Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
The Mentor's Mentor: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review:
Corey Olynik shares tremendous insights on the power of having mentors and strategies to accomplish huge success!
10 out of 10 stars
About book:
We hear a lot about mentoring. Not many resources to show us how to do it with impact. This book lives up to that promise.
Author Corey Olynik obviously loves helping people become all they can. You can hear it in the stories. You can feel it in the approaches. Corey has “been there, done that.” His insights into both the mentor and the protege are spot on. His techniques are tested. His hopes are evident.
The Mentor’s Mentor is a unique combination of motivation and how-to. His unique understanding of the mentoring relationship becomes clear from the first page.
In The Mentor’s Mentor you’ll learn six different roles every good mentor must play:
Confidante - creating a trusting environment for meaningful conversation.
Role Model - sharing stories from one person’s life to help another grow.
Guide - pointing out landmarks, small victories ahead and how to work toward them.
Tutor - helping someone learn and, more importantly, want to learn the things she is missing.
Coach - heartily patting someone on the back and gracefully poking him with a stick.
Sage - understanding someone’s higher purpose, connecting to it and showing how progress is being regularly made toward it.
The Mentor’s Mentor teaches how to live each of these roles effectively and how to recognize when to switch between them.
The Mentor’s Mentor is practical. The Mentor’s Mentor is inspiring. The Mentor’s Mentor is challenging. The Mentor’s Mentor is entertaining.
Absorb this book and you’ll be a better mentor, a better spouse, a better friend, a better boss, a better human being learn more and buy book
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review
Safi Bahcall takes you on journey sharing powerful stories that made an impact on the world.
Loonshots share the how our early history changed the present world we live in and the what the future may hold for us.
7 out of 10 stars
About book:
Why do good teams kill great ideas?
Loonshots reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.
Bahcall, a physicist and entrepreneur, shows why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing new ideas to rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly change into brittle ice. Mountains of print have been written about culture. Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control this transition, the same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice.
Using examples that range from the spread of fires in forests to the hunt for terrorists online, and stories of thieves and geniuses and kings, Bahcall shows how a new kind of science can help us become the initiators, rather than the victims, of innovative surprise.
Over the past decade, researchers have been applying the tools and techniques of this new science―the science of phase transitions―to understand how birds flock, fish swim, brains work, people vote, diseases erupt, and ecosystems collapse. Loonshots is the first to apply this science to the spread of breakthrough ideas. Bahcall distills these insights into practical lessons creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries can use to change our world.
Along the way, readers will learn how chickens saved millions of lives, what James Bond and Lipitor have in common, what the movie Imitation Game got wrong about WWII, and what really killed Pan Am, Polaroid, and the Qing Dynasty.
“If The Da Vinci Code and Freakonomics had a child together, it would be called Loonshots.” ―Senator Bob Kerrey learn more and buy book
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
You are a Badass: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review
It was exciting to read this book, each chapter had amazing stories and strategies. I could relate and understand many of the principles shared by Jen Sincero.
9 out 10 stars
About book:
The #1 New York Times Bestseller YOU ARE A BADASS IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES BUT DON'T WANT TO GET BUSTED DOING IT.
In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling
Author
and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized
chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy
exercises, and the occasional swear word. If you're ready to make some
serious changes around here, You Are a Badass will help you:
Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop
you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take
big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already,
learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it
will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how
to create it NOW.
By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
Monday, January 14, 2019
Key Person of Influence: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review
"Think book and powerful read. I found myself stopping multiple times and making notes! This is a book that I will read again for sure. So many easy ideas to execute
10 of 10 stars!
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About book
Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunity. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by reading this book. This book is your invitation to the inner circle of your industry. buy book
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The Art of Leadership: Event Review
Monday November 19th
It was amazing day of learning from speakers sharing on Leadership principles.
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It was amazing day of learning from speakers sharing on Leadership principles.
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| Caroline Ellise capturing speaker insights |
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| Whitney Johnson and Jim Pagiamtzis |
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Made To Stick: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review
" An amazing book to read that Heath brothers clearly illustrate the Made to Stick strategies work!"
About book:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea’s chances—essential reading in the “fake news” era.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Switch.
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists—struggle to make them “stick.”
In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony—draw their power from the same six traits.
Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.
Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
The Self Help Addict: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review:
Daniel Gefen shares insights on his journey of creating impactful information to the world. He shares strategies, tips and expertise advise that you can use to create your own podcast and succeed!
About book.
Break free from the self-help cycle and join the world of successful leaders. IN THIS GAME CHANGING BOOK YOU WILL LEARN: - How self doubt, procrastination and indecision create a cycle of self-help addiction - Why people invest in self-help books, courses, events and come out still feeling unaccomplished - How you can make your fears your friend and achieve anything your heart desires - The importance of always taking responsibility for what happens in your life - How much abundance there is in this world and that there is enough money, love and happiness for everyone to have a lifetime supply - How to go from a consumer to a creator - The art of taking action, because without action nothing gets done - How to become accountable so you avoid putting things off - The power of decisiveness and how to avoid feeling overwhelmed - The secret to getting high and staying high (without drugs) - Why you have already won - How the real hero, that you have searched so long and hard for, is you
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking : Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis review:
“ Spectacular book that I learned more about Dale Carnegie, Anthony Robbins and public speaking! Susan Cain to me on a journey that was interesting, invigorating and funny. She shared strategies, stories and insights on the introverts and how extroverts have made in since the dawn of time. Must read book!”
The book that started the Quiet Revolution
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.
In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.read more
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Ramin Bahrani being interviewed on Fahrenheit 451 at TIFF Lightbox : Special Video post
May 18,2018
Ramin Bahrani being interviewed at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto.
Amazing conversation.(10 minutes)
Friday, May 25, 2018
Switch: Book Review
Jim Pagiamtzis Review: The Heath brothers write a very compelling book illustrating the power of switch through stories and examples from companies and people wanting to make a difference.
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind - that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
- The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients (see page 242)
- The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping (see page 130)
- The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service (see page 199)
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Book Review: Snakes in Suits
Jim Pagiamtzis Review
" It's amazing read to understand the pyshe of Psychopaths and to identify the potential and probability if you working with one. Through stories and insigths Paul Babiak Ph.d & Robert D. Hare Ph.D. provide amazing context in this must read book"
About Book
Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right answers to your questions. Problem solved, right? Maybe not.
We'd like to think that if we met someone who was completely without conscience -- someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes -- we would recognize it. In popular culture, the image of the psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it's to the corporate world.
Researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare have long studied psychopaths. Hare, the author of Without Conscience, is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist. Recently the two came together to study how psychopaths operate in corporations, and the results were surprising. They found that it's exactly the modern, open, more flexible corporate world, in which high risks can equal high profits, that attracts psychopaths. They may enter as rising stars and corporate saviors, but all too soon they're abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles.
Snakes in Suits is a compelling, frightening, and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment: what kind of companies attract them, how they negotiate the hiring process, and how they function day by day. You'll learn how they apply their "instinctive" manipulation techniques -- assessing potential targets, controlling influential victims, and abandoning those no longer useful -- to business processes such as hiring, political command and control, and executive succession, all while hiding within the corporate culture. It's a must read for anyone in the business world, because whatever level you're at, you'll learn the subtle warning signs of psychopathic behavior and be able to protect yourself and your company -- before it's too late.
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We'd like to think that if we met someone who was completely without conscience -- someone who was capable of doing anything at all if it served his or her purposes -- we would recognize it. In popular culture, the image of the psychopath is of someone like Hannibal Lecter or the BTK Killer. But in reality, many psychopaths just want money, or power, or fame, or simply a nice car. Where do these psychopaths go? Often, it's to the corporate world.
Researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare have long studied psychopaths. Hare, the author of Without Conscience, is a world-renowned expert on psychopathy, and Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist. Recently the two came together to study how psychopaths operate in corporations, and the results were surprising. They found that it's exactly the modern, open, more flexible corporate world, in which high risks can equal high profits, that attracts psychopaths. They may enter as rising stars and corporate saviors, but all too soon they're abusing the trust of colleagues, manipulating supervisors, and leaving the workplace in shambles.
Snakes in Suits is a compelling, frightening, and scientifically sound look at exactly how psychopaths work in the corporate environment: what kind of companies attract them, how they negotiate the hiring process, and how they function day by day. You'll learn how they apply their "instinctive" manipulation techniques -- assessing potential targets, controlling influential victims, and abandoning those no longer useful -- to business processes such as hiring, political command and control, and executive succession, all while hiding within the corporate culture. It's a must read for anyone in the business world, because whatever level you're at, you'll learn the subtle warning signs of psychopathic behavior and be able to protect yourself and your company -- before it's too late.
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
Special video interview with Tonya Hofmann: Networking and Speaking make a huge impact on your success
Check out the video below and comment as I share insights on my speaking journey with Tonya Hofmann on her World's Most Fabulous People
Friday, April 14, 2017
Book Review: Loyalty Leap
Jim Pagiamtzis review:
" Loyalty Leap is a powerful read with insights on the power of loyalty on how it can be used. Bryan Pearson shares case studies on how companies can effective use loyalty to build their brand."
Most consumers don't trust companies as much as they used to. So how has Bryan Pearson convinced 99.99 percent of his ten million customers in LoyaltyOne’s AIR MILES Rewards Program to willingly share their personal information?
Pearson shows readers how to build the unwavering consumer loyalty needed for long-term relationships and how to do so without infringing on the privacy of their consumers.
The Loyalty Leap arrives at a crucial time, illuminating the best practices for responsibly selecting, collecting, and employing customer data—the raw material of today's marketing industry.
Supplemented with compelling corporate stories and the results from an extensive 2011 consumer survey, it provides a snapshot of consumer attitudes about privacy and the use of personal information for marketing and business purposes.
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Blogttalk interview: Instant Chemistry: How to attract and keep your soulmate in 21st Century with Carmelia Ray
An amazing conversation with Award winning dating coach Carmelia Ray
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Book Review: Six Pixels of Separation
Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
An amazing books we so many strategies,tips and stories that will help define the connections you will build and work with in the 21st Century!
Book Synopsis:
Is it important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have the sixth largest population in the world.
The truth is, we no longer live in a world of six degrees of separation. In fact, we're now down to only six pixels of separation, which changes everything we know about doing business.
This is the first book to integrate digital marketing, social media, personal branding, and entrepreneurship in a clear, entertaining, and instructive manner that everyone can understand and apply.
Through the use of timely case studies and fascinating stories, SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION offers a complete set of the latest tactics, insights, and tools that will empower you to reach a global audience and consumer base-and, best yet, you can do this pretty much for free. Digital marketing expert Mitch Joel unravels this fascinating world of new media-but does so with a brand-new perspective that is driven by compelling results. The smarter entrepreneurs and top executives are leveraging these digital channels to get their voice "out there"-connecting with others, becoming better community citizens, and, ultimately, making strategic business moves that are increasing revenue, awareness, and overall success in the marketplace-without the support of traditional mass media.
Everyone is connected. Isn't it time for you and your company to connect to everyone? SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION will show you how.
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Saturday, December 19, 2015
Spotlight Interview: Sticky Branding: How to make you brand stand out in 2016
It was great experience to read this amazing book and interview Author and Speaker on my blogtalk radio show Click to listen
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Book Review : Empowering Women To Succeed
" A collection of stories that interesting, impactfull and extremely intense to read.Authentic women sharing their journey of business, life and success" Jim Pagiamtzis Author, Speaker and Trainer
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Book Review: One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity by Following Your Dreams
" You are taken on journey that you will give your emotions are roller coaster ride from the begining to the end of this awesome book" Jim Pagiamtzis
Are you looking for a vehicle to break through the roadblocks and detours that have sidetracked you on life's highway? "One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity By Following Your Dreams" presents the inspiring stories of 16 people who have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in order to live into their dreams. Through their powerful stories, these dreamers share a road map guiding the reader to discover how to live their life with vision, courage, determination and passion.
Incorporating holistic self-assessment tools and self-motivational techniques, "One Door Closes" will help you to develop the skills to take 100% responsibility for your life, as you clarify and set your goals-and then use the power you already have within to achieve those goals. • Enhance your sense of worth as an individual
• Learn why it is important to check in with yourself periodically as a blueprint for a more satisfied and productive career and personal life
• Identify your true passion
• Discover how to reach your dreams AND be inspired!
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Friday, July 31, 2015
Book Review: Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0
"Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters contains powerful strategies that you can apply today and make a drastic and effective change in your path to your career success" Jim Pagiamtzis
In the past year, 50-million jobs were filled in the United States — almost all without a job posting!
The jobs weren’t posted because of a change in the way employers hunt for candidates. Today, employers can’t deal with the avalanche of resumes they would get if they posted the jobs. So they are relying on a brand new digital armory to find the handful of “most qualified” recruits that they want to interview.
Employers have gone digital!
This move makes things easier for job hunters! Any candidate with the right digital skills has more power and more opportunity to find and land a job than they have ever had before.
In David’s new book, co-author with Jay Levinson, called “Guerrilla Marketing for Job-Hunters 3.0”, he lays out the brand new tools and tactics to make you light up on the digital radar!
Sub-titled: “How to Stand Out from the Crowd and Tap into the Hidden Job Market Using Social Media and 999 other Tactics Today”, the new book goes beyond ‘where to look’ for a job, to include ‘how to be found in the digital job marketplace’. It took a guerilla marketer to spot this trend, and few job candidates are aware of it yet. If you can grasp these simple digital techniques now, you will have a jump on all those who are still sending out resumes. While resumes are still a critical element, job hunters also need digital strategies.
The new book tells how to use different social media at the same time, so job hunters can leverage online resources like ZoomInfo, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and take advantage of “the secret lives of top corporate recruiters”. Job-hunters are advised on little-known search-engine optimization tricks used by those looking for employees.
At the same time, job hunters are coached on how to use the new tools to build online profiles that present their value to searchers. Case stories are used to illustrate how to interview, and how to demonstrate this ability during the interview.
Drive to Own The “Means of Employment”
Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0 is riding a great historical trend: the compelling need everyone feels for control of their fate. People are taking control of their lives, and this means ownership of the means of employment. We are in a renaissance of self-direction. We all want to direct our own lives in an uncertain world, so we can expand our opportunities and our abilities. Partly this comes from the current economic uncertainty; partly it reflects the history of the past century and more, which has been a striving towards the realization that people’s opinions matter! We have always moved in the direction of greater freedom…because that is human nature. We want to control our destinies.
“Taking control of your employment is especially important in today’s demographic because so many people are looking for new kinds of work – work that has meaning for them. Our population is getting older – for the first time, there will be more people over 65 than under 5 — and older people are more reflective: they want to know they are doing something meaningful. Our book helps provide a catalyst for their productivity.
In a digital age, you master the digital stage.
As the first multi-media book for job hunters, Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0 has:
- “Quick Response” Tag technology from Microsoft to deliver exclusive content
- Digital tools to perform precession job searches and online placements of candidate values
- Hot links for fast access to online tools
- Tweets and other social media tools
The “Guerilla” series has sold more than 22-million books in the past decade, providing effective advice to business owners and job seekers. The series was launched with Guerilla Marketing, a technique maximizing innovation and creativity
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