Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged Ken Blanchard, leadership, management, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Ken Blanchard’s little One Minute Manager books define a genre.
Neither riveting reading nor high-stakes illumination, they simply get a message across effectively to the management reader who is not too concerned with aesthetics. Even the illustrations are garden-variety basic.
Yet these books have sold millions and they work. (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña, rrythmia, tagged Christianity, periodicals, reseña on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
In some circles, to arrive at the office without having read the Wall Street Journal is like turning up in your boxer shorts and a sneaker. In other circles, the same can be said of CT, as it is known to regular readers, who include virtually everyone of influence in the evangelical movement in America. (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged not-for-profit sector, periodicals, reseña on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The task of managing an institution in the nonprofit sector is by definition challenging. In fact, it often leads to career extinction and personal burnout. (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged periodicals, reseña on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The story is told of the Christian Reformer Martin Luther that he habitually gathered his large family and a collection of personal disciples together around his table for nourishing food and pious conversation. So was born the tradition of ‘table talk’, a form of Christian teaching that is anchored to the daily rhythms of family and community life. (more…)
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña, tagged biography, Europe, Great Britain, history, Martin Gilbert, reseña, Winston Churchill on August 29, 2007| 1 Comment »
No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, than Martin Gilbert.
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña, tagged biography, Europe, Great Britain, history, Martin Gilbert, reseña, Winston Churchill on August 29, 2007| 2 Comments »
No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, better than Martin Gilbert.
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged not-for-profit sector, Phill Butler, reseña on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Phill Butler gives us one of those books that takes an action sport or skill that is usually performed on an intuitive or visceral level and reduces it to a formula.
Don’t get me wrong. This is not a criticism. Many of us need precisely such a formula that provides a handle, a method, or a path. Butler has given us that, and is to be thanked for doing so. (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged not-for-profit sector, periodicals, reseña on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
My organization receives this publication of the NonProfit Times free. If yours does too, don’t make the mistake of tossing it out with the junk mail.
Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged leadership, management, periodicals, reseña on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
If you’ve never stood and gaped at the periodicals section of a well-stocked Borders store or scanned an on-line list of periodicals, you may not be aware how astonishingly prolific is the publishing of niche magazines and journals. It is one of the too little celebrated marvels of the English-language editorial industry. (more…)
Posted in clarity, tagged management, personal disciplines, travel on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »
This comes to you from 35,000 feet.
I’m not kidding. Some of my most productive work time happens on business trips and in airplane seats. I used to think of business travel as the lost time between origin and destination. No longer.
Now travel means working from another office, one that is almost as productive as my regular office. Plus, they give you pretzels. (more…)
Canter Bridge 