I just finished The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results by NCAA Coaching Legend Bob Knight. People who know me would recognize why I probably HAD to read…
Tag: Book Review
Green Zone Leadership: Breaking Rules to Serve
This is a much delayed post in the series I’ve entitled “Green Zone Leadership,” which is a compilation of reflections and insights from reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City – the…
Quick Review: Lincoln’s Melancholy
I just finished Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. I wanted to make sure I finished it before going to see the movie “Lincoln” that recently came…
Stats Lie Pt. 11: Quick Review on the Book Moneyball
So after writing a multi-post blog series called “Stats Lie” and seeing the movie Moneyball and posting my reflections on that, I was encouraged by a friend that it would be worth…
Quick Review – Read This Before Our Next Meeting
I just read Al Pittampalli’s “Read This Before Our Next Meeting” over a lunch break and wanted to post a few thoughts. First – this gives you a clue of how short…
Quick Review: Vital Friends
How much have you thought about friendship? Probably a lot actually. Yet how often have you thought about it as it relates to the ways in which friendships influence and sustain all…
Thoughts on Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Are you leading from the Green Zone? I wrote a blog post a couple years ago by that title here after seeing the movie The Green Zone. The movie The Green Zone…
Killer of Little Shepherds-Brief Review
I posted a little bit ago about humble doubt in the search for truth from the reading of Douglas Starr’s The Killer of Little Shepherds. I wanted to come back and offer…
Is Your Training Methodology Oppressive?
I first posted this under the title “Back Away from the Banking” almost a year ago (Jan 29th), but given some recent events and discussions, it felt like a great time to…