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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, September 7, 2010

by Stan Slap (Author, Narrator)

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The stories about Stan Slap are so remarkable that they seem like myths: He brought a room full of top-level Microsoft managers to tears, leaving them cheering "I'm hurting, too!" After a single speech at Patagonia, the company asked him to join its board of directors. One CEO described him as "Stephen Covey meets Nine Inch Nails." All this from a man who never graduated from business school, college, or even high school. Bury My Heart at Conference Room B harnesses the awe-inspiring insights of Slap's life-changing management workshops. The book is a powerful tool for creating emotional commitment in managers. That means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company. If you've ever witnessed a human being emotionally committed to a cause-working like they're being paid a million when they're not being paid a dime-you know that discretionary effort is worth more than their financial, intellectual, and physical commitment combined. Through unexpected case studies and a battle-tested self-assessment program, Slap shows how to help people live their deepest personal values at work, with huge payoffs for the companies that support their engagement.

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English
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Tantor Audio
Publication date

September 7, 2010
Dimensions

5.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches
ISBN-10

1400167558
ISBN-13

978-1400167555
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tantor Audio; MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (September 7, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400167558
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400167555
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.21 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches

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steven pierce

How do you put a price on the value this book delivers?

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2011

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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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Sue Burish

A Work of Heart

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2010

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For those of you who have seen Stan in action you know his take on what managers need to manage is not another four step model for confronting conflict or motivating slackards. It is to bring their humanity to the workplace and harness the power inherent in that act.

With passion, eloquence, rock solid logic and a fair amount of snarkiness he makes the business case for companies to promote emotional commitment from their managers and as a result garner far more than the combined effects of financial, intellectual and physical commitments.

I'm a practical type, not given to squishy kumbya happy talk while we all sing Why Can't We Be Friends. Stan's book is based on years of research and consulting with companies that don't include patience on their values list (I stole that line from him). First he'll tell you exactly why you need to do this, then he'll tell you exactly how (that's stolen too). And if my ringing endorsement isn't enough, read what some serious big shots have to say on the dust cover.

If you're interested in developing as a manager or developing others as managers, add this to your reading list--today. It's a work of heart.

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Beth A Mulvey

ALL types of leaders should read this book!

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2017

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I recently got to spend a day with the author of Bury My Heart and the description of the audio version of the book could not be better.... Stan Slap is like Stephen Covey meets Nine Inch Nails! Although the book speaks about his work with managers in the corporate world, I draw so much application for leaders of all types. The personal stories are both hilarious and endearing and bring the work of identifying your values to a level I had yet to explore. What you think about yourself as a leader and your deepest personal values could be tested by reading this book. But the process is not only self exploration and reflection, it suggests that sharing and living your values with people you work with will raise your organization's success to unprecedented levels. I agree! I love the emphasis on emotional commitment and the importance of the "people" side of work in this book. Thumbs up for Bury My Heart At Conference Room B!

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Strider

How to become emotionally committed along with your team by living out personal values at work

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2015

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Great book with the premise of the importance of living out your personal values at work and how that alone makes work a dynamic place where you can unleash your potential for yourself and your teams. This book/main theme would be great paired with Simon Sinek's work.

The books writing is really tongue and cheek, artful, sophisticated at times in a way you'd find a trendy blog. It really felt like I was reading a blog or journal of a very smart, thoughtful writer. However I found myself reading 20 pages and thinking when I was done and got the main point, "Why didn't he just say that in 2-5 pages with the main points". So I found myself skimming quite a bit and wished it was more straightforward and concise as I like that style, nothing against this though as it is just not my personal liking.

The main ideas are supported by the author's research/work on 10,000 managers from all level in a group setting discussing work. The author quotes this often and relies on it a lot to prove the powerful effects of the ideas of the book. I can't say I remember a whole lot of other studies or references outside of his own. The interesting thing is the two biggest values the interviewees reported as important were family and integrity AND this were the two they most felt under pressure at work.

The author walks the reader through the pros and cons of loving values at work, examples on how to lead a team through it, yourself and the importance of the leader living them out.

Good book, worth reading if you are working on a getting your team or managers emotionally connected with their work.

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SAM

Three Years of advice

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2016

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I first bought this book three years ago following a recommendation from a friend. I read the book from cover to cover and used some of ideas on a personal level but as a new manager at the time I didn't have the confidence to go for it. I came back to the book to help me manage restructure change and a loss of direction and this time had the confidence to go forward with my team. It's not a quick fix it's long term but the benefits for the team and for yourself is worth the journey.

Y.G.

Disappointing

Reviewed in France on December 25, 2011

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I saw the guy on Youtube and was curious. I bought the book. I didn't finish it. Always the same song. How do you implement what you say ? It must be in the book. But get to the point, please.

Frankwdt

Great read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2013

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Ok, it's a little bit "pushy US import" but still a great read and a different and workable slant on managing! Not quite in the 'can't put it down' category, but will be on my bookshelf as a recommendation and 'must read' for a long time

Charlie

solid and informative read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2021

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Lots of good content, I think it lacks ever so slightly in terms of templates and key sections to be used by readers who want to take the concept straight into action mode

Kindle Customer

Good content but not inviting to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2013

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This book was interesting and carried some useful information.

However, I found it hard to get into and had to force myself to carry on reading. I found it bitty and I found it hard to maintain my enthusiasm for it.

Other than that it raised some useful ideas and that will be of use to me in the future.

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