David Marcum

I thoroughly enjoy Sherlock Holmes books and the pastiches, some are very poor and others very good. This book comes with good reviews and by an author who has the apparent credentials to be able to pen a very good story.
It is evident from fairly early into the book that the author knows his subject. The scene and atmosphere are set very well and the characters come to life.
What I find extremely irritating and to some extent unforgivable is American authors who give English, Victorian characters, American figures of speech. For example Holmes and Watson in conversation use 'gotten' 'fall' and 'pesky' and the book is littered with American spelling. In addition it clearly has not been proof read, there are typos throughout the Kindle book. Reading this book is like watching an English Victorian period drama where the main character appears speaking with a Bronx accent.
This lack of attention to detail I find irritating and for me it detracts from what would have been a very good book.
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There is much about this book that is through provoking, so much so that I dozen people could write a dozen different reviews about it. Rather than try to capture the essence of the book, here is a little bit from the last few pages of the last chapter.

"... Alan Deutschman wrote an article on change for Fast Company entitled "Change or Die." What if you were given that choice? For Real. What if it weren't rhetoric that confuses corporate performance with life or death, but actual life or death? Yours. What if a doctor said you had to make tough changes in the way you think and act - or your time would end soon. ... "If you look at people after coronary-artery by-pass grafting two years later, 90% of them have not changed their lifestyle.""

Why do I suppose that I am different? We all imagine that we are in the 10% that would actually change.
The point of "Change or Die" and of this book is to teach people how to actually change instead of staying in the same unproductive ruts.
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Desde Leader Summaries recomendamos la lectura del libro Egonomics, de David Marcum.
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En el siguiente enlace tienes el resumen del libro Egonomics, Por qué el ego puede convertirse en nuestro mejor aliado en lugar de llevarnos a la equivocación permanente: target="_top">Egonomics… (meer)