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Book Launch Team

If you’d like to help my book Salvaged get off to a rousing release, please consider joining my book launch team! I’m looking for folks who will help get the word out about the book. Could be social media, hosting an event, blogging, podcast or …. well, send me your creative ideas!

There will be perks of course. I’m not sure what yet. Not-cheap Champagne, maybe? Blueprints for an acetylene powered tennis ball bazooka? Cake and pickles? Tips on cheating at marbles?

How about a flamethrower? Maybe not; the Boring Company Not A Flamethrower by Elon Musk are selling for …

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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 …

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A little help here?

Ever hear people use the phrase, “A little help here?”

Like kids playing baseball on a sandlot field, and one big kid hits the ball clear over the fence. It’s out of reach, and they have to climb the high fence or run all the way around. But one of the kids sees a passing pedestrian and pleads, “A little help here?” The ball is tossed back over the fence, everyone shouts thanks, the hero nonchalantly waves, and the game continues.

In the same way as the kids playing baseball, I could use your help, and you could be the …

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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 …

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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 …

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An Exciting Update!

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve signed a contract with NavPress for my second book! See my big smile in the picture? That’s me happily signing the contract.

Tentatively titled Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled from the Junkyard, the book will be released in early 2019 if all goes as planned.

A number of people are deserving of mention for making this happen, but I want to mention three in particular.

First, thanks to D’Aun for graciously making the margin in our lives for yet another of my crazy adventures.

Second, thanks to Nancy Ortberg for telling me over …