Wanted to post a brief note on things I’m reading lately since I am in the middle of several larger books so won’t be adding much new to my ‘finished’ pile for a few weeks. I’m almost halfway through a great collection of 12 essays on the history of Wall Street and the financial world… Continue reading Brief note on what I’m reading
The second book I finished in 2016 is the first novel by Argentine author Edgardo Holzman entitled Malena. Malena is the name of a central character as well as the name of a well-known Tango. This was a haunting book examining the repressive regime in Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s through its… Continue reading Malena by Edgardo David Holzman
I do a lot of reading – so much in fact that by the end of the year I have trouble remembering everything I read the previous year. So I’m going to start recording what I read here and add (in general) some brief notes about the book. Here are a few of the things… Continue reading Books I read in 2015 (a partial list)
This week’s leadership post is really just a recommendation of a great resource. This is in part because of the week I have been having which has kept me from writing something longer. But it is also because I regularly enjoy the articles from this source. If you’ve not reading http://www.strategy-business.com/ I encourage you to start. … Continue reading Recommended reading
Back in the summer I read an enjoyable book that I tweeted about regularly. The book is called Grow by Jim Stengel and chronicles the author’s insights on the link between a company’s financial performance and its communication of fundamental human ideals. Based both on Stengel’s experience as a global marketing officer at Proctor &… Continue reading Ideals power growth
One of the things I am reading more of these days is other people’s blogs. I figure that if I want people to read my blog (and I do) then one way to encourage this is for me to read, comment on, ‘like’ and occasionally even repost the blogs of other people. I’ve shared a… Continue reading Reading blogs
What am I reading today? This seems appropriate: Harlem BY LANGSTON HUGHES What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags… Continue reading MLK Day
For whatever reason I find former President Lyndon Johnson fascinating. I’ve read a few articles about him as a person and a president and some or all of a few biographies (including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin). But my favorite reading about this deeply complex man has been the multi-volume… Continue reading What can we learn from LBJ?
I’m not sure who said this first since I’ve heard or read it in multiple places over the years, but one of the simplest definitions of leadership I have heard is stated this way by leadership writer John Maxwell: “Leadership is influence.” As I take time in 2015 to blog regularly about leadership I wanted… Continue reading Influence
I spent some time today writing up goals for 2015 and for the next 5 years as part of my ‘end of year review’ for work. The goals flow from my performance review ending 2014 as well as from my reflections on what I would like to do and how I would like to grow… Continue reading Goals for 2015 and beyond
InTruthItsNotThatSimple 