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
I try not to talk about politics in this blog. It is hard at times when your blog is about leadership. The weight of yesterday and what leadership should look like or not look like was extremely heavy. Many times in politics we debate issues that are personal to us. Those personal beliefs are then
PRO-RUSSIAN PLAN TO CONTROL EASTERN UKRAINE: "All that is required to start the process is a very minor 'wink' (or slight push) from [DONALD TRUMP]," KILIMNIK emailed MANAFORT, who was asked to be the "U.S. representative" for the plan. pic.twitter.com/XDJWU3XMhQ — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) April 18, 2019 Here's the full "does not exonerate him"
It is 9:18am central time. It’s an unusual time right now in history, because, Barr’s press conference has just ended and we are waiting for the Mueller Report. In normal circumstances, which Trump’s presidency has been anything but “normal”, a report as such would be released prior to the press conference so that questions could
I had a hard time deciding, but ultimately chose the book Lead Like Wesley by Mark L. Gorveatte as this week’s book of the week, during Holy Week. John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist Church. And since many of the books I choose are about leadership development and skills, I thought this book
One day, when I was a little girl, my mother was putting curls in my hair. She took the curlers out of my hair and I began crying. Not just like small tears. But full on five-year old gushing tears. After that day my Mom never curled my hair again. I think she was traumatized
This week’s book of the week is EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey. I’m always excited about all the books I read weekly, but this one in particular I extremely excited about because I know it’s going to be a great book. I’ve taken the Dave Ramsey course at church. I’ve read a couple of his books
Over the course of a year I am reading a book a week. Partly because I want to see who I become at the end of it. I want to share with you what I learned.
This week’s book of the week is The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer. Amanda, a rock musician who’s TED talk went viral, uses those experiences of being a rock musician and a street performer describing the lessons she learned from asking. Her Kickstarter went on to raise 1.2 million dollars for her project. Today
