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Excerpt from Words That Work by Frank Luntz
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The following excerpt is taken from "Corporate Case Studies," Chapter 7 of Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz. VII Corporate Case Studies Jack Welch understood the power of words that work better than anyone in corporate America.
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Business Books For January: Ego Check
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Given headlines that executives like Bob Nardelli and Bill McGuire are getting, the timing of Mathew Hayward's new book Ego Check couldn't be better. Hayward believes it is hubris, what many consider the original deadly sin, to be the cuplrit for fallings of Enron, Worldcom, and Parmalat. Consider Hayward's four sources of Hubris: If extraordinary confidence is grounded in the best available data, it is authentic, and a positive force for advancement.
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Business Audio at The Cranky Middle Manager
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The number of podcasts with a business angle are growing. The latest we have come across is The Cranky Middle Manager hosted by Wayne Trumel. I could give you a long drawn out explanation of what Wayne is up to, but it makes more sense to just send you to his 2007 show manifesto.
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Today's Vocabulary Quiz
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I am sure you already received your November/December issue of Selling Power. Seth is on the cover (ten times). We tend to talk about Seth alot and thought we should take a moment to get the new folks caught up.
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Top 5 Bestselling Books of All-Time
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I know I promised no more "Best of" lists, but Good Magazine (which is really good by the way) has a sidebar on the bestselling books of all time. I couldn't resist.
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Growing Great Employees Interview with Erika Andersen - Part 1
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In this interview, I talk with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers. When I asked Erika what the movie pitch was for her book, she said Growing Great Employees is "Good To Great meets Marcus Buckingham in the form of a Boy Scouts Handbook". You'll have to listen to get her full explanation of that, along with our discussion of nature versus nuture, why she used a gardening analogy, and why there are good reasons to have job descriptions.
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Business Books For January: Wikinomics
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Don Tapscott has been writing about the intersection of business and technology for years. Wikinomics is his latest effort to explain how the networked Web is changing the relationships between companies and their customers. If you spend any time in this ideaspace, you are going to be familiar with many of the examples in Wikinomics.
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Breakthrough Questions
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In a new book called "Simple Solution" are a few questions that the authors suggest will help middle managers make an impact and stand out. They state: "Here are some examples to practice asking breakthrough questions. After reading them, formulate at least three breakthrough questions that would initiate radical change in your department.
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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 6
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Today's Dose from The Executive Almanac: "JPMorgan Chase, the third largest bank in the United States, has a lot of ancestors--and now it's making amends for two of them. Between 1831 and 1865, two predecessor banks, Citizens Bank and Canal Bank, both operating in Louisiana, apparently made loans with some 13,000 slaves as collateral. When planation owners defaulted on the loans, the banks took possession of 1,250 slaves.
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NYT Book Review on Setting The Table
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I picked the Sunday New York Times yesterday and saw Setting The Table (written by Danny Meyer) was reviewed by Sara Dickerman. Her review shows she likes the book, but Dickerman thinks Meyer gets a little cutesy: But Meyer is not giving advice to would-be restauranteurs: his book aims for a broader business audience. Whether his model of "hospitalitocracy" can expand beyond the service industry is hard to say, but Meyer certainly tries hard.
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