Something You Should Know about Achieving Success


How To Be Fascinating

March 4, 2010

 

Interview with Sally Hogshead, author of the book Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Why is it that we find some people more fascinating than others?

 

Sally Hogshead:
The reason why they’re more fascinating is because they have an ability to elicit what I call the fascination triggers. There are 7 fascination triggers.
 


Sally Hogshead

Sally Hogshead, author of the book Fascinate

 

Making Your Ideas "Stick"

February 12, 2010

 

Interview with Chip Heath, co-author of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Some ideas stick with us for a long time; other ideas die the minute after we hear them.

 

Chip Heath:
Ideas that stick - JFK's Man on the Moon speech, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Aesop's fable that has stuck for twenty-five hundred years, the "this is your brain on drugs" campaign from the 80's.
 


Chip Heath

Chip Heath, co-author of the book Made to Stick... 

Where Your Best Ideas Come From

January 22, 2010

 

Interview with Frans Johansson, author of the book Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

 

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Mike Carruthers:
People who come up with great ideas typically have something in common.

 

Frans Johansson:
If there's one thing that characterizes breakthrough artists, scientists, entrepreneurs - it is that they generate and try out many ideas.

 


Frans Johansson

Frans Johansson, author of the book Medici Effect, says Pablo Picasso for example…

 

What Really Motivates People - Part 2

January 20, 2010

 

Interview with Daniel Pink, author of the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Pay for performance. That’s the model many organizations use to motivate their people; if you perform we’ll pay you money.

 

Daniel Pink:
And what the science shows that you've got to pay people enough, but once you pay people enough, external rewards like that (If/then rewards) don’t play that big of a role in high performance.


Daniel Pink

What Really Motivates People

January 19, 2010

 

Interview with Daniel Pink, author of the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Reward and punishment, the old "carrot and stick" are the classic methods organizations use to motivate their people. However…

 

Daniel Pink:
There’s actually a better approach to motivation that is not routed in carrots and sticks but has to do with autonomy and mastery and purpose.


Daniel Pink

Downside Of Being Available 24/7

January 7, 2010

 

Interview with Timothy Ferriss, author of the book The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We are so available to other people with cell phones and all the other technology that we don’t have a lot of uninterrupted time to focus on the task at hand.

 

Timothy Ferriss:
One of the biggest sources of stress (and this is measurable) is self-interruption and interruption. Looking at some of the internal audits at Morgan Stanley people are often interrupted on average every three minutes.


Timothy Ferriss

 

Are You A Good Listener - Part 2

December 23, 2009

 

Interview with Joe Takash, author of the book Results Through Relationships: Building Trust, Performance, and Profit Through People

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When you’re a good listener you have a real advantage.

 

Joe Takash:
The best listeners are the best friends. They’re the people who seem to be surrounded with by positive people. When chips are down for them they seem to get the best support. In business it certainly makes me more money


Joe Takash

 

Are You A Good Listener?

December 22, 2009

 

Interview with Joe Takash, author of the book Results Through Relationships: Building Trust, Performance, and Profit Through People

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Mike Carruthers:
We all like to think we’re good listeners.

 

Joe Takash:
But if I give you a true/false test ten minutes after we spoke, how well what you retained what I said doesn’t say as much about your memory to me as it does how fully engaged you are in the first place.

 


Joe Takash

Joe Takash, author of the book Results Through Relationships, says good listening is hard to do even for people like Joe.

How Do Other People Perceive You?

December 25, 2009

 

Interview with Mike Cook, author of the book Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You can't really get ahead in life or in your career without the help of other people, so how other people perceive you is very important.

 

Mike Cook:
And can you honestly say that when you encounter people at work, that when you're complete with an interaction with them that they're looking forward to the next time that they get to see you.


Mike Cook

 

Pitfalls Of The Office Christmas Party

December 15, 2009

 

Interview with Barbara Pachter, author of the book New Rules @ Work: 79 Etiquette Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If your employer is having a Christmas party you really should plan on going.

 

Barbara Pachter:
It is important that you attend the party and that you mingle with people there. A holiday party is still a business event and your absence will be noticed.

 


Barbara Pachter 

Business etiquette expert Barbara Pachter, author of the book New Rules @ Work, says how you dress at a Christmas party is also very important.

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