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Five Memorable Quotes from Soundview’s Author Insight Series

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One of the great incentives to subscribe to Soundview Executive Book Summaries is the monthly installment of Soundview’s Author Insight Series. Each short, revealing mp3 provides executives with additional insights about many of the books summarized by Soundview. The best part is that executives get to hear fresh information directly from the author.

Here is a sampling of some memorable moments from the first half of 2011:

“One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.” – Greg McKeown, co-author Multipliers.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good your PowerPoint slides are or your strategy or concept. What it really comes down to is your team. How motivated and willing are they to reinvent your organization and how much do they understand the evolving consumer need?” – Jeremy Gutsche, author Exploiting Chaos.

“People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.” – Jeffrey Pfeffer, author Power.

“I think that the opportunity is so big for companies to engage [in real-time] and frankly there’s so few that actually do, that when a company does engage in real time, people really sit up and notice.” – David Meerman Scott, author Real-Time Marketing & PR.

“The conditions that managers deplore the most about managing were created, maintained and enforced by managers acting as ‘management,’ the honor guard of the corporate organism.” – Stan Slap, author Bury My Heart at Conference Room B.

To see the complete list of 2011 Soundview Executive Book Summaries, click this link and visit Summary.com.

Get An Edge in Your Career Development

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What separates the performance of top-level professionals from people who, no matter how hard they try, seem unable to reach the summit? Every organization has one or two individuals to whom other members of staff look as an example of “the right way” to get the job done. The secret is a combination of knowing the best practices and key skills and executing your strategies in the right moments. Of course, gaining these valuable skill sets can require a serious investment of time and money. Most of us who are working professionals rarely have the time to be out of the office for additional training. The demands of our personal lives also prevent many of us from devoting time in the evenings to improving our career skills.

That’s why Concentrated Knowledge Corporation (the publisher of Soundview Executive Book Summaries) created CKC’s Executive Edge™ (To get a FREE sample issue, click here!). This online publication saves you time and energy by combining executive skill development with insights from today’s top business leaders. Two times per month, you’ll receive a digitally delivered publication in your e-mail in-box that will give you insight into vital skill-builders regardless of your level of experience.

Take a look at what you’ll learn in CKC’s Executive Edge™ :

  • How to impress your audience when speaking publicly.
  • Negotiating from strength.
  • Defining yourself as a leader.
  • Updating your sales style.
  • Resolving workplace conflict.
  • Maximizing your professional value.
  • And many more…

This is a unique opportunity to receive coaching from some of the best minds in business but at your pace and on your timetable. I also need to mention that now is a great time to sign up because of the special offer that’s currently running!

If you subscribe today, you’ll receive one year (24 issues) of CKC’s Executive Edge™ for only $39. That’s less than $2 an issue. When was the last time that you were able to get crucial career development information for $2?

To learn more and to subscribe to CKC’s Executive Edge™ just click this link!

A Reading List for Capitol Hill

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So, was it worth it? Did you stand in a long line or stroll right up to the voting booth? Did you fill out a ballot or press a few buttons and pull a lever? I had the bizarre experience of filling out a ballot, placing it in a folder, and handing the folder to an election official. He then removed the ballot (still warm from my hands) and handed it back to me to put into an electronic scanner. I understand that nefarious elements have been rigging elections since the first man cast his first ballot, but couldn’t I have just skipped the folder and slid the ballot into the scanner myself? What was your Election Day experience like?

However you cast your ballot and regardless of the people for whom it was cast, newly elected officials will fill the halls of Congress, as well as governors’ residences and state legislatures across the U.S. With that in mind, I thought I’d make a few suggestions and pass out some homework assignments before any new Representative, Senator or Governor takes his or her seat.

The hot button issue that caused so many people to turn out and vote is the economy. Soundview has spent the past few years answering the call from businesses in search of the essential knowledge needed to ensure survival. Lawmakers would do well to brush up on the titles contained in both volumes of Soundview’s Business Survival Skills collection. Visit this link to see the six summaries that comprise Volume I and Volume II of this collection.

Just as in the 2008 election season, this year’s campaigns rode a current bearing the word “Change.” With the type of change produced at the polls, Congress is going to need some guidance. Soundview has featured a mass of titles that deal with the subject of change and you can find them by visiting this link.

Some might say that the most important title that pertains to the results of Election Day is the summary that recently debuted on Summary.com: Turnaround Leadership by Shaun O’Callaghan. Regardless of one’s personal political affiliation, there’s little doubt that Congress has its work cut out for it as the U.S. continues its pursuit of economic recovery. You can learn more about this great new summary by visiting Soundview at Summary.com. Find out how you can become a subscriber by visiting this link.

Spend Time with The Sales Gurus

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In our current economic climate, every dollar is crucial to the bottom-line. Is your organization looking for a way to connect with more potential customers, overcome obstacles and close more sales? There are so many resources that claim to help boost your sales. How can you sort through them all? It can cause the average executive to suffer from information overload. Plus, the expense of trying to attend a sales seminar, not to mention the time away from the phone or the prospect’s office, can make sales training prohibitive for many companies.

Imagine if there was a way to schedule a session of private instruction from some of the brightest minds in sales. What would it cost for one ticket to a forum filled with speakers who bring decades of insight, wisdom and proven sales success?

How does less than $30 (U.S.) sound?

Portfolio and Soundview Executive Book Summaries are proud to present The Sales Gurus: Lessons from the Best Sales Books of All Time. This new release collects 18 essential summaries of the most important sales books in recent history. You’ll get the opportunity to read performance-boosting tips from best-selling authors such as Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, John C. Maxwell, Tom Hopkins and many more!

The Sales Gurus is a one-stop sales information resource. The book covers topics such as prospecting, overcoming objections, making presentations and coaching. There are even summaries for sales managers, including sales metrics titles such as The Dollarization Discipline and Making the Number. What could be better to have with you on the flight to visit your next potential customer?

The Sales Gurus takes its place alongside two previous collaborations with Portfolio: The Marketing Gurus and The Management Gurus. Now with The Sales Gurus all the areas of your organization have access to Gurus just for them.

Don’t delay! Order your copy of The Sales Gurus: Lessons from the Best Sales Books of All Time today and send your sales figures soaring! It’s available in both hardback and as an e-book!

A Best-Selling Author’s Leadership Advice

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Leadership is one of the most popular topics with subscribers to Soundview Executive Book Summaries. We do our best to fulfill subscriber requests for the latest in leadership materials, whether it’s through book summaries, collections, or exclusive webinars with top authors. However, there’s one leadership resource about which you may not be aware.

Have you signed up for Soundview’s Leadership Alert? This FREE e-newsletter provides exclusive insight into leadership issues. It often features interviews with authors whose names top the best-seller lists of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Here’s a link to a recent issue of Leadership Alert that includes a special interview with best-selling author Daniel Pink. He’s the author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation.

In the above issue of Leadership Alert, he discusses his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. I definitely found myself considering whether I was a Type I or Type X personality. Take a look at Pink’s descriptions of the two personality types. Do you see yourself as one or the other? Drop us a comment and let us know what you think.

In the meantime, visit our Website at Summary.com and sign up for our FREE e-newsletter Soundview’s Leadership Alert. Also, if you like the interview with Daniel Pink, you might want to join us for our next edition of Soundview Live. Daniel Pink will be our special guest! It’s July 8, 2010 at Noon (eastern) and is FREE for subscribers.