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What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive Kindle Edition
Featuring a new foreword by Ariel Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell
Mark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less than a thousand dollars, he started International Management Group and, over a four-decade period, built the company into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices in more than forty countries.
To this day, McCormack’s business classic remains a must-read for executives and managers at every level. Relating his proven method of “applied people sense”in key chapters on sales, negotiation, reading others and yourself, and executive time management, McCormack presents powerful real-world guidance on
• the secret life of a deal
• management philosophies that don’t work (and one that does)
• the key to running a meeting—and how to attend one
• the positive use of negative reinforcement
• proven ways to observe aggressively and take the edge
• and much more
Praise for What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
“Incisive, intelligent, and witty, What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School is a sure winner—like the author himself. Reading it has taught me a lot.”—Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, News Corp, chairman and CEO, 21st Century Fox
“Clear, concise, and informative . . . Like a good mentor, this book will be a valuable aid throughout your business career.”—Herbert J. Siegel, chairman, Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.
“Mark McCormack describes the approach I have personally seen him adopt, which has not only contributed to the growth of his business, but mine as well.”—Arnold Palmer
“There have been what we love to call dynasties in every sport. IMG has been different. What this one brilliant man, Mark McCormack, created is the only dynasty ever over all sport.”—Frank Deford, senior contributing writer, Sports Illustrated
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBantam
- Publication dateFebruary 17, 2016
- File size2563 KB
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“Clear, concise, and informative . . . Like a good mentor, this book will be a valuable aid throughout your business career.”—Herbert J. Siegel, chairman, Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.
“Mark McCormack describes the approach I have personally seen him adopt, which has not only contributed to the growth of his business, but mine as well.”—Arnold Palmer
“There have been what we love to call dynasties in every sport. IMG has been different. What this one brilliant man, Mark McCormack, created is the only dynasty ever over all sport.”—Frank Deford, senior contributing writer, Sports Illustrated
From the Inside Flap
-- Mark H. McCormack, from "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" published by Bantam Books.
Mark McCormack is the founder of International Management Group, a multimillion-dollar, worldwide corporation that is a consultant to fifty Fortune 500 companies, a major producer of television programming and credited as the single most important influence in turning sports into big business.
Listen to McCormack as he tells you how to -- read people -- create the right first impression -- take the leading edge -run and attend meetings -- the secrets of successful selling and moving up within the organization.
McCormack shares his experience, technique and wisdom, his street smart insights and skills, in a practical, how-to manner. Business will never be the same!
From the Back Cover
About the Author
After publication of What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School in 1984, McCormack also became a bestselling author of business advice books, focusing on practical, street-smart counsel to help entrepreneurs succeed in any business environment.
Through a gift from the McCormack family foundation, Mark McCormack’s files and papers were donated to the Special Collections department at the UMass Amherst Libraries in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
In 1963, I was in Paris for the World Cup golf tournament, where I happened to have two chance meetings with Richard Nixon, once at the golf club when he came by my table to speak to Gary Player, the other, only a few days later, at the Tour d’Argent, when he stopped to speak to Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, with whom I was having dinner.
Nixon’s remarks were pleasant enough. What stayed with me was that on both occasions he used the same words, the exact same five or six sentences. It was as though he were talking to stick figures rather than to real people, as though he had a fund of stock phrases for every type of person he was likely to meet—five or six sentences for a sports personality, a paragraph for a business leader, another for a religious figure.
The other incident involved the flamboyant golfer Doug Sanders. When we first started representing Doug a lot of people told me we had made a mistake. Doug did have some “Vegas” in him. He ran with a fast crowd, got into his share of scrapes, and was known to make more than just a friendly wager every now and then. Some people thought he was too controversial for us and asked why I trusted him. Quite frankly, I trusted Doug Sanders a lot more than some of the people who were questioning me. Which brings me to my story.
Once Doug played a golf exhibition up in Canada. He made all the arrangements himself. I didn’t know anything about it, and since apparently he was paid in cash I probably never would have known anything about it. But about a week after the exhibition took place, we received an envelope from Doug. There was no letter or note inside, only our commission—in cash.
I recall these incidents now because they demonstrate something important about reading people. What people say and do in the most innocent situations can speak volumes about their real selves.
My accidental encounters with Nixon, for instance, indicated a certain insincerity and a degree of phoniness that I remembered ten years later, when he was forced to resign the presidency. Nixon’s troubles probably had as much to do with his phoniness as they did with Watergate. People don’t like phonies. They don’t trust them, and they certainly don’t want one running their country.
In Doug Sanders’s case, the fee for the exhibition was so insignificant it might not have seemed worth the bother. But to this day I can see Doug going back to his hotel room, pulling a wad of cash out of his pocket, counting out our commission, sticking it in an envelope, and scribbling out our address. This was so totally in keeping with Doug Sanders’s character that nothing else would have occurred to him.
One would like to believe that it was a future American president who exhibited quality of character and a golf hustler who came off as a con man. But the facts in these cases belie those conclusions.
What does this have to do with business? Everything. In the business world it is easy enough to adopt a corporate persona, or several corporate personae, depending on the situation. Some people will act one way with their subordinates, another way with their boss, and a totally different way with people outside their company.
But the real self—one’s true nature—can’t change color to suit its environment. In any ongoing business situation, sooner or later—either subliminally or out in the open—you are going to find that you are dealing with that person’s real self.
If nothing else, you want to hear what people are really saying, as opposed to what they are telling you; you want to be able to put someone’s deeds—his own business activities—into the larger context of character. Whether I’m selling or buying, whether I’m hiring or (in our capacity as consultants) being hired; whether I’m negotiating a contract or responding to someone else’s demands, I want to know where the other person is coming from. I want to know the other person’s real self.
Business situations always come down to people situations. And the more—and the sooner—I know about the person I am dealing with, the more effective I’m going to be.
Don’t Take Notions for an Answer
People will often make judgments about others even before meeting them based on what they’ve heard or what they know about their company. They will even mistrust or ignore their own perceptions so as to make them conform to foregone conclusions.
At IMG we often have to face the preconceived notions that exist about our own company. What we do is fairly visible, and a number of the magazine and television profiles about IMG or me have stressed our power position in sports and painted us as tough, even ruthless negotiators.
Nine out of ten times this works to our advantage. People expect us to name big numbers, and their anticipation often makes it easier for us to get them. And when they find that we are actually fairly reasonable people to deal with, they are bowled over.
But there is also every tenth guy who has so hardened himself to his preconceived notions that he has no perception of the business situation itself or of the people from our company with whom he is dealing. He is so prepared to be tough himself, or to defend against our toughness, that he takes “Nice to meet you” as a veiled threat. Obviously his preconceived notions have made him incapable of any genuinely revealing insights.
People reading is a matter of opening up your senses to what is really going on and converting this insight into tangible evidence that can be used to your advantage.
Dave DeBusschere, the former basketball star, was a vice-president of our television company for several years prior to his assuming his present position as general manager of the New York Knicks. Dave once had several frustrating meetings with an executive of an insurance company in Connecticut whom he was trying to interest in sponsoring one of our television shows. The executive seemed genuinely interested in the concept but was so overwhelmed to be dealing with Dave DeBusschere he could never get past this fact, or his own suspicions. If this was such a great opportunity, he reasoned, then how come just a “regular guy” wasn’t trying to sell it to him?
Use Your Insight
Dave Marr, the former PGA golf champion, and I were once joking about some of the great golf hustlers we had known when Dave came up with the First Axiom of Golf Wagering: “Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee,” he said, “who has a deep suntan, a one-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.”
Shrewd insights into people can be gained simply through the powers of observation. In most business situations there is usually more to see than meets the eye, a whole level of personal dynamics operating just beneath the surface.
Most business situations provide all sorts of tangible evidence that allows you to see beneath the surface. Sometimes these are the things that people say and do unconsciously, the way someone looks away at the sound of a particular question, for instance. But they may also be acts that are neither simple nor unconscious, such as the way someone chooses to phrase a particular thought. The point is that the clues for insight abound and are there to be used by anyone who is tuned in to them.
A surprising number of executives are not. They totally lack an awareness of what is really going on around them. Either they are too busy listening to themselves to listen to anyone else or too involved in their own corporate presence to notice what someone else might be doing.
I can’t imagine anyone being effective in business without having some insight into people. Business itself is such a subtle matter of taking a slight edge here, an imperceptible edge there. And every aspect of the process comes back to people—managing them, selling to them, working with them, simply getting them to do what you want them to do. Without insight there is no subtlety.
Insight allows you to see beyond the present. Suppose you had a way of knowing everything that was going to happen in business over the next ten years. That information would not only make you wise; it would also make you successful and wealthy. Yet it is your insight into people that gives you the ability to predict the future.
A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations. It is totally consistent. The better you know that person, the more you can get beneath the facades, the more accurately you can predict how he or she is likely to react or respond in almost any business situation. This knowledge can be invaluable.
The process of course is precisely the modus operandi of the “professionals”—the psychics and fortune tellers, who have been using the same tricks to tell the future for centuries.
Psychics will size up their clients by observing them—how they act, how they look, what they’re wearing—and by asking a few innocent questions. From this information they can “see into the future,” which is really a matter of telling their client what he or she wants to hear based on what has already been found out. The good ones can come up with some startlingly perceptive things based on the tiniest pieces of information. There are probably some psychics who would make excellent business executives.
I also know a lot of business executives who would make terrible psychics.
Insight demands opening up your senses, talking less and listening more. I believe you can learn almost everything you need to know—and more than other people would like you to know—simply by watching and listening, keeping your eyes peeled, your ears open. And your mouth closed.
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- Publisher : Bantam; Reissue edition (February 17, 2016)
- Publication date : February 17, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 2563 KB
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- #211 in Biographies of Business Professionals
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About the author
Mark H. McCormack shook hands with a young golfer named Arnold Palmer, giving birth to the modern sports marketing industry. That historic handshake established a legendary empire that would evolve into today's IMG, the world's premier sports marketing and management company— representing hundreds of athletes, models, and prestigious events around the world. From representing talent to managing events to building the largest independent sports media company in the world, IMG’s reach and dominance are still unrivaled.
McCormack, with the publication of What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School, also became a best-selling author of numerous books offering street smart advice to a generation of your entrepreneurs.
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You dear reader, are lucky to have it so readily accessible now that it has come to Kindle for a fair price.
Why?
Because it is the consummate complete manual on how to be an effective human being.
This book is basically an operating system of how to function in life as an ethical opportunist. A combo of Taoism, the Matrix and Dale Carnegie.
It's not just for business -- however, if you ARE in business, especially personal services or sales, you are losing money, clients and career momentum by NOT reading it...
I digress, not just for business, but in all interactions with other humans. The author gives entertaining stories that are easily relatable, easily digestible, along with fascinating takes on the psychology of human interactions, deal making, and the day to day observations that go into getting what you want from others, especially by finding out how to give them what they want.
Once you figure it out, and start living it, you'll begin to see the Matrix of human interaction, and be able to take advantage of it for *hopefully ethical* personal gain.
Enjoy my good friends, enjoy!
1)Successful people are dissatisfied with their own accomplishments, always thinking about whats next?
2)Ability to peak their performance, they perform when the lights are the brightest
3)"He never believes he is performing as well as he actually is."
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