JASON JENNINGS

Hit The Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders is the title of Jason Jennings’ new book from Portfolio, the business imprint of Penguin Putnam Publishing and will be published March 19, 2009.

The book profiles and reveals the tactics and strategies of the ten American CEO’s who have created the greatest amount of economic value since the year 2000. Companies and CEO’s profiled include: JM Smucker, Harris Corporation, Mohawk, Humana, Goodrich, American Eagle Outfitters, Hanover Insurance, Allegheny Technologies, Staples, and Questar. Mr. Jennings and his research team spent nearly two years identifying top companies and interviewing their CEO’s.

Jason Jennings has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and consulting other companies; teaching them how to achieve their full economic potential.

Mr. Jennings 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. Later, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that, within three years, became the largest media consultancy in the world.

Mr. Jennings spent eighteen months traveling the globe in search of and digging deep inside the fastest companies in the world for his 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 and The New York Times Bestsellers Lists. Published in 32 languages, USA Today named it one of the top 25 books of the year!

Next, Jason Jennings and his research team studied more than 40,000 companies and identified the ten most productive companies in the world for his bestselling, Less Is More, published by Penguin Putnam. In the book the secrets of the world’s most productive companies are revealed.

Following two years of research, Mr. Jennings third book, Think BIG - Act Small, debuted in 2005, profiling the leadership of the only 10 companies in the world to have grown both revenue and operating profits by ten percent or more annually for ten consecutive years without missing a beat. Like his previous books it debuted on all the bestseller charts.

When not traveling the world on research and adventure travel Jason Jennings delivers 80 keynotes annually and in 2005 USA Today named him one of the three most in-demand business speakers on the planet alongside Jim Collins (Good to Great) and Tom Peter (In Search of Excellence).