The Book
Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill with Jeffrey Gitomer Amazon Publishing (October 2018) Timeless but timely advice for personal growth and professional development Henry Ford once observed, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t,…
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations Dan Ariely TED Books (November 2016) How and why people can have perpetual energy by investing in “a sense of connection, meaning, ownership, and long-term thinking” In Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded…
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The Connection Algorithm: Take Risks, Defy the Status Quo, and Live Your Passions Jesse Warren Tevelow Self-Published (2015) How to develop a mindset that will help you and others to accelerate personal growth and professional development To what does the…
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) How and why mastering the economic approach will produce better answers to questions…
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!nnovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World Kim Chandler McDonald KoganPage (2013) Valuable perspectives on and from within the emerging and evolving Global Digital Economy (GDE) This is the latest of several dozen books on innovation that I…
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The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity Phil Stutz and Barry Michels Spiegel & Grau/Random House (2012) How a transformation of negatives into positives can help people to achieve personal growth and professional development This book has…
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Alan Shelton has lived a seemingly dual life of developing into a quintessential corporate manager while simultaneously engaging in the seeker’s quest. Born in California, Alan grew up within the sixties’ vision of infinite possibility. In his twenties, he worked tirelessly to master the nuts and…
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Awakened Leadership: Beyond Self-Mastery Alan E. Shelton Red Hatchet Press (2012) Why and how to “allow leadership to arise in you as you really are in any moment when leadership is called out” The core thesis of this book is that within each…
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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan Watts Vintage Books/Random House (1989) Of all the books I have reviewed for various Amazon websites thus far, none has attracted more reader comments than has this “little” book…
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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity Hugh MacLeod Portfolio/Penguin (2009) As I began to read this book, I recalled a situation years ago in which a little girl (probably seven or eight years old) announced that her foot…
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