Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath Our book club studied this book last time and it sparked deep and meaningful discussions about what leadership means and where it begins and ends. Do we have the responsibilty as leaders to ensure that all of our staff are working to their strengths or is it their responsibility […]
Take a look at my Squidoo lens. You can vote for your favourite books or add the business books that made a difference to you. While you are there, think about making your own lens. It’s an easy way to aggregate information that’s important to you and that you want to share. I’ve set mine […]
Hot off the blogoshere presses: a new magazine. Gathering the best of the productivity bloggers offering their best in productivity tips. This is Stress-Less month, here at BOSC. This magazine will help you do that. There are articles on happiness at work, Getting Things Done, Zen to Done and many others.
It’s not about hits any more. We can listen to any music we want, buy more books than any book store can hold, access books from anywhere through the library system and hear from anyone anywhere. It used to be that we listened to what Casey Casem told us were the top 40. We didn’t […]
Productive time is spent building your business, marketing and working on billable tasks. Super productive time is spent creating systems that will bring you money and do your marketing without you having to be there. For instance you can bake pies for your shop, or you can hire and train others to do […]
Here’s a new way to tell stories. They use the leading edge of technology in new ways to create and to communicate. It couldn’t have happened even 2 years ago. As you participate, enjoy the stories, and think about how you could use the same ideas or other ideas that are sparked from this. http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/
This is my favourite kind of business book- the information is presented as a story. We read the story of how Kathryn was thrown into the CEO position of DecisionTech. The current CEO was the founder of the company who had great startup skills, but lacked the ability to run a large business. Her executive […]
