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{"id":173,"date":"2013-01-12T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-01-26T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T20:50:03","slug":"21-why-i-had-to-write-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"#21 Why I **had** to write the book (part 1 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-25.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><div id=\"attachment_174\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-174\" href=\"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?attachment_id=174\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174\" title=\"LSE Book Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Book-Cover-FB.png\" alt=\"Leadership in Strategy Execution\u2122\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leadership in Strategy Execution<\/p><\/div>\n<p>10. The book will become a best seller and I can retire.<\/p>\n<p>9. I have this deep urge to tell everyone what I learned about the subject.<\/p>\n<p>8. &#8220;Published author&#8221; has such a nice ring to it.<\/p>\n<p>7. I had this burning desire to understand what it takes to publish a book, end-to-end.<\/p>\n<p>6. I got tired of dysfunctions in the workplace and amused myself by making notes, then converted that into a book.<\/p>\n<p>5. Updating my resume is such a chore, I can now get my future employer to buy my book, read it, and hire me. (Revenue + Job = Priceless)<\/p>\n<p>4. My writing sucks, what better way to improve it than to write a book!<\/p>\n<p>3. I could not find a decent end-to-end &#8220;how to&#8221; book on leadership to train myself.<\/p>\n<p>2. I got tired of the pain and suffering in the workplace and decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>1. When my boys come home from work and need help, I&#8217;ll have a better chance of understanding them, and suggesting things to try.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can get it <a title=\"LSE book\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/leadership-in-strategy-execution\/id590361745?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. The book will become a best seller and I can retire. 9. I have this deep urge to tell everyone what I learned about the subject. 8. &#8220;Published author&#8221; has such a nice ring to it. 7. I had this burning desire to understand what it takes to publish a book, end-to-end. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}