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Breakthrough! Wins InnoThink Award
1998's "Most Far-Thinking Combination of Message and Media"
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February 1999 - It's been a ground-breaking year of achievement for Breakthrough!® Everything You Need to Start a Solution Revolution, a multi-media book package by Debbe Kennedy. One of last year's innovative newcomers, Breakthrough! has now earned distinction as the 1998 InnoThink Award Winner given "for the most far-thinking combination of message and media. ...Pioneering," announced MANAGEMENT GENERAL®, the national reviewer of management tools. Kennedy's slipcased set with book/CD-ROM/card deck, an innovative kit of leadership knowledge and tools for organizational renewal, first caught MG's attention when it was hot off the press. "In what may very easily be the future format of many business books, Kennedy focuses on the workplace syndrome of talking about problems without ever developing concrete actions to address them, "reported MG last spring when it placed Kennedy's Breakthrough! on the list of contenders for their ten most important books for 1998.
The MANAGEMENT GENERAL® website at http://www.mgeneral.com, a new ideas resource center for managers, describes its pick of the Top 10 Resources of the Year and its annual InnoThink Award as "a discerning critical list of new books, videos, CD-ROMS, or other enduring resources which can help leaders better understand their role and contributions. More than a list of what's selling the most, it is a list of what should be selling the most." Debbe Kennedy, a former IBM manager that turned entrepreneur in 1992, (Founder and President, Leadership Solutions Companies), explains that her inspiration for creating Breakthrough! came from watching managers struggle to solve the same problems, in the same way, year after year, just as she had. "We all have recall of those long, rarely productive brainstorming sessions around a flip chart in a conference room. I knew there had to be a better way for organizations to get core issues on the table and start solving them. Breakthrough! proves there is." "Kennedy's Breakthrough! is simultaneously a compendium of timeless, recognized wisdom and a great tool kit for getting something done on Monday morning. Few management packages pack the punch of this effort," reports Nicholas Imparato, Co-Author, Jumping the Curve, Professor, University of San Francisco and Research Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Others have also validated and praised Kennedy's innovation: "...low on hype and high on utility. I see dozens of applications."
-- Joel A. Barker, Futurist and Author, Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future
"...great wisdom, great style, great utility, and great innovation."
-- Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management
"Problem solving for an upcoming business era of accelerating change is the goal of this boxed leadership tool set produced by Debbe Kennedy. Forget consultants, individual brainstorming, and reading another business book. It's time to get practical."
-- Lex Ticonderoga, Editor, Today's Books/Public News Service
Breakthrough! is available on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com or wherever books are sold. $79.00 ISBN 0-9657677-9-5. Take a preview tour or buy copies at Leadership Solutions Publishing web site at http://www.lspublishing.com. Discounts offered for education and training. Journalists: to get your review copy or to arrange an interview with Debbe Kennedy, please contact Leadership Solutions Publishing at 650-794-4870, breakthrough@lspublishing.com or contact Debbe Kennedy at dkennedy@lscompanies.com.
Sally Green
Leadership Solutions Publishing
650-794-4870
sgreen@lspublishing.com
http://www.lspublishing.com/
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