Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang I’m going to share very little about this book. Instead, I’d like to tell you WHY you should read it. It’s all about a very unusual man and even more unusual company—both of…
Juggling Elephants: An Easier Way to Get Your Most Important Things Done-Now! by Jones Loflin and Todd Musig We seem to be in the midst of a rash of parables this year. Here’s another popular title consisting of a mere 131 pages. This trend might reflect the fact that people simply don’t have the time…
The Janitor: How an Unexpected Friendship Transformed a CEO and His Company by Todd Hopkins and Ray Hilbert It somewhat stands to reason that if you’re in search of effective business strategies and insights, you’re not going to find it in a book with the word “janitor” in the title, right? Ah, but we all…
The Key: Celebrated People Unlock Their Secrets to Life by Linda Solomon The vast majority of the books I choose to review deal with some aspect of the business world for the most obvious of reasons. However, from time to time, I like to share a book I think you might find useful or simply…
Acres of Diamonds: All Good Things Are Possible, Right Where You Are, and Now! by Russell H. Conwell You may have to search a bit to find this classic, but the effort will certainly provide great dividends. While a new copy can easily be found online for as low as $5, it may very well…
The Invisible Employee: Realizing the Hidden Potential in Everyone by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Here we find another of the “mini-books” (140 pages), which continue to inspire us via a business fable packed with hard-won wisdom. This one comes to us from the co-authors of a previous bestseller A Carrot a Day. These authors…
The Other Side of the Card: Where Your Authentic Leadership Story Begins by Mike Morrison Knowing a little bit more about this author may explain the powerful content of still another of those many small books that seem to appear on our local bookstore shelves with regularity. However, don’t be mislead by the dimensions of…
Trust Your Gut: How the Power of Intuition Can Grow Your Business by Lynn A. Robinson Today’s top business leaders work with their “inner CEO” to win big accounts, elevate productivity, increase sales and profits, resolve critical issues, and grow their organizations. That “inner CEO” is better known as intuition. As you probably know, intuition…
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe The world’s first e-mail message was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. 171 billion e-mails are sent each day, meaning almost 2 million e-mails are sent every second! The New York Times reports that 62% of all e-mail is…