Book Review: Poke the Box

Stop whining. Stop making excuses. Stop worrying about failure. Stop stopping. In a nutshell, that's what I got out of Seth Godin's new book, Poke the Box. Seth is a great story teller. He's great at painting a picture you see yourself in, and then paints the alternative picture which he want's you to put yourself in. And this book is no different.

One of my favorite lines in this book is, "Who's the VP of go?". Organizations have people in all levels of decision making, but no one is tasked specifically to make things go. Not to monitor, or measure, or adjust, but to make things go.

Seth also talkes about companies still opting for conformity in it's work force, over people who will ask questions and take initiative. It's funny to think that organizations still think this way, seeing how we haven't been an industrial nation for several generations. Today, education is delivered the same way it was 50 years ago, yet current and future generations aren't learning the same was as we did 50 years ago.

There is a lot of room for improvement on all levels. I like the entrepreneurial view of fail fast and fail often, It's what helps us see how to make improvements. This is a great book, has lot's of messages, and hopefully get's you thinking about how to start things, consistently. It's only 96 pages long, and it's really cheap. I got the Kindle version to save a tree.

Poke the Box (Amazon affiliate link).