#30 minutes to avoid wasting 30 months or 30 years& (2008-07-07) This book reads in less than an hour for a slow reader. It is short but it addresses a fundamental issue: When to quit and when to persevere? Probably one of the most critical decisions in life. With simple graphs and illustrations by Hugh MacLeod, this book will help you clarify your thinking, especially if you feel stuck.

#When to quit the wrong stuff at the right time (2008-01-26) It is impossible to ignore what Seth Godin has to say and how he says it. That s remarkable. In this small volume (only 80 pages and about the size of a greeting card), Godin shares some LARGE ideas, one of which is indicated in the title of my review. Here is a cluster of Godinesque assertions: All our successes are the same. All our failures, too. We succeed when we do something remarkable. We fail when we give up too soon. We succeed when we are the best in the world at what we do. We fail when we get distracted by ...

#Quitters Never Win (2007-10-28) Winners never quit right? Well sometimes they do, but only at things that will hold them back from being more successful. Have you ever felt that something is just not worth going on with and it is time to look in a different direction? Well that is called the dip and if you aren t careful you could get stuck in the cul-de-sac of life with no significant advancement in any direction. So what should you quit and what should you stick to? That is up to you but reading this book will help you make those crucial decisions. Seth Godin s books are always catch...

#Irresistible... (2007-09-13) I picked up Seth Godin s new book at Indigo and finished reading in less than 60 minutes. The 80 pages were insightful, brilliant, refreshing and real. It was soooo irresistible that I couldn t stop reading since I connected with every word he wrote. In my opinion, this is one of the best sentences of the whole book: Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can t deal with the stress of the moment. Seth has remarkably impressed me again!!!

#Keep Going Through the Dip to Become Number One, But Quit If Results Aren t Ever Going to Improve (2007-05-10) Do you remember starting something new that interested you? Chances are the world seemed a little brighter, a little more inviting, and your smile was a little wider that day. Now, remember how that same activity seemed after six months had passed. It s likely you weren t having as much fun, progress was hard to accomplish, and frustration was starting to build. That s what a dip feels like. That sequence is the normal experience and psychology of creating worthwhile results...

#quite disppointing (2008-10-24) Mr. Hunt should stick to writing about programming, because this book is waste of money. I bought this book, because Amazon. com had 2 great reviews on the book, before throwing your money away, have a look at it bookstore nearest you. . .

#Your Strengths In Action (2008-10-07) From the author of Now, Discover Your Strengths, comes this follow-up, Go Put Your Strengths to Work, a medium-sized volume which aims to answer the question, How can you apply your strengths for maximum success at work? Well, its a six-step process as the book explains. Step one looks at what s stopping you and makes sure you understand that capitalizing on your strengths is a whole lot better than worrying about your weaknesses. Step two helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses. Step three looks at how you can make the most of what str...

#Stop feeding hay to a dead horse (2008-01-22) Years ago, there was a series of television commercials that featured the Kemper Cavalry. Each effectively communicated a message from Kemper Insurance that said, in effect, We ll always be there when you need us most. Many people apparently believe that there is such an alternative to focus, preparation, hard work, personal accountability, patience, self-reliance, persistence, etc. For them, other alternatives include the Tooth Fairy, silver bullets, divine intervention, lotteries, and e-mails from widows, orphans, and attorneys who are...

#Detailed Advice for How to Apply Your Strengths More Often at Work (2007-03-30) If you already have reorganized your life based on reading First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, you don t need this book for yourself. But if you haven t helped your colleagues make the same adjustments, you ll find this book helpful. If you ve made the needed shifts in both areas, you can skip Go Put Your Strengths to Work. Based on Marcus Buckingham s latest survey, it seems like just as few people feel they should focus on improving their strengths as before he started to write ...

#User-friendly meeting guide (2004-04-15) This has to be the most user-friendly book I ve seen, starting with the inside of the front cover. It says, If you only have 30 minutes then read certain chapters. Somehow these experts figured out what the rest of us would need to know and how we would be looking for it. Maybe they had a panel of non-experts to critique. There are chapters detailing what the words are that you use to make something happen and how to use those words. Best of all, everywhere you look there are copious examples. In the back are succinct tables of those same ...

#How to reduce (if not eliminate) one of the major causes of organizational waste (2008-01-19) This is one in a series of leadership fables in which Patrick Lencioni shares his thoughts about the contemporary business world. His characters are fictitious human beings rather than anthropomorphic animals, such as a tortoise that wins a race against a hare or pigs that lead a revolution to overthrow a tyrant and seize control of his farm. In this instance, Lencioni focuses on probably the single greatest waste of organizational resources: meetings. Although they are the closet thing to ...

#Compelling title, interesting parable, weak close (2004-07-11) The title is provocative and will probably sell books. The parable of a software game firm in Monterey struggling with ineffective meetings makes for a reasonably readable, well-scripted (except for our data is inconclusive. p. 184) and intriguing story. Death has the air of Disclosure without the sex, as Yip Software allows itself to be taken over (cashing in -- a decision that probably warrants more attention than do the other matters in the book) and then scrutinized by a bigger firm. There is a late twist in the ...

#Enjoyable and Inspiring (2004-06-29) I found this book very inspiring. The fable style really makes reading enjoyable. Simple example in daily life.

#A Good Read! (2004-06-03) Continuing the current hot trend of couching business counsel in fables, author Patrick Lencioni takes on the ogre of the deadly dull meeting and through story and advice, wrestles it to the ground. The book is in large part about boring meetings and the author manages to reproduce their tone exactly. The protagonists are the boss, Casey, and an employee named Will who eventually loses his temper in the face of one more stifling, useless meeting. The author plants lessons about meetings throughout the story, revealed by the characters experiences. Howeve...

#Death By Meeting (2004-05-20) Lencioni has done it again. He truly has a gift to tell stories and this fable captures your attention from beginning to end. Executives seem to be comfortable with meetings that lack luster, context and clarity -- no wonder smart people make horrible decisions at times. When something is so wildly broken, the only way to fix it is a whole new approach - which Lencioni provides in his meetings model outlined in the second part of the book. Like his previous book, this one will be a best-seller for a long, long time (I did just notice it appeared on ...