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About schoultz

CEO of Fifth Factor Leadership - Speaker, consultant, coach. Formerly Director, Master of Science in Global Leadership at University of San Diego; prior to that, 30 years in the Navy as a Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) officer.

Hitchhiker’s Gide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Posted on May 15, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book. selected by my Sci Fi reading group. It continues to appear on many lists of best, (or most influential) Sci Fi books of all time. Also Elon Musk has read it several times.   Summary in 3 Sentences. … Continue reading →

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2054, by Will Ackerman and Jim Stavridis

Posted on May 12, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book. Selected by my Sci Fi book club and it is the sequel to 2034,which I’d previously read (my review of it here.) Summary in 5 Sentences: The setting is the United States 20 years after the nuclear … Continue reading →

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How Ike Led, by Susan Eisenhower

Posted on May 6, 2024 by schoultz

View Post  Why this book: Selected by the SEAL reading group I help lead. I listened to rather than read this book. Summary in 4 Sentences: The author Susan Eisenhower is Dwight Eisenhower’s grand daughter and is an accomplished woman in … Continue reading →

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Deacon King Kong, by James McBride

Posted on April 30, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my Literature reading group after the strong recommendation of Patsy, who has yet to let us down with a book she strongly recommends!  Summary in 3 Sentences: Deacon King Kong is the nickname for an … Continue reading →

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Matrix, by Lauren Groff

Posted on April 30, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book:  Suggested by a good friend. I listened to it on audible. Summary in 4 sentences. Setting is 12th century England where a young teenage girl related to the Queen is not legitimate, born after her mother is … Continue reading →

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

Posted on April 27, 2024 by schoultz

Why this Book I’ve been wanting to read this again for quite a while. Read it in Jr HS and didn’t care for it. Also all the fuss about the new book James about this adventure from Jim’s perspective reanimated … Continue reading →

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The Jersey Brothers – a Missing Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home, by Sally Mott Freeman

Posted on April 15, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book:  My wife read this and was really impressed – she rarely gushes about a book,  but she gushed about this one, and when she gushes, I listen and try to read the book. She bought copies for many … Continue reading →

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Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

Posted on February 16, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: I’d read and really enjoyed Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and had read a couple of good reviews of this book. I listened to it on audible. Summary in 4 Sentences: Told in first person from a mature … Continue reading →

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Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingslover

Posted on February 9, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group. Pulitzer prize winner for literature for 2023. Also we had read (I twice)  Kingslover’s book The Poisonwood Bible and loved it. Summary in 3 Sentences: A novel written in the first … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson

Posted on February 6, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: I had recently read (listened to) Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs and thought he did a great job.  My wife was reading this Musk bio and kept commenting on it. So I uploaded the audible and got … Continue reading →

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