Book Review:
Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas into Action
By John Spence
In the introduction to his book Awesomely Simple, author John Spence declares: “everything in this book is from real life: you’ll find no fluff, no grand theories, no intellectual back-flips.” Readers who want complex organizational theories or a rigorously annotated bibliography will have [...]
Whenever I attend a business networking event and mention Twitter, I invariably get a group of people flocking to me wanting to know more about the social media micro-blogging site. They want to know “How do I get started?” “Is it really a viable business marketing tool?” and “Twitter seems so frivolous—does anybody really care [...]
“If respect is the grease that helps society move smoothly, relationships are the glue that holds it together.” – Deborah Norville
This book is about respect as both a verb and a noun. Deborah Norville explores both the how-to’s of demonstrating respect, and the notion of self-respect in our family lives, schools and workplaces. She draws [...]
Marcus Buckingham wants to teach women how to live a “strong” life. He says a strong life is one in which you are able to discern the activities which energize you, catch those moments and cradle them so that you feel fulfilled—personally and professionally. That’s a pretty tall order, especially when coming from a man. [...]
In preparation for reviewing the Marcus Buckingham’s soon-to-be released book Find Your Strongest Life, I decided to pull some of Buckingham’s earlier books off the shelf and give them a second look. This review is the first of a three-part series.
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
The highlights:
In the follow-up to the best-selling [...]
In preparation for reviewing Marcus Buckingham’s soon-to-be released book Find Your Strongest Life, I decided to pull some of Buckingham’s earlier books off the shelf and give them a second look. This review is the first of a three-part series.
First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
The Highlights
A decade ago, First, Break All the Rules [...]
