Review of THE VALUES FACTOR BOOK by A.K.Wilkins
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Because this book the VALUES FACTOR it is Honest and TRUE REAL VALUES that we need to focus on in our daily lives in order to maintain or surpass levels of attainment to which we value most.
  All the best Allan K Wilkins
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Hello Chris,

I just finished your book " 101 Crucial Lessons They Don't Teach You In Business School. " I thought it was an easy read that boiled down higher level concepts to understandable everyday situations frequently taken as commonplace. I finished this shortly after reading " 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. Your book reinforced core concepts from Stephen Covey. My feedback or observation can be directed to page 117 or lesson #83. In the first paragraph I believe there is a spelling error (Ask them were they are form...). I am looking forward to your course on Udemy and wish you the best of luck in your current and future endeavors.

Thank you,
Bobby
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Keep It Simple offers the reader insight for living in a turbulent world.  Ron and Steve combine real life experiences with common sense to create 12 core values to live by.  A handbook for gaining perspective on life when the future may not be so bright.  By stepping back and simplifying, the authors guide you through steps that are life changing when put into action. Written with compassion. "An excellent short read that motivates".  Good Job!!!
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Growing Bold is a book that you will want to read over and over again. It is full of useful and pratical ways to define what is important and timely in your life. It's a good book to help you prioritize your values and look at them in a more objective way. The author clearly understands what it is like to go through challenges and hardships both in work life and personal life, and is able to share how to navigate life's ups and downs. This is a very helpful book worth reading and perhaps even passing on to others.
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NBook Review

12  New Steps For a New Millennium
The UpSpiraLife Group

Reviewed by Rev. Gale Stewart, D.D.

  Dr. William Kent Larkin, in his new book, 12 Steps For a New Millennium, The UpSpiraLife Group, shares his passion:  the power of positivity in human life and the importance of a positive mind in living the "well-lived" life, a life of well-being.  Dr. Larkin has developed the UpSpiral Sanctuary - weekly group meetings structured around 12 steps for positive living, designed for growing and deepening "neuropositivity being".

The heart of this book is the format for a positive 12 step group, an UpSpiraLife Group.  Dr. Larkin presents the case for a positive 12 step group in the Introduction, which leads into the body of the book with the components of the Format:  The UpSpiraLife Sanctuary, the USL Preamble, the UpSpiraLife Group Format, the 12 Steps, the 12 Ways and Means and the 12 Promises.  In Part I he describes the 12 Steps; Part II is am expansion of the 12 Ways and Means.  Part III is an explanation of the 12 Promises.

Part IV contains 52 guides for living a Neuropositive life, exercises to move a person toward a neuropositive mind.  Each exercise is simple and elegant.

The book ends with an extensive bibliography and an appendix that is an assessment of a person's strengths; knowing your individual strengths is an important component in growing the neuropositive mind.

In a user-friendly manner, Dr. Larkin expands on each component of the 12 steps he proposes.  Blending neuroscience, epigenetics, and positive psychology, he has structured a format that " promises" to guide a person into a healthier, happier brain, and, therefore, a "well-lived" life.  For example, Promise #1..."You can feel the positive emotion that you choose to feel if you lean your consciousness consistently and gently  over time in that positive direction.".  Dr. Larkin emphasizes choice - we make the choice; and leaning consistently, doing the work, will move our brains, and thus our lives, to a state of mind that consistently just feels good.  And in the process, our lives are changed; we begin to see a vision for our lives.

Dr. Larkin's passion for positive emotion is clear and seductive:  reading his book sparks a flame of hope in the heart of the reader.  Participating in a positive 12 step group can't help but ignite that hope as a participate does the work as prescribed.

I recently participated in an UpSpiraLife Group and the experience was exactly as Dr. Larkin promised!  I see evidence in my life that my brain has moved toward being more positive.  I see the synchrony that he describes throughout the book.  I have made the choice to be and stay in an UpSpiral and I see the results in my life!  I recommend not only the book, 12 New Steps For a New Millennium, and participation in an UpSpiraLife group, but I plan to form and facilitate a group!
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Genre : Success
Serves: Accomplishment seekers, present low performers
Topics: Related to Success in practical view
Comments : Fairly clear spread of what's needed and what makes success

My view

- A good reminder of the needed habits of success

- The reader gets an understanding of the principles of what works

- Though the concepts are dealt, the book is filled with meaningful substance which etches the success habits on repeated reading

Readability 4/5
Understandability 4/5
Lay out, structure 3.50/5
Value for money 4.5/5
Usefulness 4/5
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I really liked the book it makes a very good case for the concept of the delivery of professional services using need technologies no necessarily by professionals.

I agree with the premises of the book but I found it a bit optimistic, I believe that professionals will always four d a way of preserving the part that will benefit them.

The book is highly recommended and I would like to explore some of the ideas even further especially about the decomposition of tasks.
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As one of his proofreader/editors I can say that Scott Thompson's book is a very well organized and comprehensive book about the value investing process. It flows well. It can be easily read and understood by anyone from 19 to 100.

The financial ratios section is also one of the best I have seen in these kind of learning books.

In this "Art & Science" book, readers will also find three interesting case studies, including the Coca-Cola case study that Scott and I released as a smaller book called "1988 Valuation of Coca-Cola: estimated intrinsic value."

Case Study #1: Coca-Cola Company (KO), Dr. Bud Labitan and Scott Thompson, MBA
Case Study #2: FactSet Research Systems, Inc. (FDS), Bakul Lalla and Scott Thompson, MBA
Case Study #3: Colgate-Palmolive Company  (CL), Dr. Maulik Suthar, MD, and Scott Thompson, MBA

I am also happy to say that Scott kindly included my small article on the topic of looking at the Coca-Cola investment as a bond. "Yield On Cost: Warren Buffett's Coca-Cola Magic" is in the reference section.

So, I think his book will satisfy both novices as well as experienced investors and BRK shareholders. While I may be a bit biased, this book may currently (2013), be the best teaching book about value investing.
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The authors provide a compelling argument for the value of Knowledge Centered Service (KCS) with particular focus on the need for speed as knowledge tends to be useful for a very short time before the environment changes or it simply becomes common knowledge. They stress getting the knowledge into the hands of your customers even if it isn't polished; you can always clean it up later. That is ironic in that I have never read a book with more grammatical errors in it. Still, to their point, I was able to read through the errors ( the reason they get 3 stars instead of 4 or 5) and get useful knowledge. However, this is the second edition of their book and it should have been polished by now.
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I sent a email to the author congratulating him!  Also reading Loving Learning which offers an answer in another fine book.  Am one of the founders of a private school that taught values as the foundation.  I have seen what builds great kids from the inside out!!!
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Wilkins' book is broken into two halves: 1. The pre-work you (a salesperson) do to determining your value. 2. how to converse with buyers to find the gap they have and show how you fulfill it.  It's meant those who are working in complex sales situations, such as B2B products & services. I found that Wilkins TSB methodology is different enough from others that it stands on its own.

He does provide probing strategies and even a bit of neuro-linguistic programming, but not for using in a mind-trick kind of way. Wilkins contends that buyers truly need help uncovering their internal motivations.

Wilkins throws practical exercises and anecdotes throughout both halves, to put plain-English wrappers around some of the psychological concepts he covers. For these reasons, I was left feeling very confident about having real-time face-to-face and phone conversations. If there were one unexplored area he could have covered, it would have been how to apply his strategies using email and social networks, with the rise of social selling and conversations that are completely virtual.

There is a companion book coming out in 2016 - I'm looking forward to devouring that one as well.
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Andre'gives a captivating insight into the historyof his life and experience. This book is a comprehensive source into author's thought process of his being. The book is instrumental of an individual (Andre' Dixon)who can greatly influence ones experience of values and  beliefs. The volume is based on extensive research work that has been carried out by the author's life. It covers a wide range of topics related to such interaction and social structure, among others that actually he learned, that will help others. (Life lessons)  The significance for the reader is both ethical and informative. The author explained in detail with examples, the process in how to draw good life's conclusions.
S. H. Carter
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I really enjoyed reading this book. It is of great value and everyone from young to old could benefit and take something helpful with them from this book.  It has a wonderful synopsis of how one journey's though life overcoming fears & challenges to become successful with oneself. It is an inspirational story  and it provides a great overall view of an individuals  personal development, leadership, accomplishments and spiritual connection with our creator .  This book encourages one to want to strive for a more meaningful purpose in life.
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Everyday Greatness by Stephen R. Covey

Insights and Commentary by Stephen R. Covey
Compiled by David K. Hatch

Dr. Covey believes that everyday greatness begins with doing good to others, being a sort of hero, yet we all can do more than what we are doing now and achieve greatness with it. He tells the reader to make three important choices each day: the choice to act, the choice of purpose, and the choice for principles. David K. Hatch gathered stories of greatness from decades of Reader's Digest books to help illustrate Dr. Covey's principles of greatness.

Together, these men have put together a great book that neatly lays out seven sections, each with three principles illustrated by one or more stories and/or anecdotes from Reader's Digest along with comments and insights by Dr. Covey. The content of this book is easy to work with. A reader can read from first page to the last page or check the contents for the principle he/she feels the need to learn more about how to put into action. Explanations are clear and easy to understand. Stories and anecdotes are as interesting now as they were when first published, I'm sure.

I recommend this book to anyone who has ever thought, "What am I living for?" Why am I here?"

Complimentary copy of Everyday Greatness given to reviewer by Thomas Nelson; [..]
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Excellent book. A must read! I purchased this book for a womens book club hosted by the church I attend. The book is co-authored by a woman and man, so it offers both perspectives ladies! The perspective and advice that Pastor Joel A. Brooks offers is priceless. In one of the chapters, he encourages women to see their true value and worth as they are dating, and explains how men respond to women based on how the woman esteems herself. He masterfully illustrates the concept of value and worth using a metaphor of boutique versus bargain shopping---you have to read it for yourself!.  If possible, invite the authors to speak at the close of your book club. Our book club was able to have Pastor Joel Brooks as a guest to host a discussion and Q&A segment on the book. I plan to read the book again with my tween daughter.
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Doing Virtuous Business by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch provides the reader with understanding about the virtues and values that should exist in the business world. It provides explanations of the spiritual foundation that businesses have applied for success and also explain areas where it has not worked.

It was a surprisingly good read for a Business and Culture book because I would rather choose fiction over nonfiction especially for review purposes, but for some reason, this book piqued my curiosity and I was not disappointed.

In today's economy, with everyone being cautious about finances and spending, I wondered whether businesses out there had the moral ethics to behave and make the right decisions when it comes to providing for consumers. I'd like to think that there are businesses out there responsible enough to think of others rather than using consumers as mere profit opportunities. This book provided answers that gave hope to understanding that there are organizations and business leadership that do want to do good and are indeed upholding their values and morals to make a positive difference.

Surprisingly, I enjoyed learning about the spiritual capital throughout the facets of business organizations and hearing of faith applied in the successful business leaders. While not necessarily focused on the Christian point of view, and expanding a bit about the positive traits of other religions as applied in the business atmosphere, I didn't mind so much reading about non-Christian application when it came to faith.

The author spends a lot of the book going over identifying what spiritual entrepreneurship is and giving examples in the business world regarding virtue and values that exist and what went wrong so that others can learn from the mistakes.

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The author's principles in life is already worth reading. I will buy this book to my team at[...] To help them get motivated and improve life values. The rapid rescore is just an added bonus I think at this point.