reviews

I’ve long blogged against the misguided pursuit of money as your primary driver. Better, I’ve always felt, to focus on success first. Financial reward then easier follows from your accomplishment. I’ve come across an author who reinforces this stance throughout his promotion of obliquity. As defined by

[http://www.microtrending.com/] Here’s an easy read from 2007. With 75 bite-size sections only a handful of pages each, you can leisurely dive in and out of Microtrends [www.microtrending.com]. The book aims to show how counter intuitive trends eventually buck conventional wisdom. They manage this after

This was the title of a presentation given at a ‘software for sales’ event I attended in Chicago way back in 1998. It in part deserves recollection as being a needle of personal selling skill discussion in a haystack of mainly technical monologues. [http://www.redhotsales.com] Despite the ancient

Here’s a way to end the year. Celebrate when you’re over 100% of target. Throw out a wadge of old papers. The latter generated a week’s worth of blogging too. Happy New Year! I cleared out an old box of work gubbins, only to find a huge

I’ve decided to offer up a trio of consecutive posts on a book I recently read by Tim Ferriss. I must confess that the idea behind taking it in was to assess time management insight. For those so inclined, this book offers so much more towards a lifestyle changing

An entertaining management theorist, I first came across Tom Peters’ works with the seminal 1982 co-authored In Search Of Excellence. It sought to document America’s best companies and reveal their secrets. Don’t necessarily let detractor mocking that they all went down the pan soon after cloud judgement. The

Mark McCormack, as he likes to point out on every other page of this best-selling memoir, is the man ‘who made Arnold Palmer rich’. Indeed, Mark McCormack covets credit for founding the entire sports management industry. He wrote many books aimed at telling a general business audience what you need