The other day we got this note from Adrienne Schultz, our amazing editor at Portfolio:
So on my way to work today, I was walking through the Times Square subway station—a busy spot, as you can imagine. There was a man walking against traffic, nearly bumping into everyone as he passed by. I was a bit [...]
For years, I’ve been talking about what I call the Treacherous Dichotomy: the deeply ingrained idea that operating in our own interests and operating in others’ interests are mutually exclusive. That is, looking out for yourself is selfish, looking out for others is altruistic, and you’re either one or the other.
Bob and I have argued [...]
This week an amazing treat landed in my mail box: the hot-off-the-press Japanese hardcover edition of The Go-Giver. The people at Bungei Shunju Ltd. did a phenomenal job: gorgeous production values. Even though I can’t read a lick of Japanese, leafing through this book is an experience.
For one thing, it’s illustrated—and in the most [...]
A few months ago, I posted a piece about a nonprofit organization called the Giving USA Foundation that compiles annual statistics on charitable giving.
Well, they’ve just released Giving USA 2008, their newest report. Their findings? “Despite worries about gas prices, mortgage crisis and [the] housing market,” says the report, “giving rose by 3.9 percent (1 [...]
We’ve had a number of people tell us that among The Go-Giver’s five laws, law #4, Authenticity, was “clearly the pivotal law, the one that really slammed home.”
On the other hand, some have said it was law #5, the Law of Receptivity, that really stood out. “The other four laws were polished wood,” confided one [...]
In his blog, Seth Godin makes this wonderful point about price and value:
Your sales force and your customers may scream that you need to lower your price.
It’s not true.
You need to increase your value. If people don’t want to pay, it’s because you’re not delivering enough value for the money you’re charging [emphasis [...]
Recently leadership expert David Zinger posted a list of ”the almost 300 blogs that inspire me.” It’s quite a resource, well worth poking through and seeing what you find—and we were quite honored to note that The Go-Giver blog is on David’s list!
David also wrote a wonderful review of our book he calls “5 Zingers” [...]
In a blog post about The Go-Giver, Stever Robbins (the “Get-It-Done Guy”) talks about his interview with Bob (which you can listen to here) — and also mentions a fascinating Boston Globe article, “Money Makes You Happy — If You Spend It On Others,” about the benefits of giving.
The study, co-led by researchers at Harvard [...]
Most reviews of The Go-Giver have been quite complimentary, but now and then we find one insisting that, while this all sounds very nice and everything, the real world just doesn’t work this way. For example, one reviewer wrote:
“Even the most credulous reader will have to supress a snicker at how quickly the karmic [...]
I’d never read any of her books, nor heard her speak, when Bob and I were writing Chapter 10 of The Go-Giver—you know, the one about Debra Davenport and the Law of Authenticity—but this week I felt like I’d met her when I spent some time chatting with New York Times best-selling author Marianne Williamson.
Imagine [...]
