Finding the right gift for someone you work with? Not easy! You want it to reflect well on you. It needs to provide both entertainment and information without being overwhelming, and most importantly it needs to give the recipient a smile so that every time they see it or think about it, that happiness reflects well on you. Books are always a good choice, provided you avoid politics and religion. With books you don’t have to worry about allergies, getting the color wrong, fit or any number of funky issues. They don’t spoil, rather they enrich. Hard Knocks greatly enriches and it’s the kind of book people will thank you for in more ways than one!
Like Twain meandering down the Great Mississippi, Hecht shares his voyage along the salacious Sunset “Boulevard of Dreams”, pointing out along the way the pathos, drama, and irony of our human attempts to share this planet..and the wisdom gained by our imperfect attempts to mediate, adjudicate and mitigate our (social) intercourse.
It teaches creative problem solving with a giggle and essential business skills through laughter. The type of skills they don’t teach you in college. The type of skills you have to learn through the school of Hard Knocks. Merv makes it easy. Through stories, based upon his own life experiences, Merv weaves a delicious satire of a ten course meal punctuated with humble pie al a mode for dessert. Lessons learned include:
These are some of the morals to Hard Knock’s life lessons and each is elegantly portrayed in the tradition of Aesop himself.
Remember your first big job out of college? All that stuff you thought you knew, but nobody told you about the real information you’d need to get paid what you’re worth, spot opportunities, learn who to trust and who not to? Not to mention networking, figuring out how to solve problems and working with others?
These are exactly the lessons Hard Knocks teaches using whit, humor, humility and the true life experiences. Think of it as shortcut to professional success for your kids…if they’re still in college or newly in the workforce. Or a little inside info for you. Either way, you’ll learn a lot, and laugh doing it.
The law is part of doing business and if you’ve ever been involved in a lawsuit, you know how it sucks your time, distracts from business and generally creates expensive headaches. Hard Knocks features eleven cases where a little foresight would have resulted in major gains or prevented major losses in everyday business dealings. Every business executive or business owner will benefit from this book. Not only is it highly entertaining and very funny, it also illuminates every day legal issues encountered through the course of doing business ranging from real estate, product liability and divorce to proving a negative through behavior.
Hard Knocks teaches creative problem solving by showing how if one looks at a situation slightly differently, an entirely new set of solutions presents itself. Hard…
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