Albert T. Wong - 黃頌言

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Fast Company Now
Josh Gordon, author of the new book Presentations That Change Minds has identified 14 core practices used by persuasive speakers in conference and meeting settings. Additional research shows that the top five practices are used by only half of business leaders surveyed.

The top five persuasive strategies:

* Sharing facts: 73.5%
* Offering a solution: 62.1%
* Sharing a new idea: 52.8%
* Telling a story: 51.6%
* Changing a perception: 50.9%

The remaining practices include humor, creating excitement, audience involvement, building trust, inspiration, building a financial case, creating an emotional appeal, getting competitive, and overcoming hostility.

How many do you try to use when leading a meeting or making a presentation?

Good tips on doing presentations.

Now That We Have Your Complete Attention …
Here’s Fast Company’s eight-point program for presentations guaranteed to keep your listeners on the edge of their seats.

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Good book/advice on helping you find the right job for you.

What Happened to Your Parachute?
In 1991, the Library of Congress surveyed more than 2,000 readers and crafted a list that it grandly called “25 books that have shaped readers’ lives.” The list included many of the usual suspects: The Bible, of course. “Don Quixote.” “The Catcher in the Rye.” But there at the bottom, lodged alphabetically between “War and Peace” and “The Wizard of Oz,” was a business book — the only such book on the list, and the only volume, fiction or nonfiction, whose title poses a question: “What Color Is Your Parachute?”

Richard Nelson Bolles, now 72, offered up that inscrutable question 30 years ago when he wrote the first edition of “What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers” (Ten Speed Press). It was one of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular, measured by its status as one of the best-selling books of all time: 288 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, 6 million copies in print, between 15,000 and 20,000 copies sold every month.

Sounds like me and when I talk about my MBA.

Fast Company Now
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) from the essay Self Reliance

Works of genius don’t come from great ideas. They come from guts. It’s true, you need a great idea in the first place - but that’s only 1% of the equation. The other 99% is action. Everyone has great ideas. Very few people have the courage to bet on them. It stings to see our own rejected thoughts in another’s work of genius because we realize that they had the courage to act…where we did not.

Is this a way companies/team should be run? I think so….

Life in the Fast Lane
Business is more demanding than ever, more perilous than ever - and faster than ever. Every company is rushing to launch the next great product, to seal the next big deal. No company knows what’s waiting around the next corner.

It sounds a lot like auto racing.

Ray Evernham knows a little something about business. He’s a key player in an enterprise that generates millions of dollars in annual revenues, and he’s lectured audiences of business executives from DuPont, Digital, and Ingersoll-Rand. But Evernham knows even more about racing. He’s widely considered to be the premier crew chief in NASCAR, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Over the past five years, he and his team have steered the DuPont-sponsored No. 24 car and its celebrated driver, Jeff Gordon, from anonymity to unprecedented success in the Winston Cup Series - the big leagues of stock-car racing.

3rd gen family business that focuses on values. That’s something to be proud of.

Walking the Walk
Jeffrey Swartz, the CEO of the Timberland Co., strode purposefully into a New York office packed with McDonald’s executives. Dressed in a blazer, jeans, and Timberland boots, he was there on this mid-August day to convince the fast-food behemoth that it should choose his $1.5 billion shoe and clothing company to provide its new uniforms. The executives waited expectantly for him to unzip a bag and reveal the sleek new prototype.

Timberland is pioneering green production methods.
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“We didn’t bring any designs,” Swartz said flatly. Eyebrows arched. Instead, he launched into an impassioned speech that had virtually nothing to do with clothes or shoes. What Timberland really had to offer McDonald’s, Swartz said, was the benefit to the company–and the world at large–of helping it build a unified, motivated, purposeful workforce. “Other people can do uniforms,” Swartz said, his Yankee accent asserting itself. “This is about partnership. We can create a partnership together that will be about value and values.”

Hmm….. I can have my own book!

My Book, by Me
“Getting published” has always meant something special to us writer types; a book with your name on it says you’ve arrived. And now, thanks to the Internet, I’m a genuine published author. My publisher? Me.
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Blurb is an online service that lets you create and publish the next great American novel.

It took all of a day, using a new online service called Blurb. Its approach is remarkably accessible. You choose a theme, page layout, picture and text sizes, and fonts from a range of options. The software is easy to navigate, if frustratingly slow at times. I uploaded image files from a CD, dragged pictures into place, and watched pages fill up with my original work.

That’s why it’s good to eat street food and play in the dirt.

Wired News: You Dirty, Healthy Rat
Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs, two studies indicate. The lesson for humans: Clean living may make us sick.

The studies give more weight to a 17-year-old theory that the sanitized Western world may be partly to blame for soaring rates of human allergy and asthma cases and some autoimmune diseases, such as Type I diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. The theory, called the hygiene hypothesis, figures that people’s immune systems aren’t being challenged by disease and dirt early in life, so the body’s natural defenses overreact to small irritants such as pollen.