Books: Recent Posts

Summaries and lessons, lifted from the pages of awesome titles.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012

» What colour is my parachute?
February 4, 2012 - I’m reading the latest edition of What Color Is Your Parachute?. One of the first exercises you’re tasked with in WCIYP is to create a list of “what turns you on” in life. I learned that small projects give me energy, I haven’t felt creative freedom since graduating, and this is the year for me to make things happen.

ConvergenceMap

» The Point of Convergence
January 24, 2012 - I read a number of great books last year. Four of my favourites are Crossing the Chasm, Good to Great, The E-Myth Revisited, and Tribal Leadership. Each one of these books presents a different scale, or ranking system, that helps leaders evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their organization. Each one of these books also shares traits with the other three books. With that in mind, I came up with this little diagram.

Getting Things Done by David Allen

» Getting Things Done in social media.
November 25, 2011 - I first read Getting Things Done in 2009 when I was fresh out of college. It’s a system of setting priorities, writing things down, and completing tasks. It made a massive impact on my productivity, and it’s totally applicable to managing social media. Here’s a simplified way of looking at it.