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January 25, 2013

Podcast Q&A with Sarah Miller Caldicott

Filed under: Audio,Innovation,Leadership — Tags: Caldicott, collaboration, Edison, leadership, Midnight Lunch — Sally @ 7:30 am

Sarah Miller Caldicott is the author of three books, Innovate Like Edison, the e-book Inventing the Future, and her newest, Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab.

CEO of the innovation consulting company, Power Patterns, and a great grandniece of Thomas Edison, Sarah is committed to translating the innovative methods of Edison for the digital age. In Midnight Lunch, she focuses on contemporizing Edison’s collaboration process, and offering a concrete methodology for implementation. Listen below as she makes an urgent and convincing call for organizations to commit to a collaborative environment and teaches us that Edison was not only a innovator by profession, but also an innovative leader.

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Visit Sarah’s site here to learn more about your chance to win a FREE Midnight Lunch™ Collaboration Experience! Sarah describes the opportunity like this:

To celebrate the launch of my new book Midnight Lunch, I’m counting down the days until Edison’s birthday on Feb. 11th…when I’m offering a free webinar on how you can create your own midnight lunch experience. Watch the countdown on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook!

Share collaboration resources with your team, including free one-page worksheets your team can use while reading the book together.

I’m also giving away a FREE Midnight Lunch™ experience to 5 companies in 2013. Winners receive a free keynote speech plus a live 4-hour midnight lunch collaboration experience – a $20,000 value!

Thanks again to Sarah for sharing her time and insights with us! You can read our full Jack Covert Selects review of Midnight Lunch here. Also keep up with Sarah and the innovation ideas she shares on her Facebook page.

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November 8, 2012

A Conversation with Laurence Weinzimmer, The Wisdom of Failure

Filed under: Audio,Big Ideas — Sally @ 1:02 pm

The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price by Laurence G. Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey is a thorough look at how leaders have often failed to learn from the mistakes they have made, as well as how leaders can begin to explore the fertile soil of their failures for the seeds of success. The book is well-organized and accessible, thought-provoking and instructive. It promotes a healthy regard for the value of making mistakes and learning from them. No one need be afraid to try.

Listen to this conversation that we recorded for KnowledgeBlocks, in which co-author Laurence Weinzimmer discusses the thesis of and motivation behind the book, why it’s a valid exercise to examine failure, what types of resistance they met in their research, the three most common types of business mistakes and examples of each, and how these lessons for leaders extend past the bounds of business management.

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October 23, 2012

A Conversation with Chris Berdik

Filed under: Audio,Big Ideas,Interviews,Jack Covert Selects,Personal Development — Sally @ 8:25 am

Science journalist Chris Berdik generously lent us 30 minutes of his time for a conversation about his new book, Mind over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations. We reviewed his book recently, writing:

In Mind Over Mind, Berdik explains how crucial a role our expectations play—for good and for ill—in many areas of life: addiction, criminal activity, athletic feats, the value of money, witness identification, test scores, even the curing of phantom limbs. Simply by riding the coattails of our expectations, by being “a little less insistent on separating what we imagine and what’s real” our minds can take us places where our bodies or even our reality would hesitate to go, and each of us can use that knowledge to improve ourselves and our performance.

During this conversation, Chris answers these questions:

➻ Considering the double-sided nature of expectations (help? hindrance?), what prompted him to write a book on expectations?
➻ Why did he decide to open Mind Over Mind with a tale about an 18th century healer?
➻ What is his favorite story about how expectations can truly change reality?
➻ What do we learn about expectations from the diverse field of examples he presents in the book?
➻ What were his conclusions when he tried to answer the question, “Why are powerful people so prone to self-destruction?”
➻ How might Mind Over Mind help the general businessperson improve performance?

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Thanks again to Chris for sharing his time and insights with us! You can read our full Jack Covert Selects review of Mind Over Mind here. Visit Chris’ site here.

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October 12, 2012

The Glass Elevator: An Interview With Ora Shtull

Filed under: Audio,Blog,Careers,Interviews,KnowledgeBlocks,Leadership — Michael @ 12:35 pm

Ora Shtull is an Executive Coach and the author of The Glass Elevator: A Guide to Leadership Presence for Women on the Rise. In both her work as a coach and in her book, Ora encourages a complete approach to success, focusing on both professional and personal elements. Ora has developed a model for identifying and developing behaviors that help her clients influence, engage, and connect with the people around them. She has served as Adjunct Professor of Business Communication at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and in 2011 she won British Airways’ Face of Opportunity contest.

Earlier this week Ora took a few minutes to chat with me about some of the key concepts from The Glass Elevator. Click the play button below to listen to the interview. Here are some of the questions I had for Ora:

If not for a glass ceiling, why is it that women seem to stagnate professionally? And how is The Glass Elevator a different path to success?

In the Glass Elevator, you offer up 9 proven skills to help women achieve. Could you tell us about 1 or 2 of the most important skills to help ignite success?

There are a number of different similes referring to glass that are used to describe the challenges women face in the workplace–glass elevator, glass escalator (men moving up past the women who hired them), glass cliff (women being promoted–and basically being sacrificed–during times of organizational chaos.) Do you believe that these barriers exist or does boarding “the glass elevator” remove those challengers?

In your book, you clearly are not advising women to become more like men in order to succeed. Instead, you seem to be encouraging women to use more of their inherent talents, such as Empathize, which is usually considered a female trait, and not often as valued as, for example, being objective or detached, which is generally a more masculine trait. How does empathy help women improve?

Also in your book, you tackle some very basic life-skills concerns: food, diet, sleep. Why did you decide to include these topics in your book?

What is the one takeaway you’d like to leave with listeners today?

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Thanks to Ora for taking the time to talk to me. Visit Ora online. She’s also recently done a stint as Thinker in Residence over on our KnowledgeBlocks.

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October 2, 2012

An Interview With Steven Johnson

Filed under: Audio,Big Ideas,Blog,Interviews,Technology — Michael @ 11:15 am

Steven Johnson is the author of eight books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Everything Bad is Good For You, and The Invention of Air. He is also a contributing editor for Wired magazine. His newest book, Future Perfect is published on Riverhead Books. In Future Perfect, Steven demonstrates a unique perspective that assumes a great understanding of technology, society and communication. This new book offers a voice to a particularly timely need for solutions—a need created by the centralization of power that the world has seen in almost every sector.

Last week, Steven was kind enough to talk to me over the phone and respond to a few questions that I had regarding the ideas in Future Perfect. Click the play button below to listen to the interview. By way of an outline, here are some of the questions I had for Steven, which he answered in great detail:

At what point in time did the peer progressive type become concrete in your mind?

To what extent does the peer progressive model remain effective without the internet and its supporting technologies?

How did the horizontal organization structure play into the development of the idea of the peer progressive model?

Are there specific sectors that would not benefit from the peer progressive approach?

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Thanks again to Steven for sharing his time and thoughts with us! Check out my review of Future Perfect here. Visit Steven here.

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November 9, 2009

October's Best Sellers on Audio

Filed under: Audio,General Business,Lists — Tags: Audio, General Business, Lists — Roy @ 3:10 pm

Audio books are one of those strange, enigmatic creatures whose popularity depends not on the customers themselves, but on the core popularity of the book they are based on. If the book isn’t doing well (if there was an audio version at all) its life will be short lived.

But, oh what a life to lead!

Sometimes the audio is read by a troupe of actors or a recognized celebrity and most times by the authors themselves. Business books tend to have the least amount of books on audio. Perhaps it’s because business is timely and most books don’t have the longevity. Perhaps it could be due to the content which is hard to convey in audio form. Whichever the cases may be… here are last month’s best sellers available in audio form:

No. 4 – Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial I.Q.: Get Smarter with Your Money by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Dave Mallow (Abridged on 3 CDs)

No. 8 – Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You by Deepak Chopra (Unabridged)

No. 18 – What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter (Abridged on 5 CDs)

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October 9, 2009

800-CEO-READ Interview with Lisa Haneberg

Filed under: Audio,General Management — Todd Sattersten @ 5:31 am

I have known Lisa Haneberg for a long time. She contributed an essay to my More Space project in 2005. She was in Milwaukee recently and we sat down and talked about all of her books (and there are eight of them).
Here is Lisa’s bibliography:

The interview is 22 minutes.
You can find Lisa at Managecraft Craft.

[podcast]http://media.800ceoread.com/view/9780891062455%20/audio/Interview_with_Lisa_Haneberg.mp3[/podcast]

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August 21, 2009

800-CEO-READ Podcast with Jeffrey Ford, co-author of The Four Conversations

Filed under: Audio,Communication,General Management,Jack Covert Selects,Leadership — Todd Sattersten @ 12:35 pm

I recently talked with Jeffrey Ford, co-author with Laurie Ford of The Four Conversations: Daily Communication That Gets Results.

The Fords believe that conversation can be broken down into four categories. In the podcast, we talk about each type of conversation and the right time to use them. We talk about midwestern sensibilities, amending broken agreements, and the frequency with which we use The Four Conversations.

mp3, 27:44, 19.1 MB

June 11, 2009

Podcast with Hugh MacLeod

Filed under: Audio,Jack Covert Selects,Marketing,New Releases,Personal Development — Jon @ 1:02 pm

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Hugh MacLeod’s book, Ignore Everybody was released today. It was also reviewed as a Jack Covert Selects title.

I recently had a chance to talk to Hugh about the book, creativity, work, passion, and how these things all came together for him. The book reveals this as well, and is an inspiring piece of literature for those who want to pursue their creative drive, and aren’t afraid to get a little dirty in the process.

Click below to hear our conversation:

[podcast]http://media.800ceoread.com/view/9781591842590/audio/Ignore_Everybody_Interview_with_Hugh_MacLeod.mp3[/podcast]

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May 15, 2009

100 Best: Jack interviews Jim Champy, co-author of Reengineering the Corporation

Filed under: Audio,The 100 Best — Jon8cr @ 1:42 pm

Michael Hammer and James Champy’s Reengineering the Corporation addresses the issue of reinventing and reinvigorating a company in ways different than the typical route of downsizing and other similar practices. Hammer and Michael are “systems thinkers” and crafted an important book about how to analyze systems within business and take profound and efficient actions to make improvements. A bestseller upon its release, the book is still hugely popular today, and easily landed a spot in Jack and Todd’s 100 Best.

Click below to listen to a conversation between Jack Covert and Jim Champy:
[podcast]http://800ceoread.com/blog/audio/jim_champy_reengineering.mp3[/podcast]

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