Stan Slap Video Blog Part 3 – Managers, Employees and Customers an Organizing Framework of Cultures

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Even the smartest companies subscribe to the most dangerous strategic myth: A strategy has to be planned well to be successful. In fact, a strategy has to be implemented well to be successful. “Implemented well” starts with securing the fierce support of your employee culture. If the culture wants something to happen, it will; if it doesn’t, it won’t. In this video blog, Stan will touch on how and why your employee culture will buy any strategic or performance goal and how to avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Strategic Implementation that lie in between 1, 2 and 10!


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Bury My Heart, Video Blog November 8th 2011

Stan Slap Video Blog Part 2 on Scaling Judgment

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Where does the constant talk about leadership in organizations come from? It comes from the one thing that companies want most from their managers: emotional commitment.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. It’s the kind of commitment that solves unsolvable problems, creates energy when all energy has been expended, and ignites emotional commitment in others, like employees, teams and customers. Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.


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Bury My Heart October 27th 2011

Tales of Wonder and Roaches – Books Recommended by Stan Slap

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Our library at home has about 5,000 books. People always ask me if I have a favorite. I’m not sure how to answer that without listing a few hundred titles but here are a couple that I can recommend which provide a wide style range and the joy of getting your brain tweaked the way only superb writing can do.

Winter’s Tale
by Mark Helprin

This is the book that the English language was invented for. Stunning, magical, gorgeous, touching, surprising, lyrical and very funny. Detailed descriptions of a world that seems achingly familiar and yet doesn’t actually exist. All is questioned and, in the end, all is answered. Probably the best-written book I’ve ever read. If you’ve already read it, read it again — and check out The Waterboys’ song, Beverly Penn.

The Roaches Have No King
by Daniel Weiss

Toss the Kafka; this is the finest cockroach book ever written. A synopsis: Told from the roach perspective about a group who lives in a New York apartment with a guy and his girlfriend. They worship her because the couple argues all the time and she throws food. The couple finally splits and the worried roaches are at first panicked to lose their Goddess and then overjoyed as the depressed guy spends his days sulking amidst uneaten pizza and Chinese food. Disaster strikes when he falls in love and the new girl moves in — a neat freak. She’s a brunette and the rest of the book is the campaign mounted by the desperate roach nation to drag a single hair from the gorgeous blonde who lives down the hall and place it strategically on the guy’s bed.

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My Stroke of Insight
by Jill Taylor

First-person narrative of experiencing one’s brain reassembling itself. I know the feeling but I always have parts left over.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski

Guy’s dog talks to him. My dog recommended it.

The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler

Honor in a dirty world. Philip Marlowe for president.

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Opinion, Values October 24th 2011