Author: Vickie L. Milazzo

I found this book browsing through Amazon’s entrepreneurship best sellers. I was immediatley impressed with the quality of Vickie L. Milazzo’s blog entries. they were insightful and inspiring, without being too gender specific. I researched a bit about her company, Medical-Legal Consulting Institute Inc., and based on her experience, this book should be an interesting read, no matter your gender.

Here’s a list of the ten strengths covered in the book.

• Ignite your inner fire with passion to reach exciting, new levels of growth
• Harness your intuitive vision to attain an audacious future
• Use the power of engagement to achieve big things
• Flex your feminine agility and stretch further than ever before
• Intensify your genius for accelerated achievement
• Live with uncompromising integrity to attract authentic success
• Energize your performance with endurance
• Apply the Feminine Force of enterprise to excel at being the CEO of your life
• Reclaim your life energy through renewal
• Activate female fusion by partnering with other women to attain the impossible

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Author: Dale Carnegie

It’s crazy to think that this book was first published nearly 70 years ago, yet is still on nearly every list I’ve seen of must-read business books. To be honest, How to Win Friends and Influence People has always rubbed me the wrong way, so I have never read it (almost out of spite), but its staying power has been so strong that it is now on my list of books to read. It was a NY Times bestseller for 10 years.

It’s split into 4 sections, each of which deal with a different aspect of human interaction and persuasion. Here are the four main sections.

1. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
2. Six Ways to Make People Like You
3. Win People to Your Way of Thinking
4. Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment

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Author: Malcolm Gladwell

I really liked this book. It is all about rapid cognition or thin-slicing. Malcolm Gladwell goes into how we as people have the innate and effective ability to rapidly take in what is around us and make sense of it, understand it, and take action on it without consciously thinking about it.

This book isn’t about intuition though, what Gladwell calls thin-slicing is a skill that can be examined, understood, learned and our innate ability to use it can even grow through continual effort.

As with Gladwell’s other books, he has all sorts of pertinent stories and examples that drive his points home. Not directly a business book, but has all sorts of business applications.

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