Welcome to ACCE's bookstore. Go to genre to browse books by topic area. In the "What We're Reading" section, you will find a monthly book recommendation by an ACCE member. And you won't want to miss the books written by our convention speakers! Find them by going to "ACCE Convention speakers" under the genre tab. Email HERO@acce.org or call 703-998-3524 with any questions.

LIVE! ACCE Convention CEO Forum 2012: Dr. Lance Secretan

Live from Louisville! Dr. Secretan has inspired executive teams around the globe with new ways of thinking. In Louisville, Kentucky, he helped to guide health insurance powerhouse Humana in shaping their strategic vision - "ONE Dream" - resulting in a corporate transformation which helped them to double their revenues and quadruple their stock price and become one of the most inspiring Fortune 100 companies. In this CEO forum, Dr. Secretan describes how this successful intervention within America's 73rd largest company unfolded, and explain how what happened in Louisville is one way to build great organizations and communities. 

In this highly rated CEO Forum presentation, Dr. Secretan presents key leadership principles from his latest book, The Spark, the Flame, and the Torch: Inspire Self. Inspire Others. Inspire the World, how to become a more inspired person, how to be a more inspiring leader and how to be the change the world needs for a brighter future.

LIVE! ACCE Convention Keynote 2012: Mick Fleming

Live from Louisville: Mick Fleming and his closing plenary on Deathbed Confessions. What if you could know now what you'll know then? After more than a decade at ACCE's helm, Mick Fleming has heard hundreds of lessons learned the hard way from chamber executives who've moved up, moved out, retired, been fired or gone to jail. He'll compile years of stoies into seven deadly sins and seven glowing virtues; the mistakes to aboid and traits to emulate in your chamber career.

In this highly attended convention session, hear Mick talk about the seven deadly sins and seven glowing virtues to leading chambers of commerce.

ACCE 2012-13 Operations Survey Responses & Calculations Spreadsheet

by ACCE

This is a spreadsheet of 2012-2013 Operations survey responses and calculated measures for ACCE members who did not elect to participate in ACCE's 2012-2013 Operations survey. 

Using the spreadsheet, you can sort the data by total revenue, number of members, whether the chamber is responsible for ED/CVB functions, membership retention rate, market penetration rate, or any other measure in order to look at specific benchmarking data for chambers most like your own.

All responses are anonymous.  This spreadsheet is available free to survey participants. 

ACCE 2012-2013 Chamber Operations Survey Report

by ACCE

With the most recent data collected in the spring of 2013, the 9^th Annual ACCE Chamber Operations Survey Report features new information on chamber structure, including merger and separation activity. The report features 28 charts and graphs, and is built on data sets collected for 2008-2012.

ACCE 2012-2013 Operations Survey - Customized Presentation

by ACCE

This PowerPoint presentation, customized with your chamber's logo, includes all of the charts and graphs from the 2012-2013 Operations Survey report. Your chamber's survey responses and calculated measures are plotted on each chart.  This is a visually appealing graphical representation of your chamber's membership statistics, financial indicators, and operating ratios relative to chambers across the country.  This presentation is an essential tool for staff and board retreats, strategic planning sessions, and other benchmarking activities. Available five-business days from the time of purchase (first available on June 25th). 

If you did not particpate in the 2012-2013 ACCE Operations Survey, you may purchase a customized presentation after entering your data into our online survey module for an additional cost.  Please contact hero@acce.org with questions about this process.

Accounting, Tax, and Reporting Requirements (4th Edition)

by Edward J. McMillan, CPA, CAE

The accounting principles, tax issues, reporting requirements, and general work environment for not-for-profit organizations are remarkably different from those affecting commercial organizations. As a result, the task of keeping up with current financial and disclosure requirements, already daunting, can become even more so. Combining the proven guidance of the previous, best selling edition with all of the latest regulatory information, Edward McMillan delivers a one-stop reporting resource for not-for-profits in Not-For-Profit Accounting, Tax, and Reporting Requirements.

Applebee's America

by Matthew Dowd

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth." The only reason more big companies don't set sail for them, they suggest, is that "the dominant focus of strategy work over the past twenty-five years has been on competition-based red ocean strategies"-i.e., finding new ways to cut costs and grow revenue by taking away market share from the competition. With this groundbreaking book, Kim and Mauborgne-both professors at France's INSEAD, the second largest business school in the world-aim to repair that bias. Using dozens of examples-from Southwest Airlines and the Cirque du Soleil to Curves and Starbucks-they present the tools and frameworks they've developed specifically for the task of analyzing blue oceans. They urge companies to "value innovation" that focuses on "utility, price, and cost positions," to "create and capture new demand" and to "focus on the big picture, not the numbers." And while their heavyweight analytical tools may be of real use only to serious strategy planners, their overall vision will inspire entrepreneurs of all stripes, and most of their ideas are presented in a direct, jargon-free manner. Theirs is not the typical business management book's vague call to action; it is a precise, actionable plan for changing the way companies do business with one resounding piece of advice: swim for open waters.

Career Building for the Chamber Professional

by ACCE

Career Building for the Chamber Professional: A Definitive Guide to Moving Up in the Chamber World provides insights into the job search process for chamber leaders, and, by doing so, limit your zigging and zagging to reach your goal. This book is designed to offer practical advice and wisdom, based in part on the author's own observations and experiences, as well as comments from others within the chamber profession. The advice and tips here are designed to help you overcome some of the obstacles you may face and help you secure your next chamber leadership position. Don't let your chamber position be just a job, make it a career. See inside this book: Table of Contents/Introduction | Chapter Excerpt "Fantastic! A 'must have' for any executive contemplating their next step," says Kristofer T. Johnson, IOM, President & CEO, Tri-City (WA) Area Chamber of Commerce.

Casa Y Comunidad

by Henry G. Cisneros

This groundbreaking publication takes the first-ever look at the growing and increasingly prosperous U.S. Latino community and their housing needs. Casa Y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Designs helps prepare all segments of the housing industry to truly understand and work with Latinos.