First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 12, 2013

Mind Code: How the Language We Use Influences the Way We Think Charles E. Bailey GIST Publishing (2013) How to develop a practical understanding of the relationships between and among language, the human brain, behavior, and nature The subtitle suggests that “the language we use influences the way we think.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In, he and co-author John Ullmen share what they learned while interviewing more… Read More Mark Goulston on How to Deal With “Everyday Craziness”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 10, 2015

In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In, he and co-author John Ullmen share what they learned while interviewing more […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2015

In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In, he and co-author John Ullmen share what they learned while interviewing more […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2013

The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence—and Lead Dana Ardi St. Martins Press Tao Te Ching The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect [comma] Collaborate [comma] Influence and Lead' ” Ecclesiastes As Dana Ardi explains, “Today’s American corporate world […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 21, 2014

“If you don’t use your influence, it’s almost as if you didn’t have it. That’s what I saw in my hometown. At the moment people were being beaten, and churches burned, and people put in jail and killed, people were silent.” Dick Molpus, white, grew up in Philadelphia, Mississippi “The subject remained taboo.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 27, 2013

and author of Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas (Harvard Business Review Press 2013). John Butman is founder and principal of the idea and content development firm Idea Platforms, Inc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data Jean-Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In Mark Goulston and John Ullman The Story of Purpose: The [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2011

If their names seem familiar, it is perhaps because they co-authored Crucial Confrontations, Crucial Conversations, and more recently, Influencer. I have just read and will soon review Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success, co-authored by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 28, 2014

One, maybe something of a “crackpot,” the other, a person of great means and influence. Signs of racism keep coming. In the last 10 days, an unlikely “patriot” in Nevada, and an NBA owner. I will not repeat what they said in this post. Every racist thought, every racist word, every racist action makes the doors […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2011

The Elements of Power: Lessons on Leadership and Influence Terry R. Bacon AMACOM (2011) Bacon explains his own model of power and influence: “There are five sources of power that stem from your position and participation in an organization: role power; resource power; information power, network power; and reputation.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others John Daly The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line David Horsager Entrepreneurial Nation: [.]. Thorndike, Jr.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Ray Gilmer was a client of CCN President Karl Krayer, and they worked together on influencing presenations to sell his patented product to enhance sleep, entitled CES (Cranial Electrical Stimulator). One of Creative Communication Network‘s most renowned and beloved clients passed away on August 21, 2016.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 16, 2013

Schaefer is author of The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time (2011), Return On Influence (2012), and Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and Business Success One Post at a Time (2013) as well as a globally-recognized educator, speaker, business consultant, and author. His [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 14, 2013

They asked a bunch of folks – you know, “influencers” – to name their favoirite books of 2013. If you like books, I think you will want to browse through this article on the Bloomberg site: Buffett, Slim, Greenspan, Tyson Pick Best Books of 2013 by Simon Kennedy. Here are the opening paragraphs of the […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2006) How to avoid becoming or remaining a “hostage” to self-defeating expectations of you The title of this review was suggested by Ernest Becker’s key insight in his last book, Denial of (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 17, 2012

The Language of Leaders: How Top CEO’s Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results Kevin Murray Kogan-Page (2012) How and why your values-driven behavior speaks much louder than anything you say, however eloquently Kevin Murray shares what he learned during his interviews of 57 business leaders plus contributions by four others.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others John Daly Yale University Press (2011) How to explain, describe, engage, and convince with maximum power and memorable impact Aristotle was among the first to develop a concept for what we now refer to as “levels of discourse.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 21, 2013

All of the tactics used by the oil, beverage, and banking industries to influence lawmakers at every level of government were pulled straight from the cigarette makers’ playbook: Distract people from the real problem; generate fear; split communities with rhetoric, pitting one group against another; encourage people to doubt scientific conclusions; (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 23, 2012

Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas John Wiley & Sons (2011) If you don’t know the right questions to ask and how/when to ask them, you’ll never find the right answers. I do not know of another business thinker, indeed another person, who asks better questions [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

To exclude qualified people from positions of influence and […]. For two reasons. #1 1 – it is the right thing to do. And, #2 – it is the smart thing to do. It is the right thing to do because… it just is. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2013

Bob''s blog entries AMACOM Harvard Business Review HBR Blog Network HBR email alerts Heartfelt Leadership How to Listen When Someone Is Venting Just Listen Mark Goulston Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2016

Leo Bottary is Vice President, Peer Advantage, for Vistage Worldwide, where he directs a thought leadership initiative on the power of peer influence for business leaders. Leo also serves as an adjunct professor for two of Seton Hall University’s graduate leadership communication programs.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others Kristi Hedges AMACOM (2012) How and why powerful intentional presence can be a “personal game changer” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of one of my favorite songs in the musical and film, Chicago, sung by Amos Hart (played [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In one of her classic works, Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology of Creativity (2006), Teresa Amabile suggests that creativity is influenced by four separate components: domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant processes, task motivation, and the surrounding social environment.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 9, 2011

They have also collaborated on four business bestsellers: Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, Influencer, and most recently Change Anything. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 13, 2011

Are more interested in influence than in control 6. One man’s opinion (Part One), women tend to be better managers in business because they 1. Ask more and better questions 2. Listen better 3. Have more highly-developed emotional intelligence 4. Are much less inclined to hold grudges 5. Have more respect for their and others’ [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

There are legends, people whose influence is just so deep and enduring. I know next to nothing about Illeana Douglas. And I know less than that about the actual business of filmmaking. But I do know this. People like Martin Scorsese.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 18, 2012

Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence Erik Qualman McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why our digital footprints and shadows “constitute our permanent imprint on the world” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ observation almost a century ago, “I wouldn’t give a fog for simplicity [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 27, 2012

Called a “Digital Dale Carnegie,” Erik Qualman is the author of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business and, more recently, Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence. Socialnomics was a finalist for the “2010 Book of the Year” [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 15, 2013

Hielkema: An interview by Bob Morris Oscar Wilde Paul Schoemaker Peter Drucker Strategic Project Management SPOMP Tao Te Ching the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom the process of influencing and persuading people Tom Davenport Voltaire'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 10, 2013

Bob''s blog entries ABC and Move Up at Your First Real Job “the space” between stimulus and response Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination Effective Immediately: How to Fit In CNN Cosmopolitan Effective Immediately Emily Bennington: An interview by Bob Morris Facebook.com Forbes Woman Fox Glamour How to Win Friends and (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 24, 2011

The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others Kristi Hedges AMACOM (2012) How and why powerful intentional presence can be a “personal game changer” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of one of my favorite songs in the musical and film, Chicago, sung by Amos Hart (played [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 13, 2011

If their names seem familiar, it is perhaps because they co-authored Crucial Confrontations, Crucial Conversations, and more recently, Influencer. I have just read and will soon review Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success, co-authored by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 17, 2012

The Language of Leaders: How Top CEO’s Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results Kevin Murray Kogan-Page (2012) How and why your values-driven behavior speaks much louder than anything you say, however eloquently Kevin Murray shares what he learned during his interviews of 57 business leaders plus contributions by four others.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 4, 2013

I love the line below the masthead: “OPEN to ALL Parties, But INFLUENCED by […]. Just a couple of quotes on this holiday celebrating our freedom – our freedom to exercise our own self-determination (while remembering that with such freedom always comes great responsibility). Randy''s blog entries'

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