You don’t have to buy one, and we will let you in if you do not have one. But, if it is possible for you to wear a purple shirt to the October 7th First Friday Book Synopsis at the Dallas Park City Club, that would help us commemorate our charity sponsorship that day. Our… Read More Please Wear a Purple Shirt to the October 7 Book Synopsis
On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. The authors are Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz. All are associated with… Read More 5 Days to New Ideas: Key Image
On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. To obtain information and register, click HERE. Here is a brief biography of each of the… Read More SPRINT Authors Have Diverse Backgrounds
On Friday, I present a synopsis of Laura Vanderkam‘s best seller, “I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time” (Portfolio, 2015). The book is based upon time diaries of 1001 days, divided into 1/2-hour chunks, from 150 women who make at least $100,000 a year with at least… Read More Synopsis on How Successful Women Manage Time
People say you are in the newspaper three times: when you are born, when you marry, and when you die. Today, we are featured in the Dallas Morning News in a Business section column by Cheryl Hall. The article describes our First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. Use this link… Read More Book Synopsis Featured in Dallas Morning News
Reading Ron Lieber‘s best-seller entitled The opposite of spoiled: Raising kids who are grounded, generous, and smart about money (Harper Business, 2015) is quite an eye-opener. He is a personal finance columnist for the New York Times. When I present its synopsis on Friday morning at the Park City Club, I am sure many parents… Read More Reading About Spoiled Stops My Splurge – The End of the Line for Me at SMU Basketball Games
What kind of sales strategy allows a title of a book to inhibit sales? You may be all in favor of “telling it like it is,” but shouldn’t that be confined to the pages inside, and not on the spine? I remember delivering a synopsis several years ago at the First Friday Book Synopsis of… Read More Book Titles That Deliberately Inhibit Sales – It’s a Bad Idea!
Recently, a sharp entrepreneur told me that she consistently hears that the First Friday Book Synopsis is one of the top 5 networking events in the Dallas area. I believe this is true, and you can sense it whenever you walk into the room at one of our monthly sessions. The quality of the people,… Read More Coming for the May 4 First Friday Book Synopsis – Imagine: How Creativity Works & Take the Stairs
If you live in the DFW area, I hope you will join us this Friday (May 7) at 7:00 am at the Park City Club for a great breakfast, terrific networking, and our synopses of Rework and Linchpin. I will present the synopsis of Rework, and Karl Krayer will present the synopsis of Linchpin. Just… Read More An Invitation — come join us this Friday for the May First Friday Book Synopsis
Coming for the April First Friday Book Synopsis: Gawande’s Checklist and Crawford’s Soulcraft This morning, we gathered for the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club. (They do a great job at the Park City Club – a wonderful buffet breakfast, with made-to-order omelets, a stuffed French Toast dish that should be illegal!,… Read More Coming for the April First Friday Book Synopsis: Gawande and Crawford
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