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The Greatest Book of All Time! Part 1 of 2
I read a lot of books and I write a lot of book reviews here at LearnThis.ca. Nearly all of them are focused on areas I have interests and about things I want to learn more about. As well, many of you know about my Christian faith and foundation ...
Book Review: The Pursuit of Something Better
Author: Dave Esler and Myra Kruger How an Underdog Company Defied the Odds, Won Customers’ Hearts, and Grew It’s Employees into Better People I was sent an advanced copy of The Pursuit and Something Better and while I generally don’...
Book Review: Tribes
Author: Seth Godin We Need You to Lead Us I recently read Tribes and its the first book I’ve read by Godin, believe it or not. I definitely want to get into a few more of his titles now since this book had some real gems in it on leadership.Â...
Book Review: The Adversity Paradox
Author: J. Barry Griswell and Bob Jennings An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success The Adversity Paradox is a fantastic business book. It looks at how obstacles and setbacks in life (adversity) can create the experience a p...
Book Review: Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t Gladwell continues to intrigue me with his unconventional research, presentation and writing. I’ve enjoyed both of his other books, The Tipping Point and Blink and so I fu...
Book Review: The Brain That Changes Itself
Author: Norman Doidge, M.D. Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Well I read this book on several recommendations after a brief bit of research on the plasticity of the mind. I was definitely not disappointed and to be ho...
Book Review: Purpose
The Starting Point of Great Companies Author: Nikos Mourkogiannis To brilliantly match the title of the book, there is a single strong message through this book, that is: for companies to be successful, they must have a purpose that drives the strat...
Book Review: The No Asshole Rule
Author: Robert I. Sutton Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t First of all, if you weren’t thinking it already, let me say, I think the title of this book drastically limits sales. I for one, was very reluctant to pick ...
Book Review: The 4 Hour Workweek
Author: Timothy Ferriss The 4 Hour Workweek I finally got around to listening to The 4 Hour Workweek after hearing mixed reviews about it and I have to say I have mixed thoughts as well. Not for the quality of the book itself or the usefulness of i...
Book Review: Stumbling on Happiness
Author: Daniel Gilbert Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert makes a wonderful examination about the "only animal that thinks about the future" in his book "Stumbling on Happiness". I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. ...
Book Review: The Tipping Point
Author : Malcolm Gladwell How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference The books jacket is a great sample of content. It explains that the tipping point is: . . . that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviours cross a threshold, tip and ...
Book Review: The One Minute Millionaire
The Enlightened Way to Wealth Author : Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen I was given this book by a colleague (Thanks Warren!) and finally got around to reading it. Its basically a guide book to becoming a millionaire. Not only that, but a ...
Book Review: Better Than Good
Author : Zig Ziglar A few years ago now when I was absorbed in a number of motivational books and audio cassettes, I listened to one by Zig Ziglar called, "You are a Natural Champion". Remembering that I enjoyed listening to it triggered me...
Book Review: The Case For Christ
Author : Lee Strobel I wanted to read another of Strobel’s book as I thoroughly enjoyed his "God’s Outrageous Claims " book and I wanted to explore a bit more of the evidence and entry level apologetic views to help defend Christi...
Book Review: The Dream Manager
Author : Matthew Kelly Well I’ve had this book on my bookshelf for a few months now as I’ve been catching up my backlog of books and I’m so happy to have finally read it. I have read a few other recent reviews lately and while...
Book Review: Lean Thinking
Author : James Womack and Daniel Jones This is one of the books that has been on my reading list for some time and I am a little disappointed in the applicable knowledge you can take from the book. I finished it but had a sense of wanting [...]SHAR...
Book Review: Lead Well and Prosper
Genre : Business & Investing Author : Nick McCormick 15 Successful Strategies for Becoming a Good Manager McCormick has created a brilliant little management handbook here that is a perfect desk mate of any manager or want to be manager. He ...
Book Review: The Future of Management
Author: Gary Hamel As a brief summary, I think the book flap does the best job: …Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model - centered on control and efficiency - no longer s...
Book Review: blink
Author: Malcolm Gladwell blink is a very intriguing book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn’t exactly blown away by what it really leaves you with though in the sense of what you can learn from it. I guess my thoughts are beca...
Book Review: The Google Story
Author: David Vise The Google Story is a great story and covers everything Google has done to be where they are today. Its covers a wide range of everything Google without getting into too much technical detail and at the same time, not focusing en...
Book Review: Influencer
Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Ron McMillan From the authors of Crucial Conversations (another highly recommended book), Influencer is another brilliant guide book to day to day things that have a massive impact on people...
Book Review: The Goal
Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox This book had been on my list for well over a year and it was definitely worth finally getting to. I listened to this one on audio which I definitely recommend (even over the book). The reason I suggest this...
Book Review: Listening: The Forgotten Skill
Author: Madelyn Burley-Allen This book has a ton of great content and is a perfect how to guide book if you are willing to practice, change and learn better techniques in listening. The values of listening are explored from many roles, and the tools...
My favorite personal development resources
The purpose of this blog is to provide personal development methods and tips which these involve articles, lists, stories, books and other things. So, I wanted to share some of the resources I use and enjoy online to my readers. This post highlights...
My favorite personal development resources
The purpose of this blog is to provide personal development methods and tips, and these involve articles, lists, stories, books and other things. So, I wanted to share some of the resources I use and enjoy online to my readers. This article highligh...
Book Review: Never Eat Alone
Author: Keith Ferrazzi The tagline of the book is “One relationship at a time” and it is so true. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a long time and finally have. Its everything I expected it to be and it really rein...
Book Review: Mere Christianity
Author: C. S. Lewis Even though this was written over 50 years ago, its still entirely true and Lewis delivers just a brilliantly simple and clear outline of what Christianity is all about and how it impacts our lives. He doesn’t quote a bunch ...
Book Review: God’s Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You
Author: Lee Strobel This is the first book I’ve read by Strobel, but it won’t be my last. Here, he examines 13 of God’s outrageous claims and explains why they are believable and how they are supported and what they mean in a pers...
Book Review: Crucial Conversations
Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler Crucial Conversations are those conversations with touchy subjects, high impact on one’s relationships and life and any conversation that is generally risky or uncomfortable t...
