Month: October 2012

Author: Nick J. Tate Publisher: Humanix Books Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar When the 2000-plus pages-long so-called “affordable” care act was passed there was widespread debate in Congress that this bill was anything but affordable. The contention by people opposed to it was true: that hundreds of billions of additional dollars to be spent by the United States federal government to provide care to uninsured people will make the national debt grow much bigger and faster than ever before in history. But not only will health care cost increase for the government, it will also increase for employers, and...

Author: Grant Cardone Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press – 258 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar  Grant Cardone has written four other books on selling besides this one. They are: Sell to Survive; The Closer’s Survival Guide; If You’re Not First, You’re Last; and The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure. He is also the host of the business-coaching show Turnaround King.     He has created a sales process entitled Information-Assisted Selling, which helps individuals and organizations adapt to today’s buyer who is exposed a huge amount of information from mass media, a barrage of sales pitches...

Authors: Thomas V. Bonoma, Edward C. Bursk, Kimberly D. Elsbach, Herbert M. Greenberg, Mark Kovac, David Ledlingham, Harvey B. Mackay, David Mayer, Ronald S. Posner, Benson P. Shapiro and Heidi Locke Simon Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 200 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is a compilation of eight articles on sales and selling from the pages of several issues of the Harvard Business Review. This well-respected journal – required reading in many companies – is a classic, reliable source of information and insight on many aspects of commerce, written by those who teach at the Harvard Business...

Editors: James E. Fleming and Sanford Levinson Publisher: New York University Press – 399 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Is there a connection between our evolution as humans, with our ability to think and make choices, and our morality? In other words, as the editors ask: “can theories of evolution explain the development of our capacity for moral judgment and the content of morality itself”? These are the central questions addressed in this book, with essays by 15 authors, including the two editors of this work. The two editors – James E. Fleming and Sanford Levinson – teach...