Mario Cavolo

I've just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's latest book "Outliers" which shares with us a fresh understanding of the key factors which impact the level of success we achieve in our lives. The fact is that your success is "more so than we wish to admit" based on influences like timing and happenstance far outside of our control. I know many may feel at odds with this point but it must be taken in proper context. You will argue "We MAKE our circumstance happen!" Bless you for your enthusiasm but please understand that it is unrealistic and in fact, even neurotic and unhealthy to think such a concept is 100% true.

Being impatient and lacking tolerance of incompetence and the wasting of precious time, I will be the first to tell you if a new book is a waste of your precious time and money, often no more than a commercial rehash of what we've read plenty of times, published for marketing purposes or typically just written as an income-generating follow up to a previous hit struggling with something new to say. Not Malcolm's books. This guy's got a lot going on beneath that wild head of hair.

As an addition to his two previous bestsellers, Blink and The Tipping Point, Outliers creates a "must read" trilogy of books for any of today's thought leaders, trainers, motivators, and professionals of all kind...Cheers, M

Book Title: First Break All The Rules, author Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

There exists a plethora of "what do great "xyz" people do" type books on the best seller lists these days...again, mostly disappointing rehashes of what we already know. You should go to the cafe/bookstore, and jumping to the table of contents, take 20 minutes to scan and catch their main points because too often busy, productive people will find buying and reading them cover to cover tediously unnecessary. We read too many books and get that "I learned absolutely nothing new" reaction. Even worse, "I KNOW where the author got THAT part from". This is NOT one of those books.

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Unlimited Selling Power, author Donald Moine,PhD. Copyright 1984 Prentice Hall. This is the book to put on your desk and at your bedside to have the master tools of influence and persuasion at your fingertips.

Note the copyright date of 23 years ago...that should tell you something because the world today is flooded with books written by successful people who rehash what everyone else already wrote because it is an important part of business strategy to become an author. That's ok, but a duck is a duck and needs to be recognized with awareness.

I shall explain...

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