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Review: Relaunch! Stagnation, Change and Renewal in Mid-Career and Beyond by Steven Simon, Ph.D.

An experienced career counselor shares wisdom about recognizing and surviving a professional life crisis in Relaunch! Stagnation, Change and Renewal in Mid-Career and Beyond.

As Simon lays out methodically, there are many ways that your career may grow stagnant. For example, you may feel underappreciated in general, or perhaps your job no longer seems meaningful. Conflict situations at work can lead to anger, frustration and depression. Perhaps you are doing work you don’t enjoy simply because finances dictate it, or you have lost your job and are experiencing the challenges of seeking new employment. All of these circumstances can […]

SPR2019-03-04T13:04:24+02:00July 11th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Non-Fiction, Self-Help|

The Little Black Book of Human Resources Management by Barry Wolfe

Barry Wolfe’s The Little Black Book of Human Resources Management doesn’t exactly on first glance seem like a riveting read, but it is clear that Barry Wolfe kept this in mind, as he has injected the humor and levity that helps communicate his message, offering a comprehensive and even entertaining look at the topic.

The book covers all the bases, from interviewing new staff to changing the work culture of current staff. Reading through, you will find that a lot of what is said not only applies to HR, but to all other aspects of the workplace. Whatever the […]

SPR2018-05-02T12:29:53+02:00May 2nd, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business|

Review: Get the Heck Out of Our Way! by Dale W. Cox

Businessman Dale W. Cox expresses his deep concern over the proliferation of government regulations and their consequences to ordinary citizens in the United States in Get the Heck Out of Our Way!: Examples of Government Regulations That Are Eroding Our Freedoms, Holding Back the Economy, and Costing Us Money and What We Can Do about It.

Cox asserts that early on in our history very few government departments were deemed necessary, but in the past 100+ years such departments have increased in number, size, influence, and power. As someone who desires to pursue small business, he is affected directly, […]

Barbara Scott2019-01-22T11:33:04+02:00April 16th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Business, Dale W. Cox, Politics|

Sales Is My Passion by Amaro Araujo

Amara Araujo, an international sales executive of twenty years’ experience, has organized this sales methodology manual in highly readable fashion.

In Sales Is My Passion: Sales Management Best Practices on Preparation, Negotiation, and Closing Deals with Confidence, Araujo outlines the importance of sales in daily life – not just for the salesman, but all the ways that sales can impact people’s daily lives. Though achieving the sale is of course the goal, the purpose is also to improve people’s lives in some way, even for relatively small purchases, but especially for major purchases like buying a car. Sales shouldn’t […]

Barbara Scott2018-02-26T12:05:14+02:00February 26th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business|

Leaderology by Jeff Rawlins

Author and business consultant Jeff Rawlins explores how leadership and teamwork go together in Leaderology: How to Crush Mediocrity For Once and For All.

Rawlins stresses the inner development of the leader as more than purely pragmatic: instead of always trying to be better and faster, he believes, leaders should build self-awareness, making time for meditation and solitude. Teamwork requires genuine collaboration based on mutual goals and trust, shared resources and accountability. Teams are motivated by focused leaders. The language Rawlins uses emphasizes subtle, spiritual aspects of leadership, with terms like self-discovery and inner development.

Rawlins proposes five strong […]

Barbara Scott2018-02-20T09:16:12+02:00February 17th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business, Leadership|

Review: The Journey from Poor Procrastinator to Invested Millennial by Jeremy Kho

Author and entrepreneur Jeremy Kho advises his readers to start investing now for the bright future we would all like to have in The Journey from Poor Procrastinator to Invested Millennial.

Kho creates a clear picture of procrastinators – those who continue to delay making the moves that would garner them positive prospects for financial security. It might be a perfectionist who can’t get started on a project until everything is in place, or a “thrill-seeker” who likes the danger of waiting to pay a bill until the very last minute. Maybe it’s someone who feels too busy to […]

Barbara Scott2018-03-22T07:05:14+02:00February 16th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business|

Review: The Average Joe’s Guide to Success by R.C. Farrington

Author and entrepreneur R.C. Farrington has written a book for those he calls “average Joes and Josies” who may be wondering when, if ever, they can excel in The Average Joe’s Guide to Success: The Brilliant Overachievers Will Never See You Coming.

If you fall into this category, as Farrington says he does, you will probably realize it early on: you won’t make straight A’s in school, and perhaps, like him, you will be tested at some point and routed towards vocational work. You may feel undervalued and lapse into a pattern of underachieving, because it seems pointless to […]

Barbara Scott2018-05-09T10:19:56+02:00January 10th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business, Non-Fiction, Self-Help|

Gambling on Granola: Unexpected Gifts on the Path of Entrepreneurship by Fiona Maria Simon

In 2000, following a divorce and depression, Fiona Maria Simon heard an inner voice: “Sell your granola.” She decided to take the chance and created Fiona’s Natural Foods, which went on to great success, as movingly told in Gambling on Granola: Unexpected Gifts on the Path of Entrepreneurship.

Never having had any business training, and knowing only that friends loved her homemade grain mixes, Simon searched for expertise. She serendipitously met people who helped to transform her local sales of hand-packed products to nationally distribution of cereals and energy bars. Her innate integrity impelled her to oversee every aspect […]

Barbara Scott2018-05-09T10:16:51+02:00October 26th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business, Memoir, Non-Fiction|