As part of my participation in Thomas Nelson’s BookSneeze book blogger program, I recently received a copy of John Maxwell‘s “Everyone Communicates Few Connect.” I’ve only just started it, but I find it to be quite compelling already.
One thing grabbed my attention in the prologue. Maxwell tells how he posted the entire manuscript for this book on his blog to get input and feedback from his readers. The pages were up for eleven weeks and garnered over 100,000 views. From the readers’ comments, he reports he added over seventy stories and made close to one hundred other changes to the book.
He wrote that his primary motivation was not to make the book better, though no doubt it did. He did it, instead, to add value to people.
You see, John Maxwell doesn’t need our help to write an excellent book. With dozens of books in print, I’m willing to bet he has the writing thing pretty well down pat. But, if he can add value to those books by opening up a community of people who wish to be better leaders to comment and share stories and ideas, that’s a whole other thing.
I’m very much looking forward to reading the rest of this book. More about it later.
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So Elm, when will you write your first book and use the same technique?
Thanks for stopping by. You pose a good question. It’s said that everyone has at least one book in them. I think there’s one rattling around in my noggin somewhere – it’s getting it out that’s the problem.
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