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    THINK BIG, by Ben Carson with Cecil Murphy The detailed narration of the author’s life – domestic, spiritual, inter-personal relationship, academic and career has been succinctly explained to highlight the need for a conscious effort to achieve greatness and excellence through simple, yet disciplined approach to life. He shared his experience as a clueless, temperamental and lowly ranked child in school, raised by a single mother in the state of Detroit, USA to achieving the best grades, performing unimaginable surgeries to break new grounds in medicine and becoming the Head of Pediatric neurosurgery at the prestigious John Hopkins Hospital, USA at the age of thirty three. His hopes of living the American dream was in oblivion with a clueless approach to achieving greatness in his academic pursuit and morale balance during his early life save for the wisdom of an illiterate mother who guided him to greatness . The title clearly identifies with the author’s st...

    THINGS FALL APART Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe and first published on 17 June, 1958. The book sold over 10million copies and has been translated into fifty languages. An unparalleled accomplishment by any other literary work from Africa.   The things fall apart focused on pre-colonial typical Ibo characters, plots and value systems. It’s a novel that humanizes Africa and presents its past and culture as intriguing, profound and elaborate enough to inspire the most considered literary treatment. It’s a novel that teaches something new, each time we return to it.   The setting is Umuofia, present day Imo state. The principal actor is Okonkwo; who is well known throughout the nine villages and beyond. Okonkwo was very hardworking, brash, brave and titled. He represented everything that his father is not.  

   Winning With People   Winning with people is about getting things done through people, and this is an essential attribute for anyone who wants to be successful in life. This book review highlights the factors that are very critical to winning with people. ONE - Start with Yourself If you want to win with people, you've got to be a winner or at the very least be on your way to becoming one. Also, being a Winner comes to your value - “Winners are Valuable”. When you embrace your own personal value, when you are secured in who you are, then you have become a winner. Below are some things you must do in becoming a winner:  Recognize your values  Accept your values  Increase your values  Believe in your values  

Why People Fail: The 16 obstacles to success and how you can overcome them. By Siimon Reynolds   We seek success. But it’s often through failure that we can learn best. “After all, success is often just a moment – a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious person’s constant companion, often dogging us for months, years, or even decades before we finally reach our aim,” – Siimon Reynolds Who is Siimon Reynolds? Reynolds became one of Australia's youngest self-made millionaires and an agency director at the tender age of 21. After his acrimonious fallout with former Omon agency partner Mark de Teliga over shares. "Sacked at 21" over the phone and "without reason" from Grey Advertising. He went on to found The Photon Group, a group of marketing companies. He's now chairman and co-founder of OMG, one of Australia's largest online networks, and a business consultant, author and public speaker.  ...

  Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships - Ken Blanchard A Brief Review   Preamble   Using the life shared between a whale trainer and killer-whales, this motivational 6-chapter piece generally examines the intrinsic values derivable from maintaining good relationships at the workplace and at home. It speaks of the need for synergy of positive attitudes (and positivism) for more effect while playing down on, and, ultimately eliminating excessive focus on negative attitudes (and negativism). Accentuate on the Positive Attitude of the Person

 THINK AND GROW RICH INTRODUCTION: "If you can think it, you can have it". The book dwelt extensively on the money-making secret that has made fortunes for millions of people over the years. The secret work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where those who are ready and searching for it may pick it up.

 THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON... the Success secrets of the Ancients – the most inspiring book on wealth ever written by George S. Clason Overview: Babylon became the wealthiest city of the ancient world because its citizens were the richest people of their time. They appreciated the value of money and practiced sound financial principles to acquiring money; keeping the money and making their money earn more moneys. The book seeks to suggest cures for lean purses, advice right investments, control expenditures, make investments grow and guard against treasure losses through some of the famous Babylonian parables of that time. The Seven Cures for Lean Purse - 7 Simple Rules of Money The riches of the richest man in Babylon did not occur overnight. The lessons learnt through time management and discipline formed the bedrock of his riches. The following are his 7 simple rules of cures for lean purse: Step1: Start Thy Purse to Fattening: For each 10 coins you ear...