HooksBookEvents believes in the power of new ideas. Our minority women-owned business specializes in providing low-cost book and author events for government agencies, corporations, non-profit organizations, trade associations, and corporations of all sizes. By bringing the most important authors into your organization, employees and constituents will be stimulated to develop new insights on important topics.
Our Authors are mostly New York Times bestsellers who have written about issues ranging from current events and societal trends such as work/life balance to quantum physics, economics, coaching, management, and more. Meet our authors.
Our Events have the power to transform the way employees approach daily tasks. For more than a decade, Perry Pidgeon Hooks (who founded HooksBookEvents in 2007) has arranged and organized hundreds of book events and given thousands of people the opportunity to listen to, talk with, question and applaud the world’s top thinkers — all in the comfort of their own offices. View our KNOW AHEAD AUTHOR LIST to help plan your next event.
Our Salons are the hottest thing to hit town. The authors are available to speak in the intimate setting and comfort of your home. Invite some friends, prepare a simple cocktail party or brunch, and let the conversation begin!
Boston is the latest city where we’ve expanded our reach. Deborah Tatro, Senior Vice President and Creative Director, works with Beantown companies, government and nonprofit organizations, and with private groups to host Salons. Contact her at 301-229-1128 or by email at deborah@hooksbookevents.com.
Let Us Inspire You: BookHooks@HooksBookEvents / 301-229-1128
Click here to view the KNOW AHEAD AUTHOR LIST
The following authors are scheduled to be in DC in upcoming months. HBE may already have scheduled events for with our clients with some of these authors; however there may still be room on their schedules for additional events.
Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting any of these authors at an event for your employees or clients– we’d be happy to discuss it with you. The list changes constantly and we can not guarantee author availability, so please call or email soon. More detailed descriptions of the books are available by request and are also available on our website: www.hooksbookevents.com.
Perry Hooks (301-233-0746) / perry@hooksbookevents.com
Loretta Yenson (301-651-2884) / loretta@hooksbookevents.com
Note, too, that HBE has a growing presence in Boston and author dates specific to Boston are marked accordingly. For more information on these authors, you can contact Perry, Loretta or,
Deborah Tatro (603-540-0731) / deborah@hooksbookevents.com
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Private Client Event: October 5th in NY
In their 2007 bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams taught the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, compete, and succeed in the new global marketplace. But much has changed in three years, and the principles of wikinomics are now more powerful than ever.
In this new age of networked intelligence, businesses and communities are bypassing crumbling institutions. We are altering the way our financial institutions and governments operate; how we educate our children; and how the healthcare, newspaper, and energy industries serve their customers.
In every corner of the globe, businesses, organizations, and individuals alike are using mass collaboration to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, and care for each other. You’ll meet innovators such as:
• An Iraq veteran whose start-up car company is “staffed” by over 45,000 competing designers and supplied by microfactories around the country
• A “micro-lending” community where 570,000 individuals help fund new ventures—from Azerbaijan to Ukraine
• An online community for people with life-altering diseases that’s also a large scale research project
Once again backed by original research, Tapscott and Williams provide vivid, new examples of organizations that are successfully embracing the principles of wikinomics.
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Private Client Events: October 25th, 26th & November 9th
With The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye Jr. offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today’s world, in an illuminating blend of history, business case studies, psychological research, and more. As he observes, many now believe that the more authoritarian and coercive forms of leadership—the “hard power” approaches of earlier military-industrial eras—have been largely supplanted in postindustrial societies by “soft power” approaches that seek to attract, inspire, and persuade rather than dictate.
Nye argues, however, that the most effective leaders are actually those who combine hard and soft power skills in proportions that vary with different situations. He calls this “smart power.” Drawing examples from the careers of leaders as disparate as Gandhi, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lee Iacocca, and—in a new preface—Barack Obama, Nye uses the concept of smart power to shed light on such topics as leadership types and skills, the needs and demands of followers, and the nature of good and bad leadership in terms of both ethics and effectiveness. In one particularly instructive chapter, he looks in depth at “contextual intelligence”—the ability to understand changing environments, capitalize on trends, and use the flow of events to implement strategies.
Thoroughly grounded in the real world, rich in both analysis and anecdote, The Powers to Lead is sure to become a modern classic, a concise and lucid work applicable to every field, from small businesses to nations on the world stage.
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Click here to see Dr. Muhammad Yunus on C-Span
Click here to see Dr. Muhammad Yunus on msnbc’s Morning Joe show
Click here to read about Dr. Muhammad Yunus in the New York Times
Date: Friday, May 14, 2010
Time: 8:30 am-10:30 am
Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center/Atrium Ballroom
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004
A portion of the event proceeds will be donated to FONKOZE (www.fonkoze.org/special fundraising events), Haiti’s Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor.
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a visionary new dimension for capitalism which he calls “social business.” By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place.
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