DCO Weekend Reader - 8/1/2008
August 1, 2008 · Filed Under DCO Weekend Reader
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary and occasionally, wisdom. Here’s a selection of the best articles I read over the past week.
If you would like to recommend an article, blog or book, please leave a comment with your suggestion. We’ll see how this goes, but Weekend Reader is intended to be a regular feature here at DCO. Depending on the quantity/quality of articles I find (and your suggestions), I’m guessing it will be either weekly or every other week.
It was an interesting week - only one Leadership post made the list, but lots of thought-provokers and fun stuff. Enjoy!
Leadership
- Character sets the foundation for Leadership. True enough. I love the statement “you cannot impart what you do not possess.”
Thought-Provokers
- George Ambler finds a new blog and briefly reviews it’s Guide to World Domination
- Great article over on Lead Quietly about growing a Leader Mob. Probably not what you’re thinking.
- 9 Insane Strategies to Grow Your Business. I just subscribed to this blog. Based on the first couple of articles I’ve read, I think I’m going to like it.
- Have a funny feeling you’re rationalizing a point to yourself? Take one of these tests.
For Fun
- Use Wordle to turn any RSS feed or block of text into a word collage. Sure, not many of us are geeky enough to actually have fun turning RSS feeds into word clouds. But what about song lyrics. Okay, a bit more interesting. Mission statements? Vision statements??? This could be fun. (I apologize in advance for wasting the portion of your day you spend playing with Wordle).
- Also at Leading Blog, some Leadership wallpapers for your PC.
- Not that you or I ever have this problem, but here’s 5 ways to overcome boredom at work!
Books
- In the comments for a recent post, Carol made what look like some darned good suggestions for practical Leadership reference books.
- In a book review I mentioned recently, Leading Blog talks about Cruicibles of Leadership, a book to help us develop a personal learning strategy to learn from experience. As soon as I can find this book it is next on my reading list.
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