Elephant Communication

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully...

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of tension, heaviness, anxiety, and peanut shells. Something is very wrong with your team. Everybody knows it, but nobody is talking about it. It’s obvious there’s an elephant in the room. Is it an Avoidephant, feeding off the fears of retaliation and exclusion? Perhaps it’s a Blamephant—whom we love to feed because it makes us feel better about ourselves. In Don’t Feed the Elephants!, Sarah explores how you can address the true elephant in the room: avoidance.

Learn how to persuade cats--the world's most skeptical and cautious negotiators--with this primer on rhetoric and argument from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing! Cats are skilled manipulators who can talk you into just about anything without a single word. They can...

On a hot day in the African savannah, a group of elephants searches for food. While foraging they often lose sight of one another. Yet at the end of the day, in one coordinated movement, the elephants suddenly regroup. This coordinated movement - and others like it - has puzzled scientists and caused them to question how elephants communicate with each other. Since the 1990s, scientists have gathered significant data on elephant “talk.”

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the one who is credited with saying "The only thing that is constant is change." In the world of giving speeches this is especially true. One does not just suddenly become a great speaker. Rather, what happens is that we start to give speeches and gradually over time we get better at doing it. However, we'll never get any better at speaking in public if we don't know how to change.

A surreal tale woven with symbols and flights of imagination, where childhood dreams take shape and come alive. The prince-on-a-white-horse is real, elephants take to the skies, and all that your heart desires unfolds before you. A story brimming with poetry, suspense, and unexpected twists, turning the act of reading into a whirlwind of stirring emotions. The great myths of love—losing one’s heart, losing oneself in the blind pursuit of a beloved—are told with childlike wonder, wrapped in delicate naivety and playful, whimsical dialogues that make you laugh and cry in equal measure. ...

Do systems have souls? This book, based on a popular elective at IIM Ahmedabad, looks for answers in the hard trade-offs inherent in the design of operating systems and business models. It encourages business leaders to ask two different sets of existential questions: Does the organization that...

Writing in an exciting, fast-paced narrative style, Gerstner takes readers through his experiences at IBM -- from the high-powered recruiting pressure to take the Chairman's position, to first days on the job learning the strengths and weaknesses of IBM, to formulating and successfully...

Isn't technology a wonderful thing? As CIO you are in charge of one of the most technologically sophisticated parts of the company. It's very easy to fill your days dealing with issues regarding servers, networks, routers, switches, firewalls, etc. However, it turns out that if you do this, then you'll be overlooking one of the most important tasks that a CIO needs to accomplish: communication. This book has been written in order to show you what you need to be doing in order to get your message out.

Learn how to analyze people and take control of your life! Improve your emotional intelligence and start living the life you want instead of being constantly manipulated by ads, sales people, politicians, etc. Detect lies, know people's true intentions, and learn some of the intricacies of reading human micro expressions/body language. This can be crucial in helping you understand your own emotions as well as those around you. In addition, this audiobook is also an excellent tool for honing personal skills - such as appreciation of your emotional intelligence.

Detecte mentiras, conozca las verdaderas intenciones de las personas y aprenda algunas de las complejidades de leer microexpresiones/lenguaje corporal humano. Esto puede ser crucial para ayudarlo a comprender sus propias emociones y las emociones de los que lo rodean. Además, este libro es una excelente herramienta para perfeccionar habilidades personales, como la apreciación de su inteligencia emocional. Este libro puede ayudarle a mejorar muchos aspectos de su vida social, incluyendo relaciones románticas, de trabajo, o simplemente comprenderse mejor a sí mismo.

A delightful guide to harnessing the rhythms of nature for self-care. We could all learn a thing or two about living in balance from our friends in the plant and animal kingdom. Take, for example, the jellyfish, one of the most energy-efficient animals in the world, moving through the ocean by...

Standing up in front of a group of people and giving a speech is not an easy thing to do for any of us. As we stand there with everyone's eyes on us, it can be very easy to become overwhelmed with nerves and fear. However, if we are going to be successful public speakers, then we need to learn to deal with our fears.

على سبيل المثال، إذا كان لديَّ صنبور به تسريب، أحضر كتابًا عن إنجاز أعمال السباكة بنفسك. ثم أقرأ عن آلية عمل الصنابير، ثم أدرس أنواع الصنابير المختلفة، وأقرأ عن أسباب التسريبات والحلول الأكثر شيوعًا لإصلاح تلك التسريبات، ثم أتأكد من أن لدي الأدوات المناسبة، وأبدأ العمل على إصلاح الصنبور. الكتاب في يد ومفتاح الربط في اليد الأخرى، وسأشرع في فك الصنبور. وبعد كل خطوة سأتحقق من الكتاب للتأكد من أنني نفذت ذلك بطريقة صحيحة وللتعرف على الخطوة التالية.

Do product managers have super powers? Probably not, but there are some product managers who seem to be more successful than others. These "super" product managers seem to be able to make things happen almost effortlessly. What's their secret?

Every speaker would like to become a better speaker. After each speech that we give, we all think to ourselves about the things that we could have done differently that would have gotten a better reaction from our audience. The trick is that we have to remember the changes that we need to make and then we need to make them. That's what this audiobook is all about - helping you to remember how you can become a better public speaker.

We need to keep in mind the fact that we are never creating a generic speech. Instead, we're creating a specific speech for a specific audience. What this means is that we need to customize our speech to our audience. Our ultimate goal is to be able to create a speech that is so good that we are able to cast a spell over our audience.

CIOs need to be able to communicate their thoughts with the rest of their department and the company in order to maintain credibility as a thought-leader. Effective communication is a set of skills that every CIO needs to develop. Learn how in this comprehensive guide.

As speakers, we want to create the best speech that we can. In order to do this we can make use of a large number of tools that are available. However, we first have to know about the tools that we have access to and then we need to know how to go about using them. Each of these tasks can be learned.

Every speech has to start out well and this is a great opportunity to do some bragging about yourself to your audience. Al Gore has some tips for us so that we can understand what budgets we have to spend during our speech. If you get asked to give more than one speech in a day, you're going to have to know how to manage your voice for the duration.