Seth Godin needs no introduction. A world class marketer, a best-selling author of a dozen books, an unmatched voice of influence, not to mention a sincerely genuine person on every interview and interaction. He is too good to be real and yet so real, it’s hard to believe. “Art, at least art as I define [...]
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How to create a personal brand that’s so UNFORGETTABLE, it actually MAGNETIZES more business to you. Scott Ginsberg Different people inspire us to do different things. Sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally. Or else why would we expand our inner circle, widen our network horizons and continuously seek the human connection throughout our lives. In the [...]
“Getting to Yes“ is quite possibly one of the best negotiation books you will ever read. First published in 1981, the authors founded the first Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School and have been successfully teaching their negotiation technique globally. I enrolled in a one-day course at my company. The course teaches the fundamentals of [...]
I met Sylvia Ann Hewitt at a leadership summit in California in May of 2006. She is a fantastic speaker with sharp presence. She was there to promote her book and also to speak to women managers and leaders about the topic of her book. I had a special invite to the event, and she [...]
Solving puzzles with Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle book. World’s smartest companies select the most creative thinkers.Being asked the impossible question in an already intense conversation better known as the “job interview”. I loved this book. I loved the puzzle focus, the questions, the brain teasers combined with the history of some of Silicon Valley’s [...]
“The more I understand differences, the more I like people.” These were the words our leadership instructor wrote on the flip chart the day we talked about our communication styles. Our subject that day was Laura Browne’s blue book, an insightful pack of surprisingly eye-opening material in just 158 pages.
In the eyes of Keith Ferrazzi, success – in our careers and in life – is all about relationships. Everything in our universe is related to everything else through a relationship. We must develop, establish and nurture our relationships in life. We live in a fast paced life and a connected age, where the day’s [...]
Oh what an exhausting year 2007 has been for me. A mentally draining and highly unsatisfying year in my career. What to do to turn things around? My best productivity shows in the form of books I read cover to cover, and the thousands of miles I fly each month to expand my social network. I [...]
This is a difficult and dull book to read. While I respect the advice of a senior director who suggested it to me, after months of making various casual and semi-serious attempts at digging into this, I give up! I perused through some of it, read a few chapters, and was mostly unable to fully [...]
True leadership is recognized universally, regardless of bipartisanship, differences in style and strategy and desired outcome. True leadership is recognized by everyone, and we would be hard pressed to find anyone that would not recognize it in Colin Powell. Oren Harari does a thorough job portraying that character in his book, ”Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell“. Harari [...]
I still remember the short and fidgety instructor we had that day. He was there to teach the 1-day course for discovering your strengths, based on philosophies and ideas on Buckingham and Clifton’s book, “Now, Discover Your Strengths“. I went to the very front and took my seat. If I am here, I want to [...]
Recommended Dr. Stephen Covey, one of my all-time favorite authors and speakers, this book is refreshing in its organizational leadership ideas and problem-solving approach. Over a dozen business and leadership books later, I am able to confidently say this book presents ideas rarely seen in its genre. The premise of this book focuses on one’s own [...]
What makes one idea stick and another fade? What seeming intangibles do people with successful ideas grasp and implement better than rest of us? In a world where technology, work and media move at a maddening pace, no one wants to be left behind. And it is a struggle to get anyone’s attention – not [...]
I will not forget the glance from a flight passenger as she nudged her boyfriend to steal a glance at the title of my book, as they made their ways to their seats in the plane. What is it to her? An why do I care what anyone thinks what I read? Well, in this [...]
“You punk, if you don’t know how to lose, you’ll never know how to win. If you don’t know this, you shouldn’t be playing.” – Grace Welch Jack Welch claims that his biggest influence in life came from his mother in the form of those words. When he lost a game of hockey at an [...]
