Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value

by Mark C. Thompson, Bonita S. Thompson

Overview

You deserve to be valued, respected, and admired for what matters to you. Here are twenty-one ways to make it happen. "Imagine how it would feel to be fully valued for what you do best. What if your boss, your customers, and your family really appreciated what you have to offer? How proud would you be if your organization won the top spot among Fortune Magazine's 'Most Admired Companies?' What if Jim Collins rated you a 'Level 5 leader?' In this book, you'll find 21 simple and powerful strategies that will help you become more valued in a crowded and competitive world-not in a superficial way or just for its own sake-but for what matters most to you and to the most valuable people (MVPs) in your life and work."- From the Foreword by Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984762583
Publisher:	Evolve Publishing
Publication date:	09/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mark is an executive coach, venture capitalist, and bestselling coauthor of Now, Build a Great Business and Success Built to Last, the sequel to business classic Built to Last.Forbes magazine called Mark one of America's top venture investors with the "Midas" touch, and he is a founding board member of Smule, which creates Android and Apple social media, including the top music app for the hit TV series Glee.Mark is former Chief Customer Experience Officer and Executive Producer of Schwab.com. He was Chief Communications Officer of the global firm and its first Chief Investor Relations Officer following the IPO, and started the Foundation with Charles "Chuck" Schwab.At Stanford University, Mark was a founding advisor to the Real-Time Venture Design Lab, where he earned his master's degree in social media in 1998.He is a founding board member of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership at John F. Kennedy University and a founding patron of the Richard Branson Entrepreneurship Centre. He is a cofounder of VirginUnite's Online Entrepreneurship Hub and one of Sir Richard's six judges globally for his SBAU Entrepreneurship Competition.In 2000, Mark served as Chairman of Rioport, which popularized the MP3 audio player before Apple's iPod. He was Chairman of Integration, Inc., a Sequoia-funded start-up sold to Silicon Labs, and a board member ofInterwoven, now owned by Hewlett Packard/Autonomy. Mark has an MBA in management, BA and AA degrees in communication, and an Honorary PhD from Mount Mary College.Among Broadway passions, Mark has coproduced shows that have earned ten Tony nominations, including five Tony Awards for Peter and the Starcatcher with Disney. He coproduced StickFly with 14-time Grammy award winner Alicia Keys. Mark is a partner in the Times Square Theater Broadway 4D project.As a member of the World Economic Forum and TED, Mark created the Charles Schwab CEO series, Korn/Ferry's Leaders of the New Century series, and the American Express Leadership Dialogues for the Hesselbein Institute. He blogs for the Huffington Post and Virgin, and lives in Silicon Valley and Manhattan with two extraordinary women.Bonita Thompson has worked 25 years in human resources for global corporations, including Bank of America, Genentech, Levi Strauss, Pacific Telesis, Varian, and Catellus.She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hesselbein Institute (formerly Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management). She lectures globally and has taught leadership at John F. Kennedy University.She was Director of Research for Stanford professor Jerry Porras (and coauthors Thompson and Emery) on Success Built to Last, the sequel to Porras and Collins' Built to Last.Her American Management Association webinar, Double Your Value, is featured as an article in Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's book, Coaching for Leadership, which was described as "the single best collection of writings and writers on executive coaching," according to professor Warren Bennis at USC/Harvard.Bonita earned an MBA at the University of California, Berkeley; and a BA in Industrial Psychology (minor Statistics) from San Jose State University. She also holds an Honorary PhD from Mount Mary College.As a new HR executive, Bonita started her career recruiting the first 200 world-class geneticists to join a newly emerging industry led by pioneer Genentech, now owned by pharmaceutical giant Roche. At Levi Strauss, Bonita was on the team that built the first Human Resources intranet to administer HR online for employees globally. Bonita restructured compensation programs to be more performance driven at Bank of America when it was the world's largest bank. She created the HR Market Analyzer (a system to alert management about competitive pay) and reclassified 100,000 jobs.Bonita is a long-term supporter of the Girl Scouts, Save the Children, the Wheelchair Foundation, and the Center of Independent Learning (COIL), a California charter school where she focuses on educational empowerment for girls.

Table of Contents

Foreword Frances Hesselbein Marshall Goldsmith vii

Acknowledgments xi

Section I What You Want

Chapter 1 Are You Valued? 3

Chapter 2 How to Become an MVP 9

Chapter 3 Create Your Portfolio of Priorities 15

Chapter 4 Define What Success Means 21

Chapter 5 The Law of Distraction 29

Chapter 6 The Passion Trap 37

Section II What They Want

Chapter 7 Everyone Sees Value Differently 47

Chapter 8 The Power of Praise 53

Chapter 9 Finding Common Ground 59

Section III What to Do-Admire

Chapter 10 Action 69

Tool #1 Don't Wait to Be Asked 70

Tool #2 Take Action to Create Value 75

Tool #3 Guilt Is Good 85

Tool #4 The Right Tool for the Job 91

Chapter 11 Develop 97

Tool #5 Start Where You Are 98

Tool #6 Invest in Yourself 101

Tool #7 Live What You Are For 106

Tool #8 Be Misunderstood 111

Chapter 12 Measure 115

Tool #9 Reinvent Your Goals 116

Tool #10 Find Your Goal Buddy 123

Tool #11 Feed Forward, Not Backward 129

Chapter 13 Innovate 135

Tool #12 Help Them Invent It 136

Tool #13 What's It Worth to Them? 142

Tool #14 Know What Your MVP Values 147

Chapter 14 Recruit 153

Tool #15 Hire Your Weakness 154

Tool #16 Stop Networking 160

Tool #17 Get Someone Else Ready 165

Tool #18 Don't Play the Blame Game 172

Chapter 15 Excite 177

Tool #19 Be Different 178

Tool #20 Get Heard 184

Tool #21 What's Your Story? 191

Epilogue 199

Appendix: Research for Admired 203

About the Authors 220

Editorial Reviews

Most people want to make a meaningful impact, but get stuck along the way. In this book, Mark and Bonita reveal powerful strategies from their latest research that will help you make it happen. Read it and then go try it.”
—Sir Richard Branson

“Admired is a must-read book that shows you how to make a difference to the people who matter most, and have fun doing it!”
—Peter Guber, New York Times bestselling author, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, and former CEO of Sony Entertainment

“When you get really clear about what’s valuable to you and serve it up generously to people who need it—as this book reminds us—you’ll be admired as a leader.”
—Warren Bennis, bestselling author and Distinguished Professor at USC, and international authority on leadership

“Mark and Bonita offer you a lifetime of business experience helping people double their value to the world. This book addresses life’s most critical question: What meaningful thing do you want to be known for giving and doing?”
—Tony Robbins, bestselling author and peak performance coach

“The journey from success to significance is an essential step for every leader. Mark and Bonita’s insights inspire leaders to focus on what’s valuable and matters most.”
—John C. Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

“Read this book and instantly double your value in the office.”
—Brian Banmiller, CBS News

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