{"id":3605,"date":"2013-05-16T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airtight.co\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:00:41","slug":"mission-critical-business-success-control-alt-delete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gregcrumpton.com\/blog\/mission-critical-business-success-control-alt-delete\/","title":{"rendered":"Ctrl Alt Delete – Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It."},"content":{"rendered":"

I sat there on my favorite couch at home peering into this funky colored orange book, delighted to finally have it in my hands.\u00a0 Though it was a typical morning, me up early, great coffee and study time before the “real day” had begun.\u00a0 It was an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of Ctrl Alt Delete<\/em><\/a>, the new, soon-to-be-released business book by one of my new favorite authors, bloggers and thinkers: Mitch Joel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mitch Joel was a gent who I had grown to admire over the previous few years, I was introduced to him by the Internet… Shocked right?\u00a0 I was on Amazon looking for some new reading material by some up and comers and I read about Mitch Joel (@MitchJoel<\/a>) and took him to be a little of Seth Godin (@ThisisSethsBlog<\/a>) and a little of the business owners that I know and appreciate, due to the common sense and logic displayed in the table of contents. In a word, it was relevant to me.\u00a0 So I bought it, yes, hardcover for me, yes I like electronically-formatted books, et al, mainly for travel, but I still enjoy paper books for my morning read.<\/p>\n

OK, how did I come to get this ARC?\u00a0 One day, while reading Mitch’s post of the morning, I saw an invite that he published. It basically said, hey, if you buy Ctrl Alt Delete<\/em> today, in a pre-purchase from Amazon kind of way, you will receive the ARC for your efforts.\u00a0 So again, I did.<\/p>\n

\"Six<\/a><\/p>\n

Shortly before this posting by Mitch, I was fortunate enough to be able to meet him, talk a bit, and watch him work.\u00a0 Mitch and my friend Jeffrey Gitomer (@Gitomer<\/a>), had invited me over to watch and listen to this webinar he and this “great guy from Canada” were going to be recording.\u00a0 I said to Gitomer, “Hmmm, great guy from Canada huh? Would it happen to be Mitch Joel?”\u00a0 Gitomer said, “Yes,” and I went on to explain that I followed and enjoyed Mitch’s work, so I was psyched to get to go to the Gitomer offices and see this go down.<\/p>\n

The winter day arrived and I was able to meet Mitch and listened in as he and Jeffrey talked and discussed several topics\u00a0on the webinart, both were spot on.\u00a0 Mitch showed his hand just a bit and discussed some of the core work within his up-coming book, Ctrl Alt Delete<\/em>.<\/p>\n

OK, back to the couch, cracking it open and zooming in on the Table of Contents page, I had a flash back to Six Pixels<\/em> Table of Contents.\u00a0 Good, clear and succinct\u00a0chapters.\u00a0 Digging into the prose over the next couple of mornings, I really was drawn to the One Screen World and the Embracing the Next chapters.\u00a0 This book is filled with real-world examples sprinkled in with a usable “road-map,” if you will, about what lies ahead.\u00a0 Not a pie-in-the-sky kind of way, but in the way of:\u00a0 Look at this point, and that point, by analyzing Mitch’s words, the road-map parts really jump out.<\/p>\n

I highly encourage anyone that wants to be relevant in the coming age to buy and study this book. One reading is not enough, simply use it as you would a Fodor’s travel guide, it is that forth-telling.<\/p>\n

Read, Learn & Share<\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter: @gregcrumpton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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