Read This Before Our Next Meeting: Book Review and Summary

Based on personal experience, meetings I held or chaired in the Corporate world or in personal volunteering efforts such as President of the Board for a Condominium, I get a kick out of having short and intensive meetings. Meetings that leave you empowered, refreshed and ready for more. This is why when this title was proposed as a read in Allstream, I jumped to it.

The book has its followers, being number 1 in kindle during its release, #4 as part of best business book of 2011 and selected by many companies such as IBM in 2012.
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Book Review: The Five Love Languages

 The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

While at the clinic with my friend the Naturopath discussing diet related issues, he recommended this title. We have a nice relation and exchange points of views and new findings; our meeting is not one of a regular patient-doctor meeting but more of a friendship built on common interests.

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The title sounded cheesy, but I promised him to take a look. When my monthly credit at audible became available I researched quickly the title and found that the book is best seller with over 8 million copies and translated into 38 languages. Being a sucker for stats I went for it.

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What does it take to be a Relations Manager

hint; you are already doing it!

Almost couple of years ago when I was offered the job as Relations Manager I asked myself this question. Before that I had worked as Team Lead for complex, non-standard solutions and enjoyed tremendously the job.  I liked meeting with different teams from Sales, Marketing, Business Economics, Fields operations and many others. Each one spoke a different language but all working toward a common goal. When we won a deal, everyone celebrated, it was team work defined. That is why, when I was offered the Relations Management job I accepted without any hesitations.

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Book Review: The Alchemist:

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

I finished this book many 

months ago and was hesitant to do a review since then. The reason being I really didn’t know how to start, would I be able to give a fair review, would I be able to provide a good look without giving too much of the story, so many questions and very few answers...

Eventually, I caved in and on this beautiful early morning of August 2016 with a nice cup of espresso I trusted my inner self just like what Paulo would have us do and without any idea of what I am going to write, went for it. 

Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird

 

As one of the world greatest novels, with sales of over 30 million copies, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and a classic of modern American literature. I had planned for this book for many years and finally got to it.

I am usually not big fan of novels made of primarily literature material, but rather toward more scientific, non-fiction, poetry and spiritual books. What changed my minds to reconsider was another book by Paulo Coelho titled The Alchemist, where I will write a review about soon.

Samsung Note 7 Launch & Preview

Today I had the chance to preview the official launch of Note 7. The highlight in my opinion is the water resistant profile. The pen and the phone both are water resistant, this is consistent with Samsung drive for water resistant for many years now driving the competition everywhere toward this direction. Off course there are a lot of other software and hardware updates such as the Iris detection while the look of the phone itself has not changed drastically. What I want to highlight here is the presentation itself. While the videos and sounds were done professionally and obviously with great care and details, the presenter themselves lacked the luster you would expect with a great product launch. When they made a statement they looked around for acceptance and eventually they got the claps needed, but this should happen more organically and much more often through out the launch. Samsung has done great job in driving innovation and still continues, whether the new innovations will be valuable or not will be tested in the next year. Mounir