Tales from the Stone Soup Way

Some great books to read

Recently I have been reading some brilliant books and I want to share them with you;

The first is the best and fastest evidence based self development book ever

59 Second by Richard Wiseman

The is a truly first rate book for understanding how to communicate with people in the most wonderful and compelling way 

Just Listen by Mark Goulston

The third is a truly revolutionary book on understanding our hidden motivations

Sway by Ori and Rom Brafman

Read them all they will help to sharpen your Stone Soup skills!
 

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Come join me at Venturefest!

January 28, 2010
I am delivering a keynote speech at Venturefest York on how to make you business idea into a reality and I will also be available for a book signing and some networking.

I would love to see you there!

Where & When

Venue Name: York Racecourse, Knavesmire, York

Wednesday F...


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Come and meet me and other entrepreneurs at Venturefest in York!

January 28, 2010
I will be giving a key note speech at Venturefest on how to make you business idea really happen.

There will be a book signing as well and some networking time so i'd love to see you there!

Venue Name: York Racecourse, Knavesmire, York

Wednesday February 10th 2010.

Times:

Registration from 0800 with Exhibition open from 0830 - 1700

Breakfast Track 0730 - 0900

Drinks Recept...


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More reader feedback

January 12, 2010

HI Bill, thanks for your last message, will dig further into neo.org, last time it bounced me out as technical error, but have profile now and can move into it. I do not yet fully understand the neo, but I really really love it.

 

I have finished reading your book – but not at all digesting it (little pun there !). I found reading it very odd – I’d be coasting along thinking oh yeah I know that, been there done that and suddenly there was a little 45 degree turn that caught me off guard. ...
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Reader impressions

January 10, 2010
Hi Bill,

I read the rest of your book yesterday, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to anyone starting up or in business already.  I read a lot of business books but this was the best one I’ve read in a long time.  Your recipe for stone stoup is a great summary, here are 10 things that stuck out for me in the book:

  1. Emotion – The importance of establishing an emotional relationship when you are going do to business with that person.  I’ll particularly watch out for this ...
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Response from a reader about management and the emotional bond.

January 8, 2010
Hi Bill,

As a manager in previous companies I was always able to get my team to work really well together even under intense pressure in start up companies with limited resources and deadlines we could not miss.

After reading Chapter 2 I realise that it was my ability to build up a 1 to 1 personal connection with each person in the team and I did this everywhere I went.  It didn’t matter what type of personality each person had in the group I was still able to build up that connection.

One tim...
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More Stone Soup secrets

January 8, 2010
One of the frustrations with writing a book is that after you have sent the final version to the publisher, no matter how good you think that final version is, there are always things that you think of afterwords that could add more value.

Thankfully we now have the internet and so I have started building a more secrets area of the site which will contain new material that I have come across to make people more successful.

To access this new area you will requires a username and password which ...
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We support the child refugees in the Askar Camp and so can yo

January 8, 2010
Just go here and buy a street name in the refugee camp and you will supporting their school.

and Voila!




Now there really is a Stone Soup Way :-)
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Stone Soup way Tip: - Boulders, rocks, stones and sand.

January 8, 2010
In Stone Soup I talk about using salami tactics to cut a large problem down into manageable chunks.

Another way to get things done is to do what we did in the XING development area we labelled the chunks of the overall development challenge into different size chunks and altered their priorities accordingly and also distributed different pieces to different parts of the team according to size.

Stones and sand size stuff like tiny visual or other development changes we did routinely and larger F...
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