A Leader’s Legacy

To celebrate the launch of our new book, The Go-Giver Leader, I thought I’d post this unpublished passage from Rachel’s diary—Rachel being the character in The Go-Giver who ends up going into business with Joe to create Rachel’s Famous Coffee. Like Pindar, Rachel...

Leadership That Pulls

“What made you guys want to write a book about leadership?” In the back of our new book, The Go-Giver Leader, my go-giver writing buddy Bob Burg and I added a Discussion Guide and set of author Q&A’s — and that was the question we started with. In our answer, we...

Giving Leadership

“If you were asked to identify the most precious resource in the world, what would you say? I know what my answer would be: leadership. I believe leadership is the single most valuable, most important commodity there is—and the scarcest. Not oil, not land, not cash,...

Respect

As a kid, Jacob Cohen worked whatever odd jobs he could to help his mom make ends meet. At age 17 he started writing jokes, and within two years he was performing stand-up full-time under the stage name Jack Roy. It didn’t work out. After a decade, Jack gave up show...

A Remedy for Termites

The other day, I received an email from someone who receives the automatic email notifications each time I post on this blog. The email consisted of a single brief sentence: How do I unsubscribe? I’m sure it is written somewhere in the bloggers instruction manual that...
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