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Summary: A NEW SLANT ON ACHIEVING SUCCESS!
Review: If you're looking for a new slant on achieving success this book delivers! By "love" Sanders means intelligently sharing your intangible assets (knowledge, contacts, compassion) with others. He discusses these intangibles in detail. Using this basis, Sanders sets forth a three stage approach: 1) learn as much as possible and share that knowledge; 2) grow the largest network of contacts possible; and 3) open up these contacts to help others and be the most compassionate person you can become. Success will follow. While the message seems simple enough, you really need to read the book to fully fathom Sanders' thinking. The ideas are applicable to all walks of life. A very personal, first-rate fast-read with a unique and attractive message. Speaking from personal experience, this type of networking works. I'm glad Sanders has put these ideas into print.
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Summary: Insightful
Review: Tim Sanders has written a book that promotes the idea that the Beatles coined in the sixties: 'Love is all you need'. The other reviews have really pointed out the strength of this book. One thing that stood our to me is the common sense idea that reading is necessary skill in business is something that is suprisingly rarely practiced. A consultant that I spoke to who had worked at a large company for 20 years had commented that his colleagues had rarely opened up a book outside of work. He joked that this is why he's so successful as a consultant: he READS. One thing I would have liked Sanders to go more into is how to be a realistic lovecat. In recent interviews, Sanders has conceded you can't be a lovecat to everyone. that there are some people where being a lovecat will not work and maybe a waste of time. I don't think this takes away from the strength of his basic message, but instead frames it in the reality of the 'real' world. Something I wished he talked about in greater detail in his book. Otherwise a great book with a fantastic reading list.
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Summary: A great book, very original but not a masterpiece
Review: After reading the book, I can honestly reccomend it to lots of people, both business oriented people as well as people in other areas of life. Namely, this book is more about how to communicate successfully to other people while making yourself essential. Possibly, many people are acquainted to one of the first well-known book in this area: 'How to win friends and influence people' by Dale Carnigie. The sub-title of Tim Sander's book is very similar: 'How to win businesses and influence friends'. This counterpart tells all there is: We can look at Tim Sander's book as a modern version of the famous Dale Carnigie's book. This fact, however, is not a drawback it is an advantage. 'Love is the killer app' is not a research based book, it is based on Tim Sander's personal findings. It is a rather short reading but is very enjoyable to read. In my opinion, it should appeal to a lot of people that want to strengthen theirs' communication skills. However, the book is almost a must read for many US business oriented people because it reveals how important it is to stop thinking about competing with everyone around you; instead you should give other people love because what you give is what you get.
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Summary: Unusual Business Book
Review: Tim Sanders' book comes through like a breath of fresh air. The reason is very simple. You can feel that Tim only 'preaches what he practices'. What Tim describes is really a way of living and not some formula for success. The essence of the book is all about how to make a difference to some one else's life and in the process your own. Tim talks about 3 big things. Knowledge. Networking & Compassion. What is exciting about the book is that Tim clearly demonstrates how to gain knowledge, how to build a relationship based network and finally how to use both with kindness & compassion in helping others. And the best part is that it is a business book! In some ways he echoes people like David Maister (author of True Professionalism) who said "Clients don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care". And Peter Block who wrote "Stewardship" - Service over self interest.
Incidentally the book is full of quotable quotes. Great for speeches, presentations & conversations. What is also heartening is that Tim himself applies the reality check because he recognises the difficulties in being a "Lovecat" (Any body who acquires knowledge, builds a robust and active network and shares both with generosity is a Lovecat according to Tim). The evangelistic zeal in his book is inspiring. That's what got me to write this review. (Tim recommends that you read at least 2 books and also review it to ensure that you have digested it!!). The timing of this book could not have been more appropriate. There are many experienced people across several countries who might be without jobs and are trying to be independent practitioners. "Love.." will be a great way to start. This is not a book for those looking for quick fix solutions or for lazy people. Tim has given the big idea. You will reap the benefit only if you practise it. That isn't easy.
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Summary: A Fun philosophy of Business Success
Review: I loved this book! It's the only book in years that I read twice through, cover to cover, without a break, just for the sheer enjoyment of its exuberance and all its wisdom! Tim Sanders has filled it full of great insight, good fun, and very practical advice on the most ethical sort of business success. Other reviewers have mentioned main points. Let me just say that, as soon as I finished it the first time, I immediately bought a copy for a friend. And I thereby began using its advice to share the best knowledge we have with people around us who can use it, advice that I've applied in various other ways since....
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Summary: A system for success
Review: Readable and profound. This book is one of the few I've seen on how to systematically acquire and spread knowledge. The details he provides on how he does this, and the anecdotes showing why, are unique and valuable. He does the same analysis and reporting for networking and expressing caring for others. Highly recommended for those who aren't sure how to profitably channel their enthusiasms and get ahead enjoyably.
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Summary: Add Value to Your Work Life
Review: Somewhere along the line, I decided I didn't want to be a big shot. I didn't want to bulldoze coworkers and employees. I didn't want to climb the corporate ladder at the expense of others. I didn't want to abuse people the way I'd been ill-treated by certain employers. Human values seemed more important. I wanted to treat my customers, employees, coworkers and bosses with respect and--dare I say it?--love. I'll forever be grateful to whoever steered me in this direction--for I soon found that work was much more fulfilling and fruitful when I cared for those with whom I worked. According to Tim Sanders, author of Love is the Kller App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends, that makes me a "lovecat." And you can be one too. That's the thrust of this delightful little book by Sanders, Chief Solutions officer at Yahoo!. Pointing to the great social changes of our time, Sanders sees love as the killer way to add value to our business and personal lives. Happily for his readers, Sanders sees "business love" in clear, behaviorial terms. No fuzzy-wuzzy, feel-good exhortations here. Sanders gets right down to business: Bizlove, he says, is "the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your intangibles with your bizpartners." And what are those intangibles? I'm glad you asked, my friend: Our KNOWLEDGE, everything we've learned and everything we continue to learn. Sanders says we learn most from books--and he advocates reading as many as possible. (Amazon must love him!) But it's not just reading. We're encouraged to mark up our books in ways that help us grab their "Big Thoughts" so we can add value to our work and that of others. To Sanders, information is meant to be shared with as many people as possible. Our NETWORK, our incredible web of relationships, biz and personal. It's not just what we know that adds value to our lives and the lives of others, it's who we know. And, like information, relationships bring value to everyone when they are shared. Sanders boldly advocates being something like a flesh-and-blood "home page" with links to all kinds of value-adding relationships. Our COMPASSION, the ability to reach out to others with warmth and regard--to go beyond the safety of biz-as-usual interactions. By sharing these three things with our bizpartners, says Sanders we not only add value to the lives of others but to our own. What's best about Love is the Killer App? First, it's Sanders' unabashed enthusiasm and energy. His excitement at learning how love can transform biz life is infectious and genuine. The text bubbles with his desire for us to experience its power for ourselves. I found it endearing and sincere when taken in small doses. This is not a book to rush through! It's exercise more for the heart than the head. Second, Sanders is eminently practical throughout the book. He doesn't leave us with "teddy bear" admonitions to love. Nope--his focus is on application. Here's HOW you share your knowledge, here's HOW you build and share your network, here's HOW you show compassion to others. You'll find yourself nodding in agreement every time--"Yep, I can do that." Or something like that, for Sanders readily admits that, say, the way he "cliffs-and-tags" books may not work for everyone.
In the interest of full-disclosure, I must admit that I was primed for this book because of my own experience and perspective. And Sanders and I have conversed by e-mail a few times. (The guy practices what he preaches!) So this may not be the most objective review you'll find! If you're interested in more on the subject of love in the bizworld, I can suggest these outstanding books, all available here at Amazon: Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert Greenleaf (a classic), Leadership Is an Art, movingly written by the legendary Max Depree of Herman Miller and Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership by James Autry.
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Summary: Timeless advice, Dated style
Review: A quick & easy read, the book's language seems a direct descedant of the web's pandering to nanosecond attention spans, and that's unfortunate. I found the principles & advice that Sanders gives to be intelligent, useful, and indeed timeless, but his breezy style and pop culture vocabulary make his work seem hopelessly passe even now, the same year it was published. I mean, he uses the word "jiggy" without even the slightest hint of irony. Who's going to know what used to mean in a couple of years? Still, it's definitely worth a read as a well developed, modern manifesto grounded in timeless principles.
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Summary: Nice smart people succeed....remember that!
Review: Tim Sanders has provided for me something, that nothing or no one has been able to do for me. Provide me a genuine inspiration and genuine desire to gather more knowledge and spread it others. He validates the notion that many of us have in the back of our minds. Do we we really have to be mean, ruthless, and selfish to be successful? Well, no we don't, and Tim tells you how you can be nice and smart and still succeed.
The book provides a very clear and powerful method of what it takes to be what he calls a 'lovecat'. His book overflows with personal examples and personal motivations that convey his point across. It is so easy, and it just makes you just want to go out and become lovecat. This is a must read!
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Summary: What Goes Around, Comes Around
Review: Tim Sanders' book truly resonated with me - the importance of compassion (as well as personal networks and knowledge) is often overlooked - especially in light of the overall market downturn... Many of us in high-tech have learned the importance and benefits of having built professional relationships over time that go much deeper than "doing the deal". This book is logical, to the point and reinforced several principles I try to live and work by.
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