- Jason Jennings (author)
Infobox Person
name = Jason Jennings
image_size = 220 x 220
caption = Jason Jennings
birth_date = 1956
birth_place =Negaunee, Michigan ,United States
occupation =Author andCorporate Speaker Jason Jennings (b. May 31, 1956,
Negaunee, Michigan ) is the author of the 2001Harper Collins NY Times bestseller [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=2001+best+sellers+Jason+Jennings&submit.x=19&submit.y=10
title=NY Times bestseller
publisher=NYTimes.com (search results)] , "It's Not The big That Eat The Small - It's The Fast That Eat The Slow" [cite web|url=http://www.jason-jennings.com/books/index.html#itsnot
title=It's Not The big That Eat The Small - It's The Fast That Eat The Slow
accessdate=2008-06-12
publisher=Jason-Jennings.com] , and his subsequent business bestsellers forPenguin Putnam , "Less Is More" [cite web|url=http://www.jason-jennings.com/books/index.html#lessismore
title=Less Is More
accessdate=2008-06-12
publisher=Jason-Jennings.com] (2004) and "Think Big-Act Small" [cite web|url=http://www.jason-jennings.com/books/index.html
title=Think Big-Act Small
accessdate=2008-06-12
publisher=Jason-Jennings.com] (2006).He began his career as a broadcast journalist and later owned radio stations in Oklahoma, Washington and Arizona. The consulting firm he founded "Jennings-McGlothlin & Company" [cite web|url=http://www.mbinet.org/EventsPageContent.aspx?eventid=10&name=speakers
title=Jennings-McGlothlin & Company
accessdate=2008-09-24
publisher=mbinet.org] became the largest media consultancy in the world and served clients in the broadcasting and retail industries.He does between sixty and eighty keynote speeches each year around the world and in 2007,
USA Today [cite web|url=http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-jason-jennings.html
title=USA Today
accessdate=2008-09-24
publisher=TheLavinAgency.com] named him one of the three most in demand business speakers in the nation alongside Tom Peters and Jim Collins.He and his family live in
Tiburon, California andTimber Rock Shore, Michigan .Business career
Jason Jennings is one of the most successful and prolific business and leadership authors in the world. He has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and consulting other companies; teaching them how to achieve their full economic potential.
He was the youngest radio station group owner in the world and his unique and legendary programming and sales strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry, where later, he founded "Jennings-McGlothlin & Company".
He traveled the globe in search of the world's fastest companies for his landmark book, "It's Not The Big That Eat The Small - It's The Fast That Eat The Slow". Within weeks of its release it hit the
Wall Street Journal ,USA Today andNew York Times Bestsellers Lists. Now published in 32 languages,USA Today named it one of the top 25 books of the year!Next, he and his team studied more than 40,000 companies and identified the ten most productive companies in the world for his bestselling, "Less Is More". The book reveals the secrets of the world's most productive companies.
His latest book, "Think BIG - Act Small", profiles the leadership of the only ten companies in the world to have grown both revenues and profits by double digits every year for ten consecutive years. Like his previous books it debuted on all the bestseller charts.
His next book, "Hit the Ground Running, A Manual for New Leaders" is scheduled for release in late 2008. The book profiles and reveals the tactics and strategies of the ten American CEO's who've created the greatest amount of economic value since the year 2000.
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