ABOUT THE BOOKS

Managing your IRA made easy

This book written by a retired executive, provides simple strategies and techniques that help you pick the best retirement plan options, allocate your money properly, dispel mis-information, and avoid the many common mistakes that people make, costing them thousands of dollars of potential growth over their working life.

One of the most consequential decisions that you can make, is determining what to invest in, how much, and why. The decisions you make about where to put your money can have a dramatic effect on your retirement, especially when compounded over 20, 30, or 40 work years. We are talking about thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Don’t you think you should have a pretty good idea of how you are going to evaluate the choices being offered you?

This book tries to help you in making solid decisions about your future.

Read to Succeed

This book details the importance of adult reading skills, and the role that they play in our Career success by enhancing our vocabulary, and our choice of words, and in our writing, to communicate ideas, suggestions, problems, and concerns verbally and in writing. Many of our most successful executives are avid readers.

Generals, Presidents and Executives who are at the top of their organizations, got there because they knew how to convey a thought or message in a meaningful and assertive way. Personal examples are given that illustrate how the proper use of language can change the meaning and intent of our actions based on our choice of words.

This book starts with parenting suggestions to get kids interested in reading, moves into the high school and teaching examples, and quickly moves into the adult world This Book starts with parenting suggestions to get kids interested in reading, moves into the high school and teaching examples, and quickly moves into the adult world of how these basic skills when properly used, can overcome obstacles for those with no college degree, and help those with a degree use their skills more effectively.

The author himself, became a successful CEO despite the lack of a college degree and frequently rose above his peers who did. Reading and Writing skills made the difference. In this book he illustrates those talents through many examples. Well written and lauded by educators.

The Ultimate Gun Control Solution

Too many kids with guns are driving up violent crime rates and causing needless firearm deaths. What can we do about it?

This book contains over two dozen solutions that will reduce firearm deaths without invoking the wrath of the U.S. Supreme Court, or violating anyone’s second amendment gun rights. Many only require a signature.

There are an estimated 50 million gun owners in the United States. Taking everyone’s guns away is neither practical, nor legal. Gun buybacks do not reduce crime. Defunding police does not work. Gun laws are ignored by criminals.

This book is neither pro-gun, nor anti-gun. It explores the experiences, the statistics, and the impact of various gun control strategies that have been used globally as well as within individual States. Much of what we are doing has already been proven to be ineffective in other countries. Some strategies do work and where statistics support these approaches, this book expands on them in detail.

The author has also injected a few personal suggestions and insights into the problems of trying to control guns by mandates, rather than by using voluntary measures, which produce a better result with less government intrusion. In the end, the author proposes five major initiatives that can substantially reduce overall crime and death or injury from firearms.

Buying Cars Ain’t Easy

This entertaining book is a collection of personal stories and observations experienced by the author over the past 60 years, from working as a part-time car salesman during college to his personal purchases of more than 50 cars.

The content helps the reader better understand the techniques used by car dealers to encourage you to buy, and what you should look for in a test drive. He explains trade-in values, and his own recent experience of buying a used car, sight unseen over the internet. This collection includes humorous anecdotes, industry criticisms, and a healthy dose of sarcasm, plus examples of auto dealerships that went the extra mile, and conversely, some that treated their customers with disdain

As a retired C.E.O., Charles O’Donnell adds his own executive perspective on customer service and brand loyalty, using real-life examples of why so many sales and service people seem to do such a poor job at what should be an easy and pleasurable experience. The book includes his reflections on ineffective T.V. commercials and poor Auto show marketing decisions.

Five Amazing Men

This book is not about the Rich and Famous. It is not about entertainment celebrities, political leaders, sports stars, or military heroes. It is about five ordinary men, who just happened to have the amazing abilities to inspire others and help people succeed through work habits, beliefs, and their experiences. Their stories are inspiring not because these men are famous, but because they are not famous.

You probably know people just like them. They could be friends, neighbors, or even co-workers. We are surrounded by ordinary people who make us feel good, who genuinely appreciate our skills, or our knowledge and our friendship, which inspires us to do even more.

I have written and published four previous books on various subjects, but my success in doing so was largely due to the influence these five men had on me. Each of them in their own way, added to the richness of these stories as well as my own.

All of these men have since passed away, but their legacy should not be lost to time, but rather preserved for others to read about and appreciate. I wish I had written this book 30 years ago, but if I had, I probably would not have appreciated the values or wisdom they gave to me and countless others.

I hope their descendants will come across this book and recognize that while their ancestors may have been likeable, they contributed to our society the one extraordinary talent they each possessed the ability to inspire others.