Vision My 2014 Word of the Year is VISION. I want a clear picture of what I see and God sees for my life. Part of the reason I chose that word was I wanted to dream bigger and bolder. To this point, it’s been more systematic thinking about what it means to have vision […]
TOP SECRET. How to gain overnight success.
The Steve Jobs Biography I am reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. I’m nearly finished, and I’ve marked pages and pages of fascinating quotes, thoughts and ideas. Inspired by the book, I wrote an article about the brilliance of Steve Jobs as a thief for lbobi a few weeks ago. A passage I read about the early […]
10 Books that shaped my life.
When someone asks me if I’m a reader, I’m never sure how to answer that question. I do like to read, and I am reading all the time. Everyday I have a list of blogs, news outlets and more that I peruse. However, I read books in spurts – usually 2-3 in a row, then […]
What you can learn from my success (and failure).
I reviewed Jim Axelrod’s book In the Long Run on Saturday. I wasn’t expecting much out of the book, but I came away with three points that really impacted me. The value of a father. Success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A don’t quit attitude can take you a long way. This […]
Never, never, never give in!
This week I finished a sort of follow up book to Jim Collin’s Good to Great – it’s called How the Mighty Fall. In it Collins tries to track and pinpoint why some of the companies tracked in Good to Great fell so hard (Circuit City, Scott Paper, etc). He came up with 5 stages of decline. Here’s the thing […]
