Tough year? Need inspiration? What Matters Now, a free book with contributions from a range of writer/thinkers whose work I follow and deeply admired, is a must read.

A few nuggets:

There are tens of thousands of businesses making many millions a year in profits that still haven’t ever heard of twitter, blogs or facebook. Are they all wrong? Have they missed out or is the joke really on us? They do business through personal relationships, by delivering great customer service and it’s working for them. They’re more successful than most of those businesses who spend hours pontificating about how others lose out by missing social media and the latest wave. And yet they’re doing business. Great business. – Howard Mann  Read more...