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New This Month
The Big Five For Life by John P. Strelecky

Also New This Month
Start With WHY by Simon Sinek

Book summaries are free. Please be a good sport and buy your books through this link:  

Announcing Frumi’s new LEADERSHIP BOOK CLUB

Are you the leader you want to be?  That you KNOW you can be?
Do you feel isolated? Do you want to discuss leadership challenges with other high level leaders?
Do wish you had time to read more books to hone your leadership skills?
Do you feel a group discussion opportunity would enhance your discipline about reading?

At Last!

Join Frumi’s Leadership Book Club!

Why Join?

  • You have a chance to save a lot of time.
  • The book notes capture key points that enhance your knowledge more quickly and more deeply AND you can read them again and again.
  • In the discussion group you will encounter a more rounded perspective on how leaders can apply lessons learned from the books and from each other.

Perhaps no skills are more important to grow for leaders than leadership and communication. Many in positions of leadership have technical knowledge in a field; what separates the true leaders from the rest is willingness to continue to learn, and the skills to implement what was learned in daily business. Now you can join a Book Club with like - minded people who understand reading about and discussing leadership can make them better leaders. Frumi’s LEADERSHIP BOOK CLUB has been created for YOU!

Click here to join now

You probably tell yourself that you are too busy to read.  Even if you have the time, there are so many books out there; it is hard to know where to begin.  Frumi’s LEADERSHIP BOOK CLUB selects the most useful, timely, and implementable books anywhere.

People who enjoy meeting other leaders, and gaining new insights from their thoughts, can find them through Frumi’s LEADERSHIP BOOK CLUB. Leadership is the common thread unifying everyone.

Reading is a lonesome endeavor without the opportunity to talk about your reading.  Have you really grasped the subject? Have you seen it from all angles?  How would you implement the ideas that you read about?

Get involved!

As part of Frumi’s Leadership Book Club you will have access to dozens of comprehensive book summaries. Frumi’s Leadership Book Club provides you with the “Cliff’s Notes” of major best selling leadership and communication books. 

The club meets monthly for an hour in an internet conference call to discuss popular leadership books.  Share your thoughts, if you like, on the book, and hear what others think. You can enter or leave the club conference call at any time . The calls will focus on an overview of the book followed by a discussion. You can be an ” active ”  or ” passive ”  member -  all contributions are welcome but not required .  And all calls will be recorded so that you won’t miss a thing ! Check back in and listen when YOU have the time, or review a conversation again! 

Click here to join now

Eight Reasons To Join This Book Club:

  1. Fast track your knowledge about leadership by reading comprehensive summaries of the best leadership books
  2. Share your thoughts and discuss lessons learned with like minded people
  3. Learn best practices from others
  4. Enjoy being part of a community of leaders
  5. Make good use of your time on airplanes by having summaries to read
  6. Become the resource for knowledge for those around you
  7. Gain access to dozens of summaries that you can read at your leisure  
  8. Get coaching from like-minded people on issues of specific interest to you

Reading the RIGHT books and discussing them in the RIGHT way in the RIGHT forum can enhance your leadership skills and communication abilities. Frumi’s LEADERSHIP BOOK CLUB can be your ongoing resource!

Click here to join now

Frumi is an avid reader of books aimed at personal and professional development. She chronicles her efforts in book summaries which she shares with friends, clients and colleagues. Help yourself to the summaries below and send Frumi a note at if you would like to be added to her email list.

Book summaries are free. Please be a good sport and buy your books through this link:  

A Testimonial from The Blaine Group, A Total Communications Agency, President & CEO Devon Blaine

“I’ve known Frumi for many years and have always appreciated her ability to instantly size up a situation and ask insightful questions.  This has proved to be of tremendous value to The Blaine Group.  I also, because I love to read, and rarely have a chance to read a book cover-to-cover, am very fond of her skillful Book Notes… they provide the essence of a book, the best of the best of it, in a short and easy-to-digest form.”

Thank you, Frumi, for everything,”

Book Reports

Interested in More Reports on Leadership?

Click here to become a member of Frumi’s Leadership Book Club.

Age Power: How The 21st Century Will Be Ruled By The New Old by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D.

A-Ha Performance 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

A Spark from Heaven? The Place of Potential in Organizational and Individual Development by Adrian W. Savage

Book Yourself SolidBy Michael Port
 
Building Trust In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life by Robert C. Solomon & Fernando Flores

Business is a Contact Sport by Tom Richardson, Augusto Vidauretta

Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, their Partners, and Children, and all the Clinicians who Treat Them by Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D

Change Your Questions Change Your Life By Marilee G. Adams Ph.D.

Choices: Manage Your Choices and You Will Manage Your Life by Shad Helmstetter

Clients for Life: Evolving from an Expert for Hire to an Extraordinary Advisor relationships by Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel

Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others by James Flaherty

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

Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte

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

Customer Centric Selling by Michael T. Bosworth and John R. Holland

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project

Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt To Manipulate You by Susan Forward PhD

Employed For Life by Anthony Burnham, Esq

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

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott

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 to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher & William Ury

Good To Great by Jim Collins

How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox

Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini

It’s Your Ship:Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy By Captain Michael Abrashoff

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 the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders

Know How - The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t by Ram Charan

Making Your Dreams Come True by Marcia Wieder

Managing Conflict by Richard Walton - Harvard School of Business

Missed Fortune by Douglas Andrew

Negotiating for Your Life: New Success Strategies for Women by Nicole Schapiro

Own The Room: Business Presentations That Persuade, Engage & Get Results by David Booth, Deborah Shames, Peter Desberg

Owning Up:The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask  by Ram Charan

Play Like a Man Win Like a Woman: 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

Small Books with Big Messages by Frumi Rachel Barr

Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa

Socratic Selling?  How to Ask the Questions that Get the Sale By Kevin Daley and Emmett Wolfe

Take Yourself to the Top by Laura Berman Fortgang

The 3 Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders by E. Ted Prince

The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale

The Bear Essentials of Business By Maxine Carter

The E Myth by Michael E. Gerber

The EQ Edge by Steven J. Stein, Ph.D. and Howard E. Book, M.D.

The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book: Everything you need to know to put your EQ to work By Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

The Five Languages of Love by Gary Chapman

The 4 Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich By Tim Ferriss

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Game of Work by Charles A. Coonradt

The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High Performance Coaching Culture Third edition – January 2009 By Thomas Crane

The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss

The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders

The Luck Factor by Dr. Richard Wiseman

The New Agreements of 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 Power of Feedback: 35 Principles for Turning Feedback from Others Into Personal and Professional Change by Joseph R. Folkman

The Power of Focus Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz

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.
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth in Tough Economic Times By Jay Abraham

The Story of Your Life by Mandy Aftel

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You are to Where You Want to BeBy Jack Canfield

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You are to Where You Want to Be
By Jack Canfield

The Velveteen Principles: A Guide to Becoming Realby Toni Raiten-D’Antonio

The Virtues of Aging by Jimmy Carter

The WHY Cafe by John P. Strelecky

This Year I Will by M.J. Ryan

Trust 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

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

Who’s Got Your Back by Keith Ferrazzi

Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein

Winning by Jack Welch

Your Money or Your Life: Transforming your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki RobinCrucialConfrontations.pdf

Book Recommendations

Action Coaching by David L. Dotlich & Peter C.Cairo

Adult Years by Frederic M. Hudson

Beyond the Wall of Resistance by Rick Maurer

Co-Active Coaching by Laura Whitworth henry Kimsey-House, Henry & Phil Sandahl

Designing Conflict Management Systems by Cathy A. Costantino & Christina Sickles Merchant

Developing High Performance People by Mink, Oscar G. Mink, Keith Q. Owen, & Barbara P. Mink

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Executive Coaching: An Appreciative Approach by William Berquist, Kenneth Merritt, and Steven Phillips

Executive EQ by Robert K. Cooper

Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Future Search by Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff

Getting to Resolution by Stewart Levine

Half Time by Bob Buford

Handbook of Coaching by Frederic M. Hudson

High Performance by Bob Davies

Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflicts and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans and Sherry Suib Cohen

Leading at the Speed of Growth by Katherine Catlin and Jana Matthews

Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel

Life Launch by Frederic M. Hudson

Living Your Best Life by Laura Berman Fortgang

Managing Transitions by William Bridges

Masterful Coaching by Robert Hargrove

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton

Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

Secrets of a CEO Coach by D.A. Benton

Soar with Your Strengths by Donald O. Clifton, and Paula Nelson

Strategic Renaissance: New Thinking and Innovative Tools to create Great Corporate Strategies Using Insights from History and Science by Evan Matthew Dudik

Synchronicity by Joseph Jaworski

The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy

The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block

The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz

The Business Coach by James S. Doyle

The Heart of Coaching by Thomas G. Crane

The Innovators Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen

The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

The Longevity Theory by David Mahoney and Richard Restak M.D.

The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships by Lois J. Zachary

The Power of Will by Anthony Paranello

The Purpose of Your Life by Carol Adrienne

The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail by Jean-Francois Manzoni & Jean-Louis Barsoux

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

The Skilled Helper by Gerrard Egan

The Sky is Not the Limit by Bob Davies

The Team Coach by Donna Deeprose

The Tipping Point: How Little Things can make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Purpose by Richard J. Leider

Visioning: Ten Steps to designing the Life of Your Dreams by Lucia Capacchione, PhD

What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Nelson Bolles

Whistle While You Work by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro

When Anger Hurts: How to Change Painful feelings Into Positive Action by Matthew McKay et al

Who Moved My Cheese by Spenser Johnson M.D.

You Just Don’t Understand. Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.StartWithWHY.pdf