3.5 Stars I must admit, I love film and storytelling. If I were a mega millionaire and had no callings in life, I would watch films and TV shows all day. So when I came across Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller, I was intrigued. I have studied film at one of the top […]

2.5 Stars The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner lays out some good principles that every leader should know. Their core principal is that good leaders: Model the way Inspire a shared vision Challenge the process Enable others to act Encourage the heart These are good principals no doubt. My challenge with it however, is that the […]

This may be my favorite book so far this year. I have enjoyed the associated RSA youtube video for years, but I confess I had not recognized the book was available. While researching discussions on motivation for my own book, I came across “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink. Within the […]

I just completed Leadership Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon. It was recommended reading for leaders at my company. It’s a book from the late 70’s that seems to have shaped modern leadership thinking. I found in it many things that I just grew up learning about leadership, but I did not know from where they came. My favorite portion of […]

For the past few months I have been reading up on anger management. This review is a look at three of books and a podcast. I also mention two really good books on emotional intelligence below, but this article is specifically focused on resource recommendations for anger management.  I happen to be quite passionate about […]

This was a great read, and I enjoyed the narrator’s voice.  I coincidentally found it just after listening to Jack’s Positioning book, which really goes hand in hand.  This goes into some wonderful tactical approaches that I used within a couple of weeks of listening to this book (twice for fun!) to help a fellow […]

Overall 4 Stars of out 5: **** I’ve just finished listening to SCALE by Jeff Hoffman (Priceline.com and uBid.com founder) and business coach David Finkel. The first time I read it a few years ago, I loved it. And now that I have had a few more experiences in business including scaling my current company, this book’s teachings […]

Overall 4 Stars of out 5: **** For the most part this is a good read. Jack offers wisdom to anyone wanting to climb the corporate ladder. I’ll admit initially having a hard time with the audible book, because he sounds remarkably like Joe Pesce. But once I got past that, I appreciated some of the bits of advice. I’m […]

Overall 3.5 Stars of out 5: ***- Margaret Heffernan provides a dizzying array of business and non-business stories where people and organizations have willfully blinded of themselves, been overwhelmed by the complexity of their situations, or otherwise would not hold themselves responsible for taking action in a dreadful situation, and as a result, get further […]

Overall 4 Stars of out 5: **** John C Maxwell does a good job of providing a great list of opportunities to improve your leadership and guidelines by which to do so. The majority of the first portion of the book up until the last couple of chapters offers lots of great references to other […]