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Presentations: Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs
Want to give better presentations? Learn from the example of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the most charismatic pitchman in business today. Simple Secret: Ignite Your Enthusiasm Steve Jobs is passionate about designing cool, fun, and easy-to-use computers, digital music players, and now...
Tags: Carmine Gallo, Telecom & Utilities, Nothing, Images, Presentation, Slide, Motivation, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Solution, Phone, Product, Apple, Public Speaking, Presentations, Book Excerpt
Articles 2008-03-17
The Victim/Responder
Being out of control isn't inherently a bad thing, and learning how to deal with "leaks in the system" is key to staying afloat. The bottom left area...
Tags: Perspective, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Online Communications, Management, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done
Articles 2008-12-05
The Crazymaker/Visionary
People who have a high level of perspective but a low level of control can take on too many commitments — and make everyone around them a little nuts. ...
Tags: Commitment, Temptation, Level, E-mail, Financial Services, Online Communications, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
Articles 2008-12-05
Understanding the Matrix of Self-Management
According to David Allen's new book, the two key ingredients for "Making It All Work" are control and perspective. If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, the gods will repay...
Tags: Syndrome, Perspective, Ax, Leadership, Management, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management
Articles 2008-12-05
The Matrix Is Relative, Situational, and Fluid
In his new book "Making It All Work," David Allen argues that the way particular individuals experience control and perspective is not cast in stone. How individuals experience these...
Tags: Job, Matrix, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
Articles 2008-12-05
The Micromanager/Implementer
A micromanager tends to overorganize and tries to maintain more control than is necessary. By being too controlled, ironically, micromanagers can end up out of control. If as a rule you operate with a high control...
Tags: Structure, Games, Financial Accounting, Investment, Personal Technology, Finance, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
Articles 2008-12-05
The Captain and Commander
To eliminate the dilemma of work/life balance, you must first find the optimal relationship between control and perspective. The ideal model I’m proposing here incorporates a balance of perspective and structure, where an internal rather...
Tags: Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
Articles 2008-12-05
Pay Attention to What Has Your Attention
To most effectively use the fundamentals of self-management, it helps to start with a reference point. You won't have to look far, because what usually needs your attention most is what already has your attention. ...
Tags: Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership, Management
Articles 2008-12-05
David Allen: What Kind of Self-Manager Are You?
Do you manage other people better than yourself? In exclusive excerpts from his new book, "Making It All Work," David Allen explains how to be "master and commander" of your own vision.The patron saint of personal productivity is back — and this time he's offering more than just...
Tags: Matrix, Excerpt, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, BNET Feature Package, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
Articles 2008-12-08

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TIME Exclusive Book Excerpt: Whistleblower Schiavo reveals how FAA cover-ups and sloppy practices have put air travelers at risk; "Only with people dead and sobbing survivors, does the FAA step up to the plate"
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--March 22, 1997--The Federal Aviation Administration is beset by sloppy inspections, lax airport security, disregard for bogus airplane parts, and antiquated air-traffic-control systems, according to an exclusive book excerpt by Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the Department of Transportation and an outspoken critic of the FAA in...
Tags: FAA
Research articles 1997-03-22
Book Excerpt: Projecting Your Personal Brand
Below is an excerpt from my forthcoming book My Start-Up Life (comes out May 18). This is a "Brainstorm" about creating and projecting a personal brand. Pre-order the book on Amazon today!Like companies, you are projecting a brand right now. Each of us is CEO of Me, Inc. The question...
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-05-16
Book Excerpt: Confronting Failure (and Trying to Check Email While Driving)
Below is an excerpt from my forthcoming book My Start-Up Life. This is from the chapter "Confronting Failure". Pre-order the book on Amazon."Dig in" meant, for me, "Do what it takes" to help the business. And this meant give lots of face time to people who could help Comcate overcome...
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-05-13
Exploiting CRM Excerpt: Customer-Managed Relationships
In his book Exploiting CRM: Connecting With Customers, CSC author Patrick Molineux says that businesses are no longer simply managing relationships with customers - customers are managing relationships with them. Customers, he says, are increasingly setting the terms by which they will do business with companies: how, when and at...
Tags: Relationship, Computer Sciences Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
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Book Excerpt: The Ups and Downs of Self-Teaching Business
Over the next week I'll be posting some excerpts from My Start-Up Life which hits bookstores May 18th. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 4 and is about my self-teaching efforts.Fall 2001 was winding down. What a busy few months. I had learned a great deal about local government and my...
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-05-09
Be Like Google, or Die?
Can companies be like Google? I've argued on this blog that most cannot, any more than my wearing Nike shoes makes me like that other Mike. But Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor who also writes the blog Buzz Machine, has a new book out, "What Would Google Do?" arguing...
Tags: Google Inc., Car, Detroit, Jarvis, Manufacturing, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-02-02
Super Searchers are "Covering the World".(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
Contributing Editor Mary Ellen Bates C has written another book in Information Today's Super Searcher series, Super Searchers Cover the World. Due out this fall, it is a collection of interviews with 20 international business researchers. The following is an edited excerpt from the book. Note...
Tags: Information Today Inc., researcher, Super, Web
Research articles 2001-07-01
Tales of a Tele-revolutionary A BROADCASTING & CABLE BOOK EXCERPT.(Reed Hundt book)(Excerpt)
Early on in his FCC chairmanship, Reed Hundt visited John Dingell, then the powerful and intimidating chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell shared some advice he received from a newspaper editor when he first ran for Congress: "Son, you're going into politics. [ldots]...
Tags: broadcaster, broadcasting, FCC, Government, HDTV, TVs, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2000-04-10
A black woman's wartime journey.(excerpt from the book 'All Is Never Said')
An African American Red Cross worker in World War II describes her experiences during an assignment in Italy. The armed forced were not integrated at the time, and racism was prevalent. Her son was killed during a bombing, and she witnessed Benito Mussolini's hanging corpse.The following is an excerpt from...
Tags: dance, Red Cross, soldier
Research articles 1995-05-15
Who needs HDTV? Not us. (part 2)(excerpt from Defining Vision)
This is the second in a two-part excerpt from Joel Brinkley's new book, Defining Vision, about the prolonged birth of high-definition/digital television. The first chapter explained how the broadcasters' fear of losing spectrum to Land Mobile fueled their sudden interest in high-definition television. Now, fast-forward six...
Tags: broadcaster, FCC, HDTV, TVs, vision, Wiley
Research articles 1996-12-16
MAILBAG
Imler's Excerpt Good For All OrganizationsI was impressed with Ken Imler's book excerpt, "Core Roles in a Strategic Quality System" (p. 57, June 2006). Imler does a great job describing what a strategic quality system is, the philosophy required of executive management and the tools needed to implement such a...
Tags: American Society For Quality, Government, PRODUCTIVITY, Quality, SOFTWARE, Strategy
Research articles 2006-08-01
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