"Die meisten Menschen lächeln einfach, wenn sie hören, dass das Geheimnis des Erfolgs darin besteht, zu geben... Andererseits sind die meisten Menschen bei weitem nicht so erfolgreich, wie sie es gerne wären." Der Go-Giver ist eine herzerwärmende, inspirierende und zugleich geistreiche, anmutige Geschichte eines ehrgeizigen und erfolgshungrigen jungen Mannes namens Joe. Joe ist ein echter Macher, aber manchmal hat er das Gefühl, dass je härter und schneller er arbeitet, desto weiter entfernt seine Ziele zu sein scheinen. Verzweifelt auf der Suche nach einem wichtigen Verkauf am Ende eines schlechten Quartals sucht er Rat bei dem geheimnisvollen Pindar, einem legendären Berater, der von seinen vielen Anhängern einfach nur als "Boss" bezeichnet wird. In der nächsten Woche führt Pindar Joe zu einer Reihe von "Go-Givern": einem Restaurantbesitzer, einem CEO, einem Finanzberater, einem Immobilienmakler und dem "Connector", der sie alle zusammengebracht hat. Pindars Freunde lehren Joe die fünf Gesetze des stratosphärischen Erfolgs und helfen ihm, sich der Kraft des Gebens zu öffnen. Joe lernt, dass sich sein Fokus vom Nehmen zum Geben ändern muss - indem er die Interessen anderer an die erste Stelle setzt und kontinuierlich Mehrwert für ihr Leben schafft, führt letztendlich zu unerwarteten Rückkehrer. Mit Witz und Anmut vermittelt, ist The Go-Giver ein klassischer Bestseller, der das alte Sprichwort "Gib und dir wird gegeben werden" zum Leben erweckt. Fast ein Jahrzehnt nach seiner ursprünglichen Veröffentlichung ist der Begriff "Go-Giver" zum Synonym für einen bestimmten Satz von Werten geworden, die von Hunderttausenden von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt geteilt werden. Heute hilft diese zeitlose Geschichte weiterhin ihren Lesern, Erfüllung und größeren Erfolg im Geschäft, in ihrem persönlichen Leben und in ihren Gemeinden zu finden. Diese erweiterte Ausgabe enthält den Text der ursprünglichen Geschäftsfabel, zusammen mit einem Vorwort von Arianna Huffington, einer neuen Einführung, einem Diskussionsleitfaden und einem Q&A mit den Autoren.

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Before turning to business and journalism, he forged a successful career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At fifteen he won the prestigious BMI Awards to Student Composers and received the award at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, where he met such twentieth-century-music luminaries as William Schumann and Leopold Stokowski. He apprenticed as a choral conductor under his father, Dr. Alfred Mann, which gave him the chance to meet more legendary figures of classical music, including Randall Thompson, Leonard Bernstein, Boris Goldovsky, Robert Shaw, and George Crumb. His musical compositions were performed throughout the U.S. and his musical score for Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (written at age thirteen) was performed as part of a theatrical production of the play at the stone amphitheater in Epidaurus, Greecethe very one, in fact, where the play was originally premiered a few thousand years earlier. (That was a good day.) At age seventeen, he and a few friends started their own high school in New Jersey (called Changes, Inc. you can read about it here and here). Alternative though they were, his school successfully placed its students in such universities as Harvard and Yale. After graduating, he joined the school's faculty. In the years since he has taught children in affluent Boston suburbs, Indiana farms, and the poorest neighborhoods on the outskirts of Philadelphia. John never planned to go into business; it just seemed to keep working out that way. He has founded one school, one food distribution business, one graphic design business, and two publishing companies. John's diverse career has made him a thought leader in several different industries. In 1986 he founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition, and environmental issues. His series on the climate crisis, Whither the Trees? (yes, he was writing about this back in the eighties), was selected for national reprint in 1989 in Utne Reader for a readership of over one hundred thousand. In 1992 John helped write and produce the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry. During the 1990s, John built a multimillion-dollar sales/distribution organization of over a hundred thousand people. He was cofounder and senior editor of the legendary Upline journal and editor in chief of Networking Times. As a public speaker he has addressed audiences of thousands. John is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal, for The Go-Giver), the Nautilus Award (for A Deadly Misunderstanding), and Taiwan's Golden Book Award for Innovation (for You Call the Shots). The Go-Giver was also honored with the Living Now Book Awards Evergreen Medal in 2017 for its contributions to positive global change, and cited on Inc.'s Most Motivational Books Ever Written and HubSpot's 20 Most Highly Rated Sales Books of All Time; The Go-Giver Leader was listed on Entrepreneur magazine's 10 Books Every Leader Should Read and Forbes magazine's 8 Books Every Young Leaders Should Read. His 2012 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named Best Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington Post. His first novel, Steel Fear (2021, with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb), was hailed by Lee Child as an instant classic, maybe an instant legend and nominated for a Barry Award. Jeffery Deaver called the sequel, Cold Fear (2022), one of the best crime novels of the year. You can read his thoughts on entering the world of crime fiction here. His books are published in 38 languages and have sold more than 3 million copies. John coauthored the international bestselling classic The Go-Giver (with Bob Burg), the New York Times bestsellers The Latte Factor (with David Bach), The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus), and The Answer (ghost-written for John Assaraf and Murray Smith) and the national bestsellers The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), Out of