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Top Ten Lists

The marketing for Salvaged will kick into gear soon, and I need your help creating a top ten leadership list. This will be a free downloadable chapter in exchange for email address, so it needs to be of real value. The title needs to grab attention, be mildly edgy, and make people smile. So I’d love your input!

An obvious example might be “Top Ten Junkyard Leadership Lessons” but that’s too broad. Worse, it’s not even funny.

So my crack marketing team (me, Anne, our golden Sammie, David, D’Aun, and our horse Smokey) have been brainstorming creative, funny, and attention …

Salvaged is here!

Great news about Salvaged! It’s here! My new book, Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled From the Junkyard, is now available for preorder! The release is still months away, but you can be amongst the first to get the book if you order it now. This was suppose to be a summer hiatus on my blog but this is too big not to post about.

All the typical online sites have Salvaged available, from Amazon to Barnes & Noble to Indiebound. Or you can go straight to the publisher and preorder a copy. For all I know it’s available …

Salvaged Update

In case you haven’t heard, my second book Salvaged, Leadership Lessons Pulled From the Junkyard will be released in January. Or maybe January-ish. The book has really come together in the last couple of months, with several exciting developments.

Most exciting — at least for me — is Bob Goff has agreed to write the foreword! Bob and I have known each other for half a century now, but it still amazes me how generous he is with his time. And the foreword came out great. Quintessential Bob Goff: funny, transparent, honest, and insightful all at once.

We also saw …

Freestarter™

Unless you faithfully have read this blog for the past 7-years, you have probably never heard the word Freestarter™. And you might be asking why the ™ attached to it.

It all started when I was trying to describe what I meant by the phrase “lead, follow, or go your own way” in this 2011 post. I made the word up in an attempt to describe how I approach decisions because it doesn’t quite fit into normal definitions of “leader or follower.” A freestarter™ is not exactly an entrepreneur, and not always an artist, and not entirely a prophet. A …

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Salvaged Book Update!

There has been a lot of activity on Salvaged, my second book! Here are a few updates — plus a way to get a free copy of my first book Junkyard Wisdom.

For this second book, we’ve settled on the title Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled From The Junkyard. There will be 30ish chapters focused on a leadership experience I’ve had, the lesson learned, and an example from Scripture. With any luck, I’ll make you laugh a little as you read the stories.

A draft was submitted last November, with feedback from the editor in January, and a …

The Second Book is Closer!

Last week was a busy one. For three days my focus was completely on the final manuscript of my second book, and now I can say all 30+ chapters are written!

Notice I didn’t say the chapters were “done.” They are written, but now the tough part begins as we edit, cut, shape and form the overall package. We might (oh dear!) even cut a whole chapter.

One old wag — Faulkner? — said “in writing, you must kill all your darlings.” That’s hyperbole I hope, but you get the idea. It’s tough cutting things I’ve written!

Some of the …

One Year Ago Today Junkyard Wisdom Was Released!

One year ago today my first book Junkyard Wisdom was released! It’s hard to believe a year has gone by already. As a first time author, each experience has been so memorable. The first book signing, the launch parties, the speaking opportunities, and the generous comments from readers have all been deeply meaningful.

Thank you for making it happen. The support of friends and family was at the core of any success Junkyard Wisdom has experienced. Just think about it: the writing began without a publisher, the publishing began without a marketing plan, and the marketing began without, well, without …

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