Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

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	Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas Seth Godin Portfolio Hardcover, 2006 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

More provocative business thinking from the bestselling author of Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars

As one of today?s most influential business thinkers, Seth Godin helps his army of fans stay focused, stay connected, and stay dissatisfied with the status quo, the ordinary, the boring. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired countless entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world.

Now, for the first time, Godin has collected the most provocative short pieces from his pioneering blog?ranked #70 by Feedster (out of millions published) in worldwide readership. This book also includes his most popular columns from Fast Company magazine, and several of the short e-books he has written in the last few years.

A sample:
? Bon Jovi And The Pirates
? Christmas Card Spam
? Clinging To Your Job Title?
? How Much Would You Pay to Be on Oprah?s Show?
? The Persistence of Really Bad Ideas
? The Seduction of ?Good Enough?
? What Happens When It's All on Tape?
? Would You Buy Life Insurance at a Rock Concert?

Small is the New Big is a huge bowl of inspiration that you can gobble in one sitting or dip into at any time. As Godin writes in his introduction: ?I guarantee that you'll find some ideas that don?t work for you. But I?m certain that you're smart enough to see the stuff you?ve always wanted to do, buried deep inside one of these riffs. And I?m betting that once inspired, you?ll actually make something happen.?

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Not Business as Usual

If you are looking for some ideas to jump start your creative juices, take the few hours necessary to breeze thru this collection of blog posting from Seth Godin, blogger extraordinaire and seller of confidence for those needing to step outside their box. You do not need to have read his best-seller, "Purple Cow", or even be your company's marketing chief to find useful ideas and some interesting perspectives on inconsistencies that show-up in our everyday business transactions or even personal interactions.

Being someone who promotes personal responsibility in organizational process, I loved his statement, "...anonymity as the enemy of civility...", and thus transparency and accountability as the answer to email spam or telemarketers. And, I loved it when he wrote "benchmarks = mediocrity": If everyone is doing the same thing; it delivers, by definition, average performance. I doubt that you will agree with every one of his opinions, as expressed in these 183 blog postings, but you will surely find enough to make this book a keepers; or, as I shall do, something to pass along to a friend or relative.

Dennis DeWilde, author of "The Performance Connection"

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wow thats a lot of info

Not that Seth needs another glowing review...This book is great. Read the introduction and follow the isntructions for how to read the book. Every segment is something worth taking to the copier and distributing to coworkers. Here is an idea: start your own company and experiment with all the cool nuggets in the book, you might fail but it will be fun.

Short and sweet nuggets of inspiration

I love the "short and sweet" format - this is the perfect opportunity to browse someone else's brain for ideas!
I read this over about 6 months, picking it up and reading one or two "rants" at a time. I found these thought-provoking, with sufficient detail for me to know what he was going on enough, but without boring me with detail and examples. Several topics triggered great ideas which I've thought through, developed, and run with in the days after reading.
Highly recommended.

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