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End Malaria
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.*In the UK at least £12 from each copy of End Malaria sold by Amazon will be donated to Malaria No More by The Domino Project and Amazon. In Germany, at least €13 from each copy of End Malaria will be donated to Malaria No More by The Domino Project and Amazon.
210 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 6, 2001
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Michael Bungay Stanier
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I'm best known for *The Coaching Habit*, the best-selling book on coaching this century. (Close to a million copies sold!)
I'm also the host of the podcast *2 Pages with MBS* where brilliant people read the best two pages of a favourite book.
I'm best known for *The Coaching Habit*, the best-selling book on coaching this century. (Close to a million copies sold!)
I'm also the host of the podcast *2 Pages with MBS* where brilliant people read the best two pages of a favourite book.
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December 28, 2012
Michael Bungay Stanier, fellow Canadian and the man behind Box of Crayons, has brought together 62 of the best essayists out there to produce a work that is truly outstanding. It is inspiring, has tremendous depth of scope and has something for everybody. But that’s not all it has.
It may just have the goods to end malaria once and for all.
This may seem like a bold statement, but the book itself is bold. It’s called End Malaria because that is ultimately what it aims to do. How it plans to do this is by donating all of the proceeds from electronic versions of the book to eradicating the disease. Each book costs $20 and that is enough to buy 2 mosquito nets — the greatest life preserver one can have against malaria. If you buy a paperback version for $25, all but $5 goes to the same cause.
As soon as I saw who was behind this project (Michael has teamed up with Seth Godin and The Domino Project so that the book can have as wide an impact as possible), I scooped up a copy.
The writers Michael has assembled for this book are truly a great lot. They include:
- David Allen
- Gina Trapani
- Chris Guillebeau
- Daniel Pink
- Jonathan Fields
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Derek Sivers
- Pam Slim
- Danielle LaPorte
- Kevin Kelly
…as well as a contribution from Seth Godin and editing by Michael himself. That’s an assembly of some amazing talent…and all for an amazing cause.
It may just have the goods to end malaria once and for all.
This may seem like a bold statement, but the book itself is bold. It’s called End Malaria because that is ultimately what it aims to do. How it plans to do this is by donating all of the proceeds from electronic versions of the book to eradicating the disease. Each book costs $20 and that is enough to buy 2 mosquito nets — the greatest life preserver one can have against malaria. If you buy a paperback version for $25, all but $5 goes to the same cause.
As soon as I saw who was behind this project (Michael has teamed up with Seth Godin and The Domino Project so that the book can have as wide an impact as possible), I scooped up a copy.
The writers Michael has assembled for this book are truly a great lot. They include:
- David Allen
- Gina Trapani
- Chris Guillebeau
- Daniel Pink
- Jonathan Fields
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Derek Sivers
- Pam Slim
- Danielle LaPorte
- Kevin Kelly
…as well as a contribution from Seth Godin and editing by Michael himself. That’s an assembly of some amazing talent…and all for an amazing cause.
November 26, 2024
I bought this back when it first came out, but never got around to reading it. It's a collection of essays, so it's kind of a mixed bag. Some of them were pretty good, some were a bit out of date at this point, and some weren't really interesting or useful to me. (Your milage may vary.)
I'm giving this 3 stars just considering it as a book of essays, but 5 stars for the whole effort to raise money to end malaria.
I'm giving this 3 stars just considering it as a book of essays, but 5 stars for the whole effort to raise money to end malaria.
September 20, 2011
I want to make it clear that my 2-star review is a review of the book, not the project. I love the idea, and I was happy to donate $20 to the cause of ending malaria. I also respect the authors for giving their time to the project.
As a book, though, this just felt like a collection of very short blog posts, most of which I didn't get much out of. Part of the problem is likely that I've read many of these authors broader works, so I know their usual talking points. The collection just felt rushed and disjointed, though, and if I'd paid for this simply as a book (and not a charitable project), I'd be very disappointed.
As a book, though, this just felt like a collection of very short blog posts, most of which I didn't get much out of. Part of the problem is likely that I've read many of these authors broader works, so I know their usual talking points. The collection just felt rushed and disjointed, though, and if I'd paid for this simply as a book (and not a charitable project), I'd be very disappointed.
September 16, 2011
First of all the book is worth buying just because it's basically giving money to the End Malaria campaign and you get something in return.
Each essay focuses on some aspect of creativity, risk, motivation, work etc. and it's nice to see so many variations on the theme. Some of it is recycling of previous blogs or books, but for the price and the cause it's a nice set to compile. It does require you to like the kind of mindset the collective of authors is going for.
Each essay focuses on some aspect of creativity, risk, motivation, work etc. and it's nice to see so many variations on the theme. Some of it is recycling of previous blogs or books, but for the price and the cause it's a nice set to compile. It does require you to like the kind of mindset the collective of authors is going for.
January 9, 2012
I bought this book to help the cause, but the content (a cumulative of opinions by great writers) is great. What is more than what you paid for, is the satisfaction that the entire proceeds of the e-book version go to a wonderful cause, the fight to end Malaria. The purchase price of the book pays for two special nets that combat the mosquitoes that carry the disease. At the same time, yes... the book provides really fun and valuable opinion.
March 18, 2012
At $25, of which $20 are donated to send mosquito nets to Africa, this book represents tremendous value. A collection of 60 short essays of a couple of pages with highly useful tips and insights on focus, courage and resilience in daily professional and personal life. Quite a lot of the essays are great, most are quite good, and only a couple shouldn't have been in the book at all. For me, Kevin Kelly's essay alone was worth several times the price of the book.
May 27, 2013
You can't argue with the cause. The essays themselves got tedious. Too many perky people advocating making lists, then more lists, then sorting your lists, then reviewing your sorted lists every day and re-sorting. Lots of talk about teams and courage and alignment. And you have to suffer through neologisms like "day-righting."
But there are always useful tidbits in round-up books assembled by professionals, and I'm confident you'll take away a nugget or two. I did.
But there are always useful tidbits in round-up books assembled by professionals, and I'm confident you'll take away a nugget or two. I did.
September 12, 2011
Very interesting book of essays about a variety of different topics around effective personal behaviours and best business practices. Even some authors from my company. The essays are generally very good and all of the profits from the book go to malaria eradication programs. Worth a read if you are into that kind of thing.
December 16, 2012
Amazing project. Each few pages offers a perspective from a different human - these are 2 and three page treats .. easy to digest but, they stay with you a bit. Every few pages there is that magic moment of "yeah .. that's right!" - some obvious truths, but spoken in ways that illuminate the why and come at the questions that drove each writer in ways that simplify. I've having fun with it.
December 12, 2011
It's a little unfair to review this book for its content because in this case, the content is secondary - a bonus reward for helping in the fight against malaria.
Anyway, I don't know of any other way to review a book, so I must look at the content. Which is where this book's weakness is. Some of the essays are very good. But at least half of them are quite irrelevant...
Anyway, I don't know of any other way to review a book, so I must look at the content. Which is where this book's weakness is. Some of the essays are very good. But at least half of them are quite irrelevant...
February 18, 2012
Fantastic collection of essays! So many different topics from brainstorming to personal energy to being creative to being productive and so on. Many great authors were chosen and they gave some wonderful advice. This will definitely be a book I pick up again at some point to reread.
October 6, 2011
A nice collection of business tidbits for a non-professional like me. The best part was that $20 of my $25 purchase went to Malaria No More which provides mosquito nets and education to families in Africa to end malaria deaths.
July 19, 2012
A wonderful book, the proceeds of which benefit the fight against malaria, packed full of short essays from today’s current crop of smart thinkers about how to live and work better. A great book for the quick, inspiring read.
September 14, 2011
Great selection of essays about productivity and achieving your goals. I guarantee that there is something of value for almost everyone in this book. Awesome stuff.
September 28, 2011
I really only brought the book because of the donation to charity.
This aside, I think there are some very good articles and ideas in this book and the book is well worth buying
This aside, I think there are some very good articles and ideas in this book and the book is well worth buying
October 28, 2011
Some of the articles were worthwhile but more were hit or miss. For a good and worthwhile cause, certainly, but the book itself is unremarkable.
October 16, 2011
Really enjoyed. many of the essays were very entertaining and inspirational. However many were little more than advertisements for the organizations. Definitely a mixed bag but well worth the price.
March 14, 2012
Lots of quick ideas on personal achievement, goal setting, productivity and being better.
November 8, 2011
Pithy thoughts and ideas on what makes for all manner of success, and all for a great cause!
December 27, 2011
This is a phenomenal compilation of some of the top creative and business writers. Best of all $20.00 of the $25.00 for the book goes directly to charity to End Malaria.
April 18, 2012
Great book filled with insights from a lot of successful folks.
April 27, 2012
Great cause, nice sound bites of some of my favorite authors!
January 2, 2013
Some good chapters to the book, and some skippable chapters too.
However, you should buy the book anyway as $20 goes towards buying mosquito nets and trying to end malaria.
However, you should buy the book anyway as $20 goes towards buying mosquito nets and trying to end malaria.
March 20, 2013
The most life changing book ever.
April 8, 2014
Lots to digest heare and for a great cause.
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