How Do You “Sharpen Your Saw?”

  • On July 11, 2019
While I’m all for hunkering down with a good novel to lose myself in someone else’s story for a while, I also seek out books that “sharpen my saw” (as 7 Habits author Stephen Covey would say), to read something that makes me question what I thought I knew or fills in some blanks on what I don’t know.   I just read a book that definitely cut a few more sharp notches in
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The Conversation IS The Relationship

  • On February 16, 2016
How many times do we repress the urge to say something? Or don’t know how to start? Or blurt something out which muddies the situation even more? Or fear disrupting whatever tenuous balance exists? How can we have rich, impactful conversations that actually create positive change? There are few books that I would label as
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It’s Not A Women’s Issue–It’s A Humanity Issue

  • On September 11, 2014
At the end of Jon Stewart’s interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about her new book “Off the Sidelines,” Gillibrand says she feels lucky to have had many positive role models and mentors in her life—seeing Hillary Clinton speaking in China inspired her to leave her corporate job and do something she really cared about– and hopes this book of
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Four Ways I’m Measuring My Life

  • On August 27, 2013
How Will You Measure Your Life? –A Book Review By Clayton Christensen, 2012 (with James Allworth & Karen Dillon) I’m a self-improvement junkie and a huge fan of The Innovator’s Dilemma, so I was primed to find out what Clay Christensen had to say about putting measures to your life. Given the Harvard Business School background of
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The Advantage–A Book Review

  • On August 21, 2012
Patrick Lencioni‘s recent book, The Advantage (Jossey-Bass, 2012) captures a message that has come to the forefront of leadership development in recent years—technical ‘smarts’ are not enough to make you successful either individually or as a company. Individually, you must nurture ‘emotional intelligence.’ As a company, you must have what author Patrick Lencioni is calling ‘integrity’ –an
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