While a good business book can inspire, clarify, or articulate great ideas to put into practice, a lot of them are painfully boring to read. Even some of the best of the bunch can become repetitive by the end. When a new contact recommended The Dream Manager to me last month, I told her I…
So much of every day is spent putting out fires (hopefully mostly of the metaphorical variety), that it can be hard to realize the patterns and causes of what we do. Add to this that we often use the wrong metrics to measure the effectivity of our work, and it is not surprising that we…
Cultivating awe in our lives is more important the more stress tries to give us tunnel- vision, and the book Awestruck does a great job of suggesting ways both large and small to experience it. Grounded in research, Paquette describes “awe” as an experience that “transcends our understanding of the world, which forces us to…
Roger Martin looks at the roots of our current understanding of business structure in When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency. He posits that the drive towards efficiency to maximize productivity and profit has caused us to think of business as a machine in which each department is the equivalent of…
“QBQ! THE QUESTION BEHIND THE QUESTION,” written by John G. Miller is a quick read, and was well worth it. With the summer season coming to a close, and the hustle and bustle of the school year coming quickly back into view, a book on practicing personal accountability at work and in life was just…
With all the change and upheaval in the world this year, it has been hard to maintain focus. New patterns, interactions, and responsibilities have cropped up, and have led to other stressors and worries. It has not been an easy year for a lot of us, at a personal and at a professional level. The…