If you’re a manager or supervisor looking for a handbook to help you manage more effectively or if you’re a student considering a career in management, you must get Ed Parr’s first book Natural Born Manager. By reading this book, you’ll be assured of gaining the knowledge you need to BECOME THE BEST YOU CAN BE as a leader.

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Fixing Management Fixes
Everything Else!!!

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Your APTITUDES are the
FINGERPRINTS of
Your DESTINY!

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MINOs (Managers In Name Only)
They lack the MANAGERIAL APTITUDES
required to manage effectively. In essence,
they hold the title but lack the MANAGERIAL
ABILITIES to deliver the goods.
KEY LEARNING
Aptitudes = Abilities

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• Enron Corp.
• MCI-WorldCom
• Parmalat
• Fannie Mae
• Freddie Mac
• General Motors
• GMAC
• Chrysler Corp.
• Bear Stearns
• Lehman Bros.
• AIG
Consider these
MINO-led
Failures!

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Your Career
Questions???
1. Why am I here?
2. What is my life’s purpose?
3. What is my destiny?

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LEFT-BRAINED,
analytical thinkers
listen up!
30% Leadership + 70% Managerial HOW TOs
• First 3 Chapters cover Leadership Transformation.
• Last 7 Chapters cover the step-by-step
Best Practices of Management.

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Why is managerial
transformation
needed?
• BLS data show that employee turnover in
America has averaged +40% for 80 yrs.
• Labor turnover of 25% or more is a
MINO-marker. i.e. , MINOs are in charge.
• Think about it! If you like your job = LOW
turnover. If you don’t = HIGH turnover.

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What is the OPI
triangle?

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How To Get Rid of
Your MINOs?
2-Step Process:
1. Behavioral Sorting – via the LOST (360
degree) behavioral survey tool.
2. Aptitude Sorting – via scientific aptitude
testing to identify managers who have the
Sublime Nine Management Aptitudes.

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What are the Sublime
Nine Aptitudes?
Natural Born Managers test “above average” for a majority of
The Sublime Nine Management Aptitudes.
1. Interpersonal
2. Intrapersonal
3. Linguistic
4. Analytical Reasoning
5. Inductive Reasoning
6. Visionary
7. Mathematical
8. Clerical
9. Adaptable

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TO DO List
of great managers?
 Using a Managerial Transition Checklist
 Conducting effective Staff Meetings
 Solving employee Conflicts & Impasses
 Instituting effective Status Reporting
 Setting employee Performance Goals
 Identifying and resolving Problem Employees

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How To identify your
problem employees…
• Does Eric’s work effort contribute to the
team’s mission? YES / NOYES / NO
• Does Eric work cooperatively &
professionally with his teammates? YES / NOYES / NO
• Does Eric’s work behaviors foster freedom,
growth, and joy for his team? YES / NOYES / NO

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RIGHT-BRAINED,
intuitive thinkers,
listen up!
“Why did God put me here?”
ANSWER: You were Born to pursue your Passion
and fulfill your Destiny.
Why the title “Natural Born Manager?”
ANSWER: Your Aptitudes are the Fingerprints of
your Destiny.

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Check Out this List of
famous Naturals!
Babe Ruth, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein,
Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, Michael Phelps,
Celine Dion, Wayne Gretsky, Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Hawking…
Do you see a pattern?
Definition: A Natural is someone who leverages
his innate abilities, his strongest aptitudes, to
become the best that he can be.

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HOW the NFL raised
their recruitment of
SUPERSTARS!!!SUPERSTARS!!!

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You too can be a
NaturalNatural and a
SUPERSTARSUPERSTAR!!!
• Johnson O’Connor pioneered human engineering
science for GE in the 1920s.
• He founded the not-for-profit Johnson O’Connor
Research Foundation (JOCRF) in 1939.
• JOCRF has conducted scientific aptitude testing
for career planning purposes for nearly 80 years.
As your FINGERPRINTS identify your “uniqueunique
individualityindividuality,” your APTITUDES identify your
“unique potentialunique potential.”

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Why APTITUDESAPTITUDES are
IMPORTANTIMPORTANT!
• Your strongest aptitudes enable you to Learn
Things FASTER and Do Things BETTER...
• When you’re good at something, you become
known as a NATURAL, and are praised and
rewarded by others.
• This positive reinforcement gives you JOY and
makes you SUCCESSFUL on the job and in life.

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Who WINS by reading
this book?
YOU, Your spouse, Your teenage & college age
children, Your grandchildren, Your family, Your
friends, Your colleagues & associates.
In short, ANYONE who wishes to become theANYONE who wishes to become the
BEST that he can be.BEST that he can be.

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…and HOW does
society WIN?
Answer:
• Better managers and more prosperous owners &
shareholders.
• Happier workers in better-suited jobs.
• Remarkable productivity creating a better world for
everyone.

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NBM is about
YOU! It’s
about…
 Finding Your PASSION
in life,
 And Your JOY in work.
 Fulfilling Your DESTINY,
 And becoming the BEST
YOU can be!!!

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