The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All

by Azim Jamal, Harvey McKinnon

Overview

This practical and visionary guide helps you discover that the more you give, the more you have.

Simple and easy to use, The Power of Giving provides a wealth of down-to-earth ideas, exercises, and real-life stories that reveal to each reader the unique gifts he or she has to give-including kindness, ideas, advice, attention, hope, and more-and the many ways you can benefit from giving them, from better health to better job prospects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585427512
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/2009
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	4.86(w) x 7.12(h) x 0.67(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Azim Jamal is an inspirational speaker, management consultant, and executive coach. He made a life-changing career switch from "accounting for business" to "accounting for life" during a soul-stirring experience while volunteering around the world. Azim is the author of several books, including The Corporate Sufi, and coauthor of the # 1 Amazon bestselling The Power of Giving.

Harvey McKinnon is an inspirational speaker and trainer. He has helped to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for nonprofits. His fundraising consulting company, Harvey McKinnon Associates, helps tackle a variety of causes in Canada and the United States. A former radio columnist for CBC Radio in Canada, McKinnon has been published in  the Globe, Mail, the Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun. He has also produced several documentaries, including Side by Side: Women Against AIDS, a biography of William Shatner, and also The Black Sea in Crisis. McKinnon is the writer of The Power of Giving, The 11 Questions Every Donor Asks and the Answers All Donors Crave: How You Can Inspire Someone to Give Generously, and Hidden Gold. 

What People are Saying About This

Wayne W. Dyer

"Extremely impressive...very inspiring."--(Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, author of The Power of Intention)

Jack Canfield

"If everyone followed that advice given in this wonderful book, our world would be a richer, more equitable, and peaceful place. I am personally touched by their deep message. The Power of Giving is a must-read. Profit from reading it. Give it to everyone you love."--(Jack Canfield , author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and The Success Principles)

Seth Godin

"We've needed a book like this for a long time. Now it's your turn to help. Buy it, share it, buy a copy for a friend. This book could change everything."--(Seth Godin, author of Unleashing the Ideavirus and Purple Cow)

Stephen Post

"Azim Jamal and Harvey McKinnon have outlined in practical terms the many different ways in which we can give to the world around us - and to ourselves in the process. Those who refresh others are themselves refreshed, and with this news we can all join a chorus and sing praises for this inspiring book!"--(Dr. Stephen Post, co-author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People)

John David Mann

"What a wonderful book! Most books I want to gobble up in one or several sittings. But this one is so rich, each page so loaded with treasure, I want to dip into it and drink a sip at a time, over and over. A book to cherish."--(John David Mann, co-author of The Go-Giver)