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The Rise Of America – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler
June 11, 2021

The 16th book I’ve finished this year so far is The Rise of America by Marin Katusa. This one was a business book which is all about how America is actually rising in prominence and wealth rather than declining. There are a lot of naysayers about the US declining

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The Forgotten Home Child – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler
May 31, 2021

Another fun book finished and another great book I do recommend everyone reads. The book is The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham and is about Home Children that were sent from England to Canada from sometime in the 1800s all the way past WWII.

This particular book follows

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Fearless – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler
May 23, 2021

Another business book done. I finished up Fearless by Tim Kintz a few days ago but since finishing it fell on a Thursday I didn’t have a chance to write anything and don’t feel like doing so on a Friday evening. I may enjoy writing these book reviews but

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The Hungry Road – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler
May 18, 2021

Now back on my regular schedule of a business book then a fun book, the book I just finished recently is The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna. It’s a spectacular book that is a fun way to learn about how the great famine in Ireland (aka in the US

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Financial Freedom – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler
May 10, 2021

I finished another business book, Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier which is meant to help you reach a point in your finances where you can be free to do what you want. It might not mean retiring from working or not earning any more money (or it could) but

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Daytime Formal Corporate Instruction To Informal Online Course Platforms

Nick Leffler
May 3, 2021

This post isn’t about formal learning but I wanted to use that as a segue because my day job is more in the formal corporate learning space. My goal of this post is to share my newest project that I just started working on a few weeks ago and why I’m doing it.

I enjoy

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Lives Of The Stoics – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler
April 30, 2021

After my long hiatus from business reading I browsed through the business category in Apple Books for my next cheap read. I’m not sure what I found could be considered a business book but more of a living book. I chose Lives Of The Stoics by Ryan Holiday and

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Ireland – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler
April 19, 2021

After reading this book for a while (it was pretty long) I finished Ireland by Frank Delaney. As I mentioned on my last book review (which was also fun) I wasn’t too sure about this book from the beginning. Well, it began to grow on me

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The Last Runaway – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler
April 1, 2021

This book took me to the 1850s in Ohio but the journey didn’t begin there. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier begins in England with a long journey by ship across the ocean and then by land to the destination of a small town in Ohio.

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Beyond the 80/20 Principle – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler
March 23, 2021

The latest book I recently finished up is Beyond The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch. My first impression by the book was a bit of confusion and having to try to find how it flowed. Even when I picked up the sample and started reading I wasn’t sure about

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