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240 pages
ISBN 9781400046836 Published July 2003
Crown Business
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Posted April 14, 2011 8:37 a.m. by dylan
Tim Sanders wrote an odd little book in 2002 that went on to sell tons of copies. That odd little book was called Love is the Killer App, and it continues to sell today. His latest book, Today We Are Rich, is another odd little book and it deals with an odd subject—having total confidence.
As I was telling my colleague Jon how much I liked this book, he said that Tim Sanders was one of the few people who could actually write a book like this without it sounding silly, maudlin and even cliché. He is right. First, Sanders has the street cred needed to pull it off. As a young man he held an executive position at Yahoo, and he already has a best-selling book to his credit. He has also lived a remarkable life. At the age of four, he was abandoned by his mother and was raised by his grandmother Billye. This book tells us of those early years, and it doesn’t skip his “sideways” years.
Sanders has written one of the better self-help books I have ever read. Over the years I have discovered that believing in yourself is crucial to success, and Tim has given us seven principles to help us reach that total confidence. They are:
- Feed your mind good stuff.
- Move the conversation forward
- Exercise your gratitude muscle
- Give to be rich
- Prepare yourself
- Balance your confidence
- Promise made, promise kept
As an example of the support material around each of these principles, the first section on feeding your mind suggests the following:
Most important, read good books. If your mind diet is weighted heavily toward good books, you’ll enlighten your perspective and gain wisdom over time. I recommend this mix in your media diet: 25 percent media, 50 percent books, and the remaining 25 percent social and workstream (offline and online).
As you can tell from this quote, Tim Sanders gives you specific ideas that you can take to the bank. That is a true treasure and so is this book.
Jack Covert Selects - The Likeability Factor
Posted April 19, 2005 2:59 a.m. by jack
The Likeability Factor : How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams by Tim Sanders, Crown Business, 224 Pages, $23.00, Hardcover, April 2005, ISBN 1400080495
It can't be stated more plainly: Unlikeability doesn't work. Easy as that, folks. With that established Tim Sanders has kindly followed in the steps of his previous bestseller, Love is the Killer App, with a book that gives us the tools on how to be likeable. He didn't pull it out of thin air either. Nope, it's based on solid research; Sanders cites thousands of pages to prove it.
The author states that a morning show deejay asked him to give a lecture on how to be more likeable. After studying a particularly rude deejay, he came up with four things necessary to improve one's likeability. This of course is effective in both professional and personal environments. This is what he came up:
Friendliness: seems like a no-brainer, but many people don't think being friendly makes such a big difference. It does.
Relevance: try to matter to other people. Don't just see what you can get out of them but rather what you can do for them.
Empathy: Care for people. Try to get behind what matters to them etc. Be interested in them first.
Realness: Likeability will not work if you try to fake it. Once people realize that your friendliness, empathy and relevance is real, you will see changes.
After he discusses the four elements of likeability, he moves on to share detailed guidelines on every single element. This is a very useful part of the book, with tips and examples on how to improve one's likeability. This book will teach anyone how to bring out the best in others. Who doesn't want that win-win situation? Pick up a copy today.
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Jack Covert Selects - Love is the Killer App
Posted Feb. 3, 2002 8:40 a.m. by katie
Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders, Crown Business, 200 Pages, $21.00 Hardcover, January 2002, ISBN 060960922X
When I received this galley about six months ago, I was wary of the book because of the hip cover, zippy title, brief length, and its all-about-success-but-not-failure premise. Every time I cracked the cover, I found myself questioning Sanders premise. I saddled right up to the thought that love really is the killer app. Cool. But this warm-fuzzy contradicted the very 80s power-broker subtitle. The author challenged me to read the book with an open mind (and with a steak dinner as the reward if I read the book and truly didnt find it of any value). So, I gave it a chance and discovered that what Sanders has to say is very valuable.
One of the most personally important books I have read in the past couple of years (look at our websites JCS archives to read my review) is called, Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. The author, Baker, talks about networking, personal investment, kindness but with a more academic flair. As I said in my review about Bakers book: Focusing on helping others without expectation of any return brings more to you than if you focused on quid pro quo. I love that idea. Karma lives. Sanders expounds upon this idea. Focusing on helping others without expectation of any return helps you more than you can imagine. I think the section on sharing compassion is spot on, as well as the message that you dont need to tear people down to rise up. Despite my initial misgivings, I have found this book not only valuable, but a contemporary 7 Habits. No steak dinner for me.
