Book Review · Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant

Donny O’Malley and Brian Delrosario

Book Review · Breakthrough

Reading another excellent book. Recommend.  The author shares an almost miraculous story of helping his wife recover from an end-stage diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.  Peter shares his frustration with those tasked to help, and the heartbreaking struggle of watching his wife suffer.  At least three themes that he experienced (and continues to experience) compelled me to……

Book Review · The Agency – Build, Grow, Repeat

Reading another excellent. A story worth reading on developing a digital marketing agency.  302 pages.  Business management, digital marketing.  I think many would readily connect with Luca’s backstory of years of initial struggle before serendipitously discovering his niche in life. I love how organized Luca wrote the book.  The title itself outlines the contents and……

Book Review · The Cost of Loyalty

Reading another excellent book. A must-read for veterans.  288 pages.  Military and leadership. LOYALTY OVER INTEGRITY America as a whole and both major political parties hold its military in high regard.  Yet, we haven’t won a war since World War II, 75 years ago.  Our military’s organization remains stuck in time two centuries ago, hierarchical……

Book Review · The Iceberg Effect

The Iceberg Effect (2020) by Dean Holland Recommend.  163 pages.  Entrepreneurship, internet marketing, and direct marketing.  Dean Holland began his entrepreneurial journey in the early 2000s.  Today, he collaborates alongside marketing legends such as Russell Brunson, who wrote the foreword. The book begins with his outward journey of struggling with school and work, wanting more……

Friends who borrow books and forget

I set out to make every other book I read a re-read; meaning, re-read my top 10. I’m still trying. Soon as I finish one book, I feel compelled to grab something new. Except for yesterday. As I sent to reach for my copy of Influence by Robert Cialdini, I suddenly remembered how I lent……

Copy success, map out a book

I mentioned this in a previous post. It’s worth repeating. Not only does success leave clues, but successful people write books about how they did it. Sometimes, they write the chapters in sequential order. Why not outline the book and build from there, hence standing on the shoulders of giants? Why reinvent the wheel? Right……

Systemizing and writing

I’ve heard it said that if you can put a job in writing, then the job holder is replaceable. I don’t remember the context in which I heard it, but I think it pointed to some tasks as remaining either uniquely human (unable to delegate to a machine) or uniquely belonging to the leader (unable……

My Sister's Keeper

My daughter told me that this was her favorite book. So I read the book, My Sister’s Keeper (2004) and watched the movie by the same name (2009), which stars Cameron Díaz, Alec Baldwin, and Joan Cusack. I’m not normally into fiction reading or chick flicks, but it’s for my daughter. Plus, I majored in……

Are you tired or do you just not want it?

I’ve spent the last year getting up at 0400 to read before work, even on weekends. Every book in these two pics (approx. 50), I’ve read or re-read in the past 13 months. What are they about? Economics, finance, accounting, psychology, marketing, entrepreneurship, leadership. You can make time. If you click the picture, it’ll take……