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, [...]
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 [...]
We asked Don Gandy and Randy Stelter, at Valpraiso, Indiana’s Wheeler High School, for a few pictures. Don just sent us some great shots, so we can see who these amazing Indiana go-givers are. The Wheeler High school senior class, who are all studying The Go-Giver with Don and Randy (click photo to enlarge) Randy [...]
Here is one more update on the senior class at Valapraiso, Indiana’s Wheeler High School, where principal Don Gandy and athletic director Randy Stelter are team-leading a study of The Go-Giver (see our last two posts). This report came during the week from Randy: Just finished our second senior class discussion of The Go-Giver. Must [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
The person in this video isn’t really Rachel from The Go-Giver, but she could be Rachel’s Indian sister. Actually, her name is Anjali Desai, and she is talking about Seva Café, a little restaurant in Ahmedabad (India’s fifth-largest city) that operates on the principle of giving — or “paying it forward”: each patron makes a [...]
Of the sixteen foreign-language editions of The Go-Giver now in process, six so far are complete and available, i.e., the Dutch, French, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and Thai editions. We wondered how these various editions would translate the term “go-giver.” After all, not only does the word itself not exist, strictly speaking (at least not in [...]
