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Okay, this time I'm serious. I read a book this week that changed my very outlook on life and work a lot of things. Not that I thought that there was anything wrong to begin with, but that's what the book is really about.
It was required reading for work, and I resented it at first. By now I have heard every training and leadership buzz term and it's all so tiresome after enough years, yeah yeah yeah, same paint same can with a different label, new name, nothing new has been presented since the '50's. It's another re-hash of what we all already know, by somebody trying to make more new money from an old and already established concept.
No, it's not. I'm awestruck. It's an epiphany. Though it has a workplace slant, it's about life in general. And folks, is it ever an eye-opener, at least it was to me. You can take this stuff home, and to the grocery store, anywhere you go.
It's not a big book, about a three-hour read if you read as slowly as I do. To give you some idea, I finished reading the book and went out into the hall at work. Here comes a guy down the hall, a guy that truthfully....well, I've never liked him to say the least. And I did not have the high-blood-pressure-I-hate-to-see-this-guy-coming feeling for the first time in my life. It felt for the first time ever that I really understand everything.
A lot of the book, well, actually at least half of it, is based on situations that come up at home, not at work. It's not a textbook per se, it's written like a mini-novel. A story, and a mighty good one.
I've got no interest in the sale of this book. All I'm saying is, go find it. Read it. And then I'd say, "Think," but by the end of it, you won't have to think. You already have.
Go to the library and find it or buy a copy if you have to. The folks who put out the book recognize its significance and even recommend that you pass it around to family and friends and coworkers. They're not bent on circulation because they've had plenty already and the message is bigger than the money.
"Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box"
by Arbinger Institue
It's awesome, and this time, I'm not kidding around. Life-changing. Wow, it's actually liberating. It's....well, it's huge. It really is. I was sitting alone and got to the last paragraph on page 170-something, which answered something I've always been puzzled about, and when I read that paragraph, I yelled "WOW!" all there by myself.
Trust me. I'll be interested to hear what you have to say after reading it. That'll sure be worth a thread, or a whole forum site, for that matter. WOW.
It was required reading for work, and I resented it at first. By now I have heard every training and leadership buzz term and it's all so tiresome after enough years, yeah yeah yeah, same paint same can with a different label, new name, nothing new has been presented since the '50's. It's another re-hash of what we all already know, by somebody trying to make more new money from an old and already established concept.
No, it's not. I'm awestruck. It's an epiphany. Though it has a workplace slant, it's about life in general. And folks, is it ever an eye-opener, at least it was to me. You can take this stuff home, and to the grocery store, anywhere you go.
It's not a big book, about a three-hour read if you read as slowly as I do. To give you some idea, I finished reading the book and went out into the hall at work. Here comes a guy down the hall, a guy that truthfully....well, I've never liked him to say the least. And I did not have the high-blood-pressure-I-hate-to-see-this-guy-coming feeling for the first time in my life. It felt for the first time ever that I really understand everything.
A lot of the book, well, actually at least half of it, is based on situations that come up at home, not at work. It's not a textbook per se, it's written like a mini-novel. A story, and a mighty good one.
I've got no interest in the sale of this book. All I'm saying is, go find it. Read it. And then I'd say, "Think," but by the end of it, you won't have to think. You already have.
Go to the library and find it or buy a copy if you have to. The folks who put out the book recognize its significance and even recommend that you pass it around to family and friends and coworkers. They're not bent on circulation because they've had plenty already and the message is bigger than the money.
"Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box"
by Arbinger Institue
It's awesome, and this time, I'm not kidding around. Life-changing. Wow, it's actually liberating. It's....well, it's huge. It really is. I was sitting alone and got to the last paragraph on page 170-something, which answered something I've always been puzzled about, and when I read that paragraph, I yelled "WOW!" all there by myself.
Trust me. I'll be interested to hear what you have to say after reading it. That'll sure be worth a thread, or a whole forum site, for that matter. WOW.
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