First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 7, 2015

This morning, at our August First Friday Book Synopsis, we had a wonderful group (over 80 in attendance), to hear our synopses of two great books: Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith, and Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal. I’ll write a post soon, on this blog, with my lessons and takeaways from General McChrystal’s book).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I presented my synopsis of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, this morning at the First Friday Book Synopsis. (We What a terrific book! It is a business strategy and execution book. It is a vision and innovation book. We were a week late, because… “ice-day make-up session”).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2021

An adage tells us not to judge books by their covers, but that’s just what everyone’s going to do anyway, especially when talking about actual books. If your name isn’t quite enough to sell the book on its own, the cover design might be. And yes, the reports of the death of printed books have been greatly exaggerated.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 15, 2023

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. A Man Called Otto was originally a book called A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman. He leaves the store. He races to grab the book and bring it back to her.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Chuck showed me the first “Beat Yesterday” book I ever saw. Every evening, he wrote how he did in his Beat Yesterday book. I didn’t know it then, but many salespeople use Beat Yesterday books. Sam Walton used a Beat Yesterday book when he opened the first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Arkansas back in July 1962.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

My advice is not to simply store a list in your memory and pull certain items out when needed. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur. But there will still be a spectrum of performance across individuals regarding how well they are able to apply these values and approaches to their own businesses.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Throughout Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, we learn that Jeff Bezos takes books seriously. He reads books; he underlines, annotates books; he insists that his executive team members read books; he and his team members read books “together”; he constantly refers to books.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Kevin Kelly highlights a number of things that can’t be manufactured in his book, The Inevitable. You can’t download trust and store it in a database or warehouse it. If you want to own stuff but without the hassle and responsibility of storing it, you will pay to have someone else do it and deliver it when you need it.

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Building Personal Strength

JULY 22, 2013

The book explains that we put on weight when our bodies store fat rather than burning it for fuel. When we store fat instead of burning it, our active bodies crave more food. And men tend to store fat in their gut. So what causes our bodies to store fat instead of burning it? If you''re intrigued, read the book.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 29, 2016

“You walk away and feel like you’ve read a book.” I presented my synopsis of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone for a group of professionals who work in retail. Those were the words of a person who attended my presentation this morning.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Malcolm Galdwell has a new book. And just like as I kid when I would rush to buy the new Spiderman comic book on the day it hit the stores, I loaded David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants into my Kindle app on my iPad on the day it was […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

We designed our studios to look like high-end retail stores, such as Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana. No one in our industry before us had designed tattoo and piercing studios to look like high-end jewelry stores or art galleries. Here are some additional ways that we elevated our brand above the fray.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 13, 2012

However, through an interesting series of events – which he describes in the book – he discovered his true passion was helping others become masters of their sport. In the book he uses stories from sports to help people in any profession achieve much higher levels of performance. Disciplined decision makers become masters.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Today brings the new book by Ron Shaich , founder, and former CEO of Panera Bread. Reinventing Panera completely, when he had more than two thousand stores that were feeding one in thirty Americans every week. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 9, 2014

Behar moved to Chicago, the first big city Starbucks expanded into, and he went store-to-store getting to know the people and teaching them how to connect with one another and with customers. To learn more, read Howard Behar’s great book, It’s Not About the Coffee. (By That was an inflection point in Starbucks’ history.

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LDRLB

APRIL 5, 2011

The most likely explanation is that Starbucks stores began popping up in my town just as I began attending college…there was always a place off-campus to study. That said, I was particularly excited to read an advance copy of Howard Schultz’ new book Onward. However, it’s the application that makes it rich.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

The book is about what “individuals do to effect change and improvement.”. And this book is written for them – those people who can and should lead “without the benefit of hierarchical position and rank.”. The more I imagined what was possible, the more clearly I could describe what the future might hold in store for all of us.” “We

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Kip Tindell author of “UNCONTAINABLE” and CEO of The Container Store®. Kip in his… Continue reading → Author Book Notes Interview' “In my experience, women make much better executives than men.” 4 areas women are better: Communication. Collaboration.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Numerous internet stores provide everything from gently worn apparel and baby products to antiques, vintage recordings, and other stuff. You will comprehend the significance of two guidelines that every personal finance counselor keeps repeating once you have read a few personal finance books. Sell all of the items you no longer need.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 3, 2018

Spotted on a tee shirt in a book store – “When I drink, I know things.” I turned to my wife and said, “I don’t even need to drink.” I know things: #1.… … Continue reading →

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

Who wouldn’t want to pick up a book and glean the insights from those who have gone before us? Tallying up the books, the total came to 34 books read. Today, I want to share with you the books that impacted my life and a leadership lesson I took away from each book. Physical Books. Are you ready?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This process of internalizing knowledge isn’t just about storing facts and figures. When knowledge moves from the pages of a book or the corners of a classroom into the lived experience of our professional and personal lives, it transcends the ordinary, becoming a powerful tool for change and innovation.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 1, 2023

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available <a href=”[link] Amazon</a> If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. That’s when they see a store across from the airfield. Matt had been there before and knew the store would hold the supplies they needed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

Fielding has thought a lot about these questions and has decided to share his own story and perspective in a just-published book, All Pride No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically. He currently serves as president of Archer Gray’s Co-Lab division, focusing on building businesses via venture investments.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As the characters in the book show, your face will shape how you awaken. What follows is an excerpt from the book of the awakening of one entrepreneur, Allan Young. His father juggled two jobs, stocking the shelves of a grocery, and working in a hardware store until late. Allan Young’s Awakening. His mother was a seamstress.

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LDRLB

APRIL 5, 2011

The most likely explanation is that Starbucks stores began popping up in my town just as I began attending college…there was always a place off-campus to study. That said, I was particularly excited to read an advance copy of Howard Schultz’ new book Onward. Leadership book review schultz service-profit chain'

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Next Level Blog

JULY 20, 2010

» July 20, 2010 Video Book Club: Made to Stick If you been to a book store in the past three years, youve no doubt seen Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. Who could forget a book with duct tape on it? You likely remember the bright orange cover and the big strip of silver duct tape across the front. Click Here.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Like seriously love comic books. Every Tuesday I would head to the local comic shops: Homerun Comics, Lange’s Sports Connection, Campus Sports, and one other comic book store I can’t recall the name of (But I can recall the owners, the location, and even the smell of the store). Comics were huge to me.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 2, 2024

Even in the smallest communities, someone owns (or manages) the local grocery store or serves as the bank brach manager. Start a book club Recruit leaders in the community to read a leadership book together. The learning is from the book being studied and the reflection of the group based on personal experiences.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2016

In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices. Burkus describes HCLT’s practices in the book. Each Whole Foods store has 8-10 teams grouped into functions, including produce, meat, and checkout. This process applies in stores and in the home office.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 4, 2013

“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business. The future is happening to the book business.” Jeff Bezos Quoted in The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone ——————– When I moved to Dallas in 1987, I did my book browsing and book buying at Taylor’s Books.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 19, 2023

A comprehensive guide to transforming small habits into life-changing actions In his best-selling book, "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones," James Clear offers readers a blueprint for achieving monumental success through incremental changes.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2011

I have long been a basher of electronic book readers, such as the Kindle and Nook. I believe in traditional books, and in outlets that sell and distribute books in print. Books are symbolic, and when anyone stores them on a reader, this facet disappears.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2014

Many wonderful books have been written about putting the Customer first, and in 1983, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman (in […]. Customer Mindset Customer Relationships Leadership Leadership Communication Bob Waterman Customers First Employees First Stew Leonard The Container Store Tom Peters'

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

I’ve always had a love for comic books. For years I didn’t pick up a comic book. Then, a couple of months back, I began visiting local comic book stores. The local comic book store opened my eyes to epic events that happened during my separation from comics. But you want to read the book fast.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Chris Edmonds : The cashier at the checkout line at our local grocery store was literally singing. If you love learning and love books, create a book club. At work, try a monthly lunch meeting to review business books that might increase knowledge, efficiency, and teamwork. ? Guest post from S.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 2, 2014

By David Green David Green started with $600 and created Hobby Lobby – the large chain of home and craft stores. A person who has had that kind of success is someone you could probably learn something from, and in this very readable book from 2005, you can. Books Leadership Learning Hobby Lobby retail values'

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