| ROBERT
L. SHOOK
Best-selling author Robert Shook has been working
full-time as an author since 1978. Widely known
as one of America's premier business writers,
he is the best-selling author of four books. Robert
Shook has been published in eight languages. His
books hold over 100 weeks on the best-selling
lists.
Robert Shook is co-founder and past chairman of
the board of Shook Associates Corporation, American
Executive Corporation and American Executive Life
Insurance Company. A former contributing editor
of Success Magazine, he specializes in writing
nonfiction, business-related books. A partial
list of Robert Shook's more recent authored books
include:
- Jackpot! Harrah's Winning Secrets for Customer
Loyalty (John Wiley & Sons, December
2002)
- Longaberger: An American Success Story (New
York Times #1 Best Seller) (Harper Business,
March 2001) by Dave Longaberger (with Robert
L. Shook)
- Predatory Marketing (William Morrow, January
1997) by C. Britt Beemer, founder and CEO of
America’s Research Group (with Robert L. Shook)
- I’ll Get Back to You (McGraw-Hill, August
1996)
- The Greatest Sales Stories Ever Told (McGraw-Hill,
May 1995)
- The Winner's Circle: How Ten Stockbrokers
Became the Best in the Business (New York
Institute of Finance, 1992)
- Hardball: How to Turn the Pressure on Without
Turning the Customer Off (William Morrow
Publishers, 1990)
- Successful Telephone Selling in the '90s (Harper
& Row, 1990)
Robert Shook has served on the board of the Franklin
County American Cancer Society since 1985 and has
been Chairman of the board since September 1996.
In 1994, he was the unit’s Volunteer of the Year.
Robert Shook is also on the board for Value City
Department Stores (NYSE). He is a past member of
the board for Opera/Columbus; Players Theatre of
Columbus; and the Columbus Adopt-A-School Program.
The author has appeared on more than 600 radio and
television talk shows, including the Disney Channel,
CNN, "The David Susskind Show," "The
Sally Jessy Raphael Show," and "The Today
Show." Robert Shook's hometown is Columbus,
Ohio and he graduated from The Ohio State University
with a degree in Business Administration. He has
three children: Carrie, RJ, and Michael.
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