David Nour

In the past two decades, David Nour's advisory work with global organizations has led to a remarkable discovery: strategic business relationships, although intellectually understood, are often an individual's, a group's, and an organization's single biggest undervalued asset. Beyond transactional networking, transformational business relationships open new doors, create unparalleled access to new, often unforeseen opportunities, accelerate your performance in any role, optimize your execution… Show more

In the past two decades, David Nour's advisory work with global organizations has led to a remarkable discovery: strategic business relationships, although intellectually understood, are often an individual's, a group's, and an organization's single biggest undervalued asset. Beyond transactional networking, transformational business relationships open new doors, create unparalleled access to new, often unforeseen opportunities, accelerate your performance in any role, optimize your execution of critical initiatives, and help deliver quantifiable outcomes. The key to success is contradictory to popular myths and misperceptions: you don’t need more contacts, bigger social networks, or more distractions, but rather fewer, deeper, more authentic, focused, and value-based relationships that stand the test of time – beyond a reason, to a season, and a lifetime.

The global pandemic also created new challenges: how do you build relationships with people you can't physically meet? How do you manage or lead a team that must engage and influence others remotely – and still maintain a set of cultural norms? If business professionals are grounded, and the rest of the world builds relationships first, from which they do business, how do you keep global relationships moving forward?

Outlined in this entirely new third edition, Relationship Economics is a roadmap to turning everyday contacts into extraordinary personal and professional relationships. You’ll have to be disciplined, intentional, and quantifiable in your investment of time, effort, and resources, and thus strategic in the relationships you choose to invest in. If they're relevant and mutually valuable, these relationships become a force multiplier of your market reach, value creation scale and impact, and a sustainable differentiator against known and unknown competitors. Show less

A personal growth roadmap guiding you into the future of relationships in work, life, play, and giving

Curve Benders is a personal growth roadmap. It will guide you through the complicated intersection of work, life, play, and giving. Countless new forces will shape the future, so the strategic relationships we form in these areas of life are, of necessity, changing. This book will show you how to move into the future and dramatically alter your growth trajectory in both its direction… Show more

A personal growth roadmap guiding you into the future of relationships in work, life, play, and giving

Curve Benders is a personal growth roadmap. It will guide you through the complicated intersection of work, life, play, and giving. Countless new forces will shape the future, so the strategic relationships we form in these areas of life are, of necessity, changing. This book will show you how to move into the future and dramatically alter your growth trajectory in both its direction and ultimate destination. David Nour, the author of Relationship Economics and a top thought leader on business relationships, has identified 15 forces that will heavily influence what we do and how and where we engage our current and prospective relationships to create value and make a difference in the lives of others.

This book aims to provide you with a step-by-step guide for personal, professional, and organizational growth. The author highlights how certain relationships enable a non-linear growth trajectory. These relationships, in addition to augmenting what we can accomplish, often shape who we become. These relationships are “curve benders,” and this book will show you who and where they are, how to find and engage them, and, equally valuable, how you can become a curve bender to impact the lives and livelihoods of others profoundly.

Gain insight into the value of your current strategic relationships and how they help you achieve your work, life, and giving goals
Conceptualize relationships to identify the people with the power, not only to help you achieve but to change whom you become
Learn how to become a “curve bender” who makes an outsized impact in the lives of others
Become better at finding and engaging people, navigating the 15 forces that are reshaping our world

This book is about strategic relationship planning, personal growth, and, ultimately, about you. Read Curve Benders to launch yourself into your best future. Show less

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationship they have built with you? Most important . . . is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort?… Show more

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationship they have built with you? Most important . . . is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort? That’s the provocative and ultimately earthshaking question David Nour poses. He argues that co-creation is a transformational journey that naturally leads to growth and evolution . . . because it gives birth to shared interests that dwarf anything that existed previously. In Co-Create, David Nour makes the case that co-creation leads to Market Gravity™, a force that attracts stakeholders to your business because they recognize that many others have also united their interests with yours. It’s the sense―backed by tangible metrics―that this is bigger than any of us imagined . . . except that you imagined precisely such an outcome. That’s the power of co-creation. Show less

Social is more than doing; it's about becoming a socially-enabled organization. Social and mobile are highly disruptive technologies that will force many leaders to think and lead differently.

Transform Your Most Valuable Business Contacts into Personal and Professional Success

8 Keys to Building Strong Partnerships with Your Colleagues and Your Customers

Ask any established business owner to identify his or her toughest challenge when just starting out, and you'll likely get this answer: raising capital. Most aspiring entrepreneurs know far too little about the sources of money that can help start a business or fuel its growth. Where do you get capital? What are investors looking for? How do you ask for money in a way that gets results? This book answers these and many other critical questions. Even more important, entrepreneur and consultant… Show more

Ask any established business owner to identify his or her toughest challenge when just starting out, and you'll likely get this answer: raising capital. Most aspiring entrepreneurs know far too little about the sources of money that can help start a business or fuel its growth. Where do you get capital? What are investors looking for? How do you ask for money in a way that gets results? This book answers these and many other critical questions. Even more important, entrepreneur and consultant David Nour shows how to develop long-term relationships with financial partner—the people who can help keep a business humming throughout its life.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Capital, designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the money-raising maze, shows how to attract financing to fund the start-up and growth phases any business moves through. It answers the most common—and the most perplexing—questions entrepreneurs have about financing a business: How do I put together a credible request for funds? This book provides real-life, pragmatic advice from entrepreneurs who have raised money from friends, family, angel investors, and banks, as well as institutional investors such as venture capitalists and private equity firms. It details the process from start to finish while spotlighting the danger spots and ways to avoid them. It will be especially useful to those who are uncomfortable making important financial decisions, and to those who are confused by all the conflicting opinions offered by advisors—both well meaning and otherwise. By showing readers the financing ropes, Nour removes a major source of stress for budding entrepreneurs and moves them closer to their dream come true: a successful business. Show less