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The Road to Character David Brooks Random House (2015) Here is a thoughtful and heartfelt affirmation of a “moral ecology” that can help all of us to cultivate stronger character I have read and then reviewed most of David Brooks’…
Read MoreDare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others Cheryl Bachelder Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller In Jason Jennings’ latest book, The High-Speed Company, he draws upon 11,000 interviews of…
Read MoreThe High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture Jason Jennings with Laurence Haughton Portfolio/Penguin Group (March 2015) How to accelerate personal growth and professional development in almost any organization, whatever its size or nature In one of…
Read MoreThe Responsible Leader: Developing a Culture of Responsibility in an Uncertain World Tim Richardson KoganPage (2015) Without individual as well as shared accountability, little (if anything) of enduring value can be accomplished. As I began to read Tim Richardson’s book,…
Read MoreIn The Explorer Gene, Tom Cheshire explains how three generations of the Piccard family went higher, deeper, and further than anyone else had ever done before. Auguste Piccard was the patriarch. At one point, he accepted a position at the…
Read MoreI was saddened to learn of Warren Bennis‘ death this past Thursday in Los Angeles at age 89. The title of his last of several dozen books, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership, is especially appropriate because,…
Read MoreWhat You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…
Read MoreRain: What a Paperboy Learned About Business Jeffrey J. Fox Jossey-Bass (2009) Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was published about four years ago and recently re-read it in combination with Secrets of Great Rainmakers as I now complete a revised marketing…
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How Great Leaders Avoid Burnout
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Ilan Mochari for Inc. magazine. He explains how and why great leaders have overcome adversity on their own, through mental toughness, with no help — and that’s how anyone else can…
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