Genre: Self-Help
Description:
“Has the road to your dream been paved in disappointment? Do you feel
like you’re always taking one step forward and two steps backward? MIT-trained
astronautical engineer and renewable energy CEO Amy Simpkins has seen both the
scientific and the aesthetic sides of life's cyclical nature. After teaching
her concepts to business leaders throughout the world, she's honed a repeatable
process for harnessing the world's inherent ebb and flow and designing your
most fulfilling, high-impact work.
Spiral: A
Catalyst for Innovation and Expansion teaches you how to build your business on your
own terms while working with natural cycles instead of fighting against them.
Through Simpkins' powerful insights, you'll learn how to embrace creativity and
innovation to achieve your greatest potential. By marrying business and
personal development, her book will finally let you stop zigging and zagging to
dream big and implement your best ideas.
In Spiral, you’ll discover:
Analogies from engineering and physics that will help you fuse
structure and creativity
Instructive, real-world stories from both the author’s career and her
clients’ experiences
How to harness the natural rhythms of life so you can thrive in
business no matter the cycle
How to use your natural flow states to ease you and your business into
the next phase
The importance of embracing the spiral as you pursue your greatest
ambitions, and much, much more!
Spiral is an inspiring whole-person approach to business growth. If
you like mind-blowing self-help, simple yet powerful tools, and resources that
guide you when life isn’t straight and narrow, then you’ll love Amy Simpkins ’
masterful book!”
Author:
“Amy Simpkins has an engineer's brain and a poet's heart. Her life's
work has been centered around the integration of seemingly unrelated things and
the subsequent solution of wickedly hard problems.
Ms. Simpkins is a speaker, author, and thought leader in innovation.
She facilitates massive leaps forward by helping individuals and organizations
with big ideas make connections they've been missing. She believes that
innovation is for everyone and holds the key to both personal fulfillment and
lasting global change. She has been helping innovators implement their ideas
since 2013.”
Appraisal:
While largely aimed at inspiring or leading you to find the
inspiration to be innovative in building a new business of some kind, the
concepts in Spiral could apply to
your personal life, a hobby, or anywhere in your world where a little
innovation, creativity, and fresh ideas might improve the situation. This
review will have to be vague, since the alternative would be to repeat the
whole book, but I’ll say the concept that provides the foundation of the book
is interesting. It will have you thinking and, most importantly, re-thinking
how you view certain seemingly opposite things.
The author makes some points that many of us would be prone to
disagree with or resist, but she has a way of making her case with irrefutable
logic, such that I found myself recognizing that my first instincts were wrong.
Through this process you’ll recognize and discover skills you didn’t know you
had and through applying these skills, hopefully find the way to go beyond
anything you’ve been able to accomplish before. That’s the goal of the book
and, if that sounds like something you’d like to do, read it and see if it
helps you do so. I’m betting it does.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 55-60,000 words
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