Review: Remarkable! Maximizing Results Through Value Creation Dr. Randy Ross and David Salyers Baker Books 2016 Assessment, Alignment, Adjustment, Advancement, all woven into what the publishers have called a leadership parable. It’s tale of a chat at a car repair shop that leads the wisdom seeker into change. His business prompted the conversation, but, as with lots of things in life, the advice and instruction he receives goes deeper, but the focus remains on his business questions. Ross and Salyers parable reads easily, is a bit pedantic to suit me, but gives the patient reader plenty to ponder. Within the four sections listed above illustrations from car repair lead to application elsewhere, as is the way of the parable. The meat comes in the last few chapters. The first half is the ground work. The rewards are to those that read both, even though I nearly set the book aside in that first half. Summary graphics ...
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Review: NKJV, Apply the Word Study Bible Thomas Nelson 2016 New King James Version (NKJV) Bible has been around for quite a while, and, as the preface explains in some detail, is based on the King James Version. The preface also explains the format design and much more to help the reader along as he encounters various notes throughout the text. It’s probably a good idea to read that before jumping into the main text and all the notes that accompany it. I won’t comment on the biblical text itself since I am no expert in the languages, history, culture, etc. Best to trust the scholars on that one. The study portion of this Bible seems to be organized into themes as the reader encounters them in his reading. For instance, a portion of Leviticus 19 is applied to modern topics like ethics in the workplace or as they titled it “Theology for the Marketplace” (160). If the reader desires more on that topic several other references are p...
Review: What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography Alan Light Crown Archetype 2016 Nina Simone. For some nothing more needs to be said. For others, like me, this biography opens the way to the part of life we missed somewhere along the way. If you came of age in the 1960’s you might have missed a significant person of interest, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, otherwise known as Nina Simone. Light follows her life from her humble beginnings to her final moments in his biography which the cover says was inspired by “the acclaimed Netflix documentary.” The quote from Maya Angelou that opens this book sums up what happened throughout Simone’s life. Angleou sees Simone’s “loneliness…, so little tenderness…, and …a commitment to the battle of Life…”. That says it all. Light fills in the details. After about the third repeat of Simone’s cyclic life pattern I gave up on a majority of the text and skipped to the final...