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A radical approach to running a business, Open Book Management empowers everyone in an organization to actively participate in tracking metrics that directly contribute to business success. By tracking key numbers and learning the story behind the scoreboard results, employees get a real sense of how they directly impact the success of the business. Explore what Open Book Management is, why it works, and what it looks like in the day-to-day of your store. 
Speaker
Elnian Gilbert, ZingTrain - Ann Arbor, MI Files & Links
Video Recording Slide Deck Intro to Open Book Management Workbook  
Recorded February 11, 2024 at Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati, OH
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
 
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ABA's Indies Introduce interview series spotlights debut authors handpicked by booksellers from around the country. In each episode, a bookseller from the Indies Introduce panel interviews an author featured in the program to celebrate the release of their book.
In this episode, Holly Weinkauf of Red Balloon Bookshop (St. Paul, MN) interviews John Cochran, author of Breaking Into Sunlight (Algonquin Young Readers/Hachette Book Group), available June 18 at your local independent bookstore.

The changing landscape of bookselling brings new challenges every day, and it is essential to learn how to respond without losing sight of your goals or purpose. Join Bonnie Wan, author of The Life Brief, for a workshop that creates space to declare your ambitions/focus for 2024 and design a brief for how you will achieve growth, engagement, and concentrate on what matters most deeply to you and your business.
Speaker
Bonnie Wan, author of The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living (Simon Element) Files & Links
Video Recording Slide Deck  
Recorded February 14, 2024 at Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati, OH
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
 
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Free Expression Friday is an interview series from ABA's American Booksellers for Free Expression celebrating the amazing work of booksellers, organizers, and book people in general fighting for the right to read.
In this episode, ABA's Advocacy Associate Manager, Philomena Polefrone talks with Annastasia Williams, Bookstore Director at The Bottom Bookshop in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Follow the American Booksellers for Free Expression on Instagram at @ABFEFreeExpression to keep up with ABFE's advocacy efforts and tune into their Free Expression Friday series. Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On June 6, 2024, Kira Wizner of Merritt Bookstore (Millbrook, NY) discussed filling out ABACUS, ABA’s free annual industry benchmarking report. 
Files & Links
Video Recording Slide Deck  
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
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How can we survive—and even thrive—in this age of conflict? Negotiation expert William Ury, coauthor of the best-selling Getting to YES, introduces a transformative mindset in his new book, Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict. Drawing on 45 years of experience, Ury presents an actionable framework, a “Path to Possible”, for navigating conflicts of any scale—from boardroom battles to large-scale international conflict —by sharing a range of personal stories intermixed with practical takeaways. Whether you’re facing a family feud, a workplace dispute, or a political crisis, Possible will help you turn any challenge into an opportunity. Equal parts memoir, manual, and manifesto, Possible empowers us all to be “Possibilists”: those who believe in the human potential to transform today’s toughest conflicts creatively and constructively.
Speakers
William Ury Files & Links
Video Recording Slide Deck Live Captioning  
Recorded February 12, 2024 at Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati, OH
Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.
 
 
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