I was just reminded of a very provocative book I read a few years back, The Superman Syndrome, by Gen N. Landrum, PH.D . On the book’s back cover the "superman syndrome" is defined as "a series of common behaviors that permit an otherwise average person to rise above the norm."
When I read a [...]
Normally I wait until I finish a book before recommending it to others. In this case I have to make an exception. I bought this book written by Tim Sanders , Yahoo!’s Leadership Coach, several years ago and it set on my bookshelf until a few days ago. The title of [...]
Ah yes, college football season is upon us. The team I was raised (brainwashed) to love, the USC Trojans, play the weak and feeble, University of Idaho Vandals this Saturday. I will be there, at the L.A. Colosseum, rooting my team on and hoping for a complete slaughter.
The first USC game I [...]
I was able to do a little Sunday morning reading from one of my favorite easy reads, “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be” written by Paul Arden. As I read the pages realizing how counter intuitive and unreasonable the ideas are in the book I thought to [...]
Today was a very rough day. When I went out to lunch (chicken bake at Costco) I took several books along to read, primarily to freshen up my mind with some new thoughts. The book I ended up reading was Seth Godin’s Small is the New Big. I randomly turned to page [...]
So here I sit killing time, surfing around various business blogs on my day off. See, I have two large projects that I have to complete by the end of the day and they have become mountains, giant snow covered, wind blown, Himalayan type mountains that scream that they overwhelm me if I [...]
I stole the title for this post from Seth Godin’s book “The Big Moo” which was a follow up to his previous title, “Purple Cow.” I just looked at some reviews for this book on amazon.com; here is some of what Publisher’s Weekly had to say,
“This means you have to toss out everything you [...]
