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From perilous early years through clashes with the BBC and BT, not to mention the News Corporation bid for full control that failed in the wake of 2010's phone hacking scandal, there has been no shortage of drama in Sky’s history - nor in its likely future. The organisation is now the target of bids from two true titans of the global media industry - Disney and Comcast - who are fighting it out for ultimate ownership.

In 2006, IndiGo was one of the late entrants into the low-cost airline business in India. The market already had many strong players by then-several of them new-including Captain Gopinath's Air Deccan, Ajay Singh's SpiceJet, Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines and Wadia Group's GoAir. In the next...

Sky's the Limit tells the inspirational tale of John P. Calamos, Sr., an American trailblazer, self-made success story, and living legend in the world of investing. Each chapter contains stories and business lessons he learned along the way. From a stock boy in his parents' grocery store in Chicago's west side, to 400+ combat missions in Vietnam, to launching his own firm which now has upwards of $35 billion in assets, John's career and the extreme success he's enjoyed through that career have been built on taking risks and being resilient.

About two-thirds of all businesses fail to make it to the 10-year mark. Why? Because they’ve failed to implement effective marketing strategies and tactics designed to make their businesses grow. And from the one-third that makes it, an even smaller percentage make profits that cross the million-dollar-per-year mark—most don’t come close. Through the vigorous work I’ve done for clients through my marketing agency, I formulated a blueprint that, when applied, would bring about accelerated growth and profits in the businesses we worked with: the Five-Step Accelerator Blueprint.