First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Gail McMeekin loves to inspire people to envision and then achieve their personal and professional goals. She then shifted her focus to a passion for helping people to find their own Creative Success, which is the [.]. She is a licensed psychotherapist who became fascinated with the concept of “why so many people hate their jobs.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2012

To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Successful people work with what they have to achieve their goals. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. This includes surprises, obstacles, and even disappointments.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 30, 2011

Increase the odds of reaching your goals by doing the following three things: 1. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Successfully managing a team is a complex undertaking. Establish urgency.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 30, 2011

She writes about the scientifically-tested strategies we can use to be more effective reaching our goals at work and in our personal lives. Her new book is Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals (Hudson Street Press). Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, is a motivational psychologist, researcher, and consultant.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 22, 2011

Research has shown that optimism and the confidence it brings will help you reach your goals, but [.]. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. If you believe you will succeed, you will.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 11, 2011

To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * You cannot have social media goals. It’s like having copy machine goals. The copy [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Most team leaders know to help their team define goals, but the conversation shouldn’t stop there. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. You also need to agree on the mechanics of how the [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 29, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson, first featured by HRM Today and then by her personal blog, The Science of Success. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources, please click here. * * * You just have too much on you plate. Chances are, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2012

Most team leaders know to help their team define goals, but the conversation shouldn’t stop there. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. You also need to agree on the mechanics of how the [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2011

Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action Rich Horwath Greenleaf Book Group Press (2009) Attitude and preparation determine altitude…and also depth There are business situations in which the goal is to ascend (e.g.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 17, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson, first featured by her Fast Company blog and then by her personal blog, The Science of Success. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources, please click here. * * * Very few of us are as productive as [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson and featured at her personal blog, The Science of Success. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources, please click here. * * * People can have remarkably keen insights into their own behavior. Then again, people can also [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2012

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Grant Cardone John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to increase sustainable fulfillment of human potentialities, one’s own as well as those of others Many years ago, I read a book written by David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big, that helped me to widen [.].

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JULY 15, 2011

Surviving the Serengeti: 7 Skills To Master Business and Life Stefan Swanepoel John Wiley & Sons (2011) A parable for success that sometimes requires a perilous journey of self-discovery Fables may well be among the earliest forms of storytelling and remain popular among several business thinkers, notably Stephen Denning and Patrick Lencione.

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MARCH 18, 2011

Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us Erik Calonius Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Dreamers think about it…visionaries see it and then make it happen, at whatever cost The material in Ten Steps Ahead is based on what Erik Calonius learned during his research (including interviews of various business visionaries) (..)

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APRIL 24, 2011

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson for “The Conversation” series featured by the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * There are quite a number [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * The road to hell may or may not be [.].

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