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Review: Money Rx by Joseph C. Newtz

★★★★ Money Rx by Joseph C. Newtz

Money Rx: Your Prescription for Financial Success by Joseph C. Newtz provides a font of wisdom from a humble advisor.

Most books that promise to improve your life or give you expert advice tend to be self-aggrandizing and can even be condescending at times. On the other hand, there are books like Money Rx that are straightforward and refreshingly honest. This book doesn’t make any unrealistic promises, but it does break down various issues of financial management into elements that are easy to understand, even for a layperson.

Starting with a blunt account of who the author is, how […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2019-01-22T15:30:29+02:00September 5th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Finance Book Reviews|

Find Your Voice As a Leader by Paul N. Larsen

Find Your VOICE As a Leader by Paul N. Larsen provides concise, clear and valuable leadership advice.

Without wasting a single word, Paul Larsen delivers a stellar guide to identifying and harnessing your personal skills as a leader, with wisdom that is applicable to a wide variety of power positions. Find Your VOICE As a Leader presents the wealth of Larsen’s own experience and structures it in an easy-to-read and engaging collection of exercises, questions, and valuable instructions. The book does away with much of the typical how-to book structure, and instead moves quickly through important points that burgeoning leaders […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2016-08-04T05:34:03+02:00August 4th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Leadership Book Reviews|

Debt Cleanse by Jorge P. Newbery

Debt Cleanse Debt Cleanse: How To Settle Your Unaffordable Debts For Pennies On The Dollar (And Not Pay Some At All) by Jorge P. Newbery is just about the most comprehensive guide to getting out of debt without losing your credit rating you could possibly find. While most debt guides concentrate on one area of debt, Newbery has been through huge amounts of debt himself and came out the other side after going through the courts and dealing with banks and repo men several times over, so he knows how to navigate just about every single area of debt anyone could need […]

Cate Baum2019-01-22T15:30:37+02:00March 18th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Finance Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Reach: Cultivate Customer Loyalty and Reap Intel by Ellen Wunder

★★★★½ Reach: Cultivate Customer Loyalty and Reap Intel

Ellen Wunder is a customer outreach specialist who knows how to connect with clients and make and keep them happy. She shares this knowledge with readers in this informative and very readable book.

Part business guide, part psychology manual, Reach will teach management and sales and customer service teams lots of things they probably didn’t know they needed to know. It is filled with advice and insight for anyone who is interested in doing a better job of understanding and getting along with the people they deal with everyday, not just customers. If taken seriously, this book will help […]

Cate Baum2016-03-06T03:29:42+02:00February 21st, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Killing an Idea: Exhuming Say’s Law by Rand McGreal ★★★★

Killing an Idea: Exhuming Say’ Law (Lost Volume 2) by Rand McGreal In a chance meeting, crossing between new town and old in the city of Portland, Oregon, economic writer Rand McGreal and French economist Jean Baptiste Say find themselves in commonality. Sitting to discuss their ideas, Say elaborates the ideas that made him notable, all the while answering the challenges and queries of the curious McGreal. Recording the encounter, McGreal has published his discussions in his new book: Killing an Idea: Exhuming Say’ Law, the second part of Rand McGreal’s Lost Economics series.

In a similar approach to the 90s breakout hit The Wealthy Barber, the book is something […]

James Grimsby2019-01-22T15:41:02+02:00December 7th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Economics Book Reviews|

Burn Zones: Playing Life’s Bad Hands by Jorge P. Newbery

Burn Zones: Playing Life’s Bad Hands is Jorge P. Newbery’s autobiography about going from rags to riches to rags again, and still staying strong along the way. Becoming a real estate mogul at a young age owning over 4000 apartment buildings and a net worth of tens of millions, it all came crashing down with a botched investment in Ohio. Newbury was arrested and ended up $26 million in debt. That’s not a typo.

In racing parlance, a Burn Zone is the toughest part of a bike race, which tends to separate the wheat from the chaff. If anything, the […]

Henry Baum2015-10-09T07:50:10+02:00September 4th, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: The Modern Mughal Mentality by Dr. Afshan Naheed Hashmi ★★★★

The Modern Mughal Mentality In this slim volume, India-born business advisor and entrepreneur, Dr. Afshan Naheed Hashmi presents examples and case studies detailing how Indian businesses have confronted challenges and created successful enterprises, both within India and internationally, using the principles of jugaad.

We are told in the preface that the Indian word jugaad means many things and can be interpreted in many different ways, however Hashmi defines jugaad as “obtaining your objectives by maximizing resources through thinking outside the box.” Not exactly a mind-blowing business concept. While each example in the book illustrates one aspect of jugaad, there is nothing new or […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T05:46:52+02:00July 1st, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews|

Review: On Becoming Extraordinary by Pieter Klaas Jagersma ★★★★

On Becoming Extraordinary On Becoming Extraordinary: Star Professional Service Firms is a business book by Pieter Klaas Jagersma. When I first glanced at the title of this book, I thought I was about to read a book that would tell me how to stop procrastinating, maintain a healthy weight, keep my office well-organized and my house clean—that last one would be extraordinary indeed. I was delighted to discover that this book is nothing of the kind.

As I would have seen (thought not been much enlightened) if I had read the subtitle, On Becoming Extraordinary is about Professional Service Firms (PSFs), particularly how […]

Avery Hurt2017-03-24T10:54:23+02:00April 16th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|