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Nerd-to-English: Your Everday Guide for Translating Your Business, Your Messages, and Yourself
Every wonder why your messages get lost? Or why others ignore you? Maybe you know someone that sounds smart but makes little sense to you? Why does this happen? What does it cost you in your career, your business and your life?
Whether we admit it or not, we are all a nerd about something. That can be a problem, even if we don't realize it. To succeed in business and life, it is critical to understand when your messages are being ignored or lost (and what to you can do about it).
Nerd-to-English explores the gaps we all have in our communication with not only each other, but with ourselves. Author Glenn S. Phillips shares lessons, experiences and insight derived from overcoming personal and financial crisis and discoveries from more than twenty years of business and technology consulting.
The book explores the ways we all fool ourselves, how to recognize this behavior, and ways to overcome these challenges to become more effective sharing our message.
Discover How
* Stop being your own worst obstacle
* Understand your audience so they will understand you
* Learn from the common mistakes of others
* Help others share their messages with you
* Hear what you've been missing all this time
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AWARD-WINNING FINALIST
National Finalist in the " MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP" category of The USA "Best Books 2011" Awards. The awards are sponsored annually by USA Book News, the premier online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses.
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This book is probably not what you expect. It's focus is not about avoiding big words. It is about how we, as human beings, communicate and how we can improve mutual understanding.
Whether we admit it or not, we are all a nerd about something. That can be a problem, even if we don't realize it. To succeed in business and life, it is critical to understand when your messages are being ignored or lost (and what to you can do about it).
Nerd-to-English explores the gaps we all have in our communication with not only each other, but with ourselves. Author Glenn S. Phillips shares lessons, experiences and insight derived from overcoming personal and financial crisis and discoveries from more than twenty years of business and technology consulting.
The book explores the ways we all fool ourselves, how to recognize this behavior, and ways to overcome these challenges to become more effective sharing our message.
Discover How
* Stop being your own worst obstacle
* Understand your audience so they will understand you
* Learn from the common mistakes of others
* Help others share their messages with you
* Hear what you've been missing all this time
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AWARD-WINNING FINALIST
National Finalist in the " MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP" category of The USA "Best Books 2011" Awards. The awards are sponsored annually by USA Book News, the premier online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses.
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This book is probably not what you expect. It's focus is not about avoiding big words. It is about how we, as human beings, communicate and how we can improve mutual understanding.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 27, 2010
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August 13, 2016
This book helped me to better understand not only how we talk to one another, but how we listen. Understanding the mental and emotional filters we use and why will help me put them aside and speak (and listen) more clearly. This book simplifies a process we use in the majority of our waking hours - communication. I have always thought of myself as a good communicator, but did not realize how many assumptions and forecasting I brought to the table. I will definitely be picking some weeds out of my own communication process.
Whether you work for yourself, or are part of a team, how we communicate determines our level of success. Not just monetarily, but respectfully. The every day life examples help drive the lessons home. Understanding our thinking and emotions helps get them out of the way so we can understand others, and be more understood by them. A good read for any manager, business owner, or for that matter, even a customer who wants better service. If you are easily understood, then you are more likely to get what you need so that you can in turn provide others with what they need. The quotes at the beginning of the topics are a great starting point for each section.
Whether you work for yourself, or are part of a team, how we communicate determines our level of success. Not just monetarily, but respectfully. The every day life examples help drive the lessons home. Understanding our thinking and emotions helps get them out of the way so we can understand others, and be more understood by them. A good read for any manager, business owner, or for that matter, even a customer who wants better service. If you are easily understood, then you are more likely to get what you need so that you can in turn provide others with what they need. The quotes at the beginning of the topics are a great starting point for each section.
November 13, 2021
An interesting take on communication and its many obstacles and advantages. It definitely makes one think about perspectives and the lenses through which we perceive our lives and the lives of others. Worth a read.
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