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The Potentiator: How To Create Breakthroughs With Others In a Post Pandemic World
There is no higher accolade than being recognized as someone who enables others to perform at their best
Every day we’re faced with a future that seems more daunting than the day before. The problems appear bigger than ever but so do the opportunities. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and alone in the face of such cataclysmic change.
That’s why we’re only as good as the Potentiators we purposefully place in our lives. They are the everyday superheroes whose superpower is to enable us to perform at our best. In turn, we need to intentionally play that role for other people. That’s how breakthroughs are created in a post-pandemic world. In this heart-stirring guide, Mike Lipkin shows you how to succeed at others’ success, while you live your best life. Specifically, he introduces you to The Five Potentiator Practices that will multiply your impact and scale your Know Your Game. Build Robust Resilience. Grow Courageous Creativity. Communicate Like a Champion. And Cultivate Close Connections.
Through revealing case studies, research-backed insights, and powerful exercises, you’ll discover how to transform yourself into the Potentiator - to the enormous benefit of everyone around you. You won’t be derailed by distraction. You’ll be driven by the thrill of discovery. Now more than ever, the world needs you to unleash your superpower. Mike Lipkin shows you how.
Every day we’re faced with a future that seems more daunting than the day before. The problems appear bigger than ever but so do the opportunities. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and alone in the face of such cataclysmic change.
That’s why we’re only as good as the Potentiators we purposefully place in our lives. They are the everyday superheroes whose superpower is to enable us to perform at our best. In turn, we need to intentionally play that role for other people. That’s how breakthroughs are created in a post-pandemic world. In this heart-stirring guide, Mike Lipkin shows you how to succeed at others’ success, while you live your best life. Specifically, he introduces you to The Five Potentiator Practices that will multiply your impact and scale your Know Your Game. Build Robust Resilience. Grow Courageous Creativity. Communicate Like a Champion. And Cultivate Close Connections.
Through revealing case studies, research-backed insights, and powerful exercises, you’ll discover how to transform yourself into the Potentiator - to the enormous benefit of everyone around you. You won’t be derailed by distraction. You’ll be driven by the thrill of discovery. Now more than ever, the world needs you to unleash your superpower. Mike Lipkin shows you how.
256 pages, Paperback
Published November 23, 2021
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February 17, 2022
Disclaimer: 2 stars, to me, means there's nothing to hate here; it means the book was ok and nothing more.
But I'm (maybe more than) a little scared of the productivity hype train that just keeps chugging along..
"Prior to Covid, the majority of people treated their personal well-being as an afterthought. Now wellness is the number one issue because it drives the success of everything else." Yes and no. I very much doubt that there has been a lasting change in where health lands in people's priorities. People adjusted to wearing masks, etc, because those are actually surface changes, but I don't see that many more people overhauling their lives to introduce sustainable improvements on health.
"It's not good enough just being good enough. You have to be great at Teams, Zoom or WebEx." Alice in Wonderland said it, about 4 centuries ago -- the Red Queen's race.
"But the opposite of under-promising isn't over-promising. Over-promising is lying. [...] The opposite of under-promising is making a powerful promise. [...] It pushes your envelope. It even scares you." Mostly sounds like semantics & painting a forced dichotomy.
This is a nice enough book, but in the author's own frame of "don't play it safe; safe doesn't live here anymore" -- what is writing this book an act of, if not safety? More courageous to get off the hype train, tear down this persona, go less meta, go live smaller and more direct.
But I'm (maybe more than) a little scared of the productivity hype train that just keeps chugging along..
"Prior to Covid, the majority of people treated their personal well-being as an afterthought. Now wellness is the number one issue because it drives the success of everything else." Yes and no. I very much doubt that there has been a lasting change in where health lands in people's priorities. People adjusted to wearing masks, etc, because those are actually surface changes, but I don't see that many more people overhauling their lives to introduce sustainable improvements on health.
"It's not good enough just being good enough. You have to be great at Teams, Zoom or WebEx." Alice in Wonderland said it, about 4 centuries ago -- the Red Queen's race.
"But the opposite of under-promising isn't over-promising. Over-promising is lying. [...] The opposite of under-promising is making a powerful promise. [...] It pushes your envelope. It even scares you." Mostly sounds like semantics & painting a forced dichotomy.
This is a nice enough book, but in the author's own frame of "don't play it safe; safe doesn't live here anymore" -- what is writing this book an act of, if not safety? More courageous to get off the hype train, tear down this persona, go less meta, go live smaller and more direct.
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