The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do

by: Mark Sanborn

Published by: WaterBrook

Reviewed by Bob Pike CSP, CPAE-Speakers Hall of Fame

What is The Encore Effect? It is delivering a performance of any kind that is so good that people call you back for more. And how do you do that? According to Mark Sanborn, author of the best-selling Fred Factor, it takes six things: Passion, Preparation, Practice, Performance, Polish, and Pitfalls.

The book is all about what author Matthew Kelly would call being your highest and best self. It is about achieving what Ken Blanchard would call results and relationships. For each of the six Ps Mark provides us with a concise chapter on how to develop what we need in order to achieve The Encore Effect.

The most interesting thing about Mark’s presentation of the encore effect is that the focus is not on the performer, but rather the people that the performance is for. In other words, we achieve the encore effect when we:

— move people to act
— make people feel good
— make people laugh
— make people think.

In other words a remarkable performance is about people achieving results in their lives. When that happens you can be sure that people will want an encore. At the end of each chapter Mark also creates what he calls an intersection. This is an opportunity for the reader to consider what Scripture has to say about the key points that Mark has made in the chapter. It’s another powerful way to engage the reader in looking at life, achievement, results, significance, and service from God’s perspective rather than man’s.

Don’t let the small size of this book fool you. It’s packed with simple truths that were enacted upon to help ensure that we truly do add value and make a difference to those whose lives we touch.

Armchair Interviews says: Very inspirational ideas for work, home, church and community.