SPeak performance : using the power of metaphors to communicate vision, motivate people, and lead your organization to success / Jim Walz.
Walz, Jim., author.
2014
HF5718 .W257 2014
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Title SPeak performance : using the power of metaphors to communicate vision, motivate people, and lead your organization to success / Jim Walz.
Author Walz, Jim., author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781606498903 (paperback)
9781606498910 (electronic bk.)
Published New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 154 pages)
Call Number HF5718 .W257 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.45
Summary Every leader needs to move people to action and align everyone's actions toward the same goal. But how is this best accomplished? Words are a leader's greatest tool, and metaphors are the most potent combination of words available. If a leader wants to be successful in communicating vision, motivating people, and transforming an organization, he or she must understand the power of metaphors and learn how to use them well. Through the proper use of metaphors, anyone can become a better leader, align his or her team with their organizational values, and lead the organization to success. Metaphors can activate vision and mission statements, enliven goals and objectives, and literally align every aspect of an organization in its intended direction. In SPeak Performance: Using the Power of Metaphors to Communicate Vision, Motivate People, and Lead Your Organization to Success, Jim Walz, PhD, shares his proprietary method of developing metaphors for use by any leader of people. The knowledge gained from the principles in this book will help leaders develop stronger vision and mission statements that are action oriented, and it will provide a schematic to organize goals and objectives that are relevant and focused on accomplishing the vision. Organizations can be transformed in the way they do business and find the ability to compete in a global marketplace more effectively than ever before. Whether you are an aspiring leader, a supervisor, manager, or corporate executive, this book will provide you with communication tools that will take your leadership to the next level and beyond.
Note Part of: 2013 digital library.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 25, 2014).
Series 2013 digital library.
Corporate communication collection. 2156-8170
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Part 1. Metaformation in action
1. Is this the last race?
Part 2. Life is a game of cards
2. The power of the unconscious mind
3. Play the hand you've been dealt
4. See your winning hand
5. Playing cards doesn't have to be a solo sport
Part 3. The art of metaformation
6. Metaframing: structuring metaphors
7. Metamining: deconstructing metaphors for meaning
8. Metaforming: reconstructing metaphors
9. Searching for a new metaphor
Part 4. Combining and communicating, and applying new metaphors
10. Ligering: combining and creating new metaphors
11. Communicating your new metaphor
12. Metaplying: applying your metaphor
Part 5. Serving up a new metaphor
13. The work of the metaphor
14. The impact of the new metaphor
15. New markets, new employees, new opportunities
Part 6. Structural mapping
16. The structural mapping engine (SME) process
Part 7. Bouncing back: 15-love, and back in the game
17. Upping the stakes
18. Culture, markets, and personal growth
19. The power of words to transform through metaphors
Endorsements
Notes
References
Index.

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