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Jack Covert Selects - Still Surprised
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Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership by Warren Bennis with Patricia Ward Biederman, Jossey-Bass, 272 Pages, $27. 95 Hardcover, August 2010, ISBN 9780470432389 When you look at the greatest business thinkers from the second half of the last century, Warren Bennis would have to be in the conversation. When you focus on the field of leadership, he would have to be on the top of that list.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Resonate
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Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte, John Wiley & Sons, 272 pages, $29. 95, Paperback, September 2010, ISBN 9780470632017 Everyone gives presentations, in any number of forms. Expressing our opinion, our research, our hard work to a group of people is always a risk.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 74
By 800-CEO-READ
If you'd like to be an ethically upstanding, emotionally engaged, clutch performer who invests your money wisely, gives great presentations and empowers your employees, you will want to read the 74th issue of ChangeThis. If not, then might I suggest You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (actually, you should read that anyway. .
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Blog / ChangeThis
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: Emotional Commitment at Work
By Stan Slap
"A manager's emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. It's the kind of commitment that solves unsolvable problems, creates energy when all energy has been expended, and ignites emotional commitment in others, like employees, teams and customers. Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers."
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Blog / ChangeThis
The HERO Compact: Empowering Your Employees to Compete in Todays Economy
By Josh Bernoff, Ted Schadler
"Individuals have more power than ever. Managers can see this as a threat, or as an opportunity. Think about it. Any of your customers could trash your reputation at any moment. They could write a video about his bad experience that attracts 8 million views, which is what Dave Carroll did after United Airlines baggage handlers broke his guitar. They could tell a million people to never buy your product, which is what Heather Armstrong did when, surrounded by soiled diapers, her frustration at Maytag's inability to fix her new clothes washer boiled over. For managers, the only defense is to empower your own employees to solve those customers' problems."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Being Clutch, Or How Not To Choke Under Pressure
By Paul Sullivan
"Being great under pressure is hard work. This is part of the reason why we are so impressed by people who seem immune to choking. These people come through in the clutch when others don't. If they're business leaders, they become gurus other executives want to emulate. In politics, the person who runs the gauntlet wins the election, but if he can do so in a particularly cunning way, he becomes an example of strategic excellence. In combat, it is the leaders who come under fire and get their men to safety who are recognized as war heroes. If the people are sporting figures, their triumphs become legendary. We are so fascinated by these feats that we have created a nearly mythical aura around clutch performers."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Let's Get Naked: Why Individual Investors Should Shed the Emperors Clothes of Wall Street Investment Experts
By Robert Fischer
"In this manifesto, I'm going to introduce you to rules-based mechanical investing (also known as naked investing strategies), which has been available for years. In fact, Warren Buffett wrote about this in the forward of the 1973 edition of The Intelligent Investor. But these techniques have languished for decades, as mutual fund companies—with big dollars to spend on advertising—have purchased the souls and minds of the financial press. And employing systematic naked strategies is simply a more effective way to make investing decisions than relying on the judgment of Wall Street investment experts."
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15 1/2 Ideas to Make Your Presentation Go From Boring to Bravo
By Kristin Arnold
"While it will always be easier to recite information (one-way) than it is to make an engaging speech (two-way) presentation that connects with your audience, today's audiences are demanding more engagement and interaction. Their lives are full of instant updates and streaming headline news sent straight to their cell phones. They are expecting you to bring specific knowledge they can't get anywhere else and deliver it in an entertaining way. Unfortunately, most people rely on a few tried (yet true) techniques to engage an audience and rarely stumble outside their comfort zone. If you truly want to connect with your audience, you can choose to make your presentations more engaging and interactive."
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Blog / ChangeThis
Reinventing Ethics
By Mary C. Gentile Ph.D.
"What if thou shalt not became can do? What if we developed moral competence rather than bemoaned a lack of moral courage? What if we looked at ethics as a wellspring of passion and creativity rather than of required restraint? What if our values became a source of satisfaction, rather than a threat of guilt? What if we asked what if?"
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Female Vision
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
The following review was written by our owner, Carol Grossmeyer, and first appeared in our monthly newsletter, the KeenThinker. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ It’s been a long time since a book has come across my desk that made me instantly stop in my tracks, so I was thrilled when The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work did just that. I was captured first by the arresting cover, a closeup photo of a woman’s eyes and then intrigued by the simple but powerful title, The Female Vision.
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