Books by Silver Fox Advisors
Several Silver Fox Advisors have written books sharing their business experiences and expertise. These books contain information that you may find helpful to you and your business. We encourage you to click on the icon below to review the listing of these offerings.
Books
Houston Legends
History and Heritage of Dynamic Global Capital
By Hank Moore
Why? This is the first Houston history book to be written from the business perspective, where the stories behind the successes are told. “Houston Legends” contains extrapolations into business culture innovators. Each chapter features historical perspectives in several key industries in the area’s dynamic growth. Each topic is reviewed on the economic impact, the business contributions and the people involved and creative activities will be chronicled. Recurring themes include entrepreneurial spirit, business survival, strategies, growth and vision. The names, dates and events are intertwined with anecdotes, applicable to modern business. Common themes include giving back generously to the community, stages in the evolution of a business, creativity and mentoring the next generation of leaders. This is a methodical way of reviewing Houston history in terms of the pioneers and their legacies for free enterprise. Link to order online: http://www.amazon.com http://www.barnesandnoble.com
The Business Tree™
Planting and Nurturing Growth Strategies for Your Company.
Big Picture View of Business, Strategic Planning, Change and Growth.
By Hank Moore
This book focuses on The Business Tree™, an original business model and a fresh look at change and growth, utilizing full-scope planning as a means of navigating through uncertain waters toward richer success. It is based upon the author’s trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses, tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades. The author shows how to master change and ready companies to face the future. This original business concept, its author and his hundreds of case studies (all supervised by him) promise a Big Picture look at business. This is the only book to offer an original business model, one that has been utilized in the author’s track record of success over the last 20 years. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Links to order online online: Amazon.com
The High Cost of Doing Nothing
How to avoid troubles and assure success.
Painting the Big Picture of Business Knowledge.
By Hank Moore
Why do good companies go bad? Why do they start with so much energy and promise but end up mired in bureaucracy and plodding toward mediocrity and failure? Answers to those questions can be found in The High Cost of Doing Nothing by Hank Moore. The book examines business dynamics from a “big picture” perspective, analyzes why companies fail to live up to their potential, and guides business leaders in how to surmount the obstacles to success. The book examines the top 100 mistakes that companies make and the 100 biggest excuses they use to rationalize and cover up company problems. It demonstrates how companies over-represent themselves and their products to make sales, then get caught up in their own word games. It also explores why companies fail at customer service. The High Cost of Doing Nothing also offers positive guidance toward corporate success. It describes how to make collaboration, partnering, and joint venturing work effectively, how to implement successful training, and how to choose the right consultants. It also offers step-by-step guidance to creative problem solving and corporate planning approaches. Link to order online: http://www.amazon.com
Energy Choices: A Guide to Facts and Perspectives
Authors include Silver Fox Advisors Keith Thayer and Phil Grossweiler
Energy Choices: A Guide to Facts and Perspectives is the result of the efforts of numerous members and associates of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, who have unique professional and technical backgrounds that are directly relevant to this undertaking. Their inputs are intended to provide an overview of energy issues at a relatively non-technical level. It is directed at the general public and other stakeholders who want more knowledge of energy sources, energy conversion, and energy end use and their challenges and limitations. While we hope this book serves as an information tool that should be utilized for educational purposes, it is also the sincere hope of the contributors to this document that it will be used to create informed opinions and perspectives on energy choices. Link to order online: Amazon.com
Guts & Borrowed Money
Straight Talk for Starting and Growing Your Small Business
By Tom S. Gillis
If you're thinking about starting a business, or an overworked entrepreneur wondering why your business isn't making faster progress, Guts & Borrowed Money is for you.
To start a business takes guts and money; to keep it going and growing takes other talents and resources. This book tells what you need to know to start your business, ensure its survival, and grow until you have around 200 employees. It isn't your usual "how to" book. It's straight talk, advice, and the successful strategies of an unrepentant entrepreneur who has already learned "how to" and can save you time, trouble, and money. Link to order online: Amazon.com
Personal Purpose Process
Creating Your Plan for Your Purpose
By Monte Pendleton and Keith Okano
Our purpose in life is to fully express who we are, who we are right now. As we begin to do this, we benefit ourselves and others by becoming a role model of who we indeed are. This provides an example for those in our lives; inspiring and encouraging them with our genuineness and making a real difference in the world. And motivating them to do the same. You don’t “choose” your purpose. Your purpose is already within you. You are already equipped to achieve your purpose. Our purpose is expressed by being a role model. The richness of the purpose shines through our activities, our doing, and our passion. To be the right role model, we must identify the qualities of our purpose, then find a job or activity where we best express and demonstrate them. We'll contribute far more by expressing our true, natural, ever-present magnificence, than trying to improve on ourselves or trying to become someone we are not. The truth is, who we are makes a far more significant difference than what we do. For example, role modeling honesty and integrity for our children will be of far higher value than years of working to feed them. We undoubtedly need to do both, but our living examples of love, integrity, and spirituality will ultimately be remembered as the greater service. And hopefully the more influential one. To maximize our effectiveness and contribution in life, we must know at a profound level 1. Who we are, 2. What we have been called on to exemplify, and 3. To whom we will model it. The Personal Purpose Process will help you to rediscover these answers in four steps.
Pop Icons and Business Legends
By Hank Moore
Stroll through the past and discover the fusion of pop culture and business. From Walt Disney to Bill Gates, from Burt Bacharach to Howard Hughes, from Steven Spielberg to John D. Rockefeller, and from Col. Harland Sanders to Steve Jobs, this is the comprehensive study of pop icons, historical innovations, and business pioneers. Order Online at Amazon.com.
Non-Profit Legends
By Hank Moore
Non-Profit Legends is a comprehensive overview book on serving communities and motivating leadership for non-profits. Order Online at Amazon.com
The Future Has Moved......
And Left No Forwarding Address
By Hank Moore
Navigate your organization through uncertainty toward success.
Power Stars
to Light the Business Flame
...The Visionaries and You
By Hank Moore
How Top Executives and Companies Succeed and Sustain.
What Happens After the Sale
By Steven Brody
What Happens After the Sale Insights into the Business and Personal Journey after the big event. This book was prepared as a case study. It will be helpful to many firms who by the forcast of experts, will be chaniging hands and going through something similar in the next several years.
Outsmarting Business Email Compromise: A Mid-Market Action Guide
By Phillipe Flichy
Protect Your Business from One of Today’s Most Costly Cyber Threats
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is one of the fastest-growing cyber threats, causing billions in financial losses every year. Unlike traditional phishing attacks, BEC is highly targeted, sophisticated, and devastating—often bypassing security tools and exploiting human trust. Mid-market companies are prime targets, lacking the massive cybersecurity budgets of enterprises yet handling financial transactions large enough to attract cybercriminals.
Are you prepared to defend your business against BEC?
Outsmarting Business Email Compromise: A Mid-Market Action Guide is your essential playbook for understanding, preventing, and responding to these attacks. This book delivers actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and expert insights tailored specifically for mid-sized organizations. Whether you're a business leader, IT manager, CFO, or security professional, this guide provides the critical knowledge you need to safeguard your organization from financial and reputational disaster.
Peak Performance Mindset Tools for Sales
By Michel Prive'
PEAK PERFORMANCE: Mindset Tools for Sales highlights strategies that will take your sales performance to the next level.
This book explores the habits of top-level sellers, the actions peak-performing sellers take, and the strategies they employ. It is a kit providing various tools you can use to perform at your best.
The number one goal in PEAK PERFORMANCE: Mindset Tools for Sales is to provide examples and strategies from elite sales coaches, consultants, business owners, and top sellers in real estate, commercial products, and services. There are no limits to what levels of performance we can achieve, and this book will provide an array of perspectives to train your mind and body as you strive toward peak performance in sales.
The Leadership Mastery Map
By Bruce M. Anderson, MBA and Judith M. O'Connor, M.Ed
The Leadership Mastery Map is a powerful tool for exploration. Whether you are a newly appointed leader, a small business owner, or a corporate leader, you can use this book to uncover hundreds of ideas and thought-provokers about leadership. Based on the work of Ken Wilber the leadership mastery model provide a context for all of the internal and external dynamics of being a leader. Use this book as: A powerful thought provoker about Leadership A resource for training yourself and others A self-assessment tool A tool for coaching other leaders A topic source for staff meetings You will refer to this valuable resource over and over again.
Exile, Oil, Reinvention: My Journey from Budapest to the World
In this powerful personal narrative, Antonio Szabo reflects on a life shaped by upheaval, resilience, and reinvention. Blending memoir with historical insight, he explores the impact of forced migration, cultural adaptation, and the search for purpose in unfamiliar laces. Rather than a conventional life story, this book is a meditation on how disruption can lead to unexpected growth—and how identity is often forged in the face of the unknown.
