Harvey Mackay - Author of "Swim With The Sharks"

About Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay is the author of the New York Times #1 best-sellers Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Both books are among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time, according to the New York Times.

His Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You’ll Ever Need, made the New York Times best-seller list 12 days after its release on April 20, 1997, and remained there for five months. Sharkproof, Mackay’s third book, was a national best-seller.

His latest book, Pushing The Envelope: All The Way To The Top, was published by Ballantine Books on January 6, 1999. It is full of business and life lessons, including how to lick the competition, and is guaranteed to earn your stamp of approval. Mackay’s books have sold 8,000,000 copies worldwide, have been translated into 35 languages, and sold in 80 countries.

He is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Features Syndicate, and his weekly articles appear in 52 newspapers around the country, including the Detroit Free Press, Denver Post, Orange County Register, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Arizona Republic.

He is also one of America’s most popular and entertaining business speakers, speaking once-a-week on average to Fortune 500-sized companies and associations. Toastmasters International named him one of the top five speakers in the world.

In addition, he is chairman of Mackay Envelope Corporation, an $85 million company he founded at age 26. Mackay Envelope employs 600 people and manufactures 20 million envelopes a day.

Mackay is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program. He is an avid runner and marathoner, and former #1 ranked tennis player in Minnesota.

He is the past president of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Envelope Manufacturers Association of America, the University of Minnesota National Alumni Association, and the Young Presidents Organization (Twin Cities Chapter), to name only a few of the organizations in which he has been involved.

He currently is a director of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, the Minnesota Orchestral Association, and the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities and business schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Wharton, and Penn State.

Mackay played a key role in bringing the 1992 Super Bowl to Minneapolis, along with obtaining an NBA franchise (Minnesota Timberwolves), getting the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome built, bringing in Lou Holtz to coach the University of Minnesota football team and many more civic involvements. All of which are why Fortune magazine refers to him as “Mr. Make Things Happen!”

	Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt by Harvey Mackay FORTUNE magazine calls Harvey Mackay "Mr. Make Things Happen." No matter where you are in your career, he can help you ride the expressway to success. This collection of on-target how-to's, insights, and self-tests translates into immediate take-to-the-office results on EVERY page. Discover the secrets on servicing sales that are worth millions, add the missing ingredient--courage--to your career, learn how to love your job, take a manager's quiz that will revolutionize your style, and much, much more! From the author of SWIM WITH THE SHARKS WITHOUT BEING EATEN ALIVE "Can Mackay do it again? The answer is a resounding yes. He joins Bob Townsend (UP THE ORGANIZATION) as master of brief, biting, and brilliant business wit and wisdom." Tom Peters
	Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty : The Only Networking Book You'll Ever Need by Harvey Mackay Best-selling author Harvey Mackay reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business--networking, the indispensable art of building contacts. Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away. Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead by reaching out.
	Pushing the Envelope All the Way to the Top by Harvey MacKay Inspirational business speaker, popular newspaper columnist, and bestselling author Harvey Mackay has been "moonlighting" for 40 years as president of Mackay Envelope Corporation, an $85 million company that produces more than 17 million envelopes a day. With the help of imagery derived from this industry, he's now dispensing a new batch of lessons on life and business in Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top.
	Swim With the Sharks : Without Being Eaten Alive : Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition by Harvey Mackay, Kenneth H. Blanchard A super salesman, a sportsman, a popular public speaker and motivator, Harvey Mackay has evolved some of the most dynamic techniques for soliciting and closing a sale ever devised. In this book he reviews the secrets of his success. Success can be yours with this straight-from-the-hip handbook by self-made Minnesota millionaire Harvey Mackay. This one-of-a-kind book by a business man who has been there, can show you how to get there too. You will learn to: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate your competitors with sure-fire action-oriented techniques and advice.