Category Archives: Books

The Difference Between Writers and Storytellers

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Terry Taylor

You have heard this before. Newspapers are dying, if not dead. No one reads books anymore. The Internet is going to images and words are being left in the digidust.  Ironically, the written word’s obit gets rewritten every day. The … Continue reading →

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Stephen King Goes South

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In 1998, writer, Stephen King, became a part-time resident of the Florida Gulf Coast. Now he has set a novel there. Duma Key is Stephen King’s first Deep South novel. A writer friend of mine said, “If you think he … Continue reading →

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Glue #9: Spreading the Glue

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you are even remotely familiar with Thomas L. Friedman’s book, “The World Is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,” you know about one of the biggest flatteners in the world: Wal-Mart.

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Ridin’ With Jimmy and The Boss

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you haven’t read “Hammer of the Gods,” the seminal and raunchy history of Led Zeppelin by Stephen Davis, don’t worry, you have a couple of chances to get a close-up feel for the senior citizen gods of rock at … Continue reading →

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Profits After Death

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Go to the Pearly Gates, take a left, and there beside the guy with the harp on Cloud Nine, is St. Peter’s Investments, Inc. The First National Bank Of The Great Beyond is down to your right. Can’t miss it. … Continue reading →

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Law School, at My House

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Terry Taylor

After a couple of years where things seemed torked out of perspective by events beyond my control, I have a new hobby. I am going to law school. Okay, not exactly, but I am sort of going to law school … Continue reading →

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Glue #2: What is Glue and how can it help your company?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Imagine you are in a room with a single lamp. The room is dark. You flip on the lamp. Nothing happens. You immediately think the bulb is blown. But then you fumble around in the dark and see that the … Continue reading →

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Glue: #1 How to Hold Your Business Together.

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Terry Taylor

This is the first in a series about the contact points that make a company successful. I’m not talking about just branding or marketing success; I’m talking about total success – in sales and operations and customer service and distribution … Continue reading →

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How Starbucks Saved My Life (and made the advertising profession look like a shallow pool of miscreants)

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I have always been leery of guys with three names. Presidents and serial killers come to mind. Into my doubting field of vision has wandered one more – Michael Gates Gill, and his book “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A … Continue reading →

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Bet On the Rider, Not the Horse

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Terry Taylor

“The key to mega-stock investing is not focusing on the industry, but rather on the entrepreneurial leadership characteristics of the CEO. This strategy is what Renn Capital Group uses to provide, in some cases, soaring returns for investors. You might … Continue reading →

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