www.locumleaders.com, email info@locumleaders.com or call 877-562-8656 (877-LocumJobs).
Xulon Press
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world´s largest Christian publisher, with more than 8,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Way through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The Way is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.
iPhone Unlocking Ltd
Phone Unlocking Ltd have just released the latest iphone unlock method for the latest ios 4.1 and previous 4.0.2, which is great news for all iPhone enthusiasts. The software is available to download today at iPhone Unlocking. iPhone Unlocking Ltd have been providing iPhone unlock solutions since the release of the iPhone 2G (June 2007). They have received over a total of 1 million downloads since the initial launch. This is unmatched within the industry.
PASSPORT/Zephyr Development Corporation
PASSPORT offers advanced terminal emulation and file transfer for Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7. Both desktop and browser-based versions of PASSPORT are available and feature robust APIs for screen-based legacy integration, as well as VBScript to develop productivity-enhancing macros. Secure TN3270E, TN5250E, VT, SCO ANSI, Wyse and FTP clients are included in the PASSPORT PC TO HOST and PASSPORT WEB TO HOST terminal emulation suites using SSL and SSH security.
Jovani
The Jovani fashion house was created by a unique vision to give women a readily accessible line of designer eveningwear. Inspired by the high-fashion scene in Europe, Jovani offers a premier collection of couture designs that are chic and contemporary. The extensive collection features elegant dresses for Prom, Bridal, Evening, Pageant and Homecoming. The name has transformed into an internationally recognized brand that can be seen on the likes of A-list celebrities, and is featured inside the pages of high fashion magazines. No matter what the occasion calls for, Jovani is the ultimate destination for all your formal needs.
Electrolux
Electrolux is a global leader in household appliances and appliances for professional use, selling more than 40 million products to customers in more than 150 markets every year. The company focuses on innovations that are thoughtfully designed, based on extensive consumer insight, to meet the real needs of consumers and professionals. Electrolux products include refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and cookers sold under esteemed brands such as Electrolux, AEG-Electrolux, Eureka and Frigidaire. In 2009, Electrolux had sales of approximately 14 billion USD and 51,000 employees. For more information go to www.electrolux.com/press and www.electrolux.com/news.
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