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Finding Opportunity In Chance Events - Part 2

April 25, 2012

 

Interview with Thor Muller, author of the book Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Luck can be a powerful force for your success if you understand how to use it.

 

Thor Muller:
Well we all know that there’s such a thing as blind luck when you’re struck by lightning what we talk about is something called serendipity. And serendipity involves chance but it also involves doing something with that chance what we call creativity. 
 
Thor Muller

Finding Opportunity In Chance

April 24, 2012

 

Interview with Thor Muller, author of the book Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Your life and career are partly the result of planning but also in large part the result in chance.

 

Thor Muller:
The test of this idea is to ask yourself 20 years ago or 10 years ago did I have plans where I am today?
 
Thor Muller

Why Public Speaking Is So Stressful

April 23, 2012

 

Interview with Jason Teteak, Founder of www.RuleTheRoom.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Speaking before a group of people is something almost everyone has to do and almost everyone hates doing. Why?

 

Jason Teteak:
The number 1 reason that people get nervous and are fearful is because they’re not prepared.
 
Jason Teteak

Giving Employee Feedback Doesn't Work

April 20, 2012

 

Interview with Charles S. Jacobs, author of the book Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons fromthe Latest Brain Science

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The job of any good manager is to give employees feedback on their job performance.

 

Charles S. Jacobs:
But forty years ago there was a study done at General Electric that looked at a performance appraisal process that they were using at that point. And what they found was that positive feedback had no effect one way or the other on performance.
 
Charles S. Jacobs

Principles Of Good Listening

March 3, 2012

 

Interview with Bernard T. Ferrari, author of the book Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All

 

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Mike Carruthers:
What does it take to be a really good listener? Well, a couple of things…

 

Bernard T. Ferrari:
The first thing you have to display is respect, if you don’t respect the person that you’re talking to and understanding that they have information that will help you make better decisions, then you’re in deep yogurt right off the bat.
 
Bernard T. Ferrari

Bernard Ferrari, author of the book Power Listening...

 

The second is you have to be quiet; it’s hard to listen when you’re talking. So I always use the ubiquitous rule of 80/20 I try to stay silent 80% of the time in a conversation. And then 20% of the time I am quite purposeful in trying to get further into what that person is telling me.

 

Why are so many people lousy listeners?

 

A couple reasons, 1 is it takes a lot of energy – I truly believe you burn more calories listening than you do talking. The second we confuse leadership with giving instruction, follow me here, do this, do that. A true leadership is helping people and helping yourself come to better decisions - and listening is really the front end of doing that.

 

Of course not everyone you listen to knows what they’re talking about.

 

But I would recommend that you really question whether you know more than those people do. And what is your mode of listening - to make sure that you haven’t been blunting your ability to be surprised.

 

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Can You Trust People?

January 17, 2011

 

Interview with Stephen M.R.Covey, author of the book Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We are probably less trusting of other people today than ever before.

 

Stephen M.R. Covey:
In a low trust world we tend to become more suspicious, more cynical, more distrusting because none of us want to get burned.
 
Stephen M.R. Covey

Your Personal Presence

December 12, 2011

 

Interview with Kristi Hedges, author of the book The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Presence it’s a hard concept to define and yet…

 

Kristi Hedges:
We’re all experts at other people’s presence. We know when someone walks into the room we can almost feel what their presence is and what their command is of a room and the energy that they bring into the room. However if someone says to you, “What’s your presence?” you’re probably going to stumble a little bit in trying to describe it.
 
Kristi Hedges

How To Be More Convincing

November 1, 2011

 

Interview with Dan Roam, author of the book Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When we’re talking with people socially or professionally our ideas and the stories we tell are simply a string of words.

 

Dan Roam:
The problem is that unless those ideas are really, really crystal clearly formed they’re just kind of like big fluffy clouds. We talk about this one for a moment and then it passes away and the next one comes along and we completely forget about the previous one.
 
Dan Roam

The Boss/Employee Relationship

September 2, 2011

 

Interview with Jamie Showkeir, author of the book Authentic Conversations: Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you had to describe the nature of the typical boss/employee relationship, it's similar to a parent and child.

 

Jamie Showkeir:
Because the premise on which our organizations of today were founded was generated well over a hundred years ago by people who were looking at non-skilled labor, as folks who could not be trusted and had to be told what to do.
 
Jamie Showkeir

Using Stories To Persuade

August 22, 2011

 

Interview with Peter Guber, author of the book Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Trying to convince someone with facts and figures will never be as effective as using a story.

 

Peter Guber:
It’s the way we make sense of things, we’re narrative creatures we’re not digital creatures, we’re analog creatures. And our oral tradition, our ability to talk and communicate goes back 40 thousand years.
 
Peter Guber


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