by Sam Harrelson | Jun 28, 2016 | content creation, Working Hard
Elisabeth and I often talk about the power of creating work (not to be confused with our conversations about the power of creative work) as a tenet of our lives. We have stepped into the unknown in establishing our businesses and pursuing our dreams to offer a...
by Sam Harrelson | Nov 7, 2015 | Book Review
I read this book upon a recommendation from another working woman. As she described it to me, she noted that Sandberg reflects that perhaps women aren’t getting the promotions and opportunities that they would like to because they are limiting themselves before...
by Sam Harrelson | Nov 5, 2015 | Book Review
It isn’t often that I get taken completely by surprise by a book, but it just happened as I was finishing Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel. To be fair, the main character in the book was also taken aback, so perhaps I was right where I should have been as the...
by Sam Harrelson | Sep 28, 2015 | publishing, writing process
My initial work with authors involved a second grade classroom that was a combination of eager writers and reluctant writers. As we got to know each other and has a predictable time for writing each day, those reluctant writers became less timid and those eager...
by Sam Harrelson | Aug 26, 2015 | Book Review, what I'm reading
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, accomplishes a great work in her book The Signature of All Things. For some one who has had a best seller like Eat, Pray, Love, the task of...