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Hot Leaders Cool Facilitators by Bart R. Wendell – Book review

Monday, January 30th, 2012

“You are a leader…and you don’t like meetings. You want to like them, but you don’t, and your don’t know why. This book will fix that”, writes master facilitator, business consultant and psychologist Bart R. Wendell, in his very hands on and engaging book Hot Leaders Cool Facilitators: Learning to Lead One Meeting at a [...]

Principles and Case Studies of Simultaneous Design

Monday, November 28th, 2011

“Process design involves the development of an effective flowsheet to transform reactants into products in a profitable, safe, environmentally friendly, and controllable plant”, writes Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, William L. Luyben, in his comprehensive and detailed book Principles and Case Studies of Simultaneous Design. The author describes the general design principles, and [...]

Book Review: Killing Giants

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

“What connects each is a desire to do the impossible, every day: kill the giant in their industry”, writes strategist and marketing consultant Stephen Denny in his thought provoking and insightful book Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry. The author describes how a small player in any industry can topple [...]

Book Review: You Can’t Fire Everyone

Monday, March 21st, 2011

“But the biggest problem is that no one ever trained us how to be a good boss – or any sort of boss, for that matter”, writes deputy managing editor of Fortune, Hank Gilman, in his very entertaining and perceptive book You Can’t Fire Everyone: And Other Lessons from an Accidental Manager. The author describes, [...]

Book Review: You Already Know How To Be Great

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

“The biggest obstacle in performance isn’t not knowing what to do; it’s not doing what we know”, writes corporate trainer, executive coach, and founder and President of Inside-Out Development Alan Fine in his insightful and very pragmatic book You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest [...]

Book Review: Army of Entrepreneurs

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

“I had been working on a new way to configure my business, one that tapped the tremendous talent of the seventy-plus people in my company and inspired them to rise up and face the challenges of the day whether or not I was in the office to see it. I had amassed, trained, and deployed [...]

Book Review: About Face

Monday, December 27th, 2010

“With ever-gathering force during the past two decades, breakthroughs in brain science have confirmed what we all instinctively know in our gut but don’t admit to in business: people are primarily emotional decision makers”, writes leading authority on the role of emotions on consumer and employee behavior, Dan Hill, in his insightful and eye opening [...]

Book Review: Secrets of Profitable Freelance Writing

Monday, November 29th, 2010

“What I am going to show you in this manual are my fastest methods for finding work, obtaining great assignments and producing content”, writes successful freelance writer and editor Nathan Segal in his very practical and information packed book Secrets of Profitable Freelance Writing. The author describes his proven techniques for landing those choice magazine [...]