Be A Spark: Spread Your Reading

You buy books? You read them? You like them for their ideas and their challenging thoughts - and because they are challenging your actions? Seth Godin says, you should "go find someone you care about, hand them the book and insist they read it".

Why not do exactly that in your office, with your co-workers, colleagues, and bosses you care about.

They will much better understand your ideas, your thinking, your actions. They will much better understand you as a person(ality) - once they know where you are coming from. It is a good way to start talking about the really important stuff. Surprise them, amaze them.

And: They will have books to share, too, to discuss, to reflect upon. So start a movement in your department, your office's neighbourhood, your company.

(Might be that in an office environment you should not directly insist on that they read it, but present it as an invitation to become closer related in business and life.)

Here's a list of books you should read, even if I cannot hand them all to you. Not too much from Seth himself, but that does not say I do not like his writing and ideas :)