Book Reviews by Bird

Monday, February 4, 2019

The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, and Ethan Willis ASIN B0016H388M

We doubt you will find any serious student of business who has not read The One Minute Manager. It is the quintessential business book. During my training at a large bank, it was required reading. It has been considered a business classic for years.

The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, and Ethan Willis is written in a very similar style.

It is well written and entertaining. Psychologists and leading brain experts agree that the best way to have someone retain what one is being taught is to give the information in story form. It seems to sneak through the gray matter and then stick better when we receive information in story form.

We think you will enjoy The One Minute Entrepreneur and should make it a part of your business library.

Whether you are seeking to start your own business or have been in business for many years, you will learn something when you read your copy of this book.

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Sunday, February 3, 2019

Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses by Edward D. Hess ISBN 9780804775342

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There are few books that should be considered “business classics”. This book, Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses is one of them.

In Search of Excellence started it off, in my opinion. Good to Great sets a high bar for all other business books, but The One Minute Manager and Who Moved My Cheese give the business leader insight into business in a simple, readable way.

Anyone who has a business and plans to grow that business should read this book. As business consultants, we can see a great deal of wisdom in the words of Hess. Too often, businesses grow too fast and cannot handle the change. These businesses have not built the proper foundation on which to grow.

To best take advantage of Grow to Greatness, one should read Built to Last and then Good to Great before reading this book. To round things out, one should also read In Search of Excellence as part of their business education.

In addition to this book, Grow to Greatness, I enjoyed the Coursera course by the same name, which Hess taught through the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

If you are planning to start, run, and grow your own business, you should also add The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber and The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson and Ethan Willis to your startup reading list.

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Saturday, February 2, 2019

Be Heart Smart: Understand, Treat, and Prevent Coronary Heart Disease by Dr. Waqar Khan ISBN: 9781732268609

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We have been sent several books related to medical practices, diet, exercise, and several books related to heart health. If you just look around a little bit, you will find several.

However, Be Heart Smart: Understand, Treat, and Prevent Coronary Heart Disease by Dr. Waqar Khan is different.

Many of these books we have read are written by doctors who only want to brag about their credentials and tell us about all the brilliant things they have done in their practices to miracuously save a life.

Many of the doctors who write books now a days have only one tool in their toolbox. Usually that tools is a drug that they helped develop.

Some doctors use most of their book to promote their practice and some unique method that you can only get from their practice. Those books will tell readers countless times how to contact their practice.

Dr. Kahn is different. He tells us about multiple ways we can prevent or treat Coronary Heart Disease. Some of the treatments are surgical and the doctor describes them in layman’s terms so that almost anyone can understand what will take place.

Unlike many doctors, Dr. Kahn doesn’t have an ax to grind or a particular procedure to promote. Instead, he tells us about diet, exercise, stress reduction and other simple things we can do to prevent or treat heart problems.

This book is very informative and does not come across as self-promoting like so many others we have read.

Face it, you or someone you love will need to have heart-related services sometime in their future. Grab a copy of Be Heart Smart now while you can read it and absorb it, and maybe help prevent a heart issue.

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Using the GAPS Diet: 175 Recipes for Gaining Control of Your Gut Flora by Signe Gad

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When your child is sick, you will do just about anything to heal them. Gut health is more important than many people think. The GAPS Diet can help you heal a sick gut.

The GAPS Diet is different from any diet we have ever heard about. Most diets suggest you use whole raw foods and, if you do eat meat, to use the leanest cuts of meat with as little fat as possible. The GAPS Diet turns that advice on its ear.

Using the GAPS Diet: 175 Recipes for Gaining Control of Your Gut Flora by Signe Gad is a compact, but complete, course in following the GAPS Diet.

Readers will learn what is wrong with the typical American diet, which many people refer to as the SAAD. If you are having problems with your gut, using the GAPS Diet may just well be the answer you are looking for.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Scale or Fail: How to Build Your Dream Team, Explode Your Growth, and Let Your Business Soar by Allison Maslan ISBN: 9781119461012

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Are you ready to take your business to the next level? If so, Scale or Fail: How to Build Your Dream Team, Explode Your Growth, and Let Your Business Soar by Allison Maslan will help you get there.

You may not want to be the next Microsoft, but you do want to grow your business. In order to get to the next level, you need to scale your business.

This book will give you some ideas about how to approach going to the next level. You know you need the people, processes, and plans in place to grow, but how do you do that?

Scale or Fail is well written and explains in a reasonable amount of detail what you need to do to go to the next level with your business.

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Monday, January 21, 2019

The Tears of Gethsemane by Deborah Faulks ISBN: 978-1-9736-0786-1

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The Tears of Gethsemane by Deborah Faulks was a difficult book for me to read and review. It is very different from most books regarding Christianity.

When I first started reading this book, it was difficult for me to concentrate on it. I started it over several times because I just wasn’t getting it.

I started to just set it aside for later, but then a prompting told me I really needed to get into this book. I said multiple prayers and then dug into it.

Once I was able to quiet my mind, I was able to really understand what the author is trying to say.

Suzanne and I are from a charismatic, fundamentalist background. This being said, we a have a few fundamental theological differences, but the overall feel and message of the book is completely in keeping with our beliefs.

This is not the kind of book one should just plow right through, It is the kind of book that one should read with a lot of prayer and reflection. One should keep their favorite translation of the Holy Bible handy and probably another translation to help when one has questions.

The Tears of Gethsemane would make a great small group Bible study. This would probably be the best way to approach it.

Perhaps a group of Christians should take one chapter at a time and spend a week reading and re-reading it as well as prayerfully considering it. Then, they could come together and discuss it in more detail.

If you miss this book, you have probably missed a blessing.

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Best of Bridge Weekday Suppers: All-New Easy Everyday Recipes by Emily Richards and Sylvia Kong ISBN: 978-0-7788-0610-3

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When you don’t know what to make for supper and everyone is bugging you to feed them NOW, what do you do?

You could go scream into the clown’s head and get some robot food, or you could pick up your copy of Best of Bridge Weekday Suppers: All-New Easy Everyday Recipes by Emily Richards and Sylvia Kong and you are ready to go.

You probably have everything you need to fix most of these recipes. There are even recipes for dessert in here.

These recipes are easy to follow. Well, not really. The problem will be when the recipe says to cook the bacon and set it aside. What cook is going to allow bacon to just sit there without eating it?

If you can resist the bacon long enough for it to actually make it into your recipe, you have the makings for some very tasty meals.

The spiral binding on this book makes it easy to follow the recipes because it doesn’t change the page while your back is turned. Who hasn’t had the page turn on them while they are making a recipe? This makes for some interesting meals.

This easy to follow book will make a great addition to your cookbook collection. Even a husband can follow these recipes. Get your copy of Best of Bridge Weekday Suppers today.

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