Randy Mayeux and Karl Krayer lead the First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas, Texas. Each month they provide fresh insight into the most current business books on the market. In December, they were kind enough to feature my book, Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons From The Toys You Loved As A Child. Here is Randy:

A copy of their excellent synopsis is available at here.

Thanks Randy and Karl. It look liked you enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it.

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Harry K. Jones at AchieveMax® pick up my new book Toy Box Leadership and learned some lessons that he didn’t count on. Here’s his blog entry:

Toys as Mentors

This is not a book review. However, there will be a review of this particular book in the next set of ten reviews we add to our website, bringing our total to 190 book reviews.

The book I speak of is Toy Box Leadership (Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child). It recently reminded me of a very valuable lesson I learned years ago and sometimes tend to forget. That lesson was very simplistic, and I guess that’s why it’s so easily forgotten. That lesson: “NEVER ASSUME.”

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Anna Farmery maintains a great blog entitled The Engaging Brand.

The Engaging Brand supports companies and individuals who want to create engagement with their brand. Anna is popular speaker throughout England on areas such as social media, personal and employer branding, and leadership. She lives and breathes Web 2.0. Her blog is ranked in the Top 100 in AdAge and has been recognized as a “must read” leadership blog. The Engaging Brand podcast was nominated for the Best Business Podcast at the Podcast Awards in both 2007 and 2008.

I was honored to be her guest on the latest installment of The Engaging Brand podcast to discuss my book, Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons From The Toys You Loved As A Child. In this podcast interview we talk about: (more…)

Jeff Myers is a friend of my co-author, Ron Hunter, and he graciously wrote a review of my book Toy Box Leadership on his blog Wide Open. Here it is:

One of my favorite topics is leadership. I can’t read enough about it. Reading books about leadership charges me up and motivates me to take uncomfortable steps toward becoming a better leader. Last night I finished reading another good one. (more…)