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Anna Farmery

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How to motivate, inspire and engage people at work.

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Show #222 - Obama Leadership and Community Lessons

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Today I talk Barry Libert of Mzinga who is a pioneer in using communities, web 2.0 technologies to help businesses grow. He has just written a book on Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign and we talk about

  • Insights into the leadership style of Barack Obama
  • How Obama copes with pressure
  • The need to perfect your leadership style
  • The importance of empathy and personal leadership
  • How to keep in touch with how people are feeling
  • The importance of creating a talented team
  • How to create an engaged community that will sell the message for you
  • Did the internet cause change or was it a way of demonstrating change?
  • How the community communication was about building relationships not a pure communication tool
  • How Obama used mobile technology
  • The idea of customer managed relationships
  • The importance of bridging between the past and the future in your communications

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