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Success Tips at DailyLit

We're excited to announce that Tom's Success Tips are now available at DailyLit.com. What's DailyLit? It's a service that delivers short digital installments of books via email or RSS. The founders write: "We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved." I realize that for some of you this may be anathema, but I think it's fun and useful. In addition to (re)reading Success Tips, I'm currently receiving a daily dose of Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus. Each morning I get a short burst (800-1000 words?) of the book that I read with my other email. Each installment of this book is a lesson in how to create radical change in the world.

As for Success Tips, it's free, as are many other books at the site. We hope to feature Pursuit of WOW!, Brand You50, and other Tom books in the near future. Access to those titles will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of US $5. Still a bargain!

We all hope you enjoy reading Tom in this new format. If you don't, comments are open. (Of course we wouldn't mind hearing from people who love the service, either.)

Erik Hansen posted this on 05/12/08.

Comments

Great concept Erik - thanks for the tip - maybe I will get to read some of the classics I've been putting off for years. Now I have no excuse - its FREE to read GBS! What a great idea. More power to the web. Brilliant!

Posted by Trevor Gay at May 12, 2008 7:11 PM

The words the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same describes:

a. Lyrics from the Tower of Power Song "I'd Still be Diggin' on James Brown"

b. My paycheck...speed of light process change and performance expectations...no love on payday!

c. My neighbor's vain attempts at hair restoration. Multiple and increasingly expensive procedures...same shiny and sun reflecting results.

d. The "old school" TP style thought bytes from back in the day that will improve performance, productivity, and results just as effectively in this day and age...FREE @ DailyLit.

e. All of the Above

I find a bunch of value in this style and type of information. They make for great discussion points and simplify concepts that folks find confusing and intimidating into stories and examples that they can relate to. They are indeed a great "teacher". MBWA re-born (or re-introduced) to a new generation who must have missed it during B-school. One piece of advise is one I've followed for years is a reminder that when "feces occurs" (the living room @DailyLIT is a bit more, uh,relaxed or hearing impaired)you observe the following damage control posture. The strategy? "FOUL UP. FESS UP. FAST. FASTIDIOUSLY." Take the heat short term, gain knowledge and respect in the same time frame

Again, thanks folks...Excellence is timeless and Tom's thought's are just as relevant, perhaps more so today

Posted by Dave Wheeler at May 12, 2008 10:14 PM

Dave - LOL

'My neighbor's vain attempts at hair restoration. Multiple and increasingly expensive procedures...same shiny and sun reflecting results.'

Hilarious :-)

Posted by Trevor Gay at May 13, 2008 12:57 AM

I was among those who said, "Book by email? You've got to be kidding." But, I'm going to try it out. Often, when I read Tom's business book recommendations, I only get about two-thirds of the way through them. (Not the fiction! Those are the best.) But given small doses of a management treatise on a daily basis, I might actually finish one. And Erik tells me that you can ask for another installment on demand. If you get engrossed, you don't have to wait. Imagine the value of this feature when you're standing in a line and neglected to carry a printed book along, but you have your Blackberry.

Note, there are books that beat the two-thirds curse: Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, Moneyball by Michael Lewis, Execution by Bossidy and Charan, and (suck-up alert) all of Tom's.

Posted by cathy mosca at May 13, 2008 9:43 AM

Thanks Tom
In an age where we have less time but books remain timeless, making time more accessible brings value.

Posted by Kaplan Mobray, Author 10Ks of Personal Branding at May 19, 2008 12:10 AM