Showing posts with label Leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leadership. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2018

Book Review: Activators: A CEO's Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done by Mark E Green ISBN: 978-1-949639-09-4




George S. Patton once said, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week”.  This could be a very good tip to many CEOs today.

The book Activators: A CEO's Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done by Mark E Green seeks to help CEOs, and others in leadership, overcome their fears and execute their plans.

This book is well-written and full of exercises to help leaders realize that the most important thing they can do is to formulate a plan, any plan, and get started.  

Too often, businesses fail because the leaders won’t make decisions and stick with them.  

Activators also tells leaders about making those hard decisions to fire high achieving employees who have become toxic to the company or jettison projects that just aren’t working.

The only real problem I saw in this book is that some of the graphics, especially those written in yellow, are hard to read.

If you know someone in a leadership role in any business, large or small, you will want to give them their very own copy of Activators.



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Monday, October 22, 2018

Book Review: Be More Strategic in Business: How to Win Through Stronger Leadership and Smarter Decisions by Diana Thomas and Stacey Boyle ISBN: 978-1-63353-784-2



You are told to “Be more strategic” at work.  Your first thought might be, “What does that even mean?” If that is true, you aren’t alone.

In the book Be More Strategic in Business: How to Win Through Stronger Leadership and Smarter Decisions by Diana Thomas and Stacey Boyle, readers are told what that means and, better yet, why this is important.

The book is well-written, but sometimes it has the feel of one of those “Management Programs Du’ Jour.”  Don’t give up though. The message progresses well and readers are given some specific steps they can take to take their organization to a higher level.


We give Be More Strategic in Business all five stars and think this would make a great gift for anyone in an executive position.




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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Book Review: Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant by Adam Witty and Rusty Shelton ISBN: 978-1-946633-13-2






If you needed heart surgery right away, which doctor would you choose, the one who just read the latest textbook on the particular procedure you need, or the doctor who wrote it?

The book Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant by Adam Witty and Rusty Shelton explains in an easy to read way how you can come to be seen as a authority in your market.

We here at Manian Debil Productions receive hundreds of articles written by many different authors.  These articles are sent by many different publicists. We can only run so many. How do we choose which articles we run?  I did not realize it before, but this book explains why we pick those select few.

If you are trying to break out in your niche, you will find this book to be very helpful. It is also eye-opening.  It is sort of like Paco Underhill’s book Why We Buy in the idea that we should know this, but for some reason we don’t.

When you read this book you will probably think, “I knew that”. When you do think that, you will then wonder why you didn’t act on what you knew.  This book will help you act on that.

Five Star Review


We think anyone in any field that puts one in the  public eye should read Authority Marketing.  We give it all five stars and know you will, too.



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