Think Different
One of my favorite bloggers is Joe Raasch, of the Happy Burro blog. He recently "tagged" me as part of the Think Different challenge. I actually don’t know where it started, but it's an interesting challenge wh ...
Category: Individual Development
Speaking the Truth
The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the int ...
Re-Tuning Your Radar
Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is no ...
Do Work and Psychology Mix?
Although I don’t need a new book to put on my list, Guy Kawasaki points me to one that looks very interesting: Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (and Most Expensive Liability), by David Marcum and Steven Smith ...
Hard Work Means More than Hours
Seth Godin posts something he wrote four years ago in is blog, but some of its points I think are timeless. It’s mostly about what it means to work hard. In manual labor, that was easy to measure, but what about when we ...
Set Up to Fail
I just posted over on the Always Done It That Way blog about an HBR article that talks about the “middle term” time horizon. I posted over there, because it ties in directly with the post from the book that I wrote about ...
Wisdom of the Beach
I was a good boy and did hardly any work while I was on vacation—or even much deep thinking. But one beach-walking insight I think is worth sharing: Our most bitter complaints about leadership (management, the boss, our ...
Developing Your Mind
Ben Martin suggests playing chess as a way to develop integrative thinking (becoming more aware of how one move will play out three or four moves later). Good suggestion, Ben! So far, I have come up with two things that ...
Learning to Think
More from Roger Martin about how successful leaders think. He argues that when faced with a problem or challenge, leaders work through four steps: Determining salience Analyzing causality Envisioning the decision archite ...
It Takes 40 Years to Discover Poetry?
Last Sunday was my 40th birthday. I made no big deal of this. No party. I was out of town, in fact. But I will admit that being on this side of that birthday feels more “different” than I thought it would. I did get a ch ...