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The first thing that strikes you about "Growing the Distance" is its unique format and layout. Unlike many books written strictly for business, this publication is alive with style, relevant quotations, humorous quips and interesting fonts. Whereas beauty is only skin deep, this book has helpful and attractive information from cover to cover. Author Jim Clemmer is the founder and president of The CLEMMER Group, a strategic consulting firm. Jim is a best selling author, workshop/retreat leader, and keynote speaker on organization improvement, leadership development, and personal effectiveness. Clemmer presents the values and philosophy he models to others in this fine book.

One of the main messages that clearly jumps out at the reader is this powerful theme...leadership and change is a living philosophy that must permeate every aspect of life including family, career, personal responsibility and self-fulfillment. Many business books on leadership put the various life roles of a leader in separate boxes. Business is one box, family life is another box, personal goals and self-actualization in yet another box. It is often assumed that these various roles have little to do with each other and for this reason family life and spirituality are typically ignored. "Growing the Distance" is not afraid to challenge this misconception by boldly discussing a leader's various interconnected roles!

"Growing the Distance" is a book about creating positive change within yourself rather than being the victim of change. Its powerful premise is that we can begin from where we are today, and choose where we want to be tomorrow. By making these choices we can grow the distance. Clemmer believes that each of us can develop the qualities of leadership that reside inside us no matter what our position in life. This publication discusses what leadership is, why change is essential, and the importance of vision, values and purpose. Clemmer encourages personal accountability for our choices and writes how we can learn and grow from disappointments. He encourages us to find commitment and passion in our workplace, as well as in spirit, and meaning within our lives. He proceeds to discuss growth and personal development while reminding us that great leaders are able to energize others to motivate themselves.

If you want to read a book and be enthusiastic about your leadership potential, "Growing the Distance" is a must. It will inspire you and help to mesh together the various roles and activities of your life. This book is truly different and will find a happy home on your bookshelf!

I can truely say this is my favourite book!I have read it at least 3 times already and I'll probably read again and again!

If you were a Clevelander in the 50's and 60's and wanted to shop in style, Halle's was your store. This book refreshes the memories of those who had the pleasure of shopping this retail institution while it told how a family of merchants experienced the successes and ultimate failure of a Cleveland retail icon.

If you are not a Clevelander, this book gives great detail of what "carriage trade" retail was and what happened to it.

Good reading, lots of memories, good fun.

Halle Brothers was a Cleveland institution. It was, like many family-owned department stores, a vital player in the city's history. As the city grew, so did Halle Brothers. Author James Wood paints an interesting, vivid portrait of a store, the likes of which, are rarely seen in today's world of "cookie cutter" chains.

Well formatted and easily read, this is a must for any parent considering a home business. The author has drawn parallels between nurturing a business with that of raising a child. She recommends color-coding various areas of your business for task management, and offers practical business and home organizing advice. The references to her personal journal were a nice touch, allowing the reader to identify with the writer. This one was hard to put down!

This guide to entrepreneurship is full of practical advice, heartwarming essays, and bountiful resources. The author provides guidelines and frameworks to help parents methodically and sensibly transition their current careers to home-based entrepreneurial reality. She shows readers how to plan, initiate and manage a successful home business and household while reminding us to stop and drink in the richness of life at home with the children. An affirming and well-researched manual for anyone considering a home-based career.

I find this book to be a very usefull and insightfull introduction to the scene which exists behind our normal work experience.

It investigates our basic motivations in serveral areas connected to the field of work. It relates them different to world pictures we can hold. It also dives deep into several main beliefs we normally have about work.

In this book, underlying driving forces and fears are brouht up to the level at which one can deal with them in a helpfull manner.

Excellent and practical advice to follow for every business person. I have given away copies of this book to many people. As a businessman myself, I get a lot of peace knowing that the way I have operated my business has many deeper consequences. --Atul Tucker

"It's Never Too Late to Plant a Tree" is a book that will inspire many readers to say, "Gee, I could do something like that!" and then they'll get off the couch and try it.The authors' version of retirement is not retiring from something but retiring to something. Today's seniors should never give up on a productive life. The 65 stories are a fast read!

"Instead of writing about themselves, journalists Mel and Morrie Helitzer did what they do best: found 65 people who shared inspiring stories of how to live past retirement age with purpose and direction. "It's Never Too Late to Plant a Tree"
is challenging and fun. If anybody can find just one story to inspire them to do something in retirement then this book is more than worthwhile - its an important investment."

Prof. John Ward is a top writer in the field, and this is a classic. Anyone who is interested by this fascinating subject should read this.

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Davidoff's style is so genuine and relaxed, he makes what could be a very complicated subject easy to understand. His approach reveals a complete grasp of the marriage of accounting and law, so he is able to simplify it, even for those of us who can't balance a check book. Perhaps that is the result of his many years as a professor at Brooklyn College, coupled with his legal and CPA practice on Long Island's "Gold Coast." The result is an outstanding book that all of us, who have labored to save a "nest egg," would be well advised to read. I felt this book redirected my thoughts about the future my wife and I must consider as responsible parents and grandparents. Bravo Professor Davidoff!

The author has done an excellent job in explaining the difficult yet important topics of wealth preservation techniques. I thoroughly enjoyed the fact that he was able to treat the serious topics with a sense of humor in a manner that was easy to understand. This invaluable information is worth many times the price. I highly reccomend this book to everyone

I found Emmanuel Modu's book to be a necessity for all parents. Not just because it helps them encourage their kids into the business world, but also because it provides a guidline on how to help children become independent thinkers and happy individuals. Mr. Modu pinpoints many mistakes paretns [unintentionally]make while trying to teach their kids about the ways of life. After reading "The Lemonade Stand", parents will be able to overcome such mistakes and help groom their offspring into freethinking and dyamic people. If you take evertying written in this book to heart, you may be raising the next Rockeffellar or Larry Ellison ;)

This book should be read by adults as well as children. If you are a individual starting your own business for the first time and without any knowledge of how to manage a business then the lemonade stand is where you should start. chapters 10, 11 and 12 were very helpful for me. A well written book Mr Modu.

This is a must read for our culture. Without condemning wealth, the author beautifully directs your thoughts and planning to balance the quest for prosperity with the quest for investing in one's posterity. Wealth can be well utilized for the latter when accompanied by deliberate consideration of one's view of money and "what's important" in life. Great book!

My old Texas A&M Tennis Coach, David Kent, who speaks regularly to various groups, recommends this book highly to all people he talks to. I hope you can find this book for me. Amy Closs

There are few books I've read over the past few years that have really stuck with me, and this is one of them. With the economy in a downturn, I find myself wondering what's happening to the families whose lives the authors tracked for a couple of years in the late 90s. The real-life families that are profiled here are truly memorable. Fans of "Nickel and Dimed" will like this book because it fills in a lot of the blanks about how poor families cope. The authors keep themselves out of their subjects' stories and basically let the families'words and actions demonstrate how difficult it is to live in poverty. I was inspired by the resourcefulness most of them bring to the challenge.

Review From Publisher's Weekly - Almost half of the nation's children live in officially defined poverty or near-poverty. Putting a human face on this and other statistics, the authors present a disturbing and provocative composite portrait of 10 families struggling to make ends meet--four white, two Hispanic, three black and one Hawaiian/Samoan. Bennett and Aber, both directors of Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty, and freelance journalist Shirk (a veteran St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter), identify three factors--teen parenthood, low educational achievement and temporary or low-wage work--that they call "the `Bermuda Triangle' of family poverty." Add the associated risks of domestic violence, poor child care and damage to early brain development from malnutrition, preventable birth complications, environmental toxins, etc., and readers will begin to see why poverty cuts across urban, suburban and rural areas. A few of the parents profiled here battle drug addiction; one gambles; several suffer from disabling depression; one single mother bravely raises a severely disabled five-year-old son afflicted with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and a 234-pound, 12-year-old daughter. In almost all the profiled families, one or both parents work, contradicting the widespread stereotype of the poor as lazy or irresponsible. In a succinct closing chapter, the authors call for a combination of public- and private-sector measures to help prevent or reduce child poverty. The issues they raise should fuel election-year debate. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.