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A Carrot A Day Appears on the BusinessWeek Best-Selling Paperback Business Book List.


SUMMIT, N.J. -- Sold-Out New Book on Praise, Recognition and Rewards Also Reached #2 on the Amazon.com Business Best-Seller List and Ranked in Top 15 on The Wall Street Journal's Business Best Selling List

A Carrot A Day, the new book from best-selling authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, the world's leading experts on employee recognition, has reached BusinessWeek's Best-Selling Paperback Business Book list as cited in the December 6th issue of BusinessWeek Magazine.

This latest milestone is the most recent benchmark of success for A Carrot A Day. The book has also reached The Wall Street Journal's business best selling list and was the second overall best-selling business book at Amazon.com. Additionally, the book was the number one selling adult non-fiction book the week of the release (November 3rd), according to according to
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 Nielsen Bookscan.

Companies of all sizes have been placing bulk orders for A Carrot A Day. The largest order comes from DHL DHL
abbr.
1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters

2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature
, a global leader in domestic and international shipping, which has ordered almost 5,000 copies for its managers worldwide.

A Carrot A Day is the third book in the Carrot series and features daily advice on how to use praise, recognition and rewards to motivate employees to work harder and smarter with the company's goals in mind, which over time can effect measurable, positive change in the company's bottom line.

The second book in the Carrot series, The 24 Carrot Manager, has sold almost 200,000 copies and has been translated into 15 languages, including Complex and Simplified Chinese, French, Korean, Hebrew, Indonesian and Japanese. It was called a "must read for modern-day managers" by Larry King Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called Larry King Live, one of the longest running talk shows on American air.  of CNN CNN
 or Cable News Network

Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world.
. The release of The 24 Carrot Manager in China was an overnight sensation, selling 20,000 copies in the first two months. John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
  • John Wiley & Sons, publishing company
  • John C. Wiley, American ambassador
  • John D. Wiley, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • John M. Wiley (1846–1912), U.S.
 & Sons recently purchased the rights to publish The 24 Carrot Manager in paperback in 20 countries in the Pacific Rim.

Managing with Carrots, the first book in the Carrot series, was a Top 10 Business Book of the Year in 2002 according to Canada's Globe & Mail.

About the Authors

Adrian Gostick is a recognition consultant to Fortune 500 firms. He is director of corporate communications for O. C. Tanner, the world's leading employee-recognition firm. He is also the author of the UPI UPI
abbr.
United Press International
 International bestseller The Integrity Advantage. He has written for USA Today Magazine and Investor's Business Journal and has been featured on CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence)
CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel
CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc.
, ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
 and National Public Radio.

Chester Elton is Vice President of Performance Recognition for O. C. Tanner. He has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal as a motivation expert and has appeared as a guest on CNN, Bloomberg Television and National Public Radio. He is also a recognition consultant to Fortune 100 firms.
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