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The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business
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PLEASE NOTE: This audiobook was previously published under the title It's Not About You.
From the acclaimed, bestselling authors of The Go-Giver, a new parable about the power of giving leadership.
The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades. Its people take pride in their work and feel loyal to their owners and management team. But this long-revered company is now at a crossroads, hurt by a tough economy, foreign competition, and a cash crunch. The air is filled with the scent of uncertainty, anxiety, perhaps even panic.
Enter Ben, the ambitious young executive assigned by his firm to promote a merger that will rescue Allen & Augustine. Ben's facts are undeniable: the chairmaker can either merge and modernize, or go bankrupt and vanish. So why can't he convince anyone to buy in, from the CEO on down?
During his week at the company, as Ben gets to know its people and meets with its top executives, he begins to realize that his aggressive style is actually making it harder to reach his goals. As one character puts it, "How far can you push a rope?"
Will Ben find a way to sway the employee shareholders before the climactic vote? And can Allen & Augustine survive without losing its soul? The answers may surprise you, as you follow Ben on his journey to understanding that the path to genuine influence lies less in taking leadership than in giving it.
From the acclaimed, bestselling authors of The Go-Giver, a new parable about the power of giving leadership.
The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades. Its people take pride in their work and feel loyal to their owners and management team. But this long-revered company is now at a crossroads, hurt by a tough economy, foreign competition, and a cash crunch. The air is filled with the scent of uncertainty, anxiety, perhaps even panic.
Enter Ben, the ambitious young executive assigned by his firm to promote a merger that will rescue Allen & Augustine. Ben's facts are undeniable: the chairmaker can either merge and modernize, or go bankrupt and vanish. So why can't he convince anyone to buy in, from the CEO on down?
During his week at the company, as Ben gets to know its people and meets with its top executives, he begins to realize that his aggressive style is actually making it harder to reach his goals. As one character puts it, "How far can you push a rope?"
Will Ben find a way to sway the employee shareholders before the climactic vote? And can Allen & Augustine survive without losing its soul? The answers may surprise you, as you follow Ben on his journey to understanding that the path to genuine influence lies less in taking leadership than in giving it.
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Reviews for The Go-Giver Leader
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Principles to live by. Laws of Value, Compensation, Influence, Authenticity, and Receptivity. A quick read. Slightly sophomoric.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5They call it the 'Little" Story - I think that's an understatement. I've read a lot of 'good' inspirational books in my time and I've read some that should have been, but weren't. "The Go Giver" is a book about things we should have already learned, but have a tendency to forget in our day to day hectic life styles and interactions with others.It doesn't really matter what you think you know about 'giving', and if you think you are missing something in your life, you need to read this book because you probably are.Anyone who passes "The Go Giver" by because they think it is just about 'business' is missing a lot. The lessons inside can be applied to every single minute of our lives.If you don't have "The Go Giver" in your personal library, BUY IT. When you get the messages and 5 laws from your head to your heart, your life and the lives of everyone you come in contact with is going to change.It may be a "little" book, but it's got a HUGE message. Get it, read it, LIVE IT.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book seems cheesy at first but several months after reading it I still refer back to the lessons it teaches. Like a good parable, the book does an amazing job of teaching a wonderful principle.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The audiobook version of this small but amazing book is a wonderful addition to having the book as well. Reading or listening to this story more than once will provide you the inspiration to not only be better at what you do, but yo help improve your personal life as well. When I first read this book I immediately bought 4 copies and gave them as gifts to everyone in my office. Knowing, understanding, and living the ideas brought forth by this little amazing book will help anyone live a more amazing life.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Go Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann follows in the footsteps of other short fable based business motivational books like Who Moved My Cheese. This is a quick read and like other similar stories it involves someone struggling with an issue and then they are taken under the wings of a mentor who teaches them their secrets. In this case the book is built on learning the 5 laws of stratospheric success. In this book one of the underlying themes is giving and going beyond in everything you do. There a lot of good points in a short book and blending it in with a fable while not unique is beneficial to getting the points across. If you like short motivational reads then you will probably enjoy this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Every leader need to read this book, it’s one of the best written on leadership.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really like the storytelling style of the book. Much easier to learn and relate to. Good themes and lessons for any leader or really any person!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book! One if the best leadership books I have read. Thank you!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it. Would be a great read for my business students
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very entertainment and just. It was fun to see how all the action will go and also how this one will evolve. I surely enjoy it.
Thank you, - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5"You like to read..."Giving and loaning books is hard if you actually want the receiver to get what you hope out of a book. People that introduce their offering with the above words are the worst. These are people so unaccustomed to reading they seem to think reading is something some people just like to do. If that were that case I wouldn't laugh like an idiot every time Alec Baldwin declared that The Handbook for the Recently Deceased "reads like stereo instructions!" I've read me some shit books and thankfully many more awesome ones. This is the kind where I can't stop wondering just how stupid the author thinks I am.The Go-Giver is a business self-help fanasy novel apparently written for people for whom conventional self-help books are too challenging. Unfortunately it's the self-help that's fantasy and the book is entirely void of wizards and unicorns. In a way the book is sort of an anti-Prince. The Prince has long served as a manual for cold machination and ruthless strategy for dictators, business men and stone cold bastards. The Go-Giver, on the otherhand, preaches selfish selflessness. To put it simply, the revolutionary secret to "Stratosheric Success" is just be a good person. Except, how good can you really be if you're only good because you think you'll get something out of it? The two authors (it took two dudes to write this crap!) actually came up with "Five Laws of Stratospheric Success" but it's equal parts lame and depressing. The laws fall into two categories. The first category is just do the things that any decent person would do because they've got a baseline of human compassion. The second category is stand back and wait for your good behavior to be rewarded richly. Failure to be properly rewarded indicates a lack of "receptiveness" according to the shameless authors.On the one hand I like that this book is essentially saying, "don't be a dick". But ultimately the complete message is "treat other people with decency and kindness with the expectation that you will get something out of it." That's a sociopathic take on ethics. To make matters worse the book takes the tacit view that success and money are a manifestation goodness, effectively sainting the wealthy. Certainly there are good people that are also wealthy, but there are also an awful lot of very not nice people that are wealthy and successful. It sticks in my craw that the book sets up an implied scale that equates goodness with status and wealth. It also irks me that these two grinning yahoos are no doubt transforming the publicity garnered from their undeserving bestseller into traffic for their consulting business.