344: The Practice and Shipping Creative Work with Seth Godin

If I had to make the difficult choice of selecting just 20 books to access for the remainder of my life, I could do a lot worse than the 20 written so far by today’s special guest.

Seth Godin is special to me for a lot of reasons; not the least of which is he is almost singlehandedly responsible for helping rekindle my love of reading.

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In fact, you could go so far as to say that, without Seth Godin, there’s a real good chance the last seven-plus years of my life would have been spent doing something else.

But thanks to his book Purple Cow, I’m here instead. And the beauty of that is, so are you.

Seth’s latest book, released last week, is called The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, and I am thrilled to dive into it in this episode with Seth and with you.

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343: The Self-Evolved Leader with Dave McKeown

I must confess: sometimes I’m just late to the party.

You might say that’s the case for the book and author I’m featuring today.

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Okay, so the book is less than a year old, but I have to admit the publicist representing today’s guest first reached out to me last December! They’re a patient lot.

My guest today is Dave McKeown and he’s written an excellent book titled The Self-Evolved Leader: Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down.

Dave’s book is a practical guide to help you as a C-suite executive and leader “resist the pull of the urgent” so you can focus on the direction of your team, your people, and your shared goals.

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342: Close the Gap Between Dreaming and Doing with Kary Oberbrunner

It is a rare moment when I’m able to present to you a guest who’s been on the show once before.

It’s even rarer when that guest has already been on the show twice before.

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That’s right! Today, I’m excited to welcome Kary Oberbrunner to Read to Lead for the third time. He has a brand new book out, released just this past Saturday.

It’s called Unhackable: The 30-Day Elixir for Creating Flawless Ideas, Leveraging Superhuman Focus, and Achieving Optimal Performance Thorugh Flow, and I consider it to be his best book yet.

The truth is, Kary says, you’re getting hacked every day, and you don’t even know it. First your productivity plummets, morale declines, and your dream gets sidelined and sabotaged – yet again.

Unless…you’re UNHACKABLE!

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341: When More Is Not Better with Author Roger L. Martin

Someone once said you can never have too much of a good thing. But then again, they weren’t very smart.

My guest today is very smart and he says you can indeed have too much of a good thing, even when it comes to efficiency.

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His name is Roger L. Martin and he’s writting 11 previous books. He is Professor Emeritus at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and, in 2017, he was named world’s #1 management thinker!

His brand new book, and the one we’ll be diving into today, is called When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency.

For its first two hundred years, Roger says, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with ever-increasing levels of efficiency spurred by the division of labor, international trade, and scientific management of companies.

By the time of our bicentennial celebration in 1976, the American economy was the envy of the world.

But since then, outcomes have changed dramatically. Roger says, the growth in the economic prosperity of the average American family has slowed to a crawl, while the wealth of the richest Americans has skyrocketed. This imbalance threatens the American democratic capitalist system and our way of life.

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340: The Bridge From Your Dreams to Your Destiny with Mark Victor Hansen

Today, I owe a special thanks to Dov Gordon and Steve Sponseller.

Together, these two gentlemen made it possible for me to connect with the prolific author I have the privilege of bringing to you today

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That author is none other than the co-creator (along with Jack Canfield) of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books, Mark Victor Hansen; a series that has surpassed a half-billion books sold!

Today, I’m talking with Mark about a book he released earlier this year titled Ask: The Bridge From Your Dreams to Your Destiny.

You were born with a destiny, Mark says. Your job is to discover it. Once you begin to practice the art and science of asking to discover your destiny and start to move toward it, you can manifest innumerable blessings for yourself and others.

This isn’t a complicated process; in fact, it’s a simple gift that lies dormant within you. Once you learn to access that gift, everything changes for the better. Ask! will help you access your hidden dreams and reveal them to be recognized and fulfilled in miraculous ways.

You matter. The world needs you to find your destiny and live it. This book is your guide. Start crossing the bridge to your destiny today!

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