Reviews of Seeing Red Cars - Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future

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 Make Yourself More Nimble & Relevant at Work by Seeing Red Cars

Make Yourself More Nimble & Relevant at Work by Seeing Red Cars

Shawn Murphy

http://achievedstrategies.com/blog/make-yourself-more-nimble-relevant-at-work...

Author Laura Goordrich quotes Don Tapscott, coauthor of Wikinomics and Macrowikinomics, in her new book Seeing Red Cars.  The quote frames a critical message in Laura’s book: the world is changing and business will need to respond in kind.  But what does that mean for employees?

Enter the reboot.  Laura sheds some light to help employees at all levels create a path to be more nimble and relevant at work.  She outlines an amazing framework and a corresponding set of tools to help people adapt their skills and perspective to the major shifts corporations and society are experiencing.

I don’t want this blog post to be a review of Laura’s book, though.  The purpose of the post is to share my perspective as to why the book is important to employees today.  The book is an answer to, “How do I make a difference?”

As I’ve written before, employees want to make a difference in their company.  They want to experience meaning in their work.  Companies who want to achieve greater levels of success will work with their leaders to influence meaning at work.  And in these companies, employees will be ready to show what they’ve got.

It takes an outside-in response to the world for employees to show how they can be a contribution.  Laura explains the outside-in response to mean employees need to understand what’s going on around them in the world and the influence it will have on them.  The significance of a global market or the growth of social technology needs to be viewed as crucial input to remain nimble and relevant at work.

What does that mean, though?

Employees in the corporations Don Tapscott mentions must see external influences as inputs in to their development plan: learning opportunities; building a network of collaborators; establishing a support structure.

Laura provides a comprehensive set of tools to help forward-thinking and looking employees.  The tools establish a foundation to get (greater) clarity on what makes you want to step up and make a difference.  Future oriented employees will know their strengths, passions & interests, and values.  These become major leverage points to doing work that allows all of us to contribute to a company’s success…and our own.

It’s not enough, though, to know your strengths and such.  It’s important to dive deeper into knowing who you are and what you want.  See, in the rebooted business and world, relationships and community is king.  And to be a contributing member, you must be capable of adapting to constant and sometimes turbulent change.  Know who you are and change does get easier.

Reading Seeing Red Cars shows us how to focus on the things we want, to be in action to achieve them, to get (greater) clarity on who we are and what drives us to manifest what we want.  And in the context of an organization, what we all want is to be successful, to make a difference, and to soak up meaning from our work.

Here Laura helps us dive deeper through a series of insightful, self-reflection exercises.

As an advocate for businesses bringing change to society and to people who work there, I believe Seeing Red Cars is crucial book.  It guides us to turn inwards for insights so that we can transform or strengthen our interactions with others.  And always keeping an eye on results, this crucial book is vital in the journey for people/employees and organizations recovering from some recent dark times.  It’s what we all need to help change the core of business and ourselves.

Is this a bit over the top? Absolutely! It’s what is needed “to reboot business and the world.” This isn’t the time to play small.

 

SEEING RED CARS by @lauragoodrich

Arnold Beekes

http://arnoldbeekes.posterous.com/seeing-red-cars-by-lauragoodrich

 

Today is the official release of this important book.
Let me explain why it is important.
Seeing Red Cars is a metaphor for focusing on what you want. This is in itself very rare, as we (my clients as well as myself) tend to focus on what we don't want (70% of our thoughts are focused on what we don't want). If I ask clients to make a list of their wants not much happens, they look a bit puzzled and a big question mark is shown in their face. However, if I ask what they don't want then they immediately write up a complete list.
Through our upbringing, education and work we have not learned to answer this question (what do I want?). Most of the time other people (parents, bosses, partners) decide what is good for us. And we focus on what we don' t want and are then surprised that the result is negative.
Well, that is quite logical, you get more of whatever you focus on. So, if you focus on what you don't want then that will grow!
In today's society there are challenges on many levels (economical, climate, politics, financial, relationships, health etc). If we focus on the negative aspects of these challenges, then those will grow.
There is only one way to circumvent this trend and that is to focus on the positive aspects, on what you do want. Then those positive aspects will grow.
The book is a complete menu (including toolkit) to guide you through that process. The book helps you to:
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Resist the natural inclination to focus on negative thoughts, concerns and fears.
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Create a sense of awareness around your interests, passions, strengths, and values.
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Make the connection between personal and professional (ProPer!!) “I wants” and those of your team and organization to create individual and collective positive outcomes.
It is a dynamic process requiring constant awareness and you must keep working at it with diligence and persistence. Laura takes you by the hand and makes sure that you keep on track.
So, if you want better outcomes in your life and career, then start with “Seeing Red Cars”.

 

 

Leadership Freak

Dan Rockwell

http://ht.ly/3W4Pi

Laura Goodrich has written a small book with a big message.

I’m not a fan of simplistic, “positive thinking,” the approach that if you dream it you’ll do it. The world is filled with dreamers that don’t achieve. However, I believe, “Seeing Red Cars,” provides rubber-hits-the-road strategies for creating and achieving a vision driven life, team, and organization.

How to drive into a positive future?

Focus on what you want. It’s likely you spend most of your life reacting rather than acting. Additionally, research shows that 70% of your thoughts are about what you don’t want and what you’d like to avoid.

Can you, in this moment, name what you want? You can’t get there if you can’t name it. “Clarity is the most important motivator and predictor of future success. You get more of what you focus on.”

Focus on what you can control.  Life’s frustrations center on things you can’t control. Trying to control them drains you. You’ll go farther by playing to your strengths and controlling what you can control.

Six Strategies that help you get there.

  1. Jump into social media. Twitter is the most powerful tool available for establishing new connections.
  2. Follow your intuition. When was the last time you did some soul-searching?
  3. Engage in many conversations. One significant conversation can change your life.
  4. Utilize supporters. Let others help.
  5. Utilize doubters. Prove the: can’t, don’t, and won’t people wrong.
  6. Deal effectively with weaknesses by linking with the strengths of others.

If you can’t state what you want, describe your plan, and define a time-line for getting there, “Seeing Red Cars,” is for you.

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February 14 is the release date of, “Seeing Red Cars.” 50% of the royalties from opening-day sales are being donated to the Make a Wish® Foundation of Minnesota.

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Why don’t individuals focus more on what they want?

How can leaders develop a more positive, vision driven outlook, both personally and organizationally.

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FORBES

Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win

By Dr Ellen Weber

http://blogs.forbes.com/mindmakeover/2011/02/03/seeing-red-cars-mindset-to-win/

 

Think it, see it do it, Laura Goodrich challenges, in her dynamic new book, Seeing Red Cars. Through life-changing testimonies, Laura shows how most successful leaders focus on what they want, persevere and act when it seems easier to quit.

Steer your day away from negative people, sidetrack what frustrates, avoid spinning wheels in what disappoints, and your brain hardwires for success. Race beyond best intentions and past quagmires of fear.  Through story after mind-bending story,  Laura shows how choices to focus on winning endpoints generate neuron pathways to innovative answers.

The book’s bound for bestseller status. It’s no surprise, Laura wrote the book at the urging of David Marshall of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, after he viewed her equally compelling, Seeing Red Cars film.

A must read, for leaders who want what it takes to accomplish positive change.  Discouraged leaders who tend to default to natural negativity, find themselves suddenly capitalizing on their brain’s amazing ability to change itself into positive personal and professional mental makeovers.

Laura’s book is especially timely as public purse strings tighten, and winning relies more on your ability to leap forward after disappointments.  When markets seem to shrink, or corruption swells, Seeing Red Cars, will challenge your mind-set to risk new ventures.  You’ll find yourself cultivating innovative skills for leading triumphs, on the other side of disenchantment.

When frustration sidelines you farther and farther away from a vision, Laura’s book shows how to stop replaying regrets or venting – in favor of forging ongoing pathways toward your wants. Tangible rewards follow with each act, because your brain literally changes itself for more positive directions forward. Sound like a winning trek for your coming week?

No question, disappointments can bring to the human brain what  cynics bring to new discoveries – loss of hope. No remedies seem to exists, when you view your daily don’t wants, or when you focus on a fall. The opposite is also true.

Laura’s book brims over with winning benefits that grow, regenerate and pave new neuron pathways toward finer destinations. Simply  focus on what you want, refuse to dwell on factors that fail you, and risk playing to your passions and strengths.

Seeing Red Cars,  is a favorite Mita brainpowered  tool, spirited by the most successful leaders, who favor occasions to grasp wisdom from past mistakes rather than focus on regrets. It’s a trigger to triumph for those who see doable dreams on the other side of distress. It’s simply doing more of the I wants, or in Laura Goodrich’s words: Driving yourself, your team and your organization to a positive future.

 

 

Seeing Red Cars Author Video

 

Laura Goodrich

Innovator l Filmmaker l Author l Expert Speaker
Radio l TV l Program Host

Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change

Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com
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Author: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available for pre-sale! Amazon http://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble  http://bit.ly/c5F1j7
Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win – Forbes Magazine
http://blogs.forbes.com/mindmakeover/2011/02/03/seeing-red-cars-mindset-to-win/

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About

Laura is an innovator l video Producer l author l host and speaker specializing in change and the future of work and life! She is passionate about helping people, teams and organizations navigate these wild roads of change! Her book and film Seeing Red Cars – Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future – are described as transformational, relevant and timely. Recently named honorable mention in the business category at the San Francisco book festival. It’s ranked #2 on Amazon in Business/Work Life Balance. Her short video “Positive Future” received 1st place in Training Magazine’s video competition in 2011 http://ow.ly/5zaxa Her film Shifting Years – received 2nd place in Training Magazine’s video competition in 2011 Is change in your future? Her new Embracing Change video is set to release soon! Get them talking.

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