"...keeping you great"
HEADLINES:
(NOTE: Hotel cut-off Sept 21 for Growth Summit)
Stanford Professor, Top Business Author -- join us for
Chip Heath's LIVE
webcast Tuesday, Sept 22, noon -- 1:30pm ET where he'll walk us through the
six keys to making an idea stick from his huge bestseller Made to Stick
and he'll give us a first glimpse into his new 2010 book Switch. If you miss the
LIVE broadcast, you can watch the archived presentation. Sign-up
now.
Idea from Summit Lands Greg on CBS -- this note
from Greg Slamowitz, CEO of NYC-based Ambrose Employer Group "One big take away from the Sales
Summit in New Orleans was education based selling. With that in mind, we had
prepared a best practices seminar series on hiring practices and background
checking for our clients and prospects. Shortly thereafter I was fortuitously
contacted by CBS Evening News with Katie Couric who was looking to do a piece on
fraudulent resumes. I was prepared and gave them an incredible amount of
information on the topic and the next day they came down and interviewed me. The
interview appeared nationally in prime-time! A solid take away from the Sales
Summit. See you in Dallas for the Growth Summit." Take 2 minutes and watch the interview -- Greg is about a minute into the total
piece. See, ideas are more important than money!
Hiring a
Spouse -- speaking of hiring, one of the regular blogs I read without
fail is Brad Smart's
Topgrading blog. His latest shows how to apply Topgrading practices in your
personal life -- to topgrade nannies, housekeepers, home contractors, even your
spouse! (OK, read before
jumping on me).
What's Your Personal Productivity
Level? -- David Allen and his team have created a 2 minute Getting Things Done IQ assessment that measures your personal
productivity level along two aspects -- perspective and control. I took the quiz
and am classified as a Crazy-Maker, a description that my team would support.
Whether you're coming to the Growth Summit to learn from Allen or not, take the
assessment and cruise his site for personal productivity tools.
Four Additional Hours, Four Additional Book -- last
Tuesday I failed to mention the four half-day Advanced workshops we're hosting
in Dallas the day following the Growth Summit:
| People -- Aubrey Daniels' team presenting their Bringing Out the Best in People workshop - how to get 40% more discretionary effort from your people | |
| Strategy -- Bob Bloom, author of Inside Advantage, with Chris Bryant -- how to actually nail your Sandbox and Brand Promise and make it spread like wildfire | |
| Execution -- Patrick Thean, author of Execute without Drama -- how to execute your One-Page Plan with "no drama" metrics and the right KPIs | |
| Cash -- Rich Russakoff, author of Chapter 10 of my book on bank financing -- how generate and secure much needed cash |
Here's a link to more detailed information on these four Oct 22 workshops in Dallas.