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I liked this book.  My job is sales, I’m part of a specialized function where technical knowledge and trading is primary but at the end of the day our evaluations are for how well we do at sales.

I was worried when I started in the sales department.  I was always very good at my service jobs but when it came to sales I was at a loss.  I always associated sales with being able to talk fast and being able to talk people into making decisions they would regret later.

Once I moved over I realized that when you’re selling something … Continue Reading

Yes it’s time to get in touch with the inside you, but this inside you is an economist.  This book is subtitled Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting and Motivate Your Dentist.

Now I’m a big fan of Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen’s blog.  See it’s right over there on the blogroll.  He’s probably one of my favorite libertarians and a great modern thinker.
I desperately wanted to love this book and I did make it all the way through but it wasn’t the experience I wanted it to be.  I can’t even think of a funny metaphor to … Continue Reading

Yay, it’s story time in the workplace.  I believe this horrible trend was started with the One Minute Manager.  It’s reached the pabulum covered goodness with The 5 Temptations of a CEO.

Let me tell you the plot, don’t worry I’m not ruining anything for you, a CEO falls asleep on the train, an old man wakes him up and drags him to another car.  Yes the head honcho is traveling around on a train and follows an old man around, how realistic.

Anyway the old man tells the CEO how to run his business, the CEO listens and his business improves … Continue Reading

Yes a Psychology book.  Bleeeeech.  Shivers run down the spine of any man contemplating reading any kind of psychology book.  Psychology is for women.  We’re going to get in touch with our feelings, learn to accept things the way they are and it’s all magically get better, whatever.
Well it often works just that way.  Scream free parenting takes you through a process of seeing parenting different from the stressful way that many of us see it and helps you to relax a bit and enjoy it.

It starts out with the premise that you aren’t responsible for everything your children do.  … Continue Reading