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Category Archives: Recommendations

February 22, 2016

Review: “The Renaissance Soul” by Margaret Lobenstine

Do you have so many interests that you find yourself wondering if you’re somehow defective? You struggle to “pick a lane,” switching from career to career, or wishing you could? If so, indecisiveness may not be your problem. You may ...
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January 20, 2016

Review: “Disrupt Yourself” by Whitney Johnson

Disrupt Yourself - Whitney Johnson
Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “Everyone wants to change the world. No one wants to change themselves.” Whitney Johnson might say that person is at the top of their “S-curve,” and ripe for personal disruption. Johnson, in her most recent ...
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November 2, 2015

Review: “Just Listen” by Mark Goulston

Recommended Reading: “Just Listen” by Mark Goulston
Someone once commented, “Business would be good, if it weren’t for the people.” It’s a bit funny, both in its irony and its awful truth. Other people can be so hard to deal with sometimes. Recently, I listened to ...
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May 29, 2015

Review: “No One Understands You” by Heidi Grant Halvorson

No One Understands You and What to Do About It - Heidi Grant Halvorson
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” His comment is striking because it’s not what we typically experience. All of us have found ourselves on the receiving end of being ...
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December 31, 2014

My top-10 reading list for 2014

Mark Twain rightly observed, ““A person who won’t read has no advantage over the one who can’t read.” That motivates me to turn some pages every day. Following the tradition I started last year, I compiled a list of ...
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December 29, 2014

Review: “Deep Influence” by T.J. Addington

Recommended reading: "Deep Influence" by T.J. Addington
What leader doesn’t want to have deep influence on those around him or her? You do and I do. If we are going to make a difference in the world, we must take seriously the way in which we ...
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November 3, 2014

Review: The Men’s Bible by ABS and NCMM

The Men's Bible
For years I’ve made it a daily habit to read the Bible, following a reading plan that gets me through it in a year. It’s the most important reading I do, bar none. It hasn’t always been that way. ...
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October 7, 2014

Review: “The Man in the Mirror” by Patrick Morley

The Man in the Mirror
“The first step to knowing God’s plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.” Taking that commitment prompted Patrick Morley to pen those words twenty five years ago in his best-selling book, The Man ...
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September 5, 2014

Review: “Do Less, Be More” by John Busacker

Recommended reading: Do Less, Be More by John Busacker
“Life is an improvisational art. We have to make it up as we go. If we are not dreaming big, we risk dying small.” So writes John Busacker in his delightful book, Do Less, Be More: The Power of Living Fully ...
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June 16, 2014

Review “Making Ideas Happen” by Scott Belsky

Recommended resource: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation,” writes Scott Belsky in his book Making Ideas Happen (Penguin, 2012). If you want to take your idea production game to the next level, this book is for you. It’s packed ...
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