Payne

Juvenile and truly uninspired

Revisado: 03-07-23

This would have been really funny to me when I was 17. But I grew up. These are not '111 lessons' in history. It's a light riff filled with foul language (which I'm not opposed to when used creatively... but here it's not) that didn't really teach me anything at all.

I thought it might be a light touch on some history from which I might learn a bit. It's a very shallow dive at best on a bunch of things that you already know. And the things I didn't know I couldn't trust the reader to give me the true story because so much of the other stuff I did know was incorrect.

The reading of it was messy. Enunciation was meh, and he simply mispronounces some words. Pet peeve? Saying 'exspecially' instead of especially, which he does again and again.

Anyway. Crap book. Sorry I wasted a credit on it.

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Almost Awesome

Revisado: 01-24-22

So many excellent concepts in focus here. It was good to have confirmation of some of my own bias (!) but also to have a few new things thrown into the mix.

Mission in nonprofits is everything. They confirm this. I'm so glad. Oddly, they pretty much threw away the idea of vision. In my practice at First Creek Partners I work in the hierarchy of
Mission
Vision
Strategy
Tactics

But they say that vision doesn't help, and that it should simply be Mission - Strategy. We're allowed to disagree!

The examples they used most were of huge international nonprofits that had little relevance to the work of most people who might read this book. That was a distraction, and caused me to move to speeding through certain topics and sections that just weren't useful. In-depth discussions about the economy of India and the cultural and regulatory barriers to private land ownership in that country is an example of information that didn't really help me understand how to help small nonprofits become more impactful. Minor quibble.

Nitpicky things:
-the hilarious use of acronyms again and again through the book; acronyms for *everything*! It may be because I listened to this on Audible that it was so jarring (the narrator read the name then the acronym every time)
-numerous biblical and church references that could have been skipped or substituted with something more universal (again, my bias, but if you're going to be writing for everyone, I suggest not using unnecessary references to your personal beliefs)

The Audible version was read by a fantastic voice-over pro. Excellent understanding, presentation, and emphasis. It really felt like the reader had actually written the book.

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Great Story Told Badly

Revisado: 03-18-19

The narration of this book made it unlistenable. So dramatic. Sooo much inflection and feeling. It was way overacted by the voiceover talent. I got through a third of it but that was all I could stand.

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