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ReaditFor.me | The Leader Who Had No Title

Can leaders come from anywhere in your organization?

In The Leader Who Had No Title, Robin Sharma argues that the only way to survive is to develop the leadership capacity of everybody in your company.

Today I read a summary of the book The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma.

I learned we need to develop the leadership capacity at all levels in our company if we want to succeed in the long run.

Here are a few questions to think about this week, inspired by the book:

What can I improve today? Without always asking this question, we risk falling into Mediocrity Creep.

Do we have the guts to lead? We must stay passionately committed to our vision and have the strength to keep expressing the absolute best within ourselves. And that takes confidence.

Are we candid with one another? An organization that has a culture where everyone’s afraid to speak candidly is a place where people live amid delusion and fantasy. We need to be honest. We need to be frank. We need to be sincere. We need to speak with candor.

Are we nurturing relationships with the people on our team? Help people get to their goals, and people will help us get every single one of ours.

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ReaditFor.me | The Four Agreements

Sometimes the most simple advice is the best advice.

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz shows us how self-limiting beliefs hold us back from being our best selves, and gives us a code of conduct to help us experience true freedom in our lives.

Today I read a summary of the book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

I learned that we all have self-limiting beliefs that hold us back, and that there are specific things we can do to get around them and to the life we’ve always wanted to live.

Here are a few questions to think about this week, inspired by the book:

Am I being impeccable with my word? Being impeccable means we don’t use our words against ourselves, creating feelings of guilt or shame. We also don’t use our words against other people in criticizing or gossiping. Lastly, we honour our commitments.

Am I taking things too personally? Taking the opinions of other people to heart (good or bad) can only lead to self-limiting behaviour. The only way to live a full life is to create your self-worth from within.

Am I making too many assumptions? Far too often we make assumptions about people and events, and in our mind they become the truth. It is better to ask questions to uncover the real truth.

Am I giving it my all? One of our biggest fears in life is that we’ll give our all and “it still won’t be good enough.” But when you free yourself from the opinions of others, you are free to always do your best.

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In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero.

Those are the words of Charlie Munger – Warren Buffet’s right hand man, and one of the most successful business people in the world.

But who has the time to read these days? Most people have a stack of business and personal development books somewhere collecting dust, waiting to be read…someday.

 

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Readitfor.me | The Coaching Habit

And what else?

Those are the 3 magic words I wish I was smart enough to say 10 years ago.

At that point I was running a small manufacturing company, and in meetings with my staff I had a habit of asking them “Is that everything?”

In my head, I was asking them if there was anything else they wanted to cover. In their head, I was trying to wrap up the meeting and get on with more important things.

Small change, big difference.

“And what else?” is just one of the Seven Essential Questions you’ll put in your tool kit from:

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Readitfor.me | Playing to Win

There are 5 choices you need to make in order to have a winning business strategy.

That’s the premise of the book Playing To Win, written by two guys who know a lot about winning – former Rotman School of Business Dean Roger Martin, and the former CEO of Proctor and Gamble, A.G. Lafley.

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Taking the time to define and refine your business strategy is tough, especially when you feel like it’s taking all of your effort just to make sure the wheels don’t fall off the wagon. (I don’t know about you, but that’s the way I feel most of the time.)

But the strategy choices you make can make or break your business, so they deserve your attention. Even if you have to carve out time on nights and weekends to get it done.

The choice that made the biggest impact on me was deciding what your core capabilities are. And although it’s not from the book, there’s a great quote from Jeff Bezos I used in the summary to illustrate the point:

“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. …

[I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, ‘Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher,’ [or] ‘I love Amazon; I just wish you’d deliver a little more slowly.’ Impossible. And so the effort we put into those things, spinning those things up, we know the energy we put into it today will still be paying off dividends for our customers 10 years from now. When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it.”

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Readitfor.me | UnMarketing

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann (the great educational reformer) spoke these words to the graduating class at Antioch College in 1859, and I hope it speaks to you as much as it does to me. For me it’s a reminder no matter what I’ve achieved so far in life, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

And while you probably won’t score a victory for humanity by mastering social media, it’s most likely going to be a part of your journey.  If you are going to do it, as they say, you might as well do it well.

That’s where Scott Stratten and his book UnMarketing come in. He helps us unpack what it takes to become a recognized expert in our field, and how to cultivate relationships so that we generate a flood of trusted referrals.

For generations, marketing has been hypocritical. We’ve been taught to market to others in ways we hate being marketed to (cold-calling, flyers, ads, etc.). So why do we still keep trying the same stale marketing moves? Continue reading “Readitfor.me | UnMarketing”

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Readitfor.me | Gamestorming

Great things don’t happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: gamestorming.

This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world’s most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. This book is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity while bringing more structure and clarity to the workplace. Find out why — and how — with Gamestorming by Dave Gray.

Gamestorming, is all about how to run a brainstorming session that people actually want to attend. If the last brainstorming session you attended sucked, this is a book you’ll want by your side for the next one. Continue reading “Readitfor.me | Gamestorming”

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Readitfor.me | Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements

In today’s world, creating a movement is much more powerful than creating a marketing strategy or campaign.

In Brains on Fire, you’ll learn the difference between a movement and a marketing strategy, and why sometimes it’s better to create HARDER for people to join the movement.

I love this book because it made me think differently about our marketing, and I think it can do the same for you.

By Robbin Phillips

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The Four Hour Body

Tim Ferriss has written books about working 4 hours a week, learning how to cook like a pro, and how to build the body of your dreams.

But what he is actually writing about is how to get the maximum results with the least amount of effort, usually in a non-conventional way.

So while you’ll learn some body and nutrition hacks in this summary of The 4-Hour Body, what you should really be on the lookout for is how to approach any area of your life where you’d like to produce better results in less time.

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