The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. This book was recommended to me by my business coach (Thanks Mandy) and also was recommended reading from my December interview on books (Watch now). Yep, it is a great book at focusing your efforts and energy to ONE thing that is the most important thing to you now. Each day. Each moment, before you begin doing things, you stop and determine the "ONE thing that you can do such that by doing it everything else will … [Read more...]
Becoming by Michelle Obama
From the South Side of Chicago to the Whitehouse. What an amazing journey. What I loved about this book was the insight into how Michelle Obama thinks and her passions. Along with her thoughts and passions, you also get a taste of President Obama's thoughts and passions. Both of these people are passionate about helping under-served populations get a leg up. Her South Side upbringing was fairly typical middle class and a blue collar working class family. Nothing special and also not … [Read more...]
Brain-Based Career Development Theory by Imants Jaunarajs, Jodi Pavol, and Erin Morgenstern
Attended the Maine Career Development Association workshop in November 2018 on the Brain-Based Career Development model. It was a very informative workshop by @Imants Jaunarajs and @Erika Kirk Peyton from Ohio University. I was so interested that I ordered their monograph from NACA when I got home. Big takeaways from the workshop and this monograph are: 1. Brain can only handle 4 pieces of information in the prefontal cortex, two is best. This means we need to work hard to focus on 1 major … [Read more...]
It’s Your Ship by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
I have been doing some research into "stay interviews" which are done while employees are still working at your company versus "exit interviews" when you ask them "What went wrong? What could we do better?" This book is what was recommended by someone in a Facebook recruiter group I am in as one of the first books that talked about putting employees first and asking them what they think. This Captain of Benfold ship challenged longtime Naval leadership by giving responsibility to the crew and … [Read more...]
Chip the Dam Builder by Jim Kjelgaard
I was talking about my love of reading books with my brother Mark and asked him what his favorite book was. He said, "Chip the Dam Builder in 4th grade...it changed my life!" He even stated he'd tried to find it and could not... so I found a copy and sent it to him and then I found my own copy via inter-library loan. It is a great story about how the ecology is so interrelated and humans have an impact on it even when they don't realize it. There are all kinds of animals in the forest, some … [Read more...]
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