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Today Im speaking to Dr Susan Quandt about Trust in business and networking. Susan is an author, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee teaching entrepreneurship, the leader of her own real estate development venture, board member of numerous not-for-profit organizations and founder of The ROI2 Partnership. Her expansive background includes various positions with Fortune 500 companies. Susan’s recently published book Sudden Impact on the Job is based on interviews with many successful executives and business luminaries who endured highly visible transitions. The Book explores the factors that contribute to success and provides best practices for starting off on the right foot whilst dispelling many commonly held beliefs about successful executives. Sudden Impact on the Job recounts the real-life experiences of corporate executives in their first eighteen months at top-level positions. Candid interviews with noted new CEOs reveals the problems and challenges of some of the world's highest-profile business leaders.

Today, Im speaking with John Havens.Vice President of business development for BlogTalkRadio.com about his book Tactical Transparency, co authored with Shel Holtz, being published in November by Wiley and Sons. The book provides a methodology that will help organizations create their own unique plans to bring greater authenticity to their companies and brands. Drawn largely from interviews with leaders in companies that have achieved measurable success in this arena, Shel and John provide step-by-step details on how executives and professional communicators can create a transparency strategy that will keep their organizations competitive in the twenty-first century. The authors show how organizations can evaluate their readiness for transparency, what they need to do to get ready, and how to effectively communicate their transparency strategy to their customers and employees. They also identify aspects of blog/new media “netiquette”—an important but often misunderstood part of engaging in transparency.