Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results: Secrets for Communicating Attention and Getting Results

Frank Roney, Pamela Mcnamara, Chuck Lucier, Dietmar Ostermann, Luther J. Nussbaum, Bradley M. Smith, Thomas J. Silveri, David Frigstad, John C. Mcauliffe, Aspatore Books Staff, Randolph C. Blazer

Inside the Minds: Leading Consultants is the most authoritative book ever assembled on consulting, written by an unprecedented collection of the top consulting executives in the world including CEOs/Chairmen/Managing Partner level executives from IBM, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, KPMG Consulting, A.T. Kearney, Arthur D. Little, First Consulting Group, General Physics, Drake Beam Morin, Frost & Sullivan and Milliman USA. These industry visionaries share their knowledge on over delivering for clients, being an effective team player, the everlasting effects of the Internet and technology, compensation, managing client relationships, motivating others, balancing personal and professional lives, the future of the consulting industry and other important topics. An unprecedented look inside the world of the consulting industry makes for exciting and highly interesting reading for every level consultant, individuals interested in learning the tools consultants use to assess business issues, and anyone interested in the future of consulting and how they can take advantage of the opportunities on a personal or professional level. Praise for Inside the Minds: ''What C-Level executives read to keep their edge and make pivotal business decisions. Timeless classics for indispensable knowledge.'' - Richard Costello, Manager-Corporate Marketing Communication, General Electric (NYSE: GE) ''True insight from the doers in the industry, as opposed to the critics on the sideline.'' -... Leer más…

Mayer, Robert, Robert Mayer

Are you the parent of an argumentative teen or a teen with an argumentative parent? Are you anticipating an argument with your boss when you ask for a raise? Are you expecting trouble from a supplier, contractor, landlord, or subordinate? Or do you just ignore conflict situations hoping that they'll magically disappear or solve themselves? The art of argument. It's mysterious and powerful. It's the art of having things go your way. But also it's the art of getting out of your own way. It's having The Moves. But it's also about having The Touch. Arguing. There's the rough and tumble of the norm, the amateur's game. Then there's the pro's game--always knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. Winning arguments without quarreling, squabbling, tussling, wrangling, bickering, raising your voice, losing your cool, or coming to blows. Winning arguments without bulldozing and browbeating the other guy. Winning arguments by finessing rather than forcing, kickin' butt or being in the other guy's face. Winning arguments without offending or embarrassing anyone, including yourself. Winning arguments with confidence, grace and ease. The New York Times described Bob Mayer's winning methodology as " ... martial. It's mental judo. Where you use the other guy's energy to win. It's mind-set. It's charisma ... a non-threatening approach that in many ways builds on the principles laid out long ago in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People." So find yourself a... Leer más…

Jeffrey A Krames; Netlibrary, Inc

An excellent encapsulation of real life situations and how to approach them. It affirms the good things a CEO might be doing now and offers great tips for how to possibly add a bit more cutting edge. Easy to read, easy to apply, entertaining, applicable. A real delight to read. Leer más…

Benton, D. A.;benton, Debra A

A guide on what it takes to act like, and become, a CEO. Drawing on her own experiences and interviews with 100 CEOs, the author identifies 11 rules ambitious managers need to follow and shows how successful CEOs apply those rules everyday and what happens when they break them. Leer más…

Eric Yaverbaum; Ebrary, Inc

From Publishers Weekly "[N]o one leader has all the answers," admits Yaverbaum, public relations expert and author of I'll Get Back to You and Public Relations for Dummies, but he bets that "if you combine the most brilliant ones, you'd have everything you need to lead your organization to success." Based on the now widely accepted theory that good leaders are not born but forged through experience, his latest book collects the leadership secrets of America's top executives through first-person interviews. Each edited interview is straightforward and brief, yet dives to the heart of what business strategies, philosophies and attitudes have worked best for these chiefs. Anecdotes and advice support such sage sound bites as "If you treat your employees well, they will take care of your customers and your business," by AFLAC CEO Daniel P. Amos. For example, by valuing employees' ideas, providing day-care facilities for working parents and financial incentives like profit sharing, Amos says, AFLAC has improved productivity and customer care. Meanwhile, Sy Sternberg, chairman and CEO of New York Life, warns to keep strategic thinking "in house": consultants may help test and focus innovative ideas, "but you can't let those tools serve as a proxy for leadership." The book does not attempt to hold readers' hands in a step-by-step guide to implementing this advice. However, with a potential leadership crisis at hand, brought home by the scourge of recent corporate scandals,... Leer más…

By C. Ray Johnson

This book starts with the foundations of business success: the development of a business philosophy that works for you, and the strategic application of that philosophy in all areas of your endeavor. Leer más…

Steven M. Bragg(Auth.)

**The ultimate instruction manual for every new CEO**__The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual__ is essential reading for every CEO needing a blueprint for the role of CEO, including an overview of organizational structure, corporate strategy, management systems and finance. Along with considerable information about the financial systems needed for a modern corporation, with particular emphasis on funds management, going public, and dealing with investors, this important book explains how to select acquisition targets, price them appropriately, and successfully integrate them, as well as how to turn around a failing enterprise. * Gives new CEOs a hard, quantitative view of the systems and techniques needed to run a company * Discusses the CEO's place in the corporation * Explores information technology strategy, tax strategy, outsourcing strategy and more Filled with pragmatic insights, proactive strategies, and best practices, __The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual__ is destined to become the desktop companion you employ to be successful in your new position.Content: Chapter 1 New CEO Activities (pages 1–15): Chapter 2 General Corporate Strategy (pages 17–38): Chapter 3 Financial Strategy (pages 39–63): Chapter 4 Tax Strategy (pages 65–76): Chapter 5 Information Technology Strategy (pages 77–85): Chapter 6 Outsourcing Strategy (pages 87–97): Chapter 7 Budgeting Process (pages 99–129): Chapter 8 Capital Budgeting (pages 131–145): Chapter 9 Risk Management: General... Leer más…

Mark E. Thomas; Gary Miles; Peter Fisk

Business success comes neither easily nor quickly. What is needed is a practical guide to achieving peak performance recognising your starting point and telling you what is required to achieve your goals. The Complete CEO does exactly this by providing a comprehensive framework against which any business leader can assess their strengths and weaknesses. The Complete CEO combines invaluable insights from some of the most successful CEOs in North America and Northern Europe along with the authors’ extensive knowledge and experience to create a complete programme for you and your business to achieve peak corporate and individual performance. The Complete CEO distils learning built up over the last ten years from 1000 leaders of the world’s largest quoted companies. By comparing the ways these leaders ran their businesses with their long-term performance, you will be able to see what works in practice and how to make it work for you. The Complete CEO is not a conventional business book and recognises there are no shortcuts to greatness. Even great CEOs have important areas of relative weakness. The tailored model of high performance presented in this book will be of enormous value to anyone who aspires to be a high-performing CEO. “The Complete CEO is an excellent handbook for any manager or leader. I keep it within reach.” —Mervyn Davies. CEO Standard Chartered Bank Plc “This book is helpful to any CEO, or indeed any business manager, who wants to deliver sustained high... Leer más…

Zahay, Debra L

The book's target is the executive or middle manager who needs to understand how to incorporate digital marketing into their organization at a strategic level. The book demonstrates how to incorporate digital strategy into firm strategy, focusing on the Resource-Based view, the Value Chain and basic positioning. The book then explains how basic strategy should flow through to the basic four digital marketing technologies, search, social, email and mobile. The importance of quality customer data as the foundation for these strategies is explained. Finally, guidelines for managing the successful implementation of these marketing technologies in the organization are covered. Practical guidelines and case examples will also be provided Leer más…

Dan Shapiro

What avoidable problem destroys more young startups than any other?Why is it a mistake to ask for introductions to investors?When do you play the Ceo card?Should you sell out? Author and four-time founder/Ceo Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these pages. From inception to destruction and triumph to despair, this rollercoaster read takes aspiring entrepreneurs from the highs of billion-dollar payouts and market-smashing success to the depths of impostor syndrome and bankruptcy. Hot Seat is divided into the five phases of the startup Ceo experience:* **Founding** explains how to formulate your idea, allocate equity, and not argue yourself to death * **Funding** provides the keys to venture capital, angels, and crowdfunding, plus clear advice on which approach to choose * **Leadership** lays out a path to build a strategy and culture for your team that will survive good times and bad * **Management** reveals how to manage your board, argue with your team, and play the Ceo card * **Endgame** explains how to finish a company's existence with grace, wealth, and minimal litigation Leer más…

By Beverly E. Jones; Foreword By Kerry Hannon

Foreword by Kerry Hannon Education plus experience once guaranteed a successful career, but no more! Today, success depends on your ability to adapt. You must be agile, willing to adjust your professional expectations, and able to respond quickly to opportunities and threats. In __Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a Ceo__ you will learn practical ways to handle vexing workplace challenges. Each chapter uses true stories to illustrate the answers to common questions, including: \* How to leave your old job smoothly and start your new one with confidence and flair. \* How to gracefully accept praise for your work. \* How to recover from stress, setbacks, or the upheaval of a major project. \* How to stay steady in the midst of endless change. It's not enough to know how to manage common work-life challenges; you must also deal with the uncommon ones. __Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a Ceo__ gives you proven, easy, go-to techniques for handling even the biggest career surprises, one step at a time. Leer más…

Peter Vanham

**Have you always known what you wanted to be in life?** **What are some “watershed moments” that made you who you are?** **When did you get on track to become a successful CEO?** It started with three questions at Davos. The younger Peter Vanham looked to the answers from the elite leaders he asked to validate his own career choice, and the rich, private wisdom he received revealed more about building a career than he’d found anywhere else. He shares it all with you in __Before I Was CEO__. For everyone who lays awake at night wondering if they’re heading up or down the corporate ladder, this collection of personal stories from a remarkable group of the most accomplished men and women in business today proves everyone can put themselves in the C-suite by taking a variety of different paths—it’s all how you do it. Some found opportunity through adversity and others came by their big-break moments through serendipity. A group of them walked away from corporate life and lived in other ways and all of them made calculated moves to advance their careers. In their own words, read how it all unfolded, the tough decisions they wrestled, the risks and rewards they saw, and how it all came together. You don’t need a royal pedigree or Ivy League education to reach the top as long as you: • Value family, leave home, and make informed decisions based on your dreams • Take the first thirty-five years of your life to discover what you’re interested in and don’t rush to be a CEO •... Leer más…

Waite Robin.

Rethink Press, 2015. — 260 p. — ISBN 1781331146. Online Business Startup isn't just a how-to guide in online marketing or SEO. It contains everything an experienced entrepreneur wished he had known when he started in business. We are flooded with so much information in the digital world that it distracts us from the fundamentals of starting up and running a lean business. This book is ultimately an answer to the question "How can we quickly implement proven strategies for my online business, and avoid all the noise?" Online Business Startup will teach you: Everything you need to start an online business without the wasted time, money and effort; How to find a trustworthy, reliable digital agency and guarantee a return on your investment; The 7 best tools for auditing and improving your website; How to plan and implement a successful social media strategy. From the Foreword: I will be recommending this book to every one of my clients, and I highly recommend it to you. It’s an easy read for the online novice, and will stop you from wasting thousands of pounds and having sleepless nights like I used to. Leer más…

Training, Dale Carnegie

In a world becoming more and more virtual, human relations skills are being lost -- along with the skill of leadership. And yet never before have these abilities been more valuable or sought after. What's needed is a new type of leader -- one who can inspire and motivate others while adhering to timeless leadership principles such as flexibility, adaptability, trustworthiness, and distribution of power. With __Leadership Mastery__, you will identify your strengths and adopt effective strategies to: • Gain the respect and admiration of others using little-known secrets of America's most successful leaders • Get family, friends, and coworkers to do what you ask because they want to, not because they have to • Respond effectively in a crisis • Make powerful decisions and follow through on them using Carnegie's action formula Incorporating interviews with top leaders in business, entertainment, sports, and academia, __Leadership Mastery__ stands next to the classic __How to Win Friends and Influence People__ Leer más…

Humes, James C.

Turn Any Presentation into a Landmark Occasion Ever wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches' Or want to command attention by looming larger than life before your audience, much like Abraham Lincoln when, standing erect and wearing a top hat, he towered over seven feet' Now, you can master presentation skills, wow your audience, and shoot up the corporate ladder by unlocking the secrets of history's greatest speakers. Author, historian, and world-renowned speaker James C. Humes'who wrote speeches for five American presidents'shows you how great leaders through the ages used simple yet incredibly effective tricks to speak, persuade, and win throngs of fans and followers. Inside, you'll discover how Napoleon Bonaparte mastered the use of the pregnant pause to grab attention, how Lady Margaret Thatcher punctuated her most serious speeches with the use of subtle props, how Ronald Reagan could win even the most hostile crowd with carefully timed wit, and much, much more. Whether you're addressing a small nation or a large staff meeting, you'll want to master the tips and tricks in Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln. "As a student of speech, I very much enjoyed this intriguing historic approach to public speaking. Humes creates a valuable and practical guide." 'Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO, FOX News "I love this book. I've followed Humes's lessons for years, and he combines... Leer más…