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Frumi’s Favorite Books:
Start With WHY: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by Simon Sinek
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Books by John P. Strelecky
The WHY Cafe by John P. Strelecky
The Big Five For Life by John P. Strelecky
Life Safari by John P. Strelecky
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The full spectrum of Frumi’s Book Summaries include the following categories: Leadership, Performance, Communication, Sales and Marketing, Business Motivational, General Business, General Topics and Coaching and Mentoring. These can be found at www.100mustreads.com.
Leadership Book Summaries:
Authentic Leadership Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value>/a> by Bill George
Break From the Pack Part1: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy By Oren Harari
Building Trust In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life by Robert C. Solomon & Fernando Flores
ChangeYour Questions Change Your Life by Marilee G. Adams PhD
Closing the Leadership Gap Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World by Marie C. Wilson
Elizabeth1 CEO Strategic lessons from the leader who built an empire by Alan Axelrod
Execution The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Failing Forward Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success by John C. Maxwell, Thomas Nelson
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Influence by Robert Cialdini
It’s Your Ship Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy By Captain Michael Abrashoff
Know How The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t by Ram Charan
Leadership From The Inside Out by Kevin Cashman
Leading With Questions How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask by Michael Marquardt
Monday Morning Leadership 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can’t Afford to Miss by David Cottrell
Monday Morning Leadership for Women by Valerie Sokolosky
Owning Up The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask by Ram Charan
Quiet Leadership Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work by David Rock
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
The Extraordinary Leader by John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencione
The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
Winning by Jack Welch
You’re In Charge The 8 – Point Plan by Thomas J. Neff & James M. Citrin
Performance Book Summaries:
A Spark From Heaven A Spark From Heaven
The Place of Potential in Organizational and Individual Development by Adrian W. Savage
A-Ha Performance Building and Managing a Self-Motivated Work Force by Douglas Walker with Stephen Sorkin
Are You Ready to Succeed Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery In Business and in Life By Srikumar S. Rao
The Power of Feedback 35 Principles for Turning Feedback from Others Into Personal and Professional Change by Joseph R. Folkman
The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Why Smart Executives Fail Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein
Sales and Marketing Book Summaries:
Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port
Business is a Contact Sport by Tom Richardson, Augusto Vidauretta
Clients for Life Evolving from an Expert for Hire to an Extraordinary Advisor relationships by Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel
Customer Centric Selling by Michael T. Bosworth and John R. Holland
How to Become a Rainmaker Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox
Metaphorically Selling by Anne Miller
Socratic Selling How to Ask the Questions that Get the Sale By Kevin Daley and Emmett Wolfe
The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders
The Little Red Book of Sales Answers 99.5 Real World Answers That Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money by Jeffrey Gittomer
The Referral of a Lifetime The Networking System That Produces Bottom-Line Results Every Day! by Tim Templeton For a FREE copy of the book and more information about the Keep-In Touch software, created to help you keep in touch with your contacts. Visit http://www.Keep-InTouch.com or call (877) 321-6500 x 206
Communication Book Summaries:
Crucial Confrontations Tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations and bad behavior By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzle
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, & Al Swtizler
Difficult Conversations How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project
Fierce Conversations Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
Business Motivational Book Summaries:
Drive The Surprising Truth About What Motivates UsDaniel H. Pink
Mojo How to Get, How to Keep It,How to Get It Back If You Lost It by Marshall Goldsmith
The Magic of Thinking Big By David J. Schwartz, PhD
The Why Cafe by John P. Strelecky
General Business Book Summaries:
Community The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Confidence How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Confronting Reality Doing What Matters Most to Get Things Right by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Employed for Life by Anthony Burnham, Esq
Finance for the Non-Financial Manager by Gene Siciliano
Geeks and Geezers by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas
Generating Buy In Mastering the Language of Leadership by Mark S. Walton
Get Off the Fence 10 + 1 Steps to Help You Make That Big Decision by Rhoda Makoff Ph.D. ND & Jeffrey Makoff Esq.
Getting Naked
A Business Fable about shedding the three fears that sabotage client loyalty by Pat Lencioni.
Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher & William Ury
Love is the Killer App How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
Managing Conflict by Richard Walton – Harvard School of Business
Negotiating for Your Life New Success Strategies for Women by Nicole Schapiro
Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel, PhD
Own The Room Business Presentations That Persuade, Engage & Get Results by David Booth, Deborah Shames, Peter Desberg
Play Like a Man What Men Know about Success that Women Need to Learn by Gale Evans
Say Hello to the Elephants A Four-Part Process for Finding Clarity, Confronting Problems, and Moving On by Tony Rose
Secrets of Six-Figure Women Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life by Barbara Stanny
Standing at the Crossroads Next Steps for High Achieving Women by Marian N. Ruderman and Patricia J. Ohlott
Take Yourself to the Top by Laura Berman Fortgang
The 3 Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders by Gene Sicilano
The 4 Hour Workweek Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich By Tim Ferriss
The 12 Week Year By Brian Moran
The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale
The Bear Essentials of Business by Maxine Carter
The E Myth by Michael E. Gerber
The Game of Work by Charles A. Coonradt
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss
The New Agreements in the Workplace by David Dibble
The New Law of Demand and Supply by Rick Kash
The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham
The Sticking Point Solution 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth in Tough Economic Times By Jay Abraham
The Velveteen Principles by Toni Raiten-D’Antonio
Who’s Got Your Back by Keith Ferrazzi
You’re Not The Person I Hired by Janet Boydell, Barry Deutsch and Brad Remillard
General Topics – Book Summaries:
Age Power How The 21st Century Will Be Ruled By The New Old by Ken Dychtwald, PhD
Choices by Shad Helmstetter
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
Emotional Blackmail When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt To Manipulate You by Susan Forward PhD
Hot Buttons How to Resolve Conflicts and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans and Sherry Suib Cohen
Learning as a Way of Being by Peter Vaill
Life Skills Taking Charge of Your Personal and Professional Growth by Richard J. Leider
Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
Loving What Is Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
Making Your Dreams Come True by Marcia Wieder
Missed Fortune by Douglas Andrew
Real Love The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships by Greg Baer
Secrets of The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
Smart Choices A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
The Big Five For Life by John P. Strelecky
The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book Everything you need to know to put your EQ to work By Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
The EQ Edge by Steven J. Stein, Ph.D. and Howard E. Book, M.D
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Happiness Advantage By Shawn Achor
The Identity Code by Larry Ackerman
The Luck Factor by Dr. Richard Wiseman
The Power of the Kabbalah Technology for the Soul by Yehuda Berg
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Story of Your Life by Mandy Aftel
The Success Principles Part One How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield
The Success Principles Part Two How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield
The Velveteen PrinciplesThe Velveteen Principles A Guide to Becoming Real by Toni Raiten-D’Antonio
The Virtues of Aging by Jimmy Carter
This Year I Will by M.J. Ryan
Trusting Yourself How to Stop feeling Overwhelmed and Live More Happily with Less Effort by M. J. Ryan
Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey
Verbal Judo The Gentle Art of Persuasion by George G. Thompson, PhD & Jerry B. Jenkins
You Just Don’t Understand Men and Women in Conversation by Deborah Tannen PhD
Your Money or Your Life Transforming your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Small books with big messages Compiled by Frumi from various authors
Coaching and Mentoring Book Summaries:
Coaching Evoking Excellence by James Flaherty p Run the World by Marie C. Wilson
The Heart of Coaching Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High Performance Coaching Culture Third edition – January 2009 By Thomas Crane
The Mentor’s Guide Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships by Lois J. Zachary