First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 1, 2012
You don’t get good at much of anything without practice. Lots of practice. And that includes getting good at writing, speaking…communicating. This semester, I started a new practice in my speech classes. I’ve “toyed” with it before, but now it is a regular part of my classes. I have the students begin each class writing [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Tomorrow, I will present my synopsis of The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City by Jim Schutze. If you live in Dallas, you might know Mr. Schutze and his work. He is the “angry old white guy with a shotgun.” Here are his pictures that he includes in his column on the [.].
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First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 29, 2012
We remove the noise – that’s impure data. It could be erroneous, could have too many details, could have too few details. Noise is contamination, and contamination has to be eliminated.” The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography… Jeffery Deaver: The Broken Window (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel) “[But] [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 2, 2012
There are ideas which you can hear, realize their value, and put into practice. And then there are other ideas which are simply illustrative. “This is what successful people do” ideas. Here are two. Successful people don’t “mosey” – they walk faster than less successful people walk. and Successful people show up as themselves all [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 14, 2012
In some of the training I do for organizations, I begin my sessions with “assumptions.” This is usually a list of “well, duh, common sense” observations, just to remind all participants of our common starting point. For example, in my Time Management training, here are the first two of a list of five assumptions: Assumptions: [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 12, 2012
Let’s imagine that we had the luxury to work where we wanted to, to choose the company we worked for, and to even choose the boss/supervisor we reported to. What would we want? In one sense, we would want someone to hire us, and then leave us alone to do our job. But, that is [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 21, 2012
A truism of life is that success equals the sum total of all the decisions one makes. … A handful of decisions stand apart from the rest. Verne Harnish, The Greatest Business Decisions of all Time —————- Verne Harnish wrote the most practical business book I know – Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. In his new [.].
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