Category: Book Reviews
Dad is All In, not a bumbling idiot and it’s time to recognize that
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I was having a discussion this week with two ladies at figure skating. They said they loved seeing me play with my kids that aren’t on the ice. For the first hour of figure skating, I have one kid on the ice, so I get to play with a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old. For the…
Are You Ready to Turn From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome?
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Business is a frustrating endeavour. Most of it is hard work that gets little recognition punctuated by mistakes that everyone sees. Everyone once in a while there is a bright spot and it keeps us going. In From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome, Alissa Daire Nelson is trying to help us remove some of that frustration…
What 3 Questions Need to be Answered to Develop Grit?
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Grit has become a fairly common word now. Most people would understand it as referring to someone who keeps going when the going gets tough. I hope that all of you are ‘gritty’ people because if you’re looking for a voice that’s going to pat you on the back when you quit as the going…
Better Habits Will Make You Better Than Before
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How much of your day is routine? How much of it do you have to think about? How do those habits impact your day? How many of those habits are ones you want to have? Ones you’d be happy if your children picked them up? I know that I have a few in both categories.…
How to Bring About Change and Get Your Elephant and Rider On The Same Page with Switch
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Should I Read It 017 – Switch Oh change, the invisible target we try to hit on our way to become the better people we want to be. Change isn’t merely a target; it’s a moving target. One that requires constant work. We fight ourselves even on the changes we know will be beneficial for…
Forget Seven Day Workweeks, What about a Seven Day Weekend?
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How many of you check your work email on weekends? How about multitasking your way through your kid’s ball game or figure skating practice? Probably most of you, and I’ve certainly been in that camp. The Seven Day Weekend, by Ricardo Semler, talks about Semco the company his father founded and he runs and addresses…
If there was ONE Thing that would transform your business, what would it be?
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One of the worst questions my wife ever asks me at the end of a workday is “Did you get everything done.” When you run your own business, you never get everything done. There is a marketing revamp on the go. I have three other books in the queue for review. I have three books…
Can Tiny Habits Change Your Life?
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Habits are what dictate much of what we do. We may think that we decide to eat that extra cookie, but really eating cookies is tied to drinking coffee. We’ve done it so many times that we almost can’t have coffee without cookies. There used to be a book available on Amazon called Tiny Habits,…
Lost In A Sea Of Detritus It’s Time To Purge
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I’ve got two entire drawers of spare cords and hard drives and … random electronic detritus. I swear I’ve been through the drawers at least once a year and I’ve never been able to get it below two drawers. At the same time, I can’t tell you the last time I was actually in them…
Becoming a Multiplier is Good for Business and Good for Fatherhood
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While you could focus on building a mini-kingdom, or hoarding all the amazing people both of those things are terrible paths as a manager. I’ve regularly told my coaching clients that your only job is to make sure that those under and above you look marvellous. Unfortunately, way too many managers take the first two…
