The Law of Left Field
Published July 1st, 2010In Go-Givers Sell More, we talk about something we call left field, that mysterious and omnipotently benign place from which unexpected rewards so often flow. Here’s how we put it in the book:
In Go-Givers Sell More, we talk about something we call left field, that mysterious and omnipotently benign place from which unexpected rewards so often flow. Here’s how we put it in the book:
800-CEO-Read (also called 8CR), the nation’s premier distributor of business books, has formed a partnership with Inc. magazine to launch a cobranded list of bestselling business books, The Business Book Bestseller List.
As we mentioned a few days ago, Bob and I recently had the honor of getting to honor a true Pindar, the very first recipient of our Go-Giver Lifetime Achievement Award.
In Go-Givers Sell More, we tell the story of Heather Battaglia and ExecNet (now Exec Link) as an example of the Law of Value, and of the ability go-givers have to create their own economy of abundance during difficult times. Heather’s story was the flagship example in Chapter 6, titled “Your Economy,” the concluding chapter of Part 1, which starts off with a quote from Pindar:
We recently got an email from a fellow named Rick Thrasher, who works at a California-based nonprofit called Growers First:
The other day we woke up today to find we were on CNBC! Its web site, that is.
In January, in the midst of a flurry of new website launches (including the Go-Giver Award and the new Go-Givers Sell More site), we also launched a little site for your stories, called The Go-Givers Scrapbook
Bob and I often say on interviews that readers tell us, “The first four laws, those felt comfortable — but that fifth law? That Law of Receptivity? Man, that one made me squirm.”
It would be hard to be much more excited than we are right now. It’s finally here: Launch Day.
A few weeks ago, we promised to unroll a new web site. Here it is: The Go-Giver Scrapbook.