Book Review – Birth of Plenty
I finished another fantastic book call “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William Bernstein. The book is fantastic but is a long and somewhat academic...
View ArticlePlatform By Michael Hyatt – Book Review
I recently finished reading Platform: Get Noticed In a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt. Most of the time, when I do a review of a book, I like to go more in depth and describe the major concepts and...
View ArticleAgainst the Gods – Book Review
Risk. Lots of people think they know what it means, but almost no one does. The idea pervades everything that you do. It lives in the background of your life. Every time you pay your car insurance,...
View ArticleAge of Turbulence – Book Review
I just recently finished The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan. For those of you living under a rock, Mr. Greenspan was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board for the...
View Article“So Good They Can’t Ignore You” Review
OK, so I just finished “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” by Cal Newport. It was fantastic. I read this book and thought “Yes! This is what I have been trying to say all along! Thank God he finally did,...
View ArticleThe Information Diet – A Review
I was very excited to read Clay Johnson’s The Information Diet. I was intrigued by the idea of an “information diet,” but I was even more intrigued by the idea that it was possible to filter and...
View ArticleThe Way of the Shepherd – Review
I read “The Way of the Shepherd” at the urging of the owner of my company and discovered leading and managing are two very different things. If you are trained as a manager, and that is your comfort...
View ArticleTurning Pro – Review
I have read two of Stephen Pressfield’s books now and I have really enjoyed both of them. “Turning Pro” is a fantastic book, full of short and to the point chapters. Not even chapters, really. More...
View ArticleThe War of Art – Review
I recently read another Steven Pressfield book that I really enjoyed. The War of Art is the first book in Pressfield’s series of books about overcoming “Resistance.” It is a fascinating book to read...
View ArticleNew Ideas from Dead Economists – Review
I just finished another fantastic book, New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd Buchholz. I really enjoyed the book and found it to be a great resource. For background on the book, Mr. Buchholz goes...
View ArticleThe Small BIG – Review
The Small BIG by Steve J. Martin, Noah Goldstein, and Robert Cialdini is an interesting book that revolves mostly around people’s behavior and how, by understanding the way psychology works, we can...
View ArticleMoments of Impact – Review
Moments of Impact is a book by Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon about having great meetings. I know what you’re thinking. Just hang with me for a minute. Not all meetings are bad. Face-to-face...
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