The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience By Carmine Gallo
BOOK: “No other leader captures an audience like Steve Jobs does and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences.” - Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group
Get People to Work like They Mean It!: Manage, Motivate, and Get Results from Every Employee By Jean Blacklock, Evelyn Jacks
BOOK: To make a mark and move ahead, today's managers need hard team-building skills on top of abstract individual leadership traits.
The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell
BOOK: You don't become a leader when you're promoted into a position with the title. You become a leader when people start to follow you...
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Don't Wait for a Crisis By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON from
How to remain calm and clear-headed, sorting through possible step in a crisis and also in everyday business. How is it that in a crisis, certain people seem to know exactly what to do? How do they remain calm and clear-headed, sorting through possible steps, seemingly instantaneously and without effort?
For example, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first to fly a jet faster than the speed of sound and the role model of the "right stuff" has described his experience when all engines failed. Hurtling toward the earth with just seconds to avoid becoming a stain on the landscape, Yeager had no time to fret about why things weren't going as he expected, or to sift through instruction manuals. Rather, he opened his mental channel, allowed ideas to pop into his head, and then followed through on them deliberately, one by one: "Try A, Try B, Try C" until something clicked.
Although his plane was spinning at hundreds of miles an hour, Yeager described a sensation of thoughts coming methodically, almost slowly, in heightened focus. He harnessed the power of clarity: a blinding glimpse of the obvious, accompanied by a feeling of utter confidence in one's perspective.
When we or our businesses face situations that threaten our very survival, we may experience Yeager's kind of steadfast determination. Crisis can shock us to a kind of mental stillness. We are forced to admit that what we thought we knew isn't enough and to put aside our usual concerns. That allows the mental space for a fresh thought to emerge. Connection to the inner resources that all of us have, call it gut instinct, is just a thought away. The distance between despair and elation is literally the gap between one thought and the next. Can you measure that?
The key is to pay attention. Let insight focus your thinking and guide your actions. But don't wait for a crisis; far better to use the power of insight when things are going well. Begin by becoming aware of your habitual ways of thinking. Do you find yourself going over and over, for example, all the reasons something can't be done? We can get mentally stuck just thinking about all we have to do: "Oh, my gosh," goes the mental chatter, "Woe is me. I have so much to do and no time to do it." Again and again and again, these thoughts drone on. Along with them comes the emotion of being tired, of feeling weighed down by the world. In that frame of mind, it's difficult to find a fresh thought.
Turning things around can begin with the awareness: "I am never going to have the energy to accomplish anything if I just keep dwelling on all the chores I have to complete." This may seem unnatural at first. But re-tuning your internal guidance system to recognize and act on insight will get easier. And those old busy-minded, energy- sapping images will no longer occupy all your working day.
The Nature of Creative Development by Jonathan Feinstein via Stanford Univ. Press The "Nature of Creative Development" presents a new understanding of the basis of creativity, describing patterns of development of individuals engaged in creative endeavors. I show how creativity grows out of distinctive, unique creative interests individuals form, often years before they make their main contributions, which grow out of their interests. I describe paths individuals follow exploring their creative interests, building up unique knowledge bases that are generative of creativity; describe how individuals’ interests spark creative responses they make, and ways in which individuals are guided by their interests and values in managing their development. Later chapters describe richer patterns of development that unfold over decades.
Performance Is The Target by Jane Weddle Comments (0) How would you answer the following question if you had a choice between True and False? Training is a means to an end but not the end itself? If you stated True, you are right—if you answered False, then I am sorry to inform you that you are stuck in an old paradigm that training is the solution to your performance problems! Read whole article...
“The Move Beyond Training?” by Jane Weddle
How many times have you gone to a seminar, development workshop, training and actually take what you have learned and use it to change your performance or behavior—what about people you have sent or organized training for?
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“How to Stop Worrying” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Like water coursing downhill, anxiety can carve deep channels in a leader's very core -- with harmful effects on his organization free
“Management and Leadership” by Accompli
Successful change requires an artful blend of management and leadership. Often, one or both of these key ingredients is in short supply. Get a handle on the key distinctions. free, .ppt
“Does Power Corrupt?” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Like sand in a gearbox, manager misbehavior - even mundane ethical shadings - gums up the works of an organization free
“What is DISC?” DiscProfile.com
DISC is the oldest personal assessment used to improve lives, relationships, work productivity and communication. It is a personality behaviorial testing profiling using a 4 dimensional model. free explanation
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Success is a Mind Game: How to Improve Consistency and Results in Golf and Business
BOOK: Success is a Mind Game is about the fundamental Principles to more consistent and improved results in business and golf
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
*JUST RELEASED* "This book should be mandatory reading for every CEO, every economist, every government official, every student, and every citizen of our world."
-- Jeffrey Hollender, President, Seventh Generation, Inc.
Don't Wait for a Crisis By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON from
The Nature of Creative Development by Jonathan Feinstein via Stanford Univ. Press 
Performance Is The Target by Jane Weddle 
