ABC Radio ‘SmartArtz’

On Friday, I had the wonderful opportunity to be interviewed by  Scott Levi and Yianni Johns live on ABC Radio “SmartsArts programme. We had a great time chatting about all number of topics especially with regards to my latest book “From Nobel prize to Ride on mower”. Discussed the possibility of my own segment on the subject of  ‘Private Economy’. Very excited about this opportunity. Will keep you all informed! I will post the podcast of recording of the show asap!

“Most people are so busy looking for the right person in their life, the right job, the right house and the everlasting happiness, that they forget to look in the only place they can find it…within.”    Gunilla Miranda

Extract from ‘Nobel Prize to Ride-On Mower’ p47

A New Book!

I have been contacted by Olle Olson, http://www.sensodetect.se, to write a book together about innovation companies. Initially this book will be written for the Swedish market, but we also see possibilities to adjust it to many other countries as well. The book is both a handbook for the innovator and how to deal with investors, patent, market plans and economy. We will also explore all pitfalls and how to get around them. More news about the book in my coming newsletters! Don’t forget to subscribe via my website http://gunillamiranda.com

If you are thinking about starting a company and have limited experience from business life, then Steven Little’s book “The 7 irrefutable rules of small business growth” is a valuable companion. Steve Little has for many years been a guru if not the guru for small companies.

Little starts off with killing a few myths. One of them, which I always believed in, is that small business practically creates most of the jobs in the U.S (and Australia). However, it turns out that over an 11 year period, the percentage of people who works for companies with less than 99 employees has fallen with 8 percent. During the same period, people working for companies with more than 500 employees, has increased with 7 percent. So much for that belief.

Thereafter Little identifies the 10 “I’s” of effective growth entrepreneurs. It is probably here that I start to be a bit bored. It takes a lot of looking in to dictionaries to find all these words starting with I and then apply them to business growth, but Little manage that like no one else I know of or maybe it is because I’m jealous and doesn’t possess all of these qualities. Who knows?

What I like in the book is all the cases. It makes it more real and vivid. It breaks up the reading as well since they interwove in the text. Little also write in entertaining way and sometimes with a sarcastic tone that I like. This book is probably a good companion for entrepreneurs like me, who has taken some steps towards business growth. The only problem is that entrepreneurs often want to create instead of reading books and therefore might miss a few valuable tips.

So I’ve been waiting for his next book. Looking out for it in the book stores every time I’ve been there. Suddenly it’s there, Mitch Albom’s new book, “Have a little faith” (HarperCollins). I rush home to read it. It begins with an unusual request that Albom gets from an 82-year-old rabbi: to deliver his eulogy. Albom wants to understand the rabbi better and starts to visit him, which throws him back into a world of faith he’d left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor – a reformed drug dealer and convict – who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

As usual the book is well written, easy to read, describes the character in detail and there is a strong story that needs to be told. However, this time Albom doesn’t manage to move me as he did for instance in “Tuesdays with Morries” I continue to read and before I know it, it’s over.

I think the main difference in this book is that the reader is an observer instead of participating in the book. Like seeing a drama at the theatre but having a veil in front of your face. It never gets close to me even though I have great respect for Albom’s realisation that there is a unity between the Jewish and Christian world.

Yes, I’m a bit disappointed not so much in this book, but how long I have to wait to experience the same sensation as I did with “Tuesdays with Morries”.

I have had a exciting time at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair, launching my latest book ‘From Nobel prize to Ride On Mower.’  The fair itself is the biggest book fair in the world – with more than 7,000 exhibitiors from over 100 countries, so it was a wonderful opportunity to share my story with a global audience.Since we have had a great deal of interest in translation rights for the book. Very promising!

Hello World!

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