Filed Under: Motivation

Published on: Monday, January 23, 2012

Ben Zander Shares His 6 Secrets to Success

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: world business forum, robyn greenspan, leadership, motivation, inspiration, ben zander

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I wish that I were effectively able to convey to you what a roomful of Ben Zander energy feels like. I wish I could have you hear him lead thousands of executives to sing happy birthday to a complete stranger or Ode to Joy in German. I wish you could see 350 hungry business leaders let their lunches grow cold as they sat transfixed and hanging onto his words.

Published on: Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Power of Influence to Execute Strategy

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: world business forum, robyn greenspan, leadership, strategy, motivation, storytelling, influence, joseph grenny, behavior, change management

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There were tremendous learning opportunities at the 2010 World Business Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported, but, warned Joseph Grenny, the delegates were likely to confront resistance at the office when they attempted to implement new ideas and strategies.

"The challenge begins when you return to the office and have to encounter human beings," said the business strategist and bestselling author, "human beings who are often unwilling to change."

Resistance to change is such a frequently encountered problem that Grenny said he found author David Sedaris' comment telling: "I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."

Published on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Making Orange Work For Your Organization

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
Filed Under: world business forum, joseph daniel mccool, culture, engagement, motivation, performance, the carrot principal, the orange revolution, adrian gostick

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Report from World Business Forum, New York

Adrian Gostick remembers asking his father, who engineered small component parts for large aircraft engines, what motivated him to work for Rolls Royce for more than 20 years. "Every day," his father replied, "I felt praised and listened to."

For the younger Gostick, co-author of The Carrot Principal, and also co-author, with his business partner, Chester Elton, of The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization, those words were both personally illuminating and professionally reinvigorating.

Published on: Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Try Making Lemonade

Posted By: Dave Opton
Filed Under: dave opton, motivation, adversity, motivational speaker, kathy buckley, speaker

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Most of us go to industry conferences all the time. If the ones you attend are anything like most that I have been to, they usually have a keynote speaker to kind of kick things off and get people energized. Also, and if you are anything like me, you have heard really good ones and some who are...not so good.

Like everyone else, it is hard for me to get "energized" and in a positive frame of mind when I read what I read, and see what I see both on the domestic as well as the international scene. Not much to get energized about. In truth, it is pretty easy to get down on life in general and yourself in particular even though in doing so you know very well that you are wasting both your time and energy.

How do you break the cycle?

Published on: Monday, July 19, 2010

Chip Heath and the Elephant

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
Filed Under: world innovation forum, joseph daniel mccool, innovation, change, motivation, chip heath

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Troubled times set the tone for change in business and in life. Yet, there remains some fairly depressing cultural wisdom about change that suggests it's hard to teach the proverbial old dog new tricks, said Chip Heath at the 2010 World Innovation Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported for attendees.

Heath, Stanford University professor and the co-author of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, contends that mastering change is a task that forces us to recognize the two warring sides of our brains: emotional and analytical.