Archive for May, 2017

Ask More. The power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions, and spark change. Frank Sesno.

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Ask More. The power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions, and spark change. Frank Sesno. 2017. ISBN 9780814436721.  I am a fan of AMACOM books, they always deliver. This book by Frank Sesno is a good one. Unlike previous books on using questions in sales, this one covers questions for your whole life and many different situations.  Its a great starting book and also one that you can carry for your whole career. They key to change and impact is listening and the cornerstone to listening is having great questions.  Buy this, read it and refer back many times.

Sapiens. A brief history of mankind. Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens. A brief history of mankind. Yuval Noah Harari. 2014. ISBN 978077103850.   If you ever wanted to know why humans behave the way they do. this is the book for you.  It does a very good job of drilling back into our early development ( as  lucky survivor – who ended up at the top of a food chain) and how we still end up repeating our destructive and social ways today. We have been responsible for the destruction of entire species all over the world from very early on and have much to learn from our history.  I was taken with the parallel with our early predilection with gossip and how we still are.  The growth of communities to cities and eventually empires is so fascinating.  I tend to agree that perhaps the foraging communities were “better” fed then the eventual civilized peasants trapped in filthy, disease prone villages with a limited diet.  The extension into what we could become makes for very interesting reading as well.

How to Bullet Proof Your LinkedIn Profile. 10 security issues to avoid. Patrick X. Gallagher

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How to Bullet Proof Your LinkedIn Profile. 10 security issues to avoid. Patrick X. Gallagher. 2017.  A short but excellent ebook on something I should have been considering.   If you follow his guides, you will have gone a long way toward bumping up your LinkedIn security.  His piece on how to tell that the profile asking to connect is fake is a real gem.  If you use LinkedIn this is  a must read.