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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers [Hardcover]

Stan Slap
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August 12, 2010


#3 New York Times Advice/How-To Bestseller #7 Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller

"This book is game changing in a way I have never seen in a business book. I learned about myself and gained new insights into the work I've been doing for thirty years. It is a spectacular read."
– John Riccitiello, CEO, Electronic Arts

This is not a management book. This is a book for managers.

Ever have the feeling that no matter how rewarding your job is that there's an entirely different level of success and fulfillment available to you? Lingering in the mist, just out of reach…
There is, and Stan Slap is going to help you get it.
You hold in your hands the book that entirely redraws the potential of being a manager. It will show you how to gain the one competency most critical to achieving business impact, but it won't stop there. This book will put a whole new level of meaning into your job description.

You Will Never Really Work for Your Company Until Your Company Really Works for You

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B is about igniting the massive power of any manager's emotional commitment to his or her company-worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. Sometimes companies get this from their managers in the early garage days or in times of tremendous gain, but it's almost unheard of to get it on a sustained, self-reinforced basis.
Of course your company is only going to get it if you're willing to give it. Slap proves that emotional commitment comes from the ability to live your deepest personal values at work and then provides a remarkable process that allows you to use your own values to achieve tremendous success.

This is not soft stuff; it is the stuff of hard-core results.

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B is the highest-rated management development solution at a number of the world's highest-rated companies—companies that don't include "patience" on their list of corporate values. It has been exhaustively researched and bench tested with tens of thousands of real managers in more than seventy countries. You'll hear directly from managers about how this legendary method has transformed their careers and their lives.

As Big as It Gets Stan Slap is doing nothing less than making the business case for a manager's humanity-for every manager and the companies that depend on them. Bury My Heart at Conference Room B gives managers the urgency to change their world and the energy to do it. It will stir the soul, race the heart, and throb the foot used for acceleration.

Buckle Up. We're Going Off-Road. Slap is smart, provocative, wickedly funny and heartfelt. He fearlessly takes on some of the most cherished myths of management for the illogic they are and celebrates the experience of being a manager in all of its potential and potential weirdness. And he talks to managers like they really talk to themselves.


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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"There is more mythology, misdirection, superstition, and generalized academic babble about leadership than any other business subject," says management consultant Slap in this must-read for anyone who cares about organizational success. Slap shares the techniques he's used over several decades to transform the performance of some of the world's leading companies, quickly cutting to the chase with irreverence as he emphasizes drawing deep loyalty and vital energy from every rank in the workforce and allowing "each manager to work according to their individual values." Drawing on his successful engagements at such companies as Microsoft and software company, SAS, which has a culture so compelling and attractive that last year "they had 23 job vacancies and received 23,760 applications," he illustrates his points powerfully and persuasively. If Slap's discussion grows repetitive and drags on a few chapters too many, the strong kickoff and exploration of individual values makes for a provocative read sure to appeal to managers who want to connect with their employees in a fresh, meaningful, and lasting way.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* The notion that values matter––in the workplace as well as at home––is certainly not new to the ranks of management gurus and corporate leaders. What is novel in consultant Slap’s first book is his passion for the subject, which bleeds from every page, and his easy-to-use framework for identifying and promoting values throughout the business world. Setting the stage, first, involves explaining the business case for values: why everyone must live his or her personal values in the workplace and which companies adhere to that philosophy. In sidebars, Slap tells the stories of EMC, HP, Rhino Records, SAS, Quad/Graphics, and others that showcase the bottom-line impact of managerial emotional commitment. Next, then, are the value exercises: the list and definition of 50 values and the winnowing to 10, 5, and, finally, 3. As to be expected, the author leads us to organizational implementation, focusing on the selling of values to staff and, ultimately, to the C-suite. In a passion-infused narrative, Slap gives every manager the tools to change. Now, if it will only stick! --Barbara Jacobs

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (August 12, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1591843243
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591843245
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The book is a fun read that really makes you think. RCH  |  13 reviewers made a similar statement
I was fortunate enough to attend in person "Bury My Heart at Conference Room B" by Stan Slap. J. Haskin  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
A number of the reviews of Bury My Heart at Conference Room B reference
having experienced it as a solution delivered within their company, which
the author states was used to test the book's central premise and gather
deep input from managers around the world before he wrote the book.

I am one of those managers whose career and life have been impacted by this process.
I was amazed that such an intense and individualized experience could be translated into a general
read. I don't know how he did it.

I still have my copy of the shorter "workbook" from that session all these years
later -- well thumbed and annotated. After reading the review complaining that
the content is identical to the workbook I compared the two. They are
sitting side by side as I write this and, as a rough estimate, I find that
about 65% of the book content is completely new or significantly reframed.
There is new documentation of results; interviews, case studies and stories;
tools for discovering personal values; applications for resolving management
issues and implementing the process within my own team, with my own manager
and company-wide; applications for use at home with my partner, children and
friends; a great chapter on how the brain works when deciding to commit; the
framing of the issue as a larger business concern and detailed research
notes. All of this is original to the book and even the central values
reduction exercise has been expanded.

As an Amazon customer and a regular purchaser of business books. I
don't recall ever seeing such a gap between reviews. Most of the reader
reviews for Bury My Heart at Conference Room B are detailed five-star
commentaries and testimonials of results yet oddly there is a column of
one-star reviews. These opinions should be respected but personally I find it fascinating
that the one-star reviews rarely address the central premise of the book: are we, as managers, living our own
deep values at work and is this affecting our emotional commitment to the
enterprise and our own success and fulfillment? That is the critical issue
this book confronts and confronts extraordinarily well: passionate,
engaging, tactical, well researched and documented. I thought it a stunning
read and will unhesitatingly recommend it to others.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read, Must Implement December 16, 2010
Format:Hardcover
I have had the opportunity to participate in the Bury My Heart in Conference Room B (BMH) training three separate times - as an individual contributor in a silicon valley start-up company, a manager in a medium sized software company, and as a RVP in a Fortune 200 company. With experience and confidence, I can say that the book is applicable to any size company, regardless of role or level of responsibility.

Results - as the RVP I addressed 100 partners, employees, my manager, Sr leadership and did the "these are my values, this is how I run our business, this is where I'm going, follow me" presentation that Stan outlines in the book. Was I nervous? incredibly so. Could this have been a Career Limiting Move - possibly.

The outcome/impact was far beyond my expectations:
- Sales were up 30% the next quarter.
- Turnover was reduced.
- Two partners walked up to me and said, "We are proud to call ourselves your partner"
- Employee walked up in tears and said "thank you for showing your strength. Im going to change"
- Internal executives - I solidified myself as a trusted leader, business partner.
- My internal brand increased - people wanted to be on my team, be in my "family".
- My direct manager - he deepened his respect for me, he learned who I truly was and our relationship became stronger.
- Most importantly for myself - it was a breakthrough. it was therapy. it was real. once you know who you are, you begin to realize how powerful you are. You begin to understand the impact you can have on the world. Who wants to live life halfway - half of who they are?? half of what they can truly accomplish??

The book will enable the reader to develop a foundation to understand themselves, thier core values. Once the values are understood, the book outlines how to lead yourself, your team, according to those values. The book is a gift for change.

Only when you know who you are, do you have the opportunity to lead.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!! September 28, 2010
Format:Kindle Edition
This book captures what so many hearts struggle to express. I know this content can have a profound impact on the leadership ethos of large corporations, but I've also been challenged to bring it to life in the small space I inhabit. Putting family and integrity at the top of the list with my clients, employees, family and friends is a tough challenge. I've been rejuvenated to keep on trying by this pragmatic, sarcastic, bad boy/good guy book.

Rare is a book that is both inspirational and practical. This one is. It goes on my leadership shelf next to The Power Principle, Principle-Centered Leadership, A Leader's Legacy and The Making of A Leader. Select company. Well-deserved.

Thanks, Stan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kindle purchase
Always easy to purchase on Kindle. Book is fantastic if you are a leadership and movtivation/inspiration book junkee like me.
Published 2 months ago by Tracey L Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars I love Stan's attitude
It took us three years to change our company from a negative fault-finding workplace to a supportive, positive, and encouraging organization. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael McCloskey
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will change your heart, mind, and actions.
When I read Bury My Heart at Conference Room B I was an employee with managers. You would think this is strange as an employee to read a book on Management Training but I learned... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Patrick
4.0 out of 5 stars A book to help keep balance
I think this book finds you when you need it and I don't mean to be too "fluffy" with this comment. Although I think the steps he has written in the book are a bit unrealistic to... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Robert Kirk
5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Truths
Simply put, for those of us who have witnessed or had a hand in extraordinary leadership Stan Slap nails it with precision. Read more
Published on February 4, 2011 by Erica H. Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I have a 20 year career in IT and I'm endlessly fascinated with management topics. This book was a huge disappointment because all it is is a poorly researched... Read more
Published on February 3, 2011 by Sharon Conger
5.0 out of 5 stars For Managers Anywhere
Having worked in training & development, management consulting, and having sat through, read, edited and written many management training courses both online and in class - Stan's... Read more
Published on January 16, 2011 by amazonjbb
1.0 out of 5 stars Isn't there some rule about previously published material?
I would say roughly 2/3rds of this book has been directly taken from the work book we all got when taking this leadership training course at least 7 years ago. Read more
Published on January 5, 2011 by Calef T.
1.0 out of 5 stars A very strange definition of `Family'
Stan Slap dramatically begins his book by explaining that the most important value among the many managers he has polled is: FAMILY. Read more
Published on January 5, 2011 by tjones8
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn It; Live It; Love It
I always wonder about book reviews, as it is hard to gauge whether the reviewer is coming from a relevant perspective. Read more
Published on January 3, 2011 by E. N. Letzerich Jr.
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