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One of the ways I learn best is by highlighting passages in books to help me grasp the core content. I then create book excerpt summaries that recapture this information so that I can easily access this information. It also helps me revisit the material in a more comprehensive manner when I need a refresher. I’ve selected a number of books that I believe reflect important ideas that have a wide variety of professional and personal development uses for anyone in a leadership position.
STUDYING THE SYSTEM “Our little systems have their day.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson In Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar Schein offers the following taxonomy: (1) visible artifacts; (2) espoused beliefs, values, rules, and behavioral norms; and (3) tacit, taken for granted, basic underlying assumptions. “Until you dig down to the bit level of the basic […]
“We must fight the tendency to sleepwalk through our lives, and awaken. This is the fundamental aspect of the Hero’s Journey.” Insight #1: There are no mistakes, only lessons. There are right answers and wrong answers for every question, and success depends on sorting one from the other. …there is no right or […]
Introduction: There are three main ways people find fulfillment of their life meaning, in Frankl’s view, First, there is action, such as creating a work, whether art or a labor of love – something that outlasts us and continues to have an impact. Second, he says, meaning can be found in appreciating nature, works of […]
Chapter 1 – I would so like to begin by writing: “Now that I am at the end of my life, I leave for those who come after me everything that I learned while I walked the face of this Earth. May they make good use of it.” It isn’t the absolute truth about […]
Chapter 1: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus Epicurus is making two related points: first, desiring what we do not have now diminishes or even cancels out our appreciation of what we […]
Foreword “…unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us” “…no matter how different our genes or life experiences may be, or how differently our plastic brains are wired by our experience, we all have to deal with the unknown, and we […]
Ed’s books on Leadership, Life and Business will elevate your knowledge and give you the confidence to apply it to your personal and professional life.
Ed’s books on Leadership, Life and Business will elevate your knowledge and give you the confidence to apply it to your personal and professional life.