Jossey-Bass on Leadership

Video link to "A Conversation in Leadership"

The complete video footage of "A Conversation in Leadership" with Warren Bennis, John Hope Bryant, and Bill George is available online. Watch the entire conversation program here (Footage used by permission, USC Marshall School of Business).

A Conversation in Leadership featuring Warren Bennis, John Hope Bryant, and Bill George

  

Last week, JB authors, Warren Bennis, John Hope Bryant, and Bill George, met at the USC Marshall School of Business for "A Conversation in Leadership." The conversation was moderated by Dean Jim Ellis.

John recaps the entire event:

I was humbled and honored to join these thought leaders on the stage, as we outlined and debated the big issues of the day, from the global economic crisis, to the jobs crisis and the need for students in the audience and at the school to embrace a renewed vigor for entrepreneurship and small business, and the crisis of virtues and values that seems all around us.

To read more about his experience and to see photos of this event, click here.

Forbes.com: Three Big Myths Of Executive Public Speaking

Nick Morgan, author of Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, wrote a piece on public speaking for Forbes.com.

In this article, Nick debunks the most common myths of public speaking:

In my two decades of work with executives on their communications, I've seen some myths come up over and over again about how best to succeed at speaking in public. The three most common are: "I want to begin with a joke"; "Too much rehearsal is bad for me"; and "It's better to go right to Q and A." Let me debunk each one in turn, in the hope I may save executives and their audiences from future mishap.

Read the rest of the article here.

Bill George: "Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis"

This Wednesday, December 2, 2009, Bill George, author of Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis will be speaking at the Commonwealth club in San Francisco.  Bill will offer concrete, field tested-advice on handling the effects of the economic crisis. To register for this event, click here. 

BusinessWeek reviews Behind the Cloud

Steve Hamn from BusinessWeek reviews Behind the Cloud by Marc Benioff:

The King of the Cloud

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's book is a fun, user-friendly guide for entrepreneurs and spectators

The Good: A user-friendly how-we-did-it account, as well as a how-to guide for entrepreneurs.

The Bad: Silicon Valley cognoscenti may find much that's familiar.

The Bottom Line: Peppered with ideas and well worth reading. 

Read the entire review here.

Social Media at Work Event

The authors of Social Media at Work is hosting a webinar: Technologies for Communicating, Collaborating, and Correcting on December 4, 2009.

"The session will present applied insights and practical advice that can help OD professionals leverage the power of social technologies to improve business results, and assist leaders to build high performance organizations that harness the energy and passion of employees. Attendees will engage in interactive reflective learning that collectively yields new insights about the value of social networking within OD, and solutions that can inform current and future practice."

To register for this event, click here.

Awesomely Simple video

Awesomely Simple Overview from John Spence on Vimeo.

Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff sees cloudy future

 

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a review on Marc Benioff's new book, Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized the Industry.

The piece also includes an interview with Marc in which he talks about how marketing was the key to Salesforce.com's success and what MC Hammer, Neil Young, and Billy Graham has taught him about business.

Check out the article here.