I’ve been a big fan of Guy’s for years, but I must admit this is the first of his books I’ve gotten around to reading. And I’m glad I did. His latest, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions(affiliate link) is a breeze of a read and one that I found delightful and, [...]
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Got this e-mail from Guy yesterday: A long time ago (1987 exactly), I published my first book, The Macintosh Way. I wrote it because I was bursting with idealistic and pure notions about how a company can change the world, and I wanted to spread the gospel. Here’s what a reader said about it: It [...]
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So says Sir Ken Robinson and, I would suppose, Daniel H. Pink and others. If you’re passionate about education – maybe you have young children or are a school teacher, or both – you need to get to know these names. I first discovered Sir Ken Robinson a few months ago while searching TED conference [...]
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With a hat tip to Dave Delaney, IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy, has produced a video showcasing their vision on three potential scenarios for the future of books. The common thread among the three seems to center around encouraging discussion, interaction and community among readers. As an avid reader, I’m intrigued to say [...]
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While Independence Day may be behind us, that doesn’t mean we have to put our patriotism on the shelf until next year. A recent e-mail I received from a PR agent tipped me off to a new book from Thomas Nelson Publishers called The Portable Patriot: Documents, Speeches, and Sermons That Compose the American Soul and [...]
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Okay, I’ll just come out and say it. It’s been really hard to Find My Strongest Anything lately. There have been two deaths in my family in the last week, yesterday my one and only laptop hard drive crashed (I’m on a borrowed one now) and, I realized just moments ago that this review is actually due [...]
Filed under: Books, Publishing, Reviews | Tagged: free, life, Marcus Buckingham, strenghts, Strong Life Test, Thomas Nelson, women | 6 Comments »
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think [...]
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