There were maybe ten of us meeting with him in the room that day, spread out in a circle, more or less, telling him about what we wanted to do, and listening to him tell us who he was and what sorts of things he’d done. The meeting went on for well over an hour. We...
When I was a teenager, I stumbled upon the fountain of youth. I went to hear a concert one summer day at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. I must have been fifteen, maybe sixteen. As it happened, the guest conductor that day was the legendary Spanish cellist,...
I just spent a few days with Nashville Hall of Fame singer-songwriter Gary Burr and his lovely wife, the amazing singer-songwriter Georgia Middleman. Gary has written hit after hit after hit. His songs have been recorded by a who’s who — from Reba McEntire to...
To celebrate the launch of our new book, The Go-Giver Leader, I thought I’d post this unpublished passage from Rachel’s diary—Rachel being the character in The Go-Giver who ends up going into business with Joe to create Rachel’s Famous Coffee.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...
“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...
“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,...
