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Smarttribes by Christine Comaford
Are You Scaring Your People into Mediocrity?All leaders want to outperform, outsell, and outinnovate the competition. And most teams are fully capable of doing so. The problem: we consistently say and do things that spark unconscious fears and keep our people stuck in their Critter State. This primitive fight, flight, or freeze mode distills all decision making to one question: What will keep me safest?
Lying low, sucking up, procrastinating, and doing a good enough job may keep employees breathing, but it doesn't make for vital organizations. Leaders have to get their people unstuck and fully engaged, replacing their old, limiting mental patterns with new patterns that foster optimal performance.
New York Times bestselling author and applied neuroscience expert Christine Comaford knows what it takes to move people from the Critter State into the Smart State, where they have full access to their own creativity, innovation, higher consciousness, and emotional engagement. When an entire culture maintains that state, it becomes what she calls a SmartTribe. Focused. Accountable. Collaborative. Imbued with the energy and passion to solve problems and do what needs doing, again and again and again.
Comaford brings to this book more than thirty years of company-building experience, combined with her expertise in behavioral modification and organizational development. She has helped hundreds of leaders navigate rapid growth, maximize performance, resolve internal conflicts, and execute turnarounds with the full support of their people.
Now she shares potent yet easy-to-learn neuroscience techniques that will help you do the same. You'll learn how to move your team forward and reach your next revenue inflection point using the five key Accelerators of the Smart State--focus, clarity, accountability, influence, and sustainability. You'll get better at anticipating and moving through your own stuck spots and those of your people.
Using her proven system, Comaford's clients have already created hundreds of millions of dollars in new value. They've seen their revenues and profits increase by up to 210% annually; individuals become up to 50% more productive and 100% more accountab≤ marketing demand generation grow by up to 237%; new products and services created up to 48% faster; and sales close up to 50% faster. They spot changes in their markets more quickly, then pounce on them to create the future they want.
Ultimately, SmartTribes will help you and your team achieve optimal performance and engagement--brilliance--and leave competitors in the dust.
New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is a Business Acceleration Expert. She is best known for helping her clients create predictable revenue, deeply engaged and passionate teams, and highly profitable growth. She delivers these impactful outcomes as a result of her 30 years building her own and her clients' business.
Christine is sought after for providing proven strategies to shift executive behavior to create more positive outcomes, enroll and align teams in times of change, massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. Her coaching, consulting and strategies have created hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue and value for her clients.
CEOs, Boards and Investors count on Christine to help them:
Increase accountability, communication, execution among team members resulting in profound revenue, profit, market position growth. Navigate rapid growth where internal priorities are frequently shifting and the team is challenged to quickly adapt and stretch. Resolve conflict or improve alignment of business partners, teams, board members. Improve the leadership and communication skills of C- and VP-level executives by helping them overcome their blind spots and challenging behaviors, and expand their vision. Execute a new business model or complete company turnaround with executive and cultural support.
Christine's clients grow their businesses at surprising speeds and greatly outperform their competitors due to her expertise of 30+ years building and growing businesses and 35+ years in human behavior optimization.
As an Entrepreneur, Christine has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance.
Christine has also led many unconventional lives, adding to her 360 Degree ability to understand business not as just a set of strategies, but also as a complex web of human interaction. She has been a: software engineer (at Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Lotus), entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Amazon.com bestselling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or via www.RulesForRenegades.com. Her next book, SmartTribe: Creating A Culture That Outperforms, Outsells, Outgrows the Competition will be released in January 2013.
Christine is a leadership columnist for www.Forbes.com. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree.
Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.
Christine is sought after for providing proven strategies to shift executive behavior to create more positive outcomes, enroll and align teams in times of change, massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. Her coaching, consulting and strategies have created hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue and value for her clients.
CEOs, Boards and Investors count on Christine to help them:
Increase accountability, communication, execution among team members resulting in profound revenue, profit, market position growth. Navigate rapid growth where internal priorities are frequently shifting and the team is challenged to quickly adapt and stretch. Resolve conflict or improve alignment of business partners, teams, board members. Improve the leadership and communication skills of C- and VP-level executives by helping them overcome their blind spots and challenging behaviors, and expand their vision. Execute a new business model or complete company turnaround with executive and cultural support.
Christine's clients grow their businesses at surprising speeds and greatly outperform their competitors due to her expertise of 30+ years building and growing businesses and 35+ years in human behavior optimization.
As an Entrepreneur, Christine has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance.
Christine has also led many unconventional lives, adding to her 360 Degree ability to understand business not as just a set of strategies, but also as a complex web of human interaction. She has been a: software engineer (at Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Lotus), entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Amazon.com bestselling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or via www.RulesForRenegades.com. Her next book, SmartTribe: Creating A Culture That Outperforms, Outsells, Outgrows the Competition will be released in January 2013.
Christine is a leadership columnist for www.Forbes.com. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree.
Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781591846482 |
| ISBN 10 | 159184648X |
| Title | Smarttribes |
| Author | Christine Comaford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2013-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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