Today, I picked my newspaper up off the lawn and brought it in to my house to read with my coffee. I didn’t have to take my daughter to school because of President’s Day, so I came back inside my house. From all indications, this ritual is on the road to extinction. Many reports predict that all newspapers will… Read More Keeping Newspapers from Going the Route of the Milkman
“When you decide to sell off your problems, don’t sell off your best people. This is one of those little secrets of change. If you create a place where the best people always have a seat on the bus, they’re more likely to support changes in direction.” “At the top levels of your organization, you… Read More Get The Right People – Lesson #1 About A More Profitable, Impactful Future (Facebook’s Zuckerberg teaches us)
So, here’s the request that came in an e-mail: We are going on a cruise in September and I want to load my Kindle with three books. What are the three best books you would recommend for my reading? The request came from a very sharp, keen-minded, successful, independent business consultant. He attends one of… Read More “What Three Books Should I Load On My Kindle For My Cruise?” – w/update
For the first major chapter in my life, I served churches in California and Texas as a minister. I still serve as a “guest preacher” occasionally, and I present books at the Urban Engagment Book Club for Central Dallas Ministries. So, each month, I read and present a minimum of two book synopses – one… Read More Maybe We All Have A “Hole” In Our Approach To Life — Insight From “The 2010 Christian Book Of The Year”
Cheryl offers: There is a reporter at CNN named Caitlin Hagan that I really like. Her latest achievement is today’s story about a surgeon at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. It seems his patient, a young Afghani soldier who had been brought there with a serious head injury, was also quite dangerous to himself and… Read More Thanks Caitlin, for a Great Story!
I’ve just become aware of the current listing of the Thinkers 50 (The definitive listing of the world’s top 50 business thinkers), which lists the most influential business thinkers by ranked order of importance and influence, based on 10 measures: The Measures: 1. Originality of Ideas: Are the ideas and examples used by the thinker… Read More Malcolm Gladwell is #2 on the list of the Business Top 50 Thinkers
One of the ongoing discussions that I am having, in my own head and with others, is just how reliable all of these studies about success and efficiency really are. Does anybody know anything? In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes “the legendary screenwriter William Goldman, who was said to have shouted ‘Nobody knows anything.’” The… Read More “Nobody Knows Anything” — Maybe Including Management Consultants
Cheryl offers: There’s a lot of debate in the media right now over whether or not more women in the upper ranks of the financial leadership ranks would have prevented the current economic situation. In most of them, women and men seem to get “labeled” with all kinds of characteristics, usually stated as if they… Read More Vote for Androgynous Leadership
This Friday, for the First Friday Book Synopsis, we will present synopses of two books that have each generated quite a bit of interest. (Reserve your spot — register here) Jim Collins has taken some heat for the fact that some of those “Great” companies did not stay great for very long. For example, one… Read More Womenomics, and Jim Collins – this Friday’s books
From Sara: Open letter to Jerry Jones: “Jerry, I heard you interviewed on TV last night and you were asked about the chemistry of the Cowboys football team. You basically told the reporters that good chemistry would happen when the team wins. You went on to explain that bad chemistry is to be expected when… Read More Jerry Jones, the Cowboys ARE created in your image and they struggle to be a team
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