Well, I finally reached the end. For the past 5 months I have been working on my 7th book - The Passionate Sales Manager. Approximately 55,000 words later and it is done. Today, June 2nd, I sent the book off to my editor (my wonderful daughter-in-law, Leili) for her review. She did a superb job on book 6 - The Passionate Salesperson.

Leili has just completed her Masters of Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Editing is not her profession, but she sure has a talent for it. Sometime in late June, I will publish in English. Then I will send it off to my 12 publishers around the world. Hopefully they will see value you in it.

At this point I am published in 12 languages with 6 titles in print.

This book uses my first book, The Passionate Manager as a basis. This newest book goes much deeper into Management systems, processes and tools. It also introduces some new concepts and methods. Over the past 12 years I have coached and trained over 155,000 sales managers and salespersons. This experience is reflected in this recent book.

I hope my loyal readers will see value in The Passionate Sales Manager.

Currently I am working with a Canadian Insurance company that is using OpenAgile methodology within their organization. They have only used it for 4 weeks and the results are promising.

Just to remind you, Agile methodology came out of the IT environment and has been around for 15+ years. A company called Berteig Consulting, http://www.berteigconsulting.com/ further developed a methodology called OpenAgile.

This more recent version, OpenAgile, (about 18 months old) is much more suitable to any team in any organization. The principles are sound and the methods dramatically develop the capacity of the team to deliver valuable results.

I am currently coaching OpenAgile in two countries in Europe. These 7 teams are sales teams. Four are in traditional agency distribution systems and the the rest are in multi-level organizations. Their results have been significant, positive and impressive.

This method, like anything else, requires leaders, followers and teams to change their thinking. If you want more information go to http://www.openagile.com/

Well we did it. After slightly less than 12 years in business, we have presented to, coached and trained over 155,000 sales managers and salespersons. This training has taken place on four continents.

Jim is pleased to see that many of the participants who attended his training are doing very well in the sales and management profession. Jim knows that these participants did the hard work and at best he just gave them the direction to follow, systems, processes and tools to use, and/or the motivation to overcome adversity.

Jim feels honored to be part of their professional lives and that he learned as much from them and they learned from him. The gift has been mutual respect.

Thank you for the privilege to work with some of the top managers and top salespersons in the world. Jim is richer spiritually, emotionally and intellectually from the experience.

Jim was just informed that a great friend in Greece, Dimitrios Farantouris (Agency Manager of the top agency in Greece) has decided to arrange the translation and publication of Jim's first book, The Passionate Manager, in Greek.

Dimitris and Jim have become great friends and look upon each other as brothers. Dimitris expects to have the book published in Greek in September. Jim feels very fortunate to have Dimotris's support and sponsorship.

Look for The Passionate Manager in Greek in the fall of 2010. This brings the total languages in which Jim is published to eleven. He has 6 titles in print.

Jim's seventh book - The Passionate Sales Manager - will be published in English in June of 2010.