It’s one of my commitments every year, while I’m in the small kid stage of parenting to read a parenting book. I have tended to satisfy this goal of mine through general…
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Quick Review: The Five Temptations of a CEO
Thanks to Audible, Patrick Lencioni’s book The FIVE Temptations of a CEO was on sale last week for 50% so I think I got it for around $4 or so. It’s one of…
Quick Review: How to Have That Difficult Conversation
Over the last few days I had a chance to read Henry Cloud and John Townsend’s How to Have That Difficult Conversation: Gaining the Skills for Honest and Meaningful Communication. This book formerly used to be…
Quick Review: Thinking Fast and Slow
This year I worked through Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and this is a book that has won all sorts of…
Quick Review: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
I love Patrick Lencioni and I love his books, wisdom, and style of communicating. He does a great job communicating some complex things in simple modes. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary…
Butt Friction
Matako ghawi ghaleka cha ku kwenthana (Two buttocks cannot avoid friction) —Malawian Proverb Niyi Gbade and John Becker start off their article “Buttocks, Bridges, and Kola Nuts”with this Malawian proverb in the…
Quick Review: Blink
In the last week, my quality time in the car battling jeepneys and tricycles on the streets of Manila allowed me to listen to the entirety of Malcom Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking…
Quick Review: Community – The Structure of Belonging
I finished Peter Block’s Community: The Structure of Belonging last week and want to share some of his thoughts if it interests you. This book essentially is about community development and transformation. Block’s…
Quick Review: Smiling Tiger Hidden Dragon
I’ve read Dr. John Ng’s book on conflict management Smiling Tiger, Hidden Dragon over the past month and want to share some thoughts on it. I also had the opportunity to do…