Motivate Everyone Paperback - Family, Friends, Co-Workers (Even Yourself)! [Paperback]

Jay Arthur (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2001

Guides you through the five styles of mental motivation: Achiever - Problem Solver, Leader - Follower, Innovator - Processor, Doer - Thinker, Evolutionary - Revolutionary. You'll learn how to detect and use them to get people moving toward useful outcomes without alienating anyone. Targeted to managers who are dissatisfied with the one-size-fits-all, reward-based approaches to employee motivation. Use language alone to motivate employees.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jay Arthur, the KnowWare® Man, is a transformational speaker and resultant who works with people that want to master the mysteries of the mind, and companies that want jungle medicine for the corporate soul. Jay is a certified master and health practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and an Inkan shaman.

Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, Jay was obsessed with how people do things well. As a student of human nature, Jay began to study what works and what doesn't. He began to look for clues to human excellence. Jay would be almost 40 before he began to find the answers he was looking for. He graduated with a degree in systems engineering and spent the next 20 years developing software for the phone company. Becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the results he was creating in the world, Jay began again to look for solutions to his discomfort. He had spent the last 20 years looking outside himself for answers, so he began in earnest to look within. What he found and still finds continues to astound him.

Jay found that the brain is like a computer and the mind is like software, but the software of the mind, what Jay calls KnowWare, is much more rich and sophisticated than COBOL, HTML, or JAVA. While computers are binary (two bits: 0,1), human DNA is quadrinary (four bits: A, T, C, G). Your mind uses seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting as part of its programming "code." The mind, just like software, has modular routines that handle everything from tying a shoelace to driving a car while your talking on your cell phone and planning your next meeting. Some of this KnowWare is elegant and very useful; some of it is defective and causes problems; and some of it is missing.

Jay found that if you change your mind, you can change your life. It's possible to shed the past, design your destiny, and succeed at anything if you take the time to learn to do it well.

Here's what people are saying about How To Motivate Everyone seminars:

The material was excellent. I am definitely going to use this stuff!

Very helpful. I appreciated the opportunity to practice techniques. Good examples.

This was a fun and informative session. Thanks for the insight.

Enjoyed the lighthearted nature of this session. The information will take some practice, but I'm confident I can apply it.

Jay is interactive, informative, and entertaining. My attention did not wander once.

Jay was an excellent and non-judgemental presenter.

Highly recommend him for future conferences.

To find out how to book Jay for keynotes, seminars and workshops on How To Motivate Everyone, call Jay at [phone].

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: KnowWare International Inc / Lifestar (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884180175
• ISBN-13: 978-1884180170
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,385,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A neat little book!, March 18, 2001

By 

Joseph H Pierre "Joe Pierre" (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Motivate Everyone Paperback - Family, Friends, Co-Workers (Even Yourself)! (Paperback)

This is a neat little book.

The author, Jay Arthur, was apparently motivated to write a book designed to instruct you and me in how to motivate ourselves and everyone we come into contact with, but without manipulating them. He is very clear on that. It's apparently not nice to intentionally manipulate people, as long as you can get them to do what you want without such nefarious methods and intent. There's apparently a subtle shade of difference there!

There are several very funny, professionally drawn cartoons in the book, as well as aphorisms, quotes and witty sayings on about every other page, in large bold type which help to illustrate his thoughts. They are almost worth the price of the book all by themselves.

The meat of the book is advice on how to motivate yourself and others, and to change opinions and attitudes from those with which you disagree (negative thoughts) to those more in line with your own opinions and desires (positive, reasonable, healthy thoughts).

Mr. Arthur is a motivational speaker and consultant who works with people who "want to master the mysteries of the mind and companies that want jungle medicine for the corporate soul."

Through the book, it is apparent that he also hopes to merchandise his motivational videos and other books on the same subject matter.

This is a small (145 page) hardcover book with large, easy to read type. If you are interested in this kind of subject matter it would probably be money well spent. At my age, simply awaking every morning is a major accomplishment. Changing the world is no longer one of my primary interests.

It's a good little book.

Joseph H. Pierre

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on self-motivation and influence, September 15, 2003

By 

Joe Santana (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motivate Everyone: Family, Friends, Co-workers ( Even Yourself)! (Paperback)

This is an excellent book that should sit in everyone's library, especially managers. At 143 pages, this book can be read in a short flight or two sessions on a stationary bike. Technology today enables us to do things faster, better and measure results more accurately. Nevertheless true success in business and life is still generally created in direct proportion to our ability to motivate ourselves and influence other people. In this fast-reading, well-written book, Jay provides us with a universal translator that can help us "crack-the-code" on what motivates us as well as others around us. I highly recommend this book.

Joe Santana,
Coauthor of Manage I.T.