Clear Thoughts - Pragmatic Gems of Better Business Thinking, Volume 2

Business & Money

Latham, Ann

Management & Leadership

Red Oak Hill Press

Inside this book are thirty-two concise articles that will provoke, motivate, and provide immediately applicable advice for getting better results. Learn how you can: 
<ul>
<li>Accelerate your progress</li>
<li>Boost your productivity</li>
<li>Capitalize on your talent </li>
</ul>You will come back to these thoughts and tips again and again. Each is a quick read. Each provides great value.

Clear Thoughts - Pragmatic Gems of Better Business Thinking

Uncommon Meetings is short and powerful, just as your meetings should be. How many total hours are you and your employees spending in meetings each month? What would it be worth to you if you could cut that time in half, dramatically improve the results, and reduce the number of attendees? Start saving that time and money now! Read this book today! Discover the: <ul>
<li>Single most important rule for short, valuable meetings </li> <li>One change that will make you a stronger meeting leader </li> <li>Seven secrets to great results and finishing on time </li> <li>Techniques to double the value of each attendee </li> <li>Criteria for canceling meetings </li> <li>Reasons most meetings are slow and painful despite having agendas </li> </ul> Don't attend another meeting without reading this book!

Uncommon Meetings - 7 Quick Tips for Better Results in Half the Time

What’s Standing Between You And Greater Success? Clarity comes first. Without it, we walk around the block to get next door, sabotage perfectly good strategy, erode profit, and thwart innovation. Most leaders believe they have clarity themselves and in their organization, but how do you know for sure? The Clarity Papers, a series of standalone, thematically related papers, will help you determine if a lack of clarity is standing between you and greater success. It will also provide specific techniques for creating strategic clarity from the top of your organization to the bottom. Disclarity is ubiquitous. Ann Latham, founder of Uncommon Clarity®, Inc., has been bringing the Power of Clarity to clients representing more than 40 industries for over a decade. Her clients enjoy increased speed of implementation, employee engagement, innovation, and profit. You can’t afford not to read this book. "Compelling, immediately useful - this book holds the key to simplifying complex situations, eliciting clear ideas from your team, and reaching consensus around smart decisions." - Ezio Basso, Managing Director, Prima Industrie S.p.A., Italy "Like the Physician’s Desk Reference – except for executives… or those wanting to become executives. Read it for insight (like creating a high-performance culture) or scan it and keep at your fingertips for when you’re stuck (like gaining alignment on a messy decision). It’s part inspiration, part insight, part handbook, and completely usable every day.” - Jane Lansing, VP Marketing, Emerson Automation Solutions "Fearlessly undermines conventional wisdom to show you how to make better decisions, motivate your people, and find your way in competitive markets.” - Perry Walraven, CEO and President, Performance Controls, Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi Medical Corporation

The Clarity Papers: The Executive’s Guide to Clear Thinking and Better, Faster Results

Organizations are stressed. Innovation and global competition have become the source of relentless pressure and customers have never had higher expectations. Corporate efforts to improve everyday productivity and boost profits are producing diminishing returns. Yet a new frontier of enormous opportunity to improve results is hidden in plain sight. According to a Fortune 500 study, as much as 80% of working time is lost to tiresome meetings, unclear expectations, difficult decisions, and other wasteful delays. Overcoming the lack of clarity behind this waste - on both an individual and organizational basis - would reap huge rewards. InThe Power of Clarity, Ann Latham exposes the unrecognized confusion and explains how to eliminate it. This fascinating guide to workplace productivity and effectiveness draws upon extensive research and case studies to demonstrate how you can get better results in far less time while also increasing confidence and commitment.

The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment

Business Culture

Bloomsbury Business

The way we traditionally approach feedback, accountability, and performance management often leaves us feeling miserable despite applying all the best practices we have learned. In The Disconnect Principle, Ann Latham provides a new framework that will change the way you think and let you be the kind of human being you want to be: fair, empathic, and authentic. Our traditional approach to feedback, accountability, and performance management prevents us from being the kind of human beings we want to be. We carefully prepare scripts that fail us in the heat of the moment. We guard our facial expressions and body language to hide our anxiety, doubt, and compassion. We often feel miserable and rarely accomplish what we hoped, despite our best efforts. We hate feeling mean or insensitive. We'd rather be kind and empathic. But we have to do our job, so ... But it doesn't have to be that way! Instead of mastering difficult conversations, eliminate them with the Disconnect Principle! The Disconnect Principle provides the missing link that will change the way you think about feedback, accountability, and performance management forever. This is the approach that will allow you to be the empathic and effective manager, employee, or peer that you would like to be. This is your opportunity to: <ul> <li>Replace fear and avoidance with timely, confident action.</li> <li>Eliminate painful conversations in favor of mutually agreeable problem solving.</li> <li>Put an end to continued or worsening problems and enjoy performance enhancing commitment in its place.</li> <li>Build trust and collaboration instead of having conversations that damage relationships, sometimes irreparably.</li> </ul> My epiphany occurred when I debriefed a client following a tough conversation with an employee. Beforehand, I taught him all the best practices for giving feedback, helped him narrow his focus to a specific observed behavior and its impact, talked about how to frame the conversation and what words to avoid, and discussed ways to resolve the problem. He walked into that meeting feeling tall and confident . He walked out in pain. When he told me what happened, the Disconnect Principle was born -- I suddenly recognized what was missing from all the advice we have all learned so well. The Disconnect Principle itself is remarkably simple. My clients immediately see the power in this approach and "We have a disconnect" becomes an integral part of their daily language. They quickly appreciate how the Disconnect Principle: <ul> <li>Shifts the conversation away from judgment</li> <li>Avoids triggering defensiveness</li> <li>Makes is possible to be objective about what did or didn't happen</li> <li>Leads to mutually respectful problem-solving</li> </ul>

The Disconnect Principle: Eliminate difficult conversations with clarity and empathy

Intellectual Perspective Press

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