Friday Poll: What's on Your Summer Reading List?

  • June 3, 2016 9:55 AM PDT

    Just so I am not totally wasting  my time watching the TWINS;  while the TV is on, I am also currently REREADING "The Five Great Rules of Selling" by Percy Whiting, a gift from Dean Sorenson; and next in line is "The ENERGY BUS", by Jon Gordon, "10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy", also a gift, this time from Neil Lipetzky.

    And...you can't go wrong reading/rereading "The Wizard Trilogy".

     

     

    • 1373 posts
    June 3, 2016 10:07 AM PDT

    I'm currently working on Laura Hildebrand's Unbroken, the story of Louis Zamperini, runner, WWII vet, and POW survivor; A Passion for the Impossible by Miriam Huffman, a biography of Lilias Trotter, a Victorian-era artist and Protestant missionary to Algeria; and Paul Harvey's America: The Life, Art, and Faith of a Man Who Transformed Radio and Inspired a Nation by Stephen Mansfield and David A. Holland; and Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, by Ravi Zacharias. So far, all excellent reads!

    • 180 posts
    June 3, 2016 11:22 AM PDT

    In the summer I read for fum.

    Clive Cussler just came out with The Emporer's Revenge.

    Tom Clancy will come out with Duty and Honor on June 14.

    Those,  along with a cold beer and a good cigar in my own back yard, are all of the vacation I need.

    • 180 posts
    June 3, 2016 11:24 AM PDT

    I will be in Progressive Field in Cleveland in August to watch the Twins lose to the Indians. Sorry 'bout that.

    • 54 posts
    June 10, 2016 10:50 PM PDT

    I recently stumbled onto Jeb Blount's podcast on sales (Blount has a great book called Fanatical Prospecting). He was interviewing Deb Calvert, who has written a book called DISCOVER Questions® Get You Connected: for Advertising Sales Profes.... I just bought a copy and am a couple of chapters in -- it's good stuff!

    For fun (if anything could possibly be more fun than sales books), I'm digging into Michael Sears' series about Jason Stafford, a disgraced Wall Street trader turned private eye. Black Fridays is the first in the series, and I'm loving it.