Welcome to Manager Tools.

This is Sarah.

And I'm Mark.

And today's podcast is The Love Speech, Part 1 of 1.

This cast answers these questions.

What the heck is the love speech?

Why does love matter in management?

And what can I do to not just manage, but also to lead?

If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

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When we first started delivering our effective manager conferences, Mark, what year was that?

Oh, 2007.

Okay, so in 2007, Mark ended the conference day with giving what has been come to in terms of manager

tool speak, known as the love speech. We don't do it

that much anymore, although rarely we'll get a really, really good group, like a tight knit group,

and we will still do it, but it's rarer and we periodically get requests for it to this day.

You can also, if you're interested in finding it, find it at the end of

the Effective Manager book for two editions, the Effective Manager book one, Effective Manager

Version 2, and it is written at the end of those two books, but we thought it might be appropriate

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