DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, Strengths Finder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while Strengths Finder helped millions to …

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A bold new way to tackle tough business problems—even if you draw like a second grader
When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers.
Used properly, a simple drawing on a humble napkin is more powerful than Excel or PowerPoint. It can help crystallize ideas, think outside the …

I just finished one of the best books of the year. The 4-Hour work Week is written by Timothy Ferriss and is an entertaining and educational look at how a person can live their dreams and make a ton of dough in the process.
Timothy goes through a four step process of liberation and automation that is designed to make your life effective and not just efficient. Explaining how technology that is supposed to make your life easier really can without the hassle. There were many parts of the book that …

The Tipping Point is written by Malcolm Gladwell a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine. More than a book, this is a way of looking at the world around you. From the seemingly meaningless tasks we perform on a daily basis we can change the world around us. I know. It sounds too good to be true, but as the book so eloquently illustrates over and over again, that is exactly how the world can be changed. Its not about one major event that shifts the events around us, …

So many books, so little time. I ordered a couple things from Amazon that I needed and figured I would get something to read too.
I liked the book Leadership lessons of Navy SEALS and figured I’d get another book from a special operations officer that described the parallel into the business world.
The author was a commando in the Air Force and has written numerous papers and given many lectures on business leadership.
I’ve only made it through the …