"A bad writer has no rights whatever. Any mercy shown to him is wasted and mistaken." - H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956 I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need...

This chapter-level book can help make you wealthy and happy or, depending on your situation, wealthier and happier - but only if you approach it with an open mind. Start with this thought: Your success in your professional, financial, and personal lives depends to a great extent on your ability...

Leadership for Profitable Sustainability will change the ways leaders, managers, and others perceive and improve their communications to be more clear and efficient....

Three young circus elephants were unjustly killed - murdered? - during the 31 years between 1885 and 1916. Why? The short answer to "Why?" is that humans with the power of life and death were blinded by self-serving ambition and their acceptance of cruel treatment of wild animals....

Life in the fast lane just got easier. Each of the 111 quoras, blogs, essays, and short stories in Sprinting from Good to Great is a hot tip for improving the quality of life for the upwardly mobile....

The Little Black Book for Entrepreneurs traces the author's 45-year journey as a successful entrepreneur and the 12 drivers that made it possible....

Tom Edison and George Westinghouse battled for years over which type of electricity would be the worldwide standard. The Current War incited Tom to electrocute a six-ton elephant named Topsy. It's 1904. Edison is on trial for Topsy's premeditated murder a year earlier. In an unusual legal...

You can't be the fabled Jack and depend on magic beans, a fast-growing beanstalk, and a fabulously rich but murderous giant for wealth + happiness + competitive supremacy; you can only depend on yourself and the personal beanstalk that you sow, grow, and climb. A good start is to adopt the...

Peach - written in lyrical, soulful prose and poetry by Jenevieve "Peach" Woods - is a heartfelt account of her life as the invisible girl, shunned because she is afflicted with a life-altering disease. Her book is part of her mission to "celebrate our differences, and to treat each other with...

Ethics - described briefly as the norms by which acceptable and unacceptable behaviors are measured - has been the concern, and perhaps the great dilemma, of humans....

When I bounced the idea of An Accidental Life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We in fact met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or perhaps...

Your success in your professional, financial, and personal lives depends to a great extent on your ability to articulate....

When I bounced the idea of an accidental life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life (we, in fact, met by happy accident). He added that my life was and is typical or perhaps...

When I bounced the idea of an accidental life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We, in fact, met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or...

Beware. This book can change the way you listen to Big Shots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined...

When I bounced the idea of an accidental life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We in fact met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or perhaps...

This book is about the aspects of leadership that are difficult to measure but impossible to ignore. It implores leaders to adopt new ways to think, behave, and relate to create profits and meaning, to create that elusive and euphoric state of knowing what really matters today and in the distant...

This book is about the aspects of leadership that are difficult to measure but impossible to ignore. It implores leaders to adopt new ways to think, behave, and relate to create profits and meaning, to create that elusive and euphoric state of knowing what really matters today and in the distant...

When I bounced the idea of An Accidental Life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We in fact met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or perhaps...

I've been on a wonderful and enlightening trip since I began researching this book in 2003 and published its first edition in 2004 as Managing with Conscience for Competitive Advantage. It was praised by reviewers for its importance, need, relevance, and style - prompting me to revisit and...