Book Review
Playing Fast with The Speed of Trust
Consider Stephen M.R. Covey’s work if you’re moving slowly Stephen M.R. Covey’s book “The Speed of Trust; The One Thing That Changes Everything” came to me through a recommendation by a new acquaintance. The individual was commenting on my statement that I get most of my IT consulting and LinkedIn training work through direct reference […]
Monkey Management
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey I recall reading this book early in my corporate career – and a recent comment brought it to mind, so I had to check it out of the library and review it;-) What do you get when you take one writer whose philosophy is managing people well – […]
Blink
The moment when your unconscious comes to a decision Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” came recommended by a good friend – and I was fortunate enough to find a copy in the books-on-CD section of the library – read by the author. Listening to a book in this way is […]
A Rose By Any Other Name
Would smell as sweet – and remind me of my library! What name do you respond to? What name do you use for others? Do you make an effort to use the right name? Everyone has a preference, a fear, and a comfort zone. Can you afford to call someone by anything other than his […]
Succeed by Becoming a Category of One
Joe Calloway’s depiction of extraordinary success I find a bit of humor in reading a good book for a second time by accident… It’s interesting to see what ideas took hold from the first reading, and to pull out additional ideas that might have been pushed aside or simply missed in that first read-through. That’s […]