by Kevin Brimhall | May 26, 2011 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
A classic! What more can you say? The quintessential "working handbook on human relations," I can’t count how many times I have read or skimmed "How to Win Friends." Yet every time that I do, I learn something new and incredibly impactful to...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 12, 2011 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
The book was recommended to me by Tilak Shah, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of Polyzen, a provider of specialty products and services for the medical device industry. Ideas Are Free, by Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, is about the systems and actions...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 22, 2011 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
Subtitled "The Secret to Transforming Your Business – and Your Life," this book came highly recommended by my friend Markus Isenrich, president of the private equity firm Ferro Management Group. Vital Factors describes and promotes the use of the MAP...
by Kevin Brimhall | Dec 13, 2010 | Book Summaries, Sales / Growth
You can’t see them – so how do you sell them? That’s the problem with services. In this classic field guide to modern marketing, Beckwith covers a lot of territory. Christened "a classic" by Swim With the Sharks author Harvey Mackay, this...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 26, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
It seems strange, I realize, that a hospital would need to be healed. But that was the situation that existed a decade ago at Southeast Georgia Health System. Costs were out of line with revenues, employee morale was awful, doctors weren’t happy, and the...
by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 29, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
The book’s subtitle is “A Leadership Fable” and it tells the story of a talented and fairly successful CEO who also runs terribly ineffective meetings, negatively impacting the business’ performance and results. Lencioni, best-selling author of...
