Carol's Notebook

MBA in a Book:Fundamental Principles of Business, Sales, and Leadership edited by Leslie Pockell From the back: This volume contains essential advice about the fundamentals of business, sales, and leadership from some of history's most influential thinkers and doers: entrepreneurs, executives, scholars, statesmen, and philosophers. These often provocative quotations include invaluable insights on business practice and theory, investment, management, marketing, motivating, and more. Whether you require guidance on a particular subject, or feel the need for instant inspiration, MBA ina Book will be there for you, as you negotiate the winding road to success. My thoughts: I'm not sure what I expected when I opened this book, but this wasn't it. It basically is a collection of mostly short quotes, which is interesting, but, at least for me, not all that useful.  I will share a couple of the quotes from the book that really struck me, though. Avoid mushroom management (keeping your employees in the dark and covered in horseshit). -Anonymous One may smile, and smile,...

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! Please avoid spoilers! My teaser: "Just wanted to touch base with you on this Bobby Waite thing." "It was a murder, Gene, not a thing." -pg. 32, Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs Find some more teasers at Should Be Reading....

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about new authors… What is your policy when it comes to new authors? Do you feel comfortable purchasing a book or do you prefer to borrow new authors from the library? How often do you 'try out' a new author? I don't really have a policy regarding "new" authors. Since I get most of my books from the library, I don't really have to worry about whether or not to spend the money on them. I try out new authors fairly often, usually after reading a review or because it's a read for one of the on-line book groups I'm in. For my daughter, however, I will buy pretty much whatever book she wants, whether it's from an author I've heard of or not. I think it's important for her to have her own library, and when I was younger I felt the need to own just about every book I read. See what others think at Just One More Page......

Congratulations, Kelly! You’ve won a copy of Sway by Zachary Lazar. One of the other winners had already gotten her hands on a copy, so I was able to draw a replacement. Just e-mail me your mailing address and I will pass it along. For those of you who weren’t lucky enough to win it yet, you can always buy it here...