Lead By Greatness by David Lapin - Book review

Lead By Greatness

How Character Can Power Your Success

By: David Lapin

Published: February 3, 2012
Format: Paperback, 360 pages
ISBN-10: 0983467706
ISBN-13: 978-0983467700
Publisher: Avoda Books













"Greatness is not a skill set, but a way of being that expresses a person's sense of destiny and purpose. When great people lead with a sense of destiny and purpose, they become great leaders", writes rabbi, business strategist, and CEO of Lapin Consulting International, Inc., David Lapin, in his insightful and inspirational book Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success. The author describes how exceptional leaders establish and live by their authenticity, core beliefs, and values.

David Lapin understands that leadership requires exceptional skills to establish a vision, inspire others to greatness, spark creativity, and build successful organizations. The author provides evidence, uncovered through his experience and research, that a leader's stature and reputation, are more important indicators of inspiration, than job titles or status. To transcend the ordinary level of leadership and attain greatness, David Lapin posits that the leader must develop a higher purpose, and a sense of overarching destiny. Instead of considering of the leader as what they are, David Lapin takes the bold step of considering a leader as why they are.



David Lapin (photo left) recognizes that becoming a leader who demonstrates greatness of character requires unlocking what he calls your "Spiritual Fingerprint" and your "Personal Purpose". The author shares how these two crucial characteristics will turn the key to open wide the company's corporate soul. That organizational soul includes a blending of spirit, culture, personality, and core values. These principles are the true uniqueness of the firm, and are not duplicated anywhere else. They form the basis of the organizations most fundamental competitive advantage.

To unlock the leadership traits, seen through the lens of the Spiritual Fingerprint and the Personal Purpose, the leader must establish higher purpose and a sense of destiny. With that transcendence in place, the leader can develop and enrich the following key traits:

* Authenticity
* Destiny
* Mastery
* Humility
* Vulnerability
* Generosity
* Awareness
* Wisdom

For me, the power of the book is how David Lapin combines a powerful message of the inspirational dynamic of the human spirit, with proven techniques for enhancing leadership skills. The author makes the transformational insight of connecting greatness of character, with business achievement, and the organizational profitability. David Lapin offers a unique perspective on leadership through his experience as both a spiritual teacher and as an effective executive.

David Lapin demonstrates clearly the critical importance of values, ethics, and a sense of spiritual purpose to leadership, the inspiring of others, and to the success of the organization. At a time when values and principles are lacking or treated with disdain in many companies, David Lapin offers an alternative and a better way. Not only is the spiritual path more personally rewarding, but is a more effective business plan as well. The author provides the key insight that the values driven team and organization has within them an unbeatable competitive advantage.

I highly recommend the transformational and passionate book Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success by David Lapin, to anyone seeking to be more than simply a leader, but one who wants to unlock their inner spiritual sense of greatness in themselves and others. This deeply profound book will change you forever, and alter your entire perception of leadership, greatness, and of the need for a sense of a higher purpose.

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Competency-Based Interviews: Revised Edition by Robin Kessler - Book review

Competency-Based Interviews, Revised Edition

How to Master the Tough Interview Style Used by the Fortune 500s

By: Robin Kessler

Published: June 22, 2012
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1601632215
ISBN-13: 978-1601632210
Publisher: Career Press












"Competency-based interviews are highly structured and use behavioral questions to help the interviewer assess candidates based on critical competencies identified for the position", writes human resources professional, consultant, career coach, and president of The Interview Coach, Robin Kessler, in the completely revised and updated edition of her very hands on and results oriented book Competency-Based Interviews, Revised Edition: How to Master the Tough Interview Style Used by the Fortune 500s. the author describes the various types of competency-based interviewing techniques, how to understand and prepare for them, and for growing as a competency-based employee.

Robin Kessler recognizes that leading companies are utilizing various competency-based interviewing techniques to discover and hire the best employees for their organizations. The author points out that progressive firms are moving toward the competency-based interview approach at a rapid pace. While some traditional employers continue to use standard interviewing practices, Robin Kessler provides evidence that competency-based interviewing is becoming the new standard format. The author presents the idea that since past behavior is the best indicator of future performance, the competency-based interview was devised to capture those recurring behaviors.



Robin Kessler (photo left) understands that the competencies being sought, and expected to be demonstrated in the interview process, are the key characteristics that will make a person a success on the job. The author shares the insight that sophisticated companies prefer working with competencies as they provide an effective framework for hiring, managing, evaluating, and improving their employees. Each firm will have what the author calls core competencies that apply to all areas of the organization.

The competency-based interview, writes Robin Kessler, was devised to target and identify these relevant competencies. To guide the applicant through the different types and formats of the competency based interview, the author provides the following principles:

* Understanding competency-based interviewing systems
* Identifying key competencies
* Knowing what interviewers are trained to look for
* Proving competencies with examples
* Presenting yourself as a strong candidate
* Considering other important interviewing tips
* Understanding how a competency interview flows
* Developing global competencies for the future
* Using competency-based resumes to get interviews

For me, the power of the book is how Robin Kessler combines a comprehensive guide to competency-based interview techniques, and their various iterations, with case studies and real world examples of the concepts in action. The book is very well formatted, and the ideas flow naturally, creating a sense of a process unfolding. The various chapters contain numerous examples of questions that will appear during a competency-based interview. The author shares the foundation to navigating those types of interviews successfully, regardless of the way the questions are formulated by the interviewer.

The author also includes an important section on performing well on the job, building career competencies, and career management. The book is enhanced by the valuable appendix sections on a list of core competencies, competencies for case studies, and illegal interview questions. The author also sprinkles some lighthearted comics throughout the book to provide depth to the ideas.

I highly recommend the practical and engaging book Competency-Based Interviews, Revised Edition: How to Master the Tough Interview Style Used by the Fortune 500s by Robin Kessler, to anyone seeking employment and accepting interviews in today's challenging employment environment. This book could provide the edge you need to land that great job in a sophisticated organization.

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Vicky Oliver: Bad Bosses & Crazy Coworkers - Blog Business Success Radio

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Speaker, career coach, workplace issues and etiquette expert, and author of the engaging and solution packed book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues, Vicky Oliver, describes the problem bosses, coworkers, and employees who seem to inhabit and haunt every workplace. Vicky Oliver shares her insights into how to identify, diagnose, and disarm even the worst office problem people. Vicky offers advice for handling with effective diplomacy the various types of problem bosses; and for keeping your job at the same time. Vicky provides ideas for working with even the most challenging coworkers and colleagues, and for making being on the job less painful. Vicky presents concepts for identifying if even you are the problem and how to correct your own problem creating shortcomings. Learn how to create a more transparent workplace that avoids creating the conditions that develop problem people in the first place. Discover how to survive and thrive in your new and improved workplace, with the improvement from the problem people.

Vicky Oliver is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, July 19, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Speaker, career coach, workplace issues and etiquette expert, and author of the engaging and solution packed book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues, Vicky Oliver, describes the problem bosses, coworkers, and employees who seem to inhabit and haunt every workplace. You will learn:

* How to identify the different types of workplace problem people

* How to confront and work with a bad boss, without getting fired

* How to handle a difficult coworker or colleague

* How to identify problems within yourself and correct them



Vicky Oliver (photo left) writes books that give people the confidence they need to succeed on the job hunt as well as on the vital quest for prospects. She also gives seminars on job-hunting, networking, and the art of branding yourself. Today her first book, 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions, is available in the U.S., England, France, Australia, Canada, Japan, and Turkey. Her second book is called Power Sales Words, How to Write It, Say It, And Sell It with Sizzle. (All Sourcebooks)

Vicky has been featured on the front page of the New York Times 'Job Market' section and on over 100 local and national radio programs. She was designated in-house job-hunting expert at the Shomex Diversity Fair at Madison Square Garden. Her articles have appeared in Adweek magazine and on Crain's New York Business website; and she was interviewed for Esquire magazine's 'Answer Fella' column.

In 2007, Vicky hosted a Business Etiquette Dinner for 142 graduating seniors of Brown University. She also presented an Effective Interviewing seminar to 200 sophomores, juniors, and seniors up at the Brown campus during Career Week.

Vicky was recently elected President of the Brown University Club in New York. Vicky is also a newly minted Vice President of her class at Brown and a member of the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors.

Vicky believes that job-hunting can be a lonely endeavor and encourages job seekers to contact her via email for advice on their searches. She is in constant touch with over 5,000 recent candidates in all different professions and in all different walks of life: the employed, the unemployed, entrepreneurs, freelancers, retirees, college graduates, and people returning to the job market.

A Brown University graduate with a degree in English Honors and a double major in Political Science, Vicky lives in Manhattan, where she has dedicated herself to helping others turn around their careers and their lives.

My book review of Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues by Vicky Oliver.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with speaker, career coach, workplace issues and etiquette expert, and author of the engaging and solution packed book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues, Vicky Oliver, as she describes the problem bosses, coworkers, and employees who seem to inhabit and haunt every workplace. Vicky Oliver shares her insights into how to identify, diagnose, and disarm even the worst office problem people. Vicky offers advice for handling with effective diplomacy the various types of problem bosses; and for keeping your job at the same time.

Vicky provides ideas for working with even the most challenging coworkers and colleagues, and for making being on the job less painful. Vicky presents concepts for identifying if even you are the problem and how to correct your own problem creating shortcomings. Learn how to create a more transparent workplace that avoids creating the conditions that develop problem people in the first place. Discover how to survive and thrive in your new and improved workplace, with the improvement from the problem people on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots by Vicky Oliver - Book review

Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots

201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues

By: Vicky Oliver

Published: September 1, 2008
Format: Paperback: 512 pages
ISBN-10: 1402212534
ISBN-13: 978-1402212536
Publisher: Sourcebooks











"Contrary to popular perception, life at the office needn't be an inferno of despair, drudgery, and mayhem five days a week", writes speaker and career counselor, Vicky Oliver, in her engaging and solution packed book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues. The author describes the most frequently encountered and suffered problem bosses, coworkers, and employees; and shares proven techniques to disarm and even improve their behavior.

Vicky Oliver recognizes that almost every workplace contains the people who she refers to as the Problem. These difficult and often destructive people not only make the workplace environment a difficult experience for other employees, but also lower overall office productivity through their actions. Vicky Oliver shares her techniques for identifying the core personality issue for each of the various problem people. With the underlying problem understood, the author provides her proven techniques for disarming and neutralizing even the worst and most deadly problem individuals in any office. Vicky Oliver demonstrates that troubled employees no longer need to suffer in silence, but can be empowered to improve the office for the benefit of all.



Vicky Oliver (photo left) understands that suffering from terrible bosses, incorrigible coworkers, and unworkable employees result in a loss of performance and productivity in the workplace. The tragedy is that one or two problem people have a serious impact on the work performance of other employees as well. Fortunately, Vicky Oliver demonstrates that the workplace doesn't have to be a chapter from Dante's Inferno, but instead are simply another challenge that also has proven solutions.

Vicky Oliver divides her Problem people into three overarching groups, with each segment having subsets of various challenges. At the same time, the author offers strategies for identifying and dealing effectively with each problem individual, regardless of their position in the hierarchy. The three sections include:

* Bosses From Hell
* Colleagues From Purgatory
* When The Problem Lies Within

For me, the power of the book is how Vicky Oliver combines a comprehensive description of the complete gamut of problem people in workplaces, with a series of proven strategies for overcoming the challenges posed by working with those individuals. The author combines good humor with critical insights into the myriad of toxic people, and how they destroy their workplaces. Vicky Oliver pairs each problem person with the solution to handling that individual and their toxicity effectively.

The book is laid out in convenient, and readily accessed sections on bad bosses, problematic coworkers, and if the problem lies within oneself. With the problem paired with the solution, the book becomes an indispensable resource for all employees, managers, and supervisors to work effectively with any disruptive boss, colleague, or employee. The book is about solutions, and delivers on that promise.

I highly recommend the insightful and office transformational book Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues by Vicky Oliver, to any leaders, managers, supervisors, employees, and job searchers who are seeking real world solutions for handling the most troubling people in any workplace environment. This book will change forever the culture in your office, through the empowering of people, to take back control of their own working lives from the trouble people, that haunt most offices.

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BlogBloke: Blogging Ethics And Intellectual Property - Blog Business Success Radio

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Long time blogger and leading advocate of ethical blogging and intellectual property BlogBloke describes how the decline in blogging ethics endangers the entire blogosphere. BlogBloke points out the plagiarizing of ideas from other bloggers, without attribution harms all bloggers. BlogBloke describes how to properly attribute and acknowledge the originator of an idea, and why this recognition is important. He also points out how the laws of copyright and intellectual property apply to blogs and the internet as well as they do for offline written works. BlogBloke offers ideas for protecting your intellectual property, ensuring that you are given full credit for your ideas, and to ensure that you provide the same courtesy to others. Learn from BlogBloke how some of the popular ideas for blog post curation are really plagiarism of intellectual property.

BlogBloke is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, July 17, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Long time blogger and leading advocate of ethical blogging and intellectual property BlogBloke describes how the decline in blogging ethics endangers the entire blogosphere. You will learn:

* What blogging ethics really means and why they are important

* Why copyright and intellectual property are important to bloggers

* How to properly curate blog posts to give proper credit to the blogger

* Why a loss of trust and ethics could lead to the decline of blogging and social media



BlogBloke (avatar left) has worked in journalism and as a programmer in the computer industry before most had heard of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. A crusader at heart, he switched to law and soon made a name for himself as a successful litigation expert and mediator, helping folks who under normal circumstances can't afford justice.

A geek in every sense of the term, he carried his passion for helping others and computers into blogging that he helped pioneer. In those days there was no such thing as Wordpress or RSS newsfeeds for blogs. Having created the "Blog Tips" niche, his blog is an outstanding resource for helpful blogging tips and how-to tutorials. He has a reputation for being a straight shooter, his sharp wit and an outspoken champion for online ethics. He is bullishly pro blogging, social media, an outspoken advocate for online rights, security and technology issues.

Tech Editor and Author, BLOGBloke has been quoted in the Washington Post, New York Times and CBS News. Here are just a few of the comments that his readers have made:

"A Blogger’s Natural Resource" … “A knowledgeable, witty and fun conversationalist with both feet in the honesty camp” … “You write with passion, condor, and authenticity — that’s why I enjoy your posts” ... “Like the sense of humor in the articles” … “This site is a literary masterpiece” … “High quality sites like yours are an inspiration” … “This site is capital, constantly providing fairness in reviews and information” … “We would like to thank you for maintaining such a reputable blog. We know that it takes time, effort and commitment to keep such a blog and as such, we have added your blog as one of the top Blogging Blogs” … “You are indeed not just any average bloke!”.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with long time blogger and leading advocate of ethical blogging and intellectual property BlogBloke, as he describes how the decline in blogging ethics endangers the entire blogosphere. BlogBloke points out the plagiarizing of ideas from other bloggers, without attribution harms all bloggers. BlogBloke describes how to properly attribute and acknowledge the originator of an idea, and why this recognition is important. He also points out how the laws of copyright and intellectual property apply to blogs and the internet as well as they do for offline written works. BlogBloke offers ideas for protecting your intellectual property, ensuring that you are given full credit for your ideas, and to ensure that you provide the same courtesy to others. Learn from BlogBloke how some of the popular ideas for blog post curation are really plagiarism of intellectual property on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Strategic Intuition by William Duggan - Book review

Strategic Intuition

The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

By: William Duggan

Published: October 11, 2007
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0231142684
ISBN-13: 978-0231142687
Publisher: Columbia University Press











"The unifying idea of this book is a common mechanism at the heart of outstanding achievements in every domain of human endeavor. I call that mechanism "strategic intuition", although it goes by several other names in the various fields where I found it", writes associate professor of management at Columbia Business School, William Duggan, in his groundbreaking and transformational book Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement. The author describes how how every major advance in any field, has a turning point that transforms an entire field or creates a new one. The idea develops in the form of strategic intuition within the mind of the innovator.

William Duggan recognizes that those special flashes of insight and new ideas form another form of intuition. The author refers to these moments as strategic intuition when a clear problem solving idea emerges suddenly. William Duggan draws upon real world examples, and the latest discoveries of brain research, to demonstrate how and why strategic intuition works. The author also shares his techniques for using the strategic intuition ability more effectively as a problem solving methodology. William Dunning explains how strategic intuition differs from ordinary intuition and expert intuition, creating an entirely new area of understanding for problem solving and innovation.



William Duggan (photo left) understands that strategic intuition works slowly, is used in new situations, and is based on thinking rather than feeling. With these distinctions from ordinary and expert intuition in place, the author places the discipline in the realm of strategy. William Duggan stresses that these flashes of insight are crucial elements of the strategic process, and is a step that has been neglected or overlooked in studies of strategy in all fields. Strategic intuition places the human mind back at the heart of human achievement.

William Duggan demonstrates how the entire discipline of strategic discipline works. To provide a comprehensive analysis of the subject material, the author covers the following key elements:

* Theory of strategic intuition in its original forms
* How to apply strategic intuition to business, social programs, professions and education
* Overturns conventional wisdom about strategic intuition
* Provides the latest breakthroughs in brain research and neuroscience
* Key examples of the principles of strategic intuition in diverse endeavors

For me, the power of the book is how William Duggan combines a theoretical analysis of strategic intuition with a practical framework for applying the principles to any field. The author delves into the history of strategy, including its origins in military thinking, and provides important insights into how ancient and modern military leaders employed strategic intuition to achieve their breakthroughs and victories. William Duggan also provides examples of the concept at work in the areas of business, education, social programs, and the professions.

The author also shares the latest research finding in brain studies and neuroscience that show how strategic intuition works in the human brain. In the end, the author offers an entire new field of creative studies, and provides the techniques for using the methodology repeatedly in any industry. The entire concept of strategic intuition places human thought and creativity back at the center of human achievement.

I highly recommend the groundbreaking and engaging book Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan, to anyone seeking a refreshing and comprehensive overview of the concept of strategic intuition, and its value for all human endeavors. This book will transform your creativity and innovation skills, and open your thought process to those brilliant flashes of insight that solve even the most difficult problems.

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Michael B. Junge: Purple Squirrel - Stand Out Land Interviws - Blog Business Success Radio

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Career coach, entrepreneur, member of the Google, Inc. leadership recruiting team, and author of the very practical and insightful book Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market, Michael B. Junge, describes how to stand out from the crowd to be invited for more interviews and shares advice for being on the fast career track once employed. Michael Junge offers strategies for identifying your personal vision, for identifying your ideal employers, and for having them discover and recruit you as their employee. Mike provides tips for acing your interviews, for more negotiating salary and benefits more effectively, and for creating a halo effect once on the job. Michael Junge provides advice of getting your career on the fast track through taking initiative, seeking feedback, and for widening your network of contacts. Learn how to take charge of your own career and develop your own career portfolio,

Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, July 12, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Career coach, entrepreneur, member of the Google, Inc. leadership recruiting team, and author of the very practical and insightful book Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market, Michael B. Junge, describes how to stand out from the crowd to be invited for more interviews and shares advice for being on the fast career track once employed. You will learn:

* How to build a firm foundation to start the job search

* How to become an opportunity magnet for motivated employers

* How to write a more effective resume and be more successful at interviews

* How to get on the career fast track from your very first day on the new job



Michael B. Junge (photo left) is a career coach, author and entrepreneur who currently serves on the leadership recruiting team at Google, Inc.

Previously, he was a key startup team member and five-time Recruiter of the Year for a national staffing firm that grew from $0 to more than $50M in annual revenues.

Michael has helped hundreds of clients land positions with companies that include Nestle, AT&T, Warner Brothers, Disney, Boeing, Humana, GMAC, Pacific Life, First American, Kaiser, Northrop, Parker Hannifin, Experian, Siemens, and dozens more.

My book review of Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market by Michael B. Junge.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with career coach, entrepreneur, member of the Google, Inc. leadership recruiting team, and author of the very practical and insightful book Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market, Michael B. Junge, as he describes how to stand out from the crowd to be invited for more interviews and shares advice for being on the fast career track once employed. Michael Junge offers strategies for identifying your personal vision, for identifying your ideal employers, and for having them discover and recruit you as their employee. Mike provides tips for acing your interviews, for more negotiating salary and benefits more effectively, and for creating a halo effect once on the job. Michael Junge provides advice of getting your career on the fast track through taking initiative, seeking feedback, and for widening your network of contacts. Learn how to take charge of your own career and develop your own career portfolio on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Purple Squirrel by Michael B. Junge - Book review

Purple Squirrel

Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market

By: Michael B. Junge

Published: January 12, 2012
ISBN-10: 1467992607
ISBN-13: 978-1467992602
Format: Paperback, 238 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace












"Everyone seems to be looking for an almost impossible mix of qualifications, skills, and experiences. In the staffing industry, we call this "searching for purple squirrels". As a job seeker and professional, one of your primary goals should be getting to the place where you are readily identified as such a resource", writes career coach, entrepreneur, and member of the leadership recruiting team at Google, Inc., Michale B. Junge, in his very practical and insightful book Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market. The author describes a complete systematic process for landing the ideal job, in any economy; and for becoming an outstanding performer and effective personal career manager.

Michael Junge understands that the employment landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Previously effective job finding techniques no longer work; and the fundamentals of resume writing, interviewing skills, and salary negotiations have changed as well. The author presents the latest real world proven strategies, for finding that great job, and for succeeding once on the job. Michael Junge starts right at the very foundation of the individual employment seeker's vision of their ideal work and chosen life. With these building block firmly in place, the author guides the job hunter through the latest concepts of finding employment, including that of having employers discover their own potentially ideal employee.



With employers seeking what Michael B. Junge (photo left) describes as an outstanding purple squirrel, it's essential for anyone seeking a career to consider becoming precisely that unique individual. The author presents the strategies for transforming any employment seeker into a magnet to attract motivated employers.

With employers being overwhelmed with traditional applications and resumes, Michael Junge offers an alternative approach to being noticed by the right employers in the new employment marketplace. With the interview secured and the job in place, the author moves on to being the ideal employee, who is not only effective but also builds an ever more impressive career management portfolio.

Michal Junge divides the book into three overall section, with each one serving as the building blocks for the subsequent chapters. The three parts include:

* A foundation for success
* Becoming an opportunity magnet for employers
* Getting on the fast track with your career

For me, the power of the book is how Michael Junge combines a strong theoretical framework for employment seekers with proven techniques for finding the ideal job into today's difficult job environment. The author presents the latest tactics, proven in the real world, to become a sought after employee. Michael Junge understands the employment dynamic from both the employer and employee perspectives, offering rare insights into their interaction.

The author goes beyond the standard recommendations given to job seekers, and instead offers an alternative viewpoint of becoming a magnet for the best employers. Michael Junge also includes important chapters on what to do as a new employee to ensure that the individual gets on the fast track, and takes effective control over their own career.

I highly recommend the indispensable and very hands on book Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market by Michael B. Junge, to anyone who is currently looking for a job or who may seeking new employment in the near future, and wants a book that provides the latest information on the employment market today. This book will very likely get you that ideal position, that you have sought for so long a time.

Tags: Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market, Michael B. Junge, employment seeking techniques, business book reviews

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JOBS: How The United States Can Reach Long-Term Full Employment by Dr. T. William Hefferan

JOBS

How the United States Can Reach Long-term Full Employment

By: Dr. T. William Hefferan

Published: May 26, 2012
Format: Paperback, 402 pages
ISBN-10: 0615598366
ISBN-13: 978-0615598369
Publisher:Pelican Design











"Should we really just wait it out and hope unemployment will mysteriously settle in at around 4 percent forever, as in the good old day. never happen. We need long-term solutions that address the massive waves of headwinds that have simultaneously paralyzed our country in today's situation, in ways they never have before", writes former CEO, T. William Hefferan in his revolutionary and results oriented book JOBS: How the United States Can Reach Long-term Full Employment. The author describes how a cooperative and mutually beneficial approach by both employers and employees, with an emphasis on creating meaningful work, will not only solve the immediate unemployment crisis, but will maintain low unemployment levels well into the future as well.

T. William Hefferan understands that the current unemployment landscape is fundamentally different from recessions of recent memory. As a result, the author considers the standard approaches to solving the problem, of chronically high unemployment, are doomed to failure. The author supports taking a very different course of action, through collaboration between employers and employees. Instead of waiting in vain for government action that may never happen, T. William Hefferan takes the positive approach of solving the unemployment crisis through private sector activity. The author proposes the concept he calls by the acronym EMBER: establish a mutually beneficial and rewarding employment relationship.



William Hefferan (photo left) recognizes that developing a comprehensive proposal for long-term full employment requires an all encompassing strategy. Instead of relying solely on employers to create jobs, the author offers the alternative concept of involving employees in the process as well. The author helps guide employers toward employees who are passionate about work, and who will help grow the business while building a positive company culture. At the same time, William Hefferan shares techniques for prospective employees to discover their ideal employer.

The EMBER concept consists of ten mutually reinforcing building blocks. Those ten foundational blocks are;

* Passion for work
* Finding an EMBER job
* Connecting with EMBER employees
* Creating an EMBER environment
* Ethics and authenticity
* Personal branding
* Online social networking
* Leadership
* Education and retraining
* Innovation and entrepreneurship

For me, the power of the book is how T. William Hefferan develops an all encompassing proposal for ending unemployment. The author provides an alternative to the usual ideas that either government or employers will somehow solve on their own the problem of unemployment. William Hefferan adds the missing piece of the puzzle in the form of passionate employees. With the addition of employees as part of the solution, the author turns his attention toward guiding employers to build workplaces that engage that passion.

William Hefferan offers the all inclusive, and mutually beneficial EMBER program as the key to achieving full employment over the long term. The author supports his concepts with both his massive peer reviewed research project where both employees and employers were interviewed as to their requirements. Along with the research results, the author provides a complete blueprint for both employers and employees to put the EMBER proposal into action.

I highly recommend the visionary and transformational book JOBS: How the United States Can Reach Long-term Full Employment by T. William Hefferan, to employees, job seekers, employers of all sizes, members of the media, economists, elected officials, public policy makers, and members of the general public who are seeking a fresh and viable vision for reaching full employment. This book will change the way you think about job creation, and the roles of the employer and employee in the overall process.

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Dick Cross: Just Run It! - Blog Business Success Radio

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Business advisor, former CEO, and author of the visionary and thought provoking book Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think, Dick Cross, describes his holistic process for running a successful company. Dick Cross offers his real world proven strategies for transforming under performing companies into industry powerhouses. Instead of deconstructing the process of operating a business into various categories, Dick Cross shares his concepts for just running the company. Dick Cross provides his three part framework for new and established companies. These concepts work effectively at any stage of the business life cycle.. Learn about the three models that Dick Cross calls Back of an Envelope, Vision-Strategy-Execution, and The Cross Renewal Model. Discover how to be a successful hands on CEO in your own company.

Dick Cross is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, July 10, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Business advisor, former CEO, and author of the visionary and thought provoking book Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think, Dick Cross, describes his holistic process for running a successful company. You will learn:

* Why so many start up and established companies fail to grow or even survive

* Why current business management ideas are misguided

* Why a comprehensive and holistic approach to running a business is needed

* How to apply an understandable overarching business management system



Dick Cross (photo left) is the founder and Managing Principal of The Cross Partnership III, a twenty-year-old, Boston-based, “hands-on” consulting and turn-around firm focused on improving the operating and financial performance of businesses owned by financial sponsors. Over the past decade, his firm has intervened effectively as consultants, advisors and interim presidents in more than 100 businesses ranging from start-ups to mature industrials. Dick has served as an interim President/CEO, leading successful business transitions in eight companies over the past twelve years.

Dick is a founding partner of Alston Capital Partners at 551 Fifth Avenue in New York, New York. Alston is a private equity fund investing in mid-tier businesses that are currently under performing their potentials. As the lead operating partner, he oversees the application of the Just Run It! principles in selecting, managing and in creating and realizing value in portfolio companies.

Dick started at CARSTAR as a consultant in the early fall of 2004, becoming Chairman of the CARSTAR Board of Directors by the end of the year. Through 2005, he took an active position as Chairman, affecting an organizational restructuring, outlining a Corporate Strategic Plan and directing the overall affairs of the Company. In January 2006, he assumed the role of CEO. In 2008, after three years of record earnings and growth to 400 franchisees, he recapitalized the Company at a valuation of 10 times earnings and agreed to continue in his post through a transition period.

Dick resides with his wife, Jenny, in Concord, Massachusetts. There, he has been active in town government and has held many appointed posts since 1976. He has two daughters and spends summers with his family at Gloucester, Virginia. He enjoys bird hunting, fishing, boating, fitness and friends.

My book review of Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think by Dick Cross.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with business advisor, former CEO, and author of the visionary and thought provoking book Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think, Dick Cross, as he describes his holistic process for running a successful company. Dick Cross offers his real world proven strategies for transforming under performing companies into industry powerhouses. Instead of deconstructing the process of operating a business into various categories, Dick Cross shares his concepts for just running the company. Dick Cross provides his three part framework for new and established companies. These concepts work effectively at any stage of the business life cycle.. Learn about the three models that Dick Cross calls Back of an Envelope, Vision-Strategy-Execution, and The Cross Renewal Model. Discover how to be a successful hands on CEO in your own company on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Just Run It! by Dick Cross - Book review

Just Run It!

Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think

By: Dick Cross

Published: April 3, 2012
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1937134008
ISBN-13: 978-1937134006
Publisher: Bibliomotion











"Businesses struggle because so few of the would-be drivers of the new economy know how to convert their dreams, their ideas, their courage, and their initiatives into successful businesses", writes turnaround CEO, private equity partner, consultant, and the originator of The Mid Tier Presidents Course for Executives at Harvard, Dick Cross, in his visionary and thought provoking book Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think. The author describes how business leaders lack an overarching knowledge base for running a successful business, and shares his holistic principles for for operating any company from a start up venture to an established company.

Dick Cross recognizes that the entrepreneurial spirit is still alive, but the overall guiding skill set for running a business are not well known. The author proposes a comprehensive and holistic system for operating a company, but points out that exactly the opposite concept is the dominant paradigm. Instead of examining and learning the whole picture of how to run a business, leaders and managers examine only the parts rather than the whole. Dick Cross shares an alternative vision of looking at and running a business in its entirety. The author presents his guiding principles of holistic business management, in an understandable format, that is easy to apply to any company. Dock Cross states that these principles will benefit any company, as well rebuild as entire industries, and strengthen the economy as a whole.



Dick Cross (photo left) understands that if start up and established companies are going to be more successful, then a new approach to running a business is a requirement. The author points out the current standard practice of deconstructing the entirety into its component parts is not effective. Dick Cross presents the vision of a holistic approach to business management, that considers the whole, rather than its individual parts. Instead of a top down approach, the author provides his alternative concepts as a bottom up methodology.

To bring a complete and overarching framework into practice. Dick Cross shares his three transformational elements for renewing a company. Those three elements are:

* A "Back of an Envelope framework that considers customers, customer needs, positioning, and competencies

* A three part Visio-Strategy-Execution framework that traverses between the big picture overview and execution at the ground level

* The Cross Renewal Model that means each outcome must surpass previous outcomes to constantly renew the company

For me, the power of the book is how Dick Cross provides comprehensive evidence, through his personal experience that a holistic foundation for running a business is the most successful approach. Along with this comprehensive overview, the author shares his proven vision and strategies for transforming and renewing any business, regardless of its stage in the company life cycle. The book is both theoretical and very hands on, providing both the big picture elements and the ground level execution described by the author.

The holistic approach to running a business also includes important sections on rebuilding a company culture, demystifying leadership and management, and embracing the very human aspects of operating a company. Dick Cross also adds examples of the principles in action, both from his own experience, and from those of other companies. The author also shares his comprehensive vision, for rebuilding the overall economy, through a widespread introduction of his business concepts.

I highly recommend the very practical and idea filled book Just Run It! Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think by Dick Cross, to any business leaders and entrepreneurs seeking a clear, concise, very usable guide to running their companies successfully. This book will cause you to think about running a business in an entirely different way from any that you may have been taught in the past.

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Customers First by Bolivar J. Bueno - Book review

Customer


Customers First

Dominate Your Market by Winning Them Over Where It Counts the Most

By: Bolivar J. Bueno

Published: March 15, 2012
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0071787879
ISBN-13: 978-0071787871
Publisher: McGraw-Hill











"Customers are skeptical. They've been lied to by just about everyone who's had the opportunity to do so", writes brand strategist, founder and managing partner of The Cult Branding Company, Bolivar J. Bueno, in his insightful and practical book Customers First: Dominate Your Market by Winning Them Over Where It Counts the Most. The author describes how a failure to connect with today's skeptical customers will render a brand irrelevant, and shares proven techniques for empowering customers and building extreme customer loyalty.

Bolivar J. Bueno understands that it's the customers, and not the company, that builds the brand. Without the passionate brand evangelists, and ensuring their loyalty, a brand risks losing its relevance in the marketplace. The author demonstrates both why and how customer loyalty must be understood and satisfied, to ensure brand relevance. If the customer, who the author calls the Brand Lover, is empowered and inspired, they will be transformed into crucial and effective evangelists. These extreme brand loyalists are the true makers of the brand, and it is critical for companies to engage and inspire these highly passionate customers.



Bolivar J. Bueno (photo left) provides the proven strategies and techniques to place the customer at the forefront of the company's marketing plan to empower them into passionate brand evangelists. For the author, the most powerful competitive advantage for any company is through a complete understanding of the brand's most devoted customers.

Since almost all, at least 90 percent of customer activity and actions are unconscious behavior, according to the author, it becomes possible to forecast accurately how customers will react and behave. This understanding of customer behavior forms the foundation for differentiating leading companies from their competitors.

Bolivar J. Bueno provides a framework for creating a brand model to describe the company DNA to create a powerful brand and business leadership edge. The author presents these concepts as follows:

* Modelling defined
* Building the brand model
* Deploying the brand model

For me, the power of the book is how Bolivar J. Bueno combines a strong theoretical framework for creating a customer oriented brand strategy, with the practical and proven strategies for executing the plan. The author shares his brand model concept, offering effective methods for placing company operations into harmony with customer desires and behavior. The author also provides a methodology for creating a company culture based on the customer first concept.

The author's principles draw on the latest in scientific and psychological research, combined with real world business experience and results. Bolivar J. Bueno also provides a series of case studies, featuring powerful and dominant industry leaders, and how these principles of understanding brand loyalists built their competitive brand advantage.

I highly recommend the results oriented and research based book Customers First: Dominate Your Market by Winning Them Over Where It Counts the Most by Bolivar J. Bueno, to any business leaders, brand marketers and managers, who are seeking a proven strategy from empowering customers to establish brand dominance. This book will change the way that you think about how brands are created, and why some brands are dominant in the market, and others are irrelevant to the consumer.

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Claudia Hall Christian: Building Community For Authors - Blog Business Success Radio

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Best selling author and community builder Claudia Hall Christian describes how authors can utilize blogs and social media to build community. Claudia provides insights into the importance of community and developing relationships with readers. She shares her proven techniques for attracting more blog traffic through serial fiction, social media interaction, and author social media sites. Claudia hall Christian offers ideas for working more effectively with publishers, enhancing relationships with publishing houses, and helping achieve common goals. Learn how to market your fiction and non-fiction books more effectively and painlessly, even if you are not an experienced marketer. Discover how to have fun while building an author community, establishing your platform, interacting with readers on social media, and creating an enjoyable marketing plan that suits your own personality.

Claudia Hall Christian is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, July 5, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Best selling author and community builder Claudia Hall Christian describes how authors can utilize blogs and social media to build community. Claudia provides insights into the importance of community and developing relationships with readers. You will learn:

* Why authors need to build their community of readers

* How to attract blog visitors with serial fiction

* How to use social media to build community

* How to become an effective book marketing author who works well with publishers



Claudia Hall Christian (hoto left) is a best selling fiction author (Alex the Fey Thriller Series). She is also a serial fiction author (Denver Cereal & the Queen of Cool).

Claudia is also the creator of the Everyday Kindness Challenge and Simply Kind Tuesdays.
Claudia is founder of of the very successful #bookmarket, Twitter’s only chat about book marketing.

If you ask Claudia, however, is very likely to tell you that she is a beekeeper.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with best selling author and community builder Claudia Hall Christian as she describes how authors can utilize blogs and social media to build community. Claudia provides insights into the importance of community and developing relationships with readers. She shares her proven techniques for attracting more blog traffic through serial fiction, social media interaction, and author social media sites. Claudia hall Christian offers ideas for working more effectively with publishers, enhancing relationships with publishing houses, and helping achieve common goals. Learn how to market your fiction and non-fiction books more effectively and painlessly, even if you are not an experienced marketer. Discover how to have fun while building an author community, establishing your platform, interacting with readers on social media, and creating an enjoyable marketing plan that suits your own personality on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Laura Stack: What To Do When There's Too Much To Do - Blog Business Success Radio

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Personal productivity expert, President of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., and author of the very practical and idea filled book What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day, Laura Stack describes how to get more done in less time than you ever thought possible. Laura provides ideas for removing those constant time wasters from your day, and for doing more of the important tasks, while reducing the number of less important jobs. Laura offers ideas for how to cope better with the always on, 24/7 workplace, and shares ways to regain control over your time. Learn how to achieve what Laura calls Maximum Results in Minimum Time® with her mantra of reduce, reduce, reduce.

Laura Stack is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, July 3, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Personal productivity expert, President of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., and author of the very practical and idea filled book What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day, Laura Stack describes how to get more done in less time than you ever thought possible. You will learn:

* Why people are so short of time at work and home

* How the always on 24/7 life can be taken under your control

* How to discover free time through reducing needless tasks

* How to rank tasks by importance to do what needs to be done



Laura Stack (photo left) MBA, CSP, has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in the field of personal productivity. She helps leaders create high-performance cultures in their teams and organizations and achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today's workplaces. She is one of a handful of professional speakers whose business focuses solely on time management and productivity topics. Laura is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to improve workplace productivity.

Laura is the bestselling author of five books, including What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day (Berrett-Koehler 2012); SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best (Wiley, 2010); The Exhaustion Cure (Broadway Books, 2008), Find More Time (Broadway Books, 2006), and the bestselling Leave the Office Earlier (Broadway Books, 2004), which was hailed as "the best of the bunch" by the New York Times.

Her books have been published in nine countries and translated into six foreign languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Italian, and Romanian. She is also a contributor to two of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Laura's popular monthly electronic newsletter has subscribers in 38 countries. She is a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist in Outlook.Â

Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of employee productivity and workplace issues, she has been featured nationally on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, NBC TV, WB News, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the WashingtonPost.com, the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, Entrepreneur, Readers Digest, and Forbes magazine. Laura has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot, and Xerox, and she is the creator of The Productivity Pro® planner by Day-Timer. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, IBM, GM, MillerCoors, Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, plus a multitude of associations and governmental agencies.

Laura holds an MBA in Organizational Management (University of Colorado, 1991), integrating the importance of productivity in business with employee retention and satisfaction. She is the 2011-2012 President of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, NSA's highest earned designation.

Laura lives with her husband and three children in Denver, Colorado.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with personal productivity expert, President of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., and author of the very practical and idea filled book What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day, Laura Stack, as she describes how to get more done in less time than you ever thought possible. Laura provides ideas for removing those constant time wasters from your day, and for doing more of the important tasks, while reducing the number of less important jobs. Laura offers ideas for how to cope better with the always on, 24/7 workplace, and shares ways to regain control over your time. Learn how to achieve what Laura calls Maximum Results in Minimum Time® with her mantra of reduce, reduce, reduce on Blog Business Success Radio.

Tags: What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day, Laura Stack, time management, Blog Business Success, Blog Talk Radio.

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