Get your Pink on people 3 great posts from Daniel Pink

To Sell Is Human:

 

November 30th, 2012

5 freebies for first movers

Tick, tick, tick. In just 30 days, I’ve got a new book coming out. It’s called To Sell is Human – and I think you’ll like it. (BTW, you can now read the 6-page Introduction here.)

Already several thousand people have pre-ordered the book. So to thank them — and everyone else who follows their excellent example – I’ve put together a great package of giveaways for people who order the book before publication date. (As many of you know, pre-orders have become crucial in building momentum for books and their ideas, which is why I’m so grateful to folks who step up early.)

WHAT YOU GET

Anybody who orders the book — hardcover or e-book, from any bookseller — before December 30, 2012, will receive the following:

1. A free 20-page PDF workbook, based on To Sell is Human, giving you a two-week plan to get better at selling and a head start on those who won’t have the book until January.
2. A free New Year’s Day webinar – with an exclusive look at the ideas, people, and publications I’ll be watching in 2013 along with a chance to ask me questions. (We did this for the launch of Johnny Bunko a few years ago – and it was one of the best-received events I’ve ever done.)
3. A free customized Field Notes memo book – my favorite notebook of all time, printed in a (very) limited edition batch commemorating publication of the book.
4. A free To Sell is Human bookplate, signed and numbered, to slap inside your book.
5. A free audio download of a one-hour special edition of Office Hours (which won’t be available anywhere else) featuring exclusive interviews with Robert Cialdini, author of the classic book, Influence, and Adam Grant, the Wharton professor whose not-yet-published study is one of the biggest pieces of news in To Sell is Human.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

Once you pre-order the book, or if you’ve done so already, just forward your receipt in any form to danpinkpreorder@gmail.com. We’ll verify it and then send you instructions on how to access your goodies when they’re ready.

That’s it.

SOME LINKS FOR PRE-ORDERING

Pre-order from Amazon.com (38% off)

Pre-order from BN.com (37% off)

Pre-order from IndieBound

Pre-order from iBooks

Pre-order from 8CR

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Thanks, thanks, thanks for your early support.

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November 28th, 2012

Emotionally intelligent signage: Coffee, poop, and vintage biker chicks

Folks, it never stops. Each week brings more emotionally intelligent signage from readers around the world. One of these days I’m gonna set up a Tumblr dedicated to this topic. Until then, here are four diverse signs we thought you’d enjoy:
Eileen Can shows how one coffee joint guards against seared laps and eager plaintiffs’ lawyers:

Brad Waters sends this example of how the city of Chicago tries to keep its beaches clean:

And Michael Edelstone offers two traffic signs — one a modern response to road rage from Jed Rogers Design Studio:

The other a nice vintage example:

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November 27th, 2012

Genius vs. Talent

The latest issue of Scientific American Mind, which I read during a vacation last week (yes, I’m an exciting guy), takes on the subject of genius.
“Genius” is one of those freighted words, something we consider exceedingly rare and overwhelming innate. But after reading SciAm’s package of articles, one of my takeaways is that genius in a less grandiose sense is as much about mindset as it is about ability or talent or gifts.
Two quotations in the stories stuck with me. The first comes from Mihaly Csikszentmilhalyi, who wrote:

“The unifying similarity among geniuses and innovators is not cognitive or affective but motivational. What is common among them is the unwillingness or inability to strive for goals everyone else accepts.”

The other is from Arthur Schopenhauer:

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Worth pondering.

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