Are you prone to distraction? Will you even be tempted to interrupt your reading this 437 word post? If so, you’re not alone. A lot of highly creative people are easily distractible. But that’s not to say we are ...
Personal branding has become a popular concept. I suppose Google has something to do with that. If you want to learn something about someone, just “google” them. I did that several years ago and didn’t like what I saw—not ...
Few men have good mentors. And none are as good as those Patrick Morley offers us in his latest book, How God Makes Men (WaterBrook Multnomah, 2013). Morley is the author of more than twenty books and the bestselling ...
I thought about this book often. Even before I read it. Two years ago I started journaling and it remains a daily discipline for me. It’s my time to mull over my thoughts and explore ideas. Some are dumb ...
Mindset is not a recent book. I wish it were even less so. Written in 2006 by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Random House) describes two ways of thinking about our capabilities. ...
In his day, Henry David Thoreau observed, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” How much more fitting a description of our day, when so many are unfulfilled in their work. Into that longing Roman Krznaric’s book, ...
If you want to get something done, stop reading this post and read this book instead. Seriously. End of report. But you’re still reading this so you probably want to know why you should. Right? Well read on. ...
Sherlock Holmes is arguably one of the greatest minds that never was. His detective prowess, an invention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has intrigued and entertained millions since it first appeared in 1887. Now that great abductive apparatus, Sherlock’s ...
Are you in sales? If you said ‘no’, you may want to rethink that. And Daniel Pink’s latest book, To Sell Is Human, is just the book to help. According to Pink, “The salesperson isn’t dead. The salesperson is ...
It’s that time of year when our thoughts naturally turn to resolutions. What new habits should I undertake this year? Exercise more? Eat less? Read more? Complement others more often? You may even have all of these and more ...