Little Brother. Cory Doctorow. 2007.  Free to anyone.  .  Always a favorite Sci fi writer, this book can bring shivers.  What could happen t some tech savvy teenagers, if Homeland Security went apeshit in their city?  What if the teens were versed in personal freedoms and decided that the DHS was way out of line, as were most adults after a terror attack?  Thats the thesis and Doctorow does a masterful job of weaving tech, civil rights and sci fi into a compelling hard to put down story.  Read this and you will learn quite a lot.  As well as having a blast while reading

Elite Sales Strategies. Anthony Iannarino, 2022

This is likely my choice for sales book of the year. Anthony has penned a book that tells you the current state of modern sales.  Any sales leader, sales person or executive in sales should have this book on their shelf and read it a few times a year.  This can truly help you be different from the pack and really bring value to your clients from the get go.  I have all my sales coaching clients read his The Only Sales Guide You Will Ever Need before I engage with them.  I will now add Elite Sales Strategies as a must read.  Buy it, read it, work it and read it again

The LinkedIn Playbook. Contacts to customers. Adam Houlahan. 2022. ISBN 978064535380.   This is a revision to his 2016 book.  It’s good. Very good in fact. The author takes you from the why to the how and is thorough and detailed. I considered myself quite current on LinkedIn but found several tips and ideas that I could use right away. As the LinkedIn audience becomes more sophisticated, we need to always be putting our best foot forward to make good use of this resource and our time.  A quick read as he has a very easy style and helps you make sense of things.

Elite Sales Strategies. a guide to becoming one-up, creating value and becoming truly consultative. Anthony Iannarino. 2022.  This is likely my choice for sales book of the year. Anthony has penned a book that tells you the current state of modern sales.  Any sales leader, sales person or executive in sales should have this book on their shelf and read it a few times a year.  This can truly help you be different from the pack and really bring value to your clients from the get go.  I have all my sales coaching clients read his The Only Sales Guide You Will Ever Need before I engage with them.  I will now add Elite Sales Strategies as a must read.  Buy it, read it, work it and read it again.

Churchill’s Shadow. An astonishing life and a dangerous legacy. Geoffrey Wheatcroft. 2021. ISBN 9781324002765. From the first to the last page, I was riveted by the authors take on Churchill.  Very well researched, annotated and with a plethora of authors notes this looks to be a definitive review of what turns out to be a very flawed man.  His impact on world affairs is shown to run through many events well subsequent to his death and not to the wisest decisions.  He also comes across as quite a disagreeable racist even for his times.  His stance in 1940-41 when Britain was in its depths is shown to be his sole redeeming part to play.  Before that and after his major decisions had serious flaws which cost too any lives.   I had always held up his serious writing proclivity as a mark of greatness, now I learn that he only wrote his own speeches while hiring hordes of ghost writers to write his books. as well he was the richest author of his time, dodging taxes and what not to gather in the spoils.  I had had not realized the thrall that the US politicians held him in (and still do). Roosevelt disliked him and most things British, which meant he held off getting into WWII until the Japanese forced their hand.  Thus, the dangerous legacy holds true.   As well the author holds that Churchill directed his writers to rewrite/record history as to how he thought it should be not how it was.  A lengthy but useful book for political scientists and historians