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Book Review

Author Interview with John Spence

April 20, 2010

  Earlier this year, I discovered the book Awesomely Simple and wrote a book review on it for this blog. I admired the book’s down-to-earth approach and wanted to learn more, so I reached out to its author, John Spence. John agreed to sit down with me last month for an interview.       [...]

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Awesomely Simple

February 14, 2010

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 [...]

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Tweet This! Book Review

February 1, 2010

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 [...]

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The Power of Respect by Deborah Norville

December 16, 2009

“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 [...]

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Book Review: Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham

October 5, 2009

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. [...]

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Book Review: The Sharp Employee

September 18, 2009

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 [...]

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Book Review: Rule-Breaking Works

September 16, 2009

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, [...]

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