Jan. 13, 2006 – Subtitled “Why Market Share is the Fool’s Gold of Business” it is full of sound research and some interesting case studies. Published in 2002, it obviously didn’t make it to any bestseller lists, but it’s a very worthwhile read. At 172 pages the investment of time is worth the return. Miniter gives…
Jan. 8, 2006 – Subtitled “Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and WOW Your Customers” the three authors have also set up a website by the same name at lighttheirfire.net. The book is excellent and a very informative and engaging read. It took me awhile to get through it because I would find with each section…
Jan. 1, 2006 – Subtitled 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life the book delivers on the promise of the title. What a way to start the first day of a new year! This is my recommended “must read” for this year. The book is tiny – not much bigger than an actual drink…
Dec. 26, 2005 – Subtitled “How to Get Your Font Line to Care About Your Bottom Line.” The book deals with managing and motivating the newest generation of employees known as Generation Y (or Generation Why, the Millennials, NetGen or Echo Boomers.) These are the youngest of employees from ages 16 to 24 that the author…
Dec. 17, 2005 – This article in the December ’05 issue of FastCompany Magazine captures a concept that I have tried to explain numerous times to people about our own company: the concept of yin-yang. In this instance, the concept has become the touchstone for the transformation of Korea’s Samsung into the world’s most profitable tech company….
Dec. 12, 2005 – Subtitled “Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable” the book is set up as short vignettes written by 33 well known writers, leaders and all around gurus. Folks like Malcolm Gladwell, Tom Peters, Daniel H. Pink, Mark Cuban, Alan Webber and Tom Kelly – The Group of 33. Several remarkable…
Dec. 10, 2005 – This is not really what I would put in the category of Business literature, but I have recommended it to so many people lately, I decided to talk about it here anyway. Barack Obama wrote this book shortly after leaving Harvard Law School. His thoughts on the genesis of the book…
Dec. 6, 2005 – The Dec. 12th issue of BusinessWeek has a really interesting cover story on the MySpace Generation. MySpace.com is a networking site geared toward young people aged 12 to 24. It’s an absolute phenomenon. It’s ironic that I was having a conversation with a co-worker last week at our monthly Happy Hour about MySpace,…
Dec. 2, 2005 – In the December issue of FastCompany Magazine there is an interesting article about the artists retreat in New Hampshire, McDowell Colony. It’s been there for nearly a century and it still attracts many contemporary writers, composers, and artists of all varieties. In this day and age, it’s interesting to read that creative people…
Nov. 29, 2005 – Subtitled Employee Recognition that Works the books offers “simple ways to boost morale, productivity and profits.” I would put it in the category of a quick and easy read full of very practical ideas that have proven effective for me in working with my own staff. There are so many things…
Nov. 27, 2005 – This book is awesome! I mean a must read even if you only read one business book a year. Recommended to me by Val August, it was a quick and easy read that was engaging and entertaining from the front cover to the acknowledgments. The three authors are all from Deloitte Consulting and…
Nov. 25, 2005 – I was very excited to see the Amazon.com box on my porch today. Every year one of my New Year’s Resolutions is “Buy fewer books.” Every year I think I do a little better, but not significantly better. So I have ordered three books – one recommended by FastCompany and two recommended…
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