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Vote on the Book Club book for March & April 2024 ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ“˜

Hey Square Readers,

 

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Itโ€™s voting time!

 

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Weโ€™re halfway through reading Profit First by Mike Michalowicz, so jump into some of our discussion threads and let us know your thoughts. 

 

So now weโ€™ll start voting for our next book for March & April 2024. We have 3 books to choose from, and weโ€™d love for you to vote to help us decide! 

 

This month we're choosing between Product Positioning, Personal Growth, and Employee Management books; all recommended by sellers like you! And in honor of Womenโ€™s History Month and International Womenโ€™s Day, all of our picks for this round are written by women.  

 

1. Worth Every Penny by Erin Verbeck and Sarah Petty

Build a Business That Thrills Your Customers and Still Charge What Your Worth

โ€œMany small business owners feel pressure to discount their products and services, especially when times are tough. After all, how else will they keep up with the low prices offered by their discounting competitors? What they don't realize is that discounting is the last thing they should be doing if they want to win big. There's a radically different way to run your business: focus on creating specialized offerings and an over-the-top customer experience, not on matching the prices of their competition. Worth Every Penny encourages you to explore and use the boutique model, which is designed to maximize your advantages over discounting competitors.โ€

 

2. The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest

โ€œThis book is about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing itโ€”for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb.โ€

 

3. Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott

โ€œRadical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring itโ€™s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging itโ€™s ruinous empathy. This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work, and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and achieving results youโ€™re all proud of. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bossesโ€

 

Which of these do you most want to read next? Vote by filling out this Google Forms survey! 

 

**VOTING HAS ENDED**

 

Weโ€™re voting by survey so feel free to tell us why youโ€™re excited about a particular book in the comments below. And if you have suggestions for other books youโ€™d want to read, drop them in the comments too and weโ€™ll take a look and consider them for the next round. 

 

Weโ€™ll announce the winning book on Monday, February 12th, and start reading it in May. 

 

We canโ€™t wait to read with you!

Pesso

 

 

 

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Hey Square Readers,

 

You voted and chose Worth Every Penny by Sarah Petty and Erin Verbeck as our book for March and April!

 

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Head over to the announcement post, pick up your copy, and get ready to start reading on Monday March 4th. 

 

We canโ€™t wait to read with you,

Pesso

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They're all really great options but I'm leaning towards Radical Candor! I've done a few workshops on it and it has already tremendously helped my working relationships, so I can't wait to fully read it and learn more-

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Would you consider adding Atomic Habits by James Clear sometime?    Thatโ€™s an awesome book. 

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Thanks so much for the suggestion, @SavasFineArt , I'll definitely take a look! 

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Would you also like to add Mastery by Robert Greene?

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Thanks for the suggestion, @joshbuttler - I'll absolutely take a look for future rounds!

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For this current round.   Iโ€™m most interested in Worth Every Penny.   Iโ€™m reading that one either way.   

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Thanks for sharing, @SavasFineArt ! I'd love to hear what's the most appealing to you about this one?

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My business (fine art) talked a lot about know your worth, know your mission.   Never sell at a discount.   

this book seems to align with that and so Iโ€™m curious on their perspective.  

Iโ€™m going to read it either way. 

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I love that so much! Thanks so much for the extra context, @SavasFineArt ! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it, hopefully we'll read it together-

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Okay I struggled with did I want to read 1 or 2.  Hhhhhmmmmmm...I choose 2 ๐Ÿ™‚

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Thanks @Stacelyn24 ! It's a tough decision -- they're really close in the results so far!

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I would read Radical Candor!

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Thanks, @DinaLRosenberg -- I've been wanting to read this one for ages too!

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Hey Square Readers,

 

You voted and chose Worth Every Penny by Sarah Petty and Erin Verbeck as our book for March and April!

 

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Head over to the announcement post, pick up your copy, and get ready to start reading on Monday March 4th. 

 

We canโ€™t wait to read with you,

Pesso

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