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Engaged Management, Volume 2: Maximizing Your Team's Sales Performance (2nd edition) is the follow-up to the Amazon best-seller, Engaged Management, Volume 1: Inspiring Your Team To Win. This series is written for all levels of television broadcast and cable management and for those aspiring to one day secure a management title and leadership role in the TV business. Inside these pages you'll find immediately executable leadership, coaching, management, sales preparation, customer service, and career improvement suggestions. The Engaged Management series features self-contained articles packed with anecdotes, stories, and "voice of experience" lessons. This is not a business book where each chapter is an organized step to becoming a better manager. The writing is crafted in a style that makes it easy to stop reading mid-chapter to reflect, digest, and act on the new information. Here's what industry execs have to say: "One of the best new TV sales & marketing management books I have seen of late. John Hannon's 'Engaged Management, Volume 2: Maximizing Your Team's Sales Performance' is a great new bible for the current media climate." (Russell Myerson, Network Television Executive) "In our business, revenue solves all issues. Nobody understand that better than John Hannon. In this book he reveals how to connect with and motivate professionals to perform at levels they never thought possible. This should be mandatory reading for every sales and management professional in your organization." (Nick Waller, EVP & COO, Gray Television) "John is a gifted, passionate broadcast sales management trainer, who loves the television business. He has personally been on the front lines, and truly understand and relates to the challenges of today's broadcast media professional. His knowledge and experience comes through loud and clear in this must-read book." (Mark Gordon, President & CEO, Missouri Broadcasters Association). Other books in the Engaged Management series include Volume 1: Inspiring Your Team To Win and Volume 3: Awakening Sales Confidence In Your Team.

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To some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no "Stand Your Ground," ...You get the idea.

To outsiders, Florida seems baffling. It's a state where the voters went for Barack Obama twice, yet elected a Tea Party candidate as governor. Florida is touted as a carefree paradise, yet it's also known for its perils--alligators, sinkholes, pythons, hurricanes, and sharks, to name a few. It attracts 90 million visitors a year, some drawn by its impressive natural beauty, others bewitched by its manmade fantasies.

Oh, Florida! explores those contradictions and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting state. It is the first book to explore the reasons why Florida is so wild and weird--and why that's okay. But there is far more to Florida than its sideshow freakiness. Oh, Florida! explains how Florida secretly, subtly influences all the other states in the Union, both for good and for ill.