DCO Weekend Reader – 9/18/08
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. Weekend Reader is a regular feature here at DCO, and you can read past Weekend Readers here.
Well, another busy week therefore you’re getting your weekend reader a day early as a (hopefully) pleasant surprise. I’m out of town for a couple days (Here, if you’re interested), then driving home to attend an awards ceremony Thursday night. So given my normal writing times of lunch and after-work are pre-empted this week, I figured I’d just go ahead and write this one up early.
This week’s Personal Excellence section is brought to you by the Marshall Goldsmith blog I just stumbled across. I suppose I should know who Marshall Goldsmith is, but sadly I don’t. Based on his articles, he definitely knows what he’s talking about. (Could someone please comment and clue me in?) If you’re the type that uses feed readers to keep up on topics of importance, then add this one to your reader. Either way, rest assured he’s been added to mine and I’ll continue to include his best in the Weekly Readers.
Personal Excellence & Leadership
By way of introduction to Marshall Goldsmith, here is a selection of his best recent posts:
- Documenting soft values
- Why we don’t do what we say – he can read my mind!
- Leading by example
- The Importance of Challenging Up for Integrity
- Advice from your Best Expert
Some other good links this week, but I’ll save them for later. Enjoy Marshall!
Thought-Provokers
- 8 Ways to Self-Actualize by Abraham Maslow
- Mistakes as the secret to success
For Fun
- No link this week, but I have to say that the Gates-Seinfeld commercials are the most surreal, laugh-inducing thing I’ve seen on television in recent memory. Anyone else?
Books
- Some good books over the last week or so too, but I’m taking a break.
Tips & Tricks
- Definitely more than a tip or trick, but brief enough to read in five minutes, this article on How to Develop a Leadership Competency Model should be enough to get you started if this is on your executive agenda. While not laying out the process, it does do a good job of presenting some options to choose from for moving ahead.
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Comments
I was out of town for a couple days and having another busy week, so I published early. I did mention that in the intro, but I know you’re anxious to get to the good stuff so you probably skipped over it.
I think the Gates-Seinfeld commercials are targeting a younger audience (like me), so it’s understandable that you don’t “get them”.
I do like the Gates-Seinfeld commercials but I don’t get it. I also love the Apple commercials. So well done and entertaining.
The weekly reader is early…what gives?