Book Review: Love is the Killer App
I’ve been on a bit of a business book binge lately, and my most recent conquest was ‘Love is the Killer App: How to win Business and Influence Friends‘ by Tim Sanders. ‘Love’ is pretty original, it’s a book about re-humanizing the workplace from the cold, isolated, transitory state that its usually in, to a warm, caring environment.
It walks a fine line between unconventional wisdom (connect your network with your network — and do it all for free) and downright sillyness (the ridiculous discussion of ‘hugging’ for example), occasionally lapsing into the latter.
But mostly, it makes three good points:
1) You need to be reading books all the time so that you have fodder for innovative ideas (”Reading is a source of potency”).
2) You have a network of contacts, instead of thinking about how they can help you — start thinking about how you can help them, especially by connecting them to other people within your network.
3) The modern workplace is far too cold and sterile. It’s important to genuinely care about people and tell them — explicitly — why you appreciate them.
All good advice and all things which we tend to forget when we’re caught up in the race.
Lightly recommended.
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