{"id":35900,"date":"2026-11-04T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35900"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:37:41","slug":"book-report-focus-on-the-5-by-ken-d-coleman-with-kyle-hanke-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/book-report-focus-on-the-5-by-ken-d-coleman-with-kyle-hanke-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <em>Focus on the 5<\/em> by Ken D. Coleman with Kyle Hanke (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/focusonthe5.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I bought this book directly from the author, gentle reader, at a 1,000,000 Cups meeting four or five years ago.  He is a successful real estate agent.  I got on with his brother better, though, and had long conversations with Tom, who was (is, I hope) a former technical illustrator for the aeronautics industry up in Kansas who was working in his retirement as an artist and teacher.  But I&#8217;m not sure if he wrote a book.<\/p>\n<p>So I see <em>Iron John<\/em> (the Robert Bly book) blended with some business lessons.  A Bearded Man comes out of the woods (well, he&#8217;s on a walk in a park), and he meets a young man with his son in the park, and he gives the young man who has stagnated a bit some life lessons.  Basically, Coleman (with Hanke) extends the 80\/20 rule, indicating that 5% are free thinkers and innovators, 15% are early adopters, 30% are steady, and 50% go along with the majority, to oversimplify.  Of course, the book is life lessons for the free-thinking 5%, which seems to be a self-identified bunch, and more importantly, for selling to the 5%, and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not bad.  A short book, what I was looking for in these dark and expensive days and fireless nights at Nogglestead.  I guess you can get some things from it, but mostly it would be reinforcement of things you&#8217;ve heard elsewhere.  Coleman really tried to build a community around the 5% concept&#8211;although I did not see him present at 1,000,000 Cups here in Springfield, I understand he traveled the country and presented the the book and community to a lot of cities.  And&#8230;.  Well, I don&#8217;t know if it really took off.<\/p>\n<p>I see on LinkedIn that he&#8217;s keeping busy using LLMs to make music, and he has another book out.  So he&#8217;s still working.  Hopefully because he loves it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book directly from the author, gentle reader, at a 1,000,000 Cups meeting four or five years ago. He is a successful real estate agent. I got on with his brother better, though, and had long conversations with Tom, who was (is, I hope) a former technical illustrator for the aeronautics industry up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35903,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35900\/revisions\/35903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}