Robert Steven Brown: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

I am Robert Steven Brown, a founder and a Managing Director of New World Merchant Partners LLC, a corporate transactional advisory firm. In the course of my work and my life I come across some interesting people, antecdotes, statements, books, and stories, which I feel should be expressed to someone or at least anyone who will listen, but which are somehow inappropriate for posting on my work blog (newworldmp.blogspot.com) or other blogs. I hope that you find these little posts as humorous, interesting, or illuminating as I do. Please feel free to post comments, whether or not offensive.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Poke The Box

I just completed reading Poke The Box by Seth Godin.  And, for you perverts out there (and you know who you are), NO, it is not what you think.

“Poke The Box is a manifesto about producing something that’s scarce, and thus valuable.  It demands that you stop waiting for a road map and start drawing one instead.  You know how to do this, you’ve done it before, but along the way, someone talked you out of it.”

Some people believe that if you say something enough times it will come true.

Written almost as a collection of related, but semi-free-standing blog entries with a casual conversational style, the book implores us to act, to start things and to finish them.  Take chances!  Be innovative!  Create the status quo!  Draw your own road map!  And repeat those statements again and again and again and again and again.

A quick easy read.  I recommend it and hope that some of you will go out there and start something (or at least repeat this post again and again and again and again and again).
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2 comments:

  1. Lemonade MouthApril 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM

    I'm sold.

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  2. Bob BrownMay 9, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    An interesting and quick read. He has a new book out which I intend to pick up next week, but first Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson, and The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.

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