Having a system for dealing with the world is a good thing.

If you check out Maxwell, I think you’ll find his approach refreshing.

My country, one of the world’s most ancient and of wisdom one, have hundreds of tips to tell us how to be a leader. When everyone knows those, it is still hard to become a leader. All the tips become those to tell us how to be a good person, good human being. I’d rather drop this one and pick up GTD system introduced by ph.D. Allen, which just tell us how to handle the complex world.

Thank you.

Energy over time is a beautiful point and is a beautiful paradigm shift, especially in today’s world.

Flow is another great concept and I find the key is to either find the job you love or love the job you’re with.

My two personal favorites are:
1) Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz: “The Power of Full Engagement” – The most important resource is not time, it is energy.
2) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience” – Achieve the state of being totally committed to the work at hand.

+ missing the train concept was very insightful

Never feel pressured to keep up … “catch the next train.”

Your KINDLE sounds great. I use a sticky method for reading books fast, which I should probably write about in a future post.

I wish I could do your one liners and tag phrases….I seem to be too wordy…

In 2010, I am working to actively put more people into my real time and working on talking more

I like this post very much and I am glad you did not post so often right now, sometimes I feel pressured to keep up…

Thanks for stopping by. You’ll find the War of Art to be inspiring and witty. The chapters are short, but the insight runs deep.

Light and bright … I like that (of course, I always liked Light Bright.)

Some I didn’t read all the way through, but most I read during a December “book bash.” I was sick so I missed my vacation, so instead I ravaged books. It was life changing.

@ Cath

The Dip’s a great mental model I check against when the going gets tough.

Gladwell really knows how to spin data into interesting insights.

@ Hilary

I like how Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway became such a catch phrase. It’s sticky and viral, and fear is a cause of a lot of ruts (along the lines of learned helplessness.)

I think an eclectic range is the spice of life.

@ Annabel

Too true — reading is cool, but results are king.

I’m a fan of test-driving the books at work with my mentees, projects, and teams.

Any of these books can be a game changer. That’s the beauty, each book is partly what the author presents, but it’s mostly what the reader inteprets, uses, and extends.