Mentors play such an important part in our lives. Today I was blessed to hear that someone who I’ve been working alongside for several years now has been describing me to her friends as her mentor. I trust it is no coincidence I just heard from one of my mentors — Roy Sheppard, World Class [...]
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Tribes Seth Godin. Portfolio Hardcover 2008, Hardcover, 160 pages, $12.47 What tribe do you lead is the fundamental question in Seth Godin’s book, Tribes: We need you to lead us. It got me thinking about the various tribes I’m a tribe member of and the leadership present or available in each. Make no mistake, this [...]
The Anatomy of Peace Arbinger Institute (Creator). Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2008, Paperback, 231 pages, $9.49 The Anatomy of Peace is the Arbinger Institute’s followup to the groundbreaking book Leadership and Self Deception which I reviewed earlier. It is written in a similar narrative style and follows Lou Herbert from the first book, and a number of [...]
Leadership and Self Deception The Arbinger Institute. Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2002, Paperback, 192 pages, $3.44 I have already listened to the audiobook of Leadership and Self Deception twice so far this year. I found the content of this book extremely humbling each time and whereas the first exposure to the material was a challenge, the second [...]
The Power of Positive Thinking Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Touchstone 2003, Paperback, 218 pages, $4.19 There are a few books which seem to have been around forever. The Power of Positive Thinking by Normal Vincent Peale is one of them. I picked up a second-hand copy in a local bookstore a few weeks ago and [...]
No, I haven’t been lucky enough to spend a week with author Paulo Coehlo personally yet in a way I have. In his most recent Warrior of the Light newsletter he has shared a week’s worth of experiences with his readers. Sometimes readers complain that I say very little about my private life in this [...]
Are you aware of your comfort zones and how they may be impacting negatively upon you? I certainly wasn’t until I listened to a GTD podcast titled Making Change Stick. It seems that often, despite our best intentions, it is our comfort zones which draw us away from achievement and hold us where we don’t [...]
“I can’t do it”, “Why would they listen to me?”, “I am not important”. Do statements such as these make you feel empowered to take on the world or empowered to crawl into a hole? For some reason our minds seem wired to bring us down. So many people exhibit the poor little old me [...]
I’ve just added the classic “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to my recommended reading list after powering through it in a week. It taught me a lot about finding my passion for what I really want to do and incidentally was an interesting lesson in the history of the United States in the [...]
