JT Pedersen
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What I’ve Read Lately: Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

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As the old saying used to go, “As goes GM, so goes the Nation…,” Bob’s book serves well as an analogy to the US as a whole, currently. GM has shown us what may happen if we don’t get our collective act together.

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What I’ve Read Lately: The Elephant in the Room

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It is not uncommon for senior leaders to seek out coaches. The idea of seeking out a coach to—specifically—help me in improving strategically important relationships (e.g. important to my success and/or the business’) was a new idea.

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What I’ve Read Lately: You Can’t Not Communicate 2

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Book review of “You Can’t Not Communicate 2″ by David Grossman. Hint: The creators should have remembered, Communication is about balance.

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What I’ve Read Lately: The Naked Presenter

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The Naked Presenter is another excellent book that I highly recommend to anyone doing presentations, public speaking, or otherwise ‘talking’ with say groups of 10 or more.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Getting Things Done

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If maintaining focus, decreasing stress, and making sure things aren’t being lost in the cracks, then I encourage you to read Getting Things Done.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Poke the Box

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A short book is all it takes for Seth to unleash this latest manifesto. The driving message: INITIATE.

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What I’ve Read Lately: The Price of Everything

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JT reviews “The Price of Everything.” The topics range from a 6 year-old’s perception, to the price of life, price of women, as well as global climate change.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Enchantment

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If the title bothers you, get over it. Budding entrepreneurs: you need to read it. Enchantment is something important, something largely lost. Something we need more of.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Resonate

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“Resonate” is the matching bookend to Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen. One inspires, motivates, while the other is more instructive, prescriptive, and analytical. Together, a great pair.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Trust Agents

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Trust Agents focuses on building, managing, leveraging contemporary relationships as developed through the use of social media. If you’re still new to social media, you will find the book of much greater value than if you’ve been doing it for a couple years.