Book 11...Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior

I'll just say it Richard Marcianko is the man.

He's crude, foul mouthed and generally offensive. But in the number of books I have read that he has authored he appears to be the real deal when it comes to leadership.

I have read this book probably 3 times in the last 10 years. I always come away challenged and motivated.

I highly recommend this for anyone who has the stomach and maturity for 'salty language' in an excellent and focused treatment of real world leadership.

Book 10...Good to Great Social Sectors

Collins who is famed for Good to Great and Built to Last does the non-profit community a favor in this thin volume.

He deals with the differences in leadership, 'the bus', the hedgehog etc within the environment of volunteerism and non-profit metrics.

Here is a book that is concise and clear. Highly recommended.

I surrender...

I took the "Leadership Challenge" (book) and failed.

It is good enough, it's just like so many books I read...more book than is necessary.

200 pages of my life down the drain.

Book #9...A little cheating

I am still working through The Leadership Challenge as was mentioned in a few previous posts.

I am somewhat of a UFC fan. Not fanatic just a leisure fan. So when I saw Octagon at the library I couldn't pass it up.

What's the cheat? 99.985612% of the book is strictly pics.

Nevertheless, it is a book and I did read it. So there is #9 for 2009.

Valentine's Day Confusion

It happens more time than I care to remember. My daughter disappears with the portable DVD player for a couple of hours. When I finally track it down in her room it is loaded with her well worn copy of A Walk to Remember.

Personally, I have never watched the movie but I get the idea it is...romantic.

As I approach Valentines Day I feel an awareness of a couple of things.

(1) I don't prioritize or even firmly grasp 'romantic' as pertains to my wife.
I know she doesn't think real life romance is like scripted TV romance. But how exactly it is defined is a little murky.

Odds are she told me and I didn't want to remember.

(2) My little girl likes the idea of romance. The idea of being valued and protected by a young man (I'm getting mad just typing this!). This I understand a little more and try to convey to her by showing her how a young man should act and treat her.

In the end I believe Valentines Day were created by some man hating female Nazis to just get men in trouble! :-)

Letterman is hilarious.

Jaoquin is apparently on some kind of recreational drug. Dave just wears him out!

Pick Me...

Not a fantasy football guy, but this was well done.