Here are some of the major book projects CHC has already helped launch in the past:

Past Work:

• Becoming a Resonant Leader
• Being Strategic
• Beyond Success
• Bucket Anniversary
• Bucket Kids
• Collapse of Distinction
• Duck and Recover
• Fascinate
• Go-Givers Sell More
• Half Time, Beyond Half Time
• Hope Not Fear
• How the Wise Decide
• How To Castrate a Bull
• Hug Your People
• Human Sigma
• In Pursuit of Elegance
• "I Love you More Than My Dog"
• Karma Queens...
• Leading with Cultural Intelligence
• Mass Career Customization
• Millionaire by Thirty
• Mobilizing Minds
• MoneyWise
• Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office
• Operation China
• Power of 2
• Rich People Shop Here
• Say Yes to No
• Seduced By Success
• Seizing the White Space
• Stall Points
• Strengths Based Leadership
• Strengthsfinder 2.0
• Taming the Search-and-Switch
• The 1% Windfall
• The 100 Best
• The Age Of Speed
• The Full Plate Diet
• The Great Depression Ahead
• The Middle-Class Millionaire
• The Milkshake Moment
• The Mona Lisa Strategem
• The New Age of Innovation
• The Power of Who
• The Triangle of Truth
• Treat Me Like a Customer
• Waging War On Complexity Costs
• Who Speaks For Islam?
• Wired For Thought
• Your Next Move

STALL POINTS

Most Companies Stop Growing -- Yours Doesn't Have To

by Matthew Olson and Derek van Bever
Yale University Press
May, 2008

Growth is a top goal for most companies in the Fortune 500, but there is serious trouble ahead for an overwhelming number of them, warn two veteran industry observers. In a new book, Matthew Olson and Derek van Bever of the Corporate Executive Board explore the issues surrounding growth stalls as a growing number of big companies reach what the authors have identified as the "danger zone" for continuing to grow.

STALL POINTS is based on the authors' research into the performance of more than six hundred Fortune 100 companies over the past 50 years.

The research presents a sobering look at the last half century of business history, but even more so, a scary prospective vision of the near future. Stalls, which the authors define as multi-year downturns in revenue growth rates, are common, with 87 percent of Fortune 100-size companies experiencing them. Disconcertingly, they tend to come on the heels of these companies' most impressive growth runs. Further, the authors found there are rarely financial indicators of the storm ahead-that they are sudden and generally surprising, even to top-level management. Even more alarming, they found that if a company doesn't recover quickly from a stall, it faces long odds of ever regaining a growth track.

STALL POINTS offers a cogent and comprehensive handbook for leaders to anticipate the problems that may very well lie ahead.

Matthew S. Olson is an executive director and Derek van Bever is the chief research officer of the Corporate Executive Board (NASDAQ:EXBD), the premier advisory and performance improvement network for leaders of the world's largest public and private organizations. Now in its 25th year of service, the Corporate Executive Board numbers in its membership senior executives from over 5,000 organizations and 50 countries, including executives from over 80% of the companies in the Fortune 500.

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