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"Defy Gravity is an insightful book. It uses the metaphor of flight to create images that are memorable and actionable. Rebel’s approach will help you recognize what’s holding you back – empowering you to reach for and attain your business objectives."

Ed Glassmeyer
Managing Partner, Oak Investment Partners 

 "Rebel does it again!! A very informative, hold no punches book that gets to the roots of business dilemmas and suggests solutions. A must for growth companies."

Tsvi Gal
General Partner of Exigen Capital

“It’s a brave new world in business, and the old rules don’t work anymore.  Defy Gravity is exactly what businesses large and small need to profitably prosper – fast.  This book is a must read for any business leader seeking sustainable growth.  Run, don’t walk and get your copy today!”

Stephanie Frank
Best Selling Author, The Accidental Millionaire

"As a pilot and CEO, Defy Gravity’s Principles of Business Flight resonated with me. This book offers powerful insight into business cultures, market dynamics and revolutionary ways to think about, and achieve, profitable growth. Defy Gravity is all you need to reach escape velocity and leave your competition in the rearview mirror forever!"

Casey Powell
Entrepreneur, former CEO Sequent Computers, GM of Intel

"Want to sustainably and profitably grow your business? Defy Gravity is for you.  Rebel gives you the tools your need in her action-oriented book, chock-full of proven strategies, real-world examples and common sense approaches. Read this book and make your business fly."

Ed Niehaus, CEO
Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. 

"Defy Gravity is one of the most valuable business books for 2010 and beyond."

Joe Levy
Chairman & CEO The Quadragon Group

"Defy Gravity’s Principles of Flight are a must read and follow for any business person. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a chief executive officer – read this book and ditch your gravity. Those who do will lead tomorrow – those who don’t, well, they run out of runway.“

Bob Pette
VP, Professional Services Group, nVidia

"Most market  strategy books focus on concept and leave the reader to figure out the “how to.”  Defy Gravity delivers powerful yet practical strategic thinking, along with tactical recommendations, proven in real-world business. It’s the answer we’ve all been looking for.”

Rob Butler
President, Payflex Systems

"Defy Gravity is a one-of-a-kind business book. To grow your business, read this book.”

Rick Thau
Founder, Thaughtful Transitions
Technology CEO and Entrepreneur

"Rebel Brown's provocative and easily understood market strategies will inspire 21st century business leaders to lead and grow their firms in bold  new  ways. It's a must read for executives intent on making sure their companies are first movers in the increasingly competitive global economy."

Gary J Beach
Publisher Emeritus, CIO Magazine

"Move over status quo, there's a big new dynamic world out there. Defy Gravity will unleash your company's potential for success."

Michael Welts
Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group
Former SVP Marketing, Cabletron Systems

"Rebel is the real deal and Defy Gravity is the best market strategy book I’ve seen in years. From critical business concepts, to applications in the real world to questions and exercises for all of us – Defy Gravity gives us all the tools we need to power profitability."

Doug Michels
Co-Founder and CEO, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) and Tarantella, Inc

"In a world where good enough isn’t good enough anymore, Rebel Brown has pulled together the right strategies, tips and thought provoking advice to help your company soar. If you and your team are rea dy to defy gravity – this book will get you started.”

Joan Koerber-Walker
Corporate Executive, Entrepreneur, and Investor

"Defy Gravity takes business strategy to a whole new level. Rebel offers innovative yet proven approaches to power breakout business growth."

Mike Fields
Former Chairman, Kana Software, OpenVision

"Defy Gravity is filled with fresh strategies to escape the pull of the status quo, capture emerging opportunities and achieve high velocity growth.”

Jill Konrath
Best Selling author, SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies

"I've watched Rebel work her strategic magic with client after client. She knows how to get companies to think and market differently to create break-out growth. In Defy Gravity Rebel shares her secrets about how to look beyond what we "know" so that we can learn to think differently to create success. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to leverage their true value to power their business into the future - prepared for whatever that will bring."

Ardath Albee
Author, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

"Everyone needs to listen to Rebel. At a time when businesses have a tendency to follow the latest shiny red ball, Rebel keeps us all focused on proven business fundamentals that help businesses take flight."  

Mark W. Schaefer
Executive Director, Schaefer Marketing Solutions

 "Too often, our businesses are on “Autopilot.” Rebel, brings thoughtfulness back into business, strategy development, and execution.  Defy Gravity is mandatory reading for anyone wanting to build high performing, dare I say, high flying businesses!”

David A Brock
CEO, Partners in EXCELLENCE

"Rebel Brown’s Defy Gravity provides dynamic and time-tested wisdom that will clearly delineate successful strategies for business growth. If you want to propel your company to new heights, then I highly recommend that you read and learn from Defy Gravity."

Gil Namur
President, Synaptic Systems Inc.

 "Defy Gravity is one of those books whose time has come. Change is not hard. Change is the only reality there is and the sooner organizations embrace it as the source of all opportunity the better. Is there a source of opportunity other than change or urgent need for it? I don't know of one.” 

Ralph Talmont

"After I finished reading a draft of this book, my first thought was that I wished I had written it. Simply put, it’s brilliant. And now, more than ever, it is a book that is needed. The smallest businesses and the largest enterprises alike will benefit greatly from reading, studying, and applying Defy Gravity."

Simon T. Bailey, Author of Release Your Brilliance

"Defy Gravity is a powerhouse of a book! Rebel Brown shows you how to apply the inherent momentum of your business network to identify both the gravity that can hold you back and the opportunities that will propel your business growth. An absolute must read for businesses large and small."

Ivan Misner
NY Times Bestselling author and Founder of BNI and Referral institute

"Rebel Brown is simply brilliant! Not only has she challenged the status quo throughout her career... with Defy Gravity she now teaches us how to do the same. Thank you, Rebel!"

Bob Burg, coauthor of Wall St. Journal/BusinessWeek Bestseller, The Go-Giver and Go Givers Sell More, Author of Endless Referrals

"Defy Gravity will defy your expectations.  Rebel Brown delivers a page-turning, awe-inspiring, barrier-shattering rocket-ship of a business book. If you want to soar, begin by learning from Defy Gravity."

Scott McKain
Best Selling Author; Collapse of Distinction, All Business is Show Business, and more.  Hall of Fame Speaker

"If you run a company - or want to run one - Defy Gravity offers fascinating insights into defining your market, quantifying your value, and creating high velocity sales growth."

Randy Gage
Author, Prosperity Mind

"I can fly! And so can you, thanks to this great book from Rebel Brown. You'll lose the surly bonds of your business gravity and discover how your Value Mix will have you soaring to the heights of profit and competitive advantage."

Wally Bock
Business Writer - Coach - Consultant

“Defy Gravity is a must read to compete in today’s fast-moving market. Defy Gravity will challenge the way you think and the way you do business. Bravo Rebel Brown for giving us the tools and strategies we need to defy business gravity! This is indeed a flight plan for success.”

Dondi Scumaci
Professional Speaker, Best Selling Author of Career Moves

"I've spent my entire career challenging convention, and pursuing the dichotomies found in the business we are all in - the business of life! In Defy Gravity, Rebel Brown not only shares these philosophies, she shows us how to apply them!"

Frank McKinney
Philanthro'capital'ist and 5x Bestselling Author

"The momentum of mediocre carries too many of us to places we really don't want to go. To go where we want to go, we have to break with status quo. Status quo exerts power over us as strong as gravity, so to break free, we must develop a mindset to defy gravity. Fortunately, Rebel Brown brings defying gravity down-to-earth with words, structure, logic and especially stories, showing us how to do it. Defy Gravity is an ideal gift to lift entrepreneurs to grow.”

Trey Pennington
Social media expert, Author of Spitball Marketing

Reviewers Say

Early reviews are here!

Publishers Weekly: Defy Gravity: Propel Your Business to High-Velocity Growth by Rebel Brown Brown, a management consultant, presents a smart and readable guide for executives seeking to improve the effectiveness of their corporate strategies. Even though one-third of all business strategies fail, executives tend to stick with the plan, maintaining that a bad plan is safer than no plan at all. Brown shows how to break free from this mentality and makes her message stick with energetic prose and cheeky humor. She questions prevalent corporate beliefs and shows how following these misguided approaches can ruin an organization. She highlights change as the key factor; it's the "anti-gravity" that will propel a company forward. Citing such successful examples as Nu Skin and Southwest Airlines, Brown illustrates key points on what works and what doesn't, and concludes each chapter with a helpful summary. A new voice in a very crowded field, Brown provides an original perspective on corporate growth.*

A Double Dose of Success - Randy Gage Jedi Knight Rebel Brown’s book is titled, “Defy Gravity.”  Her book is all about creating high velocity growth for your business. She’ll teach you how to get out of conventional herd thinking and create bold new strategies to attract and keep new business. You’ll learn how to stop being a victim of your internal and external challenges and shed what’s been holding you back.

	Small Biz Daily - Rieva Lesonsky I am a big fan of the concept of “Defying Gravity.” It’s a task we entrepreneurs have to tackle every moment of our business lives. And this compelling, well-written book will have you nodding your head in agreement from the get-go. Any business owner trying to navigate today’s turbulent market will find a welcome lift.

	Marketing Dissector - Steven Parker Let me say right up front that I was blown away by Defy Gravity. It's fresh, timely and very relevant. Ostensibly not a book “about marketing,” it’s so packed with business advice that it manages to speak directly to marketers on many of the tough, strategic challenges that keep us up at night. The author employs both passion and logic to make the case for business change--but does so in a much more positive tone than most. This isn’t the same run-of-the-mill “do-or-die” change-mongering that’s all around us. There are no throw-the-bums-out undertones here, but rather a cool, mature assessment of reality that shows us how to recognize when a company and its target markets are parting directions.

Talking BooksTV - Michelle Vandepas Defy Gravity: Propel Your Business to High-Velocity Growth is not a book you read, it’s one that you devour. True to her name, Rebel talks about challenging businesses to think differently and continuously reconsider long ingrained beliefs to respond to the needs of today’s situations. Instead of being filled with fluff and rhetoric, Defy Gravity is a book that has actionable steps and processes that will help any business owner or budding entrepreneur to think in different and more innovative ways to structure your business. With this book in your arsenal, you can face your internal and external challenges head on and steer your business in the right direction.

Blog Business World - Wayne Hurlbert  I highly recommend the essential and empowering book Defy Gravity: Propel Your Business to High-Velocity Growth by Rebel Brown, to any business leaders who seek to maximize their growth potential through the application of these game changing concepts to their companies. Every chapter contains critical, value multiplying information that is both practical and results oriented. The principles in this book are a valuable addition to the field of corporate strategy.

Turning A Vision Into Reality By Defying Gravity – Gil Namur, Life as a Human A little over a year ago, when we embarked on our vision to launch Life As A Human, I was introduced to someone I have come to call a friend. At that time, Rebel Brown was also in the process of breathing life into a dream. She wanted to publish a book. She wanted to take all of the lessons she has learned through her dynamic career and share them in a book she believed would make a difference.

Core Purpose - Joan Koerber-Walker So if you are like me and have always wanted to fly - you might want to give your business a lift, and check out Defy Gravity. In a world where good enough isn’t good enough anymore, Rebel Brown has pulled together the right strategies, tips and thought provoking advice to help your company soar. If you and your team are ready to defy gravity – this book will get you started.

	Marketing Interactions - Ardath Albee Defy Gravity is not just a strategy book, it's a guide with examples, case studies, questions to ask and exercises to help you put her Principles of Business Flight into action. And yes, what she teaches will work—regardless of the state of the economy. In fact, you may just be surprised where the winds of change take you.

Make Teamwork Happen - Kristin Arnold Just finished reading Rebel Brown’s new book, Defy Gravity: Propel Your Business to High-Velocity Growth . As I read the book, I kept thinking, “these are GREAT questions for any business teams to be asking about their business!” …. So ask the tough questions, wrestle with your true value, make your head hurt (in a good way!), and the result will be a winning strategy for high velocity growth!

Partners in Excellence - David Brock Devouring Defy Gravity, studying it, using it as a guide to rethink what you do is probably the single most impactful thing that you can do for yourself, company, and community. It turns out thinking about what you do, thinking about your business differently isn’t that difficult. It comes down to plain common sense. If comes down to re-examine much of what we have done out of habit and inertia. It’s about going though our lives consciously. Rebel’s book offers simple and pragmatic advice on how you might do this. It challenges you to challenge everything you are doing. It challenges you to get off autopilot.

The Sales Heretic - Don Cooper Defy Gravity is not just one of the best business books I’ve read this year—it’s one of the best business books I’ve ever read. It serves as a much-needed slap in the face for both corporate executives and small business owners alike. You’re likely to squirm while reading it. Yet it’s also a valuable blueprint for business success. Or as Rebel calls it, a flight plan.

Defy Gravity Book Review - Tom Pick If your business is growing more rapidly and profitably than you ever dreamed, you can afford to ignore this book (at least for now). But if it’s more like the other 98% of businesses—struggling to keep up with the pace of market change and maintain profitable growth—Rebel Brown’s Defy Gravity may very well provide your flight plan for resumed or continued growth and success.

	Felicia Slattery Reviews Defy Gravity

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I almost hesitate to call this the best business book of 2010. I hesitate only because it may just be the best book of any kind, period. The business principles discussed by Rebel are very sound but so many of the concepts apply to our personal lives as well. I cannot imagine anyone who wouldn't benefit from this book. There are many great books out there with similar content, and most are about as enjoyable to read as watching paint dry. What truly sets Rebel Brown's Defy Gravity apart from the pack is the ease with which it reads. With every example, every point and every story it's like having a close friend sharing their experience with you. This book is alive with powerful insights into what it takes to succeed in a world where gravity holds us down. It's a great title because if you follow Rebel's advice it's hard to imagine anyone not breaking the bonds of gravity to excel in whatever they do. If it sounds as if I really like this book, you are wrong; I really love this book. I've read it twice and I'll read it again, I'll buy it for the people I care about and I'll suggest it to my business associates. I recommend it to you today. It is simply too good a book not to read! Steve Keating, Selling Skills Manager, The Toro Company