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May 18, 2010 –  Author is Jared Diamond. This is an excellent book that traces the many factors that affected the disparate evolutions of civilizations throughout the world. Those factors are not always obvious. Understanding how societies evolved is very illuminating in understanding the behavior and evolution of current cultures, countries, communities and even companies. Great read!…

April 18, 2010 – Author is Joseph T. Hallinan. A really terrific book that addresses why we routinely make mistakes. It’s extremely well researched and it’s a very engaging book to read. Some of the root causes for our mistake inducing behaviors are remarkably simple. It helps to understand what effects our judgment in order to…

April 13, 2010 – I actually listened to the unabridged audio version read by the author, Donald Miller. It is awesome. Really life changing. I saw a video review that Chris Brogan had done on his blog about this book and I can assure you it was everything he said it was. One of the greatest…

April 3, 2010 – Authors are Bob Burg, John David Mann. This is an excellent book and a companion to the original Go-Givers. Many of these principles I already cover in the presentations I give on using social media tools for business. The concepts are well articulated here and the benefit to me is understanding how I…

March 17, 2010 – The author is Nick Morgan. This is a really excellent book. I can honestly say I picked up several tips, ideas and strategies that I think will dramatically improve my presentations. There were things in this book that I already do instinctively, but this validates the reason why those things work. With…

Feb. 14, 2010 – The author is Larry Winget. This is a great book! It came highly recommended to me by my business coach who had recently read it himself. It’s a practical, do-able, no-excuses action plan for changing the outcomes in your life. Which we are all capable of doing. Great quote: “Attitude alone will…

Jan. 8, 2010 – This is such an excellent book! It’s due to be published in Feb. 2010 and it is just as groundbreaking as Chip and Dan Heath’s previous book “Made to Stick.” Their research is thorough, their case studies varied, the writing is engaging and their analogies are spot on! It was easily read…

March 19, 2009 – This book is really the philosophical foundation on which the current explosion in social media technologies is based. This is not to say that the four men who wrote the book created this philosophy, only that they recognized some fundamental truths well ahead of the rest of us. Published in 2000, written…

Dec. 29, 2008 – Subtitled: Lessons from Jim McNerney’s Turnaround at Boeing. It was destiny that I ended up with this book. Or perhaps serendipity. Either way, the publisher did me a favor in sending it along. The content in this book is excellent. I would describe the style as a case study and Cohan’s writing as analytical. While…

Dec. 13, 2008 – This is quite a remarkable book that was recommended to me by someone I was working with recently in Charleston, SC. Lonnie Plaster and I have known each other for several years and I admire and respect him as a real estate manager, but have not really gotten to know him well. A chance…

Nov. 30, 2008 – Subtitled: We Need You to Lead Us. What an awesome book! I confess I’m a big fan of Seth Godin’s books and his blog, so it’s not so surprising that I think his latest effort is right on target. Where to start? Well, I teach classes on social media technologies to real estate agents. Getting…

Nov. 23, 2008 – Subtitled: How To Turn Creativity Into A Powerful Business Advantage. This is an interesting and engaging book that opens with a very clear and simple premise in Chapter One: “Imagination is the last legal means of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.” The final chapter closes with the additional observation:“Increasingly, it’s the only means.” …