What a feeling: elation, exuberance, exhilaration! For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a chapter. One chapter. I mean, one chapter, for weeks — that’s plural, more than one, weeks! Here’s what happened. I’m working on a book on leadership, working with a...
I’m reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new collection, What the Dog Saw, and just had to stop to comment. It’s no wonder this guy’s books seem to defy the laws of gravity, hovering at the top of the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller lists for dozens of months on...
I’ve thought about doing this for years, but never got around to it before: noting down which books I’ve read recently. I think I “never got around to it” because it always seemed a bit self-indulgent, like declaiming to the world what I ate for breakfast: who cares?...
In this fascinating interview I had recently with Secret Language of Money coauthor David Krueger [note: name and email login required], Dave said this wonderful thing that I had to stop and think about: I believe the most basic motivation we have as human beings is...
Chelle O’Connell, a friend and Go-Giver reader, wrote to us over at the Go-Giver blog with this observation: After 25 years of marriage, I realized that there is more than one meaning for the word listen. My ex-husband frequently said, “You aren’t listening to me.” I...
