This month’s Proverbs focus is on Giving. This past February, as I browsed the Barnes & Noble bookshelves, I ran across The Go-Giver Leader. With endorsements from John Maxwell, Captain David Marquet, and Colleen Barrett, I was intrigued.
Co-Authors Bob Burg and John David Mann wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Go-Giver, whose mysterious mentor character Pindar introduces the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success, which all revolve around the idea that a giving mindset is the key to a rich and fulfilling life. One of those Five Laws is the Law of Influence, which says that your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first.
Burg and Mann again turn to Pindar to expand on the idea in this book with something to say about leadership. They explain that they wrote this story and published it in 2011 under the title, It’s Not About You—a title that seemed to nicely echo the core idea of The Go-Giver: that shifting one’s emphasis from getting to giving, from a “me” focus to an “other” focus, leads to greater and often unexpected returns.
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