Get What’s Yours Rise to the Top Demonstrates Our Insecurity

What does it say about Americans when a book about Social Security zooms to the top of the best-seller lists? I say we are just insecure.  Or uninformed.  Or panicky.  Or lots of things. As a elixir, book readers are buying Get What’s Yours:  The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security (Simon & Schuster,… Read More Get What’s Yours Rise to the Top Demonstrates Our Insecurity

An Era Starved for Substance — Some Thoughts on the Value of a Good Book Synopsis

This is primarily a blog about business books, and the ideas and implications in and of such books.  And, to state the obvious, there are good books and bad books – valuable books and not so valuable books. I want to share a story.  A regular participant at the First Friday Book Synopsis has hired… Read More An Era Starved for Substance — Some Thoughts on the Value of a Good Book Synopsis