Review:If you are at a point where you are trying to define key points in your life this book will help you. The process of learning where you are and where you need to go is clearly represented in this read. Highly recommend reading a few times as you will always miss something the first two or three times! Read more

Review:If you are a CEO of a publicly traded company this book is for you. Some good stories and examples but allocation of capital, stock buy backs, leveraged debt; there wasn't much in here about managing and leadership. It's more like a blueprint for creating shareholder value. Read more

Review:Absolutely loved this book. Gordon and Smith do a great job balancing each other as well as ideas. I love the fact they included conversations with Coach Smith regarding the struggles of the Atlanta Falcons while he was in charge. Many authors would only include the "feel good" parts, and omit the trials and tribulations. This book is great for beginning coaches as well as veterans. It emphasizes many of the topics that many of us think about daily, and encourages the reader to focus on the impo... Read more

Review:If you're looking for a similar book that's better written, look up Coping with Difficult People by Robert Bramson. It's older, so it doesn't have the modern applications like this book has, but Bramson's book is more plainly written. Easier to understand and provides direction in how to handle the situations you're presented with. Read more

Review:Should be required reading for anyone talking or thinking about Big Data and how it's used. This will be the first of many to make more sense of it than has been to date. It's fine to say don't start into big data efforts just for the sake of mountains of data, but have an objective, but most people haven't a clue how to begin to figure out what those objectives might be. This will help, but the future holds more ideas I'm sure. Still is nods toward the power and value of big data analyses that ... Read more

Review:This is a great library addition, where one can dive in and find a topic which relates to a current problem.
The pieces on strategy are great and timeless.
Some of the other pieces can feel dated or too generic, such as the article on data analytics. Read more

Review:Disappointing. I was hoping for more insights, tips and anecdotes. What I got was a lot of self aggrandizement. He spent a lot of time telling us how accomplished he is and nothing much about how he did it. Kind of like his presidential bid. A lot of talk about what he would like to do but nothing on how he will accomplish it. Read more

Review:First off, I listened to the audio version. I liked it a lot, he gave a good mix of practical advice and inspiration. Usually I group books like this into self-help, practical advice or motivational, abstract advice. I would say it lay more on the latter side, with Trump telling lots of general tips on success and some of the strategies he has used to achieve his status. He includes a section where he talks at length about a week in the life of Trump, where he goes into nitty gritty details ... Read more

Review:Six Sigma can at times seem so confusing no matter who's writing about it. The Phd's have been able to make something that needs to be simplified, very complex. The book deals with the subject matter very well. However, if you don't use it you will lose it very quickly. Read more

Review:One of the authors asked me to read & review this book.
It's a book about mindfulness, getting into the right habits, avoiding the wrong habits, addressing procrastination. It explains a lot of whys and has a bunch of how-to's and step-by-steps for you to follow to overcome certain things such as procrastination.
If you've never read anything like this before its a good place to start. If you've read something around this topic it covers things that you likely already have read and kno... Read more