This week’s book of the week is Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. This book is a pretty easy read with enormous value because of the test associated with it. In the back of the book there is is a code to take the test. Yesterday we talked about the four skills … More Taking the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal Test
Reading about emotional intelligence and being emotionally intelligent in certain situations is two different things. It’s kind of like a lot of things, including nursing for instance. There are nurses who are book smart and there are nurses who become great nurses who continually learn throughout their nursing career, becoming better and better. Another great … More The Four Skills of Emotional Intelligence
Many times when we think of leadership, we think of a person. True leadership should move through someone, not be someone. True leadership teaches and mentors so that others may lead. It empowers others so that it may multiply it’s efforts. That is the real goal of this blog: to equip you with the mentorship … More Process for Continued Leadership Growth
What do you define as leadership? Someone who’s able to move massive amounts of people? Someone who’s able to lead movements like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandi? Maybe you think of someone who kept a country from dividing and stood with moral courage like Abraham Lincoln. Or maybe you think of someone like a … More Lead like Shirley Chisholm
Wednesday’s book of the week is Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. Dr. Cialdini does an intense study on what gets people to say “yes”. This is useful in sales, marketing, and most importantly leading. Why is it that some people just have this magic glow about them that gets others … More Influence by Robert B. Cialdini ~ Wednesday’s Book of the Week
This week in addition to reading The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, I’ve been listening to Marie Condo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up on audible. I know opposite ends of the spectrum, or so I thought. Although I don’t share her enthusiasm for tidying, it had gotten to the point I thought I … More Tim Ferriss and Marie Kondo Mashup
Every week I read a new book on leadership or self-development. This is kind of a running list of some of the quotes that have most challenged me and strengthened me at the same time. I will continue to add to this page as the weeks of reading go on and I invite you to … More 10 Leadership Quotes That Changed How I Think
Today finishing up John C. Maxwell’s Intentional Living and preparing for this week’s book Born to Win by Zig Ziglar, I’m excited for the new year. I, like most people, have made some New Years resolutions or goals for the year. Of course since reading leaderships books these past three months for the blog every … More John C. Maxwell’s 5 Steps to Leading People Intentionally
Here are the leadership steps Jim Collins lays out at the beginning of his book, Good to Great. They are a few of the crucial steps for any organization to make the leap from good to great. Step 1 – Level 5 Leadership “Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy – these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal … More 7 Steps from Good to Great Leaders
Good to great, “Why some companies make the leap… and others don’t” This book is a 5 year study by Jim Collin’s team researchers studying what makes some companies excel comparing them with companies that never take that leap. This book is known as a classic, published in 2001 and selling over one million copies. I’m … More Good to Great by Jim Collins ~ Wednesday’s Book of the Week