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End Malaria is more than a book, it's a great cause.
At least $20 from each copy sold by us goes directly to Malaria No More to send a mosquito net to a family in need and to support life-saving work in the fight against malaria. Malaria No More, an international advocacy organization, is on a mission to end malaria related deaths by 2015.
In addition to saving lives, buying this book means you can enjoy essays by 62 of American's favorite business authors, including Tom Peters, Nicholas Carr, Pam Slim, and Sir Ken Robinson. Organized into three main sections—Focus, Courage, Resilience—and eight subsections—Tap Your Strengths, Create Freedom, Love & Be Kind, Disrupt Normal, Take Small Steps, Embrace Systems, Get Physical, Collaborate—all essays in End Malaria share a desire to inspire readers to look within themselves for solutions to their everyday dilemmas and for motivation to realize their desires.
Editor Michael Bungay Stanier envisioned End Malaria as a book that would marry the best writers of the business world to a deserving cause. Michael assembled and edited this collection with a goal to leverage that breadth of expertise these writers represent for an issue of global importance.
At its core, End Malaria is about doing great work including the hard work to save lives. All of the writers in this collection and all of the partners involved have waived fees in order to raise the maximum amount of money.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #24615 in Books
- Published on: 2011-09-06
- Released on: 2011-09-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Review
"How can you resist a book that's both chock full of brilliant insights from creative thinkers and has as its mission the end of a killer disease? Read, pray, love."
--Stew Friedman, author of Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life and Practice Professor at the Wharton School
"End Malaria succeeds wildly on so many levels. First of all, one of my favorite thought leaders has given me his wisdom on doing Great Work (and I have already re-read and shared several times his excellent essay "I'm Scarred"). Secondly, he has brought me the wisdom of his extended tribe of peers and friends. I like the company he keeps. Lastly, but most profoundly, it gets something important done now. How often can you feed your brain and soul and save a life at the same time? I'm going to buy a stack and give them to those I love. Oh, and I'm going to save a life each time. Now that's Great Work!"
--Michael Leckie, VP EXP, Gartner
"Hurray for Michael Bungay Stanier and all of the wonderful contributors to End Malaria. This is an outstanding compilation of some of the best thinking of our times—worth the read for that reason alone. But there's more: almost all of the profits from this book will be directed toward ending malaria, a killer disease that is far too often forgotten by those of us in the "north and west". On a very personal level, I hope you all buy this book. Our young niece, Vivien Mwengwe, died of malaria a few weeks ago. We are all so terribly sad, she was a beautiful, strong young woman who should be alive today. Her death was tragic and unexpected…but not out of the ordinary. My husband, Eddy Mwelwa, is from Zambia. Many of our family members are there, so malaria is something we hear about and fear—all the time. Malaria is a curse, taking its toll on the young, the old, and the just-ready-for a great life, like our beautiful niece. We can end it. We must. Read this book and learn. Read this book and know that you are making a difference to our family, and to the people of the world."
--Annie McKee, co-author of Primal Leadership & Founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute
From the Author
A Q&A with Michael Bungay Stanier, Senior Partner at Box of Crayons and Editor of End Malaria
Question: Michael, how did you get the idea for this project?
Michael Bungay Stanier: In my last book, Do More Great Work, I talk about the power of focusing on a "Great Work Project" to channel your energy and focus on doing Great Work--the work that you care about, the work that makes a difference, the work that matters.
So in the middle of 2010, I sat down to ask myself what my Great Work Project would be, and the idea for the first version of this book appeared.
Question: The first version?
Michael Bungay Stanier: It's gone through quite a few iterations. First, it was going to be just an ebook that would be free (and hopefully viral), with requests to donate baked into it. Then it turned into a book, but I couldn't quite figure out how to get the money from the sales to the charity. And then finally into what it is today.
Question: Why malaria?
Michael Bungay Stanier: When I was thinking about my Great Work Project, I thought about having an impact at a global scale. That was fairly overwhelming, but I did some research and found that $10--the cost of a mosquito net--is the cheapest unit of global change.
Malaria is a scourge--a child dies of it every 45 seconds--and nowhere more so than in Africa. For $10, you can save lives. I though I could try and raise $10 per book. (And of course, we're actually raising twice that.)
About the AuthorIn addition to editing this collection, Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of several books including, Do More Great Work. Michael is also a popular speaker at business and coaching conferences. Recently he spoke at the SHRM, the OD Network, and the International Coaching Federation conferences. Before founding Box of Crayons, an executive coaching firm working with organizations that do great work, Michael was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He holds a Masters of Philosophy from Oxford, and law and arts degrees with highest honors from the Australian National University.
Michael Bungay Stanier has commissioned a most impressive list of contributors for End Malaria. In this collection you will find essays by 62 of leading names in business: Alan Webber, Alexandra Levit, Andy Smith, Barry Schwartz, Bill Jensen, Brené Brown, Charlene Li, Chris Brogan, Chris Guillebeau, Dan Pink, Danielle LaPorte, Dave Ramsey, David Allen, David Rock, Daymond John, Derek Sivers, Elleen McDargh, Gary E. Knell, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gina Trapani, Gopi Kallayi, Gwen Bell, Jeff Jarvis, Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner, Jon Acuff, Jonah Lehrer, Jonathan Fields, Josh Kaufman, Josh Linkner, Keith Ferrazzi, Lauryn Ballesteros, Les McKeown, Lynda Gratton, Melissa Daimler, Michael Bungay Stanier, Mitch Joel, Nancy Duarte, Nicholas Carr, Nilofer Merchant, Pam Slim, Patrick Lencioni, Premal Shah, Rich Fernandez, Robert Biswas-Diener, Roger Martin, Ryan Vanderbilt, Sally Bonneywell/ Kim Laffery/ Sue Cruise, Sally Hogshead, Scott Belsky, Scott Stratten, Seth Godin, Sir Ken Robinson, Steph Irwin Corker, Tom Peters, Tony Schwartz, Kevin Kelly, Richard E. Lapchick, Stephen Johnson, Scott Case, Jessica Hagy, and Ashley Furniture.
Most helpful customer reviews
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
By lordlancaster
If you're a fan of Seth Godin and other motivational, inspirational writers then you will find 'End Malaria' a real treat.
Packed full of short essays, tips and insights from over 60 of the world's leading thinkers and business brains, the purpose of this book is not only to inspire and engage the reader to bigger and better things in their own life but to actually participate in a much higher purpose by saving the lives of others.
Released on 7th September 2011 as part of 'End Malaria Day' - $20 dollars (around £12 GBP) from each physical copy sold (and the full amount of each Kindle version) will be donated to 'Malaria No More', an international advocacy organisation on a mission to end malaria-related deaths by 2015. This money will be used to pay for mosquito nets which are proven to be one of the simplest and most effective ways to reduce deaths and increase life expectancy in malaria-ridden countries.
Please buy this book and play your part in saving lives today.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Morris
This book contains great contributions from smart authors -- they'll inspire you to do better work, become an artist and a leader, and truly make an impact in the world. I loved it, and that's a fact. But to be honest, that's not why you should buy it.
Almost anyone reading this can spare $20. If you can't (and please think seriously about it if you think that's the case), you can afford 20 minutes of emailing and tweeting and blogging about it. Every sale of this book saves lives -- real people's lives -- and that makes it a no brainer. If 100,000 books get sold, 4 million lives get saved. You have no excuse to bow out; your internet connection suggests that your life is full of luxuries that most of us will likely take for granted. $20 is a few cups of coffee. Buy the book. Benefit from the content. And make the difference.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By Chris Guillebeau
Mosquitoes have always had a thing for my wife Jolie. When she contracted malaria, we lived on a hospital ship in West Africa. During two bed-ridden weeks, she was well-cared for--eventually making a complete recovery and remembering to wear bug spray more often. Unfortunately, many others aren't as lucky. Let's end malaria for everyone. This book can help.
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