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Bloomsbury presents Spark by Chris Mettler and Jon Yarian read by John Chancer

Spark provides an unhurried thoughtprovoking experience about what drives individuals teams and organizations to thrive and how readers can use that knowledge to ignite and direct their own careers

Spark is an unconventional business book It has been built on the idea that coming from a perspective of getting something is a severely selflimiting position Instead a career should be seen as an opportunity to give to your funders your team your customers and the world at large Doing so the authors argue can lead to expansive possibilities At the same time however people should be averse to bloat bureaucracy and everything that comes with achieving a certain level of inert mass So how can these two positions be reconciled How can we complain about companies getting too big while presenting a book to help entrepreneurs and leaders think and act more effectively This is why unlike most business books Spark doesnt use the authors business backgrounds or personal stories as a launchpad for their views on best practices Its not a stepbystep guide to building an empire and it doesnt pretend to have all the answers to creating the worlds best businesses

Instead Spark aims to deliver an unhurried thoughtprovoking experience about what drives individuals teams and organizations to thrive The 24 concepts in the book are commonplace inside venture capital firms and highperforming private equity firms but they havent yet made their way to the broader marketplace The authors believe that these ideas should be more accessible to professionals in all industries at all stages of their careers And instead of giving overlyprescriptive advice readers will be encouraged to think about broader concepts in the context of their own experiences careers and goals

The book is organized into three sections each containing eight chapters

Tier One Ideas you work on within yourself individual
Tier Two Ideas you work on with someone else interpersonal
Tier Three Ideas you work on within groups organizational

Each chapter introduces a term gives a specialized definition that challenges the reader to think differently about the term and offers thoughts and guidance on how to put the idea into practice

Part manifesto part selfhelp guide Spark is for anyone who has to be resilient and tap into the fire or inferno inside of them to overcome a challenge Its for those who simply arent finding purpose in bloated organizations who dont like to hold meetings for meetings sake and who want to live each day as their last instead of just getting through The goal of this book is to help you overcome whatever obstacles stand between you and the life you want to live