4 Books Focus on Enhance Your Influence, Appeal and Management Ability
POWERFUL: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley.
McCord advocates practicing radical honesty in the workplace, saying good-bye to employees who don’t fit the company’s emerging needs, and motivating with challenging work, not promises, perks, and bonus plans. McCord argues that the old standbys of corporate HR—annual performance reviews, retention plans, employee empowerment and engagement programs—often end up being a colossal waste of time and resources. Her road-tested advice, offered with humor and irreverence, provides readers a different path for creating a culture of high performance and profitability.Powerful will change how you think about work and the way a business should be run.
On Speaking Well
Brief introduction:For anyone who fears the thought of writing and giving a speech--be it to business associates, or at a wedding--help is at hand. Acclaimed presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan shares her secrets to becoming a confidence, persuasive speaker demystifying topics including:
·Finding you own authentic voice
·Developing a text that interest you
·Acing the all-important first paragraph
·Using logic to move your audience
·Creating, developing, and reinventing the "core speech" for diverse audiences
·Strengthening your speech with a vital element: humor
·Winnowing your thought down to the essentials
·Handling professional jargon, clichés, and the sound bite syndrome
·Presenting your speech in the best way
·Collecting intellectual income--conversing your speech treasures
·Breaking all the rules and still succeeding
·Reading for inspiration--how to use the excellence of others
Complete with lessons, tips and memorable examples, On Speaking Well shows us how to create forceful, persuasive, relevant speeches that will resonate with our audiences. Engaging, informative, and always entertaining, this is undoubtedly the authoritative how-to guide for anyone writing or giving a speech.
Review: “When the subject is speechwriting, the first name on every list isPeggy Noonan’s…” —The New Yorker
“Peggy Noonan packs a wallop of practical wisdom and insightful tips for rookie and veteran speechmakers alike...this wee volume, written by one of this century's premier presidential speechwriters, will guide you correctly.”—Forbes
“Ms. Noonan, who is perhaps the nation's best-known speechwriter... has produced an engaging, helpful book.”—David Shiflett The Wall Street Journal
How to Write A Sentence
New York Times Bestseller
Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences.The New York Times columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language. Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play.
In this entertaining and erudite gem, Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader).How to Write a Sentence is both a spirited love letter to the written word and a key to understanding how great writing works; it is a book that will stand the test of time.
Most people know a good sentence when they read one, but New York Times columnist Stanley Fish says most of us don’t really know how to write them ourselves. His new book, How To Write A Sentence: And How To Read One, is part ode, part how-to guide to the art of the well-constructed sentence.
The Elements of Style
An English writing workbook like no other
With its loyalty to the highly acclaimed and extremely successful original edition of Strunk’s The Elements of Style , augmented by Webster’s clearly defined articulation of style types and supplemented by ample, targeted, and clear exercises for each component, The Elements of Style Workbook offers an essential writing resource like no other. Whether you are beginning your journey to quality writing or would like to refine your command of voice and style, you will find this updated version of a tried-and-true resource, The Elements of Style Workbook , a vital aid and guide.
This classic reference is a must-have for any student,author of government documents and professional writers. In this brief handbook, Strunk identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of comition. Authoritative and engagingly written, this is simply the greatest book of its kind.
