Canter Bridge

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Stephen Covey’s organizational juggernaut wants to align me with the way things are in the world so that I’ll cooperate rather than contradict the `principles’ that govern it. Ever since I bought the audio and print versions of this best-selling life management book and took a colleague’s recommendation to purchase his Outlook add-in program, my inbox is full of eager invitations to attend Franklin Covey seminars.

The numbers tell us that Covey is scratching where many of us itch. He has primed an organization not to let opportunity pass. He must have read his own books. Continue Reading »

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I never thought I could get too much of David Allen, the productivity guru whose Getting Things Done system has transformed my work and life habits. But this book borders on too much of a good thing.

At least, that is, if you sit down and read right through it. The trick is to ration. Continue Reading »

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If author Craig Groeschel’s dustcover picture makes him too young too have written such an urgent book, the football-field exhortations and postmodern layout of the book seem to line up perfectly with his youthful pose. I must confess that Groeschel had overcome my reservations about his style by about the fifty-yard line … I mean, the halfway point of this highly-focused book. Continue Reading »