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Develop a Strong Foundation in Sales With “How to Be a Superstar Salesperson”

Audri White takes the alphabetic game a step further with acronyms like CAPI, SPIN and FAB in her quick “pocket guide” handbook to sales called How to Be a Superstar Salesperson. White, a former salesperson at Xerox Corp. who has made a living in banking, mortgage lending and corporate recruiting,…

Jim AlkonApril 28, 2022

Business - Featured Nonfiction

Reckoning With America’s Past to Understand Inequity in Modern Times

Since its colonial beginnings, America has built and expanded its institutions of wealth and power: with wealth, first rooted in agriculture, comes power in fields such as politics and culture. That agricultural wealth, however, was created by Black people. White people reflexively used their power stemming from Black labor to…

Wyatt SemenukApril 5, 2022

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Perfect Blueprint for Starting Up Your Own Business

But dreams are easily shattered: The Small Business Administration indicates that 20 percent of all small businesses fail in their first year; 50 percent last no more than five years; and 33 percent can give themselves a gold watch for lasting at least 10 years. If you’re looking for…

Jim AlkonFebruary 19, 2019

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Determining Which Way to Lean With “8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility”

Tim was willing to give extra attention to a challenged team member, but it came at the expense of effectively managing the whole team. Adeline as a leader was an agent of change, but her middle managers were stuck within the safety of the status quo. “The road to leadership…

Jim AlkonJuly 14, 2020

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

From Professional Peaks to Personal Pitfalls, Katie Couric’s Memoir Spares No Detail

I loved this memoir amidst the backdrop of modern history. With so many tears and "laugh out loud" moments, this was a joy, a walk down memory lane and an eye-opener. When my kids were little, I was a loyal Today Show viewer and, like most who turned to NBC…

Jennifer BlankfeinFebruary 4, 2022

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Women of Color and Corporate America’s Clarion Call for Redefining the Workplace

In Deepa Purushothaman’s new book, The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America (Harper Business), she lays the groundwork for how women of color can redefine success on their own terms. For too long, corporate structures and cultural conditioning have made them believe that…

Wyatt SemenukMarch 17, 2022

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Video: Missed It? Watch Interview with Carolyn Carpeneti and Taking Flight: Mastering Executive Function

What should we do when our children struggle academically? Should we let them fail so they’ll learn from their mistakes and do better next time? Perhaps. But what if they lack the organizational tools to succeed? Carolyn Carpeneti’s son had effectively coped with learning differences through high school and was…

BookTribJune 16, 2016

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Homeland Security Expert Teaches How to Stop Crime and Be “The Smartest Person in the Room”

I recently received a recorded phone call telling me that my AT&T account had been hacked. I did not press Option 1 as requested, but instead called AT&T and was assured my account was secure. The recorded call was just another scam, an attempt to obtain personal information. My account…

Joanna PoncavageOctober 8, 2021

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Frugality Is Name of the Game in Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance Management

Don’t let the title fool you. Yes, in The Frugal Real Estate Investor, author Aki Suzuki certainly will tell you everything you need to know about entering and thriving in the world of real estate rental properties, everything short of handing you an actual property and negotiating a deal for…

Jim AlkonOctober 21, 2021

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Death of Cryptocurreny Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Some crypto-pundits compare the cryptocurrency phenomenon to the Internet — a specialized technology that became universal. Cryptocurrency hasn’t yet become part of most daily lives, but according to that same New York Times column, “20 percent of American adults, and 36 percent of millennials, own cryptocurrency.” Blockchain Ethics: Fighting Honorable…

Joanna PoncavageMay 16, 2022

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Achieve Optimum Workplace Performance With “The X Factor of Employee Engagement”

Just how important is intrinsic employee motivation in today’s workplace? So much so that the Harvard Business Review claims that one extrinsically motivated employee can cost an organization $12,000 a year. Multiply that a few times, and you get the point! That is why Demi Gray, a business executive and…

Jim AlkonMarch 17, 2021

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Old Solutions to New Problems: “Cyberjutsu,” the Ninja Approach to Cybersecurity

Our digital lives depend on cybersecurity. When hackers broke into the computer networks of Home Depot, Staples, Target and Equifax in recent years, customers became victims of identity theft, their credit card numbers stolen and their credit histories compromised. Today, even our national security is threatened. The SolarWinds software breach…

Joanna PoncavageApril 6, 2021

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Riding the Executive Roller Coaster: Medical Staffing Cases” Encompasses Every High and Low of Professional Growth

It was the middle of the night. She was homeless at the time. She was at a Greyhound station in Kansas City, had no ticket for her next trip and was thrown out of the warm terminal and into a January blizzard. Below-zero temperatures. No hat, gloves or scarf. It…

Jim AlkonJuly 28, 2021

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“You’re Kidding, Right?” Aims to Enlighten Investors Working Alongside Financial Advisors

You’re Kidding, Right? Oh No, Not Another Book on How to Make Money Investing in Stocks and Bonds (Fulton Books) by Brad Goldfarb, CIMA is no dry financial tome. It’s a very entertaining look at common and not-so-common misconceptions about investing. Goldfarb says that the book was originally created out…

Barbara WilkovSeptember 30, 2021

Business Nonfiction

Steve Jobs’ Daughter Finds Her Own Voice in New Memoir

If you haven’t read Lisa Brennan-Job’s memoir “Small Fry” (Grove Press) yet, you will likely hear about it because Lisa’s father was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. But this is not a biography of Steve Jobs. Rather, it is a portrait of growing up in California in the eighties and…

Just The Right Book PodcastNovember 23, 2018

Business Nonfiction

Patagonia Founder Shares Lessons From the Edge

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of the outdoor brand Patagonia, began as a blacksmith, eventually creating Chouinard Equipment Ltd., which mainly focused on forging climbing pitons. He was a major player during the Golden Age of Climbing in Yosemite, making first ascents of the North America Wall with climbing legends Royal…

Daniel ModlinApril 30, 2019

Develop a Strong Foundation in Sales With “How to Be a Superstar Salesperson”

Reckoning With America’s Past to Understand Inequity in Modern Times

Perfect Blueprint for Starting Up Your Own Business

Determining Which Way to Lean With “8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility”

From Professional Peaks to Personal Pitfalls, Katie Couric’s Memoir Spares No Detail

Women of Color and Corporate America’s Clarion Call for Redefining the Workplace

Video: Missed It? Watch Interview with Carolyn Carpeneti and Taking Flight: Mastering Executive Function

Homeland Security Expert Teaches How to Stop Crime and Be “The Smartest Person in the Room”

Frugality Is Name of the Game in Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance Management

The Death of Cryptocurreny Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Achieve Optimum Workplace Performance With “The X Factor of Employee Engagement”

Old Solutions to New Problems: “Cyberjutsu,” the Ninja Approach to Cybersecurity

“Riding the Executive Roller Coaster: Medical Staffing Cases” Encompasses Every High and Low of Professional Growth

“You’re Kidding, Right?” Aims to Enlighten Investors Working Alongside Financial Advisors

Steve Jobs’ Daughter Finds Her Own Voice in New Memoir

Patagonia Founder Shares Lessons From the Edge

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