I just noticed my blogging colleague Bob Poole put the audio recording (mp3) of his interview with best-selling author Daniel Pink online.
“Interview With Dan Pink (↑).”
Bob has a sales background and, therefore, they also touch on the
subject of motivating sales people quite a bit.
Check it out. The interview is about 16 minutes long. A
transcript (↑) is already available on Bob's blog.
Enjoy.
By the way: I already put Dan's book on my Amazon wishlist.
“Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (↑).”
Learning about human psychology and applying this knowledge has been always helpful in
sales and marketing. Remember the old saying?
“People buy what they WANT not what they NEED.”
Yours
John W. Furst
Seth Godin does not exactly have the reputation of writing How To books for dummies. And his latest book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (↑)
— to be released on January 26, 2010 (audio book on February, 9) will not be an exception.
Let me talk a little bit about this amazing book. I also had the honor that Seth answered me a couple of questions about the book. All here in this blog post. Stay tuned.
Update January 12, 2010:
Review of the whole book by Becky Blanton
…and even more reviews by my friends from <Triiibes.com>.
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It is Saturday, October 25
th, 2008. A special day. Today I have started and finished reading
Tribes - We Need You To Lead Us written by
Seth Godin. That's why it is a special day.
The book is dense
While reading, you feel the huge amount of observation, deep thought, and the tedious work that Seth Godin condensed into this little, tiny book.
The book might be tiny in format, but like the matter of a neutron star, it's heavy. Really heavy stuff that weighs a lot more than you probably can imagine.
No, no, wait!
I don't want to scare you away. It's fun to read this book, and it's a quick read, too. What Seth wrote sticks.
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I am not sure, if I promised that I will continue to write about Seth Godin, but I do it anyway. Yesterday I have revealed a podcast about Seth's
latest book Tribes. Today I will feature a
TED talk related to his book
“Purple Cow”.
The talk is about 18 minutes long and quite entertaining as well as educating. Check it out.
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Shortly after I turned on the computer this morning, I decided that I will continue to write about Seth Godin. He was so kind to leave a comment on my lates blog post, “Tribes - A leadership book written by Seth Godin”
On September 12th, 2008 Seth Godin had recorded an exclusive interview style
podcast done by and for his community
Triiibes.com.
(I don't hot link there, because it is a private community — and will remain to be private — and all you would see is a login screen.)
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Seth Godin got into the habit of doing something special with every book launch. His latest book
Tribes is accompanied by a private social network Seth had created in August. Currently
Triiibes.com has 3662 members.
The inside of the book cover of Tribes shows the avatars of some members of this network. You will remember that I wrote, “I got an invitation from Seth to
join his network”. Yes, I am in. However, I did not make it on the cover… To bad. Not really. I just created a video showing all 3,662 members in 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
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