Ron’s Short Review: The shift to technology-based work is pushing us beyond the information age. If you’ve been an “Information Worker” you should learn how to augment technology to keep yourself relevant.
Ron’s Short Review: You have to dig through this one a bit to find examples of how this works at work. Our author focuses a lot on home and school. But the bottom line is: collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. This is the power of Teams.
Ron’s Short Review: Learn some habits from this book and you’ll be amazed how much wasted time is eliminated from meetings and how much understanding between people is accomplished.
Ron’s Short Review: This book changed my habit of getting meaningful work done. I have carved out time every month to isolate myself and my thinking on particular projects. The productivity improvement has been astounding.
Ron’s Short Review: I think Bill takes the lessons from Strength Finders and puts them into a very practical format for taking your natural strengths and getting better at them but not allowing them to get in the way.
Ron’s Short Review: Is compassion better than empathy? Bloom seems to think so and makes a really good case. Empathy will get you into trouble as much as it helps.
Ron’s Short Review: The word “Decide” actually means to figure out what you’re going to say “No” to. This book helps you figure out how to do a great job saying No.
Ron’s Short Review: This is a solid Catholic-based book. I’m not Catholic but the principles are very sound and it helps explain why we resist the happiness that Shawn Achor (last month’s book) says leads to success.
Ron’s Short Review: Hard work, dedication, success, won’t make you happy. Being happy makes you better at hard work, dedication and leads to more success. Essential understanding.
Ron’s Short Review: This is the book to help you deal with Right vs Right decisions. Most business decisions are Right vs Right but we frame them as Right vs Wrong which makes them impossible to solve. This one should stay on the bookshelf.
Ron’s Short Review: Can you develop leadership? Josh sheds some light on the age-old question of “Are leaders made or born”. In a very practical way he identifies exercises that will work you through the process of Understanding Yourself, Leading Yourself, Understanding Others, Leading Others.