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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Enhance your own style and develop your own script Mar 07, 2009
By Colin Evans
Every person in business has to be able to get across their message effectively and quickly - you only get one chance to make a first impression as they say. This book is a very useful guide to self-reflection on how you communicate; not a "how-to" manual with specific techniques that can grow stilted and which immediately come across as learned and fake, but a thought-provoker and idea-generator that will allow you to enhance your own style and develop your own script. Indispensable addition to your portable library.
Colin Evans - President CEO Dossia -[...]
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Better each time through... Feb 08, 2009
By Roger Turnham
This book is a great read for the busy executive. It immediately gets to the heart of the matter by taking the attributes of successful comedians and applying the principles to leadership. The beauty of the book is in its brevity and simplicity. Each of the 50 points are followed by a rhetorical question. To read this book once will give you a few chuckles with little gain. My recommendation, however, is to read it once for the general ideas, then go throught the book once again and grade yourself on each of the 50 attributes. Answer the questions and honestly grade yourself: "How am I doing with this?"
Third, go through those areas again where you rated poorly, focus on them and develop an action plan for what you will do in your next presentation / meeting / motivational talk with customers, peers or employees that is different than in the past. Bottom line: In about 25 minutes you can read this book. The power comes from the 3rd step above -- which can all be completed in about 2 hours.
Very effective use of humor and common sense.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Let's go back to the basics May 01, 2009
By I. Billet
One could think this is too simple... but after you read this book, how many of us apply all of these principles consistently? Roger Edward Jones give us a very quick, entertaining analogy between comedian and executive skills... and if anyone think that it is easier to be a comedian than it is to be a chief executive... read the book!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Unaccustomed as I am... Apr 13, 2009
By C. J. BECK
"Novelist"
After he's taped the Tonight Show, its star, comic Jay Leno stays sharp by working in comedy clubs most nights. Here's a little known fact. Leno banks the income from the TV show and lives on his club circuit wampum. If bank CEOs had been as sharp as this funny man we wouldn't be in the mess we are. Edward Jones' WHAT CAN CHIEF EXECUTIVES LEARN FROM STAND-UP COMEDIANS? reveals some tools behind the comic's craft. No personalities and jokes here. Just fifty quick-fire one-liners focused on serious methods we can apply in the workplace. The book runs about the same time as a good stand-up routine but you're more likely to remember these one-liners. Less really is more with this pocket rocket.
-C. J. Beck
The author of the serious thrillers SIZZLE, and SPIKED, C.J. Beck's latest novel is the comic crime thriller SIXTEEN STORIES, NO PETS. Sixteen Stories, No Pets
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Excellent resource for presenters Feb 09, 2009
By Douglas Owen
"executive coach/consultant"
This is a first class, pithy reference not only for CEO's, but for other would-be influential public speakers. Roger Edward Jones has done an excellent job of condensing the critical ingredients of a stand-up presentation to a pocket-sized and easy to read reference. Rather like a chef preparing a delicious reduction sauce for a great meal. You get it, quickly and succinctly.
As always, the value is in the practice. Which is easy, given that this book is written in a "bullet point" style, with a particular skill on each page. You can bookmark the ones you're working on, and don't have to wade through pages of verbiage to get the point. Refreshing! At 50 pages, and lightweight, it's a carry around.
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