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...]
The Corner Office. By Adam Bryant
This book review is from Alease Copelin, a prolific reader I serve with on the NCDA Training & Education Council (TEC). She inspires me to read more. Last time we talked about books, she mentioned she was in two book clubs! The Corner Office, by Adam Bryant, invites the reader to look at leadership from a fresh perspective – one apart from the standard stock fluctuations and quarterly dividends so often linked to success at the top. The material is a result of the author’s interviews … [Read more...]
In and Around Our Great Northern Wilderness by Elinor Walker
Found this book at the Bangor Folks Festival from a family member of the author. Signed copy that he found in her garage with a bunch of other of her books. Elinor's nephew was a park ranger in Baxter State Park in the 1950s. I was constantly pulling my Baxter park map out to see where they hiking as they were often on old logging roads or bushwhacking off-trail. I've backpacked and hiked throughout Baxter and was fascinated to hear stories from the 50s from a warden and his aunt about the … [Read more...]
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