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Strategy of Giving

Published by Amitai Givertz on March 30, 2008 in Business Matters and Things 2.0. 0 Comments

Back in December I saw this teaser posted by Miikka Leinonen on SlideShare, and more recently updated on Insightory.com.

Here is a copy of the book, Strategy of Giving free to download and distribute of course! The Strategy of Giving site is packed with lots of goodies. Enjoy!

Gifford Pinchot: A Gift That Keeps Giving

Published by Amitai Givertz on January 2, 2008 in Business Matters, Research and That's Life. 0 Comments

It has been a good many years since I first got my hands on a copy of Intrapreneuring: Why you don’t have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur by Gifford Pinchot. Few books have had such a lasting impression on me. I have kept a copy close to hand in every office I’ve worked in since 1986.

If I had a dollar for every time I quoted from the book: “It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission,” or warned a friend, “You don’t want to trigger the ‘corporate immune system,’ Bud,” I would be quite a few dollars better off than I am this morning. Of course, it would hardly be as I had billed it then, free advice!

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