At the November First Friday Book Synopsis, Randy Mayeux will present Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, (New York: Harper, 2016)written by Clayton Christensen as the lead author, along with three others (Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan). The book focuses on marketing and consumer behavior. It is in… Read More Christensen Featured in Interview about Marketing Theory
In 1981, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson published The One Minute Manager. It is one of the best-selling and most translated business books of all time. Since then, Blanchard has published many variations on the subject. All of these begin with a fable, followed by specific applications, concepts, and teaching points that are relevant to… Read More The New One Minute Manager Cracks the List
If you and your partner both work, we have a terrific event for you on Sunday, August 28. It is our Dual Career Couples Communication Workshop. The workshop begins with lunch at 12:00, and the session lasts from 1:00-5:00 p.m. We do this in Schreiber Hall at First United Methodist Church – Garland. You and… Read More Dual Career Communication Workshop on August 28 – and new a New Blog Post
On Wednesday, March 16, Randy Mayeux and Karl Krayer participate in an encore of our program on communication and political campaigns. The program is from 6:30-7:15 at First United Methodist Church – Garland. The address is 801 Avenue B at Glenbrook. The program is in rooms 103-105. Here is the title and description. Did You Hear… Read More Encore Program on Communication in Political Campaigns
Click HERE or on the title below to watch a podcast of the program I did on Thursday with Randy Mayeux at the High Noon Club of Dallas. The topic was “Did You Hear What You Thought You Heard? Making Sense Out of What Candidates Say and Mean in Political Campaigns.” In the photo below,… Read More Watch a Podcast of Our Program on Campaign Communication
On Thursday, I will be at the Dallas High Noon Club with Randy Mayeux to present “Did You Hear What You Thought You Heard? Making Sense Out of What Candidates Say and Mean in Political Campaigns.” The lunch and program is from noon to 1:00 at the Doubletree by Hilton – Dallas Love Field –… Read More February 25 – Speaking at High Noon Club of Dallas
A new book about gender has created controversy, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons. How would you like to know that women are the superior gender, and that we actually don’t need men at all? I don’t think that’s what Sheryl Sandberg had in mind when she wrote Lean In: Women, Work, and the… Read More Not What Sandberg Had In Mind – This One May Need to “Lean Out”
We’re less than a month away from the release of Jack and Suzy Welch‘s newest work, The Real Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career (Harper Business, 2015). It is a certain best-seller, and pre-orders for the book are rocking the online outlets. Considering their… Read More Another Duo Welch Book Hits the Charts on April 15 – But Ethics?
I was fascinated when I received word of a book by Jan Jarboe Russell entitled The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (Scribner, 2015). Were you aware of what happened? Have you ever heard of Crystal City, Texas? See the map below.… Read More Do You Know about Crystal City? What You May Not Know about FDR and World War II
My blog posts continue to feature Randy Mayeux’s workshop on November 12 for Managing Change in Richardson. Click HERE for details. I wanted to share with you the assumptions we make and the three major key actions which all the skills he teaches in that program revolve around. This section comes directly from the workbook… Read More Assumptions and Key Actions for Managing Change on November 12
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