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How to Write and Give a Speech, Second Revised Edition: A Practical Guide For Executives, PR People, the Military, Fund-Raisers, Politicians, Educators, and Anyone Who Has to Make Every Word Count
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With more than 65,000 copies sold in two editions, this newly Apdated guide offers sound advice on every aspect of researching,writing, and delivering an effective speech. Filled with anecdotes, examples, and practical advice, this accessible guide makes one of the most daunting tasks manageableand even fun. Topics include:Assessing the audienceResearching the subjectand deciding what to leave outUsing imagery, quotations, repetition, and humorSpecial-occasion speechesSpeaking to international audiencesUsing Power Point and other visual aidsand more.Updated to include new examples and the latest technology, this is a must-have for both novices and experienced veterans at the podium.
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How to Write and Give a Speech.......2001-03-29
The Washington Post praised this as a "how-to classic" and I would agree with them. It's well-organized and filled with top-quality professional advice. It's also very 'readable' - which sets it apart from so many public speaking texts.
I found this book saved me a lot of time and worry, both in preparing formal speeches and informal presentations. Most important, it will make you a much better, and more confident, speaker.
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"Leading the Learning Organization" provides students, executives, and managers with vital resources to lead their organizations to higher levels of performance. Using examples from companies such as General Electric, IBM, Kodak, and ABB, "Leading the Learning Organization" integrates the latest advances in strategic change, managerial leadership, continuous improvement, and learning and development. Belasen provides insightful and provocative views of how high-performance leaders use organizational learning to achieve breakthrough performance. He strongly argues that managers who avoid questioning their operating premises today will find themselves without market share tomorrow. "Leading the Learning Organization" is an insightful examination of a variety of modern corporate issues, including adjusting to the marketplace; linking the value chain; living with corporate downsizing; leading self-managed teams; communicating, learning, and developing competencies; managing the value-based organization; and initiating transformational learning.
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Leadership Competency.......2007-10-05
Leading the Learning Organization is one of the first books I read as a graduate student and has remained a staple in my MBA library. As a high performance manager it is essential to understand the competing values framework (CVF). Belasen explores the contradictory, competing and conflicting expectations inherent in business and guides the reader to assess and then to integrate a flexible strategy into our own management paradigms.
As a leader dedicated to excellent service to the consumer, I agree with Belasen that the replacement of the old command structure with development of a committment culture is critical to sustainable 21st century leadership.
Excellent Book.......2000-01-02
I was impressed with the author's complete gasp of this difficult topic. This book is a must for any manager or would be manager. One of the finest books in the field and well worth the money.
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MANAGING OPEN SYSTEMS (Open & Distance Learning)
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The author of this text concentrates on the management and support systems needed in open and distance learning, to help the reader decide whether an open learning system is appropriate for their given situation. The book, covering what learners, tutors/mentors and managers need from an open learning system, is a practical guide giving an overview of the range of systems, moving on to decide which best suits particular needs.
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This book offers essential guidance to preservice and inservice teachers seeking to create, revise, or add new strategies to the teaching of the language arts block. The focus is on how to implement effective strategies in the context of a well-planned classroom and a smoothly choreographed daily schedule. In a series of vivid case studies, Lesley Mandel Morrow brings to life the methods used by exemplary teachers to create rich, student-friendly learning environments for children in grades K-4. No component of organizing the language arts block is omitted, including setting up and running classroom learning centers, assessing different instructional needs, conducting whole-class and small group meetings, and linking language arts to content area instruction. Enhancing the practical utility of the book are sample daily schedules and classroom management tips for each grade level, along with dozens of reproducible learning activities, lesson plans, and assessment and record-keeping tools.
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A must own!.......2005-01-05
This book is a must read for any elementary teacher. Very practical and user friendly.
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This contemporary and readable book—filled with research-based advice, case studies, and efficient tools—demonstrates how organizations measure, manage, and maximize their “intangible assets” of communication and knowledge. Its unique perspective on “performance technology” shows employees not only how human behavior in the workplace can be engineered to achieve corporate success, but how to communicate those methods and processes used, and the value they add, to employers and clients.
Comprehensive coverage of “human capital” factors that impact organizational performance—such as training, employee communication, branding, and performance management—supplies readers with need-to-know and -learn information integral to successful HR and communication. Other coverage of “hot topics” includes measurement and evaluation, corporate culture, e-learning, and knowledge management.
For Human Resource Managers, Marketing Managers, Performance Consultants, and Management Consultants; and for any and all personnel involved in the training and development of employees in a corporate setting.
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The Learning Imperative: Managing People for Continuous Innovation (Harvard Business Review Book)
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A must for the managers in "Digital Economy".......2003-08-26
The book brings together eleven articles and four interview which were published in Harvard Business Review during 1990-1993. The Foreword by Chairman and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co Robert Haas sets the tone of the book and Introduction by Robert Howard gives the panoramic view of the topics to be covered. The book is organized in four parts: namely I) Decoding the Business Logic II) Designing New Behaviors III) Managing New Psychological Frontiers and IV) Getting from Here to There. Each part ends with an interview of an industry leader broadly covering practical aspects of the themes discussed under that part.
Part-I discusses the core of businesses in emerging New Economy with focus on knowledge-creation, -organization and -integration. This part put in perspective the role, status and orientation of organization in 21st Century in light of Knowledge Society and IT. Peter F. Drucker very lucidly explains these principles in his curtain raiser article "The New Society of Organizations". In the article "Competing on Capabilities: The New Rules of Corporate Strategy", George Stalk et. al. successfully highlights the essence of competing on capabilities and supports it with the example of Wal-Mart, Honda, Xerox etc. Article also brings out the difference between "Core Competence" and "Capabilities" while explaining the concept such as cross-docking and capabilities predator. Knowledge creation is one of the very important steps in the knowledge management and learning Organization and Ikujiro Nonaka is an authority in this field. It is once again reflected in his article "The Knowledge Creating Company". While quoting examples from Japanese Companies, he convincingly establishes importance of continuous innovation and "Knowledge Spiral". According to him another aspect of knowledge creation is continuous interaction of Tacit and Explicit knowledge to arrive at "Model" from "Metaphor" through "Analogy". This section ends with an interview of Swatch Titan Nicolas Hayek by William Taylor. Hayek is the success personified. He swam against the course in early nineties to snatch back market share from Japanese and Hong-Kong-based watch maker in favor of SMH by his total belief in the Philosophy: "... if you have a manufacturing process in which direct labor cost is less than 10% of total costs, you have eliminated those costs from the competitive equations...". By his total commitment towards the domestic manufacturing he could come out with the automation process to nullify the effect of labor wage differential.
Part-II deals with the behavioral aspects of Learning Organization. Simply changing technology, implementing BPR and restructuring organization is not enough; suitable and compatible behavioral aspects should also be incorporated. One can buy technology but organizational culture needs to be inculcated. John Seely Brown in his article "Research That Reinvents the Corporation" cogently brings out that innovation itself is not sufficient but what needed is learning from it and applying it immediately to all other aspects of organizational thinking. Through the example of Xerox's innovation efforts he explains various concepts such as "Technology Gets out of the Way", "Harvesting Local Innovation", "Coproducing Innovation" and "Innovating with the Customer". Robert Howard in his article "The Designer Organization: Italy's GFT Goes Global" traces the journey of GFT from local to global brand. In doing so he persuasively brings out the concept "Think Globally and Act Locally". As organizations restructure to respond to their environment, there has been a growing recognition of the need for new kinds of organizational structure. The Networked Organization is one such response. The notion of a network implies nodes and links. The nodes can be people, teams or even organizations - networks operate at many levels. These are few salient aspects which Ram Charan brings out in his article "How Networks Resahpe Organizations- For Results". This section concludes with an interview of Xerox Chairman and CEO Paul Allaire by Robert Howard. Allaire coined a phrase: "CEO as Organization Architecture" to describe the importance of CEO in the Organizational Framework in the context of Learning Organization.
Part-III of the book deals with "Managing the Psychological Frontiers of the Learning Organization". The articles incorporated in this part address the area of invisible psychological boundaries in the organizations. Larry Hirschhorn and Thomas Gilmore pickup the concept of "Boundaryless Organization" from the then GE Supremo Jack Welch in their article "The New Boundaries of the Boundaryless Company" and from there built up the case for demonstrating the invisible boundaries such as Authority Boundary, Task Boundary, Political Boundary and Identity Boundary. Article "Teaching Smart People How to Learn" by Chris Argyris makes a very interesting reading because of very fact that it try to address a paradox "... those members of the organization that many assume to be the best at learning are, in fact, not very good at it..." It elucidate "How Professionals Avoid Learning", "Defensive Reasoning and the Doom Loop", and "Learning How to Reason Productively". In the section-closing interview given to Robert Howard, Robert Haas, Chairman and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. lucidly expound the importance of value statement for success of an organization.
Action speaks louder than words. Part-IV is all about actions. How to get from theory to actions. Creating theoretical framework for learning organization is not enough, it should be inculcated into organizational behavior and actions. Michael Beer et. al. in their article "Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change" argue coherently that "most managers understand the need for organizational change but don't know how to bring it about". The authors describe "six steps to effective change" and "the role of top management in affecting change". In article "Motorola U: When Training Becomes an Education", William Wiggenhorn highlights the importance of continuous training for the quality improvement in the context of Motorola taking inter-alia example of "Six-Sigma". Paul Adler argues in his article "Time and Motion Regained" that "... standardization and specialization properly understood and organized, can be a tremendous stimulus to learning... it can result in learning bureaucracy". He present the case of NUMMI, a joint venture of GM and Toyota to support his observations. Arden C. Sims, the CEO of Globe Metallurgical reveals many aspects of managing high-value-added specialty products through continuous innovation to Bruce Rayner in an absorbing interview.
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This book describes why, for the past twenty-five years, Japanese productivity has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the U.S. Unlike other books on the subject of the Japanese success in manufacturing, it looks at what actually happens in factories. The author brings his experience of working at the Yanagicho Works of the Toshiba Corporation, in Kawasaki City. Like so many Japanese factories, this one is highly productive, efficient, and flexible. While the factory is ordinary looking on the outside, its workers are anything but ordinary as they constantly strive to improve the way they work and the quality of the products they produce. The key to this is the continuous creation and application of knowledge throughout the factory, from workers on the shop floor, to research and development engineers, to top management. Fruin explains how Japanese culture and religion prepare workers for their role in this process of creating and disseminating knowledge.
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