Rent-to-own News - VIDEO: APRO Keynote Bill Taylor welcomes conventioneers

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Best-selling author and self-described business "maverick" Bill Taylor is the keynote speaker at APRO's 2011 Convention in Little Rock, where he will share his innovative ideas on leadership and business at the General Session July 13 at 11 a.m.

In this exclusive made-for-APRO video, Taylor encourages rent to own dealers to attend the convention to learn the importance of connecting with customers emotionally and why smart leaders learn how to operate in a world where "nobody alone is as smart as everybody together."

Watch the Video.

Taylor's new book, Practically Radical, is a Wall Street Journal bestseller. The first 100 companies to register for the convention will receive a free copy of the book. Taylor will also be on-hand after his talk to sign copies, so don't forget to pack your book!

For full convention details and to register go here.

Practically Radical: Unleashing Big Change in Tough Times

Hard times can be a great time to separate yourself from the pack and build advantages for years to come—if you can summon the leadership nerve to take risks. Over the past two years, Taylor has had in-depth access to 25 organizations that are masters at making change—organizations that are unleashing innovations and driving transformations in trying circumstances. Using lessons set in a variety of fields (from healthcare to software, from automobiles to financial services, from hotels to hospitals) Taylor shows his audience how to shake up their industry, transform their company and recharge themselves.

Taylor is a best-selling author, celebrated entrepreneur, and groundbreaking thinker on leadership and innovation. His first book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, became a New York Times bestseller and received widespread media accolades. Taylor  made his name as a hugely successful editor and entrepreneur, having taken Fast Company—the award-winning magazine he co-founded—from startup to $340 million sale in less than six years.

A maverick himself, Taylor advocates a people-centric leadership model, a network approach to cultivating ideas and a relentless focus on being extraordinary as the key ways to achieve market dominance. Provocative and inspiring, Taylor offers first-hand accounts of how game changers like Meg Whitman and Zappos’ Tony Hsieh transformed their industries by adopting these approaches and abandoning ineffectual “business as usual” practices, and insights into how you can do the same in your own organization.    

Watch CNN interview with Bill Taylor.
                                      
General Session Continental Breakfast Sponsored by Crosley and  TRIB
General Session Sponsored by G.E. Lighting and Appliance and Simmons

Keynote address at General Session Wednesday July 13, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.