If you are ordering more than 24 copies, we can offer you deeper discounts. Please contact us at
shop@benbellabooks.com to receive specific quotes and process
your order.
Warning
Adding this pre-order to your cart will remove any items currently in the cart. Pre-orders must be
ordered separately.
An ePub is an open industry format known for its compatibility across e-readers and other devices, though accessing this file type does require an app or software to read. This file type is not a one-click reading experience such as a PDF or similar. View our ePub Guide to learn more. Once you purchase and then download your file from your confirmation email from us, you will not be able to immediately open and read it without one of these apps or services.
Note: Kindle readers can and should purchase ePub files to read on their Kindle devices or via the Kindle app. As of August 2022, Amazon no longer supports mobi files.
The author of From Panic to Profit (Wiley, 2025) and The 80/20 CEO (Köehlerbooks, 2024), Bill Canady has worked for over 30 years as a global business executive across a variety of industries and markets focused on industrial and consumer products and services. He is CEO of two companies with a combined revenue of $2.5 billion. As CEO of OTC Industrial Technologies, a private equity-sponsored company, he directs an organization with 30 operating companies, $1 billion in annual sales, 2,000+ employees, and over 70 sites.
Bill has led numerous organizations through their most critical challenges and opportunities, often in complicated regulatory, investor, and media environments. Through his long career, he has honed a passion for the art and science of business, developing a set of tools and techniques to grow multibillion-dollar companies. From this experience, he created the Profitable Growth Operating System® (PGOS), helping owners and operators around the world profitably grow their companies.
He graduated summa cum laude from Elmhurst University with a bachelor of science in business administration and received his MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is a proud veteran of the United States Navy.
Rod Canion cofounded Compaq Computer Corporation in 1982 and served as chief executive officer from its inception through a decade of unprecedented growth and challenges. During his tenure as CEO, Compaq set records for the largest first-year sales in the history of American business and reached the Fortune 500 and the $1-billion-revenue mark faster than any other company in history. By 1991, Compaq employed more than 10,000 people and operated in 65 countries.
Since leaving Compaq in 1991, Canion has been involved in a long list of startups and early stage companies as an angel investor, advisor, and director. He helped found the Houston Technology Center in 1999 and the Goose Society of Texas in 2005, two organizations focused on encouraging entrepreneurs and helping early stage companies succeed. He is currently a director of Invesco, Ltd. and ChaCha Search, Inc., and is an advisory director of Encore Health Resources and Dynamics, Inc.
Dr. John K. Cannizzo grew up in Deming, NM. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with a double major in astrophysics and mathematics (B.S., 1979). He pursued graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin in theoretical astrophysics (M.A., 1981; Ph.D., 1984). He was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. John is currently a research professor through the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, working at the Goddard Space Flight Center on various projects in computational astrophysics.
Benjamin Caplan, MD, is a licensed, board-certified doctor of family medicine and a member of the American Medical Association. For the past 17 years he has overseen more than 250,000 patients as they discover the health and benefits of medical cannabis. He has also supervised and mentored hundreds of physicians in the United States and abroad. Dr. Caplan is the founder and chief medical officer of the CED Foundation, the CED Clinic, and EO Care, Inc., three industry-leading patient care and digital education organizations.
Todd Caponi, CSP®, is the author of two award-winning books, The Transparency Sale and The Transparent Sales Leader. Todd is a multi-time C-level sales leader, a behavioral science and sales history nerd, and has led through two companies with successful exits. He now speaks to and teaches revenue organizations and their leaders on leveraging transparency and decision science to maximize their revenue capacity as principal of Sales Melon, LLC.
Andrea Carlo Cappi, a thriller writer born in Milan, Italy, in 1964, created his own serial characters and turned into literary heroes two famous Italian comic book characters, Martin Mystery and Diabolik. He has published various essays, and a bestselling book on 007 written with Orson Scott Card.
Judge Frank Capriobecame an unexpected television and internet superstar while in his eighties! Judge Caprio and his three-time Emmy-nominated television show, Caught in Providence, has amassed over 20 million followers across social media, and his videos have accrued billions of views. His compassionate temperament—unique for a judge—has earned him the title “the nicest judge in the world.” A beloved Rhode Island–based judge and attorney, Judge Frank Caprio is from humble beginnings. His parents were immigrants from Italy who through hard work, devotion to family, and love of their new country and community forged a new life in America. Their sense of responsibility and commitment to service and education was firmly instilled in each of their three sons. Today, Judge Caprio has inspired the world and become the face of compassionate justice.
At 40 years old, Melissa Carbone is just getting started. After a decade-long career running the largest revenue market in the world for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment, launching Ten Thirty One Productions, securing the then-largest deal in history on ABC’s Shark Tank in 2013, becoming business partners with billionaire Mark Cuban and turning that into a partnership with the world’s largest entertainment company, Live Nation, she shows no signs of slowing down.
Her live entertainment horror company, Ten Thirty One Productions, has pioneered a new industry that is growing rapidly. In 2014, Ten Thirty One Productions was named the premiere leader in the horror attractions industry with Los Angeles Haunted Hayride being the most popular haunted attraction in the country.
Melissa has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., CSQ Magazine, on The Today Show as an industry expert in immersive entertainment, coined a “market maker” by Bloomberg News, as well as Squawk Box, CNN, CNBC Power Lunch and many more. Melissa was named CSQ Magazine’s 2016 Entertainment Visionary, was a top ten finalist for the LA Business Journal’s prestigious “Woman of the Year” Award in 2010, and was voted one of the “Top 7 Pitches” in the history of Shark Tank by the Young Entrepreneur Council.
Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Magic Street and Enchantment, is a distinguished professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Jacqueline Carey is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Kushiel’s Legacy trilogy of historical fantasy novels and the Sundering epic fantasy duology. Jacqueline enjoys doing research on a wide variety of arcane topics, and an affinity for travel has taken her from Finland to Egypt to date. She currently lives in west Michigan, where she is a member of the oldest Mardi Gras krewe in the state. Although often asked by inquiring fans, she does not, in fact, have any tattoos.
