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"... a practical tool that can be used in a variety of problem-solving situations with managers and teams. Kennedy's common sense approach to defining the exact problem and then providing possible solutions to those problems is MOST helpful in figuring out what is best for your organization. ...easy to understand and apply to any organization. I personally appreciated the comments in Debbe Kennedy's Afterword: A Closing Message that reminded me that as leaders of change and problem-solvers, our journey is NEVER finished!"

Executive Director
California State Board of Control

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 "... a triumph of design. You've done two things exceptionally well. First, you put soul into what might be otherwise mechanical processes for many who can't see their own inherent elegance. Second, you put it together in such a way as to make it accessible and attractive. It is one of the finest, cleanest packaging efforts I've ever seen. You succeeded in coming though into this work---your voice, your heart, your life. It speaks volumes of who you are."

Paul G. Stoltz, PhD, Author
The Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
President, PEAK Learning Incorporated
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"I've been using Breakthrough!® for several months and have found Breakthrough!® to be one of the most useful and practical business books I have ever purchased. I keep in my briefcase. ...it's a personal coach to keep with you all the time. An easy-to-apply, jump-start for problem solving."

Emily Duncan
Vice President, Global Inclusion and Diversity
Hewlett-Packard Company
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"Kennedy's Breakthrough!® is simultaneously a compendium of timeless, recognized wisdom and a great tool kit for getting something done on Monday morning. Few management packages --- book, CD-ROM --- pack the punch of this effort."

- Nicholas Imparato
Co-author, Jumping the Curve,
Professor, University of San Francisco,
Research Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University

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"Problem solving for an upcoming business era of accelerating change is the goal of the boxed leadership tool set produced by Debbe Kennedy. Forget consultants, individual brainstorming, and reading another business book. It's time to get practical."

- Lex Ticonderoga, Editor
Today's Books/Public News Service

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"great wisdom, great style, great utility, and great innovation. I've run out of superlatives --- I love it."

- Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation

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"This book says in a few words, what others never say from cover to cover. Solutions to major business problems are simplified with the step-by-step approach presented. The simple, concisely stated management solutions apply whether one's view is up or down the corporate ladder. The messages in Breakthrough!® are so simple they seem obvious. But don't be fooled; that's obviously Kennedy's genius, not yours. YOU discover the solutions to the greatest management problems today. Her methods suddenly become yours as you read on through the book. Breakthrough!® will not only change your approach to management problems, it will change your entire mentality on the subject. As I read the book, I had a problem concentrating on the written text. My mind kept leaving to apply Kennedy's solutions to my everyday corporate life. Suddenly the problems were defined, and better yet, the solutions in sight. "

- I. Gregory, Ph.D., CSO
Bioponic International

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"Breakthrough!® provides universal gems of wisdom that I have applied to more than business issues. This unique system helps cut through the immobolizing mental ruminations in solving work dilemmas. I have found it to be an effective tool for such diverse tasks as proceeding forward with my personal and career goals and in helping my clients through an eating or exercise roadblock."

Linda L. Prout, M.S.
The Claremont Resort and Spa Nutritionist

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"Wonderful book outstanding work."

- Kazuo Inamori
Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Kyocera Corporation, Japan
Author, Passion for Success and For People and For Profit

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"Breakthrough!® provides the "essential plan to achieve a vision" and lead the way to change. Breakthrough!® aides in the development of a strategic plan for action! ... and you can take it anywhere, on a plane, or a train... It can be used alone or in a group setting and it offers insightful concrete direction for solutions to difficult problems. It is truly an essential item in any consultant's tool box."

- Delores Murrey, Ph.D.
Consultant to Non-Profit Organizations
Black Hawk Center for Organizational Excellence

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"... low in hype and high in utility. As I have examined it, I can see dozens of applications. I am sure you will have the same response."

- Joel Barker, futurist and author
Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future

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"... I've been prowling through its myriad of corridors ...This is elegant, well-thought-out, a well-produced book ... (er, happening!)

If MG were today awarding its annual InnoThink prize for 1998, Debbe Kennedy's Breakthrough!® would win. Book, cardpack, CD: her approach to finding solutions is unique."

- Tom Brown
MANAGEMENT GENERAL®
Premier Web Site for New Ideas

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"... an amazing and profoundly important book that has insights into almost every perplexing management dilemma that is in business today. Kennedy's issues and solutions lodge in the mind as few recent books ever have been able to do. ... original in approach."
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