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Michael,

Excellent post. Look forward to learning more about your work.

Michael

I am delighted to receive such apositive response from you, and to learn that you have the same sense that there is great scope for us to share ideas and perhaps collaborate. It might be easier to communicate directly, so if you are agreeable you can email me at bay@zealise.com and I can tell you more.

Bay

Michael,
I really like the new picture you posted. A fine image. Have a great holiday season.
David

Hi Michael

Thank you for your reply to my question. It is obviously good advice and I will try to start working with publishers on that basis. Given you are a big ideas person and my ideas fit that category, I wonder whether you have any contacts in that field that I might "get in" with. At the moment it is a bit of a chicken and egg because I don't have a "name" or reputation.

Thanks
Bay

Hi Michael,

Your book sound very interesting. I, too, just wrote a book on employee engagement, but from a hard science perspective. I claim to have discovered the simplest, most logical and scientifically advanced approach to employee motivation on the market. Would you like to exchange a couple of chapters?

My book is titled "Primal Management: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Nature to Drive High Performance." It will be published in April, 2009 by the American Management Association (AMACOM Books).

Galley proofs will be out in early December and I am begining to work on the promotional plan for the book. Would you mind sharing your experiences in this department? For example, how involved did you get in promotion, and what worked best for you? Did the big national media cover your book? Also, did you hire an outside publicist or did you go with your publisher's internal publicist?

If you're curious about what I am doing, check out paulherrconsulting.com or primalmanagement.com. I just put these website up, so they are still rather crude.

My book includes an intrinsic reward survey and two metrics (Horsepower Metric and Tune-Up Metric) to track wether employees are functioning optimally or malfunctioning. You might find these tools useful in your consuting work.

A survey company called Quantum is currently testing my survey at 175 companies to see if it correlates with hard business outcomes like profitability and growth. Quantum currently administers 1 million employee engagement surveys at 4,000 companies. If the validation testing is successful, Quantum will begin marketing my survey tool in late December.

Well, it's late here in Wisconsin, so good bye for now.

Best,

Paul Herr MS, MBA
Author of Primal Management

Michael, a word of advice- never check your blackberry at 5:30 in the morning. In an early morning fit of incompetence I meant to erase your email from my handheld, and wound up erasing it entirely.... i'm going to grovel for forgiveness and ask you to resend it.
Thanks so much.

Hi Michael,
My colleague Florence Stone just showed me the article you wrote for Executive Matters on change programs. Nice article. I like how you bring in the importance of employee engagement.
Terry

Thanks for joining Michael.

It'd be great if you could tell us a little bit about your interest in social media and what you hope to get out of the social media discussion.