HARNESS NEW COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMPETITIVE GAIN
Most organizations realize that to succeed in today's turbulent world, they need to perform as an integrated whole to tap into innovations and good ideas. Yet many still find it difficult to capture the collective intelligence of their employees and customers. Companies don't know what they know-but they need to learn soon.
Thanks to a new class of collaborative technologies, organizations can now leverage information in valuable new ways: capturing accumulated knowledge, connecting employees who need information with the experts who have it, and enabling the best ideas to emerge organically. These technologies-labeled "Web 2.0"-first appeared on the Internet, where they powered successful social communities and collaborative platforms like Facebook and Wikipedia. Web 2.0 tools, practices, and philosophies are now being deployed by a wide range of organizations, making them more agile productive, and innovative.
Andrew McAfee, a veteran researcher and writer on the business impact of technology, and the originator of the phrase "Enterprise 2.0," describes its power and tells listeners how to harness it. McAfee weaves together case studies, discussions of technological change, and multidisciplinary research to:
-Show how early adoptees like Google have profited from Enterprise 2.0
-Specify the benefits that arise when Web 2.0 technologies are deployed
-Reveal where the risks and roadblocks are with Enterprise 2.0
-Guide companies through an Enterprise 2.0 deployment McAfee takes a practical look at the competitive challenges facing so many organizations today and explores how they can be met and conquered with the right combination of novel technologies and enlightened leadership.
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation.
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money-the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home-is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation-autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
Do you want to join the ranks of the top salespeople in your industry? Well, the rules have changed! No more diplomatic, play it by the old rules salesmanship. It's not enough to simply seek a sale...you must mount an overwhelming offense and move in for The Kill.
In this provocative new audiobook, Mark Stevens provides a roadmap for doing just that. He will tell you how to:
Completely control the agenda
Introduce the element of surprise
Develop an offer that is virtually irresistible
Based on real world experience, The Kill is an indispensable tool for exceptional success.
There are countless books, seminars, and consultants that offer the secrets to everlasting business success. After heeding their advice, perhaps you manage your time more efficiently, write a compelling pitch letter, or close a few more deals. But after a week or a month, you revert to your old bad habits and mediocre performance, until the next hot new program comes along. The only lasting way to enhance your productivity and growth is to focus on a handful of basic concepts and repeat them week after week'and teach your staff to do the same.
This book shows how to tune up virtually every area of your business, systematically, with just a little disciplined focus. Spend an hour per week on each "impact area" of your business and you will be astonished at how much you can accomplish.
You may know Cha-Ching! as the sound of a cash register ringing-but Jeffrey Gitomer hears it in every aspect of business, as the sound of achievement, fulfillment, money, wealth, and so much more!
Cha-Ching is the sound of music.
Music that makes you feel great every time you hear it. Cha-Ching! sets the tone for more Cha-Chings! and gives you the self confidence that if you have rung the register once, you can ring it again, and again (and again).
Cha-Ching! is the sound of success.
The continued achievement, motivation, and inspiration, adding up to a choir of melodic sweetness. It's the sweet sound of success.
Jeffrey Gitomer's 32.5 Strategies To Ring Your Own (Cash) Register of Business And Personal Success will help you make your own music, dance to your own rhythm, and ring your own register. The CASH register.
In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected computer networks: it's the first real replication of the human brain outside the human body. To leverage its power, you first need to understand how the Internet has evolved to take on similarities to the brain. This engaging and provocative book provides the answer. Stibel lays out: -How networks have changed and what that implies for how people connect and form communities -What the Internet-and online business opportunities-will look like in the future -What the next stage of artificial intelligence will be and what opportunities it will present for businesses Stibel shows how exceptional companies are using their understanding of the Internet's brainlike powers to create competitive advantage-such as building more effective Web sites, predicting consumer behavior, leveraging social media, and creating a collective consciousness.
Everybody wants to connect, but not everybody knows how to. Connecting is all about your friendliness, your ability to engage, and your willingness to give value first. When you combine those three attributes, you will have uncovered the secret of powerful connections and rich relationships.
In Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Black Book of Connections you will find secrets uncovered, myths dispelled, and hundreds of ways to interact, connect, and score. You'll learn things like where to network for the best results, how to make the initial connection, how to capture the opportunity, and how to follow up so that you capitalize on the connections that you make.
The Little Black Book of Connections is not just a sales guide, it's a business guide and a life guide. Gitomer's 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships will get you from who you know to who knows you.
Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ellen Ruppel Shell uncovers the true cost---in economic, political, and psychological terms---of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible.
You are listening to this this book because you need to make more sales fast in an uncertain time. The pressure to sell has never been higher. But as the economy, your industry, and the markets change, does that really mean that people aren't buying anymore?
Of course not. First, you have to understand, it's not your fault. You're struggling because the current model for reaching and converting customers is seriously outdated and no longer works. You must develop new skills in a rapidly changing world if you intend to sell. We're in a new economy full of rapidly changing industries-and new sales rules apply. Customers have up-to-the-minute information access, a global reach, a social-networking mindset, a desire for instant gratification, and expectations of more powerful, high-tech experiences. That means you must understand what consumers demand of you before putting products and services in front of them. You need to pick up the tools that connect you to your market, expand your networks, and create a persuasive message that reaches customers where they live. The rules have changed and only those most adaptable to change will survive.
This approach is necessary for everyone in the sales industry. Whether you're a salesperson, a sales manager, are self-employed, or are part of a sales team, How to Sell When Nobody's Buying is the one-stop resource you need to stand out in the marketplace-starting now.
The Whuffie Factor is a breakthrough book that provides the strategic map and specific tactics for success in the lucrative but strange and elusive world of online communities.
Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Green Book of Getting Your Way digs deep into the 9.5 elements that make persuasion, and getting your way, happen. By breaking down the elements, you will begin to understand, take action, become proficient, and then master the ability to persuade. Because persuasion occurs in so many different areas of life and business, Gitomer leads you from mental readiness to the principles of getting your way and the power that persuasion offers. He challenges you to prepare before you present, to prepare before you try to persuade. He demonstrates how to change a presentation into a performance and shows how this can be done in any environment.
Because persuasion most often takes place in business, Gitomer puts special emphasis on the ability to write and sell persuasively. The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way will teach you to harmonize, not manipulate. It will teach you the power of engagement and it will show you how to inject humor into the persuasive process. Jeffrey brings the Benjamin Franklin quote "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" to the Gitomer level of "You only fail when you decide to quit," and ends by challenging you to think about excellence and eloquence. It will be up to you to take advantage of the opportunity and be the winner you have always wanted to be.
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt comes an essential job-hunting book. Harvey Mackay shows listeners how to get hired with techniques that can be applied to everyone's job search, regardless of their expectations or previous experiences. Mackay gives practical advice and explicit instructions on the best ways to find and approach a potential employer. By drawing on decades of experience running his own business and by showing the perspective of the employer, Mackay is able to give listeners the skills needed to assess what the company is looking for in a prospective employee and how to match those expectations. Mackay combines specific advice with just the right touch of humor and inspiration to motivate people and show them how to really make things happen.
