On Friday, July 8, I present a synopsis of Angela Duckworth‘s # 1 best-seller, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (New York: Scribner, 2016). You can register for this event by clicking HERE. You might be interested in an earlier version of her thoughts on this subject. While the book more fully develops and… Read More Early Thoughts by Duckworth about Grit
The book I present this Friday at the First Friday Book Synopsis is currently # 9 on the New York Times business best-seller list. Adam Braun’s blockbuster best-seller, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change (New York: Scribner, 2014) has hit the lists with fervor. In addition to its New York Times… Read More Braun’s Promise of a Pencil Hits All Business Best-Seller Lists
Adam Braun’s blockbuster best-seller, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change (New York: Scribner, 2014) has hit the lists with fervor. It is now # 2 in the Wall Street Journal business best-selling list for the second week in a row, and comes in at Amazon.com #109 in total Books, and… Read More Braun’s Pencil Hits # 1 and # 2 on Best-Seller Lists
In the writing skills course that we teach at Creative Communication Network, entitled Write Your Way to Success, we discuss how to handle e-Mails. Most of our participants claim they write e-Mails as more than 85% of the type of writing they do on the job. Obviously, writing e-Mails is often responding to other e-Mails. And, the… Read More Do You Allow e-Mail to Control Your Day?
As you are aware, we select our books for the First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas from best-seller lists sources such as Business Week, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Amazon.com. On Friday, November 19, the Wall Street Journal published its best-seller list for the week ending November 14. One category that it includes… Read More The Windfall Effect for Laura Bush and Her Bestseller
Since you are taking a break from your e-mail right now to read this post, I thought you might be interested in a new book by John Freeman entitled The Tyranny of e-Mail (Scribner, 2009). My plans are to feature this book at our January First Friday Book Synopsis. The premise of this book is… Read More What a New Book Says about e-Mail
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