Archive for April, 2009
Published April 24th, 2009
We’re not Scotty, and we can’t actually beam you up live to the flight deck of the USS Enterprise—or to the auditorium floor at the Extreme Business Makeover event happening right now in Orlando, Florida. But we can do the next best thing, courtesy of Ustream and the four young go-giver entrepreneurs behind the Go-Giver [...]
Published April 22nd, 2009
Looking a little deeper into the whole business of adding value, since that’s the bedrock of the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success, I stumbled upon a thought about appreciation.
One of the most powerful ways you can create value for people is simply to appreciate them. Notice the things they do that make a difference, no [...]
Published April 9th, 2009
As the behind the scenes “marketing guy,” it’s been exciting to see how many have taken it upon themselves to spread the message of The Go-Giver throughout their own spheres of influence. Every week we receive new stories both of the unique ways The Go-Giver was shared and the impact that its principles had on [...]
Published April 3rd, 2009
While at work on a Go-Giver-related article about the Law of Influence (“Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first”), I was writing about the work of Harvard sociologist Mark Granovetter, Ph.D.
Dr. Granovetter wrote a landmark paper in 1970 that showed how (and proposed why) we have more influence [...]