Interview Yourself: Final Chance to Win
I am going to take the time to pick the winners on Christmas day. In case you think I am a workaholic, I am Jewish and it is the only day I can take all the time I want to read blogs without clients pinging me. So, bring it on folks, last call!
We are compiling a complete list of the respondents and do a brief promo of the top 10 most interesting responses! Please email me if you have not seen a link to your post below. I will keep adding them as they come in.
Peter & I will pick one lucky person with our favorite interview and one person who came up with the best original question not on our list and buy you each one book from my personal reading list.
Go check out the original post with the list of questions, then if you need some inspiration, you can see me lift my digital skirt.
Still want more? Below is a list of all the responses so far:
Free Promo, Free Books, and Free Insight
Shane and Peter Challenging Entrepreneurs to an Interview, Part 2
Bikini or Thong: My Response To The Challenge
Shane & Peter interview the titans…and me
Interviewing me … the Entrepreneur
The Job Interview that Never Was
Interviewing Myself for Shane & Peter
Boxers Or Briefs — and other less important questions
Interviewing myself .. who is apparently an entrepreneur
An Entrepreneurial Self Portrait
I thought I was done with interviews
Interview with an Entrepreneur
Interviewing Yourself: Me (Joshua Clanton)
Interview Yourself: Eric Davis
The Only Interview that Matters
Interview Yourself: WAH(web)Mommy
Pick me! Pick me! Not that I have time to read books with two kids and a tech start-up but nonetheless I like to win.
Will you let me change my question to the one I left in the comments a while back. If so, I will adjust my post accordingly.
Thanks for thinking of this. I enjoyed answering the questions…always like to do things that make me think.
Some books I didn’t see on your list but that I made required reading when I taught entrepreneurship are: The Monk and The Riddle and The Alchemist. I also gave my students Siddhartha as a parting present. They might have thought I was nuts but I felt those books gave a bigger picture of what entrepreneurship (following your dreams) means.
Happy Hanukkah!
Of course I’ll go with the one you like (I like it too) - adjust away - I’m not that strict.
Regarding books, The Alchemist was very powerful and I have not read Siddhartha since I was living in the middle east. Probably time for a reread.
I actually did a whole blog post for Freelanceswitch on applying the principles from my favorite books a while back.
What did you like best about the monk & the riddle?
For the Art of Leadership class in my MBA program I did a comparision between the 9 Insights in the Celestine Prophecy to 9 traits of effective leadership. My prof was skeptical but ended up giving me an A.
The Monk & The Riddle put words like ‘deferred life plan’ to what many people were doing with their lives. Doing what they needed to do to pay the bills but not really doing what they wanted to do or spending time trying to figure out what they want to do. It also emphasized that it’s about the Journey because you can’t predict with 100% accuracy the outcome…no one can.
I think if I won, I’d pick the E-Myth Revisited or the Five somethingorothers why teams fail (I tried to remember what that was between just checking the page and coming to write it down. See how bad my memory is?)
Looking forward to the results, Shane. There were some great posts, the interview was a blast, and I have stiff competition. G’luck everyone!