Category Archive: Book Notes

To Be a Good Leader for Others, Lead Yourself First

New Book Giveaway!! 20 free copies of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager. Leave a comment on this guest post by Susan Fowler to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary… Continue reading

How Leaders Can Thrive in a ‘Distributed Everything’ World

New Book Giveaway!! 20 free copies of The New Leadership Literacies. Leave a comment on this guest post by Dr. Bob Johansen to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary copies of… Continue reading

Recommended Summer Reads for Leadership Freaks

The thing I love about good books is they help me think my own thoughts. Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman If you read one book this summer, read Thinking, Fast and… Continue reading

How You Learn is How You Lead: 9 Questions that Expand Leadership

  Leave a comment on this guest post by Kay Peterson to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary copies of How you Learn is How You Live. (Deadline: 5/21/2017) Winners have been selected!… Continue reading

3 Ways to Build a Culture with an Accountability Backbone

  Thanks to Kris Boesch for this guest post. Accountability isn’t exactly happy dance material. It’s a tough term.  What do you think of when you hear the word?   Perhaps belittling, finger wagging,… Continue reading

Four Ways to Deal with Negativity in a Positive Way

I’m a no nonsense farm boy originally from a dairy farm in Central Maine. We’re not impressed with positivity. I recently reconnected with my friend Jon Gordon (Mr. Positive Leadership). I’ve been skeptical… Continue reading