Archive for the ‘Encore Effect Reviews’ Category

Review by Jim Tunney
Regarded as the “Dean of NFL Referees”
NFL Hall of Fame Member

After Further Review … The “Encore Effect,” a recently released book, authored by my good friend and colleague, Mark Sanborn, describes how we all want an encore performance.  Every performer enjoys the recognition of an extraordinary performance.  Sanborn isn’t saying ‘great’ or ‘excellent’ - he’s saying it’s a REMARKABLE performance that creates the encore effect.

The lessons in this book will either remind you or teach you how to give a remarkable performance in anything you do.  Anything? Yes!  Whether you are in sales, management, parenthood, teaching  -  anything!  And why not? What is the value in what you do, if it is not done with a goal of “remarkable”?

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Interview by Anna Farmery
Speaker and Social Media Coach

Today I talked with Mark Sanborn, author of one of my favourite all time reads The Fred Factor and now author of The Encore Effect. This is the first part of a two part interview.

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- What do we mean by the encore effect?

- Does a performance build over time like a music performance, or is it different in a business world?

- We all live different roles in our lives, when do we need to be remarkable?

- How much does practice and preparation help create a remarkable life, or a remarkable personal brand?

- Is it remarkable in your judgement or in the judgement of others?

- In a world of social media, the irony of the word remark - able. How what we are wanting to achieve, is get people talking about you positively.

- How ‘ordinary’ people can be extraordinary. It is not about your job, background or title…

- Is it harder for a leader to be extraordinary? Is that the ordinary touch that makes an extraordinary leader?

- What is a performance development agenda?

Anna Farmery
Speaker and Social Media Coach

Review Written by Marty Grunder

Loved the book, an easy read chock full of great ideas.  I have found that much of someone being successful is rooted in their ability to plan and be prepared.  Mark’s talks about this in depth on page 63.  His points about preparing for presentations, having back up plans in case the technology fails, and reviewing the notes before a presentation are right on.  It reminded me of the importance of slowing down and taking the time to be prepared and consequently improve’s one’s chance for success.

As Mark suggest, think about all the things that could go wrong and try to figure out what you can do ahead of time.  All Americans would benefit from Mark’s advice here.  What a great little gem of a book.  This would be an excellent book to give any young person getting ready to hit the ‘real world’.

Marty Grunder
http://www.martygrunder.com

Review Written by Keith Flynn

Thank you for sending me The Encore Effect.  I had the opportunity to see Mark in action last October at a conference.  Those of our company in attendance, all of whom were directly involved in our customer service initiatives, were very impressed with Mark’s enthusiastic and captivating presentation of his “Fred” principles.

I oversee our organizational development initiatives that include Training and Development so I’m pleased to see a book from Mark that will impact all employees.  It’s especially encouraging in an era of conspicuous greed and selfishness that Mark can inspire us with effective tactics that are based on our own “core convictions”.  I’ve always subscribed to the theory that everyone should have a “larger-than-life” mentor (or mentors) and Mark uses real persons to give us a benchmark with which to continuously improve our personal performance.  I fall into Abraham Lincoln’s “common people” category but enjoy the challenge of sharing knowledge with others to help them create encore performances.  Thanks to Martha Baumgarten for introducing me to Mark and Fred and thanks to her and Meredith for introducing me to Charlie “Tremendous” Jones.
 
Keith Flynn - Director of Community Relations
Retail, Jobing.com Community Relations - PHX

Review Written by Brent Hill

Thank you for sending me The Encore Effect.  I had the opportunity to see Mark in action last October at a conference.  Those of our company in attendance, all of whom were directly involved in our customer service initiatives, were very impressed with Mark’s enthusiastic and captivating presentation of his “Fred” principles.

I oversee our organizational development initiatives that include Training and Development so I’m pleased to see a book from Mark that will impact all employees.  It’s especially encouraging in an era of conspicuous greed and selfishness that Mark can inspire us with effective tactics that are based on our own “core convictions”.  I’ve always subscribed to the theory that everyone should have a “larger-than-life” mentor (or mentors) and Mark uses real persons to give us a benchmark with which to continuously improve our personal performance.  I fall into Abraham Lincoln’s “common people” category but enjoy the challenge of sharing knowledge with others to help them create encore performances.  Thanks to Martha Baumgarten for introducing me to Mark and Fred and thanks to her and Meredith for introducing me to Charlie “Tremendous” Jones.
 
Best regards,
Brent Hill - Director
http://www.pardeehomes.com/

Review Written by Ken Klaus
Senior Principal Product Manager at ORACLE

If you’re a foodie, love to travel, or have absolutely no problem grabbing some serious couch time on the weekend, you’ve probably seen Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. In the fifth season, which wrapped this week, we join our host as he eats his way around the world, touring Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, Laos, Spain and my personal favorite Japan – where he goes “in search of the relationship between a perfect piece of sushi and a perfect knife blade, the common ground shared by the martial artistry of kendo and the subtle aesthetics of Japanese flower arranging.” Indeed throughout the episode Chef Bourdain returns again and again to the idea of perfection, asking each of the masters he interviews (sushi, kendo, and ikebana) if they believed in the concept of perfection and whether they felt they had ever achieved it in their field of expertise. Paradoxically, though all of them believed in the idea of perfection, they universally agreed that achieving it was very unlikely and, more importantly not the point. What truly mattered was continually improving your performance – doing a better job each time you took up the task at hand.

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Review Written by Mike Rayburn
The World’s Funniest Guitar Virtuoso
Performances include: 8 times at Carnegie Hall
and more than 4,000 shows nationwide

My friend, Mark Sanborn has written a fine book on performance called “The Encore Effect.”  In my humble opinion he’s dead on.  I have, using different words, shared many of the same principles with would-be performers simply because they work.  Mark kindly asked me to comment on performance from my own perspective, and while I’m sure I’m echoing things Mark not only knows well but has included in this book, perhaps I’ll have a different delivery or angle or perspective which one or two might need in order to achieve great performance for themselves.

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Review Written by Steve Farber
Best selling Author of, “The Radical Leap:
A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership”
President of extreme Leadership Inc.-
A corporation devoted to the cultivation and
development of leaders in the business community.

In the introduction to his new book, The Encore Effect, Mark Sanborn puts you on the stage by asking you to imagine that you’ve just giving the performance of a lifetime.  The audience is on its feet, roaring “Bravo!” and thundering its approval of your efforts.

“I believe,” writes Sanborn, “that a worthy goal in life is to have people shouting for more of whatever it is we do that is really important and matters to us.”

I agree.  I love the premise of the Encore Effect.  It’s a terrific equation: performance on stage = performance in life.  And Sanborn does a fabulous job of spelling out the lessons that will, if followed, lead the reader into encore after encore.

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Review Written by Dianna Booher, CSP, CPAE

I am writing to tell you about Mark Sanborn’s, new book, The Encore Effect, How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do. This book is a must read. It is quick, easy, and will convince you that everyone can achieve an ENCORE performance in their personal and professional lives.

Dianna Booher, CSP, CPAE
CEO of Booher Consultants

Review Written by Tim Draayer

“If you wish to be up front.  Act as if you were behind.” - Lao-Tzu, sixteenth century B.C.

A few weeks back I received a galley of Mark’s most recent book release The Encore Effect: How to Acheive Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do. My friendship with Mark began when I first reviewed The Fred Factor and since then he has been kind enough to share his work with me before they are released.

With that said, lets have a look at The Encore Effect.

Much of Mark’s insight throughout the book are inline with the things I’ve always discussed here.

Passion. Discipline. Action. Or PDA as he calls them.

Without overcomplicating (as some authors are want to do in their prose about this very subject) Mark gives you straight forward advice for cultivating passion, taking action, and engaging people.

One of my favorite statements in the book is when he points out that you can think good thoughts all day long but nothing will happen unless you take action. This is something that so many people who are introduced to The Secret and the law of attraction tend to miss.

It is my opinion that Mark Sanborn has delivered another remarkable book and as I have with all of his other books, I recommend reading The Encore Effect.

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Tim Draayer
Publisher of Network Marketing Journey