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SBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Seth is back. He really gets it right on this one. This is an excellent book to pair with Richard Florida’s Reset. The world and they [...]
Posted in Creativity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, discipline, economic development, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, reading
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Sunday Review: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Great practical advice on how to become a better programmer. If you write code [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, excellence, pair programming, programming, reading
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1% Improvement Over Time Is Significant
Who wants to be 1% better? Not very many people.
Who wants to be 50% better? Significantly more people.
Who wishes they could be perfect? Most people.
I had heard the quotes “Perfection not a destination, it is a journey that never ends” [...]
Posted in Agile, Personal, Productivity
Tagged Agile, discipline, excellence, motivation, Productivity, theory
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Sunday Book Review: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Too clinical of a writing style made it hard to stay engaged, but content [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, discipline, excellence, incentives, influence, motivation, reading
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Sunday Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Building Teams and Leading them is very simple, but very difficult. Reminds me [...]
Posted in Agile, Personal, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, dysFUNctional, excellence, incentives, leadership, motivation, politics, Productivity, reading, teams, teamwork, theory
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Sunday Review: The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Strong networks of smart people can change the world. Those that change the [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Creativity, discipline, innovation, politics, reading
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Sunday Review: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Deliberate practice is hard work, but is the only sure way to becoming excellent [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, music, Productivity, reading, talent
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Sunday Review: Driven From Within by Michael Jordan
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Jordan proves that talent had little to do with his rise to success. He [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged book review, discipline, drive, innovation, motivation, passion, Productivity, reading, success, successful entrepreneur
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Challenge Conventional Assumptions
I have been reading “ThinkerToys” by Michael Michalko. I am going to try to do one Thinkertoy exercise per day (or at least a few per week). The goal is to help get my brain to be in a creative [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Personal, Startups
Tagged Creativity, discipline, Education, self improvement, thinkertoys, thinking, thinking outside box
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Three Reasons Your Ideas Are Failing
If your ideas or products keep failing, perhaps it’s time to stop blaming others and look in the mirror. I suspect that issue lies in one of the following, if not more than one of them. I know it always [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Personal, Productivity
Tagged commitment, discipline, focus, time management
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