Amazon Pick of the Week: South Carolina Golf

For nearly three hundred years, South Carolina has played a vital role in American golf. The first golf clubs in America came from Scotland to Charleston in 1739. Myrtle Beach is sometimes called the "Golf Capital of the World," with more than eighty golf courses.

The Country Club of Charleston produced World Golf Hall of Fame members Henry Picard and Beth Daniel. The 1991 Ryder Cup matches, the "War by the Shore," took place at Kiawah Island's Ocean Course, also the site of the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships. Hilton Head's Harbour Town Golf Links has hosted the PGA Tour's RBC Heritage for more than fifty years. Bob Gillespie and Tommy Braswell detail the history of the game in the Palmetto State.

This is 200 pages and 19 chapters covering the Heritage, the Charleston origins of golf in America, the 1991 Ryder Cup and 2012 PGA at Kiawah's Ocean Course, plus chapters on Hootie Johnson, Jay and Bill Haas, the state's oldest course (Palmetto Golf Club) and other Aiken treasures, the Grand Strand's golf history, the state's top TV personalities at the Golf Channel.

Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/South-Carolina-Golf-Sports-Gillespie/dp/1467145491/ref=sr_1_2?crid=PW0G3BH9C0VF&dchild=1&keywords=south+carolina+golf+book&qid=1615133175&sprefix=South+Carolina+Golf%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-2

Book Pick of the Week: Increasing Your Influence at Work for Dummies

Get more out of your time at work!

Influence is a timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of power, but the world has evolved to the point where everyone needs these skills. No matter your job, role, rank, or function, if you want to get things done you need to know how to influence up, down, across, and outside the organization.

Increasing Your Influence at Work All-in-One For Dummies shows you how to contribute more fully to important decisions, resolve conflicts more easily, lead and manage more effectively, and much more. Plus, you'll discover how to develop the most important attributes necessary for influence—trustworthiness, reliability, and assertiveness—and find out how to move beyond.

Includes easy-to-apply information for influencing managers, peers, and subordinates

Shows you how to build trust with your co-workers and cultivate reliability through consistency and being personal

Illustrates how influencing others in the office helps you enjoy a greater measure of control over your work life

Helps you advance your career more rapidly than others

And more!

Amazon Pick of the Week: Making Dollars While Making Change: The Playbook for Game Changers

A great new book from entrprenuer, Jonathan Quarles.

Quarles is doing some remarkable work in the business sector. As a black entrepreneur and a native of Flint, Michigan Quarles offers a unique and much-needed voice in the saturated market of business how-to’s. His story is particularly resonant now, during this pandemic, when black entrepreneurship and economic empowerment is so important to the country’s economy!

Are you thinking about how to incorporate social impact into your business?

Do you have game-changing ideas on which you haven't pulled the trigger?

Making Dollars While Making Change takes you for a ride on one entrepreneur's journey.

Both reflective and prescriptive in nature, the stories that lie within will help you connect the dots on how to do good while doing well and how to tap into your best, highest self in the process.

The book is now out!

Order on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1735119237/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

Amazon Pick of the Week: America's Presidents Ranked from Best to Worst

Ranking our Presidents

In 2020, as we set our sights on another election, this book takes a look at all of the presidents of the United States—ranked from best to worst (the results may surprise you)—and their legacies, achievements and what we learned from their leadership.

The book spans from 1789 when George Washington (spoiler alert: he's in the "Best Presidents" category) took the first-ever oath of office. Forty-four different men have sworn to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States” and what makes a great leader has been vision, conviction, and setting the nation on the right course. The Revolutionary War showed us we needed commanders who were going to fight for our freedom. The Civil War showed we needed leaders who were going to unite this nation. We looked to the President during hard times like the Great Depression, who were going to pick us up, dust us off and, with a steady hand, guide us to more promising times, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt did over his unprecedented four terms.

Over the next many, many decades, and many wars and battles later, the President of the United States has shown they are the most powerful person on this planet. But they are also vulnerable. They’ve been targets of assassination attempts, and some, sadly, have been successful. Their transgressions have lead to scandals and impeachments. Presidents have been accused of abusing power and the advent of social media has ushered in a new form of communicating to constituents and young voters.

In an election year when interest in Presidents is strong, join Centennial Books as we look to the nation's shared history to see what we can learn for today and the future.

Order here: https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Presidents-Ranked-Best-Worst/dp/1951274407

Kindle Pick of the Week: Keep Going...

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself—for life.

The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it’s a loop—so find a daily routine!

A worthwhile read... Keep Going and its timeless, practical, and ethical principles are for anyone trying to sustain a meaningful and productive life.