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Meghan Tranos
Linkage, Inc.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX
New Book by Linkage CEO Phil Harkins Hits #3 on WSJ, #1 on Barnes & Noble Bestseller Lists

“This book contains important lessons for all organizations that want to become great.” —Warren Bennis

BURLINGTON, MASS. (January 11, 2005) - Linkage, Inc. announces that Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX (WILEY: 2005), recently authored by Linkage president and CEO Phil Harkins, has already landed on several prominent bestseller lists. Just weeks after publication, Everybody Wins reached the #1 spot on BarnesandNoble.com's Business Book Bestseller List, and remains #7 on that list. The book has also reached the #3 spot on the Top Ten of the Wall Street Journal list of business book bestsellers. This past week, the Journal ranked Everybody Wins at #6.

“We're thrilled,” said Harkins, who founded Linkage in 1988. “And we think that Everybody Wins will continue to resonate within the business community. After all, it provides a new blueprint for driving organizational growth and succeeding despite all obstacles.”

In Everybody Wins, Harkins and co-author Keith Hollihan examine the business models and leadership practices of seven high growth/high impact companies. They focus especially on RE/MAX, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the strategy, culture, and leadership that transformed the company from a shoestring operation teetering on the brink of collapse into a real estate powerhouse that has enjoyed 380 consecutive months of growth.

“The RE/MAX saga—the story of a huge industry turned upside-down and inside-out by an outrageously bold dream, incredible tenacity, and uncommon business sense—yields inspiring and practical lessons for all of us,” said Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence.

“Everybody Wins is starting to catch on not just with business readers, but also with the general book-buying public,” added Linkage senior vice president Russell Sullivan. “I'm not surprised. It's an incredible story that reads like a novel.”

For more information on Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX, please visit www.linkageinc.com or call 781.402.5555.

About Linkage, Inc.
Linkage, Inc. is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development. Serving the public and private sectors, the Company provides clients around the globe with customized leadership development and strategic change solutions that include and integrate consulting, training, assessment, coaching, and benchmark research. With a relentless commitment to learning, Linkage also offers a full range of conferences, institutes, summits, public workshops, and distance learning programs on leading-edge topics in leadership, management, HR, and OD. More than 100,000 leaders and managers have attended such a Linkage program since the Company's founding in 1988. Linkage is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with regional offices in Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco, London, Brussels, and Singapore. On two occasions, Linkage has been named to the Inc. 500, a list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States.