Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Sinek, David Mead, and Peter Docker Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team ISBN: 978-0-14-311172-6 One of my favorite books that I read for this review series in 2021 was Simon Sinek’s Start With Why. In that book, he discussed the importance of finding a company’s or … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 3 minutesAmos Schwartzfarb Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups ISBN: 978-1-119-59780-3 Sales are the lifeblood of any startup. You need some form of funding coming into a company in order to keep the lights on – either raising money from angels and venture capitalists, crowdfunding, or by selling whatever is being produced. Unfortunately, … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe end of 2021 seemed to just blend into the beginning of 2022. In past years – especially 2020 going into 2021 – there was a bit of a break between the activity at the end of the year and when things picked up toward the end of January. This time around, due to a … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe engine of progress restarted in 2021, and I have a bunch of momentum rolling into 2022! All of my favorite events from 2019 and before have relaunched in person, and the calendar looks to be returning to its normal arrangement – no cramming a year’s worth of stuff into the second half of the … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 9 minutesSomething really interesting and unexpected seems to have happened this year. Maybe it was the low-to-no expectations I had coming into this year, but it felt to me like life had a hard restart around Memorial Day – like pulling the plug on a computer, then plugging it back into the wall and pressing the … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeth Godin Tribes ISBN: 978-1-59184-233-0 Do you have your own tribe? Do you consider yourself part of a tribe? Who do you consider a good leader – someone from whom you would take advice, or would help with a project? What characteristics does this person have which sets them apart from other supervisors or bosses … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 3 minutesStephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ISBN: 978-1-4516-3961-2 The book I’m reading for this review series tend to be the type of books you can rip through easily in an afternoon, or while you’re on a plane or a train traveling somewhere. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was definitely not … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 17 minutesRoutinely, I have a habit of scheduling way too much in a week. This problem is amplified when I travel, because I know I only have a certain number of hours in a place and want to maximize the time I have. I tried not to do this during the Delta Be Damned Tour in … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDamon Zahariades The Art of Saying No ISBN: 978-1-54957-274-6 Do you ever have trouble saying “no” to someone or have trouble not starting or joining a project? I know that I do. It’s been a constant struggle to respectfully decline requests from other people or to forgo working on an interesting project. I don’t want … [Read more…]
Reading Time: 6 minutesI said that I wasn’t going to post again until after my adventures in October. However, I didn’t know that there were going to be so many different stops over so many weeks next month until I put together the itinerary just the other day. Actually, things stretch into the first part of November, so … [Read more…]
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