We received a wonderful email from Randy Stelter, from Wheeler High School in Indiana. Randy is the athletic director Bob mentioned in his last post, who is joining Wheeler High’s principal Don Gandy to bring The Go-Giver to all the 145 students in their senior class.
Randy writes:
We had our first discussion [on The Go-Giver] [...]
Among the most gratifying emails we receive are those from parents who say they’ve given copies of The Go-Giver to their children, and teachers who suggest it to their students. This one, though, goes above and beyond:
We recently heard from Don Gandy, a high school principal in Valparaiso, Indiana, who wrote to our National Marketing [...]
Tonight is Oscar night — and I’ve got a couple of “Oscars” to announce as well. We just learned the results of the 2nd annual Axiom Business Book Awards, an international award sponsored by the independent publishing community aimed at “recognizing and promoting the world’s best business titles,” and in the category of Business Fables, [...]
One of the most rewarding things for us, as authors, is the number of women who’ve told us that the female characters in The Go-Giver feel authentic to them, and not just like a Martian’s idea of a Venusian.
Indeed, one of the whole ideas behind the book is to give equal weight to those “softer” [...]
A reader of The Go-Giver, citing Law #4, “The Law of Authenticity,” asked if there are books written specially on that topic.
My unresearched reply was, “Regarding books on authenticity, I’m not sure how many are out there on that topic, though I’m sure there are some. However, you’ll probably happen to find the authenticity [...]
“We teach our kids not to talk to strangers. But some of our best conversations have been with strangers.” So says The Stranger, in this charming pictorial-adventure-diary from Franke James, Toronto-based founder and editor of the blog Office-Politics®.
Last August Franke wrote an extremely engaging and thoughtful piece about The Go-Giver (she even posted her own [...]
We just received a delightful year-end gift: notice from the good folks at 800-CEO-Read (also known as 8CR) that The Go-Giver made the #3 spot in their “2008 Bestsellers” list.
Interesting: ever since September, when the economy started melting down, sales for our little story have been heating up. We have some thoughts on why that [...]
