Harvard Biz Press: Results-Driven Manager

Here's a great series of crucial topics for managers put out by the Harvard Business School Press: The Results-Driven Manager.

This week I read Presentations that Persuade and Motivate. Since no one can avoid having to make a presentation forever, (although I try my darnest!) this book is important. Making presentations - to clients, employees, peers, and supervisors - has become an integral part of any successful person's job.

This book helps you to customize your message, read and react to your audience's body language, tackle tough questions, and deliver memorable closings audiences will act on.

Gimme some of that! Next week Denise and I are putting on our Blog Squad biz suits and flying off to Washington DC. We are on two panels at the Publishers Marketing Association University, before the big book event, BEA.

On Wednesday we are on Debbie Weil's panel about using blogs for writing and marketing a book.

On Thursday, we are speaking with Suzanne Falter-Barns on automatic book marketing.

And if you are in the area, come see us, we'll buy you a cup of coffee.