Yes. I went there. So, this title is definitely loaded isn’t it? It’s written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a psychologist brave enough to tackle this tough topic. Using his doctoral background and research, he’s gone into the murky waters of why men tend to get chosen for leadership positions over women, and how incompetent men are
These past few weeks something has really been stirring inside me. It’s been a dream. We all have dreams that we’re given. That’s my firm belief. Something that we were meant to do. But so many times in this idea of dreaming, we get caught in what that selfie-snap shot should look like to others
This week’s book of the week is “Find Your Way” by Carly Fiorina. I’ve been a fan of Carly for close to 20 years now. Past CEO of Hewlett Packard and a Republican nominee in 2016, she was one of the few (if not only) that could go toe to toe with Donald Trump on
Upon my quest for reading a book a week, I came across this quote while listening to the audible book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. “…one of the most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.”¹ Wow. If that doesn’t push
Belief. Any mention of it on an article or on social media is usually coupled with a cheesy quote meant to give you a tingling “aha moment” plastered with a beautiful picture in the background. This isn’t that article. Most of you probably have some sort of understanding on the importance of belief. Without it
I’ll be completely upfront. This book was a hard one for me this week for a few reasons. Even though the title drew me in because the name, “Extreme Ownership”one of the things I have struggled with in the past is taking ownership of things that were not mine to take. One of the books
Getting to Yes, which is this week’s book of the week, by Roger Fisher and William Ury is a book by the Harvard Negotiation Project and originally published in 1981. I found this book by accident in a library where I worked a of couple years ago. The book is about negotiating. Negotiating like sales
This week’s book of the week is The 10 X Rule by Grant Cardone. The 10 X Rule is all about next level thinking. “…in order to get to the next level of whatever you’re doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been.”¹ This thought reminds me
This week’s book of the week is Atomic Habits by James Clear. At first I had put off reading this book, because I thought that it might be very similar to The Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg. I’m happy to tell you that it is very different. Think of it like this. If they were
This week’s book of the week, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, is about Bill Campbell, a college football coach who eventually became one of the biggest influencers of silicon valley including Google, Apple, and Intel. “Within 9 months of joining Apple, Bill was promoted to VP of sales and marketing
