EdBobrow@compuserve.com
http://edbobrow.mcni.com/

Ed Bobrow, a fellow Certified Management Consultant, is one of those special people who have the knack for making the profound and complex sound easy...in the manner of Isaac Asimov's interpretations of science for the non-technical masses.

What Ed writes of here, life planning, is profound - so profound that I suspect most of the masses don't do it. His words flow unpretentiously, making it all simple to grasp. Not simple in the doing, mind you, but well within the mental grasp of just about everyone.

My Say is also a very personal book. Ed looks back on his 70 years, obviously pleased because he has accumulated the wealth he set out for (and more), and accomplished his various life missions. This is a book filled with humility, though. Alongside all its gentle acknowledgments of what he has achieved, Ed tells of infirmity and constant physical pain, how he moved from self-pity to self-actualization. He tells his tale as a good mentor would to those who wish to learn from someone who has been there and done that.

When you reach pages 237-244, you'll get to read a section on gathering and analyzing information by an author whose name might be familiar to you (ahem).

Actually, my favorite section is Ed's "Eleven Good Networking Skills." Every one of the eleven skills is based on "looking out for number one."

No, not yourself, the OTHER number one: your contacts.