I recommend this book to anyone who manages a team or interfaces directly with customers. We need a team of dedicated and thoughtful customer service representatives, not just the one who sits at the front desk. With the holiday season quickly approaching, consider empowering all of your employees with this small book. It just might be the best present your office receives.

I’ve come to know Cameron Moll only in name, through his numerous mentions in design articles and his strong body of work found at cameronmoll.com. I decided to pick up his book simply on the fact that the consistency of his writing on design and web have never wavered, always bringing insight and clarity to the current atmosphere of mobile web design. And with this purchase, that sentiment stays true.

The book is a lightweight in size, but seems to capture a lot of the introductory concepts with mobile design that can apply to a larger audience whether it be account executive, designer, or client. I find the style and pace easy enough to recommend to my clients, as a primer on mobile design and considerations when taking on a project. His pragmatic approach allows the reader to understand the advantages of the various methodologies, and make a firm decisions based on your own case. This is a solid reference manual, and a must buy for those looking to understand what goes into making a mobile site happen.

Learn more about the book here, http://mobilewebbook.com/

As if the bright orange cover was not enough to attract anyone, something about its title struck an unsettled nerve and drew me into reading the preface what would be one of the best books I have read this year.

Keith Ferrazzi has put together a very entertaining and informative piece on the art of networking. Its comes packed with information on tactics and tips, yet does not come off as a dry heavy monolith of charts and rules. Instead its a light historical primer into how he came from a blue-collar background, and climbed into a leading CEO position of a major consulting firm though his hard work and networking. His trails and tribulations are used a key points in establishing his networking skills, which become relevant to everyone who has ever set foot in a conference, board room, or office, where your worth was at stake. He does an excellent job of backing up each point with options, not just hard and fast rules on how to make your network — work for you.

Pick this book up if you get the chance. It was a great motivational piece as well, just reinforcing the “intraprenuer” in all of us.

Getting Things Done, has a very simple message. Get things organized, make them actionable, and get them out of your way. We spend too much time containing and managing tasks without actually doing any of them! Many people feel overwhelmed at time, which is where I was when I bought this book. I quickly devoured his book, as it’s a short piece of work with a relatively simple plan and steps to take. Within an afternoon, I had read through the plan, and started the task of getting all of my ducks in a row, or the activation phase in the book. Getting everything into “actions” seemed to be a harder task than I suspected, but it was well worth the time and energy to change the way I was thinking about tasks. The book walks you through this phase with points and tips to organize every single thing in your life to get them done.

Months later, I find myself coming back to this book over and over, reciting the discipline and process. By the end of each reading and process, I feel as if many more things are in order and I’m back on track.

Pick this book up. Buy and buy a copy for a friend or colleague. Let your office read it. The change will be contagious.