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Email from our Readers
Brandon Carson,
Chief Instructional Designer
at Sun Microsystems, shared his thoughts after reading the book for the first time.
"In The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester Dave Riveness weaves a cohesive and compelling argument for instigating new leadership techniques in corporate America.
In my organization, both new and experienced managers are faced with a multitude of challenges, especially when it comes to integrating different demographics. I found "The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester" full of refreshing ideas and new perspectives in the area of communication, leadership, motivation, and fostering "out of the box" thinking.
One of the most powerful takeaways for me as a manager and leader of "creative types" was gaining an understanding of how important it is to "uncover my own leadership blind spots".
I recommend The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester to both new and experienced managers. I guarantee you will come away with at least 5 ideas you can put to work right away to help increase your team's effectiveness!"
Thanks for sharing your feedback with us Brandon, we are truly happy you enjoyed the book! |
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We have created a special area of the Corporate Jester website designed to share our recommendations for the best books on subjects ranging from Leadership to Creativity to Change Management.
To visit the Bookshelf, click here.
Please contact us with your recommendations as we would like to add them. |
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Pressing the button above will bring up an form allowing you to email thoughts, comments or concerns directly to the mailbox of our CEO, Dave Riveness - bypassing regular channels.
Go on, press it and tell Dave what's on your mind.
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Greetings!
Welcome to the August issue of the Corporate Jester Newsletter. This monthly publication is intended to keep you connected as part of our commitment to help individuals and organizations create maximum results leveraging the concepts and philosophy from the business book The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester: A Fresh Perspective on Organizational Leadership, Culture and Behavior.
If you are a new subscriber, we encourage you to learn more about us by clicking any of the following links:
We also encourage you to forward this newsletter to any collegues that may be interested in Corporate Jestership. To do so, click on "Forward email" link at the bottom of this page. |
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Apple calls it iTunes U and few seem to know about it. We think it is an amazing treasure trove of information - something every Jester should leverage as they expand their perspectives, skills and knowledge.
The resource is actually a little known part of the iTunes Store and features free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy (did we mention, for free?) on your iPod, Mac or PC.
Using the service you can explore over 50,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world.
To take a peek at all iTunes U offers, click here to see an cool video introduction. |
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These past couple months have included a whirlwind of travel for Corporate Jester. Dave's schedule alone has included Mexico, Canada, Dubai, Bulgaria, Moscow, and Abu Dhabi. With international travel top of mind we thought we would share some sites we use when preparing to jet overseas.
While it feels a little cluttered, we love all the information found on Executive Planet, a website providing valuable tips on business etiquette, customs and protocol for doing business worldwide. To visit the site, click here.
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. If you stick one in your ear, you instantly understand anything said to you in any language. (Extra points if you email us and tell us where this reference comes from!)
An online version of the Babel Fish is actually available as a web-based application on Yahoo.com that machine translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another. It isn't perfect but it works pretty well in a pinch. To visit Babel Fish, click here.
We also installed a couple of translation "bots" in our version of Google Talk that work pretty well - we actually had a conversation with someone who didn't know a word of English! Setting it up is a little difficult but if we can do it you can too! To find out more, start by clicking here. |
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Portfolio magazine and Harvard Business have partnered to create The Insight Center. This online section of the Portfolio website showcases management strategies on topics ranging from leadership to technology.
To check out this new source of interesting information click here. |
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- We recently posed a question on using our Linkedin.com profile asking other members to recommend books they think should be on every leader's bookshelf. To check out the books they suggested click here.
- A reader recently sent us the following Mark Twain quote thinking it perfectly illustrates the need for jesters in organizations: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." We agree!
- As many of you know, Corporate Jester loves to share the insights and philosophy found in the book through our keynotes and workshops. If your organization has a meeting or conference coming up, we would like to talk to you about the value of including us in the agenda. To connect with us just click here. | |
One quick request from the editorial team. Each month we try to put together a newsletter that is fun, informative and has a little something for everyone. How are we doing?
Could you take a moment to drop us a line to tell us what you have enjoyed most in past editions? What would you like to see more of? We want to continue to bring you a newsletter you look forward to opening each month!
Thanks for being a part of Corporate Jester.
Sincerely,
The Newsletter Team
Corporate Jester
phone: 408-454-6650, toll free: 866-896-8948
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