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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:07:46 +0000

[...] idea appearing in the What Matters Now e-book (compiled by Seth Godin), which I just wrote about here. Tony Hsieh provides a clever explanation how poker has taught him about financials, strategy, [...]

By: mikeurbonas

mikeurbonas — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:47:18 +0000

Hi Sandy, glad to hear from you! For the record, Sandy is one of the leading "power users" of Monarch software, a report-mining tool to transform report-based information into customized data for easy export to Excel (I worked at Datawatch, sellers of Monarch, for 10 years. I am very impressed with the response to your Monarch Batch File Generator (IIRC, it creates a batch file to run Monarch with all the right 'switches' as is desired). This is very much in keeping with Seth Godin's own remarks on Generosity in What Matters Now, "In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs." Great work, Sandy.

By: Sandy Cavalaris

Sandy Cavalaris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:55:38 +0000

That's a great compilation Mike. Another of Seth's volumes, Tribes, inspired (at least in part) my currently underway series entitled 30 Day to Become a Better Monarch Modeler, while his Purple Cow led to my first attempt at a remarkable offering, the Monarch Batch File Generator, which has now been downloaded by thousands of site visitors who seem to love it. One last one: read The Dip if you feel like you're struggling with a task or a process.