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…
Tag: leadership
Quick Review: Outliers
I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers last week and I really enjoyed it. If you looked at my recent posts you could see that I essentially am finding ways to read a bunch of…
Pre-School Theology: I’m Here!
We’re in our last months of having a pre-schooler so the nostalgia is setting in. But we continue to have moments that remind us that the eyes of a pre-schooler always provide a…
Quick Review: Taking People With You
I just finished David Novak’s book Taking People With You. I am currently in the process of helping coordinate a large organizational change both in structure, culture, and in leadership roles and placement….
Quick Review: It’s Not About The Coffee
I’m catching up this week on many a book review that I haven’t been able to get to in recent months, but here is a leadership book I enjoyed recently from one of…
Nothing May Be Better Than Something
In a multi-ethnic context, “Nothing May Be Better Than Something” In a pragmatic world, this statement is anathema. But in the absence of knowing how to truly serve a different community, demographic, or…
Glass Houses
I’ve come across the popular idiom a few times recently “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” It’s something people say when someone criticizes hypocritically (and perhaps blindly) others for…
Ostrich Leadership
Last week my family took a trip to Zoobic, the zoo near Manila. It was a fun experience to get up close and personal with some of nature’s wild animals like lions,…
Quick Review – The Power of Negative Thinking
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…