“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” – Steven Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Too often, we use questions as weapons. We use questions to dominate others, demonstrate our “superior” mastery, advance our own agenda. No wonder asking questions, and being asked questions, has become so emotionally charged. What if we […]
#52books The Age of Metapreneurship
#52Books The Age of Metapreneurship: A Journey into the Future of Entrepreneurship Format: Kindle Most of us sense that we are in the middle of a paradigm shift. Old ways of working, doing business, functioning in the world aren’t effective anymore. The questions I’m asking myself are: What does this new paradigm look like? What […]
#52books The NeoGeneralist
#52Books The Neo-Generalist: Where You Go Is Who You Are Format: Kindle I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I am thrilled that Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin have described my experience. People know me as someone who has many interests and tends to deep-dive when I decide to learn something. […]
#52books Authentic Content Marketing
#52Books Authentic Content Marketing: Build An Engaged Audience For Your Personal Brand Through Integrity & Generosity Format: Kindle Part of what is driving my extended research is the search for a way to do marketing that feels authentic to me. I’ve been practicing with some common techniques that have made me feel uncomfortable. Marketing is […]
#52Books Crushing It
#52Books Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too (Amazon affiliate link) Format: Kindle Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) speaks to the exhausting work of becoming a social media star on all channels. He provides case studies and ideas for content. He also warns (repeatedly) that this is not a fast […]
#52books Authorpreneur
#52Books Authorpreneur: Build the Brand, Business, and Lifestyle You Deserve. It’s Time to Write Your Book. Format: Kindle Have you noticed the explosion of books on Amazon? I sense that a large percentage of those books are written by individuals trying to establish expertise in a given niche. Jesse Tevelow comprehensively explains the entrepreneurial book […]
#52books Ask
View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2rSaR2Q —————- #52Books Ask Format: Kindle This book appeared repeatedly among the big online marketers as a “great book.” Fundamentally, the book describes how to use surveys as a marketing tool. As Ryan Levesque describes, you are both getting important information about your prospective customers’ needs and encouraging engagement and trust. Part […]
#52books The End of Power
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#52books Wemberly Worried
View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2HUN0e2 —– #52Books – Wemberly Worried Format: Hardcover, Children’s Sometimes a children’s author nails it. Kevin Henkes nailed not just the child’s experience of anxiety and worry, but also the adult’s. The mental loop that many of us drag around for decades. His illustration through a brief story of how telling someone […]
#52books The Hero with a Thousand Faces
View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2w1lOEE ———– #52Books – The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) Format: Audiobook For Christmas during my freshman year at Virginia Tech, my father gave me a copy of The Power of Myth. “Wendy, you might not understand this right now – but keep revisiting it.” Joseph […]
